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What the hell
Got a couple more years
Do we really need an excuse
To allay all our fears?
There’s a little time
To make amends
Throw a thought into the sky
Hope it sends
Just a little shove
Lends a little zephyr
To the incessant doves
And it all takes time
No matter what we wish to align
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Neonicotine
04:08
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And the new moon didn’t change things this time
And the kings rule over imminent skies
The flowers crying for the past and the horrors they can spread
I look to the sky and fail and the animals keep records of our fate
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Without a Score
05:33
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Cycles upon cycles
Orbits within rounds
Perspectives ever shifting
Glimpses through the clouds
Cycles upon cycles
Orbits within crowds
Adhering to causality
Was getting us all down
Seemingly so spurious
No hints of truth in rhyme
All the world is painted
By a pinhole in the sky
Peering through the atmosphere
We’re survival bound
Molded in deference
To this heavy, heavy crown
Everything we see
Is a trick of the light
Anecdotal evidence
Scrawled into the night
What stories can we hope to hear
Before we all go home?
Weaving through the megaliths
Unshackled by stone
Dancing through the ether
Of a moth-eaten backdrop
Or stuck in an old pincushion
Sitting in the shop
We’ve either lost our way
Or the way has come alive
Just say some thing uplifting
And everything will turn out fine
But the calamities of yesteryear
Were stuffed into a drawer
And it’s being edged open
By a toddler without a care
Without a score to settle
Without a score
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Yesterdays Man
04:56
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You deep lonely
hollowed and green
I stand under steel
forever wanting
the grace to erase yesterdays man
You dive slowly
colored in green
I stand under siege
forever wanting
the ease to
forget yesterdays man
My one and only
Only one of many
How many waves
Are in me
From yesterday
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Hallowed Be Thy Grave
03:32
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Up
Below
Down
Above
Dualistic
Duelling
In
The
Noonday
Sun
An
Unforgiving
Chosen
One
Intrinsic
Mimicry
Simian
An
Assimilationist
Your
Motivation
Is
The
Frequent
Fires
List
Unknown
To
Exist
Imparting
Departure
Fractional
Sadomasochist
Kill
Them
With
Kindness
Lead
Them
Into
Blindness
Hallowed
Be
Thy
Grave
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6. |
Hvor Havet Stopper
03:27
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Skyerne har arme
Træerne har øjne
Havet har hænder
De holder mig af
De ser mig til
De rør mig om
Der hvor havet stopper
Der skal vi hen
Der, hvor himlen falder
Der skal vi stå
Så tar vi afsted
Langt henderligt
I træk som fugle
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The Sea People
05:14
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Black bee on the Southern Sea
The old horizon looking at me
I always wanted to be a charioteer
But we’re a mountain people
Have no need for wheels
I used to grind the grains
And imagine I rode into the rays
Scratch into the rocks
That I am alive
But it was on that horizon
Trees poked through the blue
I had heard the stories
Of raiders from the moon
“The Sea People are coming!”
From across the water
They spell our certain doom
Perhaps they will not find me
Hiding in my room
We will never surrender!
I don’t know the Sea People
But I will be one soon
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Amazonia
05:09
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Night in Sight
08:27
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Well I don’t know about you
Friction makes me come unglued
When you worked your way around….
Hopped in your bouncy castle
Custom license plate that says “asshole”
Head on out to the roadhouse to get screwed
We got another century of glowing teeth
Glossed up lips and popsicle sticks
Parties on the beach and laughing cow cheese
Keep them juices flowin till it can’t be believed
Come out west in a Cadillac
Trade it in for a piece of crap
The wind keeps blowing in all directions
Wind is blowing
No deflections
Turn your blind eye
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Nigh Chaparral was started in Stockholm in the aughts by Jason Breeden (Susurrus Station, Oscilero), Oskar Moberg (Thulebasen) and Sara Johanne (Pikara), tinted by a nostalgia for an imaginary America. It has continued in a similar spirit with others, including Andre Coberly (Night Mechanic), Mae Starr, Monte Trent Allen, Gilles (Rllrbll), and Galen Ballinger (Dumb Balloon). ... more
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