Without a Score

from V by Nigh Chaparral

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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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from V, released October 7, 2022

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Nigh Chaparral Portland, Oregon

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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