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Five-story Walk-up
05:04
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Excerpts echo on the landing
Briefly tangle as they start to fade away
Behind the Medecos and deadbolts
Broken math informs the calculus at play
A secret carnival of shifting acts
The penny-fused ambitions on display
Lean back off the rooftop just to follow
Constellations for another age
Fall on to the Paris night-boat singing,
burning up until you hit the stage
As some improbable magician
Conjuring past yet another stunning cage
Defer the accidental,
Drive the water from the shore
Solitude of will deforms
Mind the circle of the blast
And incinerate the past
Discarded or collected
On discovery all vain
While passion still performs
To orchestrate the whole
Hearts humming with one soul
Embracing in the passing
All permission but a veil
We are dancing through the storms
Shadows on the dune
Throwing roses at the moon
Introspection as reveal
Or so we tell ourselves
We burn the map in place
Do we formulate the real
Or do we sell ourselves?
As fiction finds the space
But we invent ourselves again
Embrace the maximum
Uproot the lotus tree
Corrode sedition's last refrain
And want the maximum
We want the R & D
On step along the marble stairs
In all the promising
With every story found
When do we recreate the real
How do we sell ourselves?
A fiction found and bound
But we invent ourselves again
Embrace the maximum
And burn the lotus tree
Corrode sedition's last refrain
We want the maximum
It's all R & D
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2. |
Nameless
02:45
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I tell myself that it's a dream.
I close my eyes and wander all that's been invented.
You've given everything a name.
You close your eyes to wonder, saturated faith to obligate
A shutter to prolong a failed reaction
Falling, falling.
What's seen is partial point of view
A luring fiction tricks the opening of shelter.
To press oneself against the real
Colliding past the friction that obscures what resists
Forming empty names that seem to just keep on calling, calling.
Tagging truth congeals to lie
Convinced by shallow shrapnel
reason bricks the soul
Rejecting what's before your eyes
You will stay nameless in the shame you lack forever hiding
Forming empty names that you will just keep on calling, calling.
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3. |
40, West Past Thoreau
04:12
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The rain prefers the rusted hills that we've left behind
Recurring sage marks time we're passing in sudden golden trails
Returning softly clouds confer with the patient fields
The light conceding to the road
What other days remain our own with such painted shape
Thoughts tired so familiar merge to our sure escape
It's now our turn to softly sing the lulling hum's refrain
A light preceding for our road
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4. |
TR3
04:15
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Were we ghosts
When we scratched the walls
Did our noise remain
the contagion of rhythm
Pasting day-glo
against black and white
dance noise reaction
of corrosive addition
The avalanche of a license to fail
The fix for a rigged ignition
An invitation to sudden life
Lived in four-quarter entropy
The avalanche of a license to fail
The fix for a rigged ignition
An inflammation of sudden life
Lived in four-quarter entropy
A sudden ballet
On a brief palisade
in the black light of downtown
All shards are imagined
Pasting day-glo
against black and white
dance noise reaction
of corrosive addition
The avalanche of a license to fail
The fix for a rigged ignition
An invitation to sudden life
Lived in four-quarter entropy
The avalanche of a license to fail
The fix for a rigged ignition
The information of sudden life
Lived in four-quarter entropy
Forging ghosts
When we scratched the walls
In the noise remains
the contagion of rhythm
White Street ballet
Corrodes black and white
Dance noise infraction
Inflamed our condition
The avalanche of a license to fail
The fix for a rigged ignition
An invitation to the sudden life
Lived in four-quarter entropy
The avalanche of a license to fail
The fix for a rigged ignition
An inflammation of sudden life
Lived in four-quarter entropy
The avalanche of a license to fail
The fix for a rigged ignition
The information of sudden life
Lived in four-quarter entropy
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5. |
Across (to 59th, 2 a.m.)
04:23
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6. |
Washington Heights
05:35
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Like tales of Cabrini woods
Fading flights of
Mind how the stories fold
Mere ambition shines behind the
Eyes always burning north
Or over past the bridge's lines
Far on, from these streets
Beyond the running and the
Routine of our noise
The fumes trapped in
Bags, Bennett underfoot
Needles mark the interrupted
Trail walked by the ghosts
Our alter-egos bruised while
The A train calls again
One last super-sonic run
Another late-night Pinehurst
Another canvas changed
Reach past the recent future
Small hopes, prearranged
Replay the evening shadows
Remake the morning star
We leave, to live
We are left with who we are
Marked arms, adverted look
Shielding from the show of
Charmed lives spinning past
Sheer revision lost behind the
Eyes always turning north
Beyond the drop of Overlook
Paths shown, as they bring
fortune in the waiting and the
Route shaped by our choice
Assumes that we
Find here underfoot
Spaces left to bridge the broken
Trails left by our ghosts
Our altered streets resume
The morning calls again
One last super-sonic run
Another late-night Pinehurst
Another canvas changed
Reach past the recent future
Small hopes, prearranged
Replay the evening shadows
Remake the morning star
We leave, to live
We are left with who we are
We bring with us what we think worth reclaiming
And put them with the things we still withhold
The dead will not be buried by renaming
But fate is just a story we've been told.
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7. |
How We Sleep
04:25
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In the dream
The stride is ocean grace
In the dream
We are without a place
And never near that last ungrateful fading
In the dream
Past angels waiting low
Undelayed
For time we rarely know
The chorus narrates over hearts cascading
Heather fields
to teach the road to us
How we sleep
Renews the final trust
Forgetting how we lose the cost of fearing
Unrestrained untainted
How we sleep
The pleasures of our fortune
How we weep
To drop away all tangle
Exhale the thinning air
Across the hills
We fold up disbelief
Past the clouds compelled to
shattered grief
For all such moments now
We are what we allow
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