1. |
Building
02:13
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You are site specific
Spacious, boundless, in good company
Material yours
Gifted
Not land, not water
But a site nonetheless
To be a parent to be a daughter
To be alone nonetheless
Oh, what are you building
A collection of objects for you to choose
Oh, will you be staying
On a sleeping bag on your floor for days
Fabrications gifted
I’m details
I am only details, I am only ornaments
Not land, not water
But a site nonetheless
To be a parent to be a daughter
To be alone nonetheless
Not land, not water
But a site nonetheless
To be a parent to be a daughter
To be alone nonetheless
Oh, what are you building
A collection of objects for you to choose
Oh, will you be staying
On a sleeping bag on your floor for days
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2. |
Image Represent
02:12
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The word image alone
Saying image represent
How useless
Image representation
How useless
Your representation
In activating words
I'm running to the doorbell
I'm reaching for the landscape painting
The image of my mind wandering
The word image alone
Saying image represent
How useless
Image representation
Saying image represent
How useless
I'm running for the doorbell
I'm reaching for the landscape painting
The image of my mind wandering
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3. |
Collapse
03:59
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Changing my zeros
Be one be negative one be two
Thousands kissed, current met you
Cameras and currents of gold
Riddles and rhymes and words unfold
Lover electric, lover here with me
Lover our voices carry two to three
Air, carry her to me
And collapse
Voice it’s not physical
Blush it’s not physical
Sweat, well perhaps
To call, to call on and to court
Quartz crystal move me
Dance projections, romantic inflection
Oh, move me
Crystals and circuits of gold
Distance and time and worlds unfold
Lover electric, lover here with me
Circuit in series current connect to me
Air, carry her to me
And collapse
voice it’s not physical
blush it’s not physical
sweat, well perhaps
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4. |
Fearful People
01:36
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Gray to green your home changed hands
with that your eyes and ears change shape
land loud in form
defensive fearful people in violent homes
color shape your eyes enjoy their taste
you miss your home you smell your friends you taste like labor
defensive fearful people in violent homes
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5. |
Why Do You Ask?
02:05
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Should they come and ask for my daughter well
I’ve brought joy to each day they’ve seen
Darling, do they treat you as well as they should?
I’ve been kind in both actions and words
Why do you ask?
Don’t ask what their love might bring to me
Should their heart change with the light and day?
Devil took my home and saints took my tears away
Does each day seem to build on the other?
Chased down old dreams old flames old lovers
Why do you ask?
Don’t ask what their love might bring to me
Why do you ask?
Don’t ask what their love might bring to me
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6. |
Crystals
02:39
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Our hands brought love to touch
but now we have questions
what’s clean
washed floors and fruit
washed words
anxious feeling
crystals, fractions of prayer, and my emotions cresting
when an abundance of prey crashes the snowy owl flies south
thats beautiful
I love you for being beautiful
crystals, computers, indoor feeling
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7. |
Daytime Feeling
02:27
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Songs ever marred
air invite harm
what my eyes see
wait wait wait how are you feeling
daytime feeling
red purple blue
sub my amplitude
and modulate me
carrier fill me
daytime feeling
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8. |
Only
06:39
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Only, I'm only talking
Seldomly sing
bring me
bring me your talking
only for feasts
Ah
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9. |
I Am With My Feelings
03:34
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I often eat dinner at a restaurant on the corner of Madison and Seneca
Seated reading with the TV on
I am with my feelings
Finding it fails to furnish
I used to check my email in the basement of an electronic store on Fifth Avenue and Ovington
Love fictive fantasy sending
I am with my feelings
Asking so much of a place
Finding it fails to furnish
Conceive mythical rooms
Fabricated residence
Created parts
Yielding shadow seat
I am with my feelings
Holding solitary court
Asking so much of a place
Finding it fails to furnish
Sending
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10. |
She Follows the Moon
01:35
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(Instrumental)
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11. |
Thus Went My Year
02:52
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Thus went my year
On the third or fourth of May
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12. |
Anne
02:42
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(Instrumental)
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Dave Scanlon
Dave Scanlon is a composer, guitarist, vocalist, and electronic musician. Scanlon is an active member of the experimental rock band JOBS, pursues a practice of writing austere songs, and continues a series of "counting" compositions focusing on intonation, numerology, and measurement. ... more
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