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1.
Ennui 03:19
When a crystal ball moon shatters in the bay and those artichoke fields, visions disobey then look back to highway one a car leaving neath the budding sun who's to condemn you? who's too divine? to deny the morning to find you anew? To compel you a cold hard night? if i took a leap now which god would pluck me from the sky? Or is it mere dust, a shapeless amble of the tide? The pacific windowsill imprints a gentle kind of will
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21 Years 02:22
Just look at her hand it bares no ring it's grabbing for the light She's making her way to have a man who's wings are too broken for flight Funny how an angel can haunt a room She's looking this way bite a feather in a field in bloom Summer comes she says to him "you wake up find a light it goes dim and don't you wonder how?" "Suppose it's not allowed" She says, "Look in the mirror. What's the setting? Does it suit your smile?" He said, "We've got a wagon full of clay and rain that should last us a while." 21 years a child's grave it echoes down the hall 21 years and a cross on the wall He beats his fist into the ground she lights a cigarette and waits for the sound of this that will end I don't think it ever ends
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Stranger 02:32
She wakes up this morning with a stranger in her bed stares blankly at the curtains swaying over her head just outside a city bus toss smoke into the sky the stairs in the hallways cough the radiators sigh fruit flies on the windowsill flirting with his clothes steam curls off his shoulder looks just like the promise of a road that she could take to escape the prison of herself and so swan dove Icarus or so how he fell as the city sinks behind her the mountains grew before as mountains brings her to her feet the desert shows a door to Montana skies where she cries for they open her eyes to show that she was living as if she already died as salmon fight the current returning where their born as geese migrate up north though their wings be torn as he was bound to leave one day just as he's done before for he always was a stranger and he will be evermore She wakes up this morning with a stranger in her bed stares blankly at red curtains swaying gently over head just outside a city bus tosses smoke into the sky the stairs in the hallways cough the radiator sighs
4.
I watch cross gates descending though it's too late for a train they go horizontal and then they rise again just waiting for a while but nothing ever came catching all the signals but that's never quite enough to see you again Each day I'm watching the horizon they say an eagle talon snake but now I'm so divided yet there words I can't shake you know it's something we all hide it's something we pretend catching all the signals but that's never quite enough to see you again I walk down these rails every night into town waiting in the town square to see if you're around to wonder where our borders end and begin catching all the signals but that's never enough to lose you again
5.
That must be God's image there by the liquor store There by the halo lights and muddied tile floor The fog surrounds now these crowded downtown streets Bound to collapse like walls of the sea The moon escorts me down the avenue The mission bell will ring clean and somehow blue Drunk like seasick sailors I see them ricochet Ladies fleeing like horses of Cavalry Hold on, Hold on We built this yet it ain't ours Hold on, Hold on The quixotic Yankee's Waltzing Matilda How are these roses in a winter's bloom Crowns facedown like silent bells "Here are the pedals on a wet black bough" In apparitions these faces fell Laughter in the faithless calamity A group of children high by the shore The fumes are rising from the mountainside I sit like fog and wonder in a bore Hold on, Hold on We built this yet it ain't ours Hold on, Hold on The quixotic Yankee's Waltzing Matilda Lord this wakings dragged me like a bag Readjust my belt and how low my head does sag Saying "Who will fix the mirror of ecology? Who now will drink with pleasure your democracy?" The Felaheen church gathers at the bar Smoking too much they look like dust from afar Asking, "Can you hear the drawbridge America? Closing it's creaking wooden erotica!" Hold on, Hold on We built this yet it ain't ours Hold on, Hold on The quixotic Yankee's Waltzing Matilda Will you come Waltzing Matilda? Will you come Matilda? Will you come waltzing Matilda?
6.
Fall gently soft machine preparing for another dream reaching for new pilled pockets say these windmills are exactly as they seem suddenly I was blinded as if the sky was flashing as if led by a guess to your door outside the air is ocean of laughter but I'm inside and stranded at shore at dawn a silhouette posed a lowercase “i” cupid's invisible arrows were bombing down from the sky suddenly I was struck and I fell in love with dying but dying caught sight of itself outside the air is a mountain of romance inside was terrible for health autumn leaves make mulch of farmer's markets just as fast as they arrived they all instantly departed suddenly I was cozened cause the earth was frozen over oh mother! I'm walking on the sky outside the air was milk and honey still inside I was ossified
7.
Its a call for transparency leave windows open wide if your reach can pass the screen you can just forget about an unlocked door with twilight's precision the archer can strike a pose pose recreated, pose revery aims at the torch just before the release and once in a while see it happen, just shadows of light just fashions of wings shadow haunts, suicide willows fingerprints on restoration signs the rebranding of the herd you can just forget about those old novels did you hear the wreckage? A chandelier in the ballroom hall a wooden floor ontology the darkest sound unhinged and just before release and once in a while you can see it happen just shadows of light, just fashions of wings gerrymandering at the white bordello pillow talk filibustering old viagra of don't tread on me you can just forget about debt's gravity its an artless tragedy spill yourself out of fearing to be spilt guilt the riddle of hard depression a nightmare of parody just before the release and once in a while see it happen, just shadows of light just fashions of wings
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all songs written and performed by Daniel Talamantes
except I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams

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released July 24, 2014

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