1. |
Mountain
02:47
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Mountain
I walk on the mountain
I crawl on the ocean
The stair to the fountain is sinking
Is sinking
Stranded at the edge of your command
Safety in the numbers on your hand
Some cautious kind of person reaches out
to pull your feet back down to touch the ground again
I walk on the mountain
I crawl on the ocean
The stair to the fountain is sinking
Is sinking
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2. |
Street Sweeper
03:34
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Street Sweeper
To watch awake out the window
To wait for days to arrive
To contemplate through the signals, if I could
I could wait here all night
So work your way through this puzzle
That fits you under your wall
Now you’ve become your own double (and not a subtle one)
To flush you from your own stall
And on the day, after the day
On your circuit, on your way
To the depths of your room
Fall asleep to the tune
Of the friendly machine sweeper
Step back and wonder why
It’s too far to make out in your own eyes
In your own hand
If you could see through it it wouldn’t make much of a disguise
Throw all your weight behind your mind
Thoughts wrapped in notes and paper symbols
Til your conscience fits you like a thimble
And washes out so clean and simple
Like a pair of jeans upon the line
So burn your way through this candle
That burns to shed you some light
If it lights off more than you can handle, I can understand
You’ll stay here burning all night
So see if you can discover
Some new direction for that same source of wonder
The same kind you’ve always known
The whisper and the drone
Of the steady machine sweeper
And every day, after every day
The same old circuit, same old way
Bound to anywhere at all
But I’d settle just to fall asleep
To the song of the clean machine
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3. |
(prelogue to crawl)
00:31
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4. |
The Crawl
03:10
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The Crawl
Open up to the sound
There’s nothing around you to keep you down
There’s nothing beneath you if you want to crawl
Shoulder to shoulder
No dream for a doubter
A swimmer to drowner
I couldn’t arrange it better
Dropping the rain right where it falls
And then watching from inside
So as you climb
I’ll be climbing a little slower
From a street I just discovered
And you’ve already left behind
Overhead, beneath the ground
You can’t hear the feet fall through your wall of sound
You can’t hear the creeps crawl in your bed at night
The window has been leaking and it’s
Flooding the floor
This is only your lowest hour
Unfolding you slowly like a paper
Or crushing you tight into a ball
But when you crawl
I’ll be wishing that you were stronger
In a place I won’t remember
I’ve already left behind
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5. |
(almost away)
00:53
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6. |
Away
03:36
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Away
Alive, awake to work in your worry
Didn’t need another day
Awash, adrift in your own inclinations
Circling away
A fly in your station
Keeping you awake
Alive in the night
While you watch the wind shake the window and bending the light
At the foot of a dream
Dissipating before you enter what you’ve never seen
Across in some other hidden dimension
Sleeping underground
Another night with no realization
Sensation unbound
Awake in your station
Call me down
Alive in the night
While you watch the wind shake the window and bending the light
At the gates of a dream
Hanging outside with your mind in a movie you make while you see
And it keeps you awake
To watch as your highest successes sweep under your gravest mistakes
At the foot of a day
Dissipate through the window of time slowing down
The time it takes you away
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7. |
Chapel of Chimes
02:17
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Chapel of Chimes
I’m picking up time
That’s fallen behind
To draw the design
The chapel of chimes
I’m walking through walls
I’m walking through air
The faster you fall, the farther to climb
The further to climb
In the condition
You woke up inside
You’re out in the open but you’re
Nowhere in sight
Without a condition
You’re wasting away
You’re wasting your time
There won’t be a stander by
To pick up the line
To pick up and listen
I’m picking up time
The quicker I climb
To draw the design
The chapel of chimes
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8. |
Change Your Mind
02:16
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Change Your Mind
I’m coming around the corner
I’m floating on frozen quarters
I’m going where the wind is warmer
I’m changing my mind
I’m typing these words to reach you
I’m sending this card to greet you
I never took the time to meet you
I’m changing my mind
Changing inside a circle half as wide
Leave nothing standing by
Changing from top to bottom side to side
No footprints recognize
Moving my body across the ocean blue
No visions beaming through me
I’m taking the time it takes to take the time
(On some shining lake across the sea
That’s where I’ll always be
Some perfect little interlude
Some lovely attitude I’m skipping through)
So unbutton your abandoned notions
Unfilter your frozen oceans
Dance over this door, it’s open
Come and change your mind
On and on from year to year
No clearer course to guide
Through seasons and construction
Reading nothing in the signs
On a lower plane to be, it’s plain to see
You’re in no shape for a climb
And you know you really like to take your time
I’m coming around the corner
I’m cruising across the border
I never have tried but I’m gonna
I’m changing my mind
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9. |
Sliver of Truth
03:22
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Sliver of Truth
A sliver of truth has come against the grain
And everything that remains will never be the same
One sliver of truth digging under the skin
And once it works its way in
You’ll never get it back out again
In the beginning
There was a place and time
Some new idea I kept in my mind
The same material to make a new kind
Now at another day’s end
It’s a different place and a different time
All I thought I knew now I know was never mine
The same material to make a different kind
A sliver of truth has come against the grain
And everything that remains will never be the same
One minuscule part of knowledge in your heart
Is still awake at night
To bring the flame to light
I have tried to be stronger
But I can’t make this any longer
Doesn’t matter now it’s too late to begin
One sliver of truth
Just a little nugget but it grows and grows
Now it’s a mountain and nobody knows
If there’s a way around or how high it goes
One sliver of truth
Come against the grain
One sliver of truth
Never be the same
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10. |
(chanterlude)
00:57
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11. |
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The Song Can Take the Weight
Holly roads and stars crash down
Just a rumble but it rings out so long
Coloured candles melt into a candy town
A smoky ritual that still smells after it’s gone
Cold beginnings are your science and your art
Shaking down to a reducible state
And the song can take the weight
Collecting cities like chapters in unread books
Flipping through corners and intersections as you comb
Breeze through connections, give no secondary looks
Dog-ear some pages to revisit when you’re home
You only survive in the moments you surrender
Scrape the remainder from the bottom of the plate
And the song can take the weight
And I don’t see a change
Out in the sound of a sudden distance
Out in the distance under a memory, ringing out
Couldn’t have waited for notification (I didn’t cry)
Couldn’t have noticed my own constellation til I turned around
Running the numbers and printing the sheets to publish and pore
Shredding and stripping away to the bottom where no light can shine
Hovering under the empty container (only inside)
Couldn’t have felt so small and endangered
Never so close to time
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12. |
The Swamp
05:25
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The Swamp
In an honest moment only long as eyes can see
In a light reflection closing open ocean streams
Hiding in the night of blissful distant in-betweens
Turning over stones to feed the filth that crawls beneath
Shrouded from the moment, hoping, holding only what you know
Keep a loving distance, pushing, painting, changing in the glow
Keep a conversation waiting, safely, deeply, where you want
In a distant picture sinking, soaking in the swamp
In an honest moment only long as eyes can see
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Crawl, produced by Chris Dadge, 12" vinyl available here or check jomcomyn.com/music for record shops near you
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