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little fires

by miscellaneous owl

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gaxophone Two very different songs, but the back-to-back punch of the heartbreaking country ballad "Skyway" and the sighing MBV swoon of "Lipstick On" left me delirious.
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1.
1000 Volt Ghost, Pt. One 03:57
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I've been traveling with a thousand-volt ghost I'm just the passenger I'm just the messenger I've been traveling with a thousand-volt ghost I'm just a vessel I'm just a hassle But if you see the way his electricity flares, you'll understand what keeps me going Currents crossing, ever surging Deep attraction, feel the urge Whales rising from the depths Shiver at familiar steps Coming down an empty hallway Geese are flying, cranes are calling Touch the skin of ancient granite Breathe the air of colder planets I've been traveling with a thousand-volt ghost I'm just a shadow I'm just a sideshow I've been traveling with a thousand-volt ghost Across the power lines His electric hand in mine But if you see the way his electricity flares, you'll understand what keeps me going And if you see the way his electricity flares, you'll understand what keeps me going Currents crossing, ever surging Deep attraction, feel the urge Whales rising from the depths Shiver at familiar steps Coming down an empty hallway Geese are flying, cranes are calling Touch the skin of ancient granite Breathe the air of colder planets Currents crossing, ever surging (I've been traveling with a thousand-volt ghost) Deep attraction, feel the urge Whales rising from the depths (I'm just the passenger) Shiver at familiar steps (I'm just the messenger) Coming down an empty hallway (I've been traveling with a thousand-volt ghost) Geese are flying, cranes are calling Touch the skin of ancient granite (Across the power lines) Breathe the air of colder planets (His electric hand in mine)
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Little Fires 02:44
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Little fires burn uncontrollably Do you find that you need them? Do you find that you want them? Out in the garden where my grandparents once fought back the desert With their roses and their plums My aunt shows me the concrete that she's painted In the colors of a garden Wonders why my father never comes She cut down those trees long ago All those plums were obligations Piling up like snow Open the door and the smell is overwhelming The cat is somewhere hiding Probably underneath the couch In the living room, I'm looking at a box Full of coupons and old photos Cat piss soaks into my socks I love you I love you but I'm frightened I wish that I were stronger I'm scared to watch you die Scared of saying goodbye Once upon a time, she held me in the garden Held me up to see the roses Taught me all their names I wish I were a plum tree The endless sustainer Filled with fruits and flowers Limbs breaking with the weight of my love All the things I want to say Plums burying the garden Like the last days of Pompeii
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Blind Futurism 02:44
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I kiss you on the moving walkway Terminal 4 at JFK Anything you do or say Can and will be used against you At this time you have the right To endless power, endless light Till the satellites explode And blissful shards rain around you Do you think we'll be together when the sun burns out? Do you think the stars are moving? Hang a pendulum to prove it The forces of the world consume you Just as any other human You are soft You are weak Your mouth stumbles Your eyes speak Do you think we'll be together when the sun burns out? Do you see how all the lights are changing? Engines roar, accelerating I think that you're too late to save me I think that I'm too late to save you I know that nothing lasts forever I know that nothing changes, ever Promise that I won't betray you Promise that I'll always love you Do you think we'll be together when the sun burns out? I dream sometimes the world is ending And you take my hand in yours, and then We step off of the burning building But I wake before we hit the pavement Play the film in reverse Coffin slides out of the hearse Razor zips your bloodied skin You walk into our house again Do you think we'll be together when the sun burns out? Do you think we'll be together when the sun burns out?
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Skyway 02:18
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It seems like you've been thinking about mortality, she said What else is new? But I guess it's true I'm full of grief It feels like so many friends are leaving Or already gone, and we move on Through icy streets I wanted to sing you "Skyway" but I didn't have the time So I just wrote you a note to say what I had to say And I thought that maybe I could record the song tomorrow But in the morning I saw it was too late I saw that profile picture change and I couldn't catch my breath And it keeps suggesting I should invite you to my shows I keep on feeling like I don't have the right to grieve your death But sorrow sneaks up on me, and that's just how it goes I wanted to sing you "Skyway" but I didn't have the time So I just wrote you a note to say what I had to say And I thought that maybe I could record the song tomorrow But in the morning I saw it was too late I picked up my guitar the night before you died Capo 3, in the key of F But I thought that maybe I should try it on piano And I just dicked around till there was no time left Wish I could have sung you anything, anything at all Wish I'd finished our collab but I dropped the ball I miss you and your kindness and the songs you used to write I hope you're sleeping well, my friend, goodnight
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Lipstick On 04:44
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Found out secondhand Didn't reach out Didn't want to take your time Were we all Keeping the same secret After you died? Not my place to say what you told me So I shut up But I remember the picture you showed me Where you've got your lipstick on and you're smiling You've got your lipstick on and you're smiling Is this how you wanted to be remembered? Or does it matter? No way to know now but I still wonder Won't get an answer Not my place to say what you told me So I shut up But I remember the picture you showed me Where you've got your lipstick on and you're smiling You've got your lipstick on and you're smiling Red tights, plaid skirt, white collar, black shirt You said "I really love this outfit All I'm trying to do is get my spirit right And she feels damn good" I hope I made you feel beautiful that night The way you should Not my place to say what you told me So I shut up But I remember the picture you showed me Where you've got your lipstick on and you're smiling You've got your lipstick on and you're smiling You've got your lipstick on and you're smiling You've got your lipstick on and you're smiling
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Transformation Chase 03:00
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If you were a cowherd and I was a weaver girl I'd wait for you beside the Milky Way And if the magpies never came to bridge the river Then I guess I'd have to swim to you Across the stars But I'd be there I'd be there I'd be there I'd be there If you were a fairy knight and riding out to pay the tithe to hell of the seventh year I'd take you in my arms and hold you fast through forms of fox and flame and snake I would never fear No, no I'd stay there I'd stay there I'd stay there I'd stay there I'll be there I'll be there I'll be there I'll be there I've loved you through a thousand lives, the forms we take that change with passing time, and all our mysteries I'll love you through a thousand more, I'll swim the stars to reach out for your hand Wait for me Wait for me
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Would You Still Hate Yourself if You Were a Worm? 03:08
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You are more than just your body, that's just a place to live Don't forgive yourself, there's nothing to forgive Talk to yourself the way you would talk to a friend You're not quite there yet, but you're trying, you're trying Down in the ocean, the brittle stars wave their limbs And out in the forest, the mourning dove spreads her wings So why are you out here, carrying that fear? You got it from your mother, like so many other things And if you think you don't deserve the kind of love you'd give a cat who crawled in underneath the garden gate, then ask yourself if you'd still hate yourself if you were a worm? You are more than your body You are more than your body You are more than your body Electrical storms explode inside your head An endless movie of the worst things that they've said And I'm not asking you to learn how to love I just want you to know you are enough And if you think you don't deserve the kind of love you'd give a cat who crawled in underneath the garden gate, then ask yourself if you'd still hate yourself if you were a worm? You are more than your body You are more than your body You are more than your body
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Superbloom! 03:00
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Baby, I cut my hair And you just had to say you got a better deal When I touched the face of God You had to say you knew exactly how that feels But I'm going to bloom I'm going to bloom Don't tell me that you're happy for me I know that you'd rather see me bleed When I reach a higher place I always feel your claw around my leg Dragging me down But I'm going to bloom I'm going to bloom Galaxies of wildflowers pour across the hillsides Poppy plants and brittlebush Superbloom! Billions of supernovas spread across the universe Exploding at the slightest touch Superbloom! Are you afraid of what I might become in the rainy season? Superbloom! You were always jealous of me but you never said it to me Superbloom! All those things you said about my body Just little remarks but they cut through the skin All those things you said about my poetry Were greased with good intentions so they could slide in like a knife But I'm going to bloom I'm going to bloom Galaxies of wildflowers pour across the hillsides Poppy plants and brittlebush Superbloom! Billions of supernovas spread across the universe Exploding at the slightest touch Superbloom! Are you afraid of what I might become in the rainy season? Superbloom! You were always jealous of me but you never said it to me Superbloom! But I'm not afraid of what you think anymore I'm going to bloom I'm going to bloom Galaxies of wildflowers pour across the hillsides Poppy plants and brittlebush Superbloom! Billions of supernovas spread across the universe Exploding at the slightest touch Superbloom! Are you afraid of what I might become in the rainy season? Superbloom! You were always jealous of me but you never said it to me Superbloom! Galaxies of wildflowers pour across the hillsides Poppy plants and brittlebush Superbloom! Billions of supernovas spread across the universe Exploding at the slightest touch Superbloom! Are you afraid of what I might become in the rainy season? Superbloom! You were always jealous of me but you never said it to me Superbloom!
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1000 Volt Ghost, Pt. Two 03:28
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Like a cotton ball, like frost on a windowpane, 1000 Volt Ghost is just fluff in a cage They put him in a box for us And we sign the papers to adopt A five-pound rabbit with a hundred-dollar name He's our first pet together And I'm scared this will all be too hard What if he hates us, what if we mess this up, What if this all falls apart? But we both feel like winners When he takes a carrot from your fingers He is not numinous or luminous or mysterious Except in the smallest of ways Wondering what thoughts flit like moths behind his tiny fluffy face Putting his cage together, filling up his water He's so small and soft, like a gentle little cloud Like the tenderness for you that I can barely speak aloud It feels like we're writing a story And he is the first word on the very first page It feels like a shared delusion It feels like a sacred space All our tentative hopes All our vulnerable dreams Tied up in a five-pound rabbit With a hundred-dollar name 1000 Volt Ghost pulls hay from the bin And I feel like my heart will explode His single-minded happiness shines out like the sun Wraps us up in its radiation glow I guess there's something naive about Believing that I'll love you forever But when I look in your face I can't see that changing Now or ever And I can't imagine that life could be Any better than how it feels today You and me and 1000 Volt Ghost In our imperfect disarray I know someday the lights will go out I know someday we'll lose our small friend But somehow we go on choosing to love Believing it will be worth it in the end
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Soft Summer 04:24
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Hey, Summer, let's get our colors done Aren't we all just looking for a place to belong? Hey, Summer, do you think I'll find a home? Can they tell me the secret to being beautiful? I got a feeling that I'm gonna be a soft one I got a feeling that I'm gonna be warm If I find that I'm not what I expected At least I'll find some place to belong Dark Winter, turns out I'm clear and I'm cold But it's not that bad, turns out I'm allowed to wear black And I've been looking for a way to do as I'm told If Orpheus had been a Taurus he never would have looked back In the hothouse, the butterflies are thriving While outside in the snow, the crocuses drink in the cold Sometimes you find that you're not what you expected But at least you find someplace to go Soft Summer is the sister season to Dark Winter Do you believe in one true blue that suits your face Or are all these seasons interchangeable Self-obsession, fake and vain? That's such a Scorpio thing to say And anyway, I think you're more of a Spring Hey, Summer, tell me what to do now I'm wearing my perfect colors but I still feel the same Hey, Summer, maybe they got it wrong I think I could pin down this problem if it just had a name I got a feeling that really deep down I'm an Autumn Can't you see the warmth in my face? I just know that this time I'll get it right And everything will just fall into place I just know that this time I'll get it right And everything will just fall into place
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Between 04:40
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Between the sand and the water Between the mother and daughter Between the land and the border There's space to be a child Safe for a while The world's hurt you, I know But darling, we can still go Between the earth and the ocean Between the thought and the motion Between desire and compulsion There's space to be a child Safe for a while The world's hurt you, I know But darling, we can still go Home, whatever that means A place to rest, a time to dream The color that you see Behind closed eyes Light through new leaves Between the sleep and the dreaming Between the loving and leaving Between the wound and the feeling There's space to be a child Safe for a while The world's hurt you, I know But darling, we can still go Home, whatever that means A place to let go, warm and sweet Feathers line the nest Settle softly, take your rest Between Between Between Between

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