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Everything At Once

by endolphins

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SHAKING KNEES COMBAT TIRED EYES IN THE LOSING BATTLE OF STAYING UP ALL NIGHT IN THE RAIN AND THE HEAT AND THE TUNGSTEN LIGHT WE’RE TRYIN’ HARD BUT CAN’T VOCALIZE THE TENSION IN THE AIR OR THE REASONS WHY BUT HERE WE ARE ANYWAY. A STOLEN HOUR DOESN’T SEEM SO LONG WHEN IT’S BEEN FIVE YEARS SINCE WE SANG THIS SONG BUT THE RHYTHM’S BEEN PRESENT ALMOST ALL ALONG FROM THE TOPS OF BUILDINGS AND THROUGH HAZY FOG AFTER YEARS AND YEARS ITS GROWN SO STRONG BUT WE COME FULL CIRCLE IN THE REVERSAL OF A SONG SO WHEN I COME BACK INTO TOWN IN LIKE, FIVE YEARS FROM NOW I’LL WRITE ANOTHER SONG ABOUT CHICAGO WE MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING THAT WE’VE ALWAYS KNOWN BY THEN WE’LL BE OVER THIRTY YEARS OLD GOD DAMN THAT SEEMS SO FUCKING OLD BUT MAYBE THAT’S THE REASON WHY WE’RE PUSHING THROUGH THESE DROOPING EYES THINKING UP LITTLE WHITE LIES AND SINGING OLD SONGS BUT IN REWIND
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Boneless 03:34
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Towel Dried 03:51
I WAS BAPTIZED IN A BATHTUB TOWEL DRIED UNDER THE SUN FIVE HUNDRED THREADS I COUNTED BEFORE IT CAME UNDONE OVER TIME AND UNDERWHELMED THE HEAVY GAZE I’D LEARNED WATCHED ME FROM AFAR WAS LOST IN FOG OR SOMETHING WORSE TO BREAK A PIECE OF TOURMALINE TO FIND OUT WHAT THIS ALL COULD MEAN ONE SLENDER PIECE, A COLORED PRISM WITHIN THREE POINTS THERE’S A PRISON ONE DAY I’LL FIND SOME OPAL CUT IN HALF, EXPOSED EXPRESSING EVERY COLOR NOT AN ANSWER, GOOD TO KNOW THE VEINS OF COLOR THIN BUT PLAYFUL LEAD ME TO THE PLACE OF WAVELENGTHS THAT CANNOT PASS THROUGH THIS BIG WIDE OPEN SPACE WELL I WOULD BE A LIAR IF I EVER HEARD MYSELF SAY I KNEW THAT IT WOULD ALL TURN OUT, IT WOULD TURN OUT THIS WAY SO I MIGHT DIG IT UP, DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG IT UP TODAY THEN FLASH A SMILE WITH TWO HANDFULS OF SOIL: “IT MEANS” MY BIRTHMARK IS AN HOURGLASS AND SPILLS UPON MY KNEE IRREGULAR AND ANYWHERE BUT HERE ATTACHED TO ME THE GRAINS OF SAND DELIBERATE FALL INTO THEIR PLACE BUT LEAVE THE OTHER HALF ALONE A BIG WIDE OPEN SPACE
4.
Pop Songs 04:11
EVEN THOUGH THE AVERAGE POP SONG IS ONLY ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MINUTES LONG I KNOW THEY’LL OUTLAST YOU AND ME, YOU KNOW HEY YA AND HEY JUDE ARE AS FRESH AS THEY’VE EVER BEEN AND IT SEEMS TO ME, WE OWE IT ALL TO LEADBELLY AND THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA THOSE CHORDS STILL RING TODAY WE’VE GOT THE BLUES AND THAT’S WHY WE PLAY CERTAIN SONGS THAT GOT SCRATCHED INTO OUR SOULS SO DEEP THAT IF YOU DROPPED A NEEDLE THEY’D PLAY OUR HEARTS IN HIGH FIDELITY AND IF YOU THINK THAT VINYL’S WARM, THEN WAIT ‘TIL YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF HEARTSTRINGS PLUCKING MELODIES BY JAMES BROWN AND YOU KNOW THE FEELING WHEN THE BEAT DROPS LIKE WE ALL MIGHT NOT BE SO LOST WE’LL JUST TETHER OUR HEARTS TO THE BASS DRUM AND WE’LL MOVE LIKE WE SHOULD HAVE MOVED ALL ALONG SO JUST SING ME A SONG SO SING TO ME - ITS ALL I’LL EVER NEED IT DON’T MATTER IF YOU’RE A BIT OFF KEY ITS ALWAYS GONNA SOUND PERFECT TO ME AS I DRIVE WITH AN OPEN WINDOW MY HEART KEEPS PREDICTIN’ THE RADIO AND THE TIMES THAT I BELIEVED THE LIE WHAT SONG COMES ON BUT AMERICAN FUCKIN’ PIE AND I HEARD THE LIGHT
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SPRINGTIME CAME IN A BIT TOO SOON I STILL WEAR MY COAT, BUT I’M IN THE MOOD TO LISTEN TO CAKE AND MAKE A FOOL OUT OF MYSELF, AND PROBABLY YOU TOO THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE AIR THAT CAME IN WITHOUT WARNING MAYBE WE COULD BLAME IT ON GLOBAL WARMING IF I’M STEPPIN’ IN PUDDLES THIS EARLY - THIS EARLY INTO JUST JANUARY THE SUMMER’S SUN WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY MELT A PUDDLE RIGHT OUT OF ME THEN I COULD BE A LIQUID, I COULD FILL A CUP LIKE A SHOT OF WHISKEY, YOU COULD DRINK ME UP WELL I JUST CAN’T WAIT TO EVAPORATE AND BE PART OF THE STORMS IN THIS PREMATURE WARMTH IN A CALMING GASEOUS STATE AND ALL THE WEIGHT IN MY VEINS COHERES AND FALLS AS RAIN AND I’LL PARTICIPATE AND PERCIPITATE KNOCKIN’ ON YOUR WINDOW PANES OR I MIGHT LAND IN THE OCEAN AND TAKE A MUCH NEEDED SWIM GO ON TOUR TO ALL THE FAR OFF SHORES AND CATCH A CLOUD TO KEEP GOING WHERE? I LIKE NEVER KNOWIN‘ JUST GO WHERE THE WIND’S BLOWIN’ OR WHERE GRAVITY PULLS
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Danger! 04:43
WE EAT DINNER BY THE TV EVERY NIGHT WATCH THE EVENING NEWS, TERMINATOR 2 THE WORLD FLASHES BY, AND IN MY YOUNG EYES I SEE HOW THINGS MIGHT BE, I SEE HOW THINGS THE TENNESSEAN SUN HAS QUIETLY BEGUN ITS DESCENT TO FORGET EVERYTHING IT SAW TODAY AND IN THE ALLEY I FOUND A BIRD THAT’D DIED I TOUCHED IT WITH MY HAND JUST WHERE IT HAD LANDED IT’D NEVER FLY AGAIN, I KNEW IT THERE & THEN I COVERED IT WITH STONES & LET IT REST ALONE AS A BOY IN TENNESSEE, BAREFOOT THROUGH THE YARD CAREFUL OF STICKERS & RED ANTS, I NEVER WENT VERY FAR WENT ONE DAY TO THE FIREWOOD TO SEE WHAT I COULD FIND: THE TANGLED WEB OF SOME BLACK WIDOW, REFLECTING IN MY EYES AS A BOY IN IOWA, BAREFOOT IN THE STREET BUILDING UP MY CALLUSES TO HONE MY SUMMER FEET THEN ONE DAY A SHARD OF GLASS DUG INTO MY HEEL BURIED ITS WAY DEEP UNTIL I COULD NO LONGER FEEL
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Fuck Time 07:09
FUCK TIME! YEAH FUCK HIS LITTLE NONSTOP HANDS FUCK THE THINGS HE TALKS ABOUT FUCK THE THINGS HE TICKS ABOUT JUST GIVE IT A REST OLD MAN BUT THEN HIS HANDS TURN TO FISTS AND I’M CLOCKED OUT IN A DAZE I’M WEAK FOR WEEKS AS THE YEARS CARVE THROUGH OUR FACE FUCK TIME! BUT IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE ME A SIXTIETH SECOND CHANCE JUST HOLD ON FOR A MINUTE, JUST ANOTHER MINUTE MINUTE IF YOU CAN FUCK TIME! AND FUCK THE TIME IT TAKES JUST TO SAY THE WORDS I COULD HAVE STAYED UP ALL NIGHT BUT SUNDAY HAD OTHER PLANS FOR YOU AND I BUT AT LEAST I LEARNED WHEN TO HIT THE SWITCH AND JUST GO TO BED AND STOP FORCING IT NOW I’M TEN MINUTES AWAY FROM YOU DISTANCE EQUALS TIME, AND THAT’S NOTHING NEW TEN MINUTES AGO, THAT SOON SEEMS LIKE MILES AND MILES FROM VIEW AND I’M REALLY NOT SURE IF I BELIEVE IN JUST TEN MINUTES AGO IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYTHING HERE IS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME - THE SUMMER SNOWS THE PAST IS WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT, THE PRESENT’S WHAT YOU FEEL AND THE FUTURE’S JUST SOMETHING THAT HAS YET TO BE REVEALED I CAN’T REVEAL IT SO RAGE, RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE TIMING OF THESE NIGHTS AND TURN THE PAGE, AND JUST WALK AWAY. I’D RATHER BE RIGHT TWICE A DAY THAN A MINUTE AHEAD OR BEHIND FUCK TIME! JUST AS SOON AS I THINK THAT I MIGHT HAVE ENOUGH HE STRETCHES OUT HIS ARMS UNTIL THERE’S JUST WAY WAY WAY TO MUCH BUT HIS HANDS TURN TO FISTS AND I’M CLOCKED OUT IN A DAZE I’M WEAK FOR WEEKS AS THE YEARS CARVE THROUGH OUR FACE AND FUCK THE TIME IT TAKES TO SAY FUCK THE TIME IT TAKES JUST TO SAY THE WORDS
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IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHICH WAY YOUR FOOTSTEPS GO, IF YOU'RE IN OR OUT BUT YOU'RE ALWAYS OUT YOU'RE ALWAYS OUT BUT IF YOU'RE IN THEN JUST STAY INSIDE THE FIRST STEP'S A DOOZY YOU KNOW YOU BETTER HIDE DON'T GO OUTSIDE DON'T GO OUTSIDE BUT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WAIT TOO LONG FOR THE SNOW TO MELT IT CAME IN LATE THIS YEAR AND NOVEMBER FELT LIKE WE'D BORROWED ALL THIS TIME WITHOUT INTEREST RATES BUT WE'LL FACE THE RECKONING WHEN PHIL AWAKES EVERYTHING'S FAMILIAR LIKE I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE BOB DYLAN ON THE RADIO AND THE HOTEL FLOORS I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE AND ALL THE PUNKS THAT TAUGHT ME TO EMBRACE THE NIGHT TO TURN MY BACK ON DARKNESS AND FACE THE LIGHT YOU GET IT, RIGHT? YOU'LL GET IT RIGHT. BUT IF YOU COULD ONLY COME OUT AT NOON ALL YOU'D HAVE TO DO IS NOT LOOK UNDERNEATH YOUR SHOES BUT I GUESS YOU'VE GOT THOSE WINTER BLUES SOMETIMES I STARE AT MY FEET TOO

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released April 15, 2016

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