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An Affront
02:59
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They whisper and point
And speak of prayers unclean.
They know of no sin
Of which we know.
Exile,
An affront to me before God.
We will prosper alone.
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Seclusion
03:34
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Forests unfurled
Into this brome.
In spite of them,
We have found home.
And when we are done
We will need no one.
We’ll feel no envy
Nor exact wrath.
Question we shan’t
God’s given path.
I am righteous today
I have learned from mistakes
I have found another life.
And when we are done
We will need no one.
In this seclusion
We will need no one.
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3. |
The Animal
04:13
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I’ve never seen
Anything like this.
The body’s wrong
For the head that crowns it.
It stares through me.
I will take aim
While there’s still daylight to see
This unholy animal
That stalks before me.
It stares through me.
I don’t know what it is.
But oh, this compulsion.
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4. |
A Knock
04:54
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This quiet still,
In this home alone.
But there is someone here
Knocking on the walls.
What is it they want?
What are you?
There is no one here
But still there is a knock
And it will not stop.
What is it you want?
Who are you?
What is it you want?
I think I can hear a voice.
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Nighttime Reminders
01:55
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Reasonable
02:50
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Well look at you,
Nerves all to pieces.
Panting, out of breath
As your heartbeat increases.
There is no terror here
That can so permeate,
So whatever could
Have put you in such a state?
Eyes play tricks.
Can you please be reasonable?
You’ve got hold
Of the wrong stick all around.
Now just sit still
And settle yourself down.
Eyes play tricks.
Can you please be reasonable?
This superstition is sin.
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7. |
A Deep Chill
01:58
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The cooling air so sweetly now envelopes us inside this house.
There’s a deep chill.
You, you can talk so sweetly now but what when you reveal yourself?
There’s a deep chill.
Everyone is asleep but the voices speak.
They tell me that they know.
They tell me that they know.
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8. |
Tell Me Her Name
04:55
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You’ve changed so much,
But I’ve found you at last.
You cannot hide
From your very own past.
The blood you’ve spilled,
You thought you’d washed away.
But it follows,
Its eyes focused on these stains.
It’s been years, do you remember?
Can you at least tell me her name?
You’ve fled from home
As fast as you can run.
But I can still sense
The things that you have done.
It’s been years, do you remember?
Can you at least tell me her name?
We’ll be the judge.
No need for a jury.
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Compromise
04:38
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The surgeon drunk,
The sister held her tongue.
The patient gone,
The secret left unsung.
You must meet me halfway.
The time that passed.
The new family and life.
The distance from
Your surgeon’s knife.
You must meet me halfway.
I will repent.
I will repent.
Just take me and leave them alone.
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10. |
Abdicator
02:14
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Is this all you are?
This is all you’ve got?
You’ve got some nerve.
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11. |
Some Wrongs Righted
04:41
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It took seven months to know, to learn who you really are.
It all has changed.
You were really someone else.
You should have listened.
You should have talked.
How could you have lied?
We were here for you.
How could you have done this?
You should have listened.
You should have talked.
You should have came clean.
You were in death in the midst of this life.
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Christopher G. Brown Boston, Massachusetts
Member of Vary Lumar and the Difference Engine, former member of 8mm Fuzz, Pyotr, and Ochmoneks. Co-director of Batman Triumphant. Creator of that Joy Division and Teletubbies video.
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