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painter cordoned off
few can color wade
turning colors in your shower water
kiss a blue dog collar day
paid it off in muscle
few can claw it to grace
fire cages of your water
color the beast of faith
if you can swallow the madness
be apart, a part of some
wore your shoes to bed
in case the christ should care to come
painter call me often
truth and color in waves
fire cages of your water
color my heart to beat
if you can swallow the madness
be apart, a part of some
wore your shoes to bed
in case the christ should care to come
for that comet ride
the starfield dip and the starfield bend to twirl
born homesick for some other world
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Flicker Screen
02:32
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Couldn’t feel for nothing’s why I wrote you off a long line
I was a liar too, dirt picture of the wronged and righteous
Flicker screens of youth, dirt projector of the mind’s eye
I was a liar too, I’m living up to you
I was a liar too, turret gunner for the lost light
Flicker screens of youth, dirt projector of the mind’s eye
Dream in green, in tune, soft trip into a new tide
That rhetoric poison, love it was a long time
That letter was poison, love it was a lie
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New Tongue
03:04
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I don’t need no southbound highway sign
To tell me HELL IS REAL
It’s where I got my shiners
Harsh time, wise mother of my deep purple under eye
No I don’t have to drive
I earned mine, palm fronds of the combine
Sun on my cold face
Strip on my new tongue
Copped it out on the lawn
Wrapped raw in Medicaid gauze
Not so afraid to just be ugly, after all
Baby wants me on my sunshine upswing
Smiling light as lace, kiss like a new snake
Likes the record that my broke down home made
Baby leave no trace or indentation
Peep my gut deep morning shudder shake
The steady knock of the same dark decade raging
Like an Nth generation punk on her birthday
Sun on my cold face, strip on my new tongue
The steady knock
The steady knock of the same
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the body that held you bore an awful sound
heaven bent waiting on you, loud
you could carve a way home, blue orchid sound
heaven bent waiting on you, loud
drumming, face the edge of yourself, and over
alone, as ever, over
drumming, face the edge of yourself, and over over over
heaven compels you now, a long-drawn heavy howl
heaven bent waiting on you loudly, howling out
you could carve all the way home, blue orchid sound
heaven bent waiting on you, loud
drumming, face the edge of yourself, and over
alone, as ever, over
drumming, face the edge of yourself, and over over over
the way home
the way home
the way home
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Poppy Seed
02:45
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Oblivion in a poppy seed
Neon kink in the blood-brain halo
Vivid dawn of your biopsy
Neon wing of a profane angel
Pale, you are a faithful wave forming
Last day your forehead saw
Glass fame you turn your face from
What do you call these turns of form?
Last day your forehead saw
Glass fate that follows no one order
What do you call these waves that form along, and call you on?
Last day your forehead saw
Glass fate that follows no one order
How do you cull these waves that form along, and call you on?
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the end we held out,
the hours on the phone
it felt like holding close
a hollow love run wild
gone folded cold into the pile
i pin my eyes on
the rainbow sherbet sky
a lilac rising tide
that pounds on when you go
escape our sunk new age clown show
beware the modern air
the cheap vagaries of language
shake, shake the daze off day by day
i faked it, too
i faked it, too
all across, you faked it all across
you faded out, wandering up and out
you faked it all, all across
you faded out, wandering up and out
i faked it, too
our colder waves in phase
the blood moon's bedroom eye
it fell like guiding light
that bounced on where you'd be
bored of your party, called for me
beware the modern air
the cheap vagaries of language
shake, shake the daze off day by day
all, all across
you faded out, wandering up and out
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Fire Escape
02:53
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If I could go it alone maybe I’d meet you down the sunlit highway
There was a language we spoke
There was a warmth to every lovelorn “No”
If there’s a language at all
Our left hands shaking
Sounding bells on your fire escape
I pass it still in the cold
Six years of waiting like a childhood dog
Given the choice I’d fade this like a well-worn radio
Given the chance I chased you like a childhood untied dog
I got one eye on the road
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Disco Spring
02:09
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My love will come to me holy
Gold fleece in disguise
Sneaking candy and ice cream
Sweet smile belies the full house he’s holding
My love rear up a phosphene cobra
Wry sorcerer’s tongue
Psychonaut from the sun
Skatin on
The squares pair off in horror
Babe, I had it bad
Let go or be dragged
Baby, I had it rough
Let go or be drug
My love will come to me slowly
Pain kiss the winter
Disco spring
Pain kissing the winter
Disco spring
Then over and over and over
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9. |
Jewel Box
03:38
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Sky open like a jewel box on the field
Lawful evil walks a razor length behind
Unease that we were wrong to fight
Red eve of the parade I cease to feel
Unease, a razor tossed to sea
Wherever you are
Wherever you are low
Wherever you stayed lost
Your flailing, taloned aura
Red eve of the parade I cease to fear
Unease, a razor tossed to sea
Wherever you are
Wherever you are low
Wherever you stayed lost
Your flailing, taloned aura
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Desert Liminal Chicago, Illinois
♫ ☾ Desert Liminal is an experimental pop trio and fixture in the deep field of Chicago D.I.Y. Their unique sound combines elements of melodic dream pop, shoegaze, and noise.
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