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Salinger

by Salinger

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1.
But, Alice 04:02
I can paint the walls now A new scrapbook for a brand new dream Scratch in the margins A 9-month collage of you and me But Alice, listen A rooftop is no place for a queen We don’t know if help is coming Can’t tell sirens from the screams And it’s only the test of our kind Someone who loves you less would put you, Bring you into the light, that I know I’m cheating you Mother Earth rumbles And she gratefully spits back the sea But from your shelter You won’t see all mankind in retreat So Alice, be strong Contented to live on in my heart So soon until I know you So soon you must depart And it’s only the best of my life The moments when everything’s okay Can’t compare to the ones That take your breath away Alice, alibi, it’s airtight And they’re piling on your birthright More charred earth to break through Behind so many moons You patiently loom To fly down and light up rooms like you do With my brother’s sharp wit Charisma, delight My mother’s laugh This damned world’s cries And it’s only the rest of this plight I’ll close out leaving nothing behind In the rearview A glimmer in a would-be father’s eyes But Alice, you’ve seen through it all
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“lay down bear nothing here, no ease your breath there is no fear, no fear” She said, but I still froze Full of terribly far thoughts Excuses, hiding places Only came forth when our eyes met It was a dead end trail Colliding words, no avail A mind stuck routine Justifying what’s been Spitting out first thoughts ‘Cause silence pulled us taut But it still spoke for us It spoke louder than trust It was a dead weight of air Clouding banded stares Lost in translation Or maybe not enough patience Something new broke forth And demanded its course Screaming what could be All pleas stayed with me There wasn’t much to say That would make you see it my way Feeble eyes don’t say much to jaded ears What’s left for us to be? A question floating endlessly To which our words seem to have no say
4.
Damage Years 02:30
The cries for help were quickly drowned out By the floodgates opened in your brain The life support we once enforced Crumpled by the old boy’s mainframe The lipstick stain on the bathroom floor Cried out a cadence of S.O.S And S.O.L’s, invitations to dwell In the trough of an adolescent cell You find your use You find your purpose in the meaning What they’ll turn you into They slaughtered the cashcow after she Started bleating Greek tragedies Made her station known, her cover was blown The suitors gone, finds herself alone You find your light You find it here, you find it there To enshrine and indict You find your light And all this is nothing but the running down of the trauma you were made for As you’re weaned off by the wrinkles of time You’ll wake up and shake off the metaphor And on that day you know there won’t Be enough paper bags to carry The crushing weight of a broken-in smile Sunken to the ordinary
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Drink to Me 02:58
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and so the days kept walking by sticks start to run you unclean flower bed look what I’ve done Come on do you feel it now? Don’t tell me you can’t feel it swinging What’s written in those palms of yours Don’t you know what the days are bringing? Come on do you feel it now? What’s rattling in between your temples We aren’t alone in here No seeing clear Come chase me in a field Batter me with your dice Too soon, sounds of “life will have its way” But not here, not now Come on do you feel it now? Don’t tell me you can’t feel it swinging What’s written in those palms of yours Don’t you know what the days are bringing? Come on do you feel it now? That little thing beyond you growing beneath your feet a last day to meet
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Bad Song 02:20
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In Partibus 00:42
In the morning When I rise Give this crater-faced boy a sign Are you there, God? Yeah, am I? Am I another prototype in Your germline? The king’s steeds and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Kip back together again
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She knew that her boy had a hand in Making a mess of everything The moment I emerged reeking like A long three-day weekend spent inside the womb. As if I didn’t hear her say “Dear, talk to him - His teen angst is clogging all the drains…” How great, and how wonderful you are Born for this earth, made from the stars You’ll burn bright until it ashes itself Upon your innocence It’s not that they hate you kid. No, nothing personal. Things might even soon get better, but You never really know Disaffection calling Glory days are stalling, you Waiving the banner of all others Mothers, do you know where your failsons are tonight? <<Silent weapons wage their war undetected. There’s no middle class to harvest paranoia. Latch key kids had their routine - Marilyn Manson and D&D. Neighborhood watch is on the scene. Don’t go to school tomorrow. Or the next day. Or again, ever. Don’t go to school tomorrow>> Babe, hold me, look at him go Watch him turn into a ghost Grow older and take it out on those That he wants to fuck the most A fast-pass to find out: it’s a cold world after all. When he’s finished up we’ll cover his legs with a funeral shawl. Mothers, do you know where your failsons are tonight?
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Ark 03:30
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Bollo 04:46
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Circa 1937 07:22

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For Cliff, Milton, and Pedro.

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released May 1, 2020

Barn: vocals, bass, guitars, keys, programming, electronics, noise
שֵׁת: drums, keyboards, programming, vocals
Bean: guitars, bass, vocals, keys

Tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, mixed by Gavin Caine
Track 7 mixed by John Taveras and Seth Loomis
Track 3 mixed by Seth Loomis
Track 12 mixed by Bradford Barker
Track 1 mixed by Ken Polk
Track 11 mixed by Ken Stringfellow

Mastering by Seth Loomis (all tracks except 1, mastered by Ken Polk, and 7 mastered by John Taveras)

Gavin Caine - piano on track 1
Ava Figliuzzi - violin on track 12
Hannah Hooven - viola on track 12
Michael Frontz - cello on track 12
Stella Faux - violin on track 11
Ken Polk - drums, guitars on track 1

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