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A Really Long Time
01:29
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I’ve been gone so long I can’t remember where I’ve been gone from
If there’s mail waiting there I hope it doesn’t think that I don’t care
Any news from there would be history to me
You see I’ve been gone a really long time
I’ve been alone so long I can’t remember if there’s anyone else to know
If you told me you’re only an aspect of me, I’d be inclined to agree
Any stories I hear are just autobiographies
You see I’ve been gone a really long time
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Less Than Full Certainty
02:20
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Less than Full Certainty
Do you remember when we didn’t know what’s next?
Not knowing what tomorrow would be like
Not knowing what tomorrow would be like
We used to say things like “I wonder”
Just imagining how it used to be, having less than full certainty
Not knowing where events would occur
Not being able to expect for sure
We used to say things like
“Who knows?”
There was a time before the calculator
I don’t miss it but it’s worth a daydream
And we all knew I’d have that daydream
Do you remember when wondering wasn’t illegal
Having dreams of the possible
Improvising disorganized space
We used to say things like
“I wonder”
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Row Row Row Your Boat 2
02:02
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Just another day with too much radiation
Many things done without hesitation
Time to run away time for the shade
Just another day of hiding in the shadows
Look at the tree it’s taking one for the team
Photosensitive chemical change
Star spreads out
Stops on skin
It warms the seas and streams
On which your boat is rowed
Row row row row your boat
Just another day of keeping in my organs
Chemical change of electron proportion
Life is but a gentle downward stream
Just another crocodile inspired scream
Merrily you’ve been sunk into a dream
Life is but a lion and a mouse
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Transformational
02:38
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He turned me into a dog in the rain
Who had wealth and health and wisdom
He turned me into a machine designed for feelings superior to any squishy person
I found him to be transformational
He turned me into a plane without a pilot
But that thing could really fly itself
He turned me into a boy facing the other direction
Now my nose is pointed this way and I’m transformed
He turned me into a pair of hands that open cans
Making places in between
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I’m not me. Neither are you and no one is anyone
You’re not we. Neither are they and no one needs to be them. I are not me and neither am you
She’s never been you
and he can’t be even though everyone is everything
we’ve tried to be.
But never did succeed in the process we broke out of the prisons of the pronouns
I are not me and neither am you
We’re not here.
There is also here so we also aren’t there
You’re not we, neither are they and no one needs to be them. I are not me and neither am you
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The Thing You Spend
02:01
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Don’t be afraid. Ok you can be afraid
I don’t know where we’ll stay
I don’t know what’ll happen today
Don’t be confused. Go ahead and be conflicted though
Feel the eels with our toes
We can wade around with the hungry hippos
I wouldn’t mind if we shared a bit of time
That’s the thing we spend on being afraid
Don’t get too sad. We all lose everything anyway
It’s just a matter of time, you know the thing that’s passed since I started singing this song
Don’t be afraid, but you can be terrified
So I guess you can be afraid if it’s on the way to terrified
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Yoututamaitcha
01:31
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Im from the sky can’t see my eye minding that is not a skill I have
Yoututammaitcha
In a vector traffic tangent curve the airless space can’t travel through
Yoututammaitcha
The beach is wet. how disturbed can we can we get. lets try and see
Dunes are skeptical of the air, but I know they care
I’m from the sky and can’t hear my ears
But the sounds that reach them are so very near
In the street with a little dog. why’s she there? who is she talking about or to?
Pick a card, any card is wet, puddle contains an ace of spades and scooter
Graffiti rain and the shops are people and the people are shops I have a closed computer
The beach is wet how disturbed can we can we get lets try and see
Dunes are skeptical of the air, but I know they care
I’m from the sky and can’t hear my ears
And we’re made up of explosions from a long time ago
yes we’re made up of explosions from a long time ago
Dog dog dog
Yoututammaitcha
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Make Me Sane Again
02:11
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Tonight I’m coming home.
I’m coming home tonight all right
I can’t where I’ve been today
The marketplace was crazy and now I am as well
So I’ll ask you to make me sane again
In case you say no tomorrow
These little brains needs soothing
These old heads need removing
I cant’ say how they got the scratches
Experiments were inconclusive and now I am too
So I’ll ask you to make me sane again
In case you say no tomorrow
Tonight I’m going to sleep
I’m going to sleep tonight all right
I can’t say what’ll be in my dreams
Mistakes were made and paid for with my mind
So I’ll ask you to make me sane again
In case you say no tomorrow
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Stones Keep Going
02:26
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The maximum of every curve
can be measured with a spool of string
If it waves in the breeze
If it disturbs the leaves
That is all we’ll need to see
A stone was thrown and we wrote ourselves upon its skin
Maybe we can do it again
Cause stones keeping going unless they’re acted upon
On up ed act they’re less un ingo ing keep stones cause
Gain a it do can we be may skin its pon up selves our wrote we and thrown was stone a
The minimum of each new freeze
can be felt in the elbows and knees
Air is all that we’ll breath
If it disturbs the lands
If it disturbs the seas
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Find The Shoe
01:36
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I want you to cover your toes they look cold
Once you find the shoes, that’s a thing that you could do
I want you to find your center
Should be right between your sides
Disappear me and everyone else and find yourself
Smoosh together the things you think you know
Subtract that and proceed along the only path you have
I want you to cover your bases be assured of spacious spaces
Get yourself professional help and find yourself
You found ways to eiliminate and enclose what not to do
Proceed as though you have a will
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Heart Away
02:27
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Don’t give your heart away
Save it for another day
At least not the one you use to pump your blood
Don’t sell your arteries
They’re tubes you’re going to need
If you couldn’t oxygenate your extemeties it would be a shame
And if your shame were to be dismembered
And my foolishness could be erased
We could both keep our parts in place
And make a living in a different way
Don’t give your heart away
Not the one connected to your veins
Let me surgically remove the shame from your brains
And if your shame were to be dismembered
And my foolishness could be dispaced
We could both own our parts it seems
And make a living using other means
Don’t give your heart away
Save it for another day
At least not the one you use to pump your blood
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Interstate Ten
03:11
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She said hay go your own way. I said OK as the door was closing
We’re all on paths that were already laid.
Miles on down and the valley closed found a fog upon a pond and lost the hill’s road. I found a toad who rode with me
On this worn tire on this worn rim Amphibian convinced me to listen to him
Spoke a tale that I can’t re-tell.
Open window and the miles away flowers Rode upon the breezes and sold me sneezes
bought a sandwich and i bought pills
An eagle or an owl who had had a marmot traced the road as we both digested. Shared a path and breathed contiguous air
Miles on down and the ocean joined us. Reminiscing of a time when we had tails. And I believe him what he says “i’m not going back”
She said “hay go your own way”. I said “ok” but I didn’t mean it
The way was never going to belong to me
She said hay go your own way. I said ok but I was lying
A way is not the kind of thing I’d own
She said hay go your own way. I said ok but I was lying
We’re all on paths that were already laid
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Sam Arnold Austin, Texas
(photo by Matt Silaski) Metal, Jazz, Art-pop Americana singer-songwriter, electronic and experimental composer/instrumentalist Sam Arnold is a musician living in Austin TX. Sam generally collaborates to varying degrees with some of the best creative musicians and engineers in the Austin progressive art-music scene, including from his bands Opposite Day and Stop Motion Orchwstra. ... more
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