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Providence

by Sam Arnold

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Solving crimes though something’s wrong Something’s wrong with him He gets mixed up in some crazy messes from time to time Some craziness terrific crime He’s got a quirk and he’s got to work He’s got a mind to pull apart the mysteries The mystery It all makes perfect sense it all makes perfect sense it all makes perfect sense Solving crimes though something’s wrong Something’s there to solve and He’s more evolved than his predecessors what a day! It’s all figured out, all that’s left to confront Who’s the bad one who’s the bad one Who’s the mystery the mystery detective Crime is solved, he goes to bed Dreams of more solutions He’s got a mind to make sense of some mysteries.
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Jet Lag 02:20
When you go across the ocean or the Volga You’re body’s moving much faster than it ever evolved to a little bit geo asychronous and your low earth orbit gets twisted up sometimes you’re gonna do just fine you got Jet Lag Jet Lag weee We have jet lag I heard it takes a day per hour of time don’t know if that’s true your bed has extra gravity when your soul’s catching up to you Astronouts don’t get space lag even though every hour and a half they get a sunrise you’re gonna do just fine at the wrong time
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Calliope 03:27
When you go across the ocean or the Volga You’re body’s moving much faster than it ever evolved to a little bit geo asychronous and your low earth orbit gets twisted up sometimes you’re gonna do just fine you got Jet Lag Jet Lag weee We have jet lag I heard it takes a day per hour of time don’t know if that’s true your bed has extra gravity when your soul’s catching up to you Astronouts don’t get space lag even though every hour and a half they get a sunrise you’re gonna do just fine at the wrong time
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When you go across the ocean or the Volga You’re body’s moving much faster than it ever evolved to a little bit geo asychronous and your low earth orbit gets twisted up sometimes you’re gonna do just fine you got Jet Lag Jet Lag weee We have jet lag I heard it takes a day per hour of time don’t know if that’s true your bed has extra gravity when your soul’s catching up to you Astronouts don’t get space lag even though every hour and a half they get a sunrise you’re gonna do just fine at the wrong time
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Pacific Bus 02:56
We’re on bus ride to the Pacific. Jellies and snails we’ll be sailing. We’ll be whaling and having whales of times. Having whales of times. Our little heads rattle inside the hovercraft. Lovers hovering and fake patrolling tribes of weaving. And weaving waves of tides. Bus with us crepuscular dusk cucumber Trust the socialized riders pacifiers We are awake inside the bus and we’re on a ride to the other side of the Pacific. We’re little men dolled up in the pacific bus Nudibranch wait for us We’ll be leafy sea dragons and gone for all time Now I’m there for all time
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Today I wrote a song in the rain And made a plan not to complain Tomorrow I may snake the drain But today I sat and watched the rain Sun is taking a holiday too Grey skies don’t make me feel blue The aquifer is taking a big drink The earth she’s just too drunk to think Now it’s really coming down Water falling on my sound Soak the verse if it’s too long Rain down rain upon my song Today I wrote a song in the rain Nd saw on the news they were all going insane But a song about that won’t be one of mine I’ll write others before I die
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Do you remember the incident I’d love to reminisce a bit those dreary days in Thunder Bay our evil plans were underway no way no way Are you interested in my reports we won’t wait till the last resorts they’ve got a dossier of all the email in excruciating detail no way no way I been digesting what we done for ten years in the Marabella sun we’re floating on flush accounts but the ghosts have found our coastal town no way no way I can’t remember much anymore I’ve got a lot of things to forget the wind came in to even the score but it’s not what I’d call an incident no way no way
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Providence 03:18
I just want to talk to you like in the olden days. Cut a piece of fruit, give it to you on the tip of my knife in your face. Look around this lovely place. Picnic in the gilded age. My darling swoons and sighs. Hope her corset’s not too tight. Oh the elixer Mr Tesla’s invitation underneath the electrical station. All the diseases are on the run all of my friends are sharing my fun. I woke up today I woke up today, went on TV, then I was done, then I was done. Providence. we’re going to need all we can get we’re gonna need Providence. We took a little stroll down Antarctica way. We approached the bay and settled down for the night. The Bike ride to the moon makes a powerful hunger. Our hair’s asunder when we go down under. We wrapped a ribbon round the sun. Took a year, but it was mostly pretty fun. Tied the ends together now the earth is another red carpet star forever. I am proud of mother. What a strange dream. Travellers reveries. Improvising our parables. We’ll be fabled for weeks. Drive on baby seas and Sail our boats on iced tea. Chandelier people dangle from each other. Landscapes of toothpaste, Super telephone. We can speak asleep. we can speak asleep. All the things we say, they are very deep. Entropy creeps in and out of the foyer. Ringing many doorbells. Ripple ripples in my REM. I’m not a crustacian. Not a vegetarian Super clean carnivore check him out. Put him on the calendar all day long. Chevalier’s hat’s are on us sideways. All our escapes are tasty and nutritious All of the time we spent locked in the backroom was very well spent. Was very well spent.
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Wind is Weak 01:38
Time is not forever. Take your raincoat wherever You go lonely you go together like Sunday and cartoons In the hot sun your archives melt. In the hot sun you’re surrounded by Leaves, dead by the dozens, blown to the creek. blown so far while the wind is weak She said distorting time is what I like to do That’s a silly to say you know. We sure walked up and down this town Drew a line for the path of each leaf, unwound the lines and sewed a shirt on the Leaves, dead by the dozens, blown to the creek. blown so far while the wind is weak it feels pretty good. It doesn’t hurt good work if you can get it. Nice work she had to build the web again cause the wind and me just walked right through. In case the Leaves, dead by the dozens, blown to the creek. blown so far while the wind is weak
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You're gonna be a super civilization You're gonna grab all the energy you can we were gravitating we were solar radiating you're gonna block some rays and soak em up you're gonna surround your star like a science fiction Sphere Sphere Surround your Sphere. We might as well just dominate your star We might as well just do what you want Use gravity to bend time around yourself use space absence for echolocation
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Psychonaut 01:40
I’m a Psychonaut learning languages Living in dolphin proximity making friends and doing science bathing in mind isolations experiment enclosure. three beings explosure fear can propel you in a rocketship to far out places As I was squeezed back into a human frame I cried for the sake of human evolution these experiments must be done Mind opening brain protruder programming biocomputer taking drugs to make me see our conscious inclusivity experiment enclosure. three beings explosure joe and rosie told the sea life all about some science people as I was squeezed back into human frame I cried for the sake of human evolution these experiments must be done
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Hey there darling do I have your attention Are you on the phone are you in your home Here comes a song I wrote while thinking about you for a moment Here it goes. Don’t suck it up your nose You can oppose it if you open and close your ears any time. I suppose the only thing you can’t do is make it go away. Here goes a song I wrote while thinking about you for a moment Here it goes. Don’t stick it up your nose
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she was licking toes eating metronomes she was singing songs of sleepytime she was dreaming of new technologies old ladies she was faking frowns. she got what she wanted she was singing poems of aspirin she was dreaming of countries and young ladies she suspected. she mistrusted singing books of dead religions dreaming of divorces and some babies She preselected. she was injected singing theories of world crises dreaming of horses. old teachers she was excited. she was green lighted singing whole albums of art criticism dreaming of palaces and high ceilings
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Hey Mr Rodgers. Lets get you to a doctor. No need for alarm but you don’t look so great. We can wait in the waiting room with all the other waiters There’ll be nothing greater than when you’re feeling better Mr Rodgers Mr Rodgers. Down at the Doctor’s we can light up the detectors No one wants you dead. they will do their best get inside the pod now. Time to shoot to a lower orbit Say hello to Stacy. She will fix you up right. Dr. Stacy Dr. Stacy Our operation has escaped its solar basement kuiper belt (orc cloud?) behind us, very salty, very cold my report is encoding for the superspace curve trasmission this is the distance where it seems inefficient. But our race is not a waste We sampled pulsars, I convinced you you’re a big star Pun was intended. is the oxygen low? We can thank Mr Rodgers -- whose skull Dr. Stacy mended. This might have ended before we got very far. Mr. Rodgers Mr. Rodgers

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released May 1, 2013

All songs written by Sam Arnold
MIxed by Sam with help from Greg Yancey
Most acoustic guitar and drums recorded by Greg Yancey
Mastered by Greg Yancey
Album Cover by Alicia Traveria

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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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