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The Fall
03:54
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on bended knee we hold
these truths to be never told
by candlelight I pray
that I'm not right for one more day
ballast against (feathers they fall)
the fall (and rise)
hold on to something (let go of it all)
at the end of it all (and open up your eyes)
(and open up your eyes)
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Knife
04:32
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when you're in a mood do you ever hold inanimate objects to high standards?
today I found myself saying "for fucks sake" to a jar of crabapple jelly
and all that happened was that I struggled unsuccessfully
to get the jam to slide off my spoon and so I had to switch hands and scrape it onto my toast with a knife
a knife
I think it comes out of the helpless feeling
of never being able to control anything that happening all around us
its all crumbling around us and good luck trying to manage everything that matters to you
you know it, don't you? your actions have become inconsequential
it's all beyond you, it's all beyond you
oh I've got a knife
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Less or More
04:31
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we'll get through this right?
I ask myself in the deep of the night
my mind turns back to flight
a knot loosens, slowly rising to the light
is it harder than before or am I tired?
am I less or am I more?
so much energy spent
if nothing changes what has anything meant?
to be alive and at peace
what do I know? have I not earned my release?
is it harder than before or am I tired?
am I less or am I more?
we'll get through this right?
I ask myself in the deep of the night
my mind turns back to flight
a knot loosens, slowly rising to the light
is it harder than before or am I tired?
am I less or am I more?
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A Library in a Mansion
04:27
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I just heard about a great horned owl
who passed away after eight years in the wild
around a conservation site called thicksons wood
where he was given acute care but succumbed to his wounds
it wasn't clear from the report what exactly happened
but it didn't sound like the owl's death was natural
but more likely a collision with a motorized vehcile
and I'd like to get my hands on the person behind the wheel
my friend saw this owl just a few months prior
he was nesting in a white pine with his mate and she took a picture
and then he gave a great hoot and the two of them flew away
swooping right above her by the last light of the day
and when she told me just now that the owl had died
even though I never met him, I felt so heavy inside
we live in the interregnum and there is death and loss all around
and now add it to the list - there is one less beautiful owl
birds mourn the loss of their mate
and we thought about her sitting up in the pines waiting
for him to come home with fresh mice and voles
and when he never returned in her heart it would leave such a hole
and she was crying and I understood and we tried to imagine
that he was waiting somewhere nice, an old library in a mansion
where she would join him later, when the time was right
and they could read old books and hoot together into the night
the lives of so many creatures and dependent on the land
that we carved into private property to exploit and command
and for every plant and animal that met an untimely death
add it to the list of crimes upon our collective head
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Burn it Down
03:15
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oh LBJ wanted his legacy
to be a thing he called 'the great society'
but there's nothing great about the USA
so let's bring the mf down
(bring him down)
john kennedy, so afraid to look weak
nearly brought the whole world to catastrophe
how swell to be in the land of the free
oh let's bring the mf down
(bring him down)
old nixon's fate was tied to watergate
but he burned vietnam after '68
the murderous rage of the united states
so let's burn the mf down
(burn him down)
you can make a list of anyone we missed
be the same as the others by my calculus
woe upon the state of the american way
let's burn the mf down
(burn him down)
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St. Joseph
02:30
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last night I slipped on a little piece of ice
and I went to st. joseph's hospital where I spent most of the night
to get my dislocated finger put back
and it was painful and my nerves were fuckin wracked
covid is raging and the waiting room was jammed
and the hospital was in disarray and it was understaffed
and the place was full of people who refused the vaccination
but everyone on staff was kind to me in spite of the situation
but now I'm facing four to six weeks
without the use of my hand and it feels pretty bleak
I can't play my piano or guitar
and I can't type of chop vegetable and it's hard to take a shower
and I can't hold your hand
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Tyler Shipley Toronto, Ontario
Tyler Shipley was the founding member of the Consumer Goods (theconsumergoods.bandcamp.com) and now performs as a solo artist.
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But We Don't Shoot Pistols?
by The Consumer Goods
Political pop rock from 2006-2011
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