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The Nineties
04:03
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I thought I left you in the nineties
somewhere out in the Blue Hills
hanging from a tree
completely paranoid and angry
wondering if this is how things
have to be.
That's where I Iearned to fly
past the dollar signs
but ideals can drag you down
as you age.
I thought I left you in the nineties
drunk in your thrift store jacket
expanding the hick critique
realizing the real enemy
and that we were doomed
from the beginning.
We made happiness from nothing
from a muddy stream
and ideals can lift you up
as you age.
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I walked into the middle
of a corn field on a farm.
My father was a hammer
and my mother was a song.
And when they got together
what it was like when I was young.
I walked into the middle
of a cornfield on a farm.
The birds in the black barn
bade me go.
From the dirt rose demons.
They told me what was to come.
They hissed alive a flower
paralyzed by too many suns
and I struck it with my hammer
and I sang it godly songs
but that flower turned to stone
in a cornfield on a farm.
The birds in the black barn
bade me go.
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Dead Blue Sky
06:03
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There you were on the stairwell
with that knife in your hand
where you cut out a hare's heart
with the warmth of a logician.
You said now, please don't worry
about those sirens piercing your mind
because I'm taking this one with me
and lying down along the creek side.
Under the dead blue sky.
Lie some more won't you
city girl communing with an ancient light
that you draw around the both of us
to keep out the outside.
But to shelter like rabbits underground
is a beautiful old lie.
Turn around climb the stairs and
find the sun the one that binds our lives.
Under the dead blue sky.
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Blessed Be the Radio Man
06:00
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The sleepers have arrived and ascended
and begotten you and I my son.
Look no further than what's rewarded
to see how evil we've become.
I hold my breath.
The machine chokes and burns
on my death.
Blessed be entitled ignorance.
Blessed be mimetic sin.
Blessed be the money
to shut it all out.
Blessed be the radio man.
Exalt the scum.
Shower them in
privilege power and guns.
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Poison Dreams
05:19
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Come along and be tried
gagged and bound and blind.
You'll shoot the junk we provide
and formulate some poison dreams.
You can succeed if you try.
An eye for an eye for an eye.
Toughen up everyone dies.
These are all your poison dreams.
Release is mine.
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Making Light
06:51
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I'm trying to leave
but I'm already gone.
I've carried this world
too far and too long.
Even one grain of sand
can feel the weight
of the terrible ocean
but most are quite numb
just ask Greta
she knows the house
is burning down.
I wish we could read
instead of just reacting
but you're a radical today
if you link two dots with lucidity.
You can wear politics on your skin
or make a wave with an
autistic Swedish hymn
but the walls of the sea
they won't move until
we end the drudgery.
Just play the game.
Compete and buy and sell.
You don't decide.
You become how you sell.
I see who you are
with heaven in a broken jar.
Your face is an ATM
making light of everything.
But it's coming to the streets.
Will you then be on my side?
A child's dream fades like an old streetlight.
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Marlena Portland, Oregon
Melancholic rock/metal from Portland, OR, 2009-2020.
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