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Subroutine
05:07
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The ongoing search continues
(If you're just now tuning in)
For something obvious and vital, oh
But the connection is lost again
The words float oversea
Currents start to drift subconsciously
It brings down the rain
From far away it sounds
The call of the void, o can you hear me call out from a
Sea of sparkling indie darlings
I can't explain, nothing remains at all
Better not to spend all my time pre-empting
I swear I've got more important things!
But what I can't control looms heavy
And my perspective's foreshortening
If you're still wondering why you're so empty inside
Why no tide'll make the darkling subside
The smoke from the fire you can see for miles
Just like ships in the distant horizon
'Cause the glitch is heuristic
The motion violent
We're looking at one ugly allegory
Just tell yourself, it doesn't matter
It makes you strong to accept what you can't believe
'Cause what if it's never enough?
When we've said all the stuff
And our number is up
I can't handle it at all
You finally find a face
In spite of everything
And all the while you'll cling to
The silver lining of sleeping alone
The gods of intricate auspice tolerate less than you'd suppose
Just stick with what you know
Apart from intimate losses, even odds keep us on our toes
It's all a part of the show
Just act like you're in on the joke
When they hand you a length of rope
Enough to thread the needle or choke
So take a sip from the poison cup
It's to important to rely on luck
When too much is just enough
And you can't leave that bell unrung
Focus your eyes
Look to the interminable light
And play the biggest fucking chess move of all time
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No Sturm, No Drang
03:15
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Turn
My mind about
Get it all out, out, out
No thoughts allowed!
Last thing I recall, I's involved in an accident, I've been
Paralyzed in a car crash of consonants
It came and went
In a literal life-long dream
It seems
Wake up and you'll see
That an appetite's more than just
A will to eat
'Cause your body's a tool that should fit its intended use
What news!
She had a wonderful name and a boring life
Still much to lose
She said I'm playing a slower game than most of you
And if you don't believe
What you saw
The tension stems from a lack of resolve
Your will is the whole of the law
If your eyes will even open at all
And it turns out the words
I was trying so hard to find
After wasting so much time
That old elucidated line:
I said, that was about enough to blow my mind!
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Moments Back
01:57
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Picture the instant the symmetry lines
Start falling apart
I'm up on a ladder just hemming and hawing
A casuist stalling, still twisting and yawing
But wait, before I latch onto the wrong idea
Let me check if it sounds insincere
As we hurdle toward the solstice
It's forced us to make forfeit of
Enormous bits of time so if you could be so kind as to
Remind us of the nineties, the reason for your frisson
Or what's commonly expressed as a series of near collisions
Long anticipated, we waited on our next savior
It hardly left us sated, but more on the later
For now we'll just hope against all hope
I said what I meant
'Cause the body doesn't care about intent
Like, "boy you sure do got a funny way of saying 'amen'"
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Hush Caution Echoland
06:02
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Hey, Ms. Green Peas
Won't you scowl for me?
Show me some teeth
There's time yet to sink 'em in too deep
Suspend
The end
Again
Where have you been?
--under my skin
Imprint
Your scent
Relent
Before I get it through my head
What I've known all along:
I built you up as an object of longing
It won't last, but in the interim I'll be content
To harness that fleeting sense
That mania that hints "maybe this is it"
If I can't overcome my dread
Then I'll fake it instead
Call you up, start the cycle all over again
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Starship Filth
02:05
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I wonder when I got so delicate
So tightly wound, with narrow threads
More concerned with means than ends
Tending to where my attention's lent
And minding posture over posturing
Please excuse the preaching
Or the poison in my voice
I gotta shout above the noise
Hey you!
Give yourself a little credit
Spend it on a weekday's worth of whatever's left
After you subtract what you want to want less
What's reminding you it's not a choice?
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Global, At Least!
03:38
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Infinite Calendar
03:03
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Into the age of bad faith, we do what we can
They all say, "there used to be a better way, but that was back then"
And what's worse, they never put truer words into
The mouths of bad men
They're so vile
Must love being vile
If I wanted opinions on original sin
Set to the sound of posers honing their knives
I'd keep addressing the round
Like it's going out of style
(But it might be a while)
Who knew they'd be so wild?
In the onslaught of caveats and stilted appeals
Where they're too busy counting every slight
To think anything other than that's how we all are wired
Well now I'm just so tired
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Every Breath A Rep
01:20
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Hammerspace
01:05
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Nacho Mandala
01:26
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People with Accents Portland, Oregon
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Starting in an experimental hardcore band (Cottagers, née
The Brothers Wingfeld), & later a power violence trio in college (Holy Illuminated Man of God), Jacob Saulsbury & Alex McEntee eventually assumed the People With Accents moniker in 2012, & have slowly been releasing albums that marry their love of jazz, math rock, fusion, hardcore, psychedelic & progressive sounds.
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