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King Ampersand
04:49
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The yards of astroturf are strung together like a chain link fence
A hanging ampersand above their heads a sign of ignorance
Pharaoh of the scarecrows
Hero of the hedgerows
We’ll crown you king of thorns
Hail the workaday, he’s hanging by the ladder’s bottom rung
Asleep and biding time in the recliner in delirium
King of the ampersand, we’ll crown you the king
You’ll succumb to it
You’ll carry on until your head falls off
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Map of Hawaii
03:59
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I’m searching all the trails and covering all of my tracks
I drew a map of Hawaii on your back
How dare you raise your voice at me
A time and place for everything
A show of manners in this scene
A time and place
You might just stare me blind, I’m waiting for your eye to blink
I’ll show you all my scars, it might just give you pause to think
When you can’t move on, I’ll carry you to the beyond
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Gemini
03:48
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Gemini, I can see you through all the skies
Scraping the palm of my hand
I try to remember the feeling of falling down
So you can kiss all of my wounds
I’ll never get over you getting over me
A dying star
Cold blank stare of a hundred yards
All in the palm of my hand
You are always trying to pull my heart pounding inside my head.
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Trigger Wave
03:55
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Far over the horizon
There’s a gate on the edge of town
A little taste of cinnamon
As we melt into the crowd
There’s something happening
They say it’s nothing at all
But here comes the trigger wave
We are searching
For faces in the crowd
We are searching
Burying our doubt
For every saint with a long past
There’s a sinner with a future lost
In every corner of the third world
There’s a martyr with their fingers crossed
Can’t escape and can’t be found
You’re just a face behind the shroud
Can’t replace the blinding sound
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Snow Bird
04:00
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Cover me with sheets of white
Unbroken generations time
I bought my house to stay with me
Gonna trade the cold for sunshine
Gotta make a clean cut, so I’ve heard
I know I’m gonna leave you someday
Then I’m gonna regret every word
New England’s yankee heart of stone
No difference where I make my home
I’m sailing off to distant sands
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This afternoon while chasing the clouds around,
Closing in the palm of my hand
Wandering into the great unknown
Where nothing goes according to plan
All kingdoms turn to sand
I got caught in the garden
All I could say was my pardon
The trees were alive and flowed like water
All I could do was step farther
Dropped my guard watching the floating ring
Dancing in the palm of his hand
Accounting my time is lost in the rhyme
Where nothing goes according to plan
All kingdoms turn to sand
I can remember everything
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Giving up the Ghost
04:17
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We counted all the cards, the truth is I cheated, so did you
We couldn’t stand to lose
If I had the nerve, I’d call out to Hera, save this house
But it doesn’t matter now
Through this salt and pepper beard that wears me now
There’s no forgetting about regrets
It’s on the table in the open, no disguise
Embracing the honest resolve always
A long unbroken line would end with me but I tied the string
And passed you the ending
We’re giving up the ghost
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Skyline of Ruins
03:51
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We’re driving in the rain from state to state
The growing city edges rising from the page
A steel and concrete Tetris in my mind
A distant empty place we’re leaving all behind tonight
Can’t hide anymore
Won’t try ‘cause your skyline ruins me
Your skyline ruins me
Your skyline of ruins
The grey horizon swallows up the storm
But streets still shine between the cracks all newly torn
Every light is buzzing for me now
The city coming back to life and growing for tonight
Moths to the bright lantern
Trapped in gaze
Driving back at sunrise
Sleep my days
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Cave In
03:43
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Beautiful sunrises, I could have seen every day
Sometimes I think of you, the way that the fear didn’t take
What if I stayed, why didn’t I stay
I don’t know why anymore
Heavy with regret, I couldn’t move if I tried
A simple betrayal, came cascading down and buried me
What could I say, what should I say
I don’t know why anymore
I was caught in the cave in, so afraid I can’t dig out.
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Wrecking Ball
04:12
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All your wishes will come true for wealth and fame and time to waste
Within the rosary you clutch, your faith and fear will have to wait
And just when you were feeling good enough
Another wrecking ball comes crashing through the wall
And just when you had thought you’d had enough
Another wrecking ball comes crashing through the wall
And now you’ll never be the same
While I fight for every breath, a levy holding back the flood
A beast in hiding shows its teeth, a cancer growing in your blood
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Perigee Moon
03:53
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Bury me now in the morning before I change my mind
Time is so slow it’s a warning, the clock it unwinds
You were so sure I caved in
It didn’t know what to do when the hound had caught the hare
A silent place here in exile, avenue nowhere
A tone, hollow and pure, sounding true
A break miles away from shore, we count the waves
We’re sure to wash away, it’s certain but we still stay
Perigee moon, brings perigee tide, so close I’m pulling in
Questions of heart, a set aside mind, but the distance growing thin
All of the parts and cogs disappear, it’s a simple A to B
Hearing your breath so desperately near, its where I need to be so I don’t fall away
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Jarrett Osborn Salem, New Hampshire
Solo project of New Hampshire based drummer and producer.
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