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Equinoxical
03:42
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Probably just timed that right
The center of the sun, the middle of my mind
It's not the day to get it right
Flip a coin, it's just clairvoyant oversight
Two chances to find your flight
If you miss the first one, wait around til midnight
Wait around til midnight...
Over land, over sea
Over day, over night
Evenly Again...
Evenly and equally
You can feel the Vernal sheath
Opening Again...
The moon ruins the symmetry
But bounces off the choppy seas
Hauntingly Again...
Evenly and equally
You can feel the Autumn sheath
Opening Again...
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Sal Valotile
03:48
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A cold drop on my lip
Across my fingertips I feel it
Instincts fire and spit
Peel back my consciousness, just feel it
Driven into the earth
Under a mound of weight I'm dreaming
Through the mud and the dirt
Tilt your head just right, I'm screaming
The light penetrates
My eyelids the boulder, rolling
My eyes dilate
My skin spikes and shakes, I'm waking
Instincts remonstrate
Across the wilderness I'm running
My head peeled back like for the first time
My eyes filled up like for the first time
My head filled up like for the first time
My eyes peeled back like for the first time
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Tumult, Etc.
02:50
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Audio taken from Caltech University - Richard Feynman lecture on "Atoms in motion" Sept. 26th, 1961
"But each piece, or part of the whole of nature is only some kind of an approximation to the complete truth..."
"Very small effects require profound changes in our ideas..."
"Even everything that we know is only some kind of approximation..."
"But what is the source of the knowledge, where do the laws come from that are going to be tested?"
"...to guess at the wonderful, simple, yet very strange patterns beneath it all..."
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4. |
Lazy Bones
04:24
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Whatcha gonna do, Little Lazy Bones
Got a whole week's work do it on my own I guess
Maybe finish it all this year
If you can't in the next lifetime I bet I can
I bet you can
Well I bet you can
Whatcha gonna do, Little Lazy Bones
Heard your boss came down on you in front of all your friends
Left you in a mess of tears
Gonna find another job or crawl back and kiss his ass
Don't you kiss his ass
Don't you kiss his ass
Dress it up Little Lazy Bones
Give it up Little Lazy Bones
Staying up till the break of dawn
Drinking all up your daddy's booze
Never see yourself a winner
Never grinning when your friends bring the trophy home
Moving back with mom and daddy
Just the same as paying rent it leaves you in the hole
Whatcha gonna do, Little Lazy Bones
Heard your lover had an attitude meaner than snake piss
Left you in a mess of tears
Gonna find another lover or crawl back and kiss her ass
Don't you kiss her ass
Don't you kiss her ass
Whatcha gonna do, Little Lazy Bones
Gonna worship the bottle up turn it up and empty it
Leave you in a mess of sick
Gonna sleep til Heaven comes or Oblivion
Or Oblivion
Or Oblivion
Whatcha gonna do Little Lazy Bones
Gonna be the poster boy of everything that's wrong
Never get up off your ass
Never gonna do a thing 'cause your heart is thin as glass
Cause you're thin as glass
Give it up Little Lazy Bones
Dress it up Little Lazy Bones
Staying up till the break of dawn
Drinking all up your daddy's booze
Never see yourself a winner
Never grinning when your friends bring the trophy home
Moving back with mom and daddy
Just the same as paying rent it leaves you in the hole
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5. |
Equiluxical
02:34
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The light fades and it's all you get
Tidal forces argumentative
Jettisoned in an astral fit
Oxygen supply down to less than 1%
Fading out in a radar blip
When/where/why are totally irrelevant
When/where/why are suddenly apparent
The waves do what they want
Particle or not
The waves form peaks and troughs
Particle or not
Is it what you are ?
Particle or not
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6. |
Long Way From Olympus
04:48
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Apollo went down to Nashville
Thought he'd give it all a go
He sang his way all over Ancient Greece
How bad could it be on music row?
But the doors they just kept shutting
And his phone just wouldn’t ring
Nashville just didn’t want him
No matter how well he could sing
So Apollo got to planning, got to pooling capital
Said "I'll sink my shine into sound-proof walls and microphones of gold."
Hire ourselves the finest engineers, Gods and Goddesses of taste
Then we'll sign the finest talent, crown some kings, radiate
Apollo just didn’t
Understand what could go wrong
Such a long way from Olympus with a guitar and a song
Elvis, Icarus, the Man in Black, Jerry Lee Lewis
Carl Perkins Cadillac led him to the feet of the Son of Zeus
Hades sitting in on drums, keep the souls in check, keep the rhythm stable
Fly as close as you can to the sun
Let your wax wings melt on the spinning turntable
Apollo went and did it
Produced a stunning catalog
Such a long way from Olympus with a guitar and a song
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Grand Ephemeris Austin, Texas
Grand Ephemeris is a music collective from Austin, TX. Led by brothers Jason and Jaret Harrison, they explore the notions of Man vs Creator/Human vs Nature/Want vs Need through their Americana-tinged telescope accompanied by slide guitar, banjo, keys and raucous rhythms while always keeping two eyes upward and one eye inward. ... more
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