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Actual Plural Songs

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============================ I was born on a plain, with 2 right hands It takes a sage, a philosopher, and an african to begin to understand We are cast offs! Now we're castaways I have broken both my right-handed arms, now they're in casts I used to have money and no job, now I have a job and no money, and I have begun to understand why the wise men go on fasts Sure I'm a philosopher, smoke this sage, my african friend I will die on a plateau, with no left hands ============================ ============================
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Back to Deer 04:14
============================================= You were a deer with your ear shot off by a hunter and his gun I am just a tall birch with all its leaves fallin' off Nobody wants me right now. It's hunting season. I am powerful and powerless to do much as you run from two legs And I fell from your pedestal So hide yourself away, in a cave Consider yourself lucky To live another day You were a wounded bird, with your wing torn off I am a wolf with your blood on my paw and a bullet in my heart And I fell from your pedestal We walk right into place Don't overstep your bounds Just run when you hear the hounds The fight for comraderie The long and slow and painful road to recovery The fight for survival There's no glory in fear and lumber season's comin' soon and I'm a tree again and you are back to deer You are back to deer =============== ===============
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================ Funeral Arrangements Just throw a sheet over me they've already seen everything But that don't mean one goddamn thing I won't be comin' back so let the dead ringers ring` We all got some wisdom from our allegories so live out the wisdom by dressin' sexy at my ceremony Yes yes, 'wink at the minister blow kisses to my grieving brothers' And smile at all the others Let the kids bring whatever they want to bring Let's face it, we're all peasants, there is no king But that don't mean one goddamned thing so rejoice, and sing Dying so many times, maybe dying once would be nice Dying with some dignity buried in the ground or at least packed with ice Did you hear about the pigeons who explode when ya feed 'em rice At my last dance, I want a ball, some lovely gowns, and a feast A suit and tie --I'm not the least of which I'm not the least of which-- A suit and tie. I'm not the least And I just want my friends, faces-I-know faces-I-know, faces faces and I just want my friends I don't at all need at all a priest I want flowers-on-the-men flowers-on-the-men flowers-on-the-men I want rice on everything! rice on everything! rice on everything! rice on everything! I want flowers-on-the-men flowers-on-the-men flowers-on-the-men Flowers and a girl with a ring Dance on my ashes and we'll see how the dead will sing! ==============================================
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====================================== The sunburnt skin of centuries past can kiss my ass For me there's no future, For you there's no past The now is a golden flickering and the mothlight from the porch swing is sickening As the light from the sunset is diminishing and the boys and the girls go on bickering The moon has a face of crater and stone One visit can erase the mystery of being alone A century later had believed to be bone From a sliver in circles it's grown From a coin of silver it's thrown lands face up and the face is sickening Our golden age is diminishing The dim light of hope is flickering and the beat of my pulse is quickening It's all dust kiss me if you must For you I have killed For you I will kill For you I am dying at least we're all trying It's all, we're all dust I'm all, it's all dust kiss me if ya must and wipe your mouth watch with me, the birds all fly south ========================== ==========================
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=============================== When I go I want to be painted on the walls They will write a book about it all with no articles. The stars will all line up around us like vast halos. A vehicle will plunge into a lake at 4 in the morning and only the birds spring back, as if in cosmic relation. The stars'll shine down like nothing happened, but morse code cuts. Shots. Insults, pierce. This one goes out to Ambrose Bierce. When I go I want to be painted on the walls. I walk this earth like a ghost in chains I want to be released at the least from all the pain I feel like I've always walked these halls. Spin the wheel. Fold the robe. Shut the book. Light the candle, close the window. Try and sleep. A shadow moves and will kiss you goodnight. The stars wink. The lens is dirty. Do not wash it with the warden's rag. A shadow moves but will only last as a stagnant light. The way it ends is up to you. Don't give up without a fight. I feel like I've always walked these halls. I regret my birth, should've been in the drains The offspring will feast on the beast of the harvest's rains ========================================= =========================================
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Prophecies 06:43
========================== We were never meant to be together And all the pen and ink say Through all weather, skin's aged like leather We're not one of a feather, We are not moved so easily, We're not going anywhere. We are going to stay. And you know how prophecies go they never come true There's no one else, There is nothing to do There is just me, Us, you We can ignore everyone else. They said it couldn't be, I say Fuck 'em The odds were against us, I was out of luck and like the carrot tied to the stick I hung from the tortoise I travelled to the end of the earth and it seemed pretty flat I don't have questions or need any answers so we can just leave it at that We weren't their writing, scrawled on the wall One book says it's the end of it all Others say there's a god to answer our call But I'm not asking, or looking that way And I don't give a shit about what they all say They can count up their numbers, statistics and all But the sky will not fall, but the sky will not fall. No the sky will not fall. You know how prophecies go these words are a nuisance, there is nothing to discuss There's no one else, there is nothing to do. There is just us us us We will ignore everyone else. We will ignore everything else. ====================== ======================
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====================== Colored wax to break my back So many colors here Building nothing out of something Up nights and wasted tears Coulda kept a garden alive A life on wheels, it just feels like I've missed on the kiss Pet ethiopia I got today's paper and someone's got philophobia and the car's got water vapor and someone's laughing too much and someone has to go and ruin the party and someone's feelings are a crutch and we'll be gone and what remains is our art Some don't like to think, we don't like to drink, There's all this talk of the elephant in the room well I want some ivory real soon Portable fruit and a cross to bare I've got so much better I would like to share Pick an object at random and an animal A barrel and a goat, or a bear Sew me something nice and useful Can you sew my mouth shut I don't want to speak any more I don't want to have to say it with the air as witness This is a goodbye ============= =============
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============================================= I went back to the place where I had found you The place had gone to shit. Time had gagged and bound you Ceilings were dirty, bruised, and tagged. Walls like flesh they sagged. The general consensus was, 'Who's to be trusted now?' All windows were busted out. YOU WEREN'T THERE No you weren't there. A state of disrepair. A thought of you I thought of you, and got hard. There were cobwebs inside. The stairs were all worn and rounded, sloped, a slide. And there were cobwebs on every corner. But there were no corners. No trophy for greatest mourner. Wallpaper was like skin it peeled. Wallpaper was like paper-creased. A dust bunny was a beast. My pulse quickened and my heart-rate increased. and I ran outside in a barren field. This old place is only broken things and memories Mine of you: I remember you moist. But I remember you moist. But now you're all cold and dry. I remember you moist Cobwebs, dirt, and dust on every corner. But there was no corner! "No apparent cause of death," said the coroner. A state of disrepair. YOU WEREN'T THERE No you weren't there. =======================
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Sloganeering 05:21
=============================== I will sew your mouth shut If you keep it up You think that I am joking but you have no sense of humor you're a tumor on this planet if you keep at it you'll make me mad a sign with some words on it think you made difference when that's all you had There's the dove, or the fist, Do you want to be frisked? Did you get all this? And I am no dentist, but I will remove your teeth one by one with pliers It's true I'm a bad man. I got a history, look it up, I have priors At the shop, got caught, retreading tires An arsenist, an anarchist who sets fires A suicide on the market upsets buyers A prize is given to the all and best liars Long ago, sold your soul, just another gun for hire They lose their numbers and'll force you to retire and when you die we'll staple your coffin with flyers There's the gunmen, and the list, and all those who they've missed The ever-elusive terrorist. And who doesn't want to get kissed? I will sew your mouth shut if you keep it up and I'm no seamstress This one goes out to the working class, this one to the teamsters, this for the humanitarians, these for the teachers and librarians You put print on every face You write things that can't be erased I curse the world for all that made you plural You leave words in the sky and at my funeral Then you have the gall to ask for a referral because You smooth over the good with the fat of the land The refuse has stood where the rat will stand Because you usher in the end of us I will take your head off for all that you've set off. ================================== ==================================
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================ Thought, Think, Thunk The top of the ship has sunk below the surface When you think of me does a light bulb appear by your head? and does it blind you? The missing link is you an empty space above the bed when I am standing right behind you. Slowly we all sink Despite what they all said They said that I wined and dined you with the weight of the world upon us is where we were wed beside the coast They cut off my arms and burned all my bread but they cannot stop me from trying to find you and keep you from harm Buried at sea, stepping over the dead With the brine of the ocean they signed us with the weight of the world upon us is where we were wed all and all to drink but nothing to keep us fed and gravity's pull pulls all us it puts all people and past below It is, She is, I know When you think of me does the sky get all its holes fixed? and her yeah, her, she's a tall drink of water no buried chest but I got her Our bodies dispensed on the shore all wrapped in ceremonial ribbon, and feathers a burial of women, our betters O I'll stay with the ship thankyou, and go down with the captain ============================================= =============================================
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=================== The water isn't too deep The boat it moves like a cloud and how can I sleep standing up? So I hear you crawled out, and became me But as we stand, we're separate and free We've got some years between us, distant relatives water and air But I guess it all, started there A change of wind. Waves come. And some will die. But all is calm and all is still. And there's no weight at the end of this! And how can I live, lying down? And I see a scale in the sun I make no move, and it moves plenty. I make no move and it escapes the sun. As if in shadow, but it's in the water. and how can I sleep standing up? And I have come here and I have found How can I live lying down? I hear I hear I hear I hear: 'They say you're good for my health' so in a way, I'm saving myself =======================
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======================================== I've waited for it all like an unanswered telephone call I'm waiting for you now if you'll only let me know how I think of happiness and what it brings I think of shiny things, a lovely bird that sings Of diamond rings, Slayed kings, Bee stings and the Telephone it rings and rings and rings. ================================== ==================================
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Mothcatcher! 06:11
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Humpty 04:28
Like a three-dimensional puzzle suspended in mid air Like a shimmering reflection on the surface of a puddle disturbed by a cast rock You're all horizontal in the middle, defended and protected even though you're bare A faded hovering projection. We're all earthless here and bitter derailed by a slow clock WE'RE ALL SO FRAGILE We are weathered in the same storm, conceived and born in mid air Your face is all crooked, lines are a history it's a long walk off a short dock We are measured from our old form, the concept, we're worn. My face is lost in your hair The chance was there and I took it.. Are they to be kissed or freed? an unbreakable lock I got struck on the head, it was a hard knock WE'RE ON THE FENCE LINES ARE NOW SCARS ONLY YOU CAN PUT ME BACK TOGETHER ONLY YOU CAN PUT ME BACK TOGETHER AGAIN WE'RE ALL SO FRAGILE All the king's horsemen, and all the king's men could not.
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========================== We never made it through the storm But your heart would always pump warm Holding you now feels like a death But I'd die a thousand more to taste your breath It poured down on us The streets whored the clown in us A chord crushed the crown minus The door shut and drowned us If we grew gills then what'd we be? and we'd be ever so much closer to the sea Holding you now feels like forever If I was quick on my feet I'd say something clever The city was too young to go but this you know and they got prayers when this chord will keep you goin' She bared her teeth with all the cards showin' The spirit will fill you with insect hearts I will rebuild you from spare parts We were just two in a city of millions We were a million and one We were one. It poured down on us The clouds tore the ground beneath us The town bore the sound in us and the sound gave us all tinnitus =========================
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Tendonitis 07:14
================================ Before the bad words, we were a scrapbook The picture of perfection We painted our portrait with pleasure with one brush, our hands tied at the tendon Breathe in breath out, the tide of perfection there's no rush, all good things end in sorrow but there's always tomorrow A mixture of paints for your complexion Chalk it up to natural selection Now I'm here at the ocean, wishing waves could move, everything's a still life and nothing's forgiving Beneath there's no motion, fishing can save , or prove that there's still a life worth living We ain't tied together! but we're painted forever I've always been an unfortunate But at least I have our portrait There's always tomorrow ================== ==================
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H.i.a.n.O.H. 06:26
==================== Where you walk, I will follow No path too narrow Inside I'm hollow But now I'm stuck with your arrow I will follow wherever you go in mind and thought with what I got Live your life and I'll give mine a shot I was stunted where I stood I could not find myself to speak… (I hang my head) --- (I can count my toes from here) I could not use the language, to my advantage I could not speak properly I got me the copper freeze Confessional inside a song Colors got me grounded wrong Reds, blues, greens, rouge Artificial chemical Factory not mental Ancient clothing oriental Speak slowly and mostly gentle Show your teeth was dollar dental Don't mind the car it's just a rental I was struck dumb I was deaf to reason I was blind to all else When you walk, I will follow Like knowledge of the pharoahs Inside I'm hollow Those passages narrow Of you I ask if I can borrow Of heart and soul There to fill the hole Love life Circle rope, a modest goal I was struck dumb I was deaf to reason I was blind to all else and everyone after you Cut off my limbs I've no use for them End this lifetime of boredom Not pleased but can afford 'em A few'll die and let god sort 'em Not much to record on Apologies should be bestowed upon I should be struck dumb. Is the bond strong enough to hold two Or at the very least, to hold me? Without you ========= =========
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=========== pray for the hexes pray for your past lives pray for the sexes pray for your last wives my lung is full of air and now i can fly as a balloon pray for the hexes play to the hexes ===================================
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=========================== He ran into the place that he feared just to catch a glimpse of the girl that he cared for and that's how all history was born The place that he feared was a warm and wet mirror A snake eating its own tail, getting lost on spiral of snail isn't this what all desire is born for? This is how history is written, or or I don't know what I speak of surely not love and it doesn't come from above. I flunked out of history flunked out of math at an early age I learned how to laugh Scoffed at sacrifices, and the calf and the horizon cut itself in half. I failed at the languages was not good at the sciences I could not dissect the frog or cut open a man and see why he talked I have no apologies for who I am Go ahead and dissect me as I stand Some discovery from some scientists from someplace like France Molecules and movement of dna strands Avoiding the urge for the glance He ran into the world that he feared for a glimpse of a girl. =========================== ===========================
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El Dorado 05:32
========== Gaily bedight a gallant knight in sunshine and in shadow Had journeyed long singing a song in search of El Dorado But he grew old this knight so bold and o'er his heart a shadow Fell as he found no spot of ground that looked like El Dorado And as his strength failed him at length he met a pilgrim shadow "Shadow" said he, "where can it be? This land of El Dorado" "O'er the mountains of the moon Down the valley of the shadow Ride boldly ride," the shade replied, "If you seek for El Dorado" ===================== =====================
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Worthless 09:09
================================ It's the fifth time I vacuumed up your ghost Of all the pre-dead loved ones, I loved you the most All these ashes-- they didn't mean a thing at all I battered up your golden urn, and just let 'em fall You were cast in flames and of course you returned you became again Rebirthed Unearthed No worth It's the sixth time I swept up your worth May be the last time, but sure wasn't the first Of all the living loved ones, I loved you And when painting my self-portrait, I done two And as my health grew unfortunate, I drew clues, a few grew, I blew through, I loved you Who knew You were cast in flames and of course you became again You were cast in stone and I was left alone Again Rebirthed Unearthed No Worth ======================
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======================== Pray to the metal rabbit god That your child has got the necessary talents and willful intelligence to survive Feed it 3 times a day Teach it to speak, protect it and keep predators away and keep it alive Make an offering, make a sacrifice to the metal god that is a rabbit Get it hard, and put it in, it feels so good becomes a habbit Baby, you're foaming at the mouth, you are rabid C'mon and give me a break Everything is new Everything is love and everything comes at you from above and you grasp at things out of your reach, none to take You came out, it is quite amazing what a surprise, this thing they're raising It's a bit late to pull out now Confess your sins at the altar of the rabbit god made of metal and read to it little story books, Dr. Seuss, Hansel and Grettyl And after some time, kick out the brown guy, so you can all settle The child it came out of them, It's too early to tell, but You could be the next god Or you could be just some random broad.
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54 07:27
======================= I could have sworn the other 52 card pickup Best game I ever played Best game for me to play It's Action-packed! I play on my own and I play by myself Lost the Job Lost the Wife Lost the Kids, the House, my life I lost everything because I'm a gamblin' man Solitaire ain't for me it ain't for me 52 card pickup Best game for me to play and I got my Poker face Should I include the jokers? Should I add the jokers? They come in RED and BLUE They come in RED and BLUE and BLACK and RED and BLUE and white. =======================
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Media Rings 06:17
============================ The police report didn't prove a thing. Their little visit stirred nothing Now she's all and only nothing. And they left to little or no fanfare with their bottled, evident, air not an eyelash, a fingerprint, a hair not a ghost there I cut her in half and counted the rings put a bird in a cage and see if it sings Put a song on a page see what it brings And will there be no "In a future age"? 'Cause there's no time for love when we've got wars to wage Too many words from her, from her it stings No answers from above. There's too much dust on the stage. Put a bird in the sky but clips it wings To little or no fanfare Too little and no fanfare I admit nothing. I'm guilty. But aren't we all. It's their call. Turn it off. ======= =======
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================================== You thought that I'd been down here all along, but if this was for the books, then you'd be dead wrong O but this is just a small song. Appearance of appeals The weight of evidence Ex post facto Arbitration Habeas Corpus Allegation Cross-examination Objection Stipulations Probata Mandata ! This is not proof of anything else, but what it is is itself. ..but what it is of itself or anything it can prove. We go on as before We carry on without the knowledge of what is right and wrong. Dear, you were wrong. Once again: This will not hold up in court. Legislatures in fourths Doll, we're in half Them lawyers, they got funny math ===========================
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================================================= I watched as my skin turned to leather as another decade passed I fought like tooth and nail, in trying to get my ass stamped And as I pile these discarded skins neatly together I light them in the dark damp of this place as a makeshift lamp The air is acrid and cramped and the milk is sour and I can no longer see, can someone please inform me of the hour And I see the faces of those I loved in the shadows here Melt in color, and wreak in symphony as they disappear, and learn their scars. I remember them using their lips and teeth, uttering noises as they learnt to speak, And how they later forgot to talk. The air is putrid and peppered with sulfurous flower and I cannot bear to smell it because I am a coward. And I see the faces of those I loved in the shadows here Felt in valor, and leak in sympathy as they reappear, and burn their scars. I remember them using their hips beneath, stuttering noises as they fucked to speak, And how they later refused to talk. And I see the faces of those I loved in the shadows there Dance with fire, and stream a synergy in thick air, and leave their mark. I remember them building back their broken legs and teeth as they forgot their names. This is how we didn't die in a parked car A hammer and a nail A hole in a sail A dying fire and loss of blood Fate cut off our tail Pack your wounds with mud This rising water must be the flood ========================== ==========================
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Winter Warm 05:20
============================================== How many times do you get dressed up with all yer clothing? I don't know about you but I find comfort boring Does the skin cover the wooden furniture and keep you warm? Does the wood keep you and the fire warm? Does the skin cover the wooden furniture and keep you warm? Is the sun shining through the blinds enough to keep you warm? Did you stoke the fire enough for the coming storm? 'cause its the winter of our lives you better bring a coat at least that's what a bearded, wisened man once wrote You, my, our bodies generate heat Remember that time when we will meet I'll save some oxygen (Movement creates) Fears from what we hate (We hate fear!) Put fear in a box and then throw it up at the sun in the oxygen And it will crash down to the earth Well all that fire it burns our worth and have you ever seen a cold birth? Have you ever seen a cold birth? We all come from the earth. So c'mon, show me what you're worth. I got me some I got me some skin =============== ===============
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Wax & Fable 06:03
====================== WAX AND FABLE I have no regrets at least that's what I said Don't fly too high, you'll get burnt I don't know nothin', that's all the school I learnt Where were you in the hall afterschool? You sure played me for the fool You forgot all about our golden rule The world's a place, sad and beautiful You forgot about our own golden rule Enough about rectangles. I want your spheres. and those were our childhood years But we learned something: I ham a good egg We are a good egg and now I continue to say.. I have no regrets and I'll say that that's what I said Don't fly, too high, you'll get burnt That's not what I said to you, my words, those weren't Her face all lines, age on hers, I preferred yours We got our tests back, red ink and solid fours and just then you tore your test up and sprang up and, headed for the door I never took the notes, but I got you down in my college rule God we hated school It's a sad and beautiful world and you weren't the girl ==========================
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FAIRY TALE 04:17
========================== A frog has lost its wings, you bitch And the prince has inherited a twitch Kiss me, and see what happens No don't! I think that it's a trap and And what do you turn into when you get fucked --And who did you turn to when the swamp sucked It's all superficialities It's not truth, it's just reality and now we turn the page… A frog has lost its wings And the prince no longer sings ======================= =======================
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Raft 03:57
=================== Our boat it had no anchor but our sky it had a sun. My life now had time to thank her but this guy never wanted to run My joy it turned to anger when the flare died from the gun But we pressed on 'til we could see the coast We pressed on until we stopped. We drank our piss like it was wine As our days turned dark A hit and a miss… Well I've concluded that it is indeed our time As your face peeled like old bark My sadness turned to despair And yet I ran my hand through your hair With our boat we had but one chance The clouds converged and partnered with the wind they invented a dance You don't move one inch I won't either flinch We pressed on until we could see the coast. We went back to the place where we came from We went back to the place in our minds ============================= =============================
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=========================== The love we have knows no bounds The love I've found is safe and sound A dogged corpse aswarm with flies A painted hound A dove is bound On sainted ground Above, unwound The love I've found is safe and sound ============================ ============================
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============ How many seas can I drown through Fog in the fucking canoe Talk me off Those tax returns Talk me off! Sweet tax returns It's grandma's birthday Fog the fucking canoe and save me from fucking drownin' 'cause I want you fucking around and Fog the fucking canoe save me so I don't drown 3 months up, and 3 more down Heard you laugh on electrical wire But it's almost time now to retire I've got nothing to do but thank you now slip off and have a wank too but Soon you will have your shore leave and you will free me in liberty. Soon enough I will be your shore leave You will land on me in a shortly. ======================= =======================
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released November 2, 2012

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Nothingful San Diego, California

Spangles of opportunity in which to dimension
into the angles of music and rhythms written in the air.
Sings, plays acoustic bass guitar, dobro, sax..
The songs are uncoventional in as so many
ways as he is musically untrained.
To play the bass in the way that Nothingful
makes it would be to so as in a tuning other than standard.
I am inspired by Laziness and randomness.

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