1. |
Fog
04:19
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guitars, drums, synth, lead vox: kai
trombone, euphonium, trumpet, casio, shortwave radio, fuzz: francis
bass, harmonies: charlie
As you were born you were just as small
Sailing through the pictures on our wall
And I'll let you sleep in a quiet place
Left with nothing to erase
Nothing stays quite the same here
Cuz we're just mice runnin' round a sphere
And see the chains tied to our feet
Bruised from the branches' prickly heat
Death's unable to defeat
So we dance with the devil until
Our spirit's complete
One day you'll grow up from the ground
Sticking out yer neck to look around
From twisted branches and sickly leaves
You'll do as you please
Nothing stays quite the same here
Cuz we're just mice runnin' round a sphere
We will swim beneath your trees
Sprouting out with our disease
Feel us curling round your hair
We're all just thin air
(We're all just thin air!)
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2. |
I Am Not a Picture
05:51
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guitar, tambo, synth, casio, singing saw, vox: kai
accordion, tambo: francis
harmonies, piano: charlie
omnichord: kajsa "the wicked witch of the västerort" magnfors
I know you better now, than I ever wanted
And the satisfaction of knowing never comes as a thrill
Lay it down now, Lay it down now
And were your eyes seeing me
seeing the way that I saw you?
And was the person staring back a familiar face?
Look in between the lines you have sown,
you will find it's right here
It's holding your hand, it will take you to land
Now you sit in a world that has become strange
And the images from the windows seem small
Lay it down now, Lay it down now
But I am not a picture, I am not made of stone
I stand before you, as a figure not unknown
Look in between the lines you have sown,
you will find it's right here
It's holding your hand, it will take you to land
I know you better now, than I ever wanted
And the sun in the sky I see looks the same
Lay it down now, lay it down now, lay it down now, lay it down
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3. |
Carry Me
05:53
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drums, lead vox, guitars, synth, piano: kai
ye old organ, banjo, field recording: francis
bass, harmonies: charlie
When you close the door everything seems to melt away
But the cannonball staring you down is here to stay
Jam your fear into a jelly jar
Some day you’ll learn that they’re not so far
Carry me through the garden leaves
Bury me under white sea
Carry me through the garden leaves
Bury me under white sea
ee ee e ee eeee e ee ee ee
He leapt from me and went with the waves
Leaving a smile, drifting slowly through his airspace
I cannot explain what happens between the lines
I know that I’ll be
fine
Carry me through the garden leaves
Bury me under white sea
Carry me through the garden leaves
Bury me under white sea
ee ee e ee eeee e ee ee ee
{instrumental}
Carry me through the garden leaves
Bury me under white sea
Carry me through the garden leaves
Bury me under white sea
ee ee e ee eeeeeeee!
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4. |
I Love What's Inside
02:05
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guitar, bass, piano, vox: charlie
drums, fuzz guitar, mellotron: kai
accordion, casio: francis
I hope you will not find me here
i saw you through the thicket clear
A jumbled mess of weeds and vines
You called my name a second time
And when heavy branches break
I pray the lord my soul to take
Soon we will be born again
To float and flicker in the wind
One day your thoughts will begin to die
I love your mind, I love what's inside
Throw a penny in the well
And wish upon tomorrow
Looking for a tree to burn
Your trunk is full of sorrow
I'll let you take me to the hill
And feed me to the birds
Even though they're staring fierce
They'll whistle through your words
One day your thoughts will begin to die
I love your mind, I love what's inside
I love your mind, I love what's inside
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5. |
Song for the Womb
03:13
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guitar, vox: kai
guitar: charlie
Did you see the children sleeping
in bed mades of gold?
And when they entered
Barbed wire and steel
their cheeks run black and cold
And oooh
I can hear their voices bred
And oooh
It takes some time to recognize
We are not strangers of bigger size
We are not eloquently thread
With plastic needles in our head
And your window's cracking
From the wild cold
Your blood is running still
And the hands that hold you
Foretold revenue
They've grown weak and old
And oooh
I can hear their voices fly
ANd oooh
It takes some time to recognize
We are not strange or bigger size
We are not eloquently thread
With plastic needles in our head
And did you see the children sleeping
In beds made of gold?
And when they entered
Barbed wire and steel
their cheeks run black and cold
And oooh
I can hear their voices fly
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6. |
Whalebelly
05:19
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drums, bass, guitar, tambo, vox: kai
casio, trumpet, fuzz, bowed bass: francis
harmonies, fuzz guitar: charlie
monologue reading: dave davison
I want to step inside your
Whalebellllllyyyyy
Its chasm sinks around my
boooooonnnes
And I want to sing inside your
chuuuuurrrrcch
Reverberate through your castle walls
We are your children
We're on our kness
We wait for whale wombs
To swallow our seas
And when you cry into the blue
I will fall right into you
and when I'm bred
My skin will shed
All blistered up, all white and red
We are your daughters
We're on our feet
We are atom bombs
Inside your heartbeat
I wake up, distant cold
The room I'm in is pulsating
Breathing with nautical life.
Swarms and swarms of
Drifting fish with silky strands of
silkworm seaweed
Dance about my eyes
And make me feel inanimate
Soft and human.
As water fills the lungs of
Your whalebelly
I begin to walk forward
Looking outside
Seeing the fish inside you,
I turn to run
Towards the soft
yellow brightness of shore
It, screaming out for
Any kind of human blessings.
The fish drop their coral excess
And leave the dark belly
Of the sea beast.
As the water flows in,
so does my tower,
and everything turns
black.
A dark hue which fades
with my memory.
The water fills me up
and I breathe back
into my skull one last final time.
My brain coming out of my eyelashes.
Goodbye friend,
may I always be inside your whalebelly.
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drums, guitars, piano, chimes, vocals, other various field recordings: kai
ontario, canada - iceberg (manipulated by kai)
Chiming in through my window
She whispers blue
This is like a postcard
This is all I ask of you
Can you tell by the way it changes?
Can you dance with its figure
when it moves?
Can you speak when it's over?
When it's said and done
You are a part of me
You are my mother
Now won't you sing for me?
Just say something at all?
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8. |
Caw Caw
03:04
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guitars, bass, clarinet, drums, pianos, vox: kai
trombone, euphonium, detuned bongos, accordion: francis
We dream with one eye closed
Save our heads from the dreadful crows
You're a machine
A face of fuzz
Your blackened cheeks
Run through me, through me
Do you want to dance?
Will I wake up?
In a field of grass?
A field of cold
Eyed me once
You didn't look back
Taking my body
Eyes going black
I don’t know why it has to be
I don’t know why it flew to me
For to empty out my eyes and to linger in my brain
For some reason I accept that it struggles to remain
And now the crow is on my shoulder.
His call wades through winter.
My vomit runs through the water
Because the crow knows my blood is warmer
I don’t know why it has to be
I don’t know why it flew to me
Cause if my heart beneath you beseech the drowning crow
Then tomorrow’s moon’s today, outside my fading glowwwwww
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guitars, bass, drums/percussion, synth, tunnel vocals: kai
bass: charlie
accordion: francis
drums, field recording: desi
spoken word: penelope löwenstein
I watched the cars pass
By my window's crevaces
On that little stoop where
The squirrels would stop to say hello
It was a really cloudy experience
Once it happened
I didn't know what hit me
Or what I hit
Cars still ringing in my ears,
A white bird,
Big as a child!
With strong arms and
a face with human emotion
Flew past, through, directly at my face
And the next thing I knew
I had
Swallowed it whole
My mouth wrapped around,
I clutched it tight and
quickly gulped
I felt it wriggle
And the next week
I layed its egg
Now a beautiful human child
Blossoming from my chest
It had been waiting to be
Swallowed by a sea
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10. |
Eiffel Tower Underwater
07:48
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drums, bass, guitars, lead vox, mellotron: kai
bowed banjo, euphonium, glockenspiel: francis
piano, harmonies: charlie
guitar feedbackery and good friendery: penelope löwenstein
Steel that crackles and crumbles
Sinking to the trenches of the
Strong built towers
Origami seas just for me
I move through him
Twisting round his feet
He spoke softly
Took my hand
Drifting past the blue
Through the trenches
Filled by beams
He spins and swallows
Swimming through the
Eiffel tower, underwater (x2)
We are only passing through (x2)
I move through him
Twisting round his feet
He spoke softly
Took my hand
Drifting past the blue
Through the trenches
Filled by beams
He spins and swallows
Swimming through the...
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11. |
En Utero
05:40
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drums, bass, guitars, singing saw, vox: kai
guitars, ye old organ, euphonium: francis
harmonies: charlie
Can’t believe
The people came
To see them flying away
Queen is staring down
The hall through a sticky
Wall of clay
Mother's wings bloom today
They would always speak
Through their buzzy tongues
Through the cities of mud
Flying cross the sky
And till the day that I die
Just to watch from your sky
In a nest of summer heat
Through our picket fences
Flying through the door
Can’t believe the day has come
To swallow your pretty maze
I’m looking through shapes
Of gold and wishing you would stay
Until the day that I die
Just to watch from your sky
In a nest of summer heat
And I can’t believe
The people came
To see them flying away
Cant believe we’ve come this far
Cycling through the world
Still holding on to the ones we pricked
Until the day that I die
I will never feel like I do right now
Days have come and days have flown away
But by the way that we breath
And the way that we bleed
We will never close this door
And I can’t believe
The people came
To see them flying away
Queen is staring down
The hall through a sticky
Wall of clay
Through their buzzy tongues
Through the cities of mud
Flying cross the sky
Dripping honey of blood
(Can’t believe we’ve come this far
Cycling through the world
Deterioration is my stitched up little pearl
That continue to clings to my thoughts
I will stay en utero
Till you come back for more x2)
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