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Plant or Animal? (Live)
03:50
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Grace-green is my outside,
my inside red red red
like a ribbon candy in a nest.
Hold fast, hold fast.
My skin so like a photosynthesizer
I sprout and lay my egg shell creases
down along the ground.
We all came from this dirt anyway.
Hold fast, hold fast.
Inside, outside, organ, shell-case,
seed pod, lung, vein,
stalk, ground, and sky.
Polarity still, still,
polarity prison.
Conjunction and escape,
these stitches are only made of tape.
Waxed and planted, contradiction
in stem and meaty self.
Do I need the nothing?
Ceaseless circumvention.
Hold fast, hold fast.
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Little Amsterdam (Live)
03:36
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What a Spell
04:57
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Forget the aeroplanes which can't save you now. Habit habit, little rabbit, I will drown in this skin. My golden memorial, scratch scratch scratch, flutter car-fast and plain. Pirated my diffidence and you let your lashes down to fly. Penchant pendant round and round it flickers faster than your moths. Stick this needle in my eye, my words left you so unsatisfied. Arrest within my every sigh and bear these losses by and by and by. I can weight the picture box in currency of robins now. You can sing a mother song with thumbs like rocking paper horses go, tracing how I came to set this package out. Don't fight the civil service, I am the postal man.
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Duty of Man at Wheel
02:53
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It's your RPM machinery within pharmaceuticals, the makeup and medicine. If you'd like to be the down, I can't help you stay. A name and a half and the forks in your bed make you a tinny garden where to rest your head. If you'd like to be the down, I can't help you stay. You're off on your race to buy records and fade away. Locked up in your rose-lost apothecary wasting papers for a jewel-case vocabulary. If you'd like to be the down, I can't help you stay. I never thought you'd lease out as liars or get your rock and roll prospective buyers in their uniform pulp-suede black-out attires lined up for 360 serotonin suppliers. So much is the need and the needed of vinyl-cut joy. You're off on your race to buy records and fade away. Like taking the bus to your foreign concave window sometimes we sentenced you, eager to save. If you'd like to be the down, I can't help you stay. It's your RPM machinery within pharmaceuticals, the makeup and medicine. If you'd like to be the down, I can't help you stay.
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We All Die
04:02
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Chelsea Hotel
05:01
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Hey red moon,
get up,
get up high.
I measure stillness
by your presence in my eye.
I don't think that you'll stay
by a birdless sky.
Hey pale hands,
catch up,
you move so slow.
I don't know how fast
a heart can beat
before it goes.
I don't think that you'll stay
in a crowd of sorrows.
Hey sharp tongue,
shut up.
I'll sew you down.
Heaven help you if you speak,
if you ask the tide
to help you drown.
I don't think that you'll stay,
you won't stick around.
I don't think that you'll stay
unbound.
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Annika Bentley Rochester, New York
Singer-songwriter & composer from Rochester, NY
Photo by Keith Parkins
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