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AN EVENING GOWN
03:26
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It was a never again turning out into an evening gown
against the southern wall of a wondering sky
How could you know you were handed a golden bough
amongst the corridors of the upper east side
Hey well, in what ways have you gone along your own timid way
Hey now is it just a setting vow?
Go along with you and your Inverness lace and your Harlow gaze
Took on ten years in the boxing and the beau jolais
You set it out to take it all back again
but there's no way in
You never should have settled for the down and out
now the scars won't heal.
Way down on the list of the ne'er-do-wells of the silver screen
by now all you've left is a parting bow
Go along with you and your Inverness lace and your Harlow gaze
Took on ten years in the boxing and the beau jolais
You set it out to take it all back again
but there's no way in
You never should have settled for the down and out
now the scars won't heal.
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THE GREAT UNITER
02:56
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Here to be thrown away
the glass, the striver's mark
and hours are lost for words.
Here to fill the borderless blight
to start a fire, you'll find he is one of ours
Pinned our luck to arms
the last is now the first alarm
and bells now peel so strange
bend an ear and lo, there, from afar
it starts a fire, it burns a hole in each of us.
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HAPLESS WILL & WILD
02:21
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It's the way the wended wind carries me
the golden domes of oaks and fronded chrome
in the dimming light that dawned across the wall
the saturnine tides the falls of us all
hapless will & wild, there slept a dreamless child
then left the bolden blaze and came the dream of wake
builded on time torn mile, gilted leaf-lorn world wiles
then left the dream of wake and came the bolden blaze
It's the why I'm primed the parish kirk
a fire there would spare the bren gun's bursts
on the fading phonating incantations
the scattered leaves draws off the charades of nations
hapless will & wild, there slept a dreamless child
then left the bolden blaze and came the dream of wake
builded on time torn mile, gilted leaf-lorn world wiles
then left the dream of wake and came the bolden blaze
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EVERY LAST ONE
03:28
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oo, it all comes back as though remembered from a dream
under cover of the night was a ward of wounded knee
no hope until you die, no hope until you bleed.
I can end it if I please, I'll be swaying in the breeze
Will it end before we're cleaned, little sister's in the reeds.
led our daughters to the fires, laid our sons under the trees
you're no one til you die, no you're nothing til you bleed
I can end it if I please, I'll be swaying in the breeze
Will it end before we're cleaned, body swaying in the breeze
It won't end until we're clean
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AMBER LANES
03:31
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Amber lanes casting off a yarn
the clear tones of the world
simulate a silver lake and future foil mask
we arose an unknown silence rolling down the hills
so long the sun would set
Ancient wall, water seeping in
stillness from the wild folding in
you thought you knew me better than I knew myself
but you came to know me as a stranger in a well
so long the evening fell
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STAR CROSSED
04:10
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Retrace my steps past the miles marked without you
that's how I found you
Through square and up stair along a winding arc starkly undone
that's how I found you
and when the air's so close I feel you by my side
looking out through star crossed eyes
no other way be damned by the wide smiles that fade
you know I can't stay
Laid bare lying there of the fine thread that bound you
that's how I found you
Through tunnel I'm told lay the rolling in thunder
that's how I found you
and when my mind falls still I feel you by my side
taking back the years we filled
no other way be damned by the wide smiles that fade
you know I can't stay
and there's a beautiful dark star in my theory of mind
it's pulling back my time
no other truth bears down like the broad light of day
would it have killed you to stay?
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WALKING AWAY (acoustic)
03:38
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A burning bridge in the sand
be seen oh be seen oh be seen
desert always wins against the wind
And I must recommend again and again and again
doing time out in the wilderness
I dream of the spinning wheel
sateen oh sateen oh sateen
as I rise in the morn's electric eye
and I catch the glare in my hand in my hand in my hand
and I know it's mine, no tenderness
walking away yea I'm walking away
walking away yea I'm walking away
I'm walking away yea I'm walking away
I'm walking away yea I'm walking away
I look at the face one last time, so clean oh so clean oh so clean
does it always win against my will
and as I descend, so free oh so free oh so free
'cause I've done my time
walking away yea I'm walking away
walking away yea I'm walking away
I'm walking away yea I'm walking away
I'm walking away yea I'm walking away
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TIES THAT BIND
02:37
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reach out across these people and things
is it a day in the past or one that will never be
for you, for me, the human grid
ah, the ties that bind
oh, parabola in the sky
the great parabola in the sky
For you for me, all parallel lines
ah, the ties that bind
oh, parabola in the sky
the great parabola in the sky
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R. Barragan-Sweeten New York
artist and sound maker, working with a hybrid of digital and analog media. He has produced work for Sesame Street, Experimental Television, and has performed and screened work internationally. He has held youth workshops for electronic music at Community Musicworks, Vibe Songmakers, and The Guggenheim NY. ... more
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