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Phone Poles
03:28
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I am tangled in my shadow
I drag it by the feet
I get caught up in the shadows of sparrows
in the way that they separate and meet
Years like phone poles stretching out in front of me
Wires join them made of what I'm gonna be
You were such a fine prediction
and they charted the stars from the moment of your birth
eighteen years later when they played the tape back
how I searched for myself in those words
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2. |
World
04:16
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The world is out to get you
to sabotage and wreck your day
the world is gonna use you up
and throw you away
Look out across the water
look out across the clear blue sky
you know that you'll be blinded
better close your eyes
Hey - nothing every smiled on you
no one ever smiled
Hey - nothing's gonna smile on you
no one ever smiles
You are everybody's friend
you are everybody's friend
too bad messages are so hard to send
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3. |
Alarm Clock
04:40
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Every day I take my pill a little later because -
every day I drink up last night's glass of water because -
I wake up late again
I just want the right amount of goosebumps
I can't decide if my mind or limbs should go numb
Have to stop just to count the way my heart thumps
I just want the right amount of goosebumps
In the morning - when I cling to sleep
in the morning - I'm tangled up so deep
in the morning - or does it cling to me?
in the morning - I'm shaking off my dreams
cotton candy covering what I feel
it's pink and fuzzy there's no sharp corners to thrill
layered jawbreaker wrapped around my yellow pill
it's hard and brittle, it shouldn't make me so ill
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4. |
Pizzicato
03:38
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I want a stenographer at a clean green table in the living room
sort out between what you mean and all that I assume
I want a stenographer at a clean green table in the living room
sort out between what I mean and all that you assume
rifle back through piles of words - I'll collect my half
chew it up and take it back - chew it all up
I'll learn shorthand and put myself in your employ
make notes of what you hate and all that you enjoy
with my page of dots and lines, hold on to everything you said
wrap it up and make the bed - wrap it all up
Don't tell me I should smile
in a sing-song voice I would know from miles away
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5. |
Epic I
05:04
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Days don't seem like days - days are memories
Days don't even seem like days
(hold your breath or one by one they'll fall
before it fades, write it on the wall)
hold on to me
I'm remembering this day on the day that I will die
I'm remembering this moment and it's already gone by
burn your eyes
stars are burning now, they hide behind the blue
stare up high enough to see them shining through
past the sun - the only one
Days don't seem like days - days are galaxies
Days don't even seem like days
(looking out into a cloudless night
the moon's eclipsed so close your eyes)
close your eyes
I'm remembering this light as it's falling from the sky
All these stars have supernovaed
all these stars are scattered light
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6. |
Epic II
04:05
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Why I sit and watch the jewelry channel workers
with their trays of sparkle and their pleasing southern accents
I will shop with Cynthia today
peruse the high-end tray from the comfort of my couch
What I do when I waste time
what I do, and I do it all the time
Counting seconds, counting minutes, counting quarter-hours
what I do when I waste time
Why I watch the gemstones slowly rotate
incandescent shimmer blinking value through the TV
I know I can just pick up the phone
if I'm feeling too alone
operators are standing by
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Spy Song
02:36
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Secret message slipped into my drink
I can't read it - invisible ink
Every day I find I've been assigned
a new name and identity
Every day I'm stuck as the message self-destructs
leaving me without company
I was forced. I had no other recourse
I guess that I came up short by half a reason
to justify all my many acts of treason
Could've saved these people from what they've done
sent me to the gallows where I'll be hung
would've run away had I known what I was running from
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Library
03:15
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Looking words up in the dictionary
filing out my thin library
cataloging the sounds and letters
wind up getting stuck on pictures
we always turn off overhead lights
playing in soft yellow lamplight
we always turn off overhead lights
playing in every colored stop light
look yourself up in the dictionary
need to understand the translation of you
if you post it on your forehead
you just might come through
turn off the light
we see too well
turn off the light so we can't tell
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9. |
Triplets
03:48
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You're a piece of paper underneath my waiting hand
You're the silver glitter spray paint on my blue nightstand
You're a sink of dishes that I finally washed away
You're the moment just before my finger pushes play
I look for you everywhere when you're not here
I look for you in things
I look for you everywhere, alone in here
I look for you in things
You're spiling off the pages on the bookshelves in this room
You're hiding in between the black plastic record grooves
You're unwiding spiky spools of magnetic tape
You're the cat that climbs the dresser keeping me awake
You'll find me
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10. |
Noah Song
01:28
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Do you remember the wading pool?
We spent the morning waiting for the sun to warm it up
and you and I were never cool
Remember how pissed off we were when Jonathan beat you up?
beat you up - violin case to the gut
beat you up
His mom said "your boy hits with words."
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Anna Arvan Ferndale, Washington
I Love You Avalanche is a band that plays songs by Anna Arvan. Past and present members include Glyndon Jewell, Lindsey Mutschler, Peter MacLean, Rachel Ballard and Nora Hughes. PHOTOS by Marc Griffin
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