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Sine Qua Nonentity
02:47
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If you try you can remember how to get there
Don’t be surprised with how the light has changed
Landmarks rearranged you could be anywhere
But you know what to look for
The house is hiding out among the other ones
Garden overgrown windows boarded closed
It’s not convincing anyone
You know you have been here before
You're standing on the porch
You’re a child watching her mother
Hover over an electric stove
In the warmth and from this angle
You feel it click into place like a key in the door
That in a million years this moment
However unremarkable
It will never be repeated
And that’s the closest you came
To being able to explain
That you do somehow exist
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2. |
Empire Builder
04:14
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The apocalypse is incoming
Only moving slow and unevenly
The empire builder returning east
Like the rising blade of the guillotine
North Dakota metastasizing
The oil shales and the entropy
And the waves of darkness fold over me
As the dying sun goes down
The dining car in my assigned seat
My neighbor’s conversation is turning ugly
A labyrinth of conspiracies
Proving he is good and he’s got enemies.
Tiny points of light I see haphazardly
Scattered in the void like so much bird feed
And I hope it’s enough
An empty hallway a phone ringing
It goes on forever no one’s answering
Concept of god ever slippery
Are you outside of time? Are you in everything?
I’ll find the sacred buried in me
And I will cut it out while everyone is watching
It will not be enough
I know you’re feeling
Like you’re overmatched
Like the world’s against you
Like the deck is stacked
But don’t get started
You’re smarter than that
You and I know we both know that
Everybody’s angry
Everybody’s lonely
Maybe it’s hopeless
And maybe love is not enough
But let’s not rule out the possibility
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3. |
Motion and Thought
03:08
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Told you you could call me
Anytime you want
It's not as if I've got anything going on
I’m just hanging in the shadows
Between the motion and the thought
Where there's no telling what is real and what is not
Always nervous in my habits
Always glancing at my watch
Yet somehow I didn't notice the time had stopped
I had a dream I meant to tell you
No surprise that I forgot
I even wrote it down but the page got lost
You were in it you were older though
I was just a tiny rock that you held in the palm of your hand
I was lightness there just a passing thought
Now everything's drifting
Ashes scattered on the pond
Fool that I am I just keep holding on
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4. |
Santos
00:29
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I remember you best
Little boy scared to death
Swallowed up in the armchair
Blood pouring from your chest
Into the washing machine
How it made your blood clean
And put it all back in your tiny body
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5. |
We're In It
04:36
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Well I hoped I’d recognize your face
I got there early found a parking space
And sat in my car like I was casing the place
I thought it’s not too late I could cut you loose
I could go home now offer some excuse
Then the door opened and there was no mistaking you
You said come in
Take your shoes off
And come in
Poured the drinks exchanged prerequisites
I am good you said but the world is shit
So what we’re old men now?
Then I laughed no you’re right it is
This time well it really is
Yeah we let it get away you said
Like the falconer from the poem you read
I just shook my head feels like waiting around
For the Second Coming
Except nobody’s coming
And the talk turned over to life before
To the kindness of strangers and their kitchen floors
How the pain grows sweet and the blood dries burnt orange
The green rooms and the tortilla chips
All the couches caked in ejaculate
How I cringed when you said
At least someone is getting it
Coming
At the same time coming
The drinks grew low and your eyes grew dim
Like curtain was pulled so no light gets in
You said I’m fine alone but It’s good to see you man
I feel cut off from all I have been
But am I the stump or am I the limb?
I was eyeing the door and you noticed it
I said I have to be running
Late for dinner or something
And you thanked me for coming
The next I saw you was a hospital bed
With a gunshot wound nurses shaved your head
You were lucky maybe maybe the opposite
I was awkward and you were a wreck
You were muttering something underneath your breath
And then I lost my cool called you an idiot
You said I was such a hypocrite
Someone had to die before I gave a shit
I said you’re right but still
If I’m in it you’re in it
And the tears started coming
And they wouldn’t stop coming
Cleansing all our resentments
As if we could go on living
Don’t ever wonder why
Everybody wants to die from time to time
It’s better not to ask
Don’t shake the nest don’t speak the lie
Because it’s always been agreed
Through some ancient alchemy
That the public secret
It secretes that life is worth living
And it has to be
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6. |
Two Birds
03:02
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Twin birds drawing closer in space
Collide inside the windowpane
Feathers on the glass
Wings beaten one bird remains
It comes apart become the part you play
What happens then when the character gets killed on the stage?
Do you die two deaths?
Do you start bleeding off the page?
Bird in my hand in the mirror I am estranged
Just sit and watch while the metaphors copulate
And it feels different
And it feels the same
Out of the game
It feels different
Really feel the pain
Out of the game
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7. |
Evil Vibes
02:46
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It’s been unreal the way I’m living
Purely by accident
Tossed between cataclysms
Say it I know that I’ve been slipping
Everything piling up
Sink full of dirty dishes
I had the dream again I had killed someone
I knew you’d forgive me
But I didn’t want to wake you up
And so I held my breath and listened
To my own beating heart
Fucking time bomb ticking
And fantasized about the next life
Come back as a rocking chair
Just want to hold you in the rhythm
Demons between me and my slumber
I’m swinging at point blank
They keep coming back with numbers
I lie still impersonate the furniture
Figure eights on a skating rink
Sharks circling under
In the stillness
In the moonlight
In the forest
The blood gleams on the prey
In the stillness
Something’s not right
Evil vibrations
It cannot be contained
Split the atom
Flash of bright light
In an instant
The shadows take our place
Now it comes to it but I forget what I wanted to say
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Paint dries on the doorframe
Skin crawls through the pores
You'd have hated what they've done with the place
But then you don't live here anymore
See you darkly down the hallway
You're sleepwalking you won't wait
You were always one for dreaming
In the end you couldn't stand being awake
And so what if you were right
And it's too late to make a change
You didn't even try
While you despair the morning
I will try to lift our spirits higher
There's a piano in the lobby
And it's don't play with me you're playing with fire
And so what if you were wrong
That nothing ever changed
Anyone would tell you
That I'm a little sadder now you're gone
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9. |
Time, Time
02:56
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Time o intangible time
Moving through everything
Leave me behind
Always changing the tempo
You keep cutting in line
While the clock hands spin around like pinwheels
The present dangling high on the vine
It takes a whole lifetime simply to arrive
Now I’m scared just to turn around
Afraid that I’ll find that the killer is right behind me
Time o unfaltering time
You’re as thin as a shadow
As a persimmon rind
But who’s clinging to whom?
I waited up all night
You know where you can find me
I was an infant then I doubled in size
A Russian doll former selves nesting inside
At the center is nothing or a black hole resides
No light can be seen escaping
Time o unanswerable time
Yeah you’ve seen the future
You know the way that I die
But don’t tell me
I’d rather it be a surprise
When you come crashing the party
Time inexorable time
You were moving in circles
I was drawing a line
You inhabit my body
For as long as you like
We both know you’re leaving here without me
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10. |
Room Within the Room
04:04
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Walk into the water
I can feel it getting cold
Waiting for the tide that’s gonna make me whole
Now I can’t reach the bottom
I wanna lose control
Everything I’m holding in I let it go
Freight ship in the distance
Speak to me in code
SOS I guess I’m ready to go home
It can’t be undone it can’t be reversed
Tracing the line written by my mother
And the past keeps rippling outwards
I wish that I had been there
When you got the call
One moment to the next and they were gone
Anything you needed
Anything at all
In the room within the room
I will be with you
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11. |
Masochist Ball
03:18
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You deserve to die
You deserve painful burning needles in your eyes
And every clever punishment in your cunning you devise
Hold back nothing
You deserve to die
The clock tower is ticking and you are running out of time
To atone for being born let alone your whole miserable life
You’d better hurry
Don’t be angry
Don’t raise your hand like Cain
You should be sorry for me baby
Everything that I have coming
It’s been with me all the time
At the masochist ball
The tribunal has spoken and it’s been found it’s all your fault
And like that severed the tension that could never be resolved
It’s a god-damned miracle
It's beauty is terrible
I’ll skip the last meal
I can’t taste it anyway
You should feel sorry for me baby
Everything that I had coming
I’ve already fantasized
When I get too comfortable
I just start imagining a world where
Everybody wants me
Then I'm imagining a world where
Everybody hates me
And I just try to split the line
I know I said I would be Caesar
Or else I would be nothing
But I will settle for being right
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12. |
Welcome to the Endgame
04:05
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Welcome to the endgame
Final move's already been made
Now we're finding out the hard way
there's not a savior left in sight
America I'm inside you
Kicking screaming at your sinews
It's so easy to blame you
But the guilt’s as good as mine
Plague on both your houses
Money where your mouth is
Burning down the straw man
With a real one inside
Feeling pretty weak now
give me a minute I'm gonna lie down
then back in the streets we're meeting downtown
I've got a candle there to light
I've been afraid to call you
Been afraid it'll hurt you to say
I'm sorry and I love you
You were always on my mind
Summer's done had a good one
Now the season of the witch-hunt
Here we go into the cauldron
I'll see you on the other side
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TYPHOON Portland, Oregon
Typhoon is a band from Portland, OR.
Members: Kyle Morton, Toby Tanabe, Dave Hall, Pieter Hilton, Alex Fitch, Tyler Ferrin, Devin Gallagher, Shannon Steele
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