1. |
Gentle Moon
03:47
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Gentle moon, you are shining
in the shape of a human body
You are a rock
You pull that solid earth tide
right out of my body
Send me pictures, send me a movie
where the roles all shift and bend partway through
I can tell you’re a cloud
in the shape of a body
I hold my own shape to hold you
Oh! Come back to me!
Then:
Move away, move away!
But come back elliptically
I can tell you’re no far star
for how you burn in a slow moving arc
Cold!
but you feel so near to me
Here in my body
in the shape of a body
in the shape of my body
Ha!
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2. |
No Birds
03:19
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no birds
he says with a friendly conviction
oh but i know that i saw at the top of that tree something lurking
no time
he says with a face soft and certain
oh but i swear that i saw that fresh day slipping out past the curtain
and that the light that i saw was the idea with which I’d been flirting
no way
he says while I’m not even looking
oh but i trust that they tried
and there was
no
way
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3. |
Quail's Egg
04:10
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The day I thought I’d die
I was somewhere in between
The day I thought I’d die
nothing was happening
There was a hag she was wading she was wading
she was rising from the sea
In her hand there was a shell it was a horn it was a quail’s egg
The day I thought it’d happen
I was wading in the sea
I was a breeze
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4. |
Taste of Elastic
03:06
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taste of elastic band
is on my lip
wet water brings it
the season brings
do we dare
to ask for what we want
do we dare to ask for anything more
when it’s the warmth that brings the water
when it’s the water brings the land
when it’s your warmth that brings the water
when it’s the water brings that land
shape of elastic band brings your
strength of elastic band
when that warmth
could fall to everything at all
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5. |
Synesthetics
02:44
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I thought it was the rolling heat of thick desire’s call
It was the cream of summer’s change is all
I thought it was the smell of wanting sloughed off body salts
It was the coloured flag of change
flung full
I thought it was a sound once made, the mind off somewhere else
An animal republic nestled deep within the self
and it was
I thought it was the muscle aching for resistant force
I thought it was the body breaking
in
and it was
it was it was it was.
it was it was it was.
it was it was it was
it was
it was
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6. |
Fish Walk
04:02
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Long walk through a thin thought
If you wanted to touch it
you’d step sideways and slip through
In the water there is
a dragonfly larvae
in that pool stretched over the sea
In the fish there is
a shape that breathes water
It’s the water the fish’s blood needs
Maybe it’s in what we wait for
Maybe it is what we wait for
Maybe it is the wait
Maybe it’s in what we wait for
Maybe it is what we wait for
Maybe it is the wait
Maybe it’s in what we wait for
Maybe it is what we wait for
Maybe it is the wait
Maybe it’s in what we wait for
Maybe it is what we wait for
Maybe it is the wait
You go down that hill again, put the fish back in the water
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7. |
Pass Back Through
03:58
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Well the knife cuts, at the sharp edge: the deeper it slides
the dearer you hold it.
And that jacket was reflective:
you looked like the moon whenever you wore it.
You pass through, you pass through it.
Yeah you pass back through, when you come back to it.
Ha!
Well that bull hits, with its bull’s head:
a part of you bends,
and a part of you bruises.
And those small birds looked just like half moons: they shone with the sunlight,
reflected, reflected.
You pass through! You pass back through it.
Yeah you pass back through, when you come back to it. You pass through! You pass through it.
Yeah you pass back through, when you tether yourself to it. You come back to it, you come back to it.
Ha. Ha!
Well that one bird slips, sure as a bullet:
out of your chest,
and over your head.
And that thought thins out, as you stand there watching it:
A part of you
lifts.
(You pass through, you pass through it. Yeah you pass back through.)
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8. |
Bright Room
01:21
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9. |
Yr Name
02:54
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When you stand at the window
can you feel what you see moving there?
A cold snow blowing in the air
When you lay down beside that one
can you see what you feel moving there?
One thin thought pressed soft to the skinny wrist
Well you line yourself with some kind of distance
a car
that drives past you in the night
Inside, someone singing your name
When you leave in the morning
you take it all but you leave behind your hair
A soft script left littered everywhere
Well you guard yourself
against all kinds of drifting
A torn white flag cut loose flaps free in the wind
in a pattern that’s saying inside that harm
is some kind of lifting
a car
you could drive in all through the night
and inside
you are saying a name
you hold close to a name
you hold to that name
but you can’t say that name
well it’s a name like:
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10. |
Sign on the Window
04:21
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There’s a sign on the window
that says: you’d better back off
but you’ve been standing so long in the fog of your breath
that the sound rolling round in that glass
is mixed
with the rolling blood rolling ‘round in your neck
Your life force mmm mmm
all mixed up with what you’re seeing in there
Between your ear and your other ear
take a pause, if you can
For between this year and that other year
light bends.
Light bends.
There’s a sign on the window
that says: you better act fast
But I say: be so slow! Yeah
let the time pass and pass
Till you can turn from the window to what was reflected on it
Then you turn around.
Yeah, you enter it.
Become your own outcast!
be kind to that outcast
And if there’s a sign
on the window
well
Bless it.
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11. |
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There was no sound
in the brightest part of the room.
Though it shone, it was painful to consume.
Well i cried for it in the kitchen, and i cried for it in the stair.
I was crying for the distance unrepaired.
You blew me a kiss, and you pushed it into my heart.
Although we don’t want to,
we must part
we must part
we must part.
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L.T.Leif
|| wild dog chases the sun ||
based in Glasgow, from the prairies of Canada
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