1. |
Gambian Blue Wave
05:53
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Watch it unfurl
What do you say?
Rushing blue waves
Look back toward a time
Words always trite
Wasn't it a pain for men unraveled at night?
Autumn haze and soft light prying through a floor down to a
Dark maelstrom of bloated flesh
Gilded waves and vultures flying
A black rider came
And your life
Lived just to unwind
Just to unwind
Pale face, dry eyes
With your pride
I knew it'd end
Down in the dirt
And not by my side
(The waves crash, guess who I saw alive)
Tired of talk about himself
He wants to roll out like a radiant low tide [says]
What you said before, it's not me, I work hard to stay [How was Dad set up? Sister, don't lie, I wanna...]
Busy
Said we're onto something, can't live in the city, orange sky and dead
[Drag you out, eat you up, saw your eyes, a candid]
[Bluff] Eyes on the freeway [And what a shame, the kids don't care to lay blame]
And what a shame, the kids don't care to lay blame [Tell me why you're crying, praying and revealing, ashen concrete baking, weeds all pale and breaking]
That's my brother smiling, he don't care bout lying, while we're in the
City
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2. |
The Timebound Bloos
03:10
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Slow down
Baby
As all I
Promise you
Same thing
Drinking from a rose
On my pretty cat's birthday
Lose my
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3. |
Blood Mirage
05:53
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They all lay and clamor before him
Their lives one long sigh
A turn of the wrist and it rains down
The lies and lives, why?
And I'm closer
I'm closer
"whoo"
Sun glistens off sand canyons
The mirage was not a mile
Volcanic sighs underrun a sly smile
The blood in my mouth starts to dry
Come closer
Come closer
Wax palms
Gauze eyes
Cut tongues
Pure light
This is my wartime, blown out a faultline
Graph lines
Cross my
Jet black
Gun sights
Every time I close my eyes, I watch it float away like a
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4. |
Fog, Doves
05:02
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Drive out to our little stream
Come on in, dive in with me
The water’s fine, the sky‘s streaked
Reflects the face you’ll make the last time we
Speak
Today I felt death’s here for me
To take me away to that beautiful gray
I’ve always known it in my bones
Won't be long
Til I fall
Long gone
I knew you when
Sweat it out on a splintered floor
Bet your life on an empty room
Today I felt death’s here for me
To take me away to that beautiful gray
I’ve always known it in my bones
Won't be long
Til I fall
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5. |
Defector
06:15
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Slow wave goodbye
Our space filled with buzzing flies
Machines grow humane
Hand over my name
("whoo")
But you request that I sail tonight
Like lovers in night air
Disappear as another will
Rise
Night
Flight
Dry when you come in from the rain
And all its smells of someone’s graceful wife [So you ride a crestless wave]
You lie awake and think of days [a canopy to something felt]
That once they came [And I was the one that knew you when]
Would make her melt, I [Your tongue had spilled all it’d]
Say
Don't
Search my scattered gaze
Rather, wander inner mazes and floods of birth
Out of
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6. |
Chapels
04:49
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Trusted myself on the way off the island
But it doesn’t take much just to pacify me
How suddenly I’d seen the light
saw a lone hawk framed against a melted sky
Then sham apples, sham trees, sham houses and winters
Face of the earth tongue tied
Come out of it
The sun isn’t moving and no leaves falling
Sludge in all springs, shit’s gone awry
So ride that well dry
Run rings round a sun for the rest of our lives
Collapsing into night
Something to scratch and uncover and grind
And ride that well dry
Each new step forward a thousand miles behind
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7. |
Overgrown
07:49
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I wonder why I live here
Under an orange sky
Something to build on
Continues to elude my
As young spiders balloon away
So brothers say to
Crawl through life in a manic reverie
Take care no one listens when you speak
The seeds I’ve sown around all ground to grain
My wedding gown the gauze over garlanded eyes set to lie, trained to strain
Round a mile of late
Burn my lamp alone
til I hear you’re reborn
Then maybe I’ll raise em elsewhere
Maybe ill jump ship
Stumble around and
lay awake and
stay
stay
stay
It floods and surrounds
Kelvin… the bough
The sea’ll rise
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Crown Larks Chicago, Illinois
polyrhythmic post punk // eccentric noise lullabies // machine-tooled no wave // free jazz-inflected krautrock // PURE CRED
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"Crown Larks threw psych-rock, noise music, and free jazz into one pot and stirred until the whole thing combusted.” – Stereogum
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