Absolutely Everything is Essentially Weird, etc

by Lus Sangules

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1.
It's Everywhere! 01:44
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Think less more Get outdoors See friends, or Take a walk Reach my front door Feel less sure There's monsters Everywhere
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Island Nation 03:43
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I form grimaces from shapes. See twisted faces in the planks of the floorboards when I stand right here. Today I’m thinking of the gold in the mouths of people laid in the ground. And I am thinking of the food people buy and then throw away that rots to muddy wine in the dumps And I am thinking of the sicknesses you only get once you come to the hospital How the granules of the dirt are weathered fraction of the past and underfoot you’ll find today for millennia Psychedelic oils hidden in the cracks of the pavement that slide cars into the trees when it rains But don’t take it as a bad mood – take it as a bad mood I call nothing a bad mood now But don’t take it as a bad mood – take it as a bad mood I call nothing a bad mood now There’s just what you’re honest about when I think of grit in the air incorporating to grey milk in our lungs All the places in the world where you walk down the streets and nice days are those where nothing blows up. And the infinite hypothetical where there’s a list of all the hours all things last. But don’t take it as a bad mood – take it as a bad mood I call nothing a bad mood now But don’t take it as a bad mood – take it as a bad mood I call nothing a bad mood now There’s just what you’re honest about when
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Absolutely Everything is Essentially Weird 03:57
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What’s up? Oh my But quick recall this world was never not absurd its whole while So what’s left? That’s right? It’s tough when all the truth you’ve got is only foraged and wry We know Less now Never has what one eye can see collected less of it all In the good times you forget the world’s essentially weird In the good times you forget the world’s essentially weird In the good times you forget the world’s essentially weird In the good times you forget the world’s essentially weird In the good times you forget the world’s essentially weird and in the bad times you just think that it’s bad
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The New Heart of Darkness (I) 02:18
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Deeper and deeper, darker and darker The meanings get scarcer, implications get starker Darker and darker, later and later Stay up stare at the ceiling while events keep replaying Weren’t the people I passed today more haggard and grimmer? Weren’t their eyes dead of spark where there had been a glimmer? With each new ruse to keep on two things new rise to tire us Each new hour feels worse cause its forebear conspires My arms harder to lift. My throat more and more virus It feels fruitless to feign life but some urge says I must N’I no longer reach places without hours of wandering Find myself at the river, watch the river for hours And that squirrel cross the park – what is that that he’s chewing? Is it an acorn? or a finger? eyes play tricks since it happened Take cold showers then hot ones, hormones flail since it happened Time advances without patterns since the moment it happened Keep one eye facing skyward since the moment it happened Keep one eye facing phoneward since the moment it happened Walk the street and almost think life hardly seems different But things shift on my ceiling through the night z’ai relive it Later and later, brighter and brighter Something glows o’er horizon, but it’s too soon for sunrise Brighter and brighter, iller and iller To the banks again at dawn the town stares at the river Iller and iller, iller and iller The whole town’s at the banks, where they stare at the river Iller and iller, iller and iller There’s not much to do, we just stare at the river
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Dots in the Snow (II) 02:15
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In the dream it’s not What I’ve always thought That I’m surrounded by what I see There’s no river, just some neuron burst, Earth is blank at my feet oh what… fiction raids the mind if eyes go un-denied, believe it in spite. Lock the cell from inside At first things seemed fine but I didn’t give up ‘Cause there’s never nothing there At first things seemed fine but I didn’t give up ‘Cause there’s never nothing there Oh there’s never nothing there if you stare long enough There’s never nothing there if you stare long enough There’s never nothing there if you stare long enough There’s never nothing there if you stare long enough
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Wounded Animals (III) 02:31
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Deeper deeper the woods I venture, chasing the unseen creature The air and its howls become one The print of hooves makes a figure stranger than any I’ve seen here What sight awaits if it ceases to run? Then the world upends I think’f massive ecosystems 'round us That we’re moving through, but aren’t of Where indescribable creatures hunt indescribable creatures Leave ‘em bleeding white dots on white snow We look back out through the branches at that world that still has us In its clutches; but what’s old is all new But we’ve always been one moment, a weird detail unaccounted From an untenable stance on what’s true Then let us pause while we’re pondering on the state of our knowledge What do we know? And what do we not? I’ve had a problem forever that I struggle to tell whether It’s a dream or a thought while I sleep
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Things Go Quiet 04:32
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I need us to talk about this thing that’s been happening of feeling I’m home any place that I pause in How today when I sat on a bench at the station felt the world fold around me, tell me to stop moving Draped a blanket around me, so thin could not see it and the message just be glad that you’re not yet not present And it scared me, it scared me, as I got up in leaving that I’d hear it again and would soon start to heed it Feel computer screens have come to be the eyes through which the world I see so life must be the dream when computers go to sleep and I suspect we can wander through the night, it’s not important we’ll be magically transported to our seats in the morning What’s the furthest you think around the world we might manage ‘fore they wake up and see we’re gone, and pull back on our harnesses? Could we cross a sea? Could we cross a sea? Could we cross a sea? And all these years recently, only skill I’m acquiring Is to will to pass more quickly all those hours I find trying Make the dull days move faster. Greet the dull days with pushing But what is all life speeds by, can’t pull back once you’re rushing? Then bad habits encroach. Bad habits engrain Until you’re one day just bad with good habits by mistake. And I’ve forgotten my fear of words written on the temple: Right now life is living you.
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The Renunciant 05:04
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Wake up in my driver’s seat Bumper sticker ahead says 'Life’s Ecstasy' Gaze around at the cars, people on the street I believe that so this aint life surrounding me ’Cause I’ve let all be replaced by the things I’ve heard All’s events of the world, but none’s what’s inher’nt All’s big columns of smoke but none’s why things burn All’s the wink not what’s seen while the lid obscures Then let the force of the earth crash in through the roof Grind me up into nothing and then let me loose Make me only my stuff but no more my rules I’ll be free as a cloud ’til my vapor cools And falls back When drop-ing out looks like real life then what have I become Wake up this time to another sound Of laughter blared from the tv but no humor’s found When the world’s passing by but you’re not on board Every sound that you hear is an ad of sorts ’Cause there is only one rule, as was taught to me Life has only one rule – it’s the leger sheet That you suffer and gain in the same degree He’s an outlaw, the man who lives worry-free ‘N those were criminal days when we didn’t care That was criminal breeze that whipped through our hair The great god of allotments has now dealt your share And the sun shines right through you when you meet his stare ‘Cause you’re gone You’re no more You’ve dropped out of your life as it seemed before You’ve dropped out of your life as it seemed before Pretty vines grow across your eyes, good night, for now Dawn's just if you like And then you wake up this time you’ve just napped a while On the beach of a lake in the sky a mile The grand depth of the blueness seeps its way inside Time’s not drawn a thread, it’s just sand in piles And the impossible’s true you’ve forgot the world Colors burst through the lens lived in grey before May you not dwell on whether you’ll go back or when Just lay your head on the sand, invent sleep again
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The New Star Spangled Banner 04:36
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Nail the windows with boards up; find a space small and cubic Social fabric tears fast in our martial republic Brace to argue, fer mud slinging, for another hard rainin’ For no election can slay the dark beast of campaignin’ Only freedom, only choosing, only room for decidin’ Is which sources feed you info; 'cause death and taxes, news cycle But Economics, of attention: live your side of the fissure til reality yields to the new market pressure And oh say And oh see And oh my and oh me All that's red waves a little bit to me We were promised, Constitution, the first line as I remembr’is they will build a new nation. They'll pursue me my happiness Here’s my address, Mail a package, with proportions to specifics Of the food for my body, so it’s wide to my preference Land of gimme, land of what’s next, of improving through getting All my days and all my dollars – turn to stuff but leave me wanting And all you don’t like; is a sickness; but courage, you will be better hear the end of this ad, then ask your doctor whether Is Stunesta FOR ME Is Vinagra a ‘for ME’ Is Calypso for Me Make a whole list For Me And oh say, And oh see And oh my and oh me All that's white waves a little more to me Ground is trembling, cuz they’re marching, ground is aching and smarting Sky is jumping, cuz they’re jabbing, with the slogans placarding Networks air it, they’ll dissect it, you might call them a hero but know the purpose of the news is just you tune in tomorrow Does it matter, does it matter, while one hand there’s no denying It’s just our lives, it’s just a country, all brief somethings transpiring Place gone crazy, place gone stupid, but when your mood gets sardonic Recall the hundred years of humor in each crack in the sidewalk And oh say, and oh see and oh my, and oh me all that's blue waves most of all America, how I love you, just keep your promise to me Stay your neon, pink and crackly, while its dark outside America, how l love you, now keep your promise to me Stay the vastness of the west, never fit in a frame America, how I love you, but keep your promise to me Stay the snowglobe in the giftshop to your wonders America, I still love you, just keep your promise to me May not go home, but you will not sleep here
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Backed onto the Beaches 01:05
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Once the Flood Dries 03:15
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Then head-wrecked and heart-rent time-robbed and point-missed pocket-stripped, worth-naught Plain-born and bald-gone And Loved-weren’t, flak-caught Fear-with and doubt-fraught Low-bent and back-wrought Past-lost and now-what Us-through and I-alone World-weird and ill-known Self-sought and not-found Land-spoiled and drifted-‘round As fault-vague and blame-vain Next-dull To-come-inane So ‘what’-rich and ‘why’-resigned We wait for the headlines Since things had been good, I forgot the world Since things had been good, I forgot the world Since things had been good, I forgot the world Since things had been good, I forgot the world Since things had been good, I forgot the world Since things had been good, I forgot the world Since things had been good, I forgot the world Since things had been good, I forgot the world

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released July 15, 2018

All words, music, performances by Lus Sangules
Mixed and Mastered by Sam Hall

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