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Energy Park
04:00
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got on my bike one day
crunched leaves and cranked away
I rode away
I rode away
into the ultraviolet light
not a single cottonwood cloud in sight
all I wanted was to make my life right
but I took three lefts and now
I’m trapped in energy park and I’m feeling so alone
in energy park
lost in energy park and I left my tarp at home
no end and no start
hey
hey
is this all a waste? is this just like
a chromebook in a ditch, is this just a
where’s that proper place? for your waste in
olmsted county
cuz we’re trying to find that clandestine place
but mandatory anomie won’t help our pace
I was doing all I could to just keep face
and I’m giving up and now
lost in energy park and i’m feeling so alone
in energy park
borne of ore and a spark yeah it’s bound to die in stone
no end and no start
trapped in energy park and i’m feeling so alone
in energy park
OSB and a spark it’s bound to die in flame
no end and no start
got on my bike one day
crunched leaves and cranked away
I rode away
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won’t wait any more today
like a mourning cloak’s winter stay
we're waking on waking on waking on waking on
waking on a cool spring day
but in a cloud of dust drawn by blade
that new days start to fade
yeah we’re waking on waiting on waiting on waking on
Lake big k layaway
but oh when you feel that way
there’s only one thing I can think to say, yeah
it’s if you feel that way it’s for a reason
so feel away, yeah
just feel away
the taste of the air today
it’s like an airport food court tray
yeah we're waking on waking on waking on waking on
a peak most everything day
cuz peace won’t always stay
like the thought of the smell of hay
just dig around dig around dig around dig around
dig around in your brain
cuz what spills light must always endure burning
and how much wick do we have left? or just yearning
but oh when you feel that way
there’s only one thing I can think to say, yeah
it’s if you feel that way, it’s for a reason
so feel away, yeah
just feel away
but oh where will the gulls all go
a parking lot is paradise to some, though
it might not seem that way, but there’s a reason
they take stone over foam
so when you feel that way
a pigeon ouroboros forms a wave to say
hey
that if you feel that way, it’s for a reason
so feel away, yeah
just feel away
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Call the Water
04:15
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that creekbed calls you when you’re on your own
if I slept on the river would you float me home
masking tape and poems lying used up in our rooms
I was blinded by the lack of light and you let me know
so call the water whatever you want to
cuz every creek’s a river when it bisects me and you
call the water the name that comes to you
make a drainage ditch an ocean or the sea a drop of dew
in an instant, a moment’s ancient, etched away
on a jersey bed sheet or a paper towel, yesterday
cold feet on colder tile, an icy bed
I pull open the window, I lay my head
call the water whatever you want to
cuz every creek’s a river that bisects me and you
call the water the name that comes to you
make a drainage ditch an ocean or the sea a drop of dew
that flood of silence when you’re on your own
we’ll ford the river and see the daydream through
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beautiful blue skies
beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine
are hanging in my mind
like a swinging bridge of time
all drenched in starlings
but way out, past the final street
of our town, a grid of humid heat
a bent spoke and a lower bar for bliss
a lost song rings into the mist
above that freeway
in a crypt of cryptochrome
they’ll call it a mistake
but I ain’t going home
if there’s still hope for me
it lies in some buffer zone
beautiful blue skies
beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine
on America online like a tunnel made of vines
all drenched in contrails
so I ask myself every day
I ask myself every day
how do you know?
how do you know?
yeah I ask myself every day
yeah I ask myself every day
how do you know?
how do you know?
that some song could ever stop the crush
of this town, a grid of lime and dust
but we know, we know it’s worth the risk
of this tale, one autotomous
above that freeway
in a crypt of cryptochrome
they’ll call it a mistake
but I ain’t going home
if there’s still hope we’ll see
when we lie in that buffer zone
but I ask myself every day
yeah I ask myself every day
how do you know?
how do you know?
yeah I ask myself every day
yeah I ask myself every day
how do you know?
how could you know?
so have a great rest of your day
in this town, a grid of slush and clay
when you speak, the words they'll fly away
but when sung, they'll all forever stay
above that freeway
in a crypt of cryptochrome
they’ll call it a mistake
but we ain’t going home
if there’s still hope we’ll see
when we lie in that buffer zone
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Etherealreal
04:20
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these ragged nights and these threadbare days
I’m not about it, not about it
so step outside and wander the maze
that’s all around us, all around us
jogging highway 55
you remember that you’re alive
and that it ain’t so mystical here
but it’s quite an ethereal real
cuz on those humid nights casting street lamp shade
and all around us, all around us
were they fireflies or flashing barricades
not so sure about it, sure about it
in the railyard’s chartreuse light
you’re reminded of your own life
and that it ain’t so mystical here
but it’s quite an ethereal real
hey
of this I know it’s true, of this I know it’s true
of this I know it’s, this I know it’s
of this I know it’s true, of this I know it’s true
of this I know it’s, this I know it’s, this I know it’s
of this I know it’s true, of this I know it’s true
of this I know it’s, this I know it’s
of this I know it’s true, of this I know it’s true
of this I know it’s, this I know it’s, this I know it’s
And when dawn starts to untwist
you’ll remember that you exist
and that it ain’t so mystical here
but it’s quite an ethereal real
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Blood & Diamonds
04:08
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blood and diamonds, yeah they flow in your soul
they flow in the night like the light down the hall
floating down the street, stars above, stars below
traffic cones are blinking, stars above, blood below
blood and diamonds, they beat in your heart
you’re both ancient matter and a whole brand new start
we’re now and we’re then and we’re everything all
we’re blood and diamonds and we’re flowing
cuz I’d never lie to you
I just want to tell you the truth
that all the ages led up to now
everything led to you somehow
all the ages led up to now like
blood and diamonds
blood and diamonds
blood and diamonds
blood and diamonds
blood and diamonds, yeah they’re one within you
so ford midnight waters and then start anew
they can cut a nine foot channel of concrete and steel
but these blood and diamonds, they’ll, they’ll always heal
all the ages let up to now
everything led to you somehow
all the ages led up to now
everything led to you somehow
all the roadway waste
melts away with haste
all the roadway waste
melts away with haste
all the ages let up to now
everything led to you somehow
all the ages let up to now like
blood and diamonds
blood and diamonds
blood and diamonds
blood and diamonds
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Truth Hurts II
03:38
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under my own spell again
but I’ll learn to fly, I’ll learn to fly in ten
at the edge of town, we’ll meet at at dusk
door through a door, into the clouds we’ll thrust
come with me we need not go far away
trust and see through exhaust and arid days
forget UV and throw away the shades
bright it may be, but by now we all know, we know by now that
the truth, it’s what you’ve heard
things won’t be alright
by now we all know truth hurts
so sing, sing like a bird, and just sing all night
don’t even think about the words
breaking a sweat, but the wind’s so cold
it’ll take us all if we wanna break the mold
just like gravity sculpts a sphere
oh gale and sky will shave away our fears
at midnight on the floodplain
there are no lies
that the truth, it’s what you’ve heard
things won’t be alright
by now we all know truth hurts
so sing, sing like a bird, and just sing all night
don’t even think about the words
cuz you’re the one I, one I, love
you’re the one I, one I, love
whoa
come with me and we’ll go so far away
atop a shuttered school or an overflowing bay
gardens draped with sheets, yeah we’ll ghost our homes today
indifference, hate, dismay, yeah they’re not all here to stay
to scream away, and sing a song for a brand new day
cuz the truth, it’s what you’ve heard
things won’t be alright
by now we all know truth hurts
so sing, sing like a bird, and just sing all night
don’t even think about the words
cuz you’re the one I, oh one I, love
you’re the one I, oh the one I, love
you’re the one I, oh the one I, love
whoaohahoh
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Backyard
04:15
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hearing again those footprints in the snow
the harmonies melt my
back in the yard I’m calling out your name
you don’t turn your head, but Chet, I love you all the same
and that’s why I cry
oh I cry and cry and cry
that’s why I cry
down by the creek we dug holes just cuz we could
the robins would sing, yeah
now the holes they’re filled in
and the birds, they all flew
the places we loved now some strange unwelcome new
and that’s why I cry
oh I cry and cry and cry
that’s why I cry
oh I cry and cry and cry
that’s why I cry
oh I cry and cry and cry
that’s why I cry
oh I cry and cry and cry
that’s why I cry
oh I cry and cry and cry
that’s why I cry
so long to the good days
so long to the good days
so long to the good days
so long to the good days
that never were
that never were
that never were
that never were
that never were
that never were
that never were
too far away
that never were
that never were
that never were
that never were
that never were
that never were
that never were
too far away
too far away
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Prairie Clamor Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prairie Clamor an ever-evolving pop music project helmed by Will Bjorndal, living on Dakota land in Minneapolis,
MN.
Will is happy to inform you that he has visited both the highest AND second-highest natural points in Iowa.
email:
will [at] prairieclam.org
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I also make music for kids! Whoa! willsingssongs.bandcamp.com
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Trash/Noise/Etc: radarange.bandcamp.com
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