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Volcano
00:42
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Ten till eight somewhere
Your shoes hit the ground
Five thousand miles away... the same clouds!
You can tell yourself the truth or maybe not
You can tell yourself the truth or maybe not
Save the truth for when you're older
Look over your shoulder
and see the Volcano behind the clouds.
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Next 7 Exits
05:06
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True mother-road path of salt'n'sandflakes
True mother-road path of salt'n'sandflakes
Prairie Clamor is proud to present the next seven exits
True mother-road path of salt'n'sandflakes
True mother-road path of salt'n'sandflakes
Prairie Clamor is proud to present the next seven exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
You choose your-
You choose your-
You choose your-
You choose your life
You choose your life
You choose your life
You choose your life
You choose your life
You choose your life
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Don't
Don't
Don't
You don't choose your life
You don't choose your life
You don't choose your life
You don't choose your life
You don't choose your life
You don't choose your life
Seven exits for twenty-five thousand people
Seven exits for twenty-five thousand people
aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
Next 7 Exits
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Coffee Table Book
07:04
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ad domos urbis PUSILLUS
A Coffee Table Book of teeny houses. Not the trendy teeny houses.
Thomas the Tank Engine sheets hung with care.
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They're all urban ducks
every single urban duck
waddling through parking lots
They're all urban ducks
every single urban duck
nesting in... your yard
Wally's sump pump was throwin' water. He put that thing just about three years ago, a-head of his time! Austin’s got a new sump pump ordinance, but Wally doesn’t have to worry about it. Carved out a little bit of that curb, but that thing right in there, put that pipe right in there, and the ducks landed just like they did on the creek, came right down horizontally like it was on water…
And they did duck stuff
(don’t feed the ducks!)
HENS
DRAKES
MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS
They're all urban ducks. All standing outside in parking lots.
Don’t feed the ducks.
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Controlled Burn
02:42
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Yeah! Give it up! Give it all up now!
Every grassland's life requires controlled disturbance.
...Prairie Clamor.
(Figuratively) burning it all
It grows back in the end, so
make airqoutes "it" what you want
and give it all up now
Yeah! Give it up! Give it all up now!
Make airquotes "it" what you want and give it all up now!
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Angelica
04:58
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Angelica, save me from this bind
Save me from this bind
I’ve found myself in
Angelica, you know i’ve tried to find
You know i’ve tried to find
A way out.
Angelica
Angelica
Angelicaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!
Angelica, save me from this bind
Save me from this bind
I put myself in
Angelica, just tell me where to find you
And i’ll find you nine feet above
We will rise
Angelica
Angelica
Angelicaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!
Advice from a Prairie T-Shirt
Brand, The Mountain
Heed it.
(na na na etc)
Listener, be honest with yourself.
Will, you belong to the land
In a way you’ll never understand
But that’s okay. Oh, that’s okay.
That’s okay. You’ll return to the land
You’ll return to the land
Oh that’s okay, that’s okay…
That’s okay.
Angelica, I’ve got a smartphone too
I’ll put it down for you
I’ll put it down i’ll put it down i’ll put it down
I’ll never charge my phone again
atropurpurea.
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D.B.T.C.
03:00
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Pudahuel
CVS
Though my life is changing every day,
I've heard Dreams, I've heard Dreams.
Dreams! Dreams! Dreams! Dreams! Dreams by The Cranberries.
Dreams. Dream. Dreams.
If you'll still be you
If you'll still be you
If you'll still be you
then I - I'm gonna miss you
I'm gonna miss you
I'm gonna miss you
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Hayden Prairie
05:48
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The Mighty Missicedar
11:01
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Waist deep in the big cruddy
Waste deep in the big cruddy
February 2014
Q and I skied to Brownsdale. A seven mile trek. Floating over drift after drift, we saw a speck. A hunk of meat and a fish.
We found a fish in a field! Nestled between frozen snow drifts! Not even a small fish! A big! Frozen! Fish!
Fish!
We made it to our destination in Brownsdale, the Langtry Cafe. We were cold but we made it. (no, we’re not skiing back), but it didn’t matter (just get me a glass of hot water). We knew we had to go back to get the fish. Dobbins creek, wolf creek, turtle creek. It doesn’t matter. The fish couldn’t’ve come from any of them. It couldn’t’ve been an ice fisher, it wasn’t even close to a house. Next to a giant hunk of meat in the middle of February?? The drifts were frozen. There wasn’t even any snow blowing. Zero degrees outside! Less at night! Even colder!! We knew we had to go back to get the fish. We called Sydney. “Yo, Syd are you there?” “Where?” We said, “hey Syd, you wanna pin this fish? Wanna add it to your insect collection?” She said “YEAH!” So obviously we called Taylor. Taylor! He was gonna carry the fish. We approached the fish. We walked up. Crawled up. Slowly, the fish rising above the frozen snow and ice. Taylor reaching for the fish….
His hand. Touched the fish.
Even frozen solid, its oils poured over his brand new jacket.
“Oh my god!”
“Are you sure you don’t want a bag or something? I’m sure there’s a bag in the car. We can get you a bag.”
“Oh well. Might as well just wrap it in your jacket at this point.”
That fish… knew things that we didn’t.
Sydney took it home and buried it in her yard.
“I buried in a snowbank.”
Raccoons took it the next night.
“Dragged it away.”
We’ll never know where the fish came from.
“Hey guys, look! I put my glasses on the fish!”
Sometime in your life
At some point in your life
Somewhere in your life
At some point in your life
You’ll find out where the highway goes
You‘ll know where the highway goes
There’ll be no shotgun shack
There’ll be no shotgun shack
At several points in your life
Several points in your life
Several times in a lifetime.
Change and forgiveness. Next Seven Exits.
Change and forgiveness.
Change and forgiveness, Next Seven Exits.
Lasting forgiveness.
EXIT NOW.
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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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