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Specific Gravity
02:34
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I’ll change my name and my whole way of life
I’ll change my name and my whole way of life
I’ll change my name and my whole way of life
On the day I meet'cha
THERE'S NO
THERE'S NO EXIT
THERE'S NO
THERE'S NO EXIT
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Relief
04:26
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I’m gonna get me home today, but where's my home? Can't say.
So like a cloud I'll drift and sway. That said, what’s left to do but sing?
uh uh oh
I need relief
Some might fly away, but I got terns (jays) and shrikes each may
So all that spilt light’s gonna stay while me and the squirrels we sing
uh uh oh
I need relief
I need relief
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3. |
62 Blue
04:34
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Racing through another day of life
Racing through spilling all manner of light
Denim blue and nametag clipped in place
Crosstown blues, petrol drips out my face
(Lost on highway 62, crosstown blues deep inside you)
Cuz you know I’m overdue, I’m running up a fine on this
I really need… one time…
To take a break. oh, I never take a break. I need to–
Lost on highway 62, crosstown blues deep inside you
Crepuscular cries as day fades into night
Bend and quake while skeeters buzz and bite
Cuz we’re all overdue, they gave up writing fines for this
We all need (but we don’t know how)
To take a break. Oh, we never take a break. We need to–
Take a break. Oh, just one break. Before we break–
We need to… take a break
We need to... ohhh give us a break
We need just one break
Just one break then…
Then keep runnin' on
Keep movin’ on
Keep marchin’ on
Keep plowin’ on
Keep bursting on
Keep flowing on
Keep pulsing on
Keep feeling on
Keep zooming on
Keep growing on
Keep oozing on
Keep smiling on
Keep walking on
Keep climbing on
Keep biking on
Keep living on
Keep sharing on
Keep caring on
Keep shining on
Keep runnin' on
Keep movin’ on
Keep marchin’ on
Keep plowin' on
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I long for horizon
and space where my mind can roam
I biked past those dry grey barns
to the place I once called my home
But I live above a laundromat
I live above a laundromat
Fort Road Laundromat
But above this laundromat…
And so the laundromat
What about this laundromat?
Call upon the laundromat
Straight above the laundromat
I feel my cells pulse and pull
me down without a laundry load
My feet crumble through the floor
Boards break apart and split apart with joy
Returning to the earth
Returning now
Returning to the earth
Returning now
Just like the laundromat
This body just won’t last
Excel the laundromat
Transcend the laundromat
I feel so much better now
I feel so much better now
I feel so much better now
I feel so
Returning to the earth
Returning now
Returning to the earth
Returning now
Something must come first
It was the grass between the cracks that led the way that led the way
Down on the sidewalk
It was the grass between the cracks that led the way that led the way that led the way
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Wading through the highways
Cruising down the byways
Chuggin’ down the interstate
You’ll need an earthy jolt,
a pickmeup, a cuppa
java java sweet café
Exit on the right and coast into the carpark
Decelerate respectfully
Rummage in the glovebox
and exit to the sidewalk
as the angel of the highway sings these words:
Look no further
MNDoT’s got you
Slow your roll
GreenView’s saved you
Iron a buck
and feed it into a
Rest Stop Coffee Machine
Make a swell selection
The paper cup’ll drop down
Behold as the coffee sprays
Smell the sweet concoction
and wonder what contraption
lies inside that sweet machine
Cuz sometime down highway
Sometime down the byways
On a patch of the interstate
You’ll need an earthy jolt,
a pickmeup, a cuppa
java java sweet café
So look no further
MNDoT’s got you
slow your roll
GreenView’s saved you
Iron a buck
and feed it into
a
Rest Stop Coffee Machine
Something must come first
It was the grass between the cracks that led the way that led the way
Coffee Must Come First
it was the cup between the seats between the seats between the seats
Spilled on the dashboard
It seeps between the dash into the cracks and through the floor and down
Onto the concrete
It fed the grass between the cracks between the cracks between the cracks between the cracks
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6. |
Flash Flood
04:00
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In a flash flood under
an old oak tree
grab ahold of the trunk, snag that bark,
there’s space to flee–in
In the flash flood
But this is a flash flood of an ancient sea
this ain’t dobbins creek, there’s no space to flee
Miles across the earth
Miles across the earth
Every inch of the earth
Every inch of the earth
Under flash flood
If you lose your mind, i’ll lose mine too
If you lose your mind, i’ll lose mine too
Who’s lost thier mind, is it me or you?
Reaching out for your mind, i’ll hold onto you
If you lose your mind, i’ll lose mine too
If you lose your mind, i’ll lose mine too
Who’s lost their mind, is it me or you?
Who could keep their mind in this flood of untruth
There’s nowherewherewherewhere to run.
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7. |
Elma
03:47
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Elma
Elma
I seek a clean soul
I seek a clean soul
Elma
Elma
I’ll just drop it all
and answer your call
But Elma
Not just a getaway
Elma
A place I can stay until the end -
Elma, Elma, Elma, Iowa.
Elma, Elma, Elma, Iowa.
Elma
Elma
So quick pass the years
It will have been years
But Elma
Can one really get away?
When Elma
I don’t know...
How far these fields go (Elma)
The holes in the landscape, they we know what they know (Elma)
My blood, my brain, and some kind of youth (Elma)
Bloom beyond, yet life waits for you in
Elma
Elma
Elma, Elma, Elma, Iowa.
Elma, Elma, Elma, Iowa.
Elma, Elma, Elma, Iowa.
Elma, Elma, Elma, Iowa.
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8. |
Pop Music Savior
06:36
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So many people live in this world and they hear the same sound
So many people live in this world and they hear the same sound… ohh.
ohh.
So many people live in this world and they hear the same sound
So many people live in this world and they hear the same sound
From a pop music savior
Pop music savior
Not just one, it’s not me
The sound’s your savior
The sound’s your savior
Inside you, not so deep
oh oh oh ohhhhh
So everyone living in the world who hears this sound (ohh)
Everyone living in the world who hears this sound
From a pop music savior
Pop music savior
Not just one, it’s not me
The sound’s your savior
The sound’s your savior
Inside you, not so deep
oh oh oh ohhhhh
Cuz there’s only, only one
There’s only one voice inside you
oh oh oh ohhhh
There’s only one world
So let the music carry you
Let the music carry you...
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9. |
Peanut Butter
03:58
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Living a life without hurting anything
Doesn’t seem easy to me
If you’re alive, well then you’ve gotta eat
It’s not so easy to filter feed
Peanut butter, peanut butter
Living a life without breathing fresh air
don’t seem appealing to me
But every day I drive, I spill a little more
hypocrisy, i’m indiscreet
So here I am with my hand in the peanut butter jar
I won’t hide my face or my peanut butter jar
Living a life without hurting anyone
You can’t, but you’re still spilling light
From every perfect pore and each perfect scrape
Bring light to an indifferent face
So here we are with our hands in the peanut butter jar
Here we are with our hands in the peanut butter jar
So how, how could I ever call it by some other name
How, how could I ever call it by any other name
It’s not ignorance
Ignorance
Nor cognizance
It’s something more….
Something a little more hard to define...
Peanut butter, peanut butter...
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Plastic Chair
06:21
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Oops! I ate my lunch before 11am
Oops! I ate my lunch before 11am
travel miles, travel miles and miles
travel miles
Oops! I left my phone chargin’ at home
Oops! I left my phone chargin’ at home
travel miles, travel miles and miles
travel for miles
this isn’t the time to just think about
this isn’t the time to just talk about
this isn’t the time to just think about
this isn’t the time–
whatever you’ve been thinking bout all that you been missing or running away from the truth
phenology finds a new way of thinking you can forge your way and you’ll never stop missing
imaginary missions and single paid sessions (resolving[solving]host)
phenology finds a space where you can feel every single moment in the non-imaginary world world
a single single world, not natural or constructed, every realm blended and swirled
phenology feeds a need that we bleed in our bones based bonemeal brushed on a bagel
don’t wait
don’t wait for life
don’t wait, don’t wait
don’t wait
don’t wait for life
don’t wait
I feel
I feel
I feel everything
the breath in everything, yeah
there’s breathing in everything, yeah
feel breathing everything
i wanna feel everything
breathing in everything
i feel breathing,
I feel
I feel
I feel this plastic chair
injection molded plastic chair
rain-stained plastic chair
every inch of this plastic chair
feel the breath in this plastic chair
feel breath in plastic chairs
every single plastic chair
rain-stained plastic chair
lay me down in a plastic chair
set me down in a plastic chair
rain-stained plastic chair
lay me in down in that plastic chair
cuz i feel
i feel
set me down a plastic chair
lay me down a plastic chair
rain-stained plastic chair
injection-molded plastic chair
set me down a plastic chair
feel the breath a plastic chair
every inch of that plastic chair
let me feel that plastic chair
whatever you’ve been thinking bout all that you been missing or running away from the truth
phenology finds a new way of thinking you can forge your way and you’ll never stop missing
imaginary missions and single paid sessions (resolving[solving]host)
phenology finds a space where you can feel every single moment in the non-imaginary world world
a single single world, not natural or constructed, every realm blended and swirled
phenology feeds a need that we bleed in our bones based bonemeal brushed on a bagel
don’t wait (don’t wait)
don’t wait for life (don’t wait)
don’t wait, don’t wait
don’t wait (don’t wait)
don’t wait for life
don’t wait (don’t wait)
don’t
don’t wait
don’t wait
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11. |
Humus
04:17
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Salt lagoon, long sidewalk
Imagined camera frame zooms out
CD skips, time’s passed
It’s been been mere months since
and you feel alone...
but you’re not alone.
cuz in your head
in this case of bone there’s
Xeric thoughts in your brain
Xeric thoughts that crave fog sleet and rain
Xeric thoughts are like caves
Xeric thoughts like an endless endless maze
To sing of soil sans hubris
Sand and clay, yeah, and humus!
Lives must end to feed new ones
Step back and feel
Think you’ll be alone?
You won’t be alone.
cuz in your flesh
in your flesh right now there’s
Mesic thoughts in your brain
Mesic thoughts pulse straight through your brain
Mesic thoughts every day
Mesic thoughts still you find that you’re astray
(Every day’s exposed angle has body
For which the truthful incursion lies sure within in the trivia
And the motion which you invoke till valid indebts its personality for substance to the touch around your head
Guarding substance beloved)
in every mind
and every brain
in every mind and brain there’s–
Hydric thoughts in your brain
Hydric thoughts pulse straight through your brain
Hydric thoughts every day
Hydric thoughts and they’ll wake you from this haze
Face the thoughts in your brain
Face the thoughts that pulse straight through your brain
Face the thoughts every day
Face the thoughts cuz we’ll be humus one day
We’ll be humus one day
We’ll be humus one day
We’ll be humus one day
We’ll be humus one day
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12. |
Hold On!
03:43
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Broken toenails show through your sandals
Perkins might close but that’s unconfirmed
Chalky gravel dust coats my shoelaces
This podiatric pair sings our concerns
na na na
So please hold on
For the town we knew has shed itself from us
Hold On!
August is the month our aster love blooms
Petals drop away as the days shorten
In the pistil’s place will grow an apple
that falls on scarred, scarred ground
so... Hold On!
for the earth we knew has shed itself from us
Hold On!
the despair feel is real but not the end
Hold On! (Hold On!n)
let us morn for the earth but feel its love for us
Hold On! (Hold On!n)
our damaged home still cradles so much life
Hold On! (Hold On!)
Hold On! (Hold On!)
Hold On! (Hold On!)
Hold On!
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Zipper Merge
05:40
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I thought I was impervious
but no one’s impervious
from the car you’ll never own
from the car you’ll never own
from the car you’ll disown
I thought i was virtuous
but no one’s so virtuous
from the things you’ll never know
from the things you’ll never know
from the things you’ll never know
reaching to roll down the window of the 1999 chevrolet s10, just then on your right knee you feel an itch, you feel an itch. The coachbusesque fabric you spilled naked fruit juice on back in 2007 (crusty crusty, crunchy) spilling over your leg, dripping down to your feet, your left foot hits the floor. There’s no clutch, there’s no clutch, there’s no clutch. Smooth pleather gearshift R to D1 R to D1 R to D1 as you merge as you merge as you merge.
ohhh ohohhhwhoaa
Inching through
I’m inching through on highway 62
Inching through
I’m inching through to do the zipper merge
Zipper merge
Do the zipper merge, I do the zipper merge
Shine straight through
Off the bridge deck sign
Straight through you gotta shine
Inching through
I’m inching through to do the zipper merge
Zipper merge
Do the zipper merge, please do the zipper merge
Zipper merge
Do the zipper merge, please do the zipper–
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14. |
Golden Alexander
02:57
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Last year there was corn
But now, it’s only giant ragweed now
How did we get here today?
I know I’m not always honest about the pain
It’s just the idea of you
idea of you
ahh ah
Idea of you
Idea or two
ahh ah
Remember how the car’s lights
How they played upon the snow
And this, oh this, the sum of so many nights
Compressed in the question that you posed
“How did we get here today?”
One day I’ll be honest, I’ll find a way
I’ve an idea or two
Idea or two
ah ahhh
Of the idea of you
Idea of you
ah ahhh
so, Golden Alexander, you’ll find a place to grow
Golden Alexander…
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15. |
Luxury Of The Wave
06:22
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Out farther than I’d ever gone
No more cornfields no unmowed lawns
I’d, I’d lost it. I lost it.
I’d… I’d lost…
The luxury of a wave
The luxury of a… wave.
Luxury of a wave
Luxury of a…
Out farther than we’d ever gone
Concrete gave way, arms limp like sand
I’d, I’d lost it. I lost it.
but you raise you hand…
and waved.
The luxury of a wave
The luxury of a wave.
Luxury of a wave
Luxury of a…
a a a a a a a a a a a a
Don’t fear don’t fear that wave
Don’t fear don’t fear that wave
Don’t fear don’t fear that wave
Don’t fear don’t fear that–
Don’t fear don’t fear that wave
Don’t fear don’t fear that wave
Don’t fear don’t fear that wave
Don’t fear don’t fear that–
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16. |
The End?
05:00
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How to behave? At the end of the world
How to behave? At the death of the world
How to behave? At the edge of the world
How do you behave? At the death of the world
well,
Turns out the clichés were right the whole time
It turns out the clichés where right the whole time
It’s ever so clear
We’re ever so near
Just..
Dance at the edge of the world.
(it’s not the end...)
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17. |
Spilling Light
01:23
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When the light goes away, when the light goes away
Does it spill? or do you just let it pour?
Does it spill? or do you just let it pour?
Well, it seems a lack of light is here to stay
So spill your light, flip night into dawn
Let the prairie overtake the lawn
Keep spilling light
Keep spilling light...
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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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