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Subtle Transmissions

by balloon race

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Hummingbird 04:19
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Foxglove 05:04
Penniless, with a pocket full of sand Perilous, the power held within your hand Heedless, she set the ivory ablaze And I couldn't help wondering from what kind of stuff she was made Still framed in light The silent echo Of days gone by Now amplified Surrounded, we beat the blood back down Astounded by still-ringing strings underground 'Til June saw bloom sweet poison apropos And now I'm choking on petals on purpose in spite of the snow We try to hide Behind the sixes And nine-to-fives Just half alive
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Noble Gases 04:00
Cover your couches in canvas The color now confined Painting your pictures with a palette Of a wholly different kind Afraid you could be outshined So noble, so pure You're tethered Though you never touch the ground Cover your heart In leather Now you wear it like a crown Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn About Jones and Lenard 'Cause they've never seen the way a laser beam Can lay waste to a heart It can tear you apart Now blinded, and excited by the Sub-celestial sheen Years of subtle transmissions hinting What I knew you'd glean right from the start I will tear you apart So noble, sublime You're weightless As you float around the room So regal, entwined With conflagrations Still refusing to diffuse
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Ratzinger 04:10
Everything's in place So circadian You would save the world If it wasn't so damned inconvenient So dye your carpets red And spackle up your ears So all this blood that's shed Seems to disappear Not brave enough to admit you're afraid You hold your breath and keep fanning the flames Aghast--but not a god-- At a gash, and a facade So fly your banner high Convinced of all you do The holy champion Of everything half-true And you could wash this all away But then again, it's always been this way You can never say What you've never seen Soak your eyes with lye It will keep you clean
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House Wine 13:49
Put your diamond studded shoes away You won't need them where we go All the frozen creep of yesteryear Thawing through incandescent days The people take it away The people fading away Futile swipes at your autonomy Surmounted by scorn served with a smile Drunk on the rhythm now, you chase after the sun It's a game that we all know you play The people take it away The people fading away And you're sleeping with your eyes open But you feel alive again
7.
Pull on your ribs Look inside You'll find Naught but sparkling dust Pull on my ribs Look inside You'll find A chamber of rust Not this shape by design Twisting Helical ferriferrous spine Tortuous Just a waste of your time Strange to see how a dream Can seem to make you fly Untie, and then suck you dry 'Til you hide all your blood When you wake, hope taking hold When such guileless hearts Will facades, smother thoughts That say everyone still dies alone But maybe you won't...?
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She said "I miss you, oh I miss you, oh I miss you so" I asked her why she left me standing all alone She said the fire it went out so long ago But I still feel the embers smoldering down below She said "I love you" in a secret guarded tone As we lay there buried deep inside the snow And as our shielded eyes explored each others' hearts The winter wind it made it clear, it made it clear, it made it clear It made it clear She said "I miss you, oh I miss you, oh I miss you so" I asked her why she left me standing all alone She said the fire it went out so long ago But I still feel the embers flickering down below And as the heat comes up to crack my swelling heart The palpitations make it real, they make it real, they make it real Now the street are bare, the sound has stopped, The picket fences all burned down The windows broke, the porch askew The rafters fell into the living room And if it rains, these wounds can heal There'll be no driver at the wheel In blinding light, a milky fog And we will see there's no more dreams, there's no more dreams She said "I miss you, oh I miss you, oh I miss you so" I asked her why she left me standing all alone She said the fire it went out so long ago But I still feel the embers burning down below She said "I love you" in a secret guarded tone As we lay there buried deep inside the snow And as our shielded eyes explored each others' hearts The winter wind it made it clear, it made it clear, it made it clear Now the street are bare, the sound has stopped, The picket fences all burned down The windows broke, the porch askew The rafters fell into the living room She said "I miss you, oh I miss you, oh I miss you so" I asked her why she left me standing all alone She said the fire it went out so long ago But I still feel the embers raging down below And now it blazes in a silent secret glow Drowning out the tired sound of breaking bones And as the heat comes up to crack my swelling heart The palpitations make it real, they make it real, they make it real They make it real

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released April 17, 2013

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