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Ocean​(​s)

by Call Hollow

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1.
Pine Kimono 02:13
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my granddad carried a man across enemy lines and pumped his heart by hand and then he came home to a thankless life until the cancer did him in they fired 21 shots before they put him in the ground mom, if that's movin up then I'm movin out we weren't born with a worthy war scrounging for beer down at the corner store we're not blessed much but we don't expect much anymore I'd rather waste my time than let them waste mine let some Sisyphus sucker do the climb climb climb they wanna bury us in our cradles dressed in our fathers' nicest suits and stick us deep in the backyard garden to fortify the roots make sinners of our wives breadwinners all our lives as if bread was some kind of prize
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Buildings & Clouds vs Whisp'ring Crow 03:12
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a nonstop bus to Providence I've just cozied up to a lovely drunk I feel my guts all feather-light I'm full enough, I feel alright a picture postcard from Mexico a telephone call from San Diego a ribbon of light unspooling through my window a word of advice from a whispering crow he said, "don't it make you wanna stay?" (better buildings! better clouds!) "wishing the livelong day to fade?" (you're punching in, boy! you're punching out!) "pissing the livelong day away?" (better coffee! a better sun!) "wishing the livelong day to fade?" (I know it's easy... it's not enough!) summer's glow turned to autumn's blow turned to winter snow and no sign of the crow till one January night he come whispering at the window: "it's night and the crook of her elbow catches light and its reflection in the window looks like the apostrophe between your name and the possessive... but it's just a trick of the light she's just a trick of the light still, it makes you wanna stay..." Mount Saint Helens, don't blow your top! just show a little bit of patience...
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I'll say OK when you say OK 02:26
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I expected a thing that was ferocious and bright like a solar flare: a quick burst of disarming light and then calm and clear but when I got close to it, it didn't make much sense it was all Rorschach tests and Julia sets I couldn't understand but if you say OK then I will say OK and shake hands I'll call you up from an adjacent building to hear your demands morning's coming on I can't be the only one who knows the world is dilating the world is heavy the world is jumpy the world seems ready I'll go west to lose the sun a change is coming on
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O Fracture! 02:13
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it's October in the corporate bookstore it's not been so long since the October before the fluorescent lights are singing above you but no one seems to think much of you anymore and we are worse for wear can you smell the ash in our hair? and have you got a ghost to spare? low in the east there's a sun reeled back like me just aching to be pitched west O Fracture! I've seen love and I like distraction better I think I'd best head northwest where it's wetter cuz I like love but I need sweater weather you're either sleepin' or lyin' you're keepin' North Caroline tucked tight beneath your head as you're lyin' in your bed
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Protest Song 02:04
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you showed me your self portrait and ever since I saw it I've been blown wide open although I know enough to know it's hopeless but if love is all intent if it's something we invent in ourselves then what's the difference if it fails? and she said, "don't get brave now you know that everything has changed and how would we explain it if somebody found out?" the government can't stop us from falling in and out of love there's not a thing that they can do girl, we pay our taxes too and it's unlikely as short as the shelf life is that there'll be anything to do any damage to so don't be scared to kiss me here and don't be afraid to go I would never hold your promises against you I know the way that these things go the government can't tell us no
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You are the this that we must put a stop to 01:29
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who wants to fuck with us now, then? we'll shakily slither up the staircases you speak all your deceptions in silent H's and I came here to tell you how much I hate this but this is where my mouth finds a curve this is where it all comes unlearned and this is where I love you like you don't deserve it's a hard hand to hold, I know my hand, it's a hard hand to hold it's a hard hand to hold I know I know I know my hand is a hard hand to hold just once for old times' sake just once cuz those good time never came
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Ocean(s) 02:43
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I awoke to the architecture of clasped hands perched on the horizon of my sternum I awoke the amoeba of your wine glass pitched across the nightstand by the morning light one red stripe lays crooked on the river like the last tooth in the smile of the world's last vampire all the things that we already know get blacker than the trees do when our eyes are closed two bodies bigger than mine are pulling they're putting me in motion two moons are pushing down the oceans in California I saw a beautiful girl looking at a black and white photograph she was leaning back limbs gnarled like a capital K is there a single thing more terrifying than that? oh, what splendid bullshit! when is this gonna end? all this frantically running from monotony, always just one step ahead, but... two bodies bigger than mine are pulling they're putting me in motion two moons are pushing down the ocean
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Karaoke King 03:19
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sad upon sad upon sad upon sad I'll melt snow I'll melt sand I'll get water in a glass and the party people sing "can this really be me?" Karaoke King drop another dime in the heartache machine supermarket, supermarket open up your mouth I'm going to the city with an asspocket of whiskey to wash these catchpenny blues down I said I'm going to the city with an asspocket of whiskey to drink back my worries now and the party people sing "is this really me?" Karaoke King drop another dime in the heartache machine move it to the left and move it to the right tonight is a night like every other night move it to the left and move it to the right tonight is a night like any other night I heard somebody shout somebody screamed out, "Alright!" somebody shouted out, "Alright!" I'll take that as a promise I'll take that as a promise tonight
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Emma Lee, don't wait 02:51
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my mouth is hung up like a cheap suit I've got a mouth like a shot up storefront I'm livin it up like a Mexican ghoul I'm so full up on you, feels just like drinking for two Emma Lee, don't lie to me I know you're bound for New Orleans and when you go you'll pull this love tight like a string strum it loud as I sing she says time will find us easy she says don't worry daddy time's gonna find us easy and you can bet it on the bank daddy go head and bet your bottom dollar take it to the bank baby go head and bet your bottom buck Emma Lee, don't wait for me when you know I'm bound to leave and when I go you'll pull this love taut like a string strum it loud as I sing
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Orygun Song 04:22
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the barn was burning hard against the rain and it got hard to see so we gave in when it was morning there a twist of sinews in the chair fought hard to hold the light in and up from my styrofoam breakfast bowl looking through the lobby window I saw the beach across the street it seemed the world branched out from my feet and I felt distance and I felt bigness a warmth that I had never known the nervous oceans come and go in and out like an out of range radio the nervous oceans, a nervous motion to and fro and now, fiercely shining on this hotel in Oregon brighter than the moon I'll miss you when you're gone but I'll be moving on pretty soon it's a nervous ocean, I know I know nervous notions come and go I know you never earn what you get but I ain't learned that yet I'm gonna get good before I get gone then I'll be moving on

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Written, performed, and recorded – though only occasionally in that order – by James Meakim in 2004 at home in Stony Point, New York. Additional singing was provided by John Hickey on #s 1+2, Victoria Mahoney on #5, and (along with the harmonica) Dan Doherty on #9.

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released December 25, 2004

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