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Constellations: Fall​/​Winter 2016

by Elijah Egbert

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1.
There's water on the stairs It seeping in through the walls Oh don't remind me of what we held up there We painted the walls anew Three colors chosen carefully But the dampness still came through And soaked the air so thoroughly How do I reconcile these things? Beginning with the finishing Soft and yearning hands The words so angular The present with the past The first, the bitter last No I'm not one of you, I fear And I fear I never was Theres nothing here at all You cant see me cuz I am naught And theres nothing out there at all No, I fear there never was Still how do I reconcile these things?
2.
Monolith 02:45
The cause and the consequence Such trifles dangle and fall Repeat a sorry bit of line, repeat A sorry turn of phrase And while the body creeps And utters from red mouths, I'd assume That while I may be held, that nothing may be taken And while the body creeps With pain and difficulty Confined to planet sleeps In aching contradiction I go down, down, down, Amidst the rushes and the sand And lose myself to the land Whether or not we ever tie the knot you know I always thought That it was you and me You couldn't do nothing wrong Oh it goes on and on and on and on and on Oh it's one thing to stay And praise the one you love Another, to recon with the blood
3.
Tell me all the ways I've wronged Build a theory in reverse A fool to think you've understood A fool to act as though you haven't Dredge and cut and burn! To find a way out of old habits Cast aside your lazy husk A fool to keep a tarnished image alive and near You cannot trust! Dredge and cut and burn!
4.
Come and try! I am so disappointed in you! The cast And the crew And the old chauvinists boo You're off your guard 1. A summary, a cacophony, a policy of deceit! 2. Encircle a little foal! 3. Soak that fucker on the roof!
5.
You can't untangle the words Within your warm dimension When I am inside I fall And I'm picked apart by birds What once with satisfaction wielded Now shattered on the ground All this disappointment I take A play thing of the nobel And for all this indignation you suffer You're just the same as me What once with solemn weight was granted Dissolves without a sound We all tread lightly when we can... It only takes a moment To crush your working theory What have I aside from my actions To keep when all things crumble What's lost amid your comfy stories In solitude is found
6.
in your eyes I can see it running running running running dying dying dying where does it stop? your principles hold you guarded I wouldn't know the difference between you and me, with the lights on
7.
And would I die before I'd step out into the garden?
8.
The Koi Pond 05:40
How did keep from speaking my mind? Softly touching our toes and fingers suddenly all my ducks in a row They all follow as I groom your feathers Some things don't seem to need to be said softly touching our nose and fingers sometimes the silence is best Smell of the grass, the smell of your hair
9.
I've searched these boxes for a bottle of what held my attention oh how long it seems that we've kept these pictures so serene so pristine I'll tell you I love you from this side of the bed I'd steal the world when I knew I couldn't this love is not changed, but this anxiety I feel when the voices in my head tell me I'm not good enough for you I've searched these boxes for a bottle of what held my attention how long it seems that we've kept these pictures so pristine I'd tell you I love from the side of this bedpost I'm a thief of the night
10.
My dearest friend, though times they seem so cruel Lets scrape these soft demons from the bottoms of the rocks they cling to Oh tenderness, I feel it when we speak oh honey oh how it permeates through everything I am I have fallen apart And splayed out in the sun Four fingers Transmission pieces lined up on the floor, then scattered But as soon as I start to speak a single thing oh glory oh how it tangles up in everything

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A collections of songs written and recorded September though December, 2016.

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released December 31, 2016

Written and recorded by Elijah Egbert.
Lyrics/vocal performance on track 9 contributed by Jiro Lagac.

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