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Carapace
03:59
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Twist a whisper
‘round until it burns.
Hush your mighty whimper.
Hold it til it hurts.
Carapace
Bury your loneliness.
Engrave it in the sand.
The slow stream of love beneath the floor
carves against the grain.
Carapace
I dissolve myself in water
in a dream that hardened when I woke.
I choked on air as solid as a block of ice,
preserving for all time the way you curl round my arm,
the fight forgotten for a while.
Carapace
Twist a whisper,
follow where it leads.
Follow underneath.
Take it back.
Take me back.
All of the softness melts away,
Carapace.
The shell remains another day,
Carapace.
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Loving You
03:10
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Set a trap.
Set a trap and stand back.
Whistle when it springs.
When it springs, i'll come dig in.
Is anybody in the yard, on the roof,
in my bed, in my head?
A frenzy of hunger,
too hollow and blind
not to follow us all home,
and on the way
the landmines are undetectable,
predictable as air,
we're unprotectable.
Is anybody in the yard, on the roof,
in my bed, in my head?
Is everybody loving me, on the floor,
bleeding out, lock the door.
Hover over a cloudless sky,
no trigger, no tripwire,
I'm suspended just above the fray,
upended anyway,
so set a trap, stand back,
whistle when it springs,
I'll come, I'll come, I'll come dig in.
Is anybody in the yard, on the roof,
in my bed, in my head?
Is everybody loving me, on the floor,
bleeding out, lock the door.
Afraid to look, afraid to go,
afraid to ask, afraid to know -
the tension makes me whole.
afraid to see, afraid to feel
afraid to blink, afraid to think -
the tension makes me whole.
Is anybody loving me?
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3. |
The Animal I Am
03:42
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Snap back!
The heat stings like ice.
Time slows so we move faster
underneath our skin.
Inside, the path is frictionless,
we slip again, no footing
on this fictional device.
I chase your love, a bird, a deer,
my dear, I dare to hold my hand
so still, and still you wince a tiny
tremor travels, chases you away.
Outside your fur stands on end.
Come back! Retract your claws,
hide your teeth in watering jaws.
I chase your love, a bird, a deer,
my dear, I dare to hold my hand
so still, and still you wince a tiny
tremor travels, chasing you.
My breath betrays my body,
charged with love and hate
and heat and sorrow,
hold my hand so still, and still
you smell the animal I am.
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4. |
The Linen Sea
04:08
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This is the silence in which things die.
This is the stillness in which love seizes and hides alone
So cross the sea and dance with me...
So cross the sea to dance with me.
This is the distance
across which I pine for you.
This is the darkness that harbors villains and gods and thieves.
So send a boat, a scout, a sailor, a soldier,
a paddle, a barrel and a small ration of hope.
Dance, baby, dance!
Dance til you shake!
Dance, baby, dance!
Dance til you break!
Break on the coast, coast on the wind,
wind me around and around til I’m spinning.
A sail is a sheet, a sheet is a shroud,
a shroud is a cloud that hides all the guides in the sky.
I am lost now.
I am lost now.
I am lost.
This is the silence in which things grow.
This is the stillness in which love
shivers and opens slow.
So cross the sea and dance with me.
So cross the sea to dance with me.
Dance, baby, dance!
Dance, baby, dance!
Dance til you shake!
Shake til you break!
Break on the coast of me.
I’ll break on the coast of you.
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All We Have of You
04:42
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Here in the snowfall
hiding the world
Days piled high, bury the lead,
Years touch the sky.
We only know what we have heard.
The stories and the facts, absurd.
The line you drew around the earth,
All we have of you.
Now as the time goes
stealing your stories...
Snow softened trees,
sleep softened eyes,
time soften hearts,
age softened lives.
a box, a cup, a yard, a tree, a quilt, a ring, a cloth, a plate, a trunk, a date, a name, a house, a dog, a recipe, a box of letters, a photograph, a bell, a spoon, a stamp, a date, a name...
If I’m wrong, I’m sorry.
It’s the only way to see now.
If I’m wrong.
If I’m wrong, please forgive.
It keeps you part of me.
I don’t care if it’s lies.
Now you’re here.
The day you led the boys to win.
The box you packed when time ran out.
The dress you wore, your silver hair.
All we have of you.
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6. |
Radial Life
03:21
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Go away.
Walk farther away.
Go. It’s OK.
I’m here in my hub.
Now my eyes drift farther apart.
I see defensively.
I am pray. I am praying.
Dress the part.
Look terribly smart.
It’s no good.
We’re paper dolls.
We fall when the wind blows.
Now we’re down.
Feel the cool of the ground.
Your fingers have eyes.
You are radial.
We are radial life.
Go away. Walk farther away.
It’s OK.
I am here.
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Fire Flower
03:26
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Who planted you?
Who planted you here?
Were you carried on the wind,
fliers dropping from above,
landing silently embedding
in my heart while I sleep.
Poison seeps into my veins,
tendrils feeding on the fear.
It grows taller by the day,
hate reaching up for the sun.
Open the canopy, let the sun in.
It's a battle of wills.
It's a figure of speech.
But you hate to be wrong and you long to be loathed.
And you bathe in the glow of your flame,
the flame, the flame, the fame, the fireflower!
Fireflower, you're strangling me!
Follow the stem down and
pull it out by the root.
Poison sucks up in my veins,
tendrills feeding on the fear.
It grows taller by the day,
hate reaching up to the sky.
If I let it, it will come,
sweet and warm, the liquid sun.
Closing tight around my lungs, my hands, my mouth.
Fireflower, you're strangling me!
Follow the stem down and pull it out by the root.
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8. |
Kill the King
03:04
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Come on, lover!
Tell me you need me.
Tell me you want me still.
Tell me we're good...
Find the end...
find the end of the string
and pull.
Take my hand...
Let's walk along and count the stars,
let's count the stars,
pretend they're ours cuz, baby,
we're all alone now.
We're all alone
together.
Kill the king!
King the king and the queen cuz
they're just anguished and mean.
It's time to beat the drums!
Destroy the things we thought
we loved the best, cuz baby,
it's all sand.
It's all sand and, oh,
we are alone now.
We are alone
together.
Come on lover!
Tell me you need me.
Tell me you love me still.
Tell me you want me.
Let's burn it all...
Let's burn it all and start again.
Find the edge...
find the edge of the world
and jump.
Close your eyes,
feel your heavy body falling,
we are light again.
We'll never land alone.
We're not alone.
We're not alone...
never alone
together.
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9. |
Paradise
03:51
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Step aside so I can run away,
moldy copy of a renegade.
Please wait, the gate is locked!
The dogs will surely kill you,
it's like they never knew you.
Slam, slam, forgot the key to paradise.
Leper colony certificate,
epileptic reconnaissance bullshit.
Enduring pockets of recompense,
a ghoulish cipher of innocence.
Please wait, the gate is locked!
The dogs will surely kill you,
it's like they never knew you.
Slam, slam, forgot the key to paradise.
Can't see the stars from the bottom shelf.
Show me the scars that I made myself.
Slides like butter, whisper quiet like a shudder,
heart splatter, pancake matter in the frozen arcade.
Please wait, the gate is locked!
The dogs will surely kill you,
it's like they never knew you.
Slam, slam, forgot the key to paradise.
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10. |
Spines
04:18
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Hope you're feeling better.
Dreams record her terror.
Winter has come.
Black night, cover me.
Blankets smother me.
Stitches hold her,
rock her shoulders.
Black holes mold her.
They cast her downward.
Dreams record her terror.
Winter has come.
Put this picture in a box and
seal it in between the walls
so you'll find the elegance in these,
my sad, pathetic falls from grace.
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11. |
Leaning and Falling
03:43
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When did I forget
I know how to fall?
Do you remember how
we used to lean?
Lean on me now.
I brace myself against
the black and blue
I know will come.
I hold my breath.
I hold my hope.
I hold my love away from you.
I hold myself
upright and alone.
I used to be soft,
now I'm brittle, I'm stone.
I'd rather feel.
I'd rather fall.
I'd rather go down
and break every bone.
When did we forget
we know how to fall?
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Rabbit Rabbit Radio Falmouth, Massachusetts
Rabbit Rabbit Radio is the song-spinning duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Collectively, they are founding members
of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, 2 Foot Yard, Causing a Tiger, The Book of Knots, and Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava.
Drawing on their love of both art & folk song, industrial & improvised music and heart-wrenching balladry, their songs are raw, beautiful, sparse and rich.
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