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No-Man's Land
03:06
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On the night
that swords turned into
flowers we saw white,
stained the color of love.
If we run
a hundred miles to the end,
the end of the continent,
we find the same pain with a new name.
When we talk,
a flock of words
careens around the room.
Take aim.
Blot it out.
Take a drink,
turn on the radio.
Try to escape.
We find the same pain with a new name.
Opening up, closing down.
Pull out the rug, take off the crown.
Opening up, closing down.
Pull out the rug and sail around
here in no-man’s land.
We’re in no-man’s land.
We’ll all die.
A brick is gonna fall out of the sky.
Tie up your loose ends.
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Milk and Oil
03:20
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Bury us under a tree
for a million years,
our hopes and fears.
Dig us back up in the sun,
discolored and dirty,
beautiful and warm,
unnamable form.
Bone into sand into powder into dust
into silt into mud into mountain into land.
Milk and oil,
Silk and soil.
Take it in, breathe it in,
turn us in, kicking and screaming.
Milk and oil,
Silk and soil.
Break my heart into pieces,
melt it down.
Crush my hands into powder,
pressure mounts louder and louder.
Throw it out, breathe it out,
turn us out until we kick and scream again.
Milk and oil, Silk and soil.
Break my heart into pieces,
melt it down.
Crush my hands into powder,
pressure mounts louder and louder.
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3. |
Things Fall Apart
04:05
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Melt the horizon.
This mirror exaggerates my love.
This vast place...
no longing, no being, no shield.
Hide the golden bombs exploding all around.
Carry the golden girl to the well.
I learned annihilation before learned the truth.
Things fall apart.
They come together.
Melt the horizon.
The truth in her aging face.
Throbbing and groundless.
It’s a kind a kind of test.
It’s a kind of gift.
It’s a kind of death.
I was looking out for land before I heard the call.
Things fall apart.
They come together.
I left a thousand designs,
made notes and translations.
It crumbles as you all forget.
Divide what’s left.
There’s nothing left.
Is anybody left?
Is anybody left?
I learned annihilation before I knew the truth.
Things fall apart.
They come together.
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4. |
Love Is Code
03:02
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On a very small boat,
sooner or later,
we drop off
the edge of the world.
Sweeten it up, smooth it out,
take a pill, make it go away.
Death seemed to me
a shaking revelation.
Face in, find out
a different kind of empty.
Sooner or later,
we drop off the edge of the world.
There’s not much room...
step a little further.
Spin off, freak out,
cheat the teacher.
Face in, find out,
we drop off the edge of the world.
Sweeten it up, smooth it out,
take a pill, make it go away.
Love is code.
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Sweep Us Away
02:40
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If they could
simply let
a bit more light return,
I’d find the
spoonful of
truth in the ordinary world.
Built right into the instructions:
seat, legs, torso, hands, eyes and mouth.
Sweep us big sky,
sweep us away again.
If I could simply let a bit more light return
I’d die over and over again.
Tell us clear how we’re completely made of breath.
Built right into the instructions:
seat, legs, torso, hands, eyes and mouth.
Dance a dance about rage,
rage about loneliness,
a dance about time...
Sweep us away into big sky
again and again and again and again and again...
Sweep us big sky,
sweep us away again.
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Let’s take all day
and stay right on the spot.
Let’s not be tossed away.
Let’s take all night and
spin off and go crazy
like we have nothing to lose.
(We have nothing to lose.)
Feel pleasure, feel pain.
Feel loss, feel gain.
Feel disgrace, feel shame.
Feel praise, feel blame.
When we get this queasy feeling, we run.
When we get this lonely feeling, we run.
If we could all just sit still long enough…
If we could sit in the space of a human heart…
Let’s take all year
doing the same old thing.
And when things still don’t appear,
et’s make them up.
Feel pleasure, feel pain.
Feel loss, feel gain.
Feel disgrace, feel shame.
Feel praise, feel blame.
Feel good, feel bad.
Feel lonely, feel hopeless.
Feel right, feel wrong.
Feel hot, feel cold.
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7. |
Look Away
03:14
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I can’t look away.
Not today, or ever again.
Don’t look away.
Not today.
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Heartbreaking Monster
03:28
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I've known for a long time
this heartbreaking monster
standing alone.
Sweetheart, there's the beginning.
Sweetheart, there's the end.
It's never too late
to get carried away.
It's never too late
to arise.
The dogs bark all night long.
The noise expands into a dream.
The noise expands into a scream.
Demons sleep and dream of life.
A very long long dream.
Demons sleep and dream of rage.
A very long long dream.
I've known for a long time
this heartbreaking monster
standing alone.
Meet the room, meet the heat, meet the cold, feel it's bite.
Meet the wind, meet the tides, meet the dark, meet the night.
There is no cure but this.
There is no cure.
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Does God Need a Hand?
03:02
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Begin, get up.
Turn towards who we are.
Undo our blame.
Tie up loose ends.
Does God need a hand to hold?
Delegate, abdicate, realize, disintegrate.
The ground just keeps moving under us.
The ground keeps moving over us.
Hope is like that.
Can’t get any ground under our feet.
Does God need a hand to hold?
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Carried Away
03:37
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A tiny remarkable man
said “I’m hooked again.
The race is predictable.
I just need to figure out what we do now.”
A tiny unusual child said
he didn’t know how people were happy.
Everyday things delighted the king.
Is it really as simple as that?
The story goes
that beautiful bits of time
dissolve back into the sea.
The story’s brief.
We don’t even notice life
dissolving into the tide.
A very inquisitive boy
said “You’re old” and went to dance on the rooftop,
ringing the bell and spinning himself into space.
We are carried away.
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Entwined
05:32
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I have so much to give.
There is no more to hold.
We all talk.
We all talk ourselves down again.
We're all caught.
We're all caught up, entwined.
A black hole in a bright spot.
A black hole in the ground.
Push my pretty buttons.
Loose all this pretty mess.
Was day one just like this one?
far, long, rest, down, clear, just, good, whole, true, harsh, soft, kind, pain, work, guilt, trust, truth, honest, matter, joy, humor, viscous, pain, balance, fierce, joy, bitter, sweet fierce joy, bitter sweet.
Give me just enough to go on.
Black hole in the ground.
There is no more to hold.
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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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