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Long lost dreams surround
Held against her chest
And always towards the sun
She will rise in love
She will rise in love
The world is on her side
Keeps her stomach full
Under the rain
She will rise in love
She will rise in love
Fallen from a flower
Graceful as she sings
She'll never fall again
She will rise in love
She will rise in love
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Bloodstar
03:33
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Our world is drowning in a sea of light
We're all hiding up in a balloon
David was already 30
And most of his senses were gone
So he had himself emptied
To better control his emotions
Bloodstar hovers
Night light covers
Free
Nothing worries me
His birthday was longer than others
He watched Bob Dylan's fans go extinct
There are dozens down there right now
And we're still wondering how
Their heads don't float off the oceans
Bloodstar hovers
Night light covers
Free
Nothing worries me
David never gave response when
His mother died without warning
Long in a sepulchral state
It wasn't 'till four weeks late
He decided to inject some mourning
Bloodstar hovers
Night light covers
It's much better now
Most of his vials are still full
There's a heart on a chain
On his dresser
From losing his lover
David breaks his weeks of silence
He injects the last of his nerve
Says maybe the death of those around us
Is the fate that we deserve
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The Singer Died Today
02:49
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Something happened when David died
Scott approached him and they both stepped aside
I wish more of me cried
That too had died
I was alive in their time
Wendy watched them learn to fly
The hard way
So that's another story done
In light bay
She thought of Angela
She too had died
They both stepped aside
I was alive in their time
I wish more of me cried
I watched them melt in light
From my room
So that's another story done
All our tomb
I was alive in their time
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Afraid of Music
07:59
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The story took a turn
Now I'm the well-coifed spouse
To a sundressed wife awaiting
My return from being mugged outside our house
Turn that off
Take your hands off
Turn that off
Take your hands off
You should never have married my son
Sue inside the house
Doesn't turn when I open the door
Sue I told you I'm safe
But I'm sorry, we've run out of people to mourn
Do you find it hard to move these days
Do you sometimes forget to breathe
I never saw her turn around
She screams at me
Turn that off
Take your hands off
Turn that off
Take your hands off
You should never have married my son
Who is she now that story is done
Now I see the heart on the dresser
Now I'm holding you again
You've been vapor
In my half-thoughts
Longer than we were
Ever together
Can't listen to our song no more
I'm afraid of music now
Can't walk down our road no more
I'm afraid of music now
Have you heard me since
I wondered if you'd learned
My clogged lungs took me down
And everything about me turned
Do you find it hard to change these days
Do you sometimes forget to free
The ones who won't turn around
She screams at me
I've been vapor
In my own hide
Can't listen to myself no more
I'm afraid of music now
Can't help when I'm down no more
I'm afraid of music now
Can't look at myself no more
I'm afraid of music now
Can't walk in this town no more
I'm afraid of music now
Ah that's better
No more worries
Ah that's better
No more worries
Can't listen to myself no more
Can't help when I'm down no more
I'm afraid of music now
Turn that off
I've been vapor
In my own hide
Oh, the story took a turn
Now I'm alone in bed
No, there's not enough room here
To hide the open thread
Can't listen to myself no more
Can't help when I'm down no more
I'm afraid of music now
Turn that off
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Supermoon
03:08
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Lying awake for hours
I decide
How would I approach the end
Holding my arms over my head
I can't lie on my back in bed
'Til I can breathe again
I want to live
Too many more months before I can live
I want to leave
Look at the options fall through the sieve
Some are found in blood and air
Maybe some are borne in rain
Lying awake for hours
I try
To recall the skybound people
Past the ones who die
Who are all of these beloveds
I don't know
All I think of lying here
Is that's how I might go
I want to live
Still asking if I want to live
I want to leave behind
All the damns that I give
Let's all learn to fly
By falling to our deaths
Some are borne in blood
Some are borne in air
Listen for the rain
Rain that isn't there
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Corvid Clouded Eyes
01:55
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Whose body is that floating by sideways
Pool of rainwater in their mouth
My parents and the dog on my chest
Just say
And jab me in the part of my side
That buzzes and aches
When trapped in a paralyzed state
Goddamn comatose haze
Dead dog breathe in my face
Body floating by sideways
Shouldn't they take it back
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Woke Up Seeing My Killer
03:50
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Now we're all
Stuck in space
Now we're all
Burning up
On re-entry
Suit up if you dare
I don't know what they said
To make my eyes shoot open
When I should have been out
But I know what I saw
On the monitor
And what they were talking about
Seeming formless
Spiderwebbing out
Finally it
Fills a spacesuit
Takes a face on
That I recognize
One that asks me
If I'll execute
Lie awake for hours
Should my time be spent
Stuck alone in space
No strong voice of dissent
Treat the lost like a coward
For the utter collapse
That they underwent
And honor them
In the same fucking breath
By calling what they did a commitment
Cosmonauts not fit to fly
We burn up
Just trying to get home
Can't fly this can
While you're suffering
Not a death shiny and chrome
There he is now
On the monitor
Fills the suit's arm
He salutes me
You can bawl for me
I am happy
All that I need
No body
I woke up
And saw my killer
I woke up
Then saw her
There's that body
Floating by sideways
What did they assign
I've never had
Such a close look before
Could that body be mine
Well
Should I
What're you
Waiting for
Well
Don't look at it
What're you
Waiting for
We are cosmonauts
We're not fit to fly
Just come outside
Dead dog on my chest
God it's hard to breathe
I want out of my house
I want out of my skin
I want out of my circle
Don't know where I want in
I want out of my mouth
I don't want what I've been
I want to be thrown miles away
Thrown miles away
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Rainborne
02:14
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Lying awake for hours
I decide
It's not how I want to die
Blush of relief
I'm a coward
But something still has to say goodbye
The boy with a thorn in his brain
Said I'm still not sure what I found
The boy was named
The thorn was named
The boy pulled the thorn from his brain
Said it's time for me to come out
The thorn was named
She left his name
Pieces of myself
Keep getting stolen
It's now time to reclaim
You accept me for the person who
Needs to change that I am
We'll start with the frame
What is the right way to do everything
To you, girl
Still building worlds made out of other's
Wishing your own was parallel
And what's the wrong way to not do a thing
Every night
This time tomorrow, you'll show 'round the house
Your long black dress and white lapel
Some are borne in air
Listen for the rain
Rain that isn't there
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10. |
Rise in Love (Pt. 3)
05:17
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Fallen from the sky
Rests against her chest
The world is on her side
She will rise in love
She will rise in love
We were sold another cloth
Wove with ephemeral dismay
Yet she fills our minds for longer than they’d say
We will rise in love
We will rise in love
Better dreams arrive
Our failure fulfills
We'll never fall again
We will rise in love
We will rise in love
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ThornBrain Sacramento, California
Music and experiments by Mikaela Thorn. Punk-inspired, experimental, electric, electronic, trans and queer as hell.
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