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the middle distance
02:47
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Can't stop the burning lines that guide my hand
Can't stop and heal along the way
I know a few of you who knock on wood
Can't stop and save the day
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I felt out of place
I felt it off the road
Our breathing takes the place
of the voices in the room
I felt out of place
I feel it in your tone
in the way you speak my name
in the way your feelings roam
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once around The Lake
01:55
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If it isn't light this moment's bearing, get it out of the way
Let me know if you're healing something, or get out of the way
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the closest to center
04:40
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We felt around for the holes in the sound,
and I felt control from the floor
Found that the sound was away on the round,
so I fell in love with the door
I fell in love with the door, it was used but not what it's for
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We were building something with no form
on the highest hinge that holds the door
Keep the adored around
and the omens out
How am I supposed to witness
when the weight is on my eye?
On a path with no persistence,
is the difference in my mind?
On this wasted round, underway
Always losing ground, in the day
How am I supposed to witness
in a smoke that robs my light
And a hand with no resistance
is the same that rubs my eye
We were building something with no form
on the highest hinge that holds the door
And the only sound that hangs around
above
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She went out ahead so that the rest of us could stay
Weave until the fires die and lay in wait for day
Something else took hold of us, it must've been the wake
Nothing's breathing loud enough to call it wrong by name
I wouldn't be on the other side of day, and
you won't catch ME wandering
After all the quiet falls and walls are washed away
Nothing there was holding us and nothing true decays
Fire this and fire that and fire comes to lay
With arms around the room's allowed to fall and burn away
It was hot
but not enough
I wouldn't be on the underside of day, and
YOU won't catch me wandering
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Old Earth Portland, Oregon
Included in The Journal Sentinel's "20 Best Milwaukee Songs and Albums of the 2010s"
"Tonal delight,
packed with experience . . . He sounds enchanting" - NME
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