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A Collection of Xs & Ys

by Hello Whirled

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1.
holy clock ticks down into the 13th hour you’re not gonna run the block you’re not gonna stop the rock stray cat rock
2.
watch him rise up up into a comet the stars they scream like an old screensaver he glistens and glides on the corners of your monitor bounces back off and makes you clap credit is yours and ours when we ask for it let him save you like you save your documents it’s what I needed and you too need to have it he can be yours in five easy payments of the inner contents of your heart and your wallet he’ll live in your computer and watch everything you do he’s a part of your life nailed to your screen Desktop Christ watch him lift off back into the Nazareth inside your room verses spoken speeches lost it can all be yours for a simple cost baptized in your painting shirts blessings in your own home if you even have one your life’s taken over we see your troubles and we feel such pity so we’ll pray for you Desktop Christ
3.
New Before 02:22
I’ve lost them four times made the same mistake again I’ll do it more until I lose all my friends I bet they knew before I broke it down before I lost them and they graduated town you can’t make a bomb with holy water you need deer blood for that you can’t learn without hurting someone you need dear blood for that doubt my power my clout I’ve gained if there’s any at all I’m stained why do I deserve this? I don’t think I do I hope you forget me and I forget you
4.
red velvet eye jumped at the sky to find her limit expanded her reach took arms to teach and so they can’t miss her and yet she lacks a piece of quiet and soon she will learn the hard way the world is made of glass houses the only way to find peace is shattering everything you know everywhere you used to go everyone you knew every secret spot you smoked and screwed until nothing is the same
5.
night fell on Georgia as she left her room drove by broken lightposts and felt alone on the road maybe it’s just an off night but still it doesn’t fit right day broke on Georgia half a nation away surely in another state and they can’t get her awake
6.
like a gang without weapons but power, more like it like ants scuttling for the next meal but they always get it rising up with dreams of success wish I could, like the rest but as long as I’m not like them I’ll never be them as long as I don’t like them I’ll never be them
7.
the ashram called, they need me today pay for my sins and not fly away I can’t accept my fate saying good comes to those who wait but what am I waiting for? good’s not coming through that door they say when you grow older, you grow more wise and other fairly adult lies I just have mistakes and severed connections and a growing collection of Xs and Ys my demons called, absorbing the hate fly on the wall, as they celebrate merrily at their peace drunk on my excuses and pleas hell is a colder place when their truth bombs bear your face
8.
Lake Sylva 04:20
it’s a nice night for a walk and like everything else I’ll take it but this time no one’s agency’s at stake the bridge is rickety the grass grew high and scratchy but this time no one’s here for me to break tonight I’m gonna jump into the lake and learn how to swim and find a perfect life below like a bed of rain where I feel no more pain justified plane because I know there will never be love in the sewer drain the water vanishes from view and all I see are trees and the back of a suburban neighborhood and hopefully not disease I’ve lost my point of view don’t know where I’m walking to there might be cars in the distance but I don’t see them but I don’t hear them I’ve reached the point where the greener ends and the scenery looks so gray make a right turn and venture further or leave it for a colder day
9.
Gym Shorts 02:22
alone in bed light through the window across my head start the day but it’s past noon and my roommate’s not awake trapped in my thoughts for another hour surely that’s a recipe for success am I even going to get dressed or just eat shitty lunch in the cold these gym shorts fit so fine even if I’m not
10.
she likes it blue never red or gray in her bedroom where she sleeps all day she likes it cool never hot or warm she misses you but hopes you never come she likes it blue rain before the storm in her kitchen watching clouds explode she likes it wet so she can forget she likes it blue like the tears dried on her face each every day
11.
how long were you waiting for the elephants to go corner him with questions that he could only know mistress in the balcony dress in the basement that isn’t yours how could he not know you know what else does he have to hide how many other times has he lied if this was only the first time he’s still asleep in bed with a familiar figure you’ve seen her before at least a few times banging on the church door well times may change but some things stay the same original minds playing played out games hanging the cross in the wireframe praying that time forgets his name it’s like if he said in the paper today he found dragon eggs wouldn’t you walk away
12.
oh it’s a shame offered a rose for a name oh she’s so far away oh not a clue or a lead on who she is but she’s omnipresent sent from heaven for some reason it’s like magic if I figure she might be she is oh what a look could have mistook for no one else and yet I wonder where she’s gone every day her locks came within my peripheral vision but just like that they’ve vanished far away I see her black hair everywhere
13.
next time you spin out and sleep out with the dead bring an extra blanket for your soft head their red eyes won’t steal your soul or make out with your heart just know that you have boundaries and control of where to start next time I see you walking with the dead bring an extra helmet for your soft head you know I worry you know I care be careful keep the red dye in your hair be careful keep your red eye out of stare the job is nixed you’re running out the wheel is fixed you won’t make it out
14.
paper stars you collected and cherished colored in with dotted lines in paper jars you bottled and embellished stained the perimeter with purple times the safest nothing that carries you home to take you away safely on a paper star trail it can't possibly fail it hasn't yet and it never will and if you pass on the trail will set still dreamlands of fairy tale freedoms and love sports lung division and commercial-sized experts the nude queen sits stoned at the end of the courtroom deciding the fate of your natural paper mind the safest way out is at the fold to preserve your tears to warp the leaf that made your home it hasn't burned yet and it never will but when you pass it on it may catch wind of an ill Nicole, are you breathing okay? the paper stars aren't going away do you have anything left to say? I just wanted to say I think I miss you already
15.
Wild Jumbo 01:01
horse carcass dragged along the sand little pink pills melting in my hand and my eyes are dilated and the walls are painted if the walls are there pink vapor in the air here we face our next frontier into the wild jumbo

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recorded in a few places. for example:

some acoustic guitars recorded in my dorm, some acoustic and (I think) all electric guitars recorded in a social lounge down the hall, most if not all vocals recorded there too, bass recorded in both the room and the lounge but mostly the room I think, guitar on new before recorded at home

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released November 1, 2018

it's been tough. i don't know why you keep listening but thanks.

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