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The Conscious Whirl
04:38
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You have the key to a dimensional gateway
That appears from thin air
In the forest or the mountaintops
Teleportation molecules separating apart
Particles reconstituting
Everywhere
Floating through the air
And whaddaya know people
They're all mostly there
Enjoy the dimensional gateway
I'll be taking the long way today I say
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2. |
Outsmart the Fool
03:49
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You get up in the morning and you shave your face
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
Dress up prim and proper to a particular place
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
Must've been saying something
Before I stopped saying it before
Whatever it was that something
I won't be saying it no more
The downside's up if you stare straight ahead
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
"What would a self respecting person do?" is what She said
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
I work so hard to expect nothing
It's the kind of life I can live with
The only thing the sun can do
Is cook my dreams into a puddle of cosmic myth
Money don't matter if there's contentment to scatter
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
You exercise daily but you keep getting fatter
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
I don't mean the physical weight
I'm talking about the glutton hamster-wheel'd rat race
A good soldier knows their place
But the best of all can save their face
A working class hero is not something to be
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
Leave yourself more to give what is free
Yeah yeah yeah, Yeah yeah yeah
No no yeah, Yeah no no
Yeah no yeah no yeahhhh
No no no no no no no
Please noooo
Yeah, yeah, yeah
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3. |
I Dream of Poltergeist
05:17
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Have you ever thought around
When what's lost cannot be found
That what tethers you to the ground
Is your heart making a sound?
It won't want to frighten with a song
Listening to it doesn't take so long
Did you whisper hello
In wind patterns that blew my way?
Was the knowing in a smile
That you wore with no intention to stay?
I don't fault you anything tomorrow or today
It wasn't long ago but feels that way
On top of things unfortunate said what can I say?
Plant the seed and run away
Until you can't run no more
Til you're happy not just Lucky
Each and every day
No connection missed
When the planets nod and burn up in flames
No recreational bliss prepared me for your kiss
I believe in someone I don't know
I was cautioned and ignored it knew how it'd go
Now these things replay in a ripple pattern'd ping-pong show
Each in their own metamorphosis I suppose
I strangled it and threw it in the road like a scarecrow
To burn effigistic-ally with a blowtorch blow
The clown's outside the windowsill
Go on ahead without me, don't think I'll go
Your breath on my face was a vapor yarn-spun echo
Haunting premonitions that still grow
Feeling like Lon Chaney making a toast to the dead in a mask
As the rising moon glows
So thanks for being a friend
Before inflamed strains felt pretend
I'm too poor for your arms
I ignored but heard the alarms
Retell promote a story as you may
You're not the only one who was and is afraid
Plant the seed and run away
Until them paths cross again someday
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4. |
Gullible Travels
04:10
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On the scrambled side of green eggs and ham
Cake on the makeup dress up for the sham
Complimentary smokes from Uncle Sam
To fill your lungs up if you don't give a damn
I believe in the magic of a conscious whirl
Don't matter if you're a boy or a girl
As you sleep with each day it unfurls
Every river has a dyke or a dam
I admit that I'm on the lam
Lend me a plastic mannequin hand
Spin the globe and pick a place on demand
You have the makings of the finest artist in the land
My tongue is tied to my foot
All this walking my heart must withstand
Near the elliptical lip of a can
Enter a contest as a pliable man
Gullible travels on the palm of my hand
Like a map etched with a stick in the sand
Over-easy is how I'll be prepared
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I've got a real fucking problem
It's a good one I'm so glad to be telling you
It's fairly really something indescriptive
Just don't know what I'm gonna do
If I scare too easily I'll give myself a hand in the meantime
But your heart is kind and you are on my mind
I'm not the average overcompensating douchebag
That wants to patent you
Since you said hello I've felt as though I'm coming to
I don't wish to sacrifice my autonomous point of view
You're so easy to be next to
I'll be doing what I can to get through
I'll write the wrongs no time to cry eyes dry
It wasn't an easy try
I know the who what when where but I don't know the why
I know the what who where when but I know not the why
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6. |
The Meridian
02:36
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It's coming back here it comes again
I'm afraid of the Meridian
Send me a helping hand my friend
I'll do my best although I cannot pretend
You can keep yourself
I want to tell too often
All this you already know well
Thanks for paradise
I think of you and often wish you well
Its coming back here It comes again
Its hum lingers in my electromagnetic circadian
She's a reincarnated Charlie Chaplin
And it's happening to me now
But the clock has time and hasn't much to tell
To your sweet smiling face today
Thanks for paradise
I think of you and often wish you well
Think of you like a bubonic scabies rash
Think of you and often wish you well
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Eclipse Yourself
07:39
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Are you able to hear the chirping of the birds?
The Messiaen-ic interval-ic contrapuntal songs with no words
It's an olden day tradition you have heard
If you listen you'll find some joy in the absurd
Have you found and come around?
Will you drown in the quicksand with your herd?
Do you know just how many you have lured?
Your own immortality's your own fucking problem "yo"
Don't mean no disrespect caring less
About your wishing well woe
The fish in the sea and the mammals silently know
The sunlight kisses the mountains and illuminates the show
Watch it all overflow
Watch it go
See it now watch it go
Watch it go by
Like a passing train moving slow
Seesaw-ing Do Si Doe
Fast living fast lane fast food on the go
How apropos
Everything must go
Life is but a dream so wake up and row
No direction home
Tuck in your plastic dreams dreamt and let your mouth foam
Each eyeball a bloodshot bulging enraptured honeycomb
Stare down your truth and take it like a bullet to the dome
There you go
There you go doing it again
You've gotta watch it go
How many times can you say you didn't know?
Blow by blow
Flavored favors on the low
Hexing hobos who cannot say no
Not worth my short-changed value I now know
No deficit in the molecules so far as I show
Stitching the hem of the outfit your thread will sew
Mend your conscience clean while your eyes dart to and fro
Have you heard?
Oh, what's the word..?
Are you perturbed
By the deafening dirge of your own hurdy gurd?
(Some kind of sincere sentence softly slurred)
Are you able to hear the music in your heart?
There isn't really an end to something that had no start
Though you put it all together you picked it back apart
When you put it all together you'll be wishing it were a part
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Tavo Carbone
Experimental Folk Distopic Songs sung on voice/gtr/pno. Tape+CD orders or booking: email or Insta-DM
Will tour again before the next Presidential transfer of power.
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