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Somebody's Grapefruit
03:23
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We’ve all been somebody’s grapefruit
Someone was your grapefruit too
Nobody’s perfect at this, so we have to practice, practice
We’ve all been somebody’s grapefruit
We’ve all been somebody’s grapefruit
Once you were the tattooist
Now you’re ink and blood and juice
Someone was your grapefruit too
Someone was your grapefruit too
That practice that made you brave,
Someone takes it To The Grave
We’ve all been somebody’s grapefruit
We've all been somebody's grapefruit
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[Devin James Fry:]
Hmm
What's at the end of this all black rainbow I'm following lately?
And where will it lead?
This all-black rainbow I seem to be chasing
Arcing up out of all I ever tried to do
And anything I meant to you along the way
What's at the end of this all-black rainbow I'm following lately?
I'm glyphing out
I am a vibration you can see
Temporarily
An oscillation without meaning, if you please
[Chris Conde:]
I walk a black rainbow made up 1’s and 0's
Fluidly tippy toeing through the static snow
In between TV shows inter dimensional
Swan dive event horizon space and time unfolds
Reality unknown we all just walk through zones
Cerebral fetal pose, we really just don’t know
When we die where we go
It’s where the spiritual
Meets metaphysical and so I let it go
I let the rhythm and the soul of all the universes
Intersect inside of me and manifest in verses
I choose to vibrate positive and reverse all the curses
Create a wave of energy and then I surf inertia
For purpose I was searching, but the only thing for certain
Is nothing is for certain, so I let die this burden
So I pull back the curtain
I let the light immerse me
And let the knowledge of the nothing unburden my person
[Devin James Fry:]
All black rainbow
That nobody designed
And I'm a glitch on it
This all black rainbow
And it's all very lifelike
It's all very lifelike
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Purple Glue
03:20
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I'm held together by purple glue
Hoping it holds
One person, but I feel like two
Sometimes like 3 or 4, don't you?
Malefactors in my retinue
Some things I'll probably never outgrow
At the same time, I've got good ones trying to be heard
I'm learning to listen to both
I'm held together by purple glue
I'm held together by purple glue
I keep it together with ... uh oh ... and purple glue
I keep it together with ... uh oh ... and purple glue
I'm held together by purple glue
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You're smoke in the light
Cast on the bedroom wall
Oh how the knife is shining
A high beam into white sage
Let's play my favorite mind game
Visions twine above our head
Lines are drawn in infrared
Once I heard it called
Calling the devil through
Calling the devil through
Your voice in the room
And later into my dreaming
We are not where we seem
Hovering, out of body
Visions climb above our heads
Lines are drawn in infrared
Once I heard it called
Calling the devil through
Calling the devil through
Close your eyes, one, two, three
Baby sees geometry
Spirit moves, blood flies free
Temple speaks a word to me
Visions climb above our heads
Lines are drawn in infrared
Once I heard it called
Calling the devil through
Calling the devil through
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Black Little Pyramids
03:04
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Best of friends
Countryside
Black little pyramid
I supplied
Visible light
Morning sun
Black little pyramid
Under your tongue
Morning sun
Mountainside
Black little pyramid
Give us sight
River wind
Bending time
Black little pyramid
Through my mind
This is what comes
After time
Black little pyramids
Multiply
Stone saint
Smooth stone
Black little pyramid
Take me home
There’s no circling round
No keeping a thing
It’s just where did you come from
And what will you sing?
Quarantine
Stuck inside
Black little pyramid
Standing by
Reaper bells
Ringing steadily
Black little pyramid
Countermelody
Nowhere to go but the
Evening star
Black little pyramid
Travel far
Crossed leg living room
Tracer show
Black little pyramid
Coming on slow
Best of friends
Make it through
You are me
I am you
Stone saint
Smooth stone
Black little pyramid
Take me home
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6. |
Giving Up
03:57
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You and me had a fine thing going
Till I cut down that tree
You and me had an alright thing going
So why'd I swat that honeybee
You and me had it easy so easy
So where'd I throw that stone
You and me had an alright thing going
So why'd I swat that honeybee
Giving up is such an easy way out
Giving up is such an easy way out
And so that's what we did
Giving up is such an easy way out
Giving up is such an easy way out
And so that's what we did
Took the easy way out, didn't we, kid?
The easy way out
It was such an easy way out
It was such an easy way out
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Ash Ode Variation
04:01
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When I saw you ahead, I ran two blocks
Shouting your name and
Realizing it wasn't you
But some alarmed pretender
I went on running, shouting into the sky
Since I've been incinerated
I've often returned to this thought:
That all things loved are pursued and never caught
Even as you slept beside me, you were flying off
At least what's never had can't be lost
The sieve of the self, stuck with a jawbone
Wedding ring, single repeated dream
Lullaby in every elegy
Since I've been incinerated
I've often returned to this thought:
That all things loved are pursued and never caught
Even as you slept beside me, you were flying off
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(Devin & Nat)
Now that I have no hope
Ask me, am I hopeless?
No, but I used to be.
Hell no, but I used to be
(Otem)
No hope, clenched throat, enveloped in black smoke
Petals plucked, laid bare, my brutal, at the end of my rope
Known for being unknown
I never made any ripples
And now the well is spent and nobody carries nickels
Sometimes beauty peaks in the valleys of a graceful defeat
Sometimes it's best to recognize details in the incomplete
Delete them demons, swimming thick in the meat of meaning
Hands bleeding, trying to de-fragment the feeling
Now that I have no hope
Ask me, am I hopeless?
No, but I used to be.
Hell no, but I used to be
Winter swells in the black ink Hell
But oh well
Sometimes I can't tell whether memories fell or demons dwell
Keep me guessing
Words a mess in a brand new summer dress
Stay stressed over forgotten situations
Don't obsess
A blessing and a curse, inverted reality & unrehearsed
Coming back to the same situations with new blood, caution and patience
But I'm still waiting, the cycle of man feeling more and more dated
Bullying values, like are we recycled or just wasted?
Now that I have no hope
Ask me, am I hopeless?
No, but I used to be.
Hell no, but I used to be
Where does hope lie, a resonant chamber where men fight?
An infallible fiction where things are alright and nobody dies?
It hits hard, like old scars of calcified flesh
No hope left
Nope
Just felt better when removing the mesh
Petrified stress, stuck in stone or deboning the mess
I digress, just trying to extract the marrow from the chest
And that's life
Trying to carve a sculpture from a dull knife
Never abandon the fight until you're satisfied it's right.
Now that I have no hope
Ask me, am I hopeless?
No, but I used to be.
Hell no, but I used to be
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Disaster filled my very mind there for a while
Disaster filled my very mind there for a while
And I don't know anyone who was spared
Do you know anyone who was spared?
Thoughts will spiral
Until checked by other forces
Every hope will know its rival
Every scream will find its sources
Contagion filled my very mind there for a while
Catastrophe filled my very mind there for a while
And I don't know anyone who was spared
Do you know anyone who was spared?
Disaster filled my very mind there for a while
Disaster filled my very mind there for a while
Close my eyes, I resolve to dissolve
Like you showed me
Close my eyes I resolve to dissolve
Like you showed me
Wings buzzing, whatever I'm becoming
Wells up like slow honey out of my blood
Nobody's so lucky
Wings buzzing, whatever I'm becoming
Wells up like slow honey I feel my blood buzzing, buzzing, buzzing
Wings buzzing, whatever I'm becoming
Wells up like slow honey out of my blood
Nobody's so lucky
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Name Sayers Austin, Texas
Name Sayers is Devin James Fry, Grant Himmler, Garrett Hellman, and Marc Henry.
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