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totes connexion
04:08
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total connection
total connection
total connection
smote and green in the morning
with every grain of being
total connection
sing to me a story
anything I could believe
total connection
this dream that you've fastened to
this forest you've come unto
this desert unbounded, god!
you mean, we actually are all one?
we do it for futures
we do it for anarchy
we do it for redwoods
we do it for bodies
we're hot for the commune
we do it for solitude
we do it for madness
we do it for free food
we do it for vengeance
we do it for dancehall
we do it for madness
fuck with your haldol
with visions of dead things
we do it for noise rock
we do it for black bloc
we do it for genderfuck
total connection
no life without struggle
no love without strife
no thought without feeling
no left without healing
no world without you, without them, without us
no world without war
no war without blood
total connection
we do it for trauma
we do it for income
we do it for madness
we do it for your mum
we do it to live
we do it to convalesce
we do it for geropsych
we do it for fetal stress
we do it for chemicals
we do it for heartbreak
we do it for ritual
we do it awake
we do it a hot mess
we do it for madness
fuck with your payout
we do it for doing's sake
total connection
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you are part of a world unfolding
you may only have this lifetime
no one needs your needless suffering
don't forget to kill the cop inside
every room of my heart
in the desert you remember your name
you are jacob and catherine and paul
you are julian and bugnutt and pete
there are others that you've yet to grow into
every room of my heart
in the desert you remember
there is nothing left to uncover
in the desert you surrender
you always have remembered
I am made of memory
made of every moment making me
and if I had stayed at home in indiana
I hope I'd be just as at odds with the world
without a prayer of piecing it together as far as I can see
I hope I would have been just as uneasy and absurd
every room of my heart
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dreamtown
04:02
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baby, all aboard to dreamtown
baby, all aboard to dreamtown
down, down down
may you wash your worries in the wine-dark sea in dreamtown
transmute body for fun, for free in dreamtown
may you be held in the limbs of an elm in dreamtown
child, we die a little every day
and in the twilight of dreamtown the dearest of the dead await
baby, all aboard to dreamtown
baby, all aboard to dreamtown
down, down down
chemicals have no consequence
babies need no deliverance
everything is changed out the windows of the train
as you slip beneath the surface
the living and the dead will have their severance
in dreamtown
may the butt of the gun coming down and down and down upon your head
become the kisses of a friend buffering your body in its bed
may the image of the building coming down and down and down in awful swoon
give to memories of when you were a birdling, flirting in the moon
child, we die a little every night
maybe why it feels so finally familiar when we tunnel toward the light
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fenner
03:54
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why do you always find your songs in hell?
you could just go to fenner
you could just go to fenner
anyways, does the music bring you out
or just keep bringing you back?
you could just go to fenner
you could just go to fenner
I AM A SEETHING THING
I DO NOT KNOW MY NAME
I DO NOT KNOW MY OWN NAME
I unlearn and untame
you could just go to fenner
you could just go to fenner
stop pretending this is normal
your life is looped inside a cycle
nothing counts without survival
nothing counts without survival
eat the profiteers of body
reparate and bury capital
nothing topples but a carnival
nothing grows without survival
nothing dies without a reason
nothing lives without communion
nothing burns without arson
nothing gives, nothing recuses
stop pretending this is normal
your life is looped inside a cycle
nothing counts without survival
nothing counts without survival
you could just go to fenner
you could just go to fenner
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damn, it was a hell of a time
I never seen a heart so hurting
or knew the way the swell of the earth divides
I never felt so umbilical
damn, it was a hell of a time
damn, it was a hell of a time
I never knew a body so broken
or the warm disease of memory
or the violence of family
you would die every day if you coulda
you would die of a million minutia
still, from out the crack of the concrete of this corpus
something is alive
something is alive
and you said you love america
but I know you burn for freedom
and I dream a world much like our own
but economy is measured in the love that we have known
and industry eclipsed by the ways we have grown
and trauma and its healing are the axle around which we turn
and freedom is a fire in which amerika burns
something is alive
something is alive
damn, it was a hell of a time
and I know it's never over
still I open up my beating heart
to the morning light on the far wall
and the summer wind at the window
I never felt so umbilical
have you ever felt umbilical?
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sabotage
02:51
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sabotage!
summertime of sabotage!
in the vein of the summer squash
in the vine of the creeping plant
at the heart of amerika
summertime of sabotage!
when we die, do our defenses die with us?
what could be left for the universe to give us?
(you came to me as a dear by the river
you said, "it's not our fault" across the water
I wallow in the glory of your cypher)
but there are no words anymore
it's the time for sabotage!
summertime of sabotage!
for the bodies of the lost
for the beauty of the world
for the captive and the cost
for the brisket of the boss
summertime of sabotage!
in the vein of the summer squash
in the vine of the creeping plant
at the heart of amerika
summertime of sabotage!
summertime!
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I want to come see you
04:44
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I want to come see you
I want to tell you what I did
I want to tell you what I did--
want to tell you why we grew apart
at least on my end.
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you can work with your body to modulate emotion and memory
and you can alter the past with a twist in the strand of the story
I have known love a number of times
I've hit my stride a number of times
I've altered the past a number of times
world without end (a number of times)
world without end got me swooning and crooning and crushing for a kiss
I didn't want any part of this and now I can't but beat to the heart of this
I am pete, I am artemis
and I have known joy a number of times
I have been wild a number of times
I emerge from the vapor a number of times
might as well cut a caper a number of times
world without end (a number of times)
world without end (a number of times)
world without end (a number of times)
I've loved you now a number of times
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circle
02:19
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could I forgive everything–even the dull incision?
even if I remember everything with demonic precision–
could I forgive everyone everything even me
as I round the bend of my thirties
debt is not delivering the deliverance that I need
could I forgive everything?
and we'll all go together
in a circle, we'll inscribe
all the names we have for one another
will you go, will you go?
and we'll all go together--
in a circle of fire
all the names we have for one another
will you go, will you go?
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spirit are u ready
03:48
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SPIRIT ARE YOU READY
SPIRIT ARE YOU READY
let's burn this fucker down
let's burn this fucker down
unholy animal
unholy body that you be
you were not set apart
you are a part of the revelry
and the spirit is old
and the body bleak as bleak can be
and they move like fire
and we grow at the speed of trees
SPIRIT ARE YOU READY
SPIRIT ARE YOU READY
let's burn this fucker down
let's burn this fucker down
you don’t have to remember
you don’t have to abandon
you don’t have to relinquish
you don’t have to pretend
every moment is bending
in the shape of a question
we are children of ruin
we are children of ruin
(I was danzig when I was twill
I was danzig when I was ill
cancel myself right out the womb
is it strange to cancel swoon
I was danzig when I was aide
is it strange to desolate
cancel myself into the tomb
is it strange to cancel swoon)
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Pete Jon Michigan
Pete Jon is a singer-songwriter and collaborative producer in the DIY tradition.
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