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Sugar Sick Baby

by Dylan Viola

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1.
Yawning Yarn 03:03
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eyelids tense licking the air cleaning the cogs every breath on the lens each drop in the pail was once london fog I guess it felt like I fell off the back of a truck go on, ask where I'm from worn all types of hat been the goose, been a duck chasing crumbs while the heart keeps time the hands collect dust turning the page losing lust all the medicine rotting in my guts at the time was just enough now it all seems a bit much Keep having that dream where I can't close the door the snow piles high, falls, and melts on the floor every year i watch the green grass grow from a chair by the window where the actors in the show get painted by number and the soapboxes shift in the shadows and the love crackles like thunder where tides ebb and flow all roads lead to rome
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Black Blues 03:03
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one day you leave the sugar field a collage of alleles by the back of the neck like a callow pet feel the trigger squeeze hear the starting gun watch that microphone bleed on a forked tongue I still prefer walks as opposed to talks a bottled up boat still floats the white flag waves free the west is won on a silver screen in an iron lung theres a whale on the beach theres a bug in the bed the bull in the shop is seeing red why pay the blinds if you always fold? I hope I die before I get that cold
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Spilling Signs 02:37
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splashing flashes bottled up underground like a mother's eyes wring your neck hairs rise and pirouette comb the mess find the needle follow the thread where the burly beast lies asleep with a stack of hay in its head we know you stabbed him in cold blood your prints are on the steel this ain't no whodunit stop, catch your breath strayed from the trail pick up the scent sometimes your nose is bent but your eyes can't tell some send their love some send their hell from up above deep in the well fits like a glove rings like a bell you were hollering in the hallway but my ears couldn't tell splashing flashes bottled up underground like a mother's eyes wring your neck hairs rise and pirouette comb the mess find the needle follow the thread where the burly beast lies asleep with a stack of hay in its head
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Lone Lullabye 03:23
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cough it up pay the man what's he's owed move along seasick sailor back down your rabbit hole shooting from prone drinking up supper taking that tone on way or another makes me roll my eyes oh brother I'll write you off as an outlaw this time, I'll let it slide as an outlier as a victimless crime looked through an opera glass and a telescope at an astrolabe in a bag of dope still haven't found neverland once you learn the trick you see the signs everywhere gets a little old the party line I swear, the more age the more it fucks me up like wine go on, ride it off like an outlaw one night slip by the sight lines from the scene of the crime
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Guest Ghost 02:30
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I'm a ghost in this machine that don't scare anyone but me a reflection in the glass skating on the clock like the ice is going to break just 'cause it has in the past hanging round like a cloud getting poured spend half a life trying to get warm flying by through an open door drawn to the light I'm gonna suck your blood 'til I'm good and drunk sail this ship 'til it's finally sunk have a slice of life when it's good and ripe noone's keeping track but the dominos get stacked the show must go on while you learn how to act like someone you dreamed up in some childish scheme damn near dragged the lake stop hooking the bait rocking in that chair the water is crystal clear don't get scared, but theres no fish down here
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Devil Dance 02:05
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there's shifting winds on the rolling hearse the lightning bolts are giving birth 25 years in the atmosphere tell me, how the hell do I get back down to earth? feel like a tourist here, come shake my hand steal my watch, ruin my plans everyone I once knew back home is frozen in stone right where they used to stand the devil dances with the lonely ones the wallflower, shoe gazing, prodigal sons the tall tale tellers holding smoking guns glueing their feathers, flying to close to the sun There's some food for thought, go on, lick your plate once you've had enough walk away after a while it all tastes the same it gets harder to tell what you really ate If I knew it once I don't know anymore I dug waltzes then now I play four on the floor the politics of love will eat your brains long before you got time to learn the game
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Spider's Song 03:38
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must have been about a thousand bugs flying by the pool thought it was a headwind guess what it's a tailspin straight down to the webbing fresh with dew the spider don't meet you until it beats you won't get a read through the spider will sing thanks for the supper and thanks to your mother for raising a sucker with tasty wings must have been about a thousand bugs glowing all by themselves speeding down the freeway looking for a pay day found nothing but a cheap date drilling for wells testing the waters then jumping the border a few sheep short of sleeping sound the nights go unbroken 'cept tossing the tokens 'til a vacancy opens somewhere in this town must have stomped about a thousand bugs who knows how many there was acting like a kid a little bourgeois pig a bigger stick to swing lofty and looming complicit, swooning soaked 'til pruned inducing the days like a tree trunk ramming a predator clamoring loans outstanding time I took a taste
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Green Grass 05:38
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I once had a dream that died in its sleep 14 years ago buried deep in the yard, under the stars in a bed of marigolds born-again every now and then like the flicker of a lightning bug blind as a bat, stuck as a mule stumbling like a lush if pleasure and pain are your patron saints you'll be chasing the dragon for life like good george before grab your finest sword ride to the lake and pick a fight Nothing's as big as it seems like it is once you put it in the past from fire to clay at the end of the day half of a glass so much water gets spilled, swallowing pills trying to rig the game that could have helped something grow, or kept it afloat or splashed a sleepy face the golden geese and the ugly ducks play musical chairs brushing their teeth pressing their luck playing truth or dare the white whale blues make green grass dreams as the leaves begin to fall without you and without me the world turns swimmingly ever after, after all I'm sleeping good, putting rings in my wood grinning like a shark the water is clear, I can see for years things glow in the dark peter pan the family man walking the plank for now down Boardwalk and Park, ‘goin past start have a night on the town the echo moan of your chromosomes can be outgrown make a splash or repeat the past to each their own set the bridges ablaze if they're in your way you're Casey at the bat its a piece of cake right over the plate stick a fork in that You'll need a sword and a pen to scratch out the end hear the slate crack now its in stone, everyone knows your face looks like your mask don't lose the muse, between the waves or kill too many birds with one throw this great big place is so far from the caves treat it like your home
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Sweet Eleanor 03:42
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sweet eleanor don't hang your hat where you hang your head sweet eleanor throw the book back at them lets fall asleep on a pile of leaves you have sewn up your sleeve slow company and if the others go on strike get on with the night all the hands that you bit are quite used to it blowing into the sails like little kids do the shelf life of each thought is so pale in the scope of the room each pedal smells stale to the breadth of the bloom blowing into the sails like land lubbers do sweet eleanor i'm pulling it together i'm gonna shave my brain sweet eleanor can't tell worse from better it's just a change in frame think i was born on the fence somewhere between Buddha and William Tell one boot is sworn to the trench the other is running like hell
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Smile Stupid 03:12
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how many spoiled appetites 'til you learn to farm 'til the headless horsemen have to duel diagonal pawns and all the restless children don't have to be atlas one basket of eggs tucked in a mattress its a gladiator game with pixel perfect blood that you're ashamed to admit that you love always looking at our neighbors work slapping notes on the back of his shirt rationing necessities so the entertainment can stay free to the righteous rabbits go the consensus, a room on the arc to the desperate dogs a couple tennis balls and a place to sleep in the yard where the silent snakes play wildcards they lay in the grass while stars and storms perform and pass in the dark
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Wild Weeds 02:10
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wild shadows, growing like weeds wheels keep hugging as long as they get greased people keep bugging when they see the light strings keep on strumming whether or not the note is quite right the hits keep on coming the hymns keep on haunting the halls are still humming strange lullabies

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released November 19, 2014

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