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Walking On Water Wasn't Built In A Day

by Boy Without God

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you can find him up all night with the angels in the fluorescent lights and a highball in a styrofoam cup he says I think I've finally got it yes I know and then there is silence there's silence that echoes forever forever he says I can't find no can't find no relief the spiritual sucker falls for all the latest guru schemes find him smoking pot and writing down all his dreams the spiritual sucker believes in life solutions suffering's a dream so he's okay he says I been up all night watching youtube documentaries of the maddest serial killers of them all now I know all their secrets seen em watching television in their prison issue four cornered rooms the spiritual sucker goes and drinks himself to death at 38. Leaves a mountain made of notebooks and a shoebox full of car keys and vanity license plates.
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City Kids 03:50
they stayed out late that night, like city kids the music was shining bright at the bar and he held her hand and told her "I love you" she said "I love you too" there wasn't much to do after that so they both squinted up ahead at all the dark unimaginable roads the world's one trembling note and he remembers tall rough green grass and endless sky and she remembers one look that held all their lives he says I'm too drunk from your lips she says hey let's go home and dance in the kitchen radio whisperin sweet old songs to guys and gals in the GI halls they caught the bus back home at one am and he nodded right off with his head on her shoulder and going home past the ridge past the bay this moment never goes away and in the night there is love all around one unending sound
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ugly need skinny little art school girls with wrists and knees and histories shake the hands swallow sounds of longing be a gentle beast in eternity (wake up!) distract the dream call a yellow taxi (wake up!) take you all away leave me in peace no more hands in the trees that grab at my windows falling asleep without a sound no breath in my ear no breath in my ear les mots français these are the days of longing, distance bursts the grey stone wide apart distract the dream call a yellow taxi (wake up!) take me all away I've gone to pieces
4.
and though I told you not to cry go on and cry if you want to there's plenty left to wash away days unchanging after days winter calls us up to trade to trade the color of the sky for earthly cups of lemonade for sweet mortality oh I I just want to see your eyes. Blink at the mysteries behind. Lately I've been thinking of my end and what it brings to life, There will be fighting in the yards tonight glinting tooth of knife tonight laughter of the guns tonight while breathing sweetly down the hall my saintly family all and though I told you not to cry go on and cry if you want to there's plenty left to wash away days unchanging after days mother sister lover angel devil saint and whore and home oh love do not leave me alone cause lately I've been thinking of the salvation glimpsed through love there will be dancing in the streets tonight bonfires on the beach tonight but none of us will hear a thing tonight over the beating of our hearts which will eventually

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Some more minute-a-day work, done in November 2009 in my brother's old bedroom while I was finishing college/reading a lot of Kerouac. This is the origin of City Kids!

Also, this isn't about this album in particular, but it makes me so psyched to see so many people downloading the music! I feel honored to be listened to in this world of a billion bands.

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released August 31, 2010

Gabriel Birnbaum - Everything

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