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1. Housefire
The world, who ends in a house fire
Says to me in fever dreams:
All the glass will break one day
All the glass will break
And you, who sees without ending
You, who breaks in the secret
Will rise through the fire

2. Ashokan Reservoir Apocalypse Song
And you drive past the D.E.P.
Where it used to be
And you come up on the water
Running low on gasoline
Terminal locus
“This is our stop”
Hop out the bed
How you broke your leg at thirteen

We were younger then
It’s a darker time
It’s the sediments
From our crumbled lives
We were quiet then
It’s a younger time
Muddy river bed
We kicked up the sediments

3. (Drowned in) a Sea of Sanborn Maps
Let me out on the road again
In the paper factory fire
Drowned in a sea of sanborn maps
Ad nauseum
Ad nauseum
So many outlets all along
So many outlets all along
So many outlets all along

4. Outside
Met you outside on the walkway to your house
You said come in with the screen door in your hand
The porch was indoors, it was full of odds and ends
You pushed the lock aside, you took me by the hand

Living room was a swaying ship of furniture
Swung to one end with the tv on the other
I sat down in an auburn chair, watched you comb your knotted hair
We spoke on odd occurrences, the glass was yet to break

Backdoor was blocked off by a cabinet
Stocked with kitchenware and talismans
I stood and walked up to you, full of fire and fossil fuels
You traced the counter with your hands, waiting for the glass to break

Protection spell and parachute, lined the walls and ceilings too
We waited patient in your room, some day the glass is gonna break

There’s something wrong with the sky
(even with the best you have to offer, still leaves a path of reckless abandon)
(under the willows you set to hang, still leaves the marks of hopeless defeat)
(even with the last of your actuation, still leaves a slash of fearful distraction)
(under the bridge that you built for shade, still leaves the scars of painful retreat)

5. Barnstar
There’s sky past the stone retaining wall
Casting shadows to the drying forest floor
And in the distance, the vision, the vision
And in the distance, who we carelessly distort

We saw your figure miraged, skewed across the sky
Breaking flight patterns of birds
And as we witnessed, the vision, the vision
And as we witnessed, a wildness swept our minds

Trespassing the scrap yard
Rusted barnstar
Figured out where you’re coming from
Settled down in the sun

More empty knocking: the safety showed
Wooden staircase thunder
Fall treading on storm, continuing home
Before snapping silent—wood framed the world
Slow rotting wall, holstered fire and thorn
An interconnected hall was the middle house
Everything torn from the door
A dusking road, the place where we hung low
Sustained for blankets
Curved upward in place, the brief conduit
Heavy rain from water tanks, clacking helplessly

We wrote the wind
Till we lost our grip
It’s all echoes down the wire
All echoes down the wire

Pushed the boat out
From the waterfront
It’s all echoes down the wire
All echoes down the wire

Memories of memories of horses
The farms these fences once enclosed
Memories of blue mountains
Old barns and obstacles

It’s all fraying space
It’s a steep staircase to get where you want
You rest your case walking through the wastes
You’re everything i’m not

Trespassing the scrap yard
Rusted barnstar
Figured out where you’re coming from
Settled down in the sun

What do you want from me
And where is it going to take me?

6. All Yellow Houses

7. (Instrumental)

8. The Last Encounter Between Vega and Aldebaran
In the bed of a truck, in the valley red
Were we not constellations, were we not tied together
In the white dining room, where the paint was chipped
And the ferns poked in through the window sills
I would call your name, you’d respond
We were one in the same, were we not?
You were Vega, I was Aldebaran
And then you disappeared with the wind
Your body under a blanket
Yeah you disappeared with the wind
And we asked it what you did

9. Low Hanging Cloud
Low hanging cloud!
Obscure the ground
Like anyone would
you broke your way into my light
I’ll cast aside this prescribed strength
Why don’t you drown
In the acid rain
I split you down
You curse me out

You’re long since out of time, and you know what’s been due
Caught in another lie, in the twilight of your rule
A bad idea in your head and a tyre iron in your fist
You smash open the window, you’re not going out like this
If only you’d known first, If only you’d known first

10. Sanborn Boardwalk/The Vly
Wicker chair on the porch
And a blanket for the bridge
Like a boardwalk
broken glass where we sit

Brittle cinders on the ground
Older than us
Younger than the concrete spears
Colossal stonework of our youth

Misdirection in a fire
Forest miles, I know your name
Follow me up winding spirals
Past fences

In the fields, the name of light
Echoes off you, spoken quiet
An endless home ahead of you
An endless home

Running off into the roads
Avoiding overgrowth, potholes
Sentimental landmarks gone
This was the life we were chasing
Open miles empty homes
Spending cautious days alone
It could all fall apart again
Is that what you’ve been running from

Days alone

This was the firmament:
Your body curled around the stars
You were an eidolon
The image of the setting sun
We went out searching for
The only thing that we had known
I have been searching for
A voyage into the unknown

Sending smoke signals in the vly
Transgressions to the living sky
A beacon calling to the stars
I’ll liberate myself in fire
I’ll find you though you have been gone
I’ll trace the ground you once tread on
You’ll tumble out of mountain woods
And in the fields I will find you
Sending smoke signals in the vly!
We’ll reconvene you’ll stay the night
Than disappear into the wind
But just don’t go alone again

I will meet you in the vly

11. (Sanborn Boardwalk Coda)
I never wanted
To lay you down
The empty water
The underground
All I wanted
Was at your side
The empty water
The whistling wild

Follow the tracks
Follow where the tracks were
All those years ago
The long lost words
It’s all downhill
It’s all downhill
You won’t see me
I won’t go
It’s all downhill
It’s all downhill
Follow the tracks
The old railroad

The melody can’t wait to end

12. ‘Sleeping Pill’
The silhouette of a woodwork form
The small cabin where you slept
Settle down or taste the silt
Settle down get some rest

Don’t forget your sleeping pills
Honey don’t forget your sleeping pills

13. Light Leaves the Valley
But you said you never liked stargazing anyways
Or all the diagrams that put them in their place
That people bleed into each other every day
That any good could come from a stupid constellate

14. Powerline Scars/The Name of Light
Only house on the road
When we parked the car
Waiting on a signal
In a stranger’s yard
It was all warm colors then
And fire in the valley
It was all bright stars back then
You and me

If you can’t find me: I’m in the powerline scars
If you can’t find me: I’m in the powerline scars