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"Dzeja for Leela"

by SLSFTI

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1.
Arrangement and 4 Variants of Breath (free) 00:56
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(instrumental)
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Shur (free) 01:44
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Put not your elbow in the Bible, As rushing waters of electricity illuminate your keystrokes, And toiled Toledot spring for Shur through The central grates and mazes of the downtown mall. House of sun shone through the stereo, And 100,000 protons fill the room with memories Of 100,000 dull tricks you’ve played on me, Sitar, bounce me to a planet of ice and silver. I married Miss Swine Time of Climax, Georgia, And I miss my dead dog.
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Representation of a Past Imperative (free) 02:26
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Forgive me if I found a way to break a part of you, You were so strong; I swear it true, before me What have I done and where are you going There will be no need to tell me, so save your lips from me The years will make it better, my heart can promise that And the tears you shed in that foreign room Whatever its size, will form for you a bath Shed me lightly – Or, scrub me off; please feel my light depart No more will I cast nighttime shadows Or feel you in the dark Just a footnote folded over – And I can live with that To say I left a mark’s too much A smudge, yes, that’s much better It’s simpler always to deal with that – Just wipe it away with your pointer and spit.
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Winterspringsummerfall (free) 00:43
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in spring i thought it would be different and it was a different breed of worse different i guess than winter but worse it ended and i laughed because another spring for better or for worse was over summer came and i enjoyed thinking about summer things like summer kisses on purple lips and dirty lakes with dirty kids but i never kissed in the summer and i never went swimming in the lake but now as the autumn fires return and the branches twist like minutes i accept the fact that i too will fall like leaves into winter into spring into summer
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Oak Lawn, IL (free) 01:40
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Stop coming home to me, baby, please They’ll say the cowboy rides high on a satisfied mind So I’ll slurp up the dirt with my ever-shifting teeth And form hearts on the ground in its shallow brown craters I know that the wind just keeps taking you further away from me You’re strung out on independence; yes, that’s fine I understand how you’d want to turn off The burglar alarm And keep the fire alarm on; my smoke won’t pull you in Like I thought it would – I swear you said something about how… Oh, I’m a faggot Bigger than the one you train to be In forty mile car rides with my shins on fire Anything for you Just shoot me in the skull.
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Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (free) 02:22
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Speed Song (free) 01:52
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When you’ve become the ice cream, In that interlocking of foreign horns, Well, not foreign, But ones you’ve lost the charms to get close to, That’s when you know you’re sleeping too much, You can taste her tongue, and be the tongue, Not letting you in at the exact same time. I can feel my forearms rippling now, Weird waves of water that go nowhere and continue, Two little blue pills, And I’m a shuttle being pulled forward and down, I can’t shut up… I ditched eloquence for a cigarette. We all make mistakes and hide them in leaves, Jagged Canadian maple leaf piles, Damp and sad with the shit that they hold for you, And you, clumsy as the day your motor skills awoke, Scuttle through the week, Praying for the heaviest, torrential rain, So you can pack it in, That didn’t make sense to you, I can see, But listen, This is a speed song.
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Arrangement (Held Breath) (free) 01:15
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This album was inspired by an interesting chat with my friend Leela.
It is full of noise and poetry... everything and nothing.

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released February 27, 2012

written/recorded/produced in Canterbury, Kent

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