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by Robert Quijano

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There’s something up here -- Something up here blowing in the wind: I think it’s all this metal in my head, Or the ears I’ve bled These years of rambling Just begging for forgiveness. And it’s cold on this mountain -- Cold on this mountain, wise up to suffering’s sake: The taking of the sunlight in this green -- But to eat is to die, And to bear is to lie Along the branch and backwards to the seed -- Along the branch and backwards to the seed.
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Come see me in my borrowed home -- Come see me in my borrowed home -- It’s got roses on the wall! They might just remind me of me and you and the Fall, If you’d see me in my borrowed home. Come touch me in this body here on loan -- Come touch me in this body here on loan -- It’s got writing on the wall! It might just remind me of me and you and the Fall, If you’d touch me in this body here on touch me in this body here on touch me in this body here on loan. Just leave me in this burning home -- Just leave me in this burning home -- I’ve got nothing left to lose! That might just remind me of me and you and the blues, If you’d leave me in this burning leave me in this burning leave me in this burning home.
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The cold war has grown colder As eagle and bear soldiers Descend on the valley Armageddon! But this time we’ve got algorithms Beating on the war drums And solipsism leaping from the Towers... What was ours in that last moment Has been scattered on A cesium wind -- This war was shadows on the eyelids of our parents’ parents’ dreams, And we the obedient children in an esoteric scheme --
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Futile Flame 03:26
So you took the magazine -- Sewed it up into bedding. Rolled around in promises -- Floating on yer flotsam bed. And when it all falls to the fore, You will be wondering what it’s all for -- And when the best you’ve got is spat on the floor, You will be wandering, searching for more. Is this a war? Will it stay warm? Run from the swarm... Try yer hand at wallpaper -- Proclaim who’s a Big Faker. Extinguish the futile flame -- Sign me up! but just in name... And when it all falls to the fore, You will be wondering what it’s all for -- And when the best you’ve got is spat on the floor, You will be wandering, searching for more. Is this a war? Will it stay warm? Run from the swarm...
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Disco Ball 06:16
Treat me like a disco ball -- I won’t mind my dying at all. Where were you when I’ll take the fall? I can’t find the memory of it all... Meet me down by your old gate -- I got lost somewhere between The space of your bitter brown eyes Were the bridge to my other side.
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I am sorry. I have been a drunken fool. I blame it on the sorrow And the daemons that rule. I never saw it coming That I’d become a ruin; These days I am only Nothing doin’. I see now where the heart breaks: Along its own fault lines; So I pray for healing, For the old stitch in time.
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Holy Ghost 02:48
Sing the song that means the most -- Chase me down the Holy Ghost. Touch me there where I’ve been scarred -- Hold me up when I’ve been tired. Lend me shapes I cannot kiss -- Bend my will into the mist. Sing the song that means the most -- Chase me down the Holy Ghost.
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There was a time I was called Darkness, A time I was called Orb -- The one, a voice that harkens To the other, to the lord -- And yes, I've seen the holy bush High upon the mount, Its voice is near extinguished By the winds that trouble South -- And I will see my secrets spill From someone else's mouth, Like table under trout: The teeth that I've pulled out -- Like table under trout: The teeth that I've pulled out.
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Turpentine 03:07
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Where are the magic boxes that you drew, child? To temper tantric bonds within your tribe? Where have all the pinky promises flown to? while you left ‘em neglected, broken but to fly unto some cosmic kamikaze wish to die..? --- It is the darkness I adore, It is the less which births the more; It’s what the rise And the set are for! It is the darkness I adore! It is the space between the light, It is the distance that is nigh; It is the sea That bears my sight! It is the space between the light! It is the stillness of the pond, It is the cloth I weep upon: ... It is the stillness of the pond... It is the darkness I adore, It is the less which births the more; It’s what the rise And the set are for! It is the darkness I adore!
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Now, I know you’ve noticed That everything’s broken, And I’m sure you’ve found some way to pretend That everything’s swell. See, I’ve got these glasses, They keep me from askin’ When’ll come change, ‘cause Honey, that oil just don’t sell These days like it used to! Now no word is trusted, The Logos been busted. We’ll have to mouth new sounds so to stand On tongue kin and common. You’re there on yer sideline, While I’ve not one to call mine. You play the game, but I’m plotting escape from this wicked arena -- I won’t keep ya from followin’...
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The heart is a hologram and so seems Infinite in its giving -- But each piece breaking breaks the whole... Beware, for the end will take its toll! I’ve been told: I am that Shiva riding on your cloud Who has disallowed Reconstitution of The heart is a hollow room and so sings The animus kept within it -- But each fulfilling fills the hole... Pay heed to the friend on your grassy knoll! You’ve been warned: I’ll be Ganesha ripping through the Real Only to conceal An impermanence of the heart -- I’ve been told: I am that Shiva riding on your cloud Who has disallowed Reconstitution of The heart is a hologram and so seems...

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released October 12, 2018

All songs written and performed by RQ
Recorded at the Zorthian Ranch, August 2018, by Mateo
Therapeutic Ornamentation by Candle Styles
Miedlena Records

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