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Opening Interlude (Tina)
04:19
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Hellock's Brimble
04:09
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Hellock’s Brimbles like this place
between the transitions in the air marks
And it’s kind of like a gap year
in an existential ruin
So, yeah, it’s kind of metaphysical
and the oldest bears are the rugs
When you’re there you forget all about
dumb things like fact-based idioms
And you only think about nets
to swallow whole
You focus more on how we trick our
hearts all the time
Just admit it
And how far your limbs
go back to hug
And all the ways to die which means
all the things to love
And reaching for that gold-eyed chipmunk
and the moment
that is never there anymore
Is what we use to rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Reach for the underwater hug
The weirdest thing that happens here though
is that I love it here
It’s what we’ve always wanted
And it’s free
And you do, oh you do
You get a spirit animal
Ohmmm
A weema-wamma
Ohmmm
A weema-wamma
Ohmm
weema wamma
And it so could be real.
And it so could be real.
And all the darkness I can stand.
All the darkness I can stand.
All the darkness I can stand.
All the darkness I can stand.
Hellock’s Brimbles like this place
Between the transitions
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4. |
Big Woods
03:30
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We got a woodchip chip
I feel your eyes
We got a fine fine
You take my size
We got a cottonwood ball
That’s the thing
We got a leaf ball
Make it ring ring ring
We got a stream ball
More and more
We got a dropping ball
I’m just not secure
We got a grass ass
Please wind me up
Kick it like a Great Horned
Prance like a duck
Through ruddy reed and wood
O’er each trodden path
You went further than you thought you could
It’s simple: Do the math
1 + 1 is Whoa
2 + 2 is Let her go
3 + 3 is Oh Yeah Right
4 + 4 Refract Your Light
Do the Math
Do the Math
Do the Math
(Repeat)
In the Hollows of the Great Oak
Know your rules
In the Glades of the pedagogue
Sharpen all of your tools
Mmhmmm
I can only control myself and maybe try for you
I can only see myself and then look at two
B is for big deal, latent devotion
I for idle repression spread on like lotion
G is to generate a force field at bay
Thunder in thine sides
Lightning ‘neath the saddles
Slow, jump in the deep
Surprise! Don’t need a paddle
Just say
Just say
Just say
Do the Math
Do the Math
(Repeat)
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5. |
8 Ways to Disappear
04:25
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There’s eight ways
She said her lashes flicked down
Mint in the glass
Stirred round and round
Sat right there
Tried to take a pass
But with my fur couldn’t grab the glass
With my fur couldn’t grab the glass
Deer gave me
A kind a side eye then
Like a sleek animal
She did not bend
Grabbed a slice in my jaw and gave it a tweak
Grabbed a slice in my jaw but I was too weak
Oh I was too weak oh
I was too weak oh
I was too weak oh
I was too weak oh
8 ways to see us
And 9 to die
It’s all connected
Happens when you cry
8 ways to find out
And 9 to go
It’s all linked
And it happens slow
Yeah yeah you’ll see
It goes real low
Yeah yeah you’ll see
It goes so low
Eh
Eh
This is what she told me
This is how I knew
We’re matter reduced
As thin as sin
Matter made
O so thin
O so thin
See us, believe us
And then you win
Coming to know
We existed right there
Past tangles and confusions
A dot past a care
Spirit’s how you crush it
Curving cross the floor
If you step slightly out
You’ll fully get more
Step slightly out
Definitely get more
Time and space
Expanded for this
I’m so real, you’re so sure of it
Then you come
And then we’re here
Rustling in your freckles
Feeling in your hair
Feeling your fears
And making it clear
Feeling
that this feeling
is the whole damn world
And this feeling
Don’t cause strife
Cause this feeling
Can be your wife
Such revisitations
Constitute a life
Such revisitations
Constitute a life
Such revisitations
Constitute a life
Such revisitations
Constitute a life
8 ways to disappear
Two to hold
If you close your brain and breathe
The odds’ll let you know
We tell it out
All soft and clear
This feeling is a whole world
And you can be its wife
Such revisitations
constitute a life
Such such revisitations
constitute a life
Deer gave me
Kinda high-five then
One with room to grow
Small paws moving
Through the air
I lifted and reached
And tried to care
I lifted up then
And felt the air
(Repeat)
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7. |
Map of the Area
03:51
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Dear Map of the Area
Dear edges
Dear paper
Dear pen
Dear diary
I’ll draw you
Draw you
Draw you
A map of the area
These are the trees I don’t know
This is the section I forgot to see
This is the sky for you
Fat blue lake for me
Row to the center
Cross to the edge
Row row row to the center
Row to the center
Cross to the edge
Row row row to the center
(Repeat)
Cabbage on the balcony
Can they see?
Get the eggs from the hall
Stand next to me
(Repeat)
You said I don’t show anyone
You let me hold the key
You said I don’t show anyone
You let me hold the key
The key
The key
This key is for a fur hand that can hold anything but won’t
This key for all the boats
Row row row row row row row
To the center
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8. |
Two Gloves
05:20
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This was your person before you were a ghost
This was love before you knew about love
This was my person before you were a person
This was me when I wanted to be you
I was your girl when I was still a girl
This was you when I was trying to be me
This was my person before you were a person
This was you when I wanted to be me
I was still a girl when I was your ghost
This was you when I was trying to be me
Come on, I need to know
How could we have stayed
And stayed in that moment
So serious
So much to say
So young
So laughing
So nothing, no way
No way
No way
No way
No way
Oh, we were so free
We were so separate and so free
How was that possible?
How was that possible?
You were my glove
When I wanted one glove to love
Two gloves
Then it’s right there to wear
Our nights were so long
Our nights were so long
Tell me everything you need to know
Go slow go glow
About feeling so small
So small
We’ll tear the light
We’ll bear the light
In this fraction of the night
Eat the hate up like love
Oh oh just wear my glove
You were my glove
When I wanted one glove to love
Two gloves
And that perfect deep down love
It’s possible
It’s possible
We’re most awake in the dark
That’s what you sent
Even better than a call
So deep and so steep
Just sit back and fall
Just fall, fall, fall
Seemed like everything was known
No choices to choose
Thoughts and searching all
An entire life to lose
You were my ghost when I was still a girl
That was something, you know
Something, you know
That was something you did
I know you did
You did
Something, you know
Something, you know
Something
Something you did
You did
You did
You were my glove when I wanted one glove to love
Two gloves
And we eat your hate like love
The ghosts are so strong
Our ghosts go so long
You were my glove when I wanted one glove to love
Two gloves
Awake, awake in the dark love
It’s possible
It’s possible
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Sarcastic and Proud
03:02
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Sarcastic and proud
I don’t know if it was me or you
But there was a person
I know
Sarcastic and proud
Hmmm-mmm
I am wild
Hmmm-mmm
I’m almost nothing
Abducted by myself
It’s daylight, it’s day
Ongoing and wild
I remember knowing
Sarcastic and proud
I felt like it too
When I’m thinking of you
I, I smell like you too
Unnamable
But I can give you everything
Obliterate me
But I can give you
I can give you
I can give you
Everything
Obliterate me
Oh
I am wild
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12. |
I Love That
03:25
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A few, small tiny moments
of soft touching
that feels amazing
Or when you’re tired
one time when they take care of you
It’s probably like the equivalent
of doing a heavy drug
which I’ve never done
but for it’s addictive powers
I can tell you about love
about having another seal
rub it’s nose on you
About swimming for days
knowing that another seal
is swimming
and thinking about you
I can tell you stuff
that makes you stronger
that lets you forget
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
I love that
I love that
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
I love that
I love that
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh Let me tell you
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
I love that
I love that
It all feels like a blur,
when you were just right there
when you were just right there
I could have seen you
Any time
Any time
Any time
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13. |
Not Here
05:09
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Let’s let the rays of possible ideas
Do their work
Do your work
Oh oh oh oh
Just do it for me
Do your work
Just do it with me
Not here
Not now
Never
Doesn’t mean we have to say goodbye
This idea seemed like a rectangle
That I could not
Ever know
This idea seemed like a bad one
I just had
To let that go
But here’s the thing
Here’s the thing
Here’s what it means
When we sing
Oh oh oh ohhhhh
Oh oh oh ohhhhh
I’ll spot for you
If you stay for me
But this is what we have
Fill in who we are
This idea seemed like a rectangle
That I could not ever know
But I bust right through the edges
And let us grow
And grow and grow
This is moving alongside the shadows and candy
Next to me
This is letting possibility be in my skin
And be so so so so far
And the distance is the thing
The distance is the thing
Here’s what it means when we sing
Oh oh oh ohhhhhhhh
Oh oh oh ohhhhhhhh
Oh oh oh ohhhhhhhh
Oh oh oh ohhhhhhhh
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Half Straddle New York, New York
Half Straddle is an Obie-winning, Brooklyn-based ensemble of composers, performers, writers, and designers that makes music, plays, performances, and videos. The company has shown its work in Europe, Japan, Australia, and the U.S. since 2008.
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