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A Self That Touches All Edges

by Sam Sycamore

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1.
Enormous 05:41
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Use your intuition to find a way out of this No one's waiting for you at the end of the street Do you feel lonely? Sweeping up yesterday's old skin Don't you feel like a slave to your base desires? I'd rather not be enormous I'd rather be a stone sinking in a river bed I know that's the truth
2.
A Beautiful Day For Drowning 04:00
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Dreamreader 03:37
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What can you know about your thoughts? They're all birds in flight Disappearing into the night Through the blue-black clouds I'm looking in your windows I'll make your memories mine Tasting shadows of the day On salty skin You let me in Is there a me? How many is he? And will he be good company? My shadow has entered the light Baby, it's the end of the world and I feel alright The silence that follows the sound is far more profound And I burn my fingers reaching too close My shadow has entered the light Baby, it's the end of the world and I feel alright The silence that follows the sound is far more profound And I burn my fingers reaching too close
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Forever Drowning (after D. F. Wallace) 05:01
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These lines are no boundaries We are what we walk between All knotted and ragged Like something a spider had made Be no one It's easier than you think Fences can be mirrors You can be shaped or you can be broken Send from yourself What you hope will not return Everything falls off the walls Sooner or later It's a divine spell, a triangular horror A self that touches all edges Forever beginning Never the end Forever starting Starting over again The sun sets At summer's end But summer's always coming back again Come in from the spectral rain Those with distorted orbits of all kinds Do not underestimate objects Do you trust me? Trust me Do not underestimate objects I hear your request and I will honor it I began to suspect I was made of glass My personality's dark part Had grown leathery wings And turned on me I bought time with vague allusions There is a new silence Calling into the darkness of the red cave That opens out before closed eyes A self that touches all edges Forever beginning Never the end Forever starting Starting over again The sun sets At summer's end But summer's always coming back again Forever beginning Never the end Forever starting Starting over again The sun sets At summer's end But summer's always coming back again
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(Kachemak Bay Daydream) 01:10
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Gold Pavilion 05:28
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Tune into your spine, you said I know you'll have a good time Heaven waits for you On the other side Yeah it's true It's easy to wanna wanna new thing Burn it to the ground Don't waste your time in that gold pavilion How can you be so sure That your dreams are your own Hands covered in dirt Darkest under the nails We can't build fires anymore They came and took that away from us So tell me why do you work When every day the rocks They pile up Yeah it's true It's easy to wanna wanna new thing Burn it to the ground Don't waste your time in that gold pavilion If you're ready I will meet you there to try to find a new thing Burn it to the ground Can't waste our time in that gold pavilion You're gonna lead me Take me down to the valley Where we watch the colors come back into the sky Out on the ridge It's such a strange and new experience You're gonna lead me Take me down to the valley Where we watch the colors come back into the sky Out on the ridge It's such a strange and new experience You will never know which way is down I tuned into my spine I had a real good time, man But now what's left for me here At home
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Sleeptalker 04:28
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Recount me Your lucid dreams The water rising up To meet your fall Will smash your bones It's for you alone They left you sinking Without a sound When I wake up You tell me I was talking in my sleep What did I tell you Lost in a dream I can't remember Did I tell you about the aches in my tendons About the bruises on my spine Did I tell you I love them all Because they're mine Yeah, they set me free You're bleeding out On the concrete floor When we will learn That fun don't have to hurt Swollen knees Bend, release I'll carry you Out into the day When I wake up I can still taste the words on the tip of my tongue The letters line up then dissolve The letters of our legs and arms Words would come in smoke and go Waking up to a sore throat Now you're talking to yourself Should I stay Or should I go I know You'd come dig me Out of the snow I know You'd come dig me Out of the snow I know You'd come dig me Out of the snow I know You'd come dig me Out of the snow I know
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Dopamine Crest 02:29

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Written and recorded Oct 2013 - Nov 2014 by Sam Sycamore.

Thank you Brooke, Mote, Jason, David Foster Wallace, Alaska, Haruki Murakami, Yukio Mishima, Robert Creeley, Mumon, Red River Gorge, and LSD.

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released June 25, 2015

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Sam Sycamore Paoli, Indiana

formerly Two Istbones, Airplane Jumper, Mote, SG Benanti.

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