1. |
Flashes and Floaters
03:20
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I am an ostrich
Worried about how
In less than a minute, Alma
I won’t remember right now
Got to hold on to something
And hide it in the sand
So I won’t forget
No, I won’t forget
I won’t forget anything we did today
The noise in my eyelids
Breaks up the silence
Big flashes and floaters
Glimmers of stuffies and art that the kids did
Corners are padded
The Casio is off
After somersaults
After “Days Are Gone”
After the ladybug is on
We might be dead tired but we’re so alive
Rundawdaw
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2. |
Fourteen
03:33
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I thought I was dying
When I was falling asleep
But I’m still kickin’
My lungs are breathing
These legs are going running
I’m wide awake and I know
That I don’t know anything at all
Though I’m just alright
I do the best I can
Even the darkest night
Moved me to where I am
With the new morning
I live a new kind of life
There’s a new light in my eye
I spent so much time
Wagering with a thing that hates me
A cold, unforgiving feeling
But now I know it’s not a ghost
It’s not anything at all
With the new morning
I live a new kind of life
See a different kind of sight
There’s a new light in my eye
Today is all I need it to be
Tonight I will not worry anymore
This might be all I needed to see
So tonight I will not worry anymore
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3. |
Bumblebees
03:58
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I cannot wait for it
To be warm again
And we’re all pretending
Running wild
When the outside is in
Windows are wide open
And we’re all pretending
Running wild
Outside
Out of it
Outside
Out of it
I want to act again
And lie that we saw a ghost
Or fake another UFO
Say it flew over our backyard
There’s been so much nothing
Clouding up our eyes
But we forget our size
In the summer solstice sun
Outside
Out of it
Outside
Out of it
Though we’re just kids
We know what this is
Outside
Out of it
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4. |
The Same Names
02:25
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This place is a little smaller
Than the way that I remember it being
And the playground is a garden
With a statue of Saint Francis in it
The home is a different shape
Just look at it now
Look at it now
It is the same place
But it’s not the same
You have been alive
And I have been alive too, honey
And though we can’t save time
Time can save us from the worst of it
Maybe
This arm is a different shape
Just look at us now
Look at us now
Using the same names
But we’re not the same
Still using the same names
But we’re not the same
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5. |
Lake Michigan
03:58
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Woke up tired
And I’m still in my childhood bed
Regretting what I said
Oh my, Nora
I drive your parents’ car around my hometown
And I’m lost
Maybe my memory is wrong
Oh my, Nora
Tonight we’re both stargazing
Apart but watching the same sky
Almost makes me forget that I’ve been away so long
Though my eyes don’t work too well at night
I can see this better than ever, honey
Lake Michigan
I’m running
I’m going to be with you
Falling forward
I might stumble all the way to you
We’ll see each other soon
Oh my, Nora
This is happening
It’s not some superstition
No, waiting isn’t working
Oh my, Nora
There’s a new kind of fire under me
There’s a new kind of morning in you
Only you
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6. |
Judee in Decorah
03:57
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In the slowdown
In the middle of death
Iowa is on the eyelids
Falling forward
Falling far from the flood, salt in hand
Hitting the cold ground standing
You’re awake, I’m awake
You got up, I got up
Drove together to Decorah
Singing Judee … it’s enough
This is life after life
I ate it up clean
Bought that more is a goal to feed
Now all I want is what I need
And I need you next to me
It’s so easy
To get buried in our own time
Rolling over and over again
It happens gradually -
Getting muddied in the low tide, honey
Collecting venial sins and sand
We’re second wind-ing as we’re aging
Two open shapes rearranging
Rundawdaw days or hiking ice caves
Time is always too short
Let’s make a life out of this life
It’s quiet on this side of night
Softer than any other light
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7. |
Low Tide
02:51
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Every time we stop and stay
The tide pulls us away
Over and over
These frozen, fighting bones
Still sending signal tones
Over and over
Low tide
Going nowhere
Old signs
Pointing nowhere
Swelling storm surges are breaking
Twisting rituals, turning, changing
We’re twenty years old and
Out on our own and
The level is rising
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8. |
Just Like Clementine
03:23
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Moving like a diver
Been moving somewhere so quietly
Still, I can’t stop saying things
That don’t mean anything
But you know that the deeper we go
The harder it is to see where we are
Oh Lord, I still love the swim
I still love the water
And just like Clementine
I forget who I am
An everyday omen
But maybe I might
Decide to be decisive
Been closed
I’ve been open
Come over
Been waiting here forever
Been waiting here forever
For something to happen
So come on, come over
Try and come over
Come on, come over
We’ll go nowhere or somewhere
And just like Clementine
I forget who I am
An everyday omen
Maybe I might
Decide to be decisive
Been closed
I’ve been open
Come over
Come over
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9. |
Pure Luck
03:39
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Goodnight, darlin’, goodnight
Been drifting so fast that we can’t relax
So let’s get back, honey
Let’s get back
And slow down before we fall down
Let’s hold up just a minute
Sober up in a minute
Give me just a minute to catch my breath
When trouble shows up
We tend to get stuck
But it might be pure luck
That we landed here now
Tomorrow morning
We’ll find a mooring
Though we’re caught up in a wave
We’re caught up in such a way
That something’s gotta change
Let’s cut the surges
Get back to sand
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Castle Theater Minneapolis, Minnesota
Castle Theater is the music of Minnesotan songwriter and home recordist Tyler Tholl.
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