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Bright Again
05:31
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Save it all for the morning
Everything will be bright again
and my eyes, young as they open
And I won't keep me from seeing
everything I want to see
just as long as she sees it too
But tonight I'm alright
Ask me again when this ends
Through the time it takes to realize
you were kidding when you smiled
I am not in on the joke
For a while this is goodbye
But nothing ever ends like we wish
Just begins, over and over
And I know I can't be idle
Everything I want to feel
I can't hope that one day it comes
Though the grain gets its rain
I don't deserve to be served
Stop me if you have heard this one before
Man walks into the world, stays a while
What’s the use of a mind? What’s it good for?
When everything is erased with her smile
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No Control
04:39
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Something in the words we choose
makes the things we say come in twos
Which do you wish that I prefer?
Somewhere in the things I do
lies a little tiny piece of you
But I am sweeping up my mind
And suddenly I am speechless
I try to know, but I just guess
For anything I remember
is just a dead fire's ember
Now raise your hands to the heat
And yet as though we both met
because we were let
Allowed to forget
I think if I had just blinked
the chains wouldn't link
But what do you think?
I have no control, over me
and we do as we're told, why do we?
And suddenly I am speechless
I try to know, but I just guess
For if I still see the sunlight
then everything will be just right
Now raise your hands to the heat
There's fate but that's just a wait
A key with no gate
A line much too straight
And though the things that we know
are not fading slow
There's one place to go
But I have no control over me
and we do as we're told, why do we?
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Oh Miss No Name
03:14
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I'll write a few words
with water from the fountain
But, soon as it's done, it dries
There's word on the wind
a gale sent from the mountain
throwing all of my thoughts to the skies
Did I really think remembering, such a tiny little thing
would make her love me?
To me, memory, to her, happenstance
All of the dust, floating like solar systems
Do I breathe it in, or close my lungs?
I won’t decide today
for the clock’s turned back again
I’ll see you in spring
Oh miss no name, perpetual love
Feels just like we are hand in glove
I’m just musing, remove the “m”
Now just using my mind ‘til then
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The Parade
04:17
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In the early morning after
all the sounds of the parade
gently fade
I can smell the leaves are burning
I imagine something nice
I think twice and carry on
I am sick of all my memories
They are barely even me
I can see, can see, but oh, who could that be?
In the country I will feel the land
come and place itself into my hand
In the morning I will watch the sea
come and lay itself in front of me
And I would ask the sky to take a seat
if it wasn’t still under my feet
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The Penultimate Color
04:00
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Listen to the cicada outro
as the leaves start to shift to brown
Glisten within the turning sunlight
that quickly envelops the town
Yesterday in the trees fell the shade
as it plays on my knees and then fades
into the fast moving nights and the melancholy lights with you
And I'm watching the woods build a mosaic for their coffin
And I'm watching them both fall in and out of control
But the flowers they bloomed and so are doomed to be
the penultimate color we're allowed to see
And so how long will nature still pen its overture
Where will the notes fall in the dark without us knowing?
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Peels and Feels
04:01
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I was on the hill, standing high
for years until, she walked by
A blade of grass, in the green
The chance has passed, and it seems
Just as I start to think and feel
like the world was just a rind already peeled…
I forget just what I was, waiting for
A thousand days, out the door
Do you understand my point of view?
Every day I asked for her and what do I do?
Not a thing, not a thing
I'll wait here for the sun
River, pass the time
I won't ask any one
for my peace of mind
There is a light
I see it now
Dim as it might
When I start to inch my feet
on the edge of miserable defeat
I will lay my armor down
Take my hand, I’m yours without a sound!
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Pangea
03:12
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Glory to all still in need
Those who must stop to bleed, else exceed
Bring me a drop of the sun
Smold'ring in a cup, then on my tongue
I was the one who broke Pangea
Continent, shift, and ocean be a
fill of my glass, drinkable mass
This is the last call of a dying king
Reborn in an instance of doubt
Self-inflicted the clout, and found out
The jeweled crown was bent to
form around the head of another
in the line, so take my anodyne
I thought me the only one
The naivety, the smoking gun
So bring me a drop of the sun
Shimm'ring in a cup, then on my tongue
I was the one who broke Pangea
Continent, shift, and ocean be a
fill of my glass, drinkable mass
This is the last call of a dying king
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The Actress' Kiss
02:16
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The actress' kiss staged upon my lips
Our love's tragedy, just a display placed in a play
But I hide my heart deep behind the art
though I feel as I do there on the page, here on the stage
Truth, truth is just a line memorized
Sweat awaits my eyes as her lips close on mine
Truth, truth is just a thing we enact
How should I react, when it's all just an act?
Every night I'm forced to love you again
Dramatize the honest feeling and then
Take a bow for what they think is pretend
Every night I get to watch as it ends
But who can complain when who you love is
a role planned and feigned? Please understand that
I kiss you in hopes that you can see through
my act, through the theater, and the disbelief
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Untitled
01:07
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Andy Klingensmith Chicago, Illinois
Multi-disciplinary artist concerned with place, pace, and tape since January 2020.
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