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Pictures Of
02:47
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Sunshine
Lifts the curtain to
Finds its way to you and
breaks itself in two
Breathe, it’s asunder
and we’ll be close behind
As holes tear from summer
The people had their choosing
Now we’re free to lose both our minds
Don’t believe the things before you
They’re just pictures of
Darkness
Crawls into our bed
Tries to reach my head but
falls asleep instead
Breathe, it’s asunder
and we’ll be close behind
As holes tear from summer
The people had their choosing
Now we’re free to lose both our minds
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Twenty Years At Sea
01:52
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From the morning light
to nightfall
Every day now
All my words have no meaning yet
Twenty years at sea
Are you waiting
for a sign from me
Well, no complaining now
Seven signs
and a hundred reasons
But every day I don’t I will regret
I won’t hold it against you
I won’t hold it at all
Seven signs
and a hundred reasons
But every day I don’t I still regret
Still do yet
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Template Song
02:26
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Throwing these few shapes
Picturing your face
Just for the sake
of no mistakes
Will you be today
like all of these ways
I bend my hand
Memories of man
You're a template for my days
I wondered how I
could see the whole sky
from where I stood
deep in the wood
Sitting on a tree
calling back to me
how I forgot
all I was not
I could be happy
Oh, I was very
in such a haze
for all my days
In such a haze
Forest ablaze
In such a haze
How can I recall
your hair in the fall
ripe with the rain
A lion's mane
I think on two now
both old but one how
small she made me
Now I can see
It doesn't matter
how I feel after
she's still right there
bored in her chair
I'm not counting all the ways
she's a template for my days
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Sea Hum
02:38
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I won’t tell you my name
if you do the same
I’m not asking for much
but a simple crutch
Sea hum
Do you wait for me there
I’ll ring the moon
and pin it to your hair
If you remember
that you asked me to
Sea hum
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The Undergrowth
01:57
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Such a lovely night to be found
in the few trees from which we'd sound all our inhales, exhales now
From the river I can see light
Are you waiting or is the night just a candle dancing round
Lie in the snow
Keep your breathing low
If you feel the freeze
bring yourself to me
Can you hear the wind on the leaves
If I could I'd fall right asleep but then you would have to too
We can both try
Let's close our eyes
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Ebbing
02:55
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Singled out in depthless crowds
like lanterns in the night
In the dark sits a fire
burning from the sunlight
Put it out, I promise we’ll keep warm
Don’t tell anyone
I don’t need
but I find myself
wanting more as the days
watch me as they pass
In the dark sits a fire
burning from the sunlight
Put it out, I promise we’ll keep warm
I don’t need
much as else but one
wanting more just from me
and she always will
In the dark sits a fire
burning from the sunlight
Put it out, I promise we’ll keep warm
So I need
but then don’t we all
If I was to speak true
all I need is you
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So
looks I've found you out
Guess it's not
all in my head
Films I wrote lying in bed
When I asked you to be true
was like asking red to be blue
To think I thought
To see I sought
But you're nothing
Still
I will miss a girl
who still calls
me by my name
Portrait that's lacking a frame
When I asked you to be true
was like asking red to be blue
These summer skies are a hue
not doing favors for you
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The Clocks Have Stopped
02:39
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Seems the clocks have stopped
Picked me up then dropped
Time is on standby
Things stuck in the sky
Though the day is endless
we won't realize how (in my head)
Everything is different
after what you said
If I could please have quiet
When the clocks have stopped
conversations drop
Seems like years have passed
since I saw you last
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White Paper Ships
02:09
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White paper ships
What d'you call this
feeling in my chest
From the open gate
I'm not sleeping as of late
I don't feel a thing
when you start to sing for me
When you're honest
What d'you call this
feeling like the
wool's been pulled before
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Anew
02:53
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I spent all my night waiting
but I don’t mind
Illusions in my head but they just
pass the time
And I hope you are miserable tonight
So they won’t remember the way
that I was with you
I can waste a day but too much
and I start to think anew
And I hope you are miserable tonight
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Suite Lime
02:56
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When you are found to be reading this letter
I'll be so far from where you are
Won't you let me go
I will keep you in my mind
Take these few words as a gift of sympathy
I won't let them if you don't want them
Won't you let me know
if you keep me in your mind
For a moment I
In fair weather
I had seen your face upon her head
If I am true, there were moments
when I wished that you were her
And she was you
And now we are here
and we're nowhere near
the meaning of this
She asks for a kiss
And she says my name and I
know it's not the same but I
am taken aback
by dirt on her lap
I ask her what for
She opens the door
And she says my name and I
am feeling the same so I think
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Andy Klingensmith Chicago, Illinois
Multi-disciplinary artist concerned with place, pace, and tape since January 2020.
The center is always open.
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