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My Worst Self
04:09
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Can’t forget to set up the alarm for eight AM. I’m due in court again. There's nothing wrong with Mike. He’s just alright. Yeah, I punched first but wasn’t even trying to fight. And If you told me that five years ago, you’d be with him, I still wouldn’t let you in.
I’m sitting down to try to figure out why I’m being my worst self again. I knew all along that what I did wrong. I’m being my worst self again.
We had our time, and we had a kid. She does more for you than I anything I ever did. Pink plastic toy in a soaked Shop Rite bag. I know it’s nothing much, but it’s all I really had.
I’m sitting down to try to figure out why I’m being my worst self again. I knew all along that what I did wrong. I’m being my worst self again, and all those bad things always seems to cling. I’m being my worst self again.
Yeah, we nearly died, but I’m okay to drive out for some smokes. I’ve already been revoked. Last walk home from work. It’s just another perk: Father of the Year, Employee of the Month.
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For a Blue Girl
04:29
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Walk on down these halls. Finger-paint scrawls spell out her name in bubble-lettered epitaphs.
She breaths then unmasks, smiles, then asks if I know a game
that won’t take long for us to play
When you’re cold, you can take my hand, blue girl
Lean on me when you need to stand, blue girl
It’s your quiet heart I don’t understand, blue girl
We can play any game you want today
Doesn’t seem too fair. It don’t seem right. You’re not kept by locks but by the failing of your heart.
Has it been that long since you seen the sun? “Well, how long for you?”Able, yes, but not quite having fun.
We can play any game you want always.
The phone rang just once, nobody spoke. I knew it would come but still, how could it happen to you?
Been stuck in my thoughts, secrets you knew: gifts of the short-lived, A kingdom in a hospital room.
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A Few Steps
04:34
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Shoot for the moon, missed the stars, so far off, a few more steps
Reached for stars, fell short of the sky, so far off, a few more steps
So far so far each step traveled takes me further and further away
Asked the question, it was a joke, so far off, a few more steps
Crossed the street, stuck halfway, so far off, a few more steps
Solved the riddle, probably wrong, so far off, a few more steps
Tried to stop, lost the power, so far off, a few more steps
Grind to a halt, can’t stay still, so far off, a few more steps
Made a list, nowhere to start, so far off, a few more steps
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Monocacy
03:53
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In sixty-four they stopped Early as to take one for the team
When they pulled out to Baltimore it weren’t the loss it seemed
Now, the hollow it follows me while driving past those monuments. Us NJ boys lead astray, here we are the occupants.
Trumped up flags, buck’d and gagged, some corn for acknowledgement
We are holed up at Best’s, buying us some time
All those after me, I tried my best to buy you time
Across the street from the county seat, Lee asks them to pay the ransom. Rebs are back, red hats attack, now confused about the anthem
All those after me, I tried my best to buy you time
To those at Araby, try your best to hold the line
Don’t know where this going, but it’s going nowhere good
Virtue delayed a day like Monocacy withstood
All I can hope for at best is to buy you time
All those after me, I tried my best to buy you time
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Stay Strangers
03:28
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ou’re waiting across from me. I try to pretend I don’t see that look in your eyes, that plea. You’re hoping for some company
Hesitant, so reticent
Sorry I wish I could help.I’m just not quite feeling myself
Day after day I can’t help by shy away
It occurs to me that you are lonesome too
You would think that we’d talk, but that would be untrue
This is the drift I have caught, while weeds poke through the motel parking lot. Seems I’m boarding now, and you are not
Reticent, so hesitant
Now I can really see that you are lonesome too. So long ago, lives ago, I ceaselessly withdrew. So, I’m afraid, it will be silence over you
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Dying, yet Gaming
04:22
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I just popped out of the Vault, if I’m not on mic it’s not my fault
They just gave me some real life Rads and it’s got me so I can barely stand
The Alliance is ganking again. Portal to ‘Barrens to defend. Wasn’t that faction supposed to be good? Nurse wants me off, I probably should
I'm stuck down here waiting for a res
Killing time, switching skins on my dress
Don’t bring it up, don’t be so distraught
It's just that dying takes much longer than I’d thought
Zavala goes on about The Light. 'Hive don’t put up much of a fight.
Maybe I’ll be found by a Ghost somewhere along the Shattered Coast
Stacking blocks with my sister’s kid. A tiny house on an infinite grid. He calls down about a diamond square. Wish I could make it up those stairs
I said goodbye so many times I’m numb
I will leave you all the loot I've won
Health meters refill why not mine?
It’s not just me, we are all just passing time
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Irish Goodbye
03:33
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Known as quite polite
And to that despite
There’s no farewell for you
I couldn’t tell you why
I can’t say goodbye
Time for me to fly
I can’t say goodbye
Kitchen light catches me going out the back door
Invites in my postbox, for me no more
Good at pleasantries
Nod my head and agree
There’s no farewell for you
Here in my finest
Yet there’s no question why must
There be no farewell for you
Dollie’s at the piano time to make my leave. Her singing’s so lovely, makes it hard to breath
They won’t be the wiser
If I pocket that appetizer
There’s no farewell for you
Oh, yes, the office friend
Yes, another ear to bend
There’s no farewell for you
Voices grow quiet as I rise up the hill .Finally freedom in the night air’s chill
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You Got a New Dog
02:42
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Know you have been down for weeks
Me too, in waves and peaks
Seems you got yourself a new dog.
Guess I’ll Undo that last Epilogue
You moved on, but here I am stuck feeling him gone
Seems you are now quite alright
Too few of my old friends left in sight
You know it’s untrue I hold on in spite
Put him down together. I still see him around
You moved on, but here I am still leashed along
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Pixels
04:13
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The font of resampled girls
It's my fixed reference for the world
Blinking cursor, cursed observer
Interrogating port to port
Resolute resolution revealed
Cutting up, square to square
It’s a funny little world you’ve got yourself rendered here
Oh, the places you’ve let us see, the world and its vacancies
The dirt formed from pearls
It's my fixed reference for the world
While in vain we tame
The world, byte by byte, bit by bit
Everything to pick now with a click
On and on, phone to phone, share to share
It’s a funny little world you’ve got yourself rendered here
The horrid men behind the URLs
It's my fixed reference for the world
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Watch Out for That One
02:32
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He’s walking all alone
Watch out for that one
Think you can’t, think you can
Watch out for that one
Think I went to school with that guy
He was gone before the end of fall
Should hear the things that say
Not sure I believe it all
Not sure what he’s done
Watch out for that one
When you were young, you two would play
Did he take a punch that was meant for you?
See him on the playground, you forget and you deny
He was messed up for his life
You're forgetting where’s he’s from
Watch out for that one
Thinks the debt is undone
Watch out for that one
Never thanked him, never tried
Watch out for that one
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Taped Over
03:47
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Pulling you back
a mirror, a miniature
that feeling you’ve left on the stove.
It's all on the plaque,
carved by mad milliners:
a riddle you cannot decode.
A sad lonely claque,
they called you a pillager
of finite fishes and loaves.
Cassette on the ground,
recorded while dreaming.
The answers were there, but I taped over it.
See that man on the ledge?
You two could be brothers!
Don’t worry if he falls. They’ll tape over it.
Brain to the rack,
hand to the sinister.
A coin lost in the deep trove.
How’d you lose track?
Now just a mimicker, acting like it’s something you chose.
A plank to the head
on the ship of Theseus.
Hull marks obscured, they taped over them.
I caught you on camera,
you were supposed to be sleeping.
Alibi still holds. We’ll tape over it.
Heroes come home,
but wear out their welcome.
One last parade. Ticker tape them all.
Dailies in screening,
‘switched out the actor,
fixed with a splice, we’ll tape over it.
There’s a hole in your story.
Event out of sequence
The timeline is shot. You’ll tape over it.
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The Earthly Frames Maryland
The Earthly Frames is recording artist Gabriel Walsh. He's currently in process of creating The Rainbow Table, a nine album series corresponding to ROYGBIV (with black and white). The latest album is blue: Taped Over coming in April of 2023.
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