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Fraying Threads

by Sommer Harris

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1.
Astronaut Cat 02:10
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Je t'aime, je t'aime, my astronaut cat I've gone a walking to the valley along our train track when the train whistle sounds it's a call a to run wild to the place where you'll always be a poet and I'll always be a child if only your eyes didn't glimmer like stars and your smile couldn't summon the sun if only your words couldn't lift up my soul maybe I wouldn't think you were the one the stars that spell out your name in the sky are so bright and almost as clear as my cry when the days are all the same and I have nowhere to roam I read your words and from wherever I am they bring me home at nighttime we'll sit and we'll stare at the stars imaging the poems they're longing to sing we'll sing them out loud as we sail through the night and land for a picnic on Jupiter's ring Je t'aime, je t'aime, my astronaut cat I've gone a walking to the valley along our train track when the train whistle sounds it's a call a to run wild to the place where you'll always be a poet and I'll always be a child
2.
Beside Myself 03:44
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How can I miss you while you're sitting here beside me beside yourself, inside your gut is empty where have I flung the flag that flies to guide you just to break you in the end and bleach it white just to finalize your child's ending flight and now the world's too dark a place a cold embrace two crying faces and now the world's too big a place to make it right and I been trying way too hard to pose a fight I let a battering ram impale your heart and bruise you to the bone and from the blood that's left behind we find easier to be lone my love oh my love my love have I been on overdrive so many miles you lost your smiles has my water drained the sugar from your blood has the sun burned out and radiating light you have has turned to night have you simply lost your music just because was your melody made silent just because I let a battering ram impale your heart and bruise you to the bone and from the blood that's left behind we find easier to be lone my love oh my love my love what I wouldn't give to relive all your younger days before when you knew your biggest fears would never come so now you're less afraid but everyday there's demons knocking at your door and you're forced each and every one and the girl you used to know is on the run I let a battering ram impale your heart and bruise you to the bone and from the blood that's left behind we find easier to be lone my love oh my love my love
3.
Cape Scott 02:25
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we were travelers in a storybook I found the lost boys living and I took a second look at the world through this lens, in the company of friends and I knew at once this is where the story ends yeah I knew at once this is where it ends and where it begins meters felt like miles in the sunshine on the beach and our brother was a whale though he was safely out of reach of the crescent crashing back like the sense of life in me and I knew at once that now is the only time to be yeah I knew at once that your faith in the future won't set you free with seashells in our hair and sunlight woven through everything we saw was lovely, everything we said was true in the absence of rules it feels okay to just be you in the absence of shame people's hearts will lead them through shameless, blameless, we're babies after all but we started pointing fingers, ate the fruit, took our fall God is dead, and his head his mounted on the wall so we must forgive each other for him we're all babies after all
4.
Merely Man 02:41
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Your memory was dragging me into the undertow but i'm ready now to write you one last song and let you go You believed in magic and I found it in your heart then your wizardry turned tragic and you wanted a new start So while our history is filling me this mystery is killing me and I don't want to find you when your soul is torn apart There will always be words left unsaid But words won't do my any good if you're already dead so there you go, enjoy your blow Dive into the undertow I hope that you enjoy the world of hungry ghosts below This two headed boy business I'm beginning to see Is a metaphor for the way you feel when you're trying not to be Standard, plain, creatively drained, Sad insane and scatter brained But you didn't think about what your metaphors were doing to me There will always be words left unsaid But words won't do my any good if you're already dead so there you go, enjoy your blow Dive into the undertow I hope that you enjoy the world of hungry ghosts below You said meet me by the tracks and we could sail the sky but traintracks has a different meaning to you just a pretty lie So I'll take the lessons that I know, to let it shine and let it go If nothing else my loving you has only helped me grow If nothing else my loving you has only helped me grow
5.
Sorry 01:45
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I don't know what you interpret as violent got a gun in my pocket that's silent if you'd like to be my next client I'll carve out and cut up your heart without trying to for just trying to love me lovely lies my reflection's so strong that I can't see the water I shot my reflection right after I fought her trying to say to myself that I'm not her still trying to shatter all these mirrors before the years take their toll ash this on my soul if I could backtrack all the miles we've traveled take back all the impulsive lies you unraveled you wouldn't be trampled by my cavalry trying to fight back the dark that keeps me standing staring stark into the nighttime for the sun always shines but we don't always see it my mind intertwines with the way that I've dreamed it my head falls apart when I follow my heart so I'm stuck staring stark at the sun till I see it too close and it all comes undone if I can remember my own insignificance marvel at our mother's magnificence be alive and revive my lost innocence step into the light
6.
Lacan 02:13
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And so could I dissolve into the real into the space we can't explain in symbols we can only feel there's something more but so wrapped up in living we're not looking for it if we could really find a door, how could we know? so either language take me away or let my bones and flesh and teeth decay trying to satisfy the grey space have I been searching for my self completion stuck inside a set have I agreed that it makes sense so long that I learned to forget from where I came that it was whole, we were the same so either language take me away or let my bones and flesh and teeth decay trying to satisfy the grey space how can I live imagined fictions but do I reject the words and contradictions question my convictions I'm just what's left, it's not enough I'm not convinced I'm real when I gazed into the looking glass I took the devil's deal so either language take me away or let my bones and flesh and teeth decay trying to make the colors stay
7.
Phaeton 02:34
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Oh that fiery chariot is moving onto western sky so flying faster than Phaeton fall into my arms make me high you know I'm not trying to test you just trying to invest in your mind and darling what I find I think is fine and mmmm I want you mine making music always was more satisfying than making love so it never came as a surprise when I couldn't seem to see my reflection in your eyes I'm not trying to deceive you but would you believe if I told you that I'm not expecting you to open my eyes help me take off this disguise cause I might rather be foolish than lonely and wise and oh that fiery chariot is moving onto western sky so flying faster than Phaeton fall into my arms make me fly, fly you know I'm not trying to test you just trying to invest in your mind and darling what I find I think is fine and mmmm I want you mine
8.
River Stone 03:48
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make me smooth like a river stone throw me in the rapids let the water wear me down turn my flesh into a sound I never wanted to be more than a mask put on a child but now that child's gone this wild mask is moving on and she's confused a bit about life cause I used her to find out if I could settle for security but stagnant water's killing me make me smooth like a river stone throw me in the rapids let the water wear me down turn my flesh into a sound there's books and lectures waiting for those who revel in their minds but I revel in my hands and long to be in distant lands and I been faking it for far too long it didn't come out until this song been blindly living this condition worried bout my disposition so take the mask from this girl give me eyes to see give me the courage to do what I fear to finally set myself free to finally set myself free make me smooth like a river stone throw me in the rapids let the water wear me down turn my flesh into a sound turn my flesh into a sound turn my flesh into a sound turn my flesh into a sound
9.
Silent Sounds 04:03
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Silent sounds you're making silent sounds so don't you turn this around on me he said that it was bound to happen what we found it nearly tore our the ground form neath our feet give me screaming trumpets jazz trombones fill my empty heart with saxophones I know that you were not my own I only had you out on loan he said it's not worth it dear keep your love right here inside this open atmosphere he cannot see absurdity we're already pure the human heart it does endure it's part faced with the abyss it treads alone but you were there by my side as something evil in me died you watched the current toss around this river stone tell me have you ever danced with demons they say that thats the price for dreaming but you will never see how dark this human heart can be he said I know it hurts you dear but I'm proud of how you steer inside the walls will crumble in now, hold on tight and some day you'll see inside yourself place your glasses on the shelf and see that you've been living in the light all this time all that time silent sounds you made the first silent sounds so don't you turn this around on me and now after this round of drinks you try to shake my ground and think you understand me consciousness as free tell me where's the glimmer in the gold does your beacon shine of should you've sold you say moral conscious is a curse, I'll tell you bout a life that's worse don't tell me if it's over don't advise me to let go don't ask me to betray my past for freshly fallen snow you know I say it's not worth it dear I'll keep my love right here inside this open atmosphere he cannot see they never see never see they never see never see me
10.
Patterns 04:03
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tell me are we merely patterns forming out of space and matter falling now, don't watch me shatter don't tell me that we're merely words dance me to the end of reason kiss till it's out of season justify our cry for treason we're boundless until we return no don't run away my darling, I promise we'll make the moment stay and I will try to kill my fear 'cause in the moment that I lost sight of you I turned and you were here into the frames and games, I'd fallen in didn't believe the sense on my skin stepping out again, I'll name my sin I was afraid that I could win but the playing price is apathy no one gets to kill their soul for free that's why I love the things that torment me I'm terrified of how barren this life can be no don't run away my darling, I promise we'll make the moment stay and I will try to kill my fear 'cause in the moment that I lost sight of you I turned and you were here I don't care now if they think we're right I agree with what you said that night whispered everything will be alright your faith my darling gives me flight and the innocence within your tone said in that moment you were so alone when I opened up the lights were blown it was the brightest I had ever shown no don't run away my darling, I promise we'll make the moment stay and I will try to kill my fear 'cause in the moment that I lost sight of you I turned and you were here
11.
Through The Earth 04:34
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In the earliest hours You wished you had flowers So that you could give them to me But I loved you before then from back in the days when I saw that you knew how to see And do you remember that night on the rooftop? The sky and the Earth, they were one and although it was night out, With you-- in the white out The snow was like summertime sun For what it's worth Sometimes I feel you through the earth That magnetic tide Has a current that stops at your side And do you remember those days in Manhattan? The rain, and the lights, and the show? And although we're just babies I'm thinking that maybe I just want to steal you and go When I see you again, With all our old friends I'm scared it might not be the same Still your eyes hold divinity, all this infinity, Something I can't even name
12.
Bumthang 02:56
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I'm dissolving into laughter feels like happy ever after 'cause the water's sacred sheen is bluer than I've ever seen from the tip of the tongue to the depth of the drum the liver and the lips make a light, drunken hum Himalayan honey dripping down don't ever want to leave this town because now I know that when I die I will not go the mandala sands have shown that we're never left alone misty morning taxi ride I could have sworn that we had died and that this road leads to above this is the stuff heaven is made of broken banks of billowed clouds I'm drifting in and out between two lands of dreamery the sun it might as well be inside of me Himalayan honey dripping down don't ever want to leave this town because now I know that when I die I will not go the mandala sands have shown that we're never left alone and there are souls entangled in your past now they're merely holes, but those won't last and the first fact to remember is how much has changed since we were kids I'm dissolving into laughter feels like happy ever after 'cause the water's sacred sheen is bluer than I've ever seen from the tip of the tongue to the depth of the drum the liver and the lips make a light, drunken hum
13.
On the Strength of the Absurd 03:26
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won't turn to ash won't cause a drought she burns too hot to touch too shout and all I want's to snuff her out but I can't recognize in doubt I have in turn internalized that humans only orbit lies I'm saying fuck that enterprise I'll never see infinite skies remember the hail, when it starts down, it's only made of water from underground every time I start to flounder touch her tongue and taste her sounds her sounds all around so scared I'd never feel again the heart, the home, the love of friends couldn't hear the heartbeat that she sends lost to the means I lost the ends for months I lost the holy words a falconerless, frightened bird now on the strength of the absurd I know there's truth in what you heard remember the hail, when it starts down, it's only made of water from underground every time I start to flounder touch her tongue and taste her sounds her sounds all around
14.
Herdsong (bonus) 02:24
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There's a greener spot On the second hill When the herd is done with this one Go and eat your fill Cause the rains will come and the seasons yearn to Restore my bounty for you for when you return oh your boundless mobility is elegant humility the seasons bring life back to me There's a greener spot past the second hill but your herd is growing hungry and you've lost your will saying you can't move but then I can't grow and I'm losing touch with nourishment that I used to know Now you plunder my resources you're lost to violent forces Our seasons run on different courses Did you just forget how the seasons change this distance in our contact leaves me so estranged Notice after you cut me up for taxes how my life no longer waxes now it wanes
15.
Through The Earth (bonus) 04:20
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In the earliest hours You wished you had flowers So that you could give them to me But I loved you before then from back in the days when I saw that you knew how to see And do you remember that night on the rooftop? The sky and the Earth, they were one and although it was night out, With you-- in the white out The snow was like summertime sun For what it's worth Sometimes I feel you through the earth That magnetic tide Has a current that stops at your side And do you remember those days in Manhattan? The rain, and the lights, and the show? And although we're just babies I'm thinking that maybe I just want to steal you and go When I see you again, With all our old friends I'm scared it might not be the same Still your eyes hold divinity, all this infinity, Something I can't even name
16.
From Below (bonus) 02:40
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You say you've got a right to chase after the light An unprojected future sometimes the face says something and the eyes say what it never can Soraia-- I never knew her The will to life is brightly burning Swim against the undertow Can't you feel the country turning From below And too much medicine will kill her sanity, those wild pills she going crazy last night she dreams her family was there but they wouldn't let her sleep it's growing hazy The will to life is brightly burning Swim against the undertow Can't you feel the country turning From below Behind her eyelids long ago back in the day when she could know where she was she was a beauty now she forgets the room she's in her body-- shamed with sin and for a decade she has not been seen It's only luck that it should be she is her and I am me we are borne from the same it's taken all this time to see, the poor don't show up on TV So fuckin lame The will to life is brightly burning Swim against the undertow Can't you feel the country turning From below?
17.
Merely Man (Oh Season) 02:48
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Your memory was dragging me into the undertow but i'm ready now to write you one last song and let you go You believed in magic and I found it in your heart then your wizardry turned tragic and you wanted a new start So while our history is filling me this mystery is killing me and I don't want to find you when your soul is torn apart There will always be words left unsaid But words won't do my any good if you're already dead so there you go, enjoy your blow Dive into the undertow I hope that you enjoy the world of hungry ghosts below This two headed boy business I'm beginning to see Is a metaphor for the way you feel when you're trying not to be Standard, plain, creatively drained, Sad insane and scatter brained But you didn't think about what your metaphors were doing to me There will always be words left unsaid But words won't do my any good if you're already dead so there you go, enjoy your blow Dive into the undertow I hope that you enjoy the world of hungry ghosts below You said meet me by the tracks and we could sail the sky but traintracks has a different meaning to you just a pretty lie So I'll take the lessons that I know, to let it shine and let it go If nothing else my loving you has only helped me grow If nothing else my loving you has only helped me grow

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There's a voice inside that begs to get out. It claws at the veins and bursts at the seam of my skin. I managed to hear the voice for a time while it coursed through me-- these are the weaver's threads, the lost dreams, the stifled loves, the invisible life that uses mortals to make itself seen... all of that.

There are still more songs I've written that deserve 100% to be on here... it will all happen in time. All will be well.

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released August 3, 2015

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