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a knot of cliches
the nothingness I was afraid of
the best of today
was floating face up
entranced by the rec pool ceiling
lost feelings found with
a yard sale record
undulating still
a knot of cliches
the nothingness I was afraid of
the best of tonight
it's waiting just waiting
the best of the rest of our lives
it's waking always waking
the best of tonight
it's waiting just waiting
the best of the rest of our lives
it's waking always waking
a knot of cliches
the nothingness I was afraid of
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the quiet walk
step by step
leaving language
leaving words speechless
step by step
you know you need it
but you don't want it
you know you need it
but you don't want it
revoking your name
revoking your name
it's the quiet walk
step by step
an interstitial revelry
step by step
testing
the irreversibility of life
revoking yeah revoking
your name
revoking your name
it's the quiet walk
step by step
leaving words speechless
you need it
but you don't want it
you need it
but you don't want it
you need it
but you don't want it
revoking your name
step
the quiet walk
the quiet walk
the quiet walk
the quiet quiet walk
the quiet walk
the quiet walk
the quiet quiet walk
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the poems are short
to close the distance
your frown is so curt
your lips quiver and glisten
between thought and feeling
between thought and feeling
the poems are short
to close the distance
your eyes open and close
the best resistance
between thought and feeling
between thought and feeling
the poems are short
to close the distance
I haven't been right
since you left insisting
between thought and feeling
between thought and feeling
the poems are short
to close the distance
between thought and feeling
the poems are short
to close the distance
between thought and feeling
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and yes I agree
we know everything Leonard Cohen
claimed we did
in a future song
there is no theory of value
and being doesn't ask
if we are a disease
wind born tears are
oblivious to want
in this song I haven't heard yet
we live with the heavens
when you're poor and unassuming
you have a culture all your own
and if it ends
you know it's always ended
you walk to where you need to go
and you get there or not
you walk to where you need to go
and you get there or not
you get there or not
you get there or not
when you're poor and unassuming
yes I agree
we know everything Leonard Cohen
claimed we did
everybody knows that
everybody
everybody knows where it's at
everybody
hey everybody
hey everybody
when you're poor and unassuming
you have a culture all your own
and if it ends
well it has always ended
you walk to where you need to go
and get there or not
yeah you get there or not
you get there or not
where you need to go
when you're poor and unassuming
you get to where you need to go
yes I agree
we know everything Leonard Cohen
claimed we did
hey everybody
everyone
everyone
each and everyone
every-every-everybody
every-every-everybody
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Jamaica Gardens
04:23
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African yam, Spanish pig,
Arawak jerk, African blood
the sweetness and the many
the sweetness and the many
in Jamaica Gardens
in Jamaica Gardens
Chinese cabbage, Arawak blood,
English beef, African blood,
Indian plantain
the sweetness and the many
the sweetness and the many
in Jamaica Gardens
in Jamaica Gardens
tilling loam, African blood
ocean horizons escaping
tilling loam, African blood
ocean horizons escaping
ocean horizons escaping
ocean horizons escaping
in Jamaica Gardens
in Jamaica Gardens
in Jamaica Gardens
in Jamaica Gardens
in Jamaica Gardens
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The Stakes Are Us Vancouver, British Columbia
The Stakes Are Us formed in 2021 as a collaborative songwriting experiment under pandemic conditions.
Jeremy was once a member of Night Bust, Payday Millionaire, The Weather and The Blush Response, as well as The Enemy Feathers, The Basement Sweets and Circle Of Ill Health.
Trevor has previously been a part of Sparkle Fuzz, Scin Laeca, Betty Kracker, and The Rain and the Sidewalk.
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