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lyrics

Waiting on a package
I ordered in august.
some book for a college class.
could be at the wrong address,
or gone in a hat trick,
a mercury flame turned to ash

And I don’t know whether to order another,
or to wait it out, ‘cause it could be a long while.
So I’m watching the calendar,
and waiting for the mail to get here,
if it ever does arrive.

I remember your tail lights
blur zigzags of red light
as they meandered away in the night rain.
I never thought in that instance,
that the increasing distance.
would be more than your wheels on the grey.

now it’s trial by withering fire,
singing in the monophonic choir

You travelled but you’re stone still,
unravelling, cyclones spill
what they tore from the ground’s seed,
Hope then I’m sighing with relief, that
your destination ain't dead leaves
if you ever do arrive.

I know it’s true, but I have to see it for myself.
And I know it’s you, but I’m trying with everything to believe it’s someone else.

Don’t have any coordinates,
don’t know where I am yet
And I still can’t tell where I’m not
If I’m a mass with momentum,
I’m bound towards the center,
Well I ain’t moving, but I never stopped.

Everything’s a circular
coil built upward
it’ll worry and strangle your mind.
Go round and round the game
and though, different, it’s all the same
and I never do arrive.

And that’s how I stay alive.

Is this town Cairo?
No man it ain’t.
Just stay on your raft boat,
and float on your way.
Is this where I’m heading to,
a bigger cage, in a smaller zoo?
Hey, Zeno, I’m almost halfway to halfway to you.
and I’m running out of days

We’re all lost in the mail haul
stable bound angels, reduced to the last place we slept.
Postmarked and stamped, but we don’t understand,
we arrive at the same time we've left

And there’s so much noise, so much inanity and mire (Oh! Neverending count to absurd!)
One glass has poison, so I’m crossing fingers, and praying we survive (Oh! Everbending calculus curve!)
I’m holding breaths, and hoping we arrive.
If we ever do

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from Between Suns, released April 1, 2019
Joel Martin: vocals, guitars, banjo, bass, percussion
David Fuller: drums, vocals, percussion, guitars
Kate Cvancara: violin

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