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Blue van Meer [part III​]​: 'Love Lies Limp (Feigning Stately Dignity​)​'

by troubled by insects

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Disquieting answers from incomprehensible questions we have no sugar mountain to journey backward towards not freed or liberated but wholly conquered i am your puppet i am absorbed The mosquito on my arm small hypodermic needle mistletoe above my head fluid made to keep me stable my thoughts glacier like lava lollipop head on woozy neck bookmark smile 'til i'm sober take pills, take alcohol, take our check THERE IS A WAR BETWEEN THOSE WHO SAY THERE'S WAR AND THOSE WHO SAY THERE'S NONE I need to read it again i need to talk about it less a strange, suffocating violence no pleasure, peace; no common sense
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Gaze slipping beyond the edge the tabletop the knee of your pants what is projected in that margin? i thought i thought you were sandwiches my face SHOOT IF YOU MUST THIS OLD GREY HEAD No remedy for evil but only the image of it as we conceived it to be no deux ex machina for our real lives so best to sell our lives for free She's got the diety looks she's got the wall she's got the curtain she's got the greater solipsism we have no book and our fathers are dead in the ground There is a war and we have lost

about

lyrical content inspired by / culled from these works:

"Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl
"Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

listen with Albini's suggested EQ settings for "In Utero"

credits

released January 31, 2013

d. schultz: Stylophone, acoustic guitar, contact mic, vox, processing

recorded/mixed the second week of January 2013
at coattrack HQ, Portland OR
by d. schultz

this is a joint coattrack/APNEICVOID release
CTR016 / APNEICVOID_005

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