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Roman Tiles
03:32
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The pilot’s a dream
Rest of the season was a ratings machine
But then the whole thing fell apart at the seams
As the cameras caught fire
Moving across
Between the stations I forgot where I was
Felt at the same time familiar and lost
As the daylight expired
Breaking it down
Sinister pages of a sinister sound
And as I walked a hundred stairs to the town
I heard the ladies in choirs
They sang “the square was on fire”
As the rain fell on the Roman Tiles
Yeah the square was on fire
As it rained in Holy Rome
Yeah you know, you know what’s going on
Moving along
Hearing pieces of my favorite song
With every stairway we’re treading upon
The elevation gets higher
Tearing apart
Whatever emptiness was left from the start
I watched the ocean from a tower of rocks
And the ladies in choirs…
The rain, in sheets, it fell for now it’s good
But you and I, wouldn’t change it if I could
We’re all alone, in another part of the world
But the rain, in sheets, it fell for now
We’re altogether all alone…
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2. |
Great Lakes
02:47
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I was dreaming of a Great Lake
The kind you might see on a steely morning
long long before, any of us knew
what it was like to have someone call you
a fiancee in the third person, let alone a husband or a father
Deeper than any Ocean/ deeper than any sea
the opposite of a mountain, a valley within a valley
You see a Great Lake is like an ocean
Who has lost her waves and salt
And fell behind the pack in the long walk all rivers take
to the coast
And that part, that part of me who
dreams about the strangest things
Wonders whether the center might be the deepest spot on Earth
Or at the very least Illinois
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3. |
League Champs
03:34
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Well I know just about every street corner
This city has to offer me tonight
Every intersection looming
In the distance I’m assuming
Has the weight of some strange memory, alright
Like the Michigan, Ohio, Fletcher Place
exit off the interstate
Delivered flowers to a public school right there
When I had a short-lived summer job
Working for a man called Tom
He hired me to drive plants around the town
I shared a van and drove it steady
With an ex con and his machete
Which he used for pruning trees
and his lunch which was typically a cantaloupe
Well I know just about every reservoir
every river, every lake, every pool
every waterfall, the sunlight swooning
Just standing there, so unassuming
some boyfriend waiting for his girlfriend, alright
He’s pulling grass out of the earth
contemplating his self worth
While he reads the wikipedia entry on Fairport Convention
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4. |
Moated Mountain
04:46
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Another weird year in the books
Never-ending sideways looks
Glares, askance, from the scenic salon
As little sisters everywhere slalomed along
To the sound of the drums
Wet cement, it was never meant
Letting myself back in
on the gridiron of original sin
where everything, man, is so right and pure
and white-knuckle love is de rigueur
have you ever been so sure?
Wet cement, it was never meant
Drip coffee with half and half
the subtle grace of the well-trained staff
There’s nothing to see, kid
There’s nothing to be, kid
You never meant anything to me, kid
Dripping stucco on a luxury car
An iPhone app that mapped out the stars
I went, for a stint, to the moated mountain
And ended up doing the elementary backstroke
in a pool of wet cement
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5. |
Sophomore Poems
03:16
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I was just another man, who was hangin’ by a thread
Waiting around till someone clipped the string that was holding me
together, in all kinds of weather you and me we whispered “never before have we seen a view so tranquil and charming”
I was on a winning streak, care-free for 2,000 weeks
but all the sudden those rain clouds started gathering
in front of me
The window of an Airbus
That Charlotte Sheraton
These words, they fall like rocks from a cliff
In a meter all their own, like muscle tone
I bronzed in making small talk
With the people at the top
Never picked up on that misdirection
‘til the misdirection stopped
But I’m feeling quite peculiar, mind not quite my own
Gonna sit down and write another
sophomore poem
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Reeds
03:58
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Well, it was just an instance
Of disregard for distance
Of sediment insistence
But I wish we could carry the lot
The merits of a blind test
My shoes are never shineless
But the railways roll behind us
And split those white plains behind us in two
As something slips from view
But it breathes, it breathes
The handsome man’s a catch indeed
The reeds recede
And the aerial cam, it captured you
With nothing but a lot to say
You’re perfect in every way
It changes from day to day, but we’re taking it all away when we say…
Cause “blushing” is not a word for men
And MENSA’s not an acronym
But Latin for the surface
Where the memories desert us
And sussing out the word for when the afternoons they never end
The metaphors implore us, and the seeds they might restore us
Planted a seed, grew to a reed, and it might return us all
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7. |
Outward, Intact
04:39
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I twist down upon the speckled breeze, intact
while the interim repairman
Steadies his boundless craft
And looks off into the distance
But it’s often, I stop, to gaze outward
Or more specifically, not inward
But I’ve got nothing but love for you
Slanted mist in the air and small talk about the weather
A bummer leaving, it’s just as well
You spent it nearly lifeless
I woke at dawn and took off on a run
While the fog was hanging low
On the hilltop church bells rang
And the sky was grey above
Wishes for OK swam through my head
Like whirlpools of seasons misspent
Whirlpools of seasons misspent
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8. |
Sparrow
02:55
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Awoken by the sound of some sparrow peeling plaster off the window near my bed while green cotoneaster leaves are growing ‘round my head
Taken round and round by the willowy conjecture of the lease on crooked frowns and brittle architecture held by kings in borrowed crowns. Felt it all, and thought I had control
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9. |
The Checkered Past
03:51
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It was the day after Easter when, whoa oh
The Checkered Past first decided to go their own ways
Mickey fell in with a girl from Nebraska
Timmy’s gonna pledge Delta at UCLA
Tommy’s stacking up his drums in the garage
Hoping someday to teach Tommy Jr to play
But I just found the time
To write the song that will take us all the way to the top
But I’ll still be sitting right here and singing along, til it’s all just coming on
Sat down to write you this letter, whoa oh
You know I’ve never been long for this world and its ways
But I’ve still got this Stratocaster whoah oh
Gonna sit down and write us some new songs to play
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Twilight, sleeping on the garden floor
Walking in the shade of the blades that tower over me
The highlight
Let’s take this verse around the block once more
Walking in the shade of the blades that tower over me
Do you feel the weight of this song? It sits all over me
But if the tenderness doesn’t linger
We’ll only have ourselves to blame
And all of these heavenly singers
How can I keep track of their names?
And all that Danish furniture, so little remains of the day
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Leo M. O'Connor New York, New York
Breezy pop + old guitars + dreamy synths + drum machines + a voice like sand and glue, with a little help from my friends
IG:
@moated_mountain
www.instagram.com/moated_mountain/
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