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Bummertime I

by Agnostic

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1.
i slept in your bed and was cold for the first time i can't say any more i guess we must be not in love cause this is just the brink here in our empty home we're finally on our own and it's so quiet we don't know what to say every day we're just wasting away grey evidence, we turn into cadavers barely breathing, lonely strangers cause this is just the brink you once told me that nothing bored you but people who were bored by you i can't wait for you not to call cause this is just the brink
2.
we drove the extinction effort by dawn with four guilty hands and our faces turned down the windows left open to clear out the blood the lifeboats were hidden in time for the flood and you ask me to stay, and you ask me to stay but when will i make up my mind?
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it's monday night, 6:35 PM and i don't want to leave my house i mean i wasn't going to, i have nothing to do but if i did, i wouldn't this i know i put my guitar on the floor i put my body on the floor everyone wants me to do what i want, isn't that nice? everyone wants me to do what i want but i don't know what i want you get a little crazy when you get alone in your head you get a little strung out when you've got nothing left to eat but bread passover night, i am alone my friends have gone, everyone is doing something i am here, this is my something my something's here, here is me i can't hear you, can't you see i'm busy doing work counting all the methods that my gerbil uses to reach the other side of the wheel you have no idea how i feel
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Honey don't 04:24
7.
Banyan 04:46
8.
today i'm sleeping in an empty room in an empty house an empty shell i stand in front of the mirror and i think i just saw my reflection blink now i'm up alone let's see if i can make it on my own
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You 02:17
you've been in my waking dreams i wonder what your face looks like i wonder what your -- i feel the sun go down when you frown i feel the sun explode when -- you give me tremors i don't know how to fix if i had a kingdom i would surely give it up i wonder what the place looks like where you hide your dreamer's wings and i just want to feel the sun come up i just want to feel -- you occupy my prophecies you dig into the tracks i leave you used to live alone i know you used to live alone i know you used to --
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Um 00:13
12.
the further we get from the first day of spring is the further i fly on the edge of the swing you push me as if i grew wings my shadow breaks into a hundred thousand smaller shadows curling around your finger like a temporary ring i want to sing, to you from inside your radio as you drive home with shovels in your trunk i want to sit in the passenger seat and point out the clouds and come back home and sleep beside you, half-naked and half-drunk but instead, i'm down here beneath you under what must be about seventy inches of dirt but don't worry, sweet emotion cast your worries to the sea you anesthetized me with your dreams so at least it didn't hurt
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about

summer is too long.

this is not so much an album but bandcamp wouldn't let me call it a "homogeneous shitheap of stream-of-consciousness turgidity" (pitchfork's words, not mine).

it's a collection of songs that were put together because of the feelings they elicit, or were born from, or are meant to evoke. as much time was spent on the technical aspects of this album as on the music itself: the song order, transitions, blank space, noises, and song titles were carefully chosen to achieve a specific image.

or maybe not. who cares. i've been playing a lot of n64.

but if you want to listen to it while lying down in the dark, and are reminded of someone you haven't spoken to in a long time, or wonder about what happens after death, and for a moment you break out of your mental bubble of immediacy -- it'll have served some use to the world.

in the words of David Byrne, "I feel my stuff."
xo

credits

released June 6, 2014

all songs by Asher except:
lyrics on 1 w/K. Shaughnessy
lyrics on 5, 6 w/Hyacinth Girl

synth drums on track 1 by Chaim, if you're reading this -- return my calls
strings on tracks 2, 11 excerpted from my score for the MD Shakespeare Players' production of Macbeth, May '14
vocals on tracks 5, 6 by Hyacinth Girl, get out of rehab soon <3
track 7 is for mom
track 11 contains excerpts of caravan recordings circa 2011+12
track 13 was conceived in a jerusalem bedroom, spring 2012

album art -- vakhtang tato akhalkatsishvili

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