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Somnambulist

by Wisdom Tooth

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1.
Always you must start by starting You must fold your flag in five You must dress yourself each morning You’re a bird nesting in a beehive And again you’re faking fever Going for a Sunday drive Late November scattered showers On the Douglas fir and the bishop pine Stored away your summer garments Mourning still for girls gone by But the body, yeah, is so resilient Every day it manages to rise Could produce a final wonder Infant thing with untrained eyes My expression is embarrassed Parentless and paralyzed Saw her at a Christmas party At the house of an old friend of mine I am still prepared for plenty and I am prepared to improvise Her car was a station wagon and the Defrost was turned on high and the Driveway was wet with old snow And black in places with the melting ice
2.
Low Tide 02:43
From goodbye to goodbye When it’s high time, you know it’s high time You could sit by and watch high tide Turn low tide in no time You drove down to the parking lot And walked alone into the oxbow woods I can’t believe you never got caught I woulda been killed right where I stood Yeah your old man on the telephone Saying why don’t you ever come home Saying where did you run off to You know you don’t have to go it all alone Get up, get gone, where will you go It’s a deadlock, it’s a no-go Driving fast over the overpass The old timers wanna take it so slow Yeah the old timers wanna take it so slow I dreamt of a different town Where the cops never came around and I dreamt of a midnight choir I loved the way the hymns resounded I would like to be so high I’m so low when I’m the one in need and I would like to come inside Take inventory of your diseases You drove South on the freeway In California, you are never alone A thousand demanding notices Your rent, you car payments, your student loans I know it’s smart to be honest But I don’t wanna give anything away I’m putting all my money down on this I wanna hear you say you’re glad you stayed I wanna hear you say you’re glad you stayed
3.
I Found It 04:06
I feel I’m entering a new dimension Oh did I mention I found it so hard And now that it’s been brought to my attention Oh did I mention I found it so hard I learned that the feeling holds no promise Oh answer isn’t there I learned that the feeling holds no kindness Oh the wide world doesn’t care -doesn’t care- The big and the small, envelope it all, envelope it all The windows and walls, demolish them all, demolish them all Change me for good to the person that I intend to become And then I will lay in the coastal sun I heard an unfamiliar name And oh did I mention, I found it so hard Time and again, babe, it was the same And oh did I mention, I found it so hard I watched rain fall out on the bay I hope that you know that I swallowed my pride I watched and I wished I knew how to say I hope that you know, you know that I tried -that I tried- The big and the small, envelope it all, envelope it all The windows and walls, demolish them all, demolish them all Change me for good to the person that I intend to become And then I will lay in the coastal sun
4.
the sun giveth and the fog taketh away the summer giveth and the fall taketh away oh somnambulist, oh somnambulist the night giveth and day taketh away the ground giveth and the sky taketh away oh somnambulist, oh somnambulist the mouth quivered, it forgot how to relay the face flickered, it forgot how to convey oh somnambulist, oh somnambulist the moon lingered throughout the bluest day why you hanging round? no one said that you could stay oh somnambulist, oh somnambulist
5.
And maybe it’s time now To take that bus ride into town The seasons rise and fall And the changing wears us down Oh and for your share You roll into your old despair But it’s just the world and we’re just alive And it’s just a truth that we live beside And I waited for you to finish Two bodies so unfinished Maybe we’ll go mad Thinking bout the things/lives that we never had But if I’m your northern star Then you’re my southern cross And the light is pure But you’re not in it And God says he’s sure But you’re unrepentant Take me up, take me up With you when you rise Take me up, take me up Maybe we’ll go mad Thinking bout the things/lives that we never had But if I’m your northern star Then you’re my southern cross
6.
Lake Companion where we stayed Wind that weaved the sky in braids Time released and time delayed Tentative but not afraid Maybe I will just go wild Oh some people go wild and they don’t come back And when I have been gone a while Know some people go wild and they don’t come back Cause you can’t come back looking like that Lake Companion ten miles east Where we sleep our double sleep Love withheld and love released Double dream of summer heat Maybe I will just go wild Oh some people go wild and they don’t come back And when I have been gone a while Know some people go wild and they don’t come back Cause you can’t come back looking like that
7.
Why want what one needs? My love is traveling far from me Oh and by degrees We become people we had not foreseen Fight, flight, flee or flow Oh and I’ve never known a friend from foe I find me alone I don’t mind, it’s a nice walk home You would halt the coming of the night But I can sleep through You’re awake and feeling for the light But I can sleep through You just hang around and weigh the odds But I can sleep through Fires and floods and other acts of god Fight, flight, flow or flee My love is traveling far from me Oh and I can see A bright thing dimming at the heart of me Fight, flight, flee or flow Oh and I’ve never known a friend from foe I find me alone I don’t mind, it’s a nice walk home You would halt the coming of the night But I can sleep through You’re awake and feeling for the light But I can sleep through You just hang around and weigh the odds But I can sleep through Fires and floods and other acts of god
8.
We are closing the space between us All year everything’s green We are losing the ground between us And I can walk down to Ocean Beach Oh the midwest To the winter you succumb You are nowhere And it’s your turn to newly become And what would you go back to No one lives in the place where they’re from How you longed to hear You are the only one It’s a wild card An unlikely turn of events Well you’ve come this far You can’t possibly be homesick yet And where would you go home to No one lives in the place where they’re from How you longed to hear You are the only one
9.
July turns in Like it just might never return again Love goes astray And the thing within That she’s so busy protecting It’s no use trying to get her to say And I know deep down That I shouldn’t be hanging around The ones left now are the ones who refuse to leave If I knew its shape I’d go feel for it myself Out in the street down on my hands and knees Headlights, dead nights, all right The same cloud came down, drained the sky of light Give and gain, wax and wane, and cast it all away And fan your shy flame at least once every day Great heights, blues and whites, all right Answer right, and you might, all right Gather round your lost and found and cast them all to the wind And fan your shy flame at least every now and again
10.
Oh not quite, I'm always almost but not quite Oh the light, I swear you're the source of the light Blue and white, and for gold holding desperate to light Until night when your shoulders stay steady despite Come on fight, oh such sacred unshakable pride Oh the shine, such a vivid and volatile shine
11.
Dad's Guitar 02:40
It looks so warm in there where you are I would like to hold my hands over the fire I would like to hear you play you dad’s guitar I would like to feel my hands, I would like to feel my hands We will all be dead and gone, we will all be dead and gone By the time the poisoned grass grows back on the lawn It looks so warm in there where you are I would like to hold my head inside the fire Maybe someday I can play your dad’s guitar I would like to feel firsthand, I would like to understand We will all be dead and gone, we will all be dead and gone By the time the upstairs neighbors cease to carry on

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released May 9, 2011

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