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From the 2006 EP "The Urgency of Fleeting Sound".

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Eighth Notch (Cornetta/Trainor)


I watched the lamp's aura fly away
back here with me and then disappear
I stand, and there is the same phenomenon outside
stars as smear marks on the night sky

scraping over rails
leather and lace
pressing a bound instep
never enough

brachialis
aching, aching
overzealous thinking
solution sets and running starts
some stitches will always need mending

you're a breathing diorama
each stride marks the graph
bent knees, clocks, facts
and arrogance
illustrate enigmatic truths boldly
tempera painted for an A
with intervals in glitter glue
sweat in your eyes
you blink out the scale
fists clenched and muscles taught

brachialis
aching, aching
overzealous thinking
frantically leaning
into the charge
some rules are never worth bending

I watched the lamp's aura fly away
back here with me and then disappear
I stand, and there is the same phenomenon outside
stars as smear marks on the night sky

collapsed into the question
on the partition
broken and certain
that there is nothing else
passengers violated
unamused agitators
barking at you for not
cheering their cause
beyond comprehending
comfort is accepting
that in the end
the answer is not yours.

scraping over rails
we can't measure what we've erased
scraping over rails
motion clashing with your pace
scraping over rails
and the cobbler is not around
to heal the
tears in your hide
breaking your stride
you can't outrun
faith and design

condemning inertia
bent on solution
purge this prostration
solve it

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from Scrap Metal, released April 23, 2017
All Songs written & performed by Seconds Prior, Copyright 2006. Mixed and Mastered by Mark Zuppe.

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