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This Animation
03:34
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something like
an exit an entrance
living in life living in love living in light
wondering
where are my edges
vision of my unfinished sentence
in the greatest of all coincidences
you’re no longer angry
scrubbing the grit from the sandpaper
watching someone you love
would i select
this animation
of things i have said
given the chance
all we invent
lending itself
to the vision of some
unflinching bet
ultimate enactment
i cant tell the difference
so i guess
i would select
this animation
of things i have said
given the chance
all we invent
lending itself
to the vision of some
unflinching bet
ultimate enactment
i can’t tell the difference
so i guess
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2. |
Picture Window
04:42
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big sound in the clearing
spin me into something
reaching with her right hand
my elbow
big house in the clearing
push me toward the feeling
near the crossing
sleight of hand bent my shadow
summer comes
sister in her prairie dress
snaking through the branches
it’s like a picture i think
one where we’re untouched by the future
i think of us as something like
a microscope
tight rope
frantic pollen scatter
it paints your lovely pattern and
curves along the pavement
forms a giant mouth and sings this song to you
hope i get the notes right soon
summer comes
sister in her prairie dress
snaking through the branches
it’s like a picture i think
one where we’re untouched by the future
i think of us as something like
frantic pollen scatter
it paints your lovely pattern and
curves along the pavement
forms a giant mouth and sings this song to you
hope i get the notes right
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3. |
Figure and I
02:22
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figure and i
it’s not always hard to find time
to be alive
figure and i
it’s not always hard to
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4. |
Blue
02:53
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given room
the sun goes like it has to
i am velvet blue
when the trees move
given room
my eyes go where they have to
you are split in two
when the light moves
shapeless in the dark
you pirouette up
moving towards me
in the wild of outside
right on time
right on time
right on time
right on time
right on time
right on time
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5. |
A Drop In That Bucket
01:19
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6. |
Writhe and Wrestle
04:30
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secret silent decided at last
pretty parchment apartment imagined
took it talking a tongue in your laugh
writhe and wrestle around it again
writhe and wrestle alive
writhe and wrestle alive
writhe and wrestle
writhe and wrestle alive
alive
to be discovered
i am cold only on the outside
and tired as always
to be a person
without love, it is pointless
he tells me all the time
into the future
teach me how to remember
or teach me to forget
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7. |
Carina
05:04
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you sat a million miles inside yourself
clearly i’ve crossed a line
for the first time in five months
i stopped pretending to try
would you stop pretending to try ?
my heart made a sound
like ten thousand horses galloping
over the edge of myself
into hell into hell into
hello
how are you
it certainly has been a while
just you and me my baby
and our mutual crippling self doubt
did you ever touch its arm
and feel your voice go flat
did you ever touch your own arm
and feel the universe collapse
do you hear me when i laugh
can you hear me when i laugh ?
i watched you burning bright
like a star too close to death
exploding every instant
to wash away our debts
you’ll never find me guilty
although these crimes were mine
oh don’t be so foolish
i’m disappearing quickly
transparent as a moonbeam
as tiny as our story
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8. |
Stairwell Song
04:14
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couldn’t shake the thought of other hands
clutching at the freckles on your legs
talking in your sleep when
you first said you loved me
crushed between your teeth
the words not meant for me
i felt something grow sharp inside my belly
entertaining ghosts between your bedsheets
i’d like to die a thousand times in your sweater
already died a hundred times this winter
just bury me
bury me in clover
bury me beneath the songs you sang to her
always is a dirty word to say
always is a dirty word to say
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9. |
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have all that you never wanted
and so much more
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10. |
Ribbon
03:25
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if you give me the sign
i’ll take my knife to the ties of
your ribbons holding something
like a light inside
in the weight of your design
bearing edge of my desire
forms another image in
your watercolor blessing eyes
in the weight of your design
bearing edge of my desire
forms another image in
your watercolor blessing eyes
don’t give up
you know i love to see you grow
in the arms of all you
underwater
i can say i want to see it grow
don’t give up
you know i love to see you grow
in the arms of all you
underwater
i can say i want to see it grow
every love i love to love
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11. |
Compass
04:25
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take your time friend
it’s hard enough to want it
bent like a champion
buried in the margins
tell me what’s next friend
spin me like a compass
hand of constant searching
give it time friend
if there’s beauty then you’ll find it
check my progress
stretch me past my limits
hand of constant learning
softening my edges all the time
softening my edges
waking up
waking up to find the sun
replaced by a beautiful sun
waking up waking up waking up
found me at my entrance
steady as a compass
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12. |
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there is a legibility to the opening or closing of a door
there is a possibility to the opening or closing of a door
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13. |
Thank You
01:38
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thank you for being my friend
things were much harder before you
my love is for you
my love is for me too
thanks to you i know i
can keep going
thank you for listening
many of us wanting
just to listen to you too
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Kristine Leschper Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door
New Album ~ out now on ANTI- Records
kristineleschper.ffm.to/toocoad
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