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Soliloquy

by Exit Interview

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Soliloquy (free) 02:46
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I'm getting bored It's all the same And I'm afraid that I'm incapable of change I'm getting scared I'm growing lame My mind a limb unable to produce new frames It's getting late My shadow's long And time is short beside me leading me along I'm giving up and spreading outward Bury ever wilted flower Leave the freshly turned earth's surface for some later artists mirth I'm sleeping soundly in the furrow That will be my grave tomorrow I'm a seed and in my sorrow I've found rain to quench my thirst But who was I to think that time was really on my side Such a grand assumption on a smaller scale of lies I'm getting bored I'm getting scared It's getting late
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Source material (free) 03:09
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If the words that come out are just dangling threads That collect wisps of thought which relate to their source So the sentences matte into cohesive cords That are woven and braided and folded and borne Into something coherent that rests on the page And leaves us with the sense that it's something we've made Then perhaps we're just sifting the silt in our brains All the waste we've collected from being awake And exposed to the senses our memories make Of the words and the world given day after day to the ends of our nerves as they shrivel and fray And pretend there was some sort of meaning worth being and leaving for We might express We are fishing for validation with each thread
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Time steals all things dear (free) 02:43
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Halfway through summer I swallowed the noose And I've patiently waited to pass it through autumn Now bound to my internal grooves without loosing A parasite leaching my will to survive I get old Faster than the pendulum rolls Deep into winter I buried regret Beneath billowing snow at the close of December With raw fingers I dug through The slush and the mud In the first act of spring desperate for anything familiar As time steals all things dear
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Our hands know a hard days work (free) 03:40
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Back in the silence I've replaced Where lies a sad and nameless face There am I shamed in my disgrace And my good name has been debased My mind is the only defenseless and unholy Am I becoming one of them And one more day I've been forced to show my disgrace And all I'll say is there's only so much more I can take Falling on closed uncaring ears All that has listened through the years Leaving me numb and dry of tears Realizing all of my worst fears My mind is the only defenseless and unholy Am I becoming one of them And one more day I've been forced to show my disgrace And all I'll say is there's only so much more I can take And I'm so fake it shows through in everything I say I'll be replaced but my shame will never go away
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On progress (free) 03:02
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If I die now Won't you tell them all I was on my way to great things And how I've really changed my tune these past few years Doesn't everyone deserve a charitable eulogy Recently I've seen the reaper closing in on me With his scythe on his shoulder I feel colder already
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Ten years time (free) 05:08
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(samples taken from David Mamet's screen adaptation of Anton Chekov's original play Uncle Vanya)
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Wedding (free) 03:07
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On chilly steps as evening dawned Soberly awkward phrases formed Exchanged between our crouching forms To bind us Lips dry of nerves and cigarettes That shared an anxious eager smile And quieting in being pressed To bind us Beneath the street lamps amber glow The window poured upon our heads Nestled together in the night To warm us Above a game of lettered squares And cracker jacks so neatly sealed Around a ring with words prepared To bind us Beneath rain and magnolias When all was strange and dangerous And we were all that we could trust To ground us Before these vestiges of God And all these eyes that I forgot When I was staring into yours We are boundless
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Winged eyes of sleeping rabbits (free) 04:38
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I love the way you move your hands when you talk Like two birds asleep we hold hands and walk beneath street lights I love to lie awake and just listen to you sleep Your breath echoes the waves I hear your hearts footsteps on sand I love your small feet and your shy toes I love the way your nose and eyelids taste I love the way your hair always complements your face And I love the way your thoughts make my heart race Your eyes are two startled rabbits hiding behind closed lids Awake intense and invasive you see through everything I love the fire burns deep in your graceful frame On quiet nights to me alone you expose the flames And I adore when you whisper forever to me
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Have a pleasant day (free) 03:56
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Maybe success will come before we tire of trying Perhaps before we grow numb We'll learn to love the feeling Of the morning Before the sun shines down When our limbs resist And the night persists a little longer And the day feels insurmountable If we could learn to welcome all those fears we hide from Or maybe we'll just give up Before we bruise our knuckles Perhaps we have done enough To feel satisfied On our death beds As the sun goes down And our breath stills In our open mouths And our hearts stop Well are we happy now And will this life leave us content to rest in peace
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Still (free) 04:01
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I would go walking late at night onto a vacant parking lot The green leaves bathed in orange light Cast shadows on contrasted white lines And the spaces in between Spread out to welcome anxious feet That can't stop pacing I would sit breathless on the grass begging God to wake me up Stare urgently into the surface of the current rushing by Then my heart murmurs in response As we watched our reflection die And I never moved a finger And I never said a word And I still can't sleep at night But I lie still now
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Relentless attempts to desist (free) 03:25
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The rain sounds on the roofing As the night falls on the drapes I hear the footsteps on the ceiling but I keep myself awake Here I huddle in the corner And I shiver on the strings I get distracted by the rhythm of the dripping in the sink But I can't making it work And I can't make it stop I've been awake for twenty hours now I should drag myself to bed I watch the insects tracing circles I'm retracing in my head And the clock ticks with the faucet And the tires on the wet street All urgent audible reminders Of the end we're set to meet The time we waste on our efforts When we still can't make it stop

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released January 15, 2010

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Exit Interview Denver, Colorado

for many years music was my life and, although i was never very good, i was always very passionate about it. now my life has taken me elsewhere. these seven pieces i leave here to serve as the portrait of my former self. as much for me as for anyone else. let us always remember where we have been, with an eye to the ground where our feet will fall on the path ahead. ... more

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