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Coast Notes 8-1-2014
01:04
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Hints of lemon in the air blowing in from the docks
on a day where you can hold your cup out and watch it fill slowly with seltzer -
I lay out in the bubbles trying to relax, trying to forget.
No coffee today - still somehow I’m overcaffeinated.
Sun is pressing down on my stomach, burping loud.
I can burp, there’s no one here to hear.
I can roll over and make a face if I’d like, just a silly look, don’t need to judge me -
lovely laying out on whatever day of the week this is -
turn on the radio and coast notes float in - bubbling.
I might never turn the radio off, not even after dark.
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16 More Minutes
02:44
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Don’t focus on the road past the map
Easy travelers, honest departure
Less than we need in our packs
Ready bolts and talented archers
No sign like we’ve ever seen
No sign no sign
Deciding when we switch the scene
Decide decide
Give it ten more minutes
Let’s see where this track goes
When we reach the summit house
Still have a tall thrill to climb
Keep going even with
The pit of doom in mind
All the winding paths I see,
Rising up infinity
Ocean swirling blue drink
Leave behind the meaning
You ascribe to the new
Give it the flutter of a birds eye view
Let’s see what we get up to
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Along Francis Drake
03:23
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Pedaling hard my breath and vision combine
Green vines hanging down comb my hair
I just dismiss them always has been easy
To imagine a blank space all around me
WIND move my body
STRESS kept me wound up
TIME bleeding out I
CONSIDER myself surrounded
Driver is fast asleep behind the wheel
In the back seat we drink the long dream
We could pull over and let the cloud take hold of us
Or keep going up into the matrix
Of SOUND move our seats
HANDS cross the wheel
EYES softly steering us
CONSIDER the unreal
As it considers it considers us
Back on the planet
Two legs sitting stand up
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The Glade
01:10
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Life Baby Life Life Life
03:45
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I was born in pain
When I pass away
It will ring the same
Smoke alarm battery
Dated drifting dying
A beep in the night
The loss of a mind
For now let’s sing about the center
What’s just past the entrance
Looking around the enormous room
We exist for an instant in the hollow tree
Baffled by the mystic qualities
Of life baby life life life
Pressed down by magnetic energy
Hand over hand we climb
Run your finger along the edges
Metal splinters cut you like a vegetable
Keep your items bundled together
Hole in your clothes will let in the weather
Dreamt I was driving
Looking for gas
When it finally caught my eye I
Decided to pass no thank you
Baffled by the mystic qualities
Pressed down by magnetic energy
Careful with your limited quantity
Look out for the roaming zombie
Take it away from you without trying
On my block
There is a chapel
With an incredibly high
Signal to noise
ratio
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Wave of the Sea
02:54
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Sound of almost nothing -
hand touching the back of my neck
like a cool morning breeze -
Right now it’s seventy three
Though the forecast says look out
Gonna be one oh three.
Buckle up your sidecar seat, its goodbye easy street
This is the sound of birds in the trees -
gentle drift - migrationary,
magnet sensors,
those old ways are busted
We must relearn flight,
we'll saddle up and ride -
all night
Then crash on the floor
wake up sleeping with perfect waves
on the landing next to the sliding door.
Open up there's the shore
We will bask in the sun
We will sway in the song
Buckle down your belongings, we’re moving to hyper reality
I thought I was on the moon
(Who thought?)
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Winnebago
02:56
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Out over the misty mess
Winnebago on the edge of the pass
Time stops on the other side
Phone goes straight to message
Why don’t you join us in the future
Guides help you cross over
See the outline you are the author
All it takes is time
F (melody over this lyric)
And willingness to steer
left right
Along the path passage unclear
Crunch along like snack mix
Teetering on the precipice
Phone goes straight to message
Sudden wind swept me away
Glad to be gone
Smile and face the change
Strange attractors glide on
My favorite music
Is the dial tone
Favorite film
Is being home alone
My favorite TV show
Is Lost
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Muir
05:16
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We had a grandpa die,
another loved one flee our lives
to move North
And then there you were
in the middle of the night
Throwing a sleep hypnosis cassette at me
And today I’m talking more, trying to lift the blanket from my head
On heavy repeat is Betty Carter’s “nothing more to look forward to”
Which I listen to as a farewell to therapy
Next step is to leave the fort and I’m ready
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Alcatraz
01:55
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It was hopeless
We were trapped
In walked the birdman to Alcatraz
Had a gift
Lifetime passion
Turning cold words into action
You saw us all
Out on the island
Tears streaming but smiling
When the sharks walked
Up on the land
Switched up dinner plans
Is the world
against us
Or is it just us
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Welcome to the halfway point between two mix tapes
The idea was to break away from how I had been doing albums by not making every song having to be a song. It could be a warping of the song before or just a track full of information like this. I had some other ideas:
Bring your pets or kids up on stage - even when they are 3,000 miles away
Manipulations that require computer processing (not DSP or effects)
People that aren’t alive anymore can come back to life
Quiet voice just as loud as loudest amp
Be in different rooms with their different sounds
Can put other people on from other recordings
An instrument can metamorphosize into another midway through a melody
Animals won’t cooperate on stage (works the other way too)
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Snow Leopard Opposites
02:15
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Closing up the Cliffs
02:46
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Closing up the cliffs
Sew together stones
Natural formations
Rocked down by the storm
Sifting through the tide pools
Look for my excuse
Any small moment
To sink into
Dog chasing the ball
Miles out into surf
Body comes back more water
Than fur
Family of two
Buried in the dunes
Closing up the cliffs
Our perfect path right through
Promise if they close the cliffs
I know another way around
No warning can keep us out
No warning
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Ingredients for Tomorrow
03:22
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I was eating kale
More than I could carry home safely
Vanilla yogurt with blueberries
Butter on thick rye toast
Fifteen minutes after eggs
I would run on the beach
Second fastest legs
After work I would bike
So fast I would lift from the ground
Once when upside down
Work phone fell out of my pocket
Paid a kind stranger $20 to hand it back
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Early to Breakfast
03:09
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Starting over
Early to breakfast
Make and bless
This kitchen with a mess
Prayer over hot coffee
With time it all cools down
Watch what I eat
Observe the plate empties
You drift in
To the scene with a groggy greeting
What now what now
Just know we start over
Starting over
Early to breakfast
Calm conversation
Kids still snoring
destined for a silver castle
Great spot floating in the sky
We are laughing over toast
You may prefer a lighter roast
Sounds drift out
And smells too beckoning down
What now?
Do not shout, I'm afraid the food has run out
What now, I'm afraid
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Cressida Honking
02:06
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Grievance to air grievance to air
Your problem was me and you had to share
Gather the troops rough em up
Ask are we loaded enough
Honking Cressida old car
Steepest hill you ever saw
Already the wicked wind of the west
Pouring floating against us
Stress is temporary
But you live on
A minor man
Trapped in the song
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Rising Shine
03:30
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Here we are in the morning
I found the time
Rose before the rooster
He'd been calling out my calling out my
Name hello stranger
did you sleep last night
Nevermind doesn’t matter
We found ourselves woke up and running
Shine
Don’t need a reason
May not have a dime
Up and moving with the big trucks
Heading out what’s the use even
I couldn’t stop them
Even if I tried
For now I’m the phoenix
Racing along reborn and strumming
Shine
Hey there diamond
You are one of a million
A thousand thousand
The rule to the exception
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18. |
Drumming Bambino
01:21
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19. |
Clearing 8-23-2013
03:25
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20. |
Wordless Chorus
03:13
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Last night you and me and two others
On Halloween in my dream
Went crashing through a cavernous storefront
Four very fast thieves
Everything we stole
filled our sandwich bags
Count it up in the end
divided in half
Then set off
Back to the apartment
Stopped the book mid-binding
Listened back
to my new tracks
Felt I needed inspiration
Couldn’t figure out how to go about it
Gracefully
so I left the fool
Setting off
Tracing the status bar
All the way to 99
Where we go from here
I wouldn’t mind finding out
Setting off
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What can I do with these tomatoes
Sauce em crush and dice
Dried leaves from my gardeners garden
Red pepper spice
Water I can get from anywhere
Hold the pot out my window
Storm clouds ain’t so distant,
Closing by the minute
Pasta’s just eggs and flour
We have that
Get some broccoli, yellow bells
And garlic, more than you think we need
Butter…
Anchovies, trust me
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Tyler Martin Asheville, North Carolina
Sci-fi sandwich artist, currently subterranean at Norfair Studios on Zebes.
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