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We Were Flying Kites

by Stripmall Architecture

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1.
Her Words 03:35
I am told it was blue It gets lost beyond that With so many stories Though her words are all mixed up I still want to help Though her words are all mixed up I still try I am told it was blue Lining of purple hue Which has also faded She told me She lost it She's looking right at it She told me Things fall apart
2.
Gladhander 04:38
They say he's a good talker Smiling glad hander Confident door knocker And he will get his way today And you are behind the scenes In the bowels of machines And he is the face of things And he will get his way today It's a symbiotic thing You'd have to dry swampy palms to make a deal And you don't really want it that way Or so he tells you You are the engineer You are the scientist And he is the face of this And this is what you want, isn't it? And now you don't have to try You've been infantalized Out of the public eye And this is what you want, isn't it? As their expectations wane And you shimmer like hot concrete in the sun And it seems that you never could change That's when you have to I say you have to And you say nothing
3.
Version 04:15
And the white is so smooth It's getting harder to move And it's not that you're mean But you don't mean what you say. You've got a Minnesota smile False as it is wide This secret is your beating heart And what are lakes but holes What is snow but cold This secret is your beating heart Things change on me Ice melts away You've got a Minnesota smile Insincere and contrived This secret is your beating heart Discounted just like that it's hardly worth the breath to say it Ridiculous display so out of character to do it Discounted just like that it's hardly worth the breath
4.
Stop Thief 03:26
A near miss A scrape A narrow escape Thick-calloused Invincible A limit, a rule Now, say it. I dare you: say it. Who says brave means unafraid? You're caught, so say it. Extended joint The missing point You never know exactly what brings it home A broken bone? A call too close? So you say no, how do you know? Stop Thief I've been robbed of something This is no drill This is real, I assure you
5.
I must mine your mind I am sure you understand You have been where I am Fragile, porous, and brittle A forgotten mess of bones I need help to fix Please, will you release what I need? I'm full up to the spill with what I don't need Are you a sleek, wet salmon Tiny, powerful blue heart And a fierce direction? Are you a bed of coral Full to opaque with dark secrets Or, are you bleached white?
6.
It's not bad This is nothing You can't complain You'll have to toughen You've gone soft With your computers We did it all by hand When I was younger I've seen worse Your calendar just cleared up But still you'll find a way to complain We always warned that this would happen When you live just for yourself It's not bad You're building character You'll look back one day With a sense of wonder.
7.
I wasn't sure if it was a stick, a smudge I wasn't sure if I was below, above A trick of light and shadow Sometimes it's hard to know Where did you come from? From oil? From ocean? Was I not meant to notice? Then you disappeared Did I miss you? Did I hit you? Are you breathing? Am I dreaming? And then a shock - it moved A twitch, a groove Did I give up too soon? Egret or loon? An eye reflecting my light Did I give up too soon? Heron, egret, or loon?
8.
No one to protect you Evening creatures snap and bite Huddle up in a bunch Group together little ones Hide in the open No one there to shield you From the pecking birds in flight It is wrong It's the cost It's the price of being small All at once, you are nothing As the outside shrivels Oh, the soul is truly ripe How you fought - how you paid For the beauty that you made You must see how it was worth it. And as we pour and toast you Revenge is yours but pleasure's mine No one knows quite like you With your life you have proved That beauty's suffering Hey, the machines are very loud What did you say? I'm asking you: what did you say?
9.
And on their ascent Tiny bubbles collide Become atmosphere You act like the surface far up above Is as high as it goes without testing You've seen others go and come without event But still you don't touch. You give up That's all You give up You say, "Well, I'm done" You give up You act like the night sky far up above Is no more than a door To where you are And you are the fulcrum on which it all turns And you never move And you can not do right at all And you can not go give it up
10.
How right you are And you always are How foolish we must seem When you're looking down on it How right you are And you called it from the start Now your energy returns So that you can tell us There's no gray No opinion valid Only one truth must exist You're the guardian of this And when someone sees different It's not a challenge They are wrong. That is all They are wrong.

credits

released September 15, 2009

Thank you for listening.

Stripmall Architecture:

Rebecca Coseboom
Ryan Coseboom
Patrick Harte
Tim Hingston
Roberto Burgos
Erica Mulkey

All songs by R/R Coseboom (Halousongs/BMI)
Produced by Stripmall Architecture
Recorded in San Rafael and 3rd Nut Studios, Oakland
Mastered by Count
Design/layout by the Aether Bureau

Thank you:
Simon, Olivia and Orwell, Evan Sornstein, Shawn and I-Li + Bloodwire, David Kerin, Timothy Benton, Alex Rich, Count, Greg Kehret, Darren Layne, Halsted Bernard, Mike at n5md, Tim Arndt, Café Du Nord, The Rickshaw Stop, Bottom Of The Hill, Foxtail Somersault

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