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Westering

by Oddbody

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1.
Nameless 04:20
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roosted up in the twilight floating in the astral plane I got no name to call you nameless you shall remain nameless you shall remain I can see you far off through the lens of a telescope I can see you in the dew on the petal of a rose dew on the petal of a rose I am a city wanderer wondering where we went wrong and I cannot think of anything better to do than put you down in song I put you down in song now that I know you're breathing now that you’re in my mind I cannot help but feeling I’ve been black out all my life I’ve been black out all my life blacked out all my life blacked out all my life blacked out all my life roosted up in the twilight floating in the astral plane I got no name to call you nameless you shall remain nameless you shall remain
2.
Rewire 03:16
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chipping away at drywall and tearing out the sockets underneath a busted overhead, god help this apartment it’s the long-due rewiring of a home, mind, and broken heart and it’s already started, albeit with much reluctance so far what’s the point when it’s easier to forget sleep away the day its easier to forget sharing a cigarette outside talking outside Charlie’s Kitchen on the verge of burning out I said, “this is really some Thanksgiving” when the power of your words ran in a current through my brain “man, if your fucked up it ain’t your fault but its yours if you stay that way” what’s the point when it’s easier to forget leave it ‘til tomorrow it’s easier to forget if you need a safe place to crash come around I’ve got a well-lit living room and a comfy couch in the morning we can sit by the stove and talk all about how taking good care of yourself ain’t as easy as it sounds if you need a safe place to crash gimme a shout I’ve got a pretty view of the sunrise over downtown in the morning we can sip on some joe and talk all about how taking good care of yourself ain’t as easy as it sounds chipping away at drywall a mess of cables on the carpet it’s a nightmare upstairs, there have been times I’ve almost lost it winging it D.I.Y. with everything at my disposal its all error and trial, until the energy flows and the filament glows
3.
On Highway 03:21
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say it ain’t over but take it down from the wall summer’s almost fall rolling on highway with a head full of memory rush so take it slow slow it down slow it down heaven’s got a plan it couldn’t care less if I don’t I got a pocket full of hope I never give it though I know she wants it I’ll be down at the lonely river, river, river gonna hold me heaven’s got a plan it couldn’t care less if I don’t I got a pocket full of hope I never give it though I know she wants it I’ll be down at the lonely river, river, river gonna hold me cut out a trace lift it up to the light its only time dizzying dust settling on the radiator rust so take it slow slow it down slow it down heaven’s got a plan it couldn’t care less if I don’t I got a pocket full of hope I never give it though I know she wants it I’ll be down at the lonely river, river, river gonna hold me heaven’s got a plan it couldn’t care less if I don’t I got a pocket full of hope I never give it though I know she wants it I’ll be down at the lonely river, river, river gonna hold me river gonna hold me river gonna hold me river gonna hold me heaven’s got a plan it couldn’t care less if I don’t heaven’s got a plan it couldn’t care less if I don’t heaven’s got a plan it couldn’t care less if I don’t heaven’s got a plan it couldn’t care less if I don’t
4.
Malina 03:19
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yawning under an awning of a motel in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma waiting for the thunderstorm to pass on by and as all I left behind is washing off of my mind in the rain oh sweet Malina, its a memory of you that remains tipsy after the party when you came over back in October do you remember what it was that was so funny we could hardly even breathe and for a moment I could see it through the tears in your eyes oh sweet Malina, call it love or call it God on high with every mile I go west it seems we’re talking less and less and though it’s mostly for the best I guess we’re young and prone to rambling but I hope you’re out there somewhere laughing loud and disturbing the peace oh sweet Malina, just the thought of it brings peace to me
5.
Pacific Love 04:04
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morning fog is lifting on the lane and it’s all coming up roses at the cemetery gates here in Cambria, steeped in the rising sun I’ve come to feel like someone again these days, I’m trying to make the most sweet time is passing, so I’m going up the California coast when asked where is home, I answer the open road I know it ain’t so kosh, but I don’t care the rules erode under the fathoms of my pacific love your smile is such a joy to look upon by noon tomorrow we’ll both be moving on but I must admit, there’s something beautiful about it treating this moment as one of a kind let’s walk over the dunes tonight take off our clothes underneath the silver light run into the waves, I won’t negotiate with fate life is what I make it to be beneath the ever changing skies above our pacific love this is all I’ll ever need even in the still uncharted dark there is reason to believe— and may we! may we, when things seem they cannot get any worse remember kindness is wading in the surf as a seagull flies out from the shadows of the pines there will always be trial but when that perennial push comes to shove I’ll leave it to pacific love
6.
Brine 03:04
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today, you stay, I leave, sorry, family, I only wish to be worry- free brine is shining on my eyelids squinting into the autumn breeze on a balcony up in Amery, oh I love you farther than I can see over the flora of eastern Minnesota laid like an overflowing colorful cornucopia sprawled across my view, I’m gray and rotten through with no ounce of gratitude, and no clue how to be there for me, not to mention you
7.
Radia 03:06
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blue nostalgia rays solemn in a cave I came to lay ascetic, I tried to calm my Cain now I search endlessly for Radia, like a light following the signs she left behind a static old radio in my mind with the signal picking up never knew the corn in the morning shimmer never knew the heat of Dakota sun never knew the heart of the hearth in winter oh, where’s she run? where’s she run? where’s she run? where’s she run? Radia, Radia, Radia, Radia cruising on a high I’m always happiest when I forget to think or wonder why and forfeit everything to Radia, oh sweet relief all that I need is her belief radiating on through the leaves and into my window on through the corn in the morning shimmer on through the heat of Dakota sun on through the heart of the hearth in winter oh, here she comes, here she comes, here she comes, here she comes, Radia, Radia, Radia, Radia in the end her distant song is enough to keep me moving on I used to think in right and wrong now I know better thanks to Radia, my journey lies under Americana skies over the hills into the iris of horizon
8.
Vintner 03:54
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on my knees in the valley breeze laboring down the line, clipping vines throughout the day, I gather other thoughts to pass the time, and I get on fine but in my dreams I can’t control the places my subconscious goes and in the early morning blue I find that I’m still waking up with you in the cellar deep purple is seeping through the cracks, staining the racks when I drink I don’t need to reckon with the past, or face the facts but in my dreams I can’t escape the simple truth—I miss you babe and when I finally come to I find that I’m still waking up with you tangled up in time, our little life it was too much to lose I’m kissing apologies onto your neck as I’m (waking up with you) out in the crowning sun, our little one is running through the rouge or is it all in my head? here I go again (waking up with you) looking out on the plot a new vintage will grow, must I be so self-involved I do recall it was my choice to go, I know
9.
In Tribute 03:08
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among the pottery shards and petroglyphs, a secret of history is laying dormant under dust in the ancient caves of Tsankawi and on that afternoon I visited I could feel it resonate through every chamber of my heart and every channel of my veins and now I’m zooming between mesa rock and over arid ground passing the desert brush, purple in the shade of the cotton candy clouds some people spend their lives trying to prove whether God is real or not me I have the sense I once knew but I guess I have since forgot and that’s alright with me, facts are overrated when compared to kindness, I concede on my way from Albuquerque to I don’t know where future rolls in front, churches and casinos out the back a vulture flies above as all these ideologies collapse into the past, fading in antiquity forevermore Sangre De Cristo is a name for what was already there before all the labels are curling at their edges in my head and love is what it is regardless of the holy books we read a new source is springing up where the awakening began a stream of consciousness flowing alongside the Rio Grande in tribute to the whole, it’s all connecting indefinitely across the minutes, hours, days and weeks and months and years and centuries ago I was a Tewa woman dressed in rabbit hide a turquoise amulet around my neck and the moment in my eyes standing barefooted in a sea of pink apache plume— I will belong somewhere again and I have faith it will be soon
10.
After Hours 03:24
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in the dim of Seattle after hours when the bars have all closed down I walk by the harbor boats swaying in the silence of the sound and drunk as a sailor I look out there and am thinking of you again they say every end is a new beginning but sometimes it’s just the end for all of the miles I’m still standing underneath the same moon Olivia I don’t know what to do with this longing I have for you

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released September 13, 2016

All words and music by Gabriel Delayne and Jeff Nicholson
and:
Joseph Denatale - bass & cowriter on track 1
Rebecca Nelson - vocals track 7 & 9

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