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Let It Take You

by Leslie Graves

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1.
anybody 00:35
2.
chrysalis 02:15
caterpillar hides away dies inside a chrysalis transformation is mostly decay an end before the new whatever you need to do if you're not ready now that's OK transformation is mostly decay an end before the new allow yourself to feel but stay true to what you know the only way life can open is to walk out of what isn't true caterpillar can not see the butterfly it's gonna be transformation is mostly decay an end before the new
3.
it's too bad 01:59
hopelessly awkward i couldn't talk now you're not interested anymore it's too bad i'm crazy attracted i could have loved you you'd love me too what a loss so high than so low so small the window so hard a heart blow it's too bad i'm crazy attracted i could have loved you you'd love me to
4.
i know the cave that is your home i'm sure you're in there now thinking feeling guilty and alone i hear that kind of sound i'm in my own corner making up words i'll tell you when you come out i know i'm wasting my time but i can't help wanting you now inside where you live what i would give for you to know me really but i see you're already taken you fit inside me where i live what will you give me if i come out clearer don't tell me i'm already breaking walking out numb numb numb numb numb knowing got to put this all on ice that cave - that was a woman god let me know my own mind i was fool to love you being in my own darkness all the time you were inside me i was never inside you she always got to find another way inside where you live what i would give for you to know me really but i see you're already taken you fit inside me where i live what will you give me if i come out clearer don't tell me i'm already breaking
5.
light you up 02:38
the candle's burning down wax is dripping off the table our hearts are melting like the wax making us unstable you say you don't want it but should i go away we'll get ourselves together we'll change our stubborn ways we burn each other down we burn each other down we burn each other down we burn each other down i have to light you up i have to light you up i have to light you up i have to light you up i remember my old love the one i never had he was careful with his flame left me feeling sad he'd light me with his eyes he'd light me with his songs he'd never give his soul to someone else in love he'd never give away never give away kept his precious heart that pretty heart shape i want to light you up i want to light you up i want to light you up i want to light you up we burn each other down we burn each other down we burn each other down we burn each other down i want to light you up i want to light you up i want to light you up i want to light you up we burn each other down we burn each other down we burn each other down
6.
floating* 02:12
miss emily upp went for a jog down riverside then she lost her memory and went missing from her life for three weeks she was roaming the city went to the apple store and new york sports club allegedly her family put up signs made a facebook page tried to stay positive but worried she was dead while she was roaming her foot got a blister she couldn't walk anymore so she jumped in the river she was floating floating floating then Captain Covella of the Staten Island Ferry was on a routine trip when he noticed something out of place slowing the boat he went to steer towards it that's when they saw the girl face down floating in the water two deckmen jumped in saw she was still breathing took her to shore while someone called the ambulance while riding in the squad suddenly she remembered she went for a jog and now she's riding in an ambulance? what happened to her mind? was she scared? was she hungry? what does it matter when she has no memory of floating floating floating
7.
time to check into the haven where there are no tvs or blackberries people sit and talk at the haven turn from the market to save their brains she stopped eating too afraid of spending he stopped sleeping keeping track of the whole world's gain and loss gain and loss gain and loss gain and loss gain and loss loss loss gain and loss gain and loss loss loss
8.
a woman was shot with a bow and arrow near Riverdale Park who would have a bow and arrow and be shooting around there? and the cops and detectives at the crime scene with their technological tools had their hands full in an episode from the 14th century
9.
my hair grows out darker every year i dye it yellow like the sun reflect some light off my mirror but everybody knows when the sun has gone the birds left for winter they instinctively go the pond froze over reflectors can't see their portraits through the snow when the world is lost to you the world and the people in it you could drown outside while you're seeing through it all or you could jump in the river and let it take you with it you could jump in the river and let it take you with it do not feed the ducklings they just might stay all year my fortune says get going but i'll go when the sky is clear maybe your eyes grew edges or maybe i grew an awkward shape or maybe it's our seeing that is our knowing that makes the soul ache when the world is lost to you the world and the people in it you could drown outside while you're seeing through it all or you could jump in the river and let it take you with it you could jump in the river and let it take you with it jump in the river let it take you
10.
if my world seems separate from yours don't be scared it's an innocent made up world a fantasy i've lived in i don't claim to know you when i got close to you it was a fantasy in my head a made up untrue story it's lonely in our made up worlds i know you wanted me and you made up a story of our future and i'm sorry i couldn't meet you separate worlds oh separate worlds oh suffering in the world cause our made up worlds are not real
11.
three five foot tall mushrooms appeared in his kitchen they asked, "why did you eat us?" "I was just following my dream" "Are you prepared for this path?" he answered without hesitation, "Yes, I am." his friend had the same surprising appearance of the human size mushrooms staring at him they asked, "Why did you eat us?" "I was trying to get high." "Well if you do this again, we will kill you." break open break open break open the head break open break open break open the head
12.
that one played out undesirably there are no erasers no rewinding tape it was a silly moment but it was ruining ah ah ah ah it was right before the accident right before right before that moment came and went is there no big picture just little mistakes paint them on the ceiling to encapsulate tell me why why tell me why why why wait stop wait stop wait stop wait stop ah ah ah ooo ah ah ah wait stop wait stop ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah…
13.
la brain 01:53
the human cortex a looming starship 55 billion neurons electric waves receiving input receiving and receiving millions of pictures go in our brains la la la la la la la la and every story a shooting star a fleeting picture beauties far la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
14.
heavenly bodies guide me out i give up burn all that's not aligned with the truth

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*suite:times - originally conceived and recorded for the production of Times:365:24:7 by Bone Orchard Theatre Company

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released December 22, 2010

all songs written by leslie graves
produced and recorded by david voigt and leslie graves at beyond notes recording (beyondnotes.org) and fire island guest house

cover art by aron wiesenfeld
www.aronwiesenfeld.com

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