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Centuries

by Mike Quinones

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1.
Outlive Us 03:23
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True fear Cast out from the oldest tree to catalog the twirling dust of interlocking galaxies The giants that have gone away Their sleeper cells in disarray With eyes of wood and scales of willow green They're rising from the underworld with voice boxes that carry pearls They flicker in our window panes and stare into our souls Singing Oooooo Start again Oooooo Start again Every longing is a seed Its ticking heart is buried deep Above the ground beneath a roof of slate and wood all weatherproofed With the weight of fear and wonder pressing down And the moment was a trembling beam in heated glass and in between our faces was an inward folding breath Yes every longing is a seed Its ticking heart is buried deep With the weight of all creation pressing down And when I kissed you on the stairs On that glowing winter's night All the things that will outlive us started digging for the light All the things that will outlive us started climbing to the light They started drinking from the earth and climbing to the light Oooooo Start again Oooooo Start again
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In the Land of Trees 04:11
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When the sea speaks to the blue heights Where cloudy birds will glide and jungle beasts will run When the trees bow in the moonlight And somewhere close a solar wind flies from the sun Though my heart beats on a big drum When dragons cross the kingdom I won't hold back a thing from you When the old man in the mountain Closes his eyes and sinks into the core Where the hills roll, love surrounds them When we merge like rushing sunbeams on the floor Though the earth may crack and shatter I won't shake on shaking ladders When I have the one that matters to me So we will play for a thousand years In the land of trees In the land of sun And we will sleep in the shade of a lifetime And run, run, run Through wonderful lands So I'll break handcuffs and tethers I will walk above the weather When the one I'll love forever is near
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Water Lion 04:08
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Get out of the water I'm telling you don't be calling out when my boy goes swimming Water Lion His hands are deadly and his eyes are black and bright He sleeps on a big stone surrounded by rapids Get out of the water Baby beware! Deep under the current He moves like a master All through the hunting hours Striking, smiting faster than arrowheads Water Lion His mane is copper and his claws are white as steam He eats on a big stone surrounded by rapids He's playing for keeps now Baby beware! The river is green and the river is white But the water is blue And it moves in his eyes And it moves in the dark Through the chambers of hearts With the beauty of water rushing over the stars
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Helicopter 03:13
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Helicopter drives on strange heights and banks of stones Engines throwing off clouds Through the rounds of sun We're threading up yards Five hundred down Blown through towering hills The air is getting deep Bird songs on the bottom Pounds of atmosphere are stacking up the deeper down Touching down on grass The currents are slow The ground is shaking with dogs and thundering trains The air is getting deep You can hear the ground from here
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I Swear I Saw You 03:55
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Oh the camera was shaking and the forest hid your face Your silhouette was just too far away But I remember everything I wrote it down, a tape-recorder caught the sound Caught you whistling and howling crazy at the burning stars The burning stars All the whippoorwills were singing when you ran across the road The headlight beams revealed your blinking eyes And I am told you looked so very curious And almost like a man Until you hopped the fence and ran off, chattering into the heavy night Into the heavy night Well I heard you came down from the hills just looking for a fight They said they saw you in a graveyard With your face all glowing white I heard you took a shotgun blast right to the chest But you laughed it off You must be blessed, or maybe you are the Devil Or the Devil's son But I do not believe in all of that I'm not a fool, I'm not a tag-along for shadows supernatural Oh I know you better Hungry ghost or cannibal, kicking at the cabin walls I know you I know you better So I followed you through wilderness Through cold and rocky peaks I saw your tracks in snow like waking dreams At eighteen thousand feet The air was sharp and thin as fiberglass But I will not deny the past I've got the microphone you smashed and the rope you clawed through I swear I saw you I swear I saw you
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Carina's Escape 04:50
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You escape Wash your lines off, constellation Now I can't say where I'll see you tomorrow Survive for me and crash through the color bars Send me a slow, slow song So I won't fear Push me on my way Buying time Clinging to strings I'll stop when I know where you are where you are Stay awake Stars are leaving, tired Carina It's clear to me This time I won't wonder Surround my ears with shell blasts in harmony and flicker like landing lights So I won't fear Push me on my way Buying time clinging to strings I'll stop when I know where you are where you are
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Timberlines 04:28
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The Electric Espers 03:49
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Lay out the scenes and smooth the floors I feel action lines blow over you through mapped out space While video rolls my spirit will fly above your balcony Roll out the steam I dropped a name and never heard it land It's the edge of the world where trees hold on The road plunges down I'll meet you inside some scrolling galaxy
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Raised by Wolves 05:39
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Oh I was born with a torch in my hand My soul descended from the crawl-space tunnels and broadband I thought I heard a seance- A candle ring of fiery tongues Smoke stacks, carrier waves expand my lungs Here comes the angel of wrath with the heavenly host I'm the doom of the wicked I'm a virtually unstoppable ghost Well I should tell you I was raised by wolves in a past life I went out in a blaze of glory- A blast of light But suddenly I'm filling up the skin of a metal frame My skeleton is crackling- My engine's a bed of flames! I've half a mind- Half a mind To call you out To take you down To set you right Clear the way! It was a slow, slow dance with the Lady of Liberty She whispered in my ear, "Oh baby, deliver me- But don't tell your friends that I said so- They'd never understand- All the subtleties between a warning shot and total war at my command- " And now I know how the news flash shocks and haunts her Torpedoes and mines, smart bombs and rocket launchers On the continental shelf Deep inside the bending shadow of the coast Well fire up the special effects Shoot out the lights and block the roads We're mixing our metaphors We kicked in the sliding doors The ocean side think tanks are building a fighting force Switchboards and ancient bones- Swords in foundation stones We are dreaming in the heat spell with our ears pressed to the ground This is the sound of the snapping of redwood trees, crack of the champion's whip Splinters and shockwaves and muscle-bound battleships The hour of our reckoning is floating seven feet above our heads We are tracing the cross-sections of a juggernaut that barrels to the end This is the final boss battle and our spines will cross and rattle We're charging through the silence of the pines and frost and travel to the borders of the empire, and the teeth of the waterfall With credits rolling on and up We levitate- We're phantoms at your call
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Centuries 03:32
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There is a city underground The air is warm, the water moves Unwrapping diamonds, counting down Fossil bones are stirring in their sleep Another round, another life The fish's eyes are blurry stones It's holding on, it's changing shape Senses sharpen, senses grow Three hundred holy wars or more Out of motion, out of mind With all their anger drained away Pulled apart by roots and rain We're holding on, we're pushing back We're binding books and drawing maps Of grinding plates and icy comet tails These songs are blowing over desert trails

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released January 14, 2014

All songs written and recorded by Mike Quinones.

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