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Lonesome Flotsam

by Fingers Lift

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I Cut My Hands Off At the Wrist By the Seashore and Cast Them Away They Washed In, Palms-Up Pricked With Splinters of Ships 'Neath the Waves Pink Drops of Rain Leap Up Off Of My Brain Like Fish Feeding I'll Keep My White Eyes On The Bruised-Black Horizon, Unseeing I'm the Shadow Of the Wing of the Bird Gone To Pieces Waiting For Her Return Dropped an Ear To the Sand Now a Home For a Crab It Speaks Of Her A Hole Wide as a Worm Runs Down My Spinal Chord Makes Me Shiver And Shake Upon Shake Causes Wet Ribs To Break Like Hulls Breaching She Sank and is Gone And I Washed Up Alone Flesh Past Feeling I'm The Shoreline That the Tide Eats Away She Sprouts Coral On the Bed She Has Made
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End All 04:39
That Was the Day The Sun Grew Down Its Long Legs Sent Out a Rope Fast Burning Away The River Smelled Just Like Burning Dead Leaves The Waxwings Melt End All End All End All You're Waking Up The Footboard's Turned To Splinters And Thunder Shakes the Walls The Hollowed Earth Loose Tibias and Knuckles The Giants Wake Up End All End All End All And Oh God Where Have You Gone? And Are You Asleep? And How Can You Raise Me Up? When No one's Buried Me Spent So Long With These Uselessly-Long Ghost Songs I Spent So Long In Hell Your Shoulder's Sharp And Your Legs Are Lovely And Now We Sing End All End All End All So Give It Up No Crucial Spoke Got Broken A Couple Lines and A Load Of Flies The Haunted Leash Wrapped Tight Around the Polestar The Chorus Takes Up End All End All End All The Last Song Was Seconds Being Written The Last Hawk Died Alone The Last Beer Cost Twenty-Million Dollars The Last Voice Was On the Phone And Oh God Where Have You Gone? And Are You Asleep? And How Can You Raise Me Up? When No one's Buried Me I Was A Spark And I Could Find An Outlet In the Dark Or Drunk As Stone I Used To Walk So Solid Among My Friends I Whistle Now Through Their Bones
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Dogs + Bells 01:21
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All the Stars That We See My Dear Are Dead Lights From the Reaches Smoke Blackens the Trees Blood Drips From the Branches Crows Have Come To Roost On the Chimney-Tops There To Stay Waiting On This Shuttered Night Up From Ancient Trenches Unswept Floors Crisscrossed With Forgotten Dances These Ruins They Just Seem Empty These Shambling Shapes They Do Not Look Like Me, Look At Me Speak Like Me, Speak To Me Night After Night The Tolling In the Dark Drowning Out My Heart And I Awake To See You Running Toward the Water's Edge Will the Sun Rise? And Should I Stay? You've Scattered Shark's Teeth In Your Wake Down In the Bay The Strangest Shapes Just Below the Waves Restlessly Swim Round and Round and Round
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Drove Her Home Tried To Keep Her Warm She Appeared Like A Handprint On A Foggy Mirror In The Blinding Storm And She Asked Him "Leave the Wipers Off" Till They Could Not See Through The Rain Said She Loved The Moment When The World's Made Clear Again He Told Her "There's A Knock Every Night On My Door But No One's Ever There" And She Laughed, She Said "Yeah That's Always Me But It Never Gets Me Anywhere" Then She Disappeared Completely As They Sped Into the City Round the Bend She'd Taken Before He Had Ever Dreamt To Be Born
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No Ghosts 05:40
I Can't Feel My Heart No More Stops Beating Then It Beats Once More Someone Help Me Out Before The Demons Slam the Door I'm Feeling Like a Wicker Basket Carrying Exotic Nightmares How Do I Keep Them In With All Their Claws And Pointed Teeth? Those Teeth Are Deep In Me They're Teeth That I Can't See And I Know One Sure Thing I Know Soot and Stars Fall Down And Hearth and Home Fall Down And I Have Fallen Down Sank Without a Sound I'm Gone In Your Hands There Was No Traction I Fell and Broke My Head My Family Sliding In The Blood We Never Prayed Again So What Am I Still Doing Here? After Hours When the Gates Have Closed There's Nobody and There's No Ghosts No Nobody But Me No Ghosts Here But Me And I Know One Sure Thing I'm Gone
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The Phantom Menagerie Came Down From the Eaves Threadbare Shapes and Faces Our Small Effigies From Great Grey Beaks Bellowing Blackened Lunacy The Words We'd Dreaded "We Are You, You Are We" Less Than A Whole, The Phantom Menagerie Wind Through Our Skulls Sounds Out A Calliope Such Things Take Shape Underneath the Clotting Of Leaves The Sky Is Still Blue Above Our Outstretched Wings
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For the Heart That Beats For Hope For the Heart That Beats In Disappointment For the Heart Neath a Blanket Of Stars For the Heart Banked Like a Campfire Heartbeats Through Air For the Heart That Sleeps Under Mountains For the Heart Winding Down Like a Clock For the Heart is a Web Between Fingers For the Heart Smooth As Riverbed Rocks Heartbeats Through Air For the Heart Torn Apart By the North Wind For the Heart Put Together In the Doldrums For the Heart Stirring Ripples In the Lake For the Heart That Can't Catch a Fuckin' Break Heartbeats Through Air They Go On If You Hear Them Or You Don't And They Beat If You Join Them Or You Won't They Can't Speak Though They Sing Sweetly-Soft At the End Of the World Nothing's Lost They Keep On If We Care Or We Don't And They're Marking the Time If We Won't They Can't Speak Though They Sing Sweetly-Soft At the End Of the Song Nothing's Lost
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Written and performed by Brandon Welch and Timothy Walker, 2009 through yesterday at Bad Elk and Boxfortknox, De Kalb and Aurora, IL

An album about resurrection Marys, love in a Lovecraftian town, ghosts, monsters, and the end of all.

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released October 31, 2013

Recorded and Engineered by Timothy Walker

Brandon Welch - Everything
Timothy Walker - Everything

with the generous help of:

Ben Aldis: backing vocals on 2 and 9
percussion on 4 and 5
glockenspiel on 9

Ryan Anthenat: sea-god sounds on 5

Bob Aspatore: guitar on 4
wall of guitars on 5

Miranda Barnes: pretty vocals on 2 and 9

Austin Cliffe: circuit-bent sounds on 10

Ryan Green: pump organ on 5
keyboard on 6

Nat Kundanis-Grow: violin on 4
backing vocals on 5 and 9

Remix by Demons

Peacock painting by Hannah Dwyer

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Fingers Lift De Kalb, Illinois

Fingers Lift is a band of scarecrows with jack o' lantern heads staked in a plot of dark midwestern soil in a town where it's always night. when the wind is just right their corn-husk fingers lightly brush and tap against the stringed instruments that some unknown soul thought to hang on them as a perverse joke. wind sighs in and out through their eyes and mouths and with the wind comes words ... more

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