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Rippling Thought

by With Child

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1.
Near Disappearance 02:14
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There ain't no god that isn't a body There ain't no sun that isn't a light Wake up alive and open the ceiling wake up alive and see the sun eclipse outside
2.
Having a Smoke in a Costume of Fog 03:23
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A silent wave erupts inside my mind and holds the whole thing up A blazing dogwood tree consumes the dove wake the wild dogs Where'd you go? Gave up the path I'm on I'm lost again I made the whole thing up I saw a plaster cast of a dying dog the heaviness of life is wild A ghost in the brush, a pile of ice I'm having a smoke with some dudes from the block I know we're all alive I know we'll stay alive I saw the moon eclipsed in puddled rain stomping both my feet on a stormy night upon the ground I saw the moon quake all around Having a smoke with some bros at the bog lost in a costume of fog and I know we're all alive I know we'll stay alive
3.
Heathen Hoes & Pagan Bros (demo) 04:14
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The sun hangs low at the end of day and all my friends gather round to play They don't know God and they ain't got faith cuz they don't need nothing to guide their way My heathen hoes and my pagan bros are just lying on a lawn ain't hurting anyone They laugh and smile and they yawn and stretch in the embered sun ain't hurting anyone O, my God, could you bend a couple rules Heaven must be large enough, you let in all those fools My heathen hoes and my pagan bros we sew our seed as energy we're cultivating light And some of us wanna chum around with the angels for awhile and drink a toast to life O, my God, if there's truth in what you say You'll never ever ever turn these lovely folks away My heathen hoes and my pagan bros are lying in the sun ain't hurting anyone All we are is an empty star we're full of light we're golden light we're open now holding moving love as a simple thought this simple thought in this open heart is this clouded love is this waking light in this open life
4.
Alone/Alive (demo) 02:34
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Oh, doesn't it feel so alone to be alive at all?
5.
Sing You Again 05:44
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Humming to myself in the evening you arrive in the form of a song I'm caught up in the way that you move my whole body I'm just breathing out You don't mean nothing you're nothing but sound you came with a longing, boastful and proud and I came without Goodnight, In light I'll sing you again Peeking through the window at morning the sunlight moving over the lawn Though sleep cleared out my head you're still filling my body I'll empty you out Where did you come from? Why did you stay? You're but a vapor, could've drifted away but here we are You're mine, and My whole life I'll sing you again I'll sing you again
6.
Preening Ghouls Howling at the Void (demo) 03:34
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The progress of the cul-de-sac delayed to crucify the dogma of the day Caught up in the way the body groans Do-Re-Me-Fa-So-La-Te-Da Oh Pissing in a pasture on the fringe of what woulda coulda shoulda might have been Breathing in the dust to make a pearl larger than this God forsaken world, ya know? Feeble love in the tangled light Has no heart darling, has no heart Preening ghouls howling at the void without no art at all Braying beats in a whimpering mask without no art darling, has no heart Buttercup won't you build us up, we have no art darling have no thought Darling have no heart at all
7.
Complicated Light Blues 02:20
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Come alive come in like you do the way the sky aligns itself in you Don't you know everything's the truth, all I ever want to fall in love with you So with the wheel turning don't you lose the way the light can complicate the blues Don't you know everything's the truth All I ever wanted was to fall in love with you Uh Wave about the way I know I'll never lose Wave about the light I know I'll never lose Wave about I played it wrong and now I lose
8.
Bitcoin Wishing Well 04:21
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I see the end of us in the bottom of a plastic cup Up comes a geyser all exploding this whole pile of trash It seems so obvious the world'll rid herself of all of us We're just a trinket like an earring a thing you wear but cannot see Half awake and half alive in the rhythm of daily strife a wishing well bloated up with bitcoin spilling out into the sea I know that living in this era's eating us alive somehow with all these craven modern crazes scrambling all our brains around Too old to stay up to the minute too young to sit the whole thing out I know that living in this era's wearing us out We're all but dead and spent essential oils without a scent We're just a burden like a necklace so heavy it just leaves you breathless I know... I know that living in this era's eating us from ass to snout We're climbing to the promised land with a wounded limping paw and becoming numb to light and love in this howling maw We're evolving to a pile of rot not worth writing home about We're arriving, we're arriving now, useless and proud
9.
Rippling Thought 03:22
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You're inside the songs I've sung You're inside the notes I've strummed Hidden in the wind of want But I don't own you, I don't Wherever you're coming from Wherever you're going to You are but a rippling thought And I don't own you, I don't An overflowing open fount A neverending stream of sound I see you standing tall and proud But I don't own you, I don't own you, I don't
10.
Nothing At All 03:12
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There's the softest light up on the wall up on the ceiling It took the longest night to know what I am and all that I own It took this light in my room to know it all adds up to nothing Would I be better off with nothing at all? From where I stand I'm standing alone searching for meaning Could you find it in your heart to see who I am and choose to keep me?
11.
Alive Man's Float (demo) 03:04
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Hey, I'm still alive at the end of the day There ain't nothing going on There ain't nothing to say I'm sitting alone skipping rocks in a stream When the rippling water throws some stones back at me Over and over It busted my jaw it blackened my pale blue eyes What happened next should come as no big surprise I passed out cold and fell in a dream Where a million bazillion gazillion rose petals were showered on me Over and over I wake up and strip down and dive head first in the stream While I'm on my back in alive man's float I can see A lone dove alight on my belly And it's coo coo coo coo cooing at me Over and over
12.
Repair The Pyramid 02:28
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You're livin in a home be complicated by the tone repair the pyramid you're lost at sea You crave you'll never be brave like a constant light I'm sorry There you go they don't believe it so Now you go and make me play it slow Come sit in the pyramid in the dark in the lair in a loft in the hair with a look and a care I sit i
13.
Homesick in a Ghostown 06:32
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Homesick in a Ghostown Say come on, why hold me love? I'm busting up. I made my bed and slept in it, died in it, broke bread in it left a crumb trail lying to the headstone deep inside a grassy wave where I left myself dug myself a hole and left myself and woke up from a dream, but the dream was just a thing that I saw I’m no reflection of the moon in the fire, the sun is just a roofless light inside the moment just a cable in the cable in the light in the bay a cable in the light of a wave I pulled my tooth out to show the girl I’m a canine just to combat, just to come back whole town love life life love life and I’m homesick I’m broken like a sail on a boat and paling at the throat I barely can’t ever float inside I’m bay sick A basic thing of need the lighthouse is a guidepost, a fire inside the lighthouse Karma got your soul I’m wading out to the harpooned maven in the moment in the sound and the love and the light in the light of the love I see myself reflected in your eye I hold myself higher than you because you hold me higher than me and I’m open like I gotta go to bed to see myself inside a dream and waking in a toothless mass in a pile, a pile of trash and I’m postal I’m camouflaged and disguised like a myna bird on a broken bowl, and frozen like a constant light I hibernate. Once you see yourself inside of me I’m taking everything I got I got nothing left to give. Don’t repeat yourself, don’t see yourself inside the mass upon the break upon the love inside the holy thing you’ve never known. You never owned nothing? You’d give it all up? You give it something else to give it breath to give it life to give it truth to give it mass to give it light to give it no one to give it knowledge Lying down in the grass I saw your fucked up wild heart making all the love inside the scene inside the breaking open eyes and heart You got your open heart and lion blood & lion den & lion hope & I’m just not nothing else, I’m not fucking up In my pool. I’m in a pool of blood Made my bed, broke it lying down upon the trash dog humping in the love and the line out lose myself reverberated like a constant reflection like a dog inside the heat and lie in hope and hope my mind just won’t woe I just don’t go I’m just below, just don’t belong, just kindly said “Pull my wedding ring up inside my head” But I came to holding hands inside the hopeless and the hopeless just don’t give it up I’m hopeless lying dead inside the Leo’s den upon the bed I’m a Taurus, a Sagittarius, a (polidy?) A compilation of the Friday morning fever of the dawn inside the baking of the sun, and the sun is just a light from the roof of the moon and it’s just tangled up in the light of a moonbeam quilted by the break and the love in a song in the hand of a girl I used to love I’m seeing what it was, I’m seeing what it does to me to become a thing and hide the fire inside of me Holding up the highest order, holding up the highest order, I’m sounding fear something fierce inside the break in the long bend upon, and I’m breaking it I’m breaking it. O come on, what you saw in the oaken tree been falling on the break the bong the bed the bough is just a thing You never saw inside the grass leaves sucking up a demon insects open like a sarcophagus both hands are hiding and vicious see what you want inside of a moment Gotta get your mouth open to say what you want leave what you all outside your head “What is this? Whatcha want? Whatcha gonna get? Whatcha gonna leave, whatcha wanna (******)” Gonna get your body broken, gonna leave yourself alone inside the ghost, inside the broken ended ghostown and I’m homesick. I’m broken down in this ghostown and I’m homesick. I’m coasting on the fumes of the gas and the leaves and I load myself and bake the bread and break the butter Leave the trail inside the head inside the (mostal?) cut the coastal, cut the leaf to the mound headstone from the grass, leave myself inside and buried in mud and everything else out And I’m dancing like a leaf, like a tree My limbs all broken up by the bough inside the leaves How it comes through the light In the breeze I’m everything to no one and nothing to everyone I’m everything. I’m pumped out, so foul love like old town lost like something else you’ve gone in Got a stringless bass and a prescient face and the loss and a wig inside your lace inside the whole thing where you wear your dress out What holds your dress up? What’s that body moving underneath the ocean like a floor inside a wave in the tide and you swim and you lose yourself There ain’t nothing left to give to yourself

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A collection of lo-fi recordings made between 2012-2017

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released January 1, 2018

All songs by Elijah Jensen-Lindsey
All performances by Elijah Jensen-Lindsey
recorded at home in Idaho on a thirty dollar Sony voice memo recorder

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Music project of Elijah Jensen-Lindsey, an artist and carpenter residing in a small town in Idaho.

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