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Laughter From the Rooms Above

by Lawndry

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1.
Since 05:23
The spirits of this land are speaking to me now "You are stoned my son, go home and wait it out." I press onwards and I walk across the town Bringing flowers, lemons stuffed in my big mouth I imagine that your doorway is inviting That your curls are falling down Everything becomes so terribly exciting I keep my pace...I'm walking faster, faster now You are the only one for me When I know I know And if it isn't meant to be Let's not speak of things we cannot see It used to be a breeze for you to change your mind The winds would change and you'd go back to being mine What do I have to do, go out and build a shrine? Higher than the Watts Towers Higher than the sunflowers Higher than the researchers from Giza to the Rhine Who wonder if the pyramids are alien designs They'll be wondering the same of this in a 1000 years of time You are the only one for me When I know I know And if it isn't meant to be Let's not speak of things we cannot see
2.
Windy Day 05:46
She can keep a candle lit on a windy day On a windy day On a windy day... It's windy today I watch the palm trees sway as I do the frog stroke in the hotel pool I hear laughter from the rooms above And I feel like a glacier just before it drops into the ocean Free drinks forever What else can it be? Negative capability Sayonara darling I can almost hear you say Like the fallen leaves of autumn Don't we drift in different ways? I suppose I do share in the common prayer And if I'm being open now you must know I say it as often as everyone says it Let me so rich that I'll never die And I'll never die
3.
Fair 05:19
Gotta put some daylight between these bad decisions The further out I get, the more I get to make revisions My lady rises, she makes a cup of tea She's been unfaithful, she doesn't offer one to me She says, "I could shoot the birds singing in the garden I can't stand music in this filthy, old apartment," The war starts early over breakfast "You could have made some money if you weren't so pretensious" No one can tell you when it's time to leave You don't put down your dog just because it shows its teeth Out there at sunrise In the first light I know it's time to rise Run, run, run We're made for better things Oh, what a thing to think You could say it all day long It still don't mean a thing I never ventured far beyond my window Tonight, I'll write a note and leave it on your pillow "Dust cloud's coming run, run, run" I'm going out for smokes I just can't breathe in here No I don't need a coke I need to disappear I'm going out for smokes It all makes sense to me To be is to be alone To be is to be free Run, run, run

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The characters in these songs cannot come to terms with the way things are. We find them sitting on their asses, hatching plans of action. In their daydreams, they can set things right again.

Of course, they never will. But they don't know that. And that is a kind of hopefulness.

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released June 14, 2023

All songs written by Lawndry
Sax on Since and Windy Day by Abstract Black
Vocals on Since by Liz Baker

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