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AERIALS

by passive witnesses

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1.
Phoenix 02:15
2.
Around the curls of the mustard gas The latin slogs: The foremost shall be last The base shall be exalted Saliva pools in a translucent mask Every station a suicidal laugh But humour can’t be faulted For seeing what is there Just bones and poison air That smells to heaven How did they get into you? What did they take out of you? What did they put you through? What did they do to you? What did they do? You’re the only one who can stem the tide The only one who can scent the rancid hide Of everybody like me They starve and taunt the dogs The jury lets them off ‘cause nurture can’t be faulted How did they get into you? (How dark the blinders) What did they take out of you? (How will you find her) What did they put you through? (How fine the grinder) What did they do? (Nothing appears) What did they do to you? Underneath the chaos, calligraphic lines Painter of villains is brushing out our eyes How will you ever find it? The baton downbeats, the mother scream Just another scene from a rank killer’s dream There’s nothing behind it
3.
When you breathe, go deeper When you breathe, go deeper into me Into me Keep the luggage by the back door Keep the luggage by the back door Look for missing time (They are still watching) Look for missing time (They are still watching) Wave your hand, this won’t be remembered Wave your hand, this won’t be remembered (They are still watching) She threw away the dress She threw away the dress Their eyes are in my brain Their eyes are in my brain (Come with us, you won’t be harmed We only want to find out how you’re different) Their eyes are in my brain (Come with us, you won’t be harmed We only want to find out how you’re different) When you breathe, go deeper (They are still watching) When you breathe, go deeper into me (Their eyes are in my brain) Wave your hand, this won’t be remembered (They are still watching) {Into me} Wave your hand, this won’t be remembered (Their eyes are in my brain)
4.
Taillights on the work road The banshee scream of brake pads Seized like fists around the udder Woke up in a hospital gown The hollow eyes of the unborn We need to go back for my brother You came because you heard, you know Those long nights that we prayed for you to come down And scatter all the illusions of The simple men of this one truck town Take us anywhere you will (wake up in a petrol station no senses, dehydration) If the sentence is together (the fumes of hot ablation no trace but radiation) But there will be no peace until (no trace but radiation the fumes of hot ablation) We go back for my brother (no senses, dehydration wake up in a petrol station)
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I hear their feet fall As they leave my doorstep Three of the unknown I hear their feet fall The fields stand empty Since the buboes raged rampant And demons cheated our allegiance to better gods The fields stand empty The fields stood empty My shot is clear Nobody is there My shot is clear Nobody is there My shot is clear Nobody is here Nobody is here Nobody is here
7.
Lies don’t want to live like this The wolves have all gone south And only our bankrupt hearts could smile From the inside of the wyvern’s mouth Another day is flushed away The machine is finely tuned And the hunters chant their hymn of reason Inside of the spider’s room How could we choose to live like this Held in our pupic state Offering up our first of kin Hoping that they will take the bait There’s an owl in the bedroom They visit but they don’t leave The glowing font of the sieve We’re expected The last hour was a blank check They leave us but they’re still here I’m seeing things that don’t appear We’re expected I am the elephant in this room I lost what I crave It’s been an ice age Consolation (It was the moon / it wasn’t the moon) We are all involved in the same dream I am you and you are me There was somebody, there was something What have I done? (It was a dream / it wasn’t a dream)

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released November 6, 2020

written, produced, and recorded by Christopher G. Brown and Clinton Degan ©2020 BMI

mixed by CGB @ Heima, Derry, NH
mastered by Devon Wedge @ WonderfulColour
cover photo by Danielle Brown
additional photography by Danielle Brown and CGB
layout by CGB

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