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1.
you do what you do 04:08
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you do what you do I just wanna see you all and not just call and not feel things we’ve all lost a lot and have so much forget to take it in and let it out and lightly be you, and you, do what you do to just breathe leaves fall again i miss paul and all my friends come in the house and cook with me you, and you, do what you do to just eat you cant go back just so you know, you cant go backwards no you cant go back, no you cant go back its been so long now, past the point of catching up i hate the phone and just tense up how long can we avoid saying the same thing you, and you, do what you do to just be
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you don't have to say you're sorry 03:01
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You don't have to say you're sorry You don't have to say you're sorry, you did nothing wrong it's not true you're not the worst but we’re so good at hearing criticism we tune out all the compliments given you can tell the truth, it doesn't mean you can hear the the truth the feelings the proof, whoa-whoa you can hear the lie, as it leaves your lips to die or apologize - for nothing did you luck into a life where folx think you shit gold? do you try with all your might as people respond with sheer condescension? or do you belittle to just to be mentioned? you can tell the truth, it doesn't mean you can hear the the truth the feelings the proof, whoa-whoa you can hear the lie, as it leaves your lips to die or apologize - sometimes there are times to say your sorry, when you hurt some one its not fun, what’s right what’s wrong and right or wrong is sometimes so subjective but don’t you want to reach shared resolution? you can tell the truth, it doesn't mean you can hear the the truth the feelings the proof, whoa-whoa you can hear the lie, as it leaves your lips to die or apologize - for something bridge? you know what to say you know what you’ve done you can make it right whoa
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alone 04:25
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Alone You can’t do anything You can’t do nothing You can’t sit and watch the world go by You can’t do everything You can’t please everyone You just can’t and hide Alone, Alone You just can’t and hide Alone, Alone You just can’t and hide You can’t be neutral You’re no official and you’re not the emcee You’re not the smartest You’re not the bestest can you not utter the last word Alone, alone You’ll find yourself alone alone, alone You’ll fine yourself 5¢ for last words When my mind is toiling who's played for the fool? weathervanes, weathervanes and when my skin is crawling what am i to do? what it means, what it means you’re not an arbiter nor rebel rouser no one asks you to lead you’re not an onlooker you’re not an outlier you wait and watch still you’re not seen Alone, alone you wait and watch still you’re not seen Alone, alone you wait and watch still you’re not seen When my mind is toiling who's played for the fool? weathervanes, weathervanes and when my skin is crawling what am i to do? what it means, what it means Alone, alone alone, alone alone, alone alone
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plant matter 03:16
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Plant Matter Dried up weeds and a pinch of grass, pinch of grass and a rock gone sideways, pinch of grass and a tuft of flowers, bumble bees, rain drops where am I? it doesn’t matter to the spider inside, windows, cobwebs, floor holes bugs on floor boards go to and fro frozen fingers, warm socks on toes who am i? it doesn’t matter to my own clothes what’s it matter to plant matter? it’s not for me to say we pass the time and speculate when people talk about it’s just a matter of the heart i’ll wager that our oozy blood pumps don’t care how conscious we are circles, cycles, make lists, check off where’s the pliers? tasks splinter off dust falls, dusk falls, things fall apart what am i going to do with my tomorrow? we doubt ourselves, i’m running out of cells to power everything lay down your sense of self, how are you going to help anything? we doubt ourselves, i’m running out of cells to power everything lay down your sense of self, you will not go to hell, i don’t think, do you? i don’t think too good i’m not sure we could i don’t think we should
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come dancing 03:30
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come dancing come dancing home what you know the scent of roses collect all your stones a lucky one and left alone high on another roll a cricket wine a leisure stroll and i’ve got another song i’ve got some time to take it on come dancing on i’ve missed your movement in close shared spaces i’m planning some fun but living to live so listening to shows high on another roll a pickle brine a collect call and i’ve got another song let’s make some time to hum along how about these moves/ how does something move what you got to lose?/ can you cut it loose? how about these moves/ you don’t get to choose
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if a tree falls in the woods 02:22
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If a tree falls in the woods when i come into a room full of people they’re my species knowing no one I feel more alone than by my lonesome if a tree falls in the woods…. but when I come back to my room sit between piles and my personal things how much time and resource wasted instead of group purchasing and sharing I feel the void created by filling a void driving into work one day i thought of driving in another day and then my mind unraveled as I traveled and before I know it i was sitting in the parking lot again then on friday you come my way on the highway drivers stuck while trying to get somewhere fast - always got to get somewhere before somebody else- and yet how many do we know that really have some urgent place to go? when i pull into a spot under your big glaring beady eyes i wish i decided to walk just a bit further to reach this mediocre destination but when i think of ogres made of meaty spots and beady eyes that surprise of my ‘magination makes this blase situation fine pulling in my driveway i thought of that same thing another day and as my mind it spiraled on how i traveled before i know it i was sitting in my car like its my friend then on Friday things just seem to melt away i felt a space instead of bricks and blocks of time and clocks and before i knew it i was right back inside my head again when i come into a room full of people they’re my species knowing no one I feel more alone than by my lonesome if a tree falls in the woods.
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is it worth convening? 03:36
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it is worth convening in the silence creaking in the quiet speaking in the ambling speeding and in restlessness in the picture debris in the taking ruining you can’t share what you see without all the noise what is wrong with us? we all shout at once what’s become of us? life won’t miss us none is it worth repeating it is worth convening what’s it worth not proceeds not just for the few all the time there’s something plan and place and pointing hold some space for nothing nothing’s stopping you life doesn’t stop without us being alive the rats and the roaches and the weeds survive life won’t stop without us alive though of course i’m uncertain as our brains do not work too good
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hold/hole 04:25
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hold/hole hold out a lantern hold out a light hold out your hand so i can hold mine i’m getting antsy from not going outside i’ve got no answer feeling out of my mind there’s a hole, in how i spend my time yeah there’s the whole world this time don’t guess the answer don’t think it twice don’t make it larger than would suffice show me a measure give me a sign tell me a method write me a rhyme there’s a hole, in how i spend my time yeah there’s the whole world this time and is time slow tonight does the world wait oh is the air thick in silence are your words caught in your throat? hold onto something hold in my mind let go an hour get out of line
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wake me up 02:44
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wake me up we got a nice long way to go and headed for the snow everything in tow and who knows what we know i think back to a time when we were doing fine spit sprayed from your lips as you were talking so excited oh it gets so low x3 wake me up another night spent like before things come in all forms my mind’s hitting a wall there is no rhyme or reason the days never roll on when outside of hindsight strangers brush my body brush with danger in aisle 9 oh it gets so low x3 wake me up wake me up shake me up let’s meet up don’t tick up up,up,up,up up,up,up,up up,up,up,up up
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i'm thinking about... 04:59
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I am thinking about the… I am thinking about the wind though it knows not of me specifically I am thinking of how it’s made up of invisible tidbits contributing to a gigantic gargantuan bombastic devastating or fluctuating force to be reckoned with or not reckoned with I am thinking about the sun though it knows not of me specifically I am thinking of how it’s made up of an incredible mix of gasses creating fantastic energy to heat us from so far away and change my mood on a sunny day and grow all our food with that one day will eclipse I am thinking about the water how it flowed right before me specifically I am thinking of how it’s made up of unseen elements combining to form this compound of immense weight and value that keep alive just about everything that we can’t keep clean to drink, just so we can make lesser things my mind can’t wrap itself around most anything and oh i wasn't here at the beginning and i will not be there for the big ending oh why then must i try and reason everything I am thinking about this ketchup how it’s so bright and tasty specifically I am thinking of how it’s made up of little tomato bits and some kind of preservatives and wastes the aforementioned water in some step of its fabrication so it can just sit and sit for months till we dip in it I am thinking about this garment how it was not made for me specifically I am thinking of how it’s made up to fit a certain body width with writing so specific as to advertise for the selling guys while the sewers cannot not afford to buy the fabric that it’s made with as i donate to the thrift I am thinking about this structure how it pits you against me specifically i am thinking of how it’s made up of deep conditioning of wealth as achievement that we’re unique and that we prove it with purchases and showmanship and power devastating lives tro amass more wealth built on lies and myths this force to be reckoned with
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worry 04:31
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Worry I’m not sure if my perspective would be helpful to you in this moment your worry is not my worry and worrying has never done me no good cause if i can't change the thing the only thing I seem to do is circle like a dog I’m not sure if my recollection is ever that close to what really happened my memory it always slants towards me and memory only does me so good cause when i’m stuck in my mind i can’t make a memory that is new feeling time tick on bust my toe and the click of the machine drums scratch past the cheap paint that cheap paint just chips right off these are the things that ground me at no cost I’m not sure if the way that i think of things seems to serve me or perhaps does me more harm than good made it up as a pre-teen my late eighties attempt at protecting me, it just stayed put but pass the past into the now a shelf with the shells of that place makes a peace and a truce feeling time tick on bust my toe and the click of the machine drums scratch past the cheap paint that cheap paint just chips right off these are the things that ground me at no cost sensing time slip on wash out the grass stains and notice the stained glass the cold season’s replacing the warm make a dough to bake a bread for the next day today we consume the end knot these are the things that ground me at no cost
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oh you toad! 07:51
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Oh you toad Oh you toad you just go till you don’t oh you toad the wind blows things just go the wind blows then its gone along i never spent a night i hoped would never end or woke up to a dawn i thought it would not come again or found myself in the middle of a day un sure which way to turn i haven't left my timepiece home for a day in 20 years along all we know all we don't all we show all we choose to hide all things change all our cells yesterdays gone just move on and on i never spent a dime i thought was worth my time or woke up to a nightmare of intelligent design or found myself at the end of my rope or at all under resourced i haven't left my comfort zone in any way of significance move on be the toad hop along feel the wind settle in in awe

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here's a batch of songs ab and i have been singing for the past few seasons. six are new and six are proper recordings of the 'once again' recording. i hope you like them. this may very well be the last folk songs record for a long spell. i've been making them since 2000 and probably wrote close to 70 songs by now?! anyways i hope they bring you joy. warmly, jm

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released December 15, 2023

jm & ab - singing and playing

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jm (fka Joshua Marcus) Providence, Rhode Island

jm loves cooking with and for friends, all things musical, making art with shapes, and getting out of one's brain. and the ocean. and genuineness.

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