1. |
Four Wide
04:14
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"Four wide
They stand
An endless grid
Of recollection
Months fly
With a flick
My thumb is now
a captain
One tap
And impressions
Turn bright
With precision
Each box
Is a path
To a past
Unexamined
What do I say, now?
Confronted with you,
Who was once me
Through cracks I see
A life appear
Do I still hold her dreams?
Gripped close
In a pinch
Each finger
Now a lever
Flung out
In a haste
I start
to uncover
This scene
Once vague
Now alive
With color
And with each face
holding still
I piece
It together
What do I say, now?
Confronted with you,
Who was once me
Through cracks I see
A life appear
Do I still hold
The dreaming comes unwound
You pass before me so quickly
All 7,391 of you
Conjured in an instant
And held on to
The spotless decay
The strange embrace
Heavy for a day
Then gone away
Away"
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2. |
You (Water)
05:33
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"I look directly at you
And see myself
So distorted
I plunge myself below
And try to hold you
But you slip away
Through my soaked hands
Each wrinkle
A symptom of a dive lasts too long
You touch me everywhere,
Everywhere I go
You envelop me
In a light shade of blue:
Multi-hued complexity
I see the world
In a blurry haze
Until suddenly,
Suddenly I come up to grasp
For air
In the blissful morning
When my skin was sun-kissed
I left my old worries
Along the coastline
Everything I wanted
Everything I needed
Was below
I’m lost within your current
Swept up from below
I push away, but you swallow me
Completely
I drown
Addicted to forgetting myself
And so I fall in with your touch
Your touch is better than any sleep"
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3. |
readreceipt
04:26
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"I know you
Know I know
You know I
Know you know
I know you
Know I know
Do you know?
I know you
Know I know
You know I
Know you know
I know you
Know I know
Do you know?
I know you
Know I know
You know I
Know you know
I know you
Know I know
Do you know?
I know you
Know I know
You know I
Know you know
I know you
Know I know
Do you know?
Will you say so?
What do you still withhold?
Will you say so?
What do you still withhold?
Wait for you
I know you know,
Wait for you
Will you say so?
What do you still withhold?
Will you say so?
What do you still withhold?
Double Check, Double Check
Double Check, Double Check
I know you know,
Double Check, Double Check
Double Check, Double Check
I know you know
Double Check, Double Check
Double Check, Double Check
Double Check, Double Check
Double Check, Double Check
Check
I know you know I
Double Check, Double Check
Double
I know you know I
Double Check, I Double Check
Double Check
Double
I double check
I double check
I double check
You know I double check
Double Check
Double Check
I know you know I know
Check
Check, Double Check
I know you know,
You know I
Check
I Double Check
You know I
Double Check
Double Check, Double
Double Check
I Double Check
I Double Check
You know I Double Check
Double Check I
Double Check I
Double Double Check
I Double Check
I Double Double I
I Double Check
Double Double Check
I Double Check
I, I Double Check
You Know I
Double Check
Wait For You
I know you know"
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4. |
Everywhere
04:30
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I am everywhere now In a placeless modernity The details of my life Pass into the fold, mere scenery One of hundreds In the queue You hold me Just for a second Just long enough to ask Just long enough to ask Where, where have I gone? You are everywhere now In an endless world of make-believe The triumphs of your life Take center stage, the pageantry One of hundreds In the queue You hold me Just for a second Just long enough to ask Just long enough to ask Where, where have I gone away? Lost to the ether The embers fade You hold me Just for a second Just long enough to ask Just long enough to ask Where, where have I gone?
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5. |
The Archivist
05:46
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"Saw your life
Pass by four times
In words and letters,
In pictures and slides
These casual ties
These victims of time
I tend to them, but still they subside
And do I know
This archive holds
An imperfect recollection?
Every piece changes your complexion
Thought I knew your every detail
Now I see a facade that’s revealed
To be imbued with fictions
The vestiges of protecting you
Seeing you across every page
Your whole body now split and arranged
But my memory is a fickle thing
It conjures what it wants to remain
And don’t I know
This archive holds
An imperfect recollection?
Every piece changes your complexion
Thought I knew your every detail
Now I see a facade that’s revealed
To be imbued with fictions
The vestiges of protecting you
Fleeting then, but now always still
Intangible, but now implacable
I prefer you as an abstract design
Not concretized between discrete lines
And will I know
This archive holds
An imperfect recollection?
Every piece changes your complexion
Thought I knew your every detail
Now I see a facade that’s revealed
To be imbued with fictions
The vestiges of protecting you"
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6. |
Better Work (Intro)
01:32
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7. |
Better Work
06:08
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"Clenched within your grip
I surrender all of myself to you,
Who taught me to believe
In the contingencies of salvation
Show him, once more
Swaying back and forth in your arms
I lose my sense of time
This evanescent glow
Will fade into nothing
We will dance into the dark
With a light swing
He wants to see your work
He wants to see
Show him, once more
He needs more,
Go, show him again
Step by step by step I confront this,
the ticking clock of my mortality
I work to resist it,
But it knocks and knocks and knocks So persistent
Show him, once more
He needs more, more, more
More, more, more
When I was a child
I would play in empty rooms
Humming a tune
That no one would ever know
It was mine alone
Unencumbered by the need
For a larger meaning
To provide a reckoning,
An accounting
Of reasons why
Last chance, show him
Now"
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8. |
Silent Keeper
06:18
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How to account For the starts and stops, The turns and indecisions? A pulse that ticks Will keep the time But what about a larger conclusion? Here, in my palm, A possible solution? Small as a tail, Curled into a “C” It gently hugs my left wrist And crafted in a foreign place It’s now become a constant companion Here, in my palm, A tiny substitution Like a parent who knows better It follows me: Silent keeper, silent keeper of progress And step by step, it counts Where to begin To address the score, To clear up the confusion? With every step Now in the count Will I begin to trust resolutions? Here, in my palm, A fictitious precision Like a parent who knows better It follows me: Silent keeper, omniscient seeker Silent keeper, omniscient seeker of progress And step by step, it counts How to account For the starts and stops, The turns and indecisions? A pulse that ticks Will keep the time But what about a larger conclusion?
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Chase Elodia Brooklyn, New York
Chase Elodia is a composer and drummer based in Brooklyn, New York. His music takes cues from media theorists, singer-
songwriters, jazz composers, and poets to ask questions about how we relate to both ourselves and one another in our increasingly digitized, secularized cultural moment. His new album, Portrait Imperfect, will be released on Biophilia Records in May 2022.
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