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Mammals and Machines

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Mammals and Machines

There is silence in the night
The great head of the universe
Turns and sighs and swings it eyes
Singeing stars into purple plumes
Sending sparks down
Below the weight of humming lights
The sparks which fall to the earth
Ride on
The backs of the crickets
Singing their way to the town below
The arc of sky
From my hillside
With no moon and no clouds to hide behind

Arming my tears for the blue below
Which glide to the earth
Like silver misles carrying their messages
From above
That find their way
Into the hearts of all the lonely people

All the lonely people come out
All come out

Scattered light
But we are black within
My consciousness assumes
It assumes the shape of it
I turn and fly
The beings by god
Throw poisons in the air
And smoke again and fill their skins
With vacant eyes and kneel before their sorrows
With open hearts I sink in
Invisible, more beautiful and immortal
Flowers and blood
White wings that beat
Your gun in my eyes
Its time I know its time

But don’t say that you can’t spend the night
Cause you can and you will
For the sake of man
You’re their only hope
All you have to do is lend a hand

On the shore he jumps against the night
Last night I dreamt the clouds went by
Chopping cotton by the side of the road
With an eyelash and a broken nose
The men rode by with barbed wire eyes
In superman suits
I put the whisky down like a sword
Obsessed with the score
And no one speaks as light spills in
Below our feet bones sleep beneath our weeds
The past sneaks in
The benches sway in the wind
Against the plastic weather
Sitting in
Blank spaces
Wishing that
My bones could stand up
Leaving my skin behind
Walking upright
Oh the ad-
Ventures they’d have
All alone
In the wooded world
Veiled by leaves
And twigs
Captured by the light
Under moon sight
Pecked at by the birds
And beasts alike

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from Gallupstar, released September 1, 2009

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Gallupstar Minneapolis, Minnesota

Gallupstar is a Minneapolis made one-man band consisting of 2 Mics, a pared down drum set, a guitar, and a loop pedal. A technical melding of one-man showmanship and solid pop melodies, Gallupstar is a performer who needs to be seen in action.

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