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by noah mclaughlin

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Echo Panacea (free) 03:54
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bad news: a spectre haunts these pages that phantom is you but none of your wrinkles bad news: the doctor is calling again next week wants all your pain right now i have visions of her dancing i have visions of her tears i hear the echo of her laughter i hear the rattle of her fears take a picture: remember all of this glory mind your limits: one hundred and forty take a picture: frame it and hang it away in bright living color, try to remember this day i have visions of her dancing i have visions of her tears i hear the echo of her laughter i hear the rattle of her fears good news: you are not this aching you woke up this morning; the sun is still there good news: your voice echoes ever onward tomorrow is hopeful, waiting, and free i see her out upon the dance floor she wipes away the bitter tears i hear her laughter still resounding she smiles and puts away her fears i see her out upon the dance floor she wipes away the bitter tears i hear her laughter still resounding she smiles and floats away...
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whiskey (free) 02:37
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whiskey on your breath hold it in don't let it go grasp with frail fingernails the last fading wisps of fever dreams all delirious and lucid navigating the seas of sleep to rhythms distant and strange beneath alien stars fell alcoholic winds billowing the sails and all the while bail now bail until the sea is empty and the land is full of long, wet dripping women all those sirens now drowned in their own song keep the cadence but give the melody sway take a rest just a beat and then three and after the coda of waking dive in again the symphony of forgetfulness to live a life not your own beneath the skin of someone else to never know how far you may go how long it may take to return to the same old song the long and happy dirge we may sing at your wake toasting you with whiskey on our breath
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bite down (sketch) (free) 01:13
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i've come to see a gypsy in lilies draped in black i ask her to lay the cards for me: pose questions to the stack because i have never been here she says i must feed her sin offers me an apple red on the Lethe banks we swim she tells me to bite down let the poison flow these cards won't sing your destiny but you never know i cross a man on the king's road, on a horse as black as night his banner the wind holds mercilessly; i ask him wither the light because the path is narrow, we ride not side by side to persephone's tree he takes me: where forbidden fruit may hide he tells me to bite down shelter from the snow these seeds won't sing your destiny but you never know in Hades i seek an angel: take my hand and show me pain show me where my lover twists in the devil's legerdemain the serpent's song is mighty; seraphs only whisper sweet they are drowned out by the lust-wind that kisses at my feet it tells me to bite down don't ever let go these bones won't sing your destiny but you never know

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a collection of tunes not associated with song writing competitions; just stuff i work on as the inspiration comes to me.

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released December 15, 2011

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noah mclaughlin Atlanta, Georgia

Appalachian distortion, folk samples, and ancient myths.

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