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Palpitation Canyon

from Familiar Failure by Conductors

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O my heart called out
across the canyon
in hopes of a reply.
But there was no reply.

O that deep, wide space
seemed so inviting
I thought I'd hear a cry.
O that big space is
a little intimidating.
I thought I'd hear a sigh at least.
But there was no reply, no peace.

O my heart looks left,
my heart looks right -
don't want anything out of my heart's sight.
O my heart looks right,
my heart looks left -
still feeling quite bereft.
Look a pretty brown gown coming towards me
but only dust on the wind melts into the sky.

O wait, I think I hear something
real nice and low
O quiet, I think I hear something
sweet and low.
It's worse than fake sugar -
it's only my echo from days ago, no reply.

O my heart grows tired of waiting here.
It goes diving deep into the sand.
My heart, like foolish hearts before it,
went diving deep into the sand.
But my cry could not be stifled -
it only muffles any possible reply.

O my heart back out
stares down at the river.
My heart has nothing else to do
but sit there and quiver.
That river still digs in the ground for millions of years
never hears my sound.

What's a heart to do?
It doesn't get any rest.
What's a heart to do?
It just beats in your chest.
If it stops it won't start again.
Do you think that a heart has friends?

The heart cries out with every beat
a synecdoche that's cruelly neat.
My heart gets closer to the edge,
my heart looks the other cliff in the face,
my heart is reaching over the ledge,
my heart begins to race.

O my heart cries out across the canyon
in hopes of a reply.
O my heart doesn't want to be satisfied anymore
it doesn't want to die.
It wants to give comfort,
but there's nothing to accept it here in the desert.

There's blood in sand
still waiting for your outreached hand.

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from Familiar Failure, released April 1, 2015
Brother Mark - Synth Set-up

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"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' " ... more

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