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Boundary Waters

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Crooked house, your doors hang askew in their frames Keeping nothing safe, leaking space unto space Creaking cold In static snow My joints unfold to points unknown Crooked house, your halls trace a forbidden shape Seasons pass like days in your siren embrace The floorboards bow In creaking cold As woolly figures come and go Crooked house, your walls twist the night on itself Til I can’t recall that I was someone else In static snow The TV drones A thousand voices drown my own We took great care Laying the least part of you to rest The rest I kept To wrestle with for all the days I’m left In our crooked house
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My heart yet moves for empty space For contour maps and waterways And when I see a distant hill I wish I were upon it And yet I’m back where the angles meet Hearing thunder in the morning train Feeling currents underneath the streets Swollen with the oily rain Wind through potted trees Whispers to me To come back home With my shield or on it Brake lights profane the horizon And street lights dim the sky
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Karate 03:40
An empty hand An hour’s peace A broken glass A broken lease Juvenile and retrograde Talking in my sleep Absent all my better days Take me in my need A silent string A settled plan An empty glass An empty hand Juvenile and retrograde Talking in my sleep Absent all my better days Take me in my need
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Banners 03:53
Pumping fists in the un-self-conscious pose of youth The less you know, the more the whole world burns with Truth Thinking in banners Writing in firebombs Speaking in stars Calling out questions Taking the answers too far Drinking deeply of the tides in a cup of tea Whose torrents sweep away the structures of centuries Thinking in labyrinths Writing in vectors Speaking in clouds Calling out questions Taking the answers too far Thinking in glaciers Writing in geodes Speaking in prayers
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If our dear seed should fall on rough terrain And never find a furrow waiting for And kick around forever wanting rain A promise posed and waiting, never more If our dear child should never learn a word And all our voices clatter in his ears And beat like wicked drumming overheard And leave him wretched, cowering in fear If our dear home should fall around our feet A splintered mess of planks and broken beams And all it never was would never be A fiction failing at its hopeful seams Then dearly I won’t condescend to grieve But sleep within the sweetness I believe

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released September 4, 2013

All songs written and produced by Andy Brommel and Jon Monteverde

Andy Brommel: vocals, guitars, bass, banjitar, trombone
Jon Monteverde: drums, programming
Benjamin McKinney: electric guitars on If-Then Sonnet
Nathaniel Braddock: trumpet

With deepest gratitude to Serena

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Midwestern melodrama, Chicago band, debut LP "Atalanta" out now!

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