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Birds We Should Know By Name

by Parlor Voice

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1.
On the road to a place that I know There will be critiques of motive By the court of cotton noses Someone you love is dying And others are flying I spent a long time driving On the road On the road On the road to a place the cotton grows Off to prove my rhymes To impatient power lines But the set is defined And it's time for goodbye And it's too soon to cry On the road On the road Someone you love is dying And others are flying I spent a long time driving
2.
Roswell giants So hard to watch the end Of a fight not right And the crowd is with them But no one leaves free From this arena Buy my a dragon's venom And a virgin corndog Time will be a healer Or a stealer Just a little fertile Cavern where you sleep Seek the lake of sorrow A pressure cooker of spoiled meat Like the mail isolation comes Slipping under the door To believe in flukes Too ridiculous to be true
3.
Transporting midnight schemes To a lonely moon Rising off the streets From your beating wounds Telling white lies to your pride While you're barely conscious The heavy smell of midnight The way it holds you tight No smiles greet you Only weird scents And birds we should know by name And south of town the freaks are out Filling vaccines yeah How's my flying?
4.
Chamblee 01:57
So come on out and bring your toys The war will not be fought by choice I slept in your bed I heard what you said I need to figure it out on my own You lack verve my cosmic dud Be a bird in the next life Trade warm milk for wormholes I will die before I fight...
5.
It was a bad day for memories at large What you said as I got on that jet Finally hit me Dulcet foxes plant their sad rhymes In baby brains Extra regular cardinal flowers Grow in lines And I have a trucker's gaze Every city is full of dancers And then I roll away Sitting on my plans to love again
6.
(sorry we couldn't see it one more time)
7.
Outpost 09 Where I belong You sent a violent code To send a flower to my love Brookwood lights First star on right You left the routines of life behind Now you leave a second time When I first saw you I was a chicken scratch deep-space diver You signed off charmingly with your heart farm Running you out of town To your home To be alone You left the routines of life behind Now you leave a second time...
8.
Hey is the man at the covington station Looking my way Now he raises his hand Says he has a plan I left everything I own In an earthy motel For some golden souls And the rockets you understand...
9.
Good weather for plum orchard shut-eye Will it find you supine Sweating bullets in case of a fight Good weather for plum orchard shut-eye In a normal life all the faults are exposed So I took the space train home When I wander who will remind me Though I leave I'm returning To coronations of queens And brightly-colored kings Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Time will forgive these humid places Time will destroy these faces As our memories turn into god Good weather for plum orchard shut-eye Will it find you supine Sweating bullets in case of a fight Good weather for plum orchard shut-eye
10.
The church in dunwoody Resembles the age of man Hot lizard scales the fortress Plaster walls inside The eleventh plague is coming Third baptism tonight At the caucus of right

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written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Johnson Cochran, August-October 2016

recorded at Casserole House

art and layout by Johnson Cochran

cassette design by Stephen Hoogewerf and Johnson Cochran

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released November 18, 2016

Thank you Stephen Hoogewerf, Sam Steenwyk, Megan Galvin, Grant Stiles, Morgan Hayden, and all my friends and family who have supported this project. It means the world to me.

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