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Beast on Beast

by Gabby's World

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1.
At the black center of my thoughts I plead, “Winter, withdraw,” and I decide I’ll boldly no longer feel the deep cold I’ll only look to you Do you even look at me? What would we even be if not a part of this city? Entangled in deep tunnels that lead to the deadbolt lock of our hovering box The light refracted again and again With the brightest tension The fifth dimension folded back with loaded guns Revealed its pact and pointed down vowed we’d dance So holding breath and holding hands Its splitting breadth and scathing rants that pull and stretch at what we’d deepened And when all that we built threatens to spill in a puddle on the tracks, sleepy stranger staring back What a clumsy refraction What an awkward expansion Quite a sight to be seen When what you were expecting a girl of nine reflected Placed a skirt upon her head and said, “Now a woman I’ll precede Flowing hair, flow behind me From the glowing inside Through the growing divide Will you please provide a cloudy feeling I can ride?"
2.
Rear View 02:46
Deep in the swirling space where my body and the world collide Focused only on how to find a volume knob and turn it down Way, way down As the stars recede from the moon when it’s full do I always with you all feel with you all alone And in this kind of vacuum where I, passive, let them drive this song always creeps inthen in the rear view I catch you try Try to catch my eye O, to worldly flipping O, the sudden flood O, to sealed seams ripping O, the rush of blood Where I find myself sipping at the consequent mud Where I find myself tipping, where I find myself stuck And in this kind of vacuum where I, passive, let them drive this song always creeps in then in the rear view I catch you try Try to catch my eye
3.
Ode 02:37
Dallas, TX soft and clean endless climbing, a puzzling dream There I stood on the divide of desire and admiring deep as a well and I’m staring there still at the black, purest water black only shown to be there by the moon shining back Keeping close tabs on my hands like a goat on a moving truck bed trying desperately to stand on scrambling hooves, to get stuck in your head But I’ve been losing myself in between t-shirts and dresses I’ve been losing myself in the black, purest water black only shown to be there by the moon shining back
4.
I Get You 02:09
A jagged piece of metal keeps the world out with a twist We descend step by step, I nearly trip A scratchy glove encompasses my wrist The warmest grasp, our fingers in a twist I grab your hand, hold onto it like a rein We travel miles or turn onto Avenue 8 Our world is violent, overgrown with fear and hatred You can try to carve your own space for somebody louder to just take anyway But I get you Do you get me too? Because I want to Do you too? Now I’ve found a soft clay spot to nest in Now I've found a soft clay spot too
5.
When you go off into the air you can’t help but become a floating poem, a concept tangled up in some kind of star stuff A “hello” from a pair of lungs I left Oregon on a cloud of hope that once we were gone the time would move so slow Life would be long enough to get to know how to get on But the seams are worn with threats to open up I was never made of stuff tough enough I’m just beast on beast stacked upto the sky with the bottom ones sinking into the mire You’ll find a song for everybody I have ever touched but stones unturned cover up how a blood river runs into some far and blurred beyond But the seams are worn with threats to open up I was never made of stuff tough enough I’m just beast on beast stacked up to the sky with the bottom ones sinking into the mire
6.
Eyes For You 03:06
I know I just can’t help it I wanna gather you up like a king-sized blanket or scratch you to sleep like a kitten in a droopy heap Your dumb head calls out to me when I just need to touch something Suddenly, the bubbling beneath, beneath You look up and all I see: trees, a sea of green You look up and in a burst my whole body is covered in the densest forest Should I be embarrassed because I know you can see it? Or should I just love it? Or are you just above this?
7.
Body 02:53
My ship rides harsh waves You watch me juggling my heavy love and disdain I judge me harshly, ridiculously The journey’s hard but it’s okay When you said to me, “Man, this world is full of possibilities," Were you talking to me? Were you talking to me? I’ve got this body this body without basic benefit of the doubt I watch you treat me so delicately but if I fall I deserve it When you said to me, “Man, this world is full of possibilities," Were you talking to me? Were you talking to me? My body just might be a temple, okay but I spend my days trying to wish it away I look through a hole in the hagstone and see the flick of the butterfly’s wing that changes everything When you said to me, “Man, this world is full of possibilities,” Were you talking to me? Were you talking to me?
8.
Had a thought, you were face-down in a pool Dead man’s float I was calling out to you Suddenly the water drained and revealed your form I could finally see what was capturing me What your ankle was caught on Something no one else could see Something from inside of me I found out that love is a bubbling spring and if you can resist the urge it brings to take a dip, to plunge your entire body in to ruin it with salty skin and then get cold or get sick of it To dry off, part from it Or you can forever sip from it
9.
Capable 01:04
It’s easier to just disintegrate into dust and be spread out by a gust speckle the mountain tops I’ve got a ripe bubble, precocity immeasurable and I’m a mess, that’s for sure but I am not even capable of what you think you saw The world is more complicated than just to be good or hated I wish I’d done something wrong so I could say I’m sorry
10.
A tour mate sex dream, haha you know what I mean, I ought to know When each thought that you think has to rise to the surface Has to push through the skin, just crystallizing My compass facing you, I unfold to the sky Feel a disjointed prayer rise, “You can take a girl out of the city You can make some concrete home to a lily Take a seat, skyscraper, or you’ll meet your maker in the heat of a moment you’ll much regret later” A tour mate sex dream, haha you know what I mean, I ought to know My roots long to grow deep so toward you they reach, chestwardly extended Heavy-handed, awkwardly, an apology the sharing of a dream deflected
11.
Looking down at what I’ve lost and what I’m not receiving The sun shines down upon all I’ve ever given But I can’t even find an ounce left to remember what it was I felt when I felt giving I tried to give you something but I took it instead Something I didn’t want or even know that I had And I guess you’ll find it easy enough to feel you’ve lost the fight when you’ve always been a sinkhole for love and a vacuum for light I have watched you face in every direction but this way and I have watched your flame burn every bridge but the one that leads right here Like a bat in a tree camouflaged like a leaf From the floor to the stage I was the only one watching Do a dance in the passenger seat Hate yourself for every movement of your body
12.
Arrival 02:43
The road forked before me Left: long, black Right: sanctuary The softest softness stretching held up against how I’ve been living Here’s that sound I know The yearning of the crow for his foreboding arrival to be joyful I reached out and touched peace How she spread through my whole body humming light, gentle subtleties but at last I had to draw away The ringing of the street resonates with me My shoulders only know how to bear the weight of That sound I know the yearning of the crow for his foreboding arrival, to be joyful

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released November 2, 2018

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