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Woolgathering

by Alon

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1.
woolgathering picturing myself in a weather faded dream and it doesn't look quite right but if I just dim the light it looks much better woolgathering trying to paint myself into someone else's painting and it doesn't look that great but if you look from far away it looks much better woolgathering photoshopping pimples out of beauty magazines always trying to conceal everything that's much too real it looks much better woolgathering digging in the attic through a box of broken things but there's no repacement parts for this machine you call your heart it's here forever
2.
and I woke with the morning gone and the sun directly overhead as she spoke with her voice so calm I could hear every little echo this is what you have for me pleasant insincerity empty words of flattery are whispered on a wire something in our chemistry numbing the extremity only temporarily fulfilling the desire when you go let me come along I would be forever in your debt when you go I will prove you wrong I will make everything better this is what you have for me pleasant insincerity empty words of flattery are whispered on a wire something in our chemistry numbing the extremity only temporarily fulfilling the desire
3.
Indivisible 05:24
I'm alone in the city In the chemical glow I'm looking through a kaleidoscope At the colours of the world below In a tenement tower In a delicate cell They took away all my secret parts now I'm nothing but a plastic shell I've been living on my own I'm trying to make a home In a place where the heat is invisible I've been looking for a sign I'm Trying to find the time But I find that I'm still indivisible now now, now I'm still indivisible In the heat of the summer In the back of my brain I'm right back where I was before Nothing ventured and nothing gained In the heat of the moment In the shadow of doubt It's so easy to fall in love But It's difficult to fall back out
4.
vaguely I'm bound it's hard to believe all the baggage we're dragging around uphill upright we're grabbing the pieces and holding them up to the light I could slip away from the inbetween from the ticking clocks and the moving screens from the blinking lights and the limousines I could float away on a different dream taking what you need you've got a plan and I know that you're bound to succeed taking what you can everyone's glad for the money you're making you've got a job and you bring home the bacon while I slip away from the inbetween from the ticking clocks and the moving screens from the blinking lights and the limousines I could float away on a different dream
5.
all the trees still in motion cut me back down to size all of this strange commotion and one day you realize the world won't wait for you no matter what you do pretty rose I'm scattered into pieces where I lie and no one knows I'm gathered in the recess left behind for a minute of pleasure for a lifetime of shame for the chance to discover you and I are the same the world won't wait for you no matter what you do the world won't wait for you but I can see you through you and I we'll play among the flowers every day hypnotized, they can't take what is ours we're standing in the way we can paint with all our favourite colours through the grey nothing else can face the superpowers not today the world won't wait for you no matter what you do the world won't wait for you but I can see you through
6.
Dead Horse 03:00
you know I tried so hard to reach you you wanna learn but I couldn't teach you and in the end I must beseech you to be a little bit more than this you know I'd like to talk it over and I can keep my cool composure and if you listen for a moment then it would be so marvelous this is the way we communicate this is the line between love and hate this is the way we communicate this is the game and you have to play you must be starving for attention you must be spitting on convention you must be making an objection you have to face reality you had to make a proclamation you put me in this situation you always lead me to frustration if only you were more like me this is the way we communicate this is the line between love and hate this is the way we communicate this is the game and you have to play! empty words we are repeating hanging on your foolish pride this dead horse that we are beating seems to keep us occupied
7.
Intervention 02:58
he's not the same as all the rest he failed the Rorschach inkblot test and this is where his life is going we gave him every pill we had we sent the bill to mom and dad and finally the results are showing these days he's not quite the same how he takes pleasure in the mundane we'll have to reevaluate we'll have to hold him back a grade with nothing but the best intention he's undeveloped for his age he never checks his Facebook page we'll have to have an intervention these days he's not quite the same how he takes pleasure in the mundane these days he's not quite the same he's kind of boring he's kind of lame nobody knows what's going on inside his head nobody knows what we've done wrong, but he's terribly terribly terribly terribly terribly terribly terribly terribly sad and you should be glad! these days he's not quite the same how he takes pleasure in the mundane these days he's not quite the same he's kind of boring he's kind of lame
8.
Victory Lap 02:15
all my friends are graduating but I'm staying for a victory lap none of them are hesitating and I wish that I could be like that it's always the same for me I'm stuck in my own debris I'm stuck in a fantasy it's always the same for me everybody's looking forward I'm the only one who's looking back everybody's read the instruction manual and they've got their life on track it's always the same for me I'm stuck in my own debris I'm stuck in a fantasy it's always the same for me they wanna take me away but I don't wanna go they wanna educate, but I already know it's not what it seems to be I'm stuck in my own debris I'm stuck in a fantasy it's always the same for me
9.
Murals 01:56
you've got a tube of platinum white I've got cobalt blue let's go down to the common room and I'll pain on the walls with you we don't have permission to be down here so we'll have to stay out of sight we were not commissioned to be down here so we'll have to paint at night and someday all our work will get painted over maybe tomorrow, or five years from now but still we try to make something beautiful and hope that it survives somehow you've got a tube of emerald green I've got asphalt grey if you'll be my Emily Carr, I'll be your Claude Monet we're gonna take this ugly wall and make it look appealing we're gonna paint this wall like it's the Sistine Chapel ceiling and someday all our work will get painted over maybe tomorrow, or five years from now but still we try to make something beautiful and hope that it survives somehow
10.
It's time for you to leave, I won't ask any questions I'm glad we had the chance to let it go so far and in my rear-view mirror I still see your reflection and I can finally see exactly who you are this is a time to follow a time to swallow your pride these are the happiest days of our lives I wish that you and I could live like this forever I wish we could postpone this for just another day and here I go again, pretending to be clever I only wished for you, but life got in the way this is a time to follow a time to swallow your pride these are the happiest days of our lives a room without a view protects me from the weather a box of souvenirs I could not throw away "June came upon us much too soon" - we used to sing together June came upon us much too soon, and here we are today this is a time to follow a time to swallow your pride these are the happiest days of our lives
11.
Outlines 04:04
The light in the window fades away The colours recede to shades of grey Sketching the outlines of a dream Somewhere between waking and sleeping But I'm lying awake at the end of the day and reliving the past And this lingering wish is a slippery fish that I cannot grasp The dream is gone The glow of a phosphorescent sky Lit up by a thousand fireflies You wanted a living souvenir But as you approached they disappeared And you gave it away for a dollar a day And you left me behind And you traded it all for a hole in the wall Where the sun never shines And I'm lying awake at the end of the day And reliving the past But this lingering wish is a slippery fish That eludes my grasp The dream is gone The dream is gone But the longer you wait and you procrastinate The more you waste away All the colours you see all the bright scenery Are nothing but paper mashe And I'm lying awake at the end of the day And reliving the past But this lingering wish is a slippery fish That eludes my grasp The dream is gone The dream is gone The dream is gone The dream is gone
12.
we're going through the motions every single day repeating every sentence, every word we capture your emotions on magnetic tape a single fleeting moment to be heard if you believe there's another world apart from what we know, carry on, carry on if you can see with a wandering heart and say "I told you so", and it's gone, and it's gone we're making a connection to a distant place we're waiting for an echo from the stars we're sending a projection into empty space returning a reflection of what we are if you believe there's another world apart from what we know, carry on, carry on if you can see with a wandering heart and say "I told you so", and it's gone, and it's gone I'm a passenger I've become an ambassador of the sun if you believe there's another world apart from what we know, carry on, carry on if you can see with a wandering heart and say "I told you so", and it's gone, and it's gone if you believe there's another world apart from what we know, carry on, carry on, carry on
13.
In A Hole 05:02
in a hole you made that's where I found you and scattered around you among the debris In your own disgrace, I started to doubt you there's something about you that's hard to believe and the songs you sing are the ones I used to know but your voice is drowned in the roar and the words you say, I have heard so long ago and they don't mean much anymore the shadows crawl across on the ground the evening sun is creeping down and sinking in a corner of the sky the friend you used to count upon was growing up and moving on and left you with a bittersweet goodbye and the songs you sing are the ones I used to know but your voice is drowned in the roar and the words you say, I have heard so long ago and they don't mean much anymore Lost my nerve at the moment of truth but you were so far away killing time at the fountain of youth holding on to yesterday and the songs you sing are the ones I used to know but your voice is drowned in the roar and the words you say, I have heard so long ago and they don't mean much anymore
14.
Hope Falls 03:13
hope falls out of the darkness breathing in through despair holding on to a silent prayer worn out, drained of affection faded out through the years hope falls, grasping to hold you there and if you believe all that I ask of you and if you can live with this compromise so try to believe, if it relaxes you the danger is gone, so open your eyes open your eyes my god craves your attention floating up in the air holding on to a silent prayer my persistent companion follows me everywhere my god is grasping to hold me there and if you believe all that I ask of you and if you can live with this compromise so try to believe, if it relaxes you the danger is gone, so open your eyes open your eyes

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wool·gath·er·ing (wo͝olˌɡaT͟HəriNG) n.
1. indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness
2. gathering of the tufts of wool shed by sheep and caught on bushes.

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released January 1, 2018

Polyna Firer - Vocals on Indivisible, Outlines, Another World
Alon Shenfield - everything else

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