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The River

by Joel Fagerberg

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1.
The River 04:50
in the River i belong like a mirror night and day i've been bigger yesterday now i'm thinner try to stay like the River in some way i see you i feel you (i see you coming home) now the River intersects like a sliver of a shiver in your neck in the winter with the icicles indexed but the River is not frozen no, not yet i am floating down the River to the End of the World when the River meets the bend i'll be thankful that the River doesn't end i see you i feel you (i see you coming home)
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where you are in the Shadow Grounds near the Western Wall climb the Tower so you can see it all everything in this place has grown apart can't remember what i had said before i was talking to myself lost my words in the Woods with snow on the trees and stars looking up it feels like i'm stuck below underneath the surface of where you are waste away my shadow's shrinking split in two into two and then into now it's three me and my shadow and not me what a mess pick myself off of the floor i'm alone but i feel there is someone watching me me and my shadow and not me who it was hide away where no one can see read the dreams (they wait in the skulls now) where you are i'm there where you are i'm free where you are run away my shadow's grinning
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Asymptotes 03:07
say i don't wanna go come noon tomorrow i'll know wait, i don't wanna know living forever, i won't time is inside the walls this little piece of my mind life is a little more more than the limit of time asymptotes tracing the lines see where you wanna go ice on the windshield, debris we are not driving home no map for you or for me blue and a lot of grey snow will be coming today who would even wanna say water is rising okay i'm okay one more day asymptotes tracing the lines
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keep away they watch they want, that's okay that's fine 'cause now we won't come apart we're stuck together, you and i myself and someone that i once called myself hear my voices they're speaking about the flowing water it moves it carries i follow it back home today we'll go take a step and see your footprints in the snow alive awake and wondering, will i die? before i make it back to where i was you are is something that i can't ever know but somehow i remember the way you looked that night inside the library you told me about home today we'll go
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Junction A/B 04:12
turn it on Junction A turn it on Junction B turn it on turn it offline, now turn it on control me, now please tell me i don't know who i am please help me my mind is in your hands (i want to be your only plan i want to be your favorite plan) turn it on Junction A turn it on Junction B turn it on turn it offline, now turn it on control me, now i'm waiting for my world to end been waiting but i don't wanna say it (i want to be your last project i want to be your worst object) i don't want to but i have been (but i know) turn it on Junction A turn it on Junction B turn it on turn it offline, now turn it on control me now i'm gone
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Take Me Now 02:39
i wanna let it go i wanna see it go (take me now) i wanna swim in it i wanna live in it i wanna feel it move i wanna drift away i wanna let myself go wherever it takes me i wanna wash away all the things i've ever known (take me now)

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"We look out upon the Town. The Clocktower, the River, the Bridges, the Wall, and smoke. All is drawn under a vast snow-flecked sky, an enormous cascade falling over the End of the World.”
- Haruki Murakami (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of The World)

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released February 26, 2022

recorded February 2022

written/recorded/performed by Joel Fagerberg
("I'm Only Sleeping" originally by Lennon-McCartney)

album art by A.M.

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