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by A Straw Assembly

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Monsters 03:38
The clock ticks round, the seconds crawl The weeks ahead loom like monsters Just around the bend they lie in wait, to seal our fate For all the time that is to come And I beg them all to leave I pass around the heady hope of starting over How I beg them all to leave, to leave without a trace To come undone Sometimes when they call me Batten down the hatches, stay low Flat on the ground I listen to the sound Of their footsteps departing But an echo still remains, I know it fades But for now it won’t stop tapping on my window pane Firing on the switchboard, must be tiring of them same old chords They’re tapping on my window pane I’m in their lair, showdown in my hand Creeping corners call in foreign tongues Tunnel turnings in the dark, is that the glow of candlelight Is this even my dream Come tie a rope around my waist and push me in Whisper words that mend Sing softly lilting lullabies and sweet little lies And paint a cushion for my pride
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Free ride 05:47
Where do you keep the vials For when you’re all used up I am a daylight vampire I need your blood Derelict conductor and the strings are slack The teacher faces the wall Outside the circle still it’s swimming past Peep show crack in the door And won’t you please lift me free... I left my shadow behind Calling out into the night I took a free ride to get me there To break the barrier and feel the air I took a free ride to get me there The last skin is the hardest to shed The sky doesn’t cry And the trees don’t groan The earth is cold and hard There’s no one home But for the creatures clawing at my feet You know I’d be a million miles from here They got me on my knees and I can’t break free They’re trading knives and plates for zero gravity And won’t you please lift me free... I left my shadow behind Calling out into the night I took a free ride to get me there To break the barrier and feel the air I took a free ride to get me there The last skin is the hardest to shed
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In the waves 04:58
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Arrival 04:19
A trickle turned into a stream when I closed my eyes Spilling over the sides and I can’t rewind I slipped and stumbled, and I scraped the shore This coast calls you who fail a true course I fell in with the beat of the winds Retrograde shuffle, all made to fit Before I could speak I called your name Doors opened off, I called your name Scratching at knots I’d put in place The passage complete, all made to fit Under the aegis of stars in their systems Dust motes colluded, laid down the conditions Walls when to waver, the moment to give All orchestrated, all made to fit
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Departure 04:31
Lines leap unbroken, latent trace of bedlam Time warps and contracts, he leaves not a trace Toes turn right angles, 180s and circles VIP whirlpools urged on to the end Where are we going This runaway train armed with cataclysmic brakes This belt isn’t safe What rising star to stand on our shoulders, vindicate these boulders prescribing our place On a funeral pyre I release thee Flesh and fire synergy splits the sky Sweep the veil from your eyes And I’m lifting And go to the mourning fields
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Sleepwalker 06:13
Sleepwalker, sleepwalker don’t heed the call Hold the wool over your eyes, a slip chain on heretic thoughts Anchored in the bay, she gave you shelter from the storm Slipped your mooring and set a new course Dawn’s fingers crept from your hair to the ground, and danced upon your eyelids The morning bore down The earth became cold, the soft light untangled the knots of the night and the notes of the angels Sleepwalker, sleepwalker you dared say the words A stitch in time.. You wrote your own curse And you threw it out wildly in the hope it would return, but it lodged inside her breast and grew seven spurs The city heard your cries and it swallowed them whole The streets rang the next day, a warning for all On the third day it was silent The silence of the wind down the tracks past the platform, blankets on the ground How do I tie the threads into a circle How do I bind the end the bind the... As you woke the cost grew, an eclipse of the mind The bridge had grown thin cause we’d walked it all night And the night had spanned ages but it still came up short Brief kiss of the tangent and spinning apart Sleepwalker, sleepwalker I had little hope Every hour I could steal by the throne was well bought To flash before my eyes, leave traces on my skin Feed the conflagration, seeds for the spring
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Freewheeling 07:02
These lines are blocked Omnidread clot There’s something in the water The air’s too thin Unchained wheel Spokes coming round and again Freewheeling down a hill to the end Comes up sharp How did I come here There’s a black spot between my eyes I can’t deduce the law Won’t connect Blessed are the tired They shall inherit the night Beyond the glare branches brush by Blunt and blind When I’m delivered Snow drifts down Four winds around me Still the snow drifts down A change in the season Let it all fall down I’ve sold off my reasons Let it all fall down Cars drive by, the children run and play Revealed it’s just an average day A silver sky to paint the ground A silver sky to lay me down
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Reporting 06:47
I don’t have the right to this song It should’ve been another man’s before The sun rose and set in one A sallow strain in daybreak’s hum But to the fall I was deaf and dumb The thread rubs when the mood sets in Burrs attach where I can’t reach And as I sift the takings through Is a retraction my only due I call the fire, you brought the wood But I don’t mind, I’m just sitting here reporting For some peace of mind, but this pen keeps on dripping Bubbles bursting foreign scenes Lay bare all the hidden things I was swept up in a passing dream How long till it strikes up again Fostered fibres of a stolen morning Under days and over oceans Weave your tangle thread to cross Stay our hands and stay our thoughts We’re all made of stars until we fall short But I don’t mind I’m just sitting here reporting For some peace of mind But this pen keeps on dripping Bubbles bursting foreign scenes Lay bare all the hidden things I was swept up in a passing dream How long till it strikes up again But I can’t feel this way for long I’ve been turning over rocks My skin is rough but my blood’s the same I thought I’d defected in the fray Lined up I can’t fire, but I know when to stay But don’t you mind, they’re just scars come up swollen And my peace of mind trails them over the mountains
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Pressed 04:40
Pick the locks my dear Scratch them till they bleed Just don’t stand there in the doorway Our pulse to falter on the brink Maybe I’ve got cat’s eyes I’m just waiting for the night Else I’ve seen the water drawing And I can’t turn my head aside I’m pressed I’m pressed By the marching of the seasons Blood to bind in reasons I’m pressed I’m pressed By this flat parade of scriptures Horizons shimmering Throw plumes up to the sky We celebrate tonight A laid out Archimedean star To give this land no more its light I’m pressed I’m pressed By the marching of the seasons Blood to bind in reasons I’m pressed I’m pressed By this flat parade of scriptures Horizons shimmering

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released January 16, 2018

Cast:

M Lane - Guitars and vocals
Joey M. Bishop - Drums
Taufan Kurniawan - Bass
Iir Ahmad - Violin
Indra Ruri - Trumpet

All songs written by M Lane, composed by A Straw Assembly. Mixed and mastered at Harmony recording studio, Surabaya.

Artwork by Lucy Aaronson.

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‘For the birds and the stars.’

Matt Lane writes songs for cavernous days and haunted nights. From the first whisper of a note, he conjures stories from the most far away and unlikely places. Between cracks in the pavement, under restless floorboards, or suspended in the air, he takes you on a journey beyond the daily confines. ... more

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