Name: Animal Steam
Duration: P00H07M09S
Description: This song is part of a 365 song calendar. It commemorates the date October 3rd.

Animal Steam

from Thin Edges by Fake Buildings

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This song is part of a 365 song calendar. It commemorates the date October 3rd.

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How long have I been
spinning in this blue bottle of light?
And still, I know so little...
And still, I waste so much
of my time.

I feel as if my whole life has a fever
and I'm sliding down a well
lit road full of empty signs.

Did I spend my twenties bristling
at myself? Slipping in and slipping
out of who I am?
Without a doubt.
And what did I find?

I found this body
breathing animal
steam.
I found love all around me
thicker than cream.

Oh this year has taken what it wanted to take from me
Oh this year has given what it wanted to give.
I take it
In, I let it
Go.

And lately I feel as if I'm living underwater.
My mind is full of currents and my throat
Is full of laughter
I think about my parents
and their parents
and their parents
and their parents
and their parents
and their parents
and their parents
and the patterns
that are scattered
through my movements
like a song
I barely know.

Looking back behind me:
a sea of
endless afternoons
so fine.

Looking up ahead:
a foggy morning
above a field of winter wheat.
And beyond that?
A thresher looming.

Overhead I hear the sound of the seasons
passing slow.
Oh, world. How I'll miss you when you let me go.

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from Thin Edges, released February 15, 2018

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Steadily Rusting since 1988.

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