an AWwD gig performed at The G.I.G. on the 13th of November 2009. Set-list below. 

"Symbiot" (for Nick Drake)
"Sardine Nightclub Blues" (for Emily Haines)
"In Spite Of Everything" (Mexico, Part II: A Fun Hate Song)
"Gagging Order" (Radiohead cover) / "Hang Out" (Animal Collective tribute)
"Corp. Hard Rock" (for David Foster Wallace)
"Vicious_Circ"
"War Of Choice"
"That Northern Shore"
"Ballad Of The Happy Robot"
[Interlude]
"Brooklyn Cheer"
"Working Progress" (First Draft)
[Intro]

a gig at the GIG

Performing a few originals on 91.7FM KRTU Indie Overnight, 19th of June 2014. Songs are: "Working Progress", "Untitled No.13", and "Atheist Prayer".

At War with Dust on Live & Local

If I walk to your door
A friend is all you should look for
This soon after your divorce
While lesser men have had their choice. 

I wish I could take advantage
Of a trust that's been savaged. 
I see what no one else does.
I love your darkest spots. 

If I could tell you so
Without the lump in my throat
I'd face the day with cause for hope
And not be condemned to lone.

Please blow up at me.
Cut me with your teeth. 
Cause everybody knows
Heartbreak is the longest echo. 

Can't stop the tears from crying
Like ripples in the stillest pond. 

At War with Dust - "Martyr"

Would you settle all the scores and head out for the coast.
Tangled cobwebs you've woven catch you all the most.

Prefer safe lies to the bottom.
A life too long to stop.
See the world through the bottle.
Don't tell me when to drop. 

So clean and careful.
And I'd go back there again
And do you right
If I could.
But I can't. 
No, I can't. 

Goodbye Siddhartha. 
Goodbye Tinker Bell.
We're so glad to have caught ya. 
Let's pretend it's just as well. 

Just as well, just as well.
Just as well, just as well. 
Just as well, just as well. 

At War with Dust - "Marfa"

Travel with a monkey on your back,
Traveling to keep yourself intact.
And all the distance you can't hardly take
Sucks the air out of a lost age
And deflates.

A line of hope remains on Calgary,
To hear her laugh disguises me.
And all the locals joke, 'you're here to stay',
Try and convince them you're just on your way
- oh yeah yeah yay. 

Yeah all the locals think you're here to stay.
But you'll convince them that you're okay
When you're not okay. 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha
When you're not okay
Ha ha ha ha ha haha
When you're not okay
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
When you're not okay
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
When you're not okay. 

At War with Dust - "Travel Bonus"

Baldwin Rhodes Roland and Weil
Guess your codes are safe for a while
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Most of light will never be seen
Out in space, moving between
And it can't see a thing

You'd like to think 
You motivate
With pleasure and with pain
Now wouldn't that be simple?

There's some joy that will never be sung
Almond Soy and the Leadbelly lungs

Did you at least have fun?
Better than not.


At War with Dust - "Summer Highs"

kept from the gates
Homo Sacer
keep off the grass
but eat your dinner
in true form
killing them one-by-one

put off the past
but still you're hung
better off dead
be no. 1
Absalom!
killing them song-by-song

no Aphrodites
no dizzying lights
or funeral rites

zip up your coat
and walk alone
Aegis above
watch along
at rising tide
we're going down side-by-side

At War with Dust - "Lions In Winter"

You're well along while I write psalms
Without a bed to breathe in. 
There was a home before. 
I wouldn't call it stolen.

No, not at all. Not at all. Not. at. all. 

Scribble it down in cuniform.
That's shorthand for tedium.
There's someone else to be.
I wouldn't call that stealing.

No, not at all. Not at all. Not. at. all. 

You couldn't leave and I can't stay.
The fever's finally breaking.
You've got a lovely tone.
Wonder who you stole it from. 

At War with Dust - "Almost"

No wound, no wage
Living through a previous age
Sanguine and bleak
Stonewalls, burrowed beneath

Sunlight on distant shores
Homeruns thunder
There's one you know, and one you left
No, you're not at your best

All your problems soaked in turpentine 
I couldn't know what you've been going through, could I?
I can't imagine how hard it's been, all this time... but I'll try
I promise to

No wound, no rage
Struggle to turn the page
The ocean's where I am bound
Sunlight you've finally found

All your problems soaked in turpentine
I couldn't know how far that you've been left behind
I can't imagine how hard it's been, all on your own... I'll try though.
I promise to
I promise to

At War with Dusk

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