Found sounds and incidental music of France, Germany, Spain, England, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Croatia, Czech Republic, January / February 2014, remixed by Bird Names in Vermont

Incidental Music of Europe Remixed

Bootlegs from around Chicago shows, spring 2015 -- J. Fernandez band live at Situations

J. Fernadez live at Situations

The Hecks live on NYE 2015

Bootlegs from around Chicago shows, spring 2015 -- Gula Gila live at Situations

Gula Gila live at Situations

Famous Laughs live @ Situations

Kerry Couch reads a poem

Famous Laughs

Bootleg of Coffin Ships live on New Year's

Coffin Ships LIVE in Pilsen, NYE 2015

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Piedmont Spring

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ANOTHER LOCKED COSTUME FOR YOUR DREAMS

Girl
I want you to remember me
Not as I am
Or not as I was
But as a representation of yourself
In your future dreams

I want you to change me
To be a piece of your psyche
A locked costume
For your dreams

You will recall what I meant to you
As you relating to a part of you
You will observe my face
And it will be a mask
Over your own face

Hold on to me in your memory
As a residue of a feeling
Use me as skin in dreams
Another locked costume for your dreams
As this image I will find
Comfort in the hallways of your mind
Of your mind
Of your mind
Of your mind
(At the top of a staircase
in a hallway in your mind--
Leaning against the walls in your mind) 

Another Locked Costume For Your Dreams

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FLUSH IT (THE GREAT BROOM)

My, the floor is dusty
Animal hair, leaf debris, soil from the yard
Lo'! what's that?
It's coming right over here
It's a broom
The Great Broom

The broom, the Great Broom
The Great Broom sweeps through
And it takes the dirt away

That bad broom sweeps down
Sweeps up (the dusty, dirty) the mess of crumbs on the ground
Its rigid bristles like the shaggy tooth of a whale
Screening out the krill

Oh, what was he saying?
The Dust Pan man?
I'll tell you what he's saying
What he's saying is
He's saying
Flush it

Flush it
He's saying "Flush it"
Flush it out
Flush it out with that bad broom

The broom, the Great Broom
That bad broom glides over the floor
Flushing out the hair in the corner

With unforgiving yellow bristles that are never in repose
The Great Broom leaves clean streaks in all the places in goes 

Flush It (The Great Broom)

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STAR LIGHT

(You can look off the side of the world
and see the signs of other worlds afar)--
Star light
Falls into my eye
Stopping at the bottom of my eye

All the faraway stars travel apart
To remote space
Through places where there had been nothing
Ever more dissolute in the abyss
A star throws its light --
As senseless as the dot of winking white
That I can plainly see in the sky

Star light
Came such a long way
To end in my eye

There is my eye
A wave-particle in my eye
And there's the space
Between where the star was and my eye

Star light
Stopping at the bottom of my eye

I read in the night sky
the signs of the traveling pieces of the universe
Having traveled at unimaginable speed
through the cold dark empty lands of outer space
For many millions of years, toward my eye
The star light falls in the bottom of my eye

And to think of my face
As up against the edge of this deep space

Star light
Crashing into the bottom of my eye 

Star Light

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Fading From Vantage A Mysterious Bird

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THE STONE OF PREHISTORY

The stone of prehistory
Held in the palm of time
Held even today
As a smooth bead of sand

Entropy filling in the valleys
With rubble from mountaintops
Like hot coffee over ice

The atoms rub off the stone
Refacing the prehistoric tableau
As hot coffee poured on ice
Will settle into a tepid mean

The non-petrified matter
As fragile as a boulder
The pitchfork turns it over

Sand of the past in hand
Time is kind 

The Stone of Prehistory

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THE REAL WORLD LINGERS GRIMLY

Women and men are parts of a creature
That sleeps on the ground at night
It breaks the laws of people and nature
While asleep in the real world at night

The creature is dreaming in its sleep
At work building in rest
What does the unconscious monster reap
Sinking a trowel beneath its flesh

The real world at night lingers grimly
The rememberer of all living things, Death
Comes over the slumberer
And all people stop dreaming forever

The Real World Lingers Grimly

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Ima Walking Through A Town In My Mind

900 miles away and half a life ago
There was a small town where I used to roll
(Though today it's all but erased
It was a real place)
Except before I left I walked the town into memory
And since then have carried it along the way with me
Though much water has flowed since I tendered my goodbye
Sometimes I still walk those streets with the legs of the mind

I'ma walking through a town in my mind
Block by block not in real time

I'ma dreamin I can see
The thickness of the trunks of every tree
The grade of the street
The things left out in yards
I make believe to be at
The antique store
The water tower

Years ago when I was there
I walked it block by block
I walked each way until I hit the crops
Until I hit the acreage of corn stalks

I'ma walkin past the best places in town
The traintracks the sidewalks the silos the pond
Parks and porches to the limits of town
Where the crops go on and on and on and on and on and on and on

I remember that town almost perfectly
I have it down to the cemetery
Plot by plot of the cemetery
Where the good graves are in the cemetery

Six states away and quite a long time ago
There was a small town where I used to roll
I sauntered all over that town recreationally
And during the age since have carried it along the way with me
Though much water has flowed since I tendered my goodbye
Still I walk through to the margins of town
With the shoes on my with the feet of my with the legs in my mind

Ima Walking Through A Town In My Mind

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