Try to leave no traces, as if I wasn't born
--broke it all to pieces when I flew to bhutan

Study geophysics, become a mountain man
--pile up the evidence as much as you can

snowfall in may - preview

Some stuff I've been working on, some of which I intend to finish soon! I figured I'd make them public, in case there's anyone out there interested.

called my family - preview

sexy sadie (cover) - preview

try to leave no traces as if i wasn't born
broke it all to pieces when i flew to Bhutan

you say you're old and you're done
when you're 4 and a half Billion Years Young
and it feels like april showers when its snowfall in may
and i just want a hot shower but i know we'll both pay 
and they say this world is ours once we graduate in may

study geophysics become a mountain man
move into a park out west protect your stolen land

you say you're old and you're done
when you're 4 and a half Billion Years Young
and it feels like april showers when its snowfall in may
and i just want a hot shower but i know we'll both pay 
and they say this world is ours once we graduate in may

...yam YAM yam YAM yam YAM yam...

Snowfall In May

you're a thousand, thousand, thousand pretty girls
you're a thousand pretty girls and so am i

i feel no guilt, no shame cos we are all the same
i feel no guilt i feel no shame cos we are one

i'm made of black and white and scintillating light
i'm made of black i'm made of white and we are one

i wanna call my family
i wanna call my family

Called My Family

Drums by Pedro P

Well, I knew it from the get-go
she would be hard to let go
but it didn't really matter--
and I hardly looked at her,
knowing we would go our on ways,
never feeling lonely, 'cos she would never meet me and I was dating you

In the meantime you and I were having love vacations with our bodies
Well it turns out that our biggest problem was 'bout what I had in me...

Well, she shopped all of my classes
and we became the fastest pair of friends after the field trip
(man, that girl was so hip--
she knew all my favorite bands
she even was a fan of some!)
but we were just friends,
what else could we be?

Lol fml

Well, I swear 'twas not on purpose
and I'm never telling her this,
but by the third movie
I knew what had pierced through me.

I don't expect you to understand 
and I didn't think I was that kind of man
but at this point, what else could I be?

And I tried so hard to save my triumphs, failures, and interests for you
but conversations are productive only if you find them interesting too,
not to be rude.

And if I accidentally
told a lie
I need you to know how sorry am I
I need you to know just why I called
I need you to know it's not your fault.

It's not your fault.

What I Had In Me (Touched-Up)

Thanks for the drums, Penny D

Lyrics:

Something's not right in my head when it comes to you
If Cascadia ruptured tell me what would you do?
Would you freak out
Knowing what my past twelve months were about?
Or would you alleviate my doubt?

Sometimes it's hard waiting for your love
Sometimes it's hard waiting as I do
You know it's so hard
Sometimes I wonder it it's worth it

But then I always wake up knowing it's worth it.

Sometimes it's being just your friend
And at times I wonder how it all will end
But I know your style
And I know it couldn't end that way

'Cos when I'm with you I feel seen.

I feel seen
in a way that I've never ever been
and I can tell you, I've never ever felt so clean

Et je me sens comme un chat devant toi
quand je miaule sur le tapis
Oh I feel like a cat in front of you
when I meow on the carpet

Et je me sens comme un chat devant toi, quand je me tortille sur tes genoux
Yeah I feel like a cat in front of you
when I writhe and squirm on your lap.

Don't you know one "and" is enough?
Don't you know I wish that I was all of that stuff
that you mentioned you were into.

I feel seen
in a way that I've never ever been
and God knows what that orange peel means

I just want you
I just don't want to mess up what we still have

Seen...

And after all this, I still don't know who I am anymore
But I don't mind if you don't mind,
Can't keep it locked anymore
I just want you.

Seen

Pedro, you really put the PERK in perkussion ;)



but actually thanks

Lyrics:

Sleep settles in and my mind's at the door
knocking and knocking just to reach the first floor
it begins to explore, while the world I ignore
melts away like a snowball and I let out a snore.

I want to find the writer of these notes in a jar
and I won't be satisfied until I am where you are.

My mind keeps drifting like it's got no time to spare
rolling like a five-year-old it reaches the stairs
I'm hardly aware that a voice seems to say,
"Your mind's on the fray"
Leaving the rez-de-chaussée...

I want to find the writer of these notes in a jar
and I won't be satisfied until I am where you are.

My mind is hard and lumpy and it wants a soft touch,
so seven flights of dreamy stairs aren't too much--
in dreams those aren't a problem, in dreams you can fly,
I'm looking for the scarlet door and this is why:

I want to find the writer of these notes in a a jar
and I won't be satisfied until I am where you are.

Notes in a Jar

*Drums and kitchen percussion by Pedro P

Thanks a lentil to the North House Culinary Percussion Troupe, conducted by Elana H
Thanks a donut hole latte to Pedro P, his dexterous digits and clever cranium

Lyrics:

Memories like mountains turns blue as they drift from sight
like thumbprints of an image outlined by the black and white.
While the time I spent with you, folding boxes in your room
or your voicing of my name in the dark Texas night
cut far deeper through my cyan mountaintop landscape than most of my mundane encounters ever might.

But if green is the color of the deepest of waters
vivid are the colors of my deepest of memories; all the things we did together.
And I see them most clearly in the night.

Vision has its limits and so does the brain
like the time I thought I saw (multiple) sunrises on the plane.
(But) if I learned anything from Pi, 
we don't see things we see our minds, 
so everything my mind holds dear is closest to my eyes. 
Who could care what's really there when gifted beyond their fair share 
with amber sun and velvet purple skies?

But if dark is the color of the inside of eyelids,
I care more about the spectra that I did see
and the things we did together
and I see them most clearly in the night.

Birthday Song

I may not be the fastest after the fire the gun
but i guarantee Ill pick you off one by one
and i don't care if I spike you as i take a turn too quick
i'm the kinda runner with which its hard to stick

now tell me what's it gonna take to get over this hill in front of you?

They call me "dr. lyle" coos i'm smarter than shit
once you catch your breath i'll tell you all about it
Did I hear you say you wish you never did Long Slow Distance?
I'd be saying that too if i were running with me

now tell me what's it gonna take to get over this hill in front of you?

XCSONG

A nostalgic piece from 2018

Includes unlicensed sample of "Sister" by Mac DeMarco.

Chalk, gum, and scat by Jessy M

Introducing...

Look at it this way: my snodcloud is an archaeological dig, and it's up to YOU to figure out how the Ian went about pasting slightly unpoolshed songos down in the dirt with the fleeting conviction that they were ready for the big time. For those of you who desire a more finalized work, stay tuned for a CD.

TURN UP because I don't know how to master

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dagYQgGAVBw4y0tEMAjsrUbc8qTbpMnHNSBYSWuIKWw/edit 
https://www.vote.org/

Ian Lyle

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