best friend

preorder digital/tapes: https://orchid-mantis.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-one-place-were-all-going-3

did you live there?
did i misremember?
is there a closer time
water on the windowsill

i am running through the long hallway of my
old school
can't go back
to change the past

i've got memories
hallways and windowsills
there is no other time
no other light in my life
a moment stretched
out to a million lifetimes
take me back
or fade to black
and i'll be there by winter

there is one place we're all going

rainwater on the windowsill

summer days 
its been so long 

I’ll hide away 
when this all goes wrong

you would say
why you still so low?


well
I dont know 

I dont know 

I dont know

if i was a cat things would be just ok

canine teeth (ft. fog lake)

holy crap!

untitled demo

Shining

the world is a million dollars 
i’ll have my cake and eat it too

i’ll save a piece 
chew it up
regurgitate it back for you

champagne,
tickles up my back
sung by the choir 
etched in my arm

(chorus)
Mama , (mama)
Didn’t feed me no good
Chips from the casino mixed with hickory wood
grew up sideways and that made me strong
even in the shade i learned how to find the sun

(Used to feel so tough
But it got easier once I was old enough x2)

cough syrup form
deep red in the corner
stretches up a hand
grabs my sinkin' head 

Steady my 
throbbing heart 
it's sick twistin' 
in my chest

(chorus)
Mama , (mama)
Didn’t feed me no good
Chips from the casino mixed with hickory wood
grew up sideways and that made me strong
even in the shade i learned how to find the sun

(Used to feel so tough
But it got easier once I was old enough x2)

dawn still comes wearing it’s ragged cloak
and night follows in its navy overcoat

death approaches as a cross-legged billy goat
To put u in the dirt
Square eyed soul sucker x8

Everyone is a Light

Hickory

a cover of 'casimir pulaski day' by sufjan stevens from "illinois" (2005)
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Goldenrod and the four H stone
The things I brought you
When I found out you had cancer of the bone
Your father cried on the telephone
And he drove his car into the Navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry
In the morning, through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade
I could see what you were reading
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth
Tuesday night at the Bible study
We lift our hands and pray over your body
But nothing ever happens
I remember, at Michael's house
In the living room when you kissed my neck
And I almost touched your blouse
In the morning, at the top of the stairs
When your father found out what we did that night
And you told me you were scared
All the glory when you ran outside
With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied
And you told me not to follow you
Sunday night, when I cleaned the house
I found the card where you wrote it out
With the pictures of your mother
On the floor at the great divide
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied
I am crying in the bathroom
In the morning, when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window
In the morning, in the winter shade
On the first of March, on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see his face
In the morning in the window
All the glory when he took our place
But he took my shoulders and he shook my face
And he takes and he takes and he takes

fog lake - casimir pulaski day (sufjan stevens)

Folded Laundry

from "through the soil" compilation 2021:
https://throughthesoil.bandcamp.com/track/close-the-door

close the door

found sounds, tape collages, and pop songs about forgetting
https://beacons.page/orchid.mantis

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