What remains of Averno

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The Vice Quadrant

Whale Song

cryptid hunt - over and out - averno

this does not fund averno, as this is just a reupload.

the sun and the moon - bittersummer - averno

this love won’t break your heart - bittersummer - averno

round and round - bittersummer - averno

sidewalk chalk - bittersummer - averno

december is kind - bittersummer - averno

Honestly?

10: 28pm

Once Upon a Time (In Space) 'Endgame' -The Mechanisms

Ulysses Dies At Dawn 'Hades' -The Mechanisms

This Must Be Love > > > Caravan of Thieves

Joy_ Joy_ JoooOOY_ (The Narcissist Cookbook)

Falsettoland - Composed By William Finn

Falsettoland / About Time

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Te0HmHKL9ElwcK71PfbHY

FEAR

Someday, 
Maybe ten, maybe twenty years from now, 
There will be a knock at your door. 
There will be a man standing there with a clipboard. 
And you will sign your name on the dotted line. 
The man will hand over 
A parcel bundled up in wool. 
You will look down to consider it; 
You will look up to say thanks, 
And the man will be gone... 

But a plaintive cry will draw your eyes 
To a baby pelican 
Sitting on your welcome mat, 
And the pelican’s eyes will dilate, 
And the eyes of the trees will dilate, 
And you will be a sea anemone: 
You will contract upon this contact. 

Will you feel small? 
And will you feel scared? 
And will you gasp for air 
And find there’s nothing there 
But a fatal mistake? 
Will you finally weigh what you have given 
Against what 
You take and you take and you take and you take. 

Somehow, 
You will think once again of the package in your hands 
You will begin to tug at the wool. 
It will come off easily in pieces, 
But it will cut right through the prints upon your fingers and 
It will pile up around you in a mountain of gauze 
In a car on a hospital train, 
Where the surgeons lack credentials 
And the scalpels are just saws. 

But a plaintive cry will draw your eyes 
To a baby pelican 
Sitting on your welcome mat, 
And the pelican’s eyes will dilate, 
And the eyes of the trees will dilate, 
And you will be a sea anemone: 
You will contract upon this contact. 

Will you open your arms 
To the birds? 
Will you open your arms 
To the trees? 
Will you repast them 
With your own blood? 
Will you finally give back 
The breath that you take? 
(and you take and you take and you take. 
You take and you take and you take and you take.) 

Somewhere, 
Underneath the many years of stinging fibers, 
You will find your gift. 
Will you ever understand what it means?

credits
from A Troubled Piece of Fruit, released 23 July 2012 

Stephan Nance, piano/vocals
Merlin Showalter, drums 
Tim McLaughlin, bass/guitar 
Angelica Sather Hodgetts, cello

Stephan Nance — Paid By Weight

Then: The Earlier Years

Cage & Aquarium

cryptid hunt - over and out - averno

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