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The Orbit of Your Breathing

by Brendan Bonsack

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1.
Mystery.History.Science.Romance 04:31
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We're a mystery We're a romance Looking for a happy end Less expenses, We've a dollar And sixty three cents To our names To our names To our names To have died to leave a name We are history We are science In the shadow of the bomb We're the wind in our hair On our bicycles And in an instant gone We're not all Sons of bitches, Oppenheimer Mostly we just wanna ride home We're the cartoon We're the comedy If you really need an out Laughter is the flower Of the dreaming Of the horror Coursing through the roots Reaching down Reaching down Reaching down Clawing all the way down We are reason We're excuses We love a pretty graph Do the action Do the action Action louder than the math Talk it to us Sing it to us Do an interpretive dance We are mystery We are romance We just want someone to love We are sickness We're contagious Should we trust each other close? We're not all Sons of bitches, Oppenheimer Mostly we just want to ride home
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Age of Stone (Part V) 04:14
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Does everybody come here Up the curling stair By your cotton dress A spring awash with flowers? Does everybody lie here Another tingling spine In your storyline As you reveal your superpowers Don't tell me I'm the first Don't tell me I'm the last Just kiss me into the age of stone And wait with me here While all the other ages pass Does everybody come here To lay their mask aside To take their faith inside The orbit of your breathing Does everybody come here A foreign tongue Who has just begun To find itself among your meanings Don't tell me I'm the first Don't tell me I'm the last Just kiss me into the age of stone And wait with me here While all the other ages pass Don't tell me I'm the first Don't tell me I'm the last And please don't tell me That everybody comes here And you anoint their wrists Like this, like this Till they are buds upon the season That everybody comes here With no place to start But their ember heart Just let this quiet hum appease us Don't tell me I'm the first Don't tell me I'm the last Just kiss me into the age of stone And wait with me here While all the other ages pass
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Empire Down 03:21
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One hundred cops surround a statue Of somebody named cook I think they're going to arrest him For something that he took He can assist them with inquiries Into murder, into rape Theft of land and food, and arson And dragging little children away How many batons How many tasers How many knees How many guns Does it take To drag this face of Empire down? Apparently, it's none Apparently, it's none He is wanted in connection With the spreading of a plague With the poisoning of soils And the skies and the waterways It's alleged he's quite the figurehead In a gang by name of White Wanted the whole world over For a long list of crimes How many cops How many tasers How many knees How many guns Does it take To drag this face of Empire down? Apparently, it's none Apparently, it's none How many cops How many horses How many knees How many guns Does it take To drag this face of Empire down? Apparently, it's none Apparently, it's none
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Aneurysm 04:35
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The sea wanted you badly Beautiful diver man The table broke your fall Did it hurt? Did it hurt? Did it hurt? You must be subatomic somewhere Beautiful diver man I am still talking to you Can you hear? Can you hear? Can you hear? The world is clutching its breath now Beautiful diver man I unlearn the desire to be held Can you feel? Can you feel? Can you feel? That speck in centre of sunward Beautiful diver man That is my kiss The sea wanted you badly Beautiful diver man They switched off your machine Did it hurt? Did it hurt? Did it hurt? I'm sinking in a swirling of pollen Beautiful diver man The flaring flower of alone Are you there? Are you there? Are you there? Let us tangle not fingers but heartbeats Beautiful diver man A wave in a stranger hello Does it hurt? Does it hurt? Does it hurt? That speck in centre of sunward Beautiful diver man That is my kiss
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Cherry Wine 03:20
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Nana says Hug the things that haunt you Trouble wants your love That's why it keeps on calling That's why you keep picking up Nana says A cherry wine a day Or maybe two will keep you from dying Look at me, I am old, I am grey Look at me, it must be working A cheers and a wine A cherry cherry wine Nana says Nana says Nana says Nana says Take any LPs you like I won't need them where I am going Except the Carol Kings Don't ask me why But they need no any other needle but mine in them Nana says The pill with getting old is You get to live to see nothing change Power loves a monster No-one believes the monster Till the moment in the dark When it's too late A cheers and a wine A cherry cherry wine Nana says Nana says Nana says Nana says Get to know your neighbors Bring them eggs and sugar Cry with them on the verandah Call the ambulance And while they're away look after their kids Someday the State will beg your blindness To shoot them in the street A cheers and a wine A cherry cherry wine Nana says Nana says Nana says Nana says The gift of love is sadness I still make the tea for two cups I won't need them where I'm going So cut the lemons from the tree For the neighbors in the street To help themselves Nana says A cherry wine a day Or maybe two will keep you from dying Look at me, I am old, I am grey Look at me, it must be working A cheers and a wine A cherry cherry wine Nana says Nana says Nana says Nana says
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Twist in Your Tree 03:35
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Are my eyes too open, in the wrong direction? Are my wounds too token, am I not forgiven? I've had this meat inside my belly since before I was born. Shake me, make me, gently break me Fluid fingers overtake me Lift me, fly me, oh I cry - Me oh my I think that I can Hear you rattling deep inside me, hypodermis saintly find me, Blood beneath your leaves I'm just another twist in your tree. Angels in crushed velour Lose a day upon the hour A loop of thread for every star A bend of road for every car Why is my head racing? Why is my heart breaking? I am only half awake And half of me is dream Shake me make me gently break me Fluid fingers overtake me Wrap me bind me If I should wake before I die I will feel you rattling deep inside me The hypodermis spoke so kindly Blood beneath my leaves Another twist another twist In my tree Are my eyes too open in the wrong Direction, are the lights That lead me to the moth Like to tell which way is up Fellow sun, follow sun Shake me make me gently break me My bend of road, the oak that takes me Here is what I dreamed It's only half, just a twist in your tree.
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Quiz Show Lovers 02:52
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We are lovers, we are losers Ask us anything We met on a quiz show I got the final question wrong You knew that I knew it And I knew that you knew That I knew it I guess that's why I did it We are lovers, we are losers Ask us anything I watched you from the green room Your right hand on the buzzer For a left-hander My wrong answer Was not the right wrong answer You corrected the presenter To the murmer of the studio crowd What now? What now? I think they may have cut that bit out We are lovers, we are losers Ask us anything But as it was The polo shirt man With a funny but forgettable hobby Stole it all from you Left to walk free from studio 2 Back to civilian obscurity With a consolation prize We spent it all in a wild night I still bear the smile We are lovers, we are losers Ask us anything
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The Bus That Kills Me 03:51
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Nothing really, just something Nothing really, just something The bus that kills me Is always twenty-five seconds Into the future Mother cried on the phone Nothing really, just something She saw on TV - nothing really, just something A man at the stop Wants an ally or a fight Hoax china virus pearl Harbor media vaxxers This that and anyway Have a damn good evening Do we deserve this grace The biding moon, the Flowers singing silent into night? Another man died In a hail of uniformed gunfire And livestream emojis Another woman At the hands of a man Hailed a good bloke in the tabloids A paedophile bishop Downs a chianti and dabs His mouth to the fold of white A white haired, white skinned, Predatory shark grin Suit-n-tie comes in to defend him Do we deserve this grace The biding moon, the Flowers singing silent into night? The bus that kills me Is always twenty-five seconds Into the future The asteroid that gets us Has spent years spinning under the radar The last killer virus Is just a single line of code In a DEFCON computer The carbon rising through the permafrost Don't give a damn 'bout who's getting richer Do we deserve this grace The biding moon, the Flowers singing silent into night? Streets fill with marchers and fists bearing flowers No more murder, no more I don't fear the crush of a crowd Bearing kindness as a cause My elders said jump, we said how high They said see that mushroom cloud? Listen to the kids, look to the kids, The kids have got this now The kids have got this now The kids have got this now

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released October 4, 2020

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Brendan Bonsack Melbourne, Australia

"Bonsack has one of those voices that fills a room with golden light" ~ Nkechi Anele, Triple J Radio.

This is a selection of Brendan's preposthumous works. For more music please head over to brendanbonsack.com.

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