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you are the knife.

by moonish brute

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1.
fixation 01:51
a bendy straw bitten shut a line picked up and put down again
2.
kurôzu-cho 02:28
spiral, won't you swallow me? pull me in your heart. i'm certain i belong there in the middle of your art. is that twisted center where you end or where you start? i'll follow you to find out, lost within the swirling dark. oh, oh our souls tangle up, takes more than a knife to sever these knots. oh, oh you're turning in place, can't seem to forget the scared look on your face.
3.
rumi 01:24
the dark thought, the shame, the malice, the sin— i will greet you laughing, i will let you in. i'll try to learn your lesson while i wait for you to leave, but some guests outstay their welcome and i've been losing sleep.
4.
nvm 03:32
your father's breath inside of you sticks in your throat, turns black and blue you are the knife, the bitter hue the salt in my mouth when i think about you your father's flames in your flickering eyes i can still feel their heat every time you creep by you are the one who said, "never be surprised" if the fire catches up, it was just your time your knowing home looked heavenly your knowing love swallowing me pale moon on the skin of a black sea your knowing love apart from me (pressed against the side of a twisted monolith can't help sticking my hand all the way in fire pulses off your skin, throbs like a vessel exploding inside of you) your father's breath inside of you sticks in your throat, turns black and blue you are the knife, the bitter hue the blood in my mouth when i think about you
5.
may 24, 2015 01:23
6.
june 4, 2015 01:23
rip the light out leave the wire strangled copper cold reminder rip the light out heart's a socket keep a glass piece in my pocket are we fighting? it's so dark here hard to see you or keep my head clear lit a fire burned my finger lost the kindling and the tinder can't see where this tunnel's leading rip the light out and the leaving rip the light out i'll be missing rip the light out i am missing
7.
hell song 01:23
i won't feel better i won't feel better til i hurt myself and everyone else and everybody else i won't feel better i won't feel better til i hurt myself and everyone else i'm taking you to hell i'm already in hell

about

i wrote and recorded these songs in the spring and summer of 2015, as soon as my friend rob taught me to play guitar. at the end of the summer, my hard drive crashed, taking the uncompressed tracks with it before i could release them.

now that a year's gone by, i'm not as concerned with the quality loss created by converting the MP3s to AIFs or whatever the heck. even the album art i've uploaded is essentially an enlarged thumbnail. this ep is where i started; i'd like to release it the way it is so i can grow musically in a transparent way.

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released May 18, 2016

thx to rob, sean, greg, eliot, erin, and my dad, who all heard these songs when i first wrote them and inexplicably encouraged me to continue. also deanne moore, who showed me a poem by rumi that's continued to follow me into unexpected places over many years.

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