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Birdwatching

by Birdwatching

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1.
Life is a spinning desert We poisoned ourselves again Life is a thinning habitat We watched it all melt away Life is a sinking vessel We watched the sky fade away What good's esteem if you're compared to another? One day you'll be an empty seat at Sunday supper Don't analyze Safe locations are redefined based where I reside It's an untimely paradigm once justified The only fear I can't subside - the fate of my closest friends is up to my actions to decide It redefines "cost of life"
2.
There's no way to console from a distance; the arm-chaired, bereaved, remote tears through the telephone Nowhere to go when you missed it - searching for a spitting image Forgetting faces from my younger age Trepidation in a familiar place Lying awake through the commercial break Surfing a screen of minds Feeling the wrong side of the guiding light Vitamin D won't come from TV; Bright side of the room is on the lonely half Looking to kiss the glass Maybe this year I'll see the country by taking the train beyond the trolley line Or maybe this year I'll see the country by a 30" TV screen
3.
The sharpest minds are dull in silence The hippest kids negate the violence When the most elite speak; the words are timeless The ones who stay clean, they're the wisest There's only one way to handle the violence But I broke my stereo and lost my tape deck Analog's a sense of what we know Digital was made for on the go
4.
We don't watch the news on rainy days I still tremble when a storm's not local That's excessive, I know I still grieve when a storm's not local There was still a light on in the apartment; humming like the sun I still panic if a vehicle you're in is in motion
5.
Orbital 04:48
I just cashed in my last can of drops of the wise words I thought I'd lost And I'm cleaning out my car in the dark again I'm writing poetry alone at the bar again And the drink is my only friend My neighbor caught me checking the clouds expecting rain because they all look gray to me I'm used to standing too close to open flames Sundowning on the second floor landing I could never blame you for something circadian marked by the mindless glow of watching eons grow and leave them all behind, alone You are more than nerves and neurons and molecules marked by the mindless glow of watching eons grow and leave us all behind, alone I could never blame you for something irradiated marked by the mindless glow of watching eons grow and leave them all behind, alone My rotations are passing by as familiar as the taste of my tongue I grasped mortality for a time; another trip around the sun I'm waiting for you to come home again "And ever," that is And you should know my heart is broken
6.
On the drive to Vermont the side of the road we're poised on The coffee here tastes like poison I'll play it off non-chalant My ventricles are disenfranchised I lost track of the white lines We failed to caffeinate for sunrise You called the professionals to size my vital signs when they arrive The silence calls attention to the blood vision No surprise - help never shows at the right time Relaxing my lungs because I'm growing too old to die young How fulfilling would it be for a Libra to bow out on a round amount of days?
7.
Michael 02:19
Shout it from the rooftops Shout it from the backyard Shout it from the windowsill You were the first invite to my birthday celebrations I keep you in the mix but out of heavy rotation You were a staple in my felicitations We finished with a ballad but I think we made a good compilation Are we wearing out the occasions?
8.
Bee Movie 03:26
It rained when we buried you in the afternoon in the cold I refused to stand for the sympathies I visit your relics in a garden of glass and light I'd offer my apologies but you're gone I still pick my scabs because I want to feel something And who will bury me if I'm old and all my friends are gone? I guess I'll know what it's like to be alone when everyone's all around me and everyone seems so happy to feel the archaeology of my skin
9.
Leaf 02:46
I was a leaf floating on the wind at the mercy of turbulence Now that I've fallen I'm all but forgotten and I will decay along with the rest Transparency never suited me I called out to it but to no reply A crystalline organ that once was mine Now I'm but a branch bending You were my rock sleeping on the edge I will cause my own decadence The reason I'm calling is suddenly lost on me But I can tell you're still on the fence
10.
Fake the sunlight on my skin Mock the weight of depression I've been streaming in and out of lucidity Fix my head with supplements Float me the scent of fresh pavement after rain, a silent windshield blade, or jeans after a beach day It's an esoteric attitude

about

Written between 2013 - 2019

Recorded August 2018 & May 2019

Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Chris Piquette at No Boundaries Studios

Art by Evan Benoit @ewbenoit

H/T to Stephanie Solari, Ryan Agate, Daniel Carswell, Justin Kelleher, BUNDLES, Allston Pudding, & Morgan, Abby, and Esme Soares

Much love and appreciation to our parents, siblings, cousins, friends, and anyone making/supporting music in Boston.

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released May 7, 2021

Al Zaniboni - guitars and vocals
Dre Neuenfeldt - vocals and bass
James Soares - drums and percussion

Produced by Chris Piquette and Birdwatching

All words, rhythms, and tones by Birdwatching

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