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Off The Screen

by Nobody Kid

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    Artwork contributions from illustrator Jessica Welhaf and visual artist Kate Casanova.

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1.
Your Empire 02:58
What if we’re wrong all the numbers change we’re chasing the sun what if the remains these precious few odd days is all we can count on your horses are coming up big the ocean couldn’t hold it all in your empire isn’t worth anything it wasn’t a lie it wasn’t the whole truth it is what it is for all of the signs the bricks and the spires this cadence of authenticity will open its arms for you your horses are coming up big the ocean couldn’t hold it all in your empire isn’t worth anything the rain tastes like radiation your dreams crash; no hesitation your empire isn’t worth anything
2.
The film began at the drive-in projecting a life worth living you compare you despair off the screen, no one waiting satellites, falling failing the world is dark, getting darker ghosts we trust go right through us the actors smile, teeth like ivory tile hair perfect in any weather the cars and clothes; the clever prose It’s all so unambiguously great a holiday, everyday, a holiday off the screen, no one waiting satellites, falling failing the world is dark, getting darker ghosts we trust go right through us
3.
The bell rings in the morning get up get dressed look good look out go and bathe in the river of information all these people I see they don't seem to exist close my eyes one more time counting backwards from ten get to zero and then find that something called love for a freewill fatalist on a Hollywood hillside swimming pools of opportunity a million bittersweet love songs collect like moths, and.. once you're close to the light it's a feeling you chase when it flickers whatever it gives you will take second-hand fleeting moments that you still can taste from forever ago and a far away place the wallpaper and bedspread the take-out menus the seaside portrait In the bath In the mirror In the steam written there a reminder that follows you always and everywhere an impossible daydream the future we will reminisce on this something called love for a freewill fatalist
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Seeds 03:51
Moving to the music playing in my head wherever it leads, whenever it ends If love is a song; play it again and away we go memorize every small crackle and hiss blue jeans barely hanging on to your hips stars in you eyes salt on your lips and away we go watching the planes take off from the water’s edge engines’ drowning out my thoughts float on overheard and the last thing you said before you left is the first thing I hear no matter what the maps my read there is no distance between you and me moving to the music playing in my head wherever it leads, whenever it ends If love is a song; play it again and away we go memorize every small crackle and hiss blue jeans barely hanging on to your hips stars in you eyes salt on your lips and away we go could we be a love affair played out too long we're living in a distant world and not in this one bending the line body and mind bending the line we are just fragile threads of ordinary elements become untethered from our skin we float into oblivion moving to the music playing in my head wherever it leads, whenever it ends If love is a song; play it again and away we go memorize every small crackle and hiss blue jeans barely hanging on to your hips stars in your eyes, salt on your lips and away we go the constellations and planets like braille under my fingerprints cracking the code of an ancient text and away we go see it all go dark and then thread it back through the reel-to-reel machine If love is a song; play it again and away we go
6.
Antithesis 04:22
Aiming telescopes into the big dream flowing golden fields of corn wondering how the stars were born so long ago pack up, pile into a rusted pickup blast off to a twilight zone heading anywhere but home out on the lonely range we are the lost, we are the crushed, we are the unrequited we are the dust, the antithesis, a dream worth waking up to football, classic cars in the garage stall milkshakes on a silver tray twist and shout the night away on checkerboard kitchen tile we are the lost, we are the crushed, we are the unrequited we are the dust, the antithesis, a dream worth waking up to we are the lights, we are the sounds we are the final frontier, we are the small scratch on the wall, a dream worth waking up to nineteen-ninety-nine it was the end times infrastructure breaking down thirty years since breaking ground so long ago tomorrow with all the time that we can borrow ditch this dance and grey corsage the farmhouse for a new mirage a deep space lullabye we are the lost we are the crushed we are the dust a deep space lullabye
7.
There's a moment or two out of every ten thousand that pass keeps me wondering who I might meet out there on the tracks and your name Is like rain on the tip of my tongue I keep chasing the weather from station to station listen it's your heartbeat talking pounding like a train the minutes and the miles rewinding back to the beginning listen it's your heartbeat talking knowing you so well the minutes and the miles keep writing the story you will tell in the highs and the lows of the sprawling middle states in the thick of the throes waiting for the tide to change and your breath is the crest of a wave crashing on the shore whispers over and over What are you waiting for? listen it's your heartbeat talking pounding like a train the minutes and the miles rewinding back to the beginning listen it's your heartbeat talking the minutes and the miles the minutes and the miles keep writing listen it's your heartbeat talking knowing you so well the minutes and the miles keep writing the story you will tell listen it’s your heartbeat talking..
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Your television is old and dying it’s waiting in line with all the future dinosaurs and so much has been made of the new convenience and so what has been lost while planning for our own funerals the postal workers all went to the beach dogs quit their barking no more papers or magazines and so much has been made of the revolution and so what has been lost in the landfills of dusty pages go ahead and look back go ahead and look back go ahead and look back so what if it’s gone, oh, gone so what if it’s gone? so what if it’s gone? go ahead and look back everything that you’re counting on throw away your microwave incinerate your video games roll your car into the lake it’s only a matter of time anyway
10.
I'll trade everything I know for the unknown if it means that we could stay fall into a parallel dimension half a heartbeat away we’re just tiny sparks on circuit boards flashing along the grid we can move outside the algorithm into the infinite I don't want that quiet house the front lawn the cable and the credit cards the catalogues and mid-range cars, oh no.. all i want is that open road a landslide of photographs and album covers a soundtrack of endless summer we’re living in a golden age post-technicolor blues so beautiful and terrifying we’ve got everything to lose but you can’t hold on to yesterday you can’t think too far ahead so be here in this moment with me where love is unlimited I don’t want that quiet house the front lawn the cable and the credit cards the catalogues and mid-range cars, oh no.. all i want is that wild run a landscape of every song and every color a soundtrack of endless summer a soundtrack of endless summer all I want is that open road a landslide of photographs and album covers a soundtrack of endless summer
11.
If I had to make something up I’d say I never thought of you I met you once and every night since then I never thought of you again watch the cars on a loop hoping that the door will open and you will step out into a night so warm and blue it’s too easy to deny all the wrongs that we could right it’s too easy to lie so just go on and live our separate lives hear the river rush laying in the brush in the shadows no one knows and every night since then I think of anything else that trickles through i’m still hoping that you will step out into a night so warm and blue
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AFATECS 04:43

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