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by EX. By V.

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mothering: mother the pain, mother these words, mother the loss, mother the storm mother the pain, mother the storm
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the clouds are collapsing, its three this morning, leave your books behind you, cry all the way home quiet this room, you're beyond this now tonight I can't be very far from you / it's here, it's real, there's no fucking way the thieving of time, give in to the process, makes this precious, hold hands then let go quiet this room, you're beyond this now tonight I can't be very far from you / it's here, it's real, there's no fucking way
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eras 02:12
eras have begun, some have ended, the evenings aged see us through, body says no, see us through this now see us through this, see us through this now eras will begin today
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on a sunday 03:21
maybe she thinks / let her live / her life / just let her go stop reminding her / of all that time / let her go maybe she thinks let her live her life, stop reminding her of the time she wasted its a risky road and the letters will travel just write home to the body tonight in on sunday / retrograde blood flow / crying on a sunday / clocks are frozen fought so hard and I'll just fight on, then that history will be hushed in on a sunday / storms and the downpours / crying on a sunday / worried women fight on so we kissed / underneath that bridge / held me there / the heart on the wall / valves and open hands / embrace this bond / the wait is over the heart on that wall the chambers and the open hands, we did what we could and now the wait is over its a risky road and the letters will travel just write home to the body tonight in on a sunday / language of that day / crying on a sunday / body as a battleground fought so hard and I'll just fight on, then that history will be hushed in on a sunday / storms and the downpours / crying on a sunday / worried women fight on tears fall /// clouds break /// at the hospital /// here we go
5.
you hold on, here goes nothing lie back no, there's no other way no, the fear and the pain no, there's no other way no, the fear and the pain /// waiting my whole life, such a long, long night /// lie back no, there's no other way no, the fear and the pain no, there's no other way no, the fear and the pain eyes open, pulling on me / wounded and withdrawn so sick and miserable / wounded and shaken ribs are poking through my skin / pick up this body stumbling now, weight is lost / pick up this body
6.
almost 05:54
lying alone and naked / head on for head on / for a break in the barrier now you're alone, because someone left, you lost the night, say goodnight or don't everyone said / his heart exploded / sat at his piano / matters of closeness and care look away, the time is almost gone, you dropped right there, you were a warrior you almost made it almost you almost made it
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see her through the windows / shadows against the wall / no one is here / the pleas of mothers unseen candlelight climbs the walls / cut the thighs and forget / that no one is near / fall away from here /// have the heart to see this through, in silent rooms, sat so (still) /// never needed to be about how you look or pass as what for who? always about everything it took to get here, to just be here now, what it took and how you try to continue to survive. there was no efficacy, no validation in failed language, false modalities, they try to keep the language alive, just focus on what happens to our bodies, help us survive, open the gates, the language still thrives in concepts renamed, open the gates, give us more answers, more pathways, open the gates, stop the gate-keeping, just stop the gate-keeping (its) enough just to let go, held close so we don't go - where no one knows if what's safe is near enough just to let go, stay close so I don't go - where no one knows the hurt I felt enough just to let go, so still and they won't know - (because) when there are no words
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there are victims everywhere reaching out for someone in this mess your daughter is lost this morning turned blue on that bench people just walked by the wars the sick fight every day the wars against the poor addiction the disease and its killing fields lost limbs and lost lives the cost and the loss /// it's not her fault / this is crisis / do no harm and so on / look her in the eyes / that was your cousin / why are you laughing? / just say hello / say you care / to help not hinder / wayward compassion fatigue / the burnout of the sick and the ailing /// laid out, left behind laid out, gone too soon
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dedicated to Marion Bell

the title of this album and the reading during the intro track are both borrowed from the pages of Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz

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released April 28, 2016

recorded and engineered by Matt Molchany @ Shards in Bethlehem PA in during early April 2016

album art and design by Genesis Martinez-Crespo

ex. by v. is
Ksenya Leah Basarab: vocals / lyrics & prose / bass guitar
Ron Basarab: percussion

*** click on the individual tracks for lyrics to each song

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