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Moses parted the buildings in your town's main street / police sirens coax and cajole down the rear balcony / mocking the fight / the fight left in me / these sirens mock the fight left in me / eeeeow / dread-lock bus driver slows to a stop in the middle of the street / I get the feeling there's something she recognized / in someone like me / bolster the fight / the fight left in me / dread-lock bus driver / bolster the fight left in me / eeeow / two roads zipper-fly fasten before your eyes into one / womb in the sky wants you to fly high / it'll be a long ride before this cold night is done / arm draped across me / holds me in / protecting my wind / protecting my wind by the bond of father to son / eeeeow
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Black-Eyed Susans
03:14
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black-eyed Susans / suit you fine / lilis and roses gonna break your mind / sometimes your gone / someone else comes around / you say you like but love is blind / I say my darlin' take your time / meet me for chowder / walk a few steps / friendly affection is what you like best / in a winter scene / everything is what it seems / you say you like but love is blind / I say my darlin' take your time
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Blue Lisboa Dance
02:09
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Custom of Trial
02:24
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shine scratch-up windshield in the afternoon light / black-diamond wheel puts a test on the right / is it real? / our love is true but to lose my first and warmest / when I forget / slipping past the florist / could you walk a bit slower? / all your anger's gone / only peace but my heart's weak from the custom of trial / there's haunted folks in the gas-station line / not buying gas late at night / is it real? / I know that girl in possession of your door / she points to the sky / come around here no more / can you not see the sun? / all your anger's gone / only peace but my heart's weak from the custom of trial / in come the trumpets and they're building that ride / on the head of a / ping-pong playing champion team / they're doing it right
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Red Valentine
01:48
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my mother gave me a red valentine / I opened to find she loved me very sweetly / my mother gave me a red valentine / I opened to find a secret behind
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Loud Rain upon the leaves is music to a bird
But we can only hear it from the couch
The things that we believe I vouch are weird
In dryer times it is the bird itself that’s heard
The pretty feathers of the thing
Are what endears
But it may be the way I have to crouch to see
I’ve often searched for what I’ve only heard
In dryer times it is the bird itself that sings
Like truth admired or undesired or loved
Often truth is only whispering or dashed with doubt
Loud Rain upon the leaves
Is music to a bird
& sounds abound & some of them are feared
The tintinnabulation of the church
The search for God
In dryer times I may have heard
You sing! You sing!
& I have seen God’s silence
& looked to hear you speak or touch
But what I find in evidence or such
Loud Rain upon the leaves
Is music to a bird
In dryer times it is the bird itself that’s heard.
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a rain so soft / fell on the ground / and on a newborn baby head / coo and laugh a brand new language / I loved you under / raindrop rooftops / coo and laugh a brand new language / we have no longer access to / the world we knew before / right now I can barely speak / and I'm shaken to the core / can't catch the words to sooth these things / that writhe and try to leap / into eternity direct / dull and shapeless wail
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Make the Sound
02:30
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I have faith / cool and still like the water / from the bottom of a well / I forget / who was stricter / Peter or Paul / but I'm not going to hell / see that fog / outside in the night / you can cut it with a knife / still remember how we cried / when I brought to you the girl / that I meant to make my wife / love to hear that whisper in my ear / make the sound I really want to hear / Wie Liwa sagt / the Kino is dark / du willst zu schnell an dem Bildern zu folgen / as we pass / a ghost in the park / feeding the birds / I got the shirt off your back / when you say / you hate me Portugueses / the doctor he says / I'm gonna go exactly where I belong / there really was no Paul when the man's name was Saul / and a Saul / a Saul he was / love to hear that whisper in my ear / make the sound I really want to hear / it's jouissance / but they call her real vampire of a girlfriend / wo liegt der Hiland / help her to give it back / which Gabe / do you want to be / I don't know what Beloved means / don't do that / your family won't recognize you / the doctor's got black and blue swollen veins / on his face / his breathing is strained / but we can answer the phone with a friendly hello / and say we love to hear that whisper in our ears / make the sound we really want to hear
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Marzy Red Flute
04:13
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marzy-red and black gold sails / me under / when she comes / I picked up the leaves / she dropped the book / of lazy / pleasures took / (chorus) / would I walk that way? / to taste rotten or ripe / fruit from the trees soaked in menacing light / it's crazy huh? / (chorus) / these minutes are ours / we've earned the right / going crazy / fighting that fight / hazy gray lazy gray veils / eat the flesh from a stone
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Scared (Aftermath)
04:43
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I'm scared / I'm a bit scared / Mrs Robinson took me threadbare / I'm scared / I'm a bit scared / Mrs Robinson / what'd ya find there? / she crossed with her dog / she walked into and out of / the still / of every beetle crossing abbey road / nothin' left moved to Brooklyn / nothin' right still writes / and nothin' in-between still sits in with my new project / so nothin's stopping you honey / would you please come here? / I'm most likely sussing out / some irony on TV / but I'm sacred / I'm a bit scared / mystic fog appeared in the dashboard vents / I'm scared / I'm a bit scared / Mrs Robinson / took me threadbare
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Sisu for You
02:32
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born on the same day / as MLK / you just keep walking / walk with me / to better and better days ahead / you just keep walking / walk with me / Ollie Ollie! / Finn Fogarty Tavares / walk like Farka Toure / walk with me / to better and better days ahead
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Moth Wing Fur
02:50
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loon! loon!
fly for the moon
white downy feathers and
white blanket of snow
there's so much silence
to fill up a room
with memory treasures
from people I know
moth-wing fur filled with
dusty thoughts
will leave you cookie-eyed if
you don't sleep soon
in winter time there
are certainly no moths
they fly where it's bright
to powder the moon
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Sweet Sweet
02:22
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to close to the danger / for our happy home / she drew me is closer / and left us alone / in seconds of shame / on new year's eve night / and our picture frame / flew away to one million miles / and the wind told the snow / now you know / moonlight-sparkled drifted nights / and it's gone / sweet sweet / you see where we broke free / I can at least give you that / sweet sweet / what was meant to be free / you know you can't give it back / sweet sweet / it's not up to me / sweet sweet / you see where we break free
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Salty Silent Suite Remix
04:01
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Spontaneous Rune
01:23
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Spontaneous Rune
split-second-reflex memory made instinct: I
snapped
like the crack of
a short leather whip
in hand and dropped
before becoming
consciously aware of
what it was I held.
I remember my grandfather too
did this in the pasture
one evening
when I was
a child looking down
at the lifeless, broken-necked snake
whose body makes
a letter shape now
on the ground,
a spontaneous Finnish rune.
I somehow sense its
death note spells: ichhhhhh?
and tossing the limp corps to Willow Creek,
its funeral myth slips too.
Do not take pity. No, don't take.
It will glide on the current
to Cayuga's gentle waves
to fly straight like an arrow
in the graceful long neck
of an old, old Canadian goose.
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Gabriel Tavares Ithaca, New York
Thank you for coming to explore. Here you will find a new Sisu Powder the Moon record with 2 bonus tracks plus a diverse discography ranging from polished studio records like "Cipher" to an intimate Lo-Fi EP called "Sisu for You," a LIVE record made at the historic CBGBs 313 Gallery and a power trio called The THiNS recorded to 16-track analog. Happy Listening and I hope to see you at a show. ... more
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