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Whip​-​poor​-​will (Home Is Where the Art Is)

from Anomalous Materials by Liam King

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I came back from the dead
in a wooded glen
I started a new life
said goodbye to old friends

Locked myself in the basement
Sliced my stomach open
Put myself back together
just to find nothin' was broken

Bells rang all around me
The forest began to sing
Smashed my smartphone on a rock
and threw my shoe at Steve

Tried to write some new songs
but they all sounded out of key
So I threw them all in a blender
closed my eyes, and pushed 'puree'

So now
Wait...now?
Okay....

Now!
Now is the time!
The time to live
while the leaves are dyin'

I obsessed o'er the crunch underneath
when I came to, I'd bought a drum machine
Dreaming of rebirth by rhythm

Wilderness turned to steel
and I could only feel the city's cold
Tearing up the pavement
and realizing I'm old

I come a long way from the Land 'O Nod
and one day I will return
But the joy is in the journey
is a pearl of wisdom I have learned

Treading through uncharted waters
Sailing farther than your fathers
When treading uncharted waters
don't forget where your heart is

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The black hole of the future
stared me in the face
Unchained from the shackles of a past
that I longed to escape

I paddled against the current
Graduated at the top
As I passed the event horizon
I was spaghetti without the sauce

But now I don't get upset
when I see the leaves fallin'
For I know that through their death
the ground I walk will be more solid

And though leaves in the city
may end trapped in concrete hell
Their colour in the gutter
is the rose I stop to smell

Oh, oh yeah
Oooh, we're goin' home!

INSTRUMENTAL

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from Anomalous Materials, released January 28, 2022

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Liam King Ontario

I want to be Buckaroo Banzai when I grow up.

In the meantime, I make a variety of weirdly personal & experimental music, and enjoy doing so. I hope you enjoy it too! :)

NEW LP! Anomalous Materials available NOW!! Also available thru Spotify and other online retailers.

Don't forget to keep an eye on my Soundcloud for work-in-progress tracks.

"Where art is love is science...."
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