1. |
Flaming Swords
02:25
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what a familiar face was doubled
by mistake's arrival
to form another new disguise
staged with lights on tour
simple creatures paid in flaming swords
fed by people bread a seagull wild though flies until alighting very softly on the tide
had enough surprise
made to bluebook minimal more
while buried in holes or raking coals
it's paid in flaming swords
faithful as is gold
most depart the world or shake it whole
eggs of eagles taken by the mad magpie still become regal mascots of the vacant sky
bad enough besides
to freefall through into the core
while taking in mine or making yours
it's paid in flaming swords
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2. |
Save the Phenomenon
01:46
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am I determining what
evidence looming until turning up
in serving a meeting of criminal minds
they fall away in kind
though they committed much
rare an appearance can see
impermanent like a culprit and his property
according to gold a fool is assigned
to mull away the time
what separates from all the luck
a foreign array of lines
contain or wrap it up
so take it away
no
give me what's better wrong
save the phenomenon
as steam stays under the lid
rumor stays right and grammar stays hid
by parting the leaves you meet the sublime
and there a fake you find
just a comedy of bogus touch
a normal parade of signs
prepare to lap it up
so take it away
no
give me what's better gone
save the phenomenon
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3. |
Nos Embranchements
02:31
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ça ne conjurera pas ni ne dur'ra dans le temps
s'assemble et se rencontre
tout sans gestes ni raison
essoufflé de conduire de gravir longtemps
louper nos embranchements
la parole est à qui parlera de loin
si tu pleures tu piss'ras moins
tournant autour du pot
nos embranchements sont faux
rien ne vient à qui attend
essoufflé de conduire de gravir longtemps
louper nos embranchements
la parole est à qui parlera de loin
si tu pleures tu piss'ras moins
tournant autour du pot
nos embranchements sont faux
essoufflé de conduire de gravir longtemps
louper nos embranchements
la parole est à qui parlera de loin
si tu pleures tu piss'ras moins
tournant autour du pot
nos embranchements sont faux
nos embranchements sont faux
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4. |
Days of Pleasure
02:15
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I'll spend time forever
start days that are damned to fail
days of pleasure unentailed
by a dark train derailed
ever we're leaving and never arriving the devil may care
further believing is nearer denying than often we dare
then receded the light of the garden
no one left standing no party to rock in
any repeating was only to vacantly stare
what burden of the tongue
was given everyone?
what the nectar defends days of pleasure avenge
ever we're leaving and never arriving the devil may care
further believing is nearer denying than often we dare
then receded the light of the garden
no one left standing no party to rock in
any repeating was only to vacantly stare
days of pleasure
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5. |
My Rebel
01:48
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pick this, you cannot be wrong
let go never
all laugh rearing my rebel
constant dilemma, we follow every trace
that's what it takes
all that deal to say hello
my rebel
you hear the vatic belie potential
till those descended climb
you fight for a long time, my rebel
you hide from what would have to find you
I don't deny you came for more
I lied, I lied too much to save you
I don't deny you came
my rebel
say hello, my rebel
you hear the vatic belie potential
till those descended climb
you fight for a long time
my rebel
you hide from what would have to find you
I don't deny you came for more
I lied, I lied too much to save you
I don't deny you came
my rebel
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6. |
Little Bad Miracle
01:07
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I kept above of my own mirror just like that
where part of me will repose
supported by it
so I don't hit the floor
oh daddy no
you gotta stop that fever cold
tell me who's that little bad miracle
up at the border of the window latch
where wooden pieces copy feelings of doors
forget about it
I'm enemy of words
not even close
was I to start to smell the rose
tell me who's that little bad miracle
and we find right why we came
all this time wouldn't be enough for the game
oh daddy no
you gotta stop that fever cold
tell me who's that little bad miracle
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7. |
I’m a Place
02:07
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on a center lane
either way, traveling you
eastern or western working through
I'm a place two became two
and when they ask me who is who
I gotta demonstrate anew
what a few of us like to do
to make a word seem true
I don't think about it, live without it,
get approved to light up the room
or familiarize the dark side of the moon
I'm a place you can stay too
and didn't I blow your mind
that time it left me black and blue
when rubber became glue
that came apart too soon
I'm a place two became two
and when they ask me who is who
I gotta demonstrate anew
when rubber became glue
what a few of us like to do
to make a word
seem true
I'm a place
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8. |
Less to Be
01:47
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notice a bubble raise
out of the rubble
implied here on the balcony
it's received
less stuff to drag on
less to be
the final elective emergency
for your protection and primal need
insane when everything turned up dead
fine instead
less to be
a common infection your mind will seize
to be less for eternity
inside it will float
lovely to find how the soap climb
follow its glide
pretend it's a leper and wash its feet
invite indirection to next repeat
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9. |
Porn of Love
01:56
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and climb like the flame
what the romcoms teach from
other lifestyle secrets
then are yours
let's lie there in the heather play for a while
under lamp light equal
ain't it nice right here no-
-where to go
what if I propose
that we've never been so close
nor ever had enough
porn of love, porn of love
all was porn of love
and I find so lonely
everything we have to do
even dreaming of
porn of…
porn of love, porn of love
all was, all was, yes
all was porn of love
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10. |
Boîte à Serpents
01:52
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le pas large ouvert
l'histoire là à tes jambes
sortant pour faire entendre
mes enclaves ainsi allongées clairement
chers.es, répondons-nous ensembles ?
que peuvent croire ceux qui réclament un moment ?
Madame,
Permettez-moi d'abord de vous présenter mes excuses les plus sincères quand à l'arrivée tardive de cette cassette pourtant envoyée par mes bons soins sous pli normal de la poste en août 2000. Ayant loupé en quelque sorte l'anniversaire de Monsieur je vous réexpédie sous forme de post-pac un nouvel exemplaire de cassette. J'espère que le contenu de celle-ci sera au goût de notre Ancien. Dans le respect des traditions j'ai privilégié les musiques d'unités de cavalerie blindée dissoutes ou encore en activité. La cassette se termine sur la face B par un recueil de musique de James Last ayant à mon sens un caractère militaire. J'espère que Monsieur en fera bonne écoute. Meilleurs vœux pour l'An Neuf à vous deux, amitiés à votre fille et à très bientôt.
mes chants graves m'écrivent comme à un serpent
chers.es, répondons-nous ensembles ?
que peuvent croire ceux qui réclament un moment, sinon ?
le pas large ouvert
l'histoire là à tes jambes
le pas large ouvert
l'histoire là à tes jambes
le pas large ouvert
le pas large ouvert
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11. |
Paging Agent Starling
01:37
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she will not complete her training though
or burn down ancient rome
see, she's an old pro
on the bells of quantico
I wanna go
big ticket to the manson show
move quick not slow
paging starling agent starling
you nearly escaped
you left your eraser in the cage
but will he clear your name?
dr. lecter, dr. lecter
you're wanted on the case
we just hope, oh we hope it's to your taste
it'll seal your fate
or it'll save your face
it'll seal your...
fate
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12. |
4000 Rooms
02:01
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hid here
hidden by a thought
and lost, deep in
talk, must I assume
we shall resume
4000 rooms
to devise and construct
the door is stuck
before the floor, you gotta build it up
after three-thousand-nine-nine-nine we had some luck
such an epic arrangement of chambers you had never saw
a honeycomb for ages all
designed for you
regal or crude
4000 rooms
that to view you were born
they're all your own
you come inside with fam'ly like a home
for these 4000 rooms you have already known
the door is stuck
before the floor, you gotta build it up
after three-thousand-nine-nine-nine we had some luck
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13. |
Constantly Rare
01:57
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ask for no more love
become
constantly rare
constantly rare
constantly rare to be fair
speak less
there isn't anything to say
this tape is final
constantly rare
not to be shared
constant original
lastly proof was shown after
all of the reasons remain
what they became
constantly making repair
they would garner their share
multiply layered
ample if constantly rare
all of the reasons remain
what they became
constantly making repair
they would garner their share
they would launder it bare
common the dare, so
ask for no more love
become
constantly rare
constantly rare
constantly rare
constantly rare to be fair
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14. |
Wrong Item
01:55
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une tranche de l'idylle
se serre les rangs de temps en temps
prends ce qui est inutile
je t'autorise à me laisser ces mains
elles claquent ton menton
plutôt se questionner
sans fin, sans frange, sans "quand commence-t-on?"
Tous à la fois s'enfuir
et nous revoir pour remplir les cartons
ne t'en fais pas tant
j'accroche à la lisière
de ton dédain ce qui alourdit, empêche mes mouvements
carence si chère
envie de l'abondance où elle nous manque pour un instant, le sens
se perd dedans
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15. |
One Hope
02:11
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to my belated reading of what I adore
editing not even started, love affording nor
without a dove
one hope
don't doubt it
does a pillow filled with light not tear
or time untogether be not shared?
and of the loaming had it spent the sun before?
the final flower
that owns
one hope
has a roof below a ceiling where we ought to go?
all will be revealed when you start to know
without a dove
one hope
don't doubt it
does a willow truly spell despair
or love in its essence be declared?
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16. |
The Trick
01:32
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out of the order
a wonderful border appears
window functions
to peer through the hole
the trick instead is good as gold
ooh yé-yé
I got a feeling to be anything else
than human kind
the rest is fine
ain't it last, it contains everything that happens is in photographs
so what's inside?
oh I didn't have to
to be you
you agree
as only light can make the day repeat
I'm a component of a world turning back
into divine
the rest is fine
that's the trick, you can't identify with nothing once you've heard of it
so much for mine
oh I didn't have to
to be you
you agree
as only night can make the day discrete
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17. |
To Be Gone
01:29
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to be right, to be wrong
to be loved, to be gone
to be here, to be written, to be gone
to be gone, ever far
to be right, where you are
to be here, to be given, to be gone
and to be landed like a flare, so strong
but out before too long
to be right for people
when you know they don't care
I was not that fair I seem
to be gone, to be real
to be right, revenuer
to be here, to be written, to be gone
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18. |
Clues Not to Read
04:27
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what'll rise as a beacon
would begin as a cog
that's a fact to the end
but then seems to go on
next there'd probably have to be no god
later the rats and the tombs they attract will illumine the slats in the wall
everything works to repeat that signal
it improves how you leave
for better
leaving clues not to read
start then thinking too hard
fit the puzzle that's of pieces bald
secrets and plans and the plots that they thought they command
though they can't prove it at all
give them a clap when they land some windfall
everything works to repeat that signal
leaving clues not to read
it improves how you leave
for better
leaving clues not to read
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"la Loi" Brooklyn, New York
'aucun tabou, mais faites attention'
not a label; just a self-release imprint by Zach Phillips
(f.k.a. OSR [2007-17])
management: lucas@abusiness.company
booking: adam.ogushwitz@unitedtalent.com
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"la Loi" recommends:
Wink With Both Eyes [OSR34]
by Blanche Blanche Blanche
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16920-wink-with-both-eyes/ BBB#2 (2010). Fievel co-leader Zach Phillips's "old" band with Sarah Smith
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How to Slip Away
by Zach Phillips
the 2017 prequel to Fievel co-leader Zach Phillips's "Feed a Pigeon, Breed a Rat" ("la Loi" #03, 2022)
go to album
Papas Proof [BBB#3]
by Blanche Blanche Blanche
BBB#3 (2011). Fievel co-leader Zach Phillips's "old" band with Sarah Smith
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Promises
by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
supported by 95 fans who also own “Flaming Swords”
The sound of movement enlightening the difference between loneliness and solitude… “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -or something to that effect…
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
by Big Thief
supported by 92 fans who also own “Flaming Swords”
Helps me sleep and also helps me stay awake. When I discovered Big Thief I listened to a lot of their music for a very long time, so it felt right to buy this lovely album. Makes me feel comfort I didn't know existed. Makes me want to scream in all the ways you'd ever scream, lots of emotion.
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Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
by Eartheater
On her stunning new record, Alex Drewchin soars to glorious new heights.
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