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A Fine Can of Worms

by Dream Eater

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1.
A collage of seekers sings through these walls. Plying their marks on nighttime grids Sometimes they play your favorite songs To the right way. Running out is easy. And rushing in, it’s easy. And letting go is easy. They ducked out and left them all Leaned on the stairway down the hall. By 5am there were no words For the right way. I place my bet on the silver cypher I’ve paid my dues to the viper Fixed like an effigy to the mast The hinge of the world is rising Letting go is easy. And feeling this, it’s easy. A welcome truth is easy.
2.
You can plug away and drain it all Until there’s nothing left ‘Cause you’ve done all your research Before the rapture comes. Great job, anyone Great job, anyone Great job, anyone Great job, anyone I’ll blithely run the rumor mill At a loss to see Just behind the veil my sister Taken out in front of me. Great job, anyone Great job, anyone Great job, anyone (just behind the wheel my brother taken out in front of me) Great job, anyone Great job, anyone Great job, anyone Great job, anyone (just behind the veil my sister taken out in front of me) Great job, anyone Untether Haunted heaven Untether.
3.
Tin Bullet 05:17
This won’t cut it for long my heart strings are wrapped around your dagger Dagger Wrapped around your dagger. Days seem to last too long We’ll tie their calendar song to a bullet Bullet Tie it to a bullet. And it is no common M.O. at all Monuments won’t spring up where we fall. I don’t know what to do if I can’t get through to a portrait of you So let me dig a little deeper Into your action sculpture Cut all these wires, make broken briars and a conduit flares I never claimed I was a surgeon Hermetic anomalies Try our patience, not defaced by the accumulation Of secret space that I’m saving. I’ll keep you there. I can’t hold onto you The way you hold onto me Tumbling Roiling Not quite knowing All bets were off last year Blood for blood, tear for tear we’re trading You’re in there now, I can’t escape it. And it is no common M.O. at all Monuments won’t spring up where we fall. I don’t know what to do if I can’t get through to a portrait of you So let me dig a little deeper. I’ll keep you there. You look down from up above me Wounded shadow, do you love me? This is a perfect, this is a perfect place. There is no such thing, there is no such thing As a perfect place, as a perfect place Is there? Is there.
4.
Flatbed 02:50
I’m on the back of the pickup I’ve got the Bolex in my hand I fog the lens but hold it steady Simple: if it drops, it lands in the snow, so. I don’t know if you think you’re pretty Your eyes and mouth open jet black We conspired, you act like you enjoy it. My memory splice will do the rest. All alone, all alone, all alone today. Roll it, roll it tighter, lift the gate but then Silent metal binding, put it in the mail Waiting, I wait forever, pick it up again. I drag my hand on the floorboards Cut to mark, confining red 10 wheels were used in this production And two projectors in the end.
5.
Oxbow 04:04
Fell out of the wreck into virgin snow Double sites on cherry-red oxbow By light of stars gone out. Out of signs with miles to go This hurts more than I’ll ever show Is it all gone now? Wound of the water My wound shines in forest light Burning a pathway through hill, stream and darkening glen. Journeying further and further away Yet distractions fall by such a compass.
6.
Breaking up on the radio The cost to ghost with you The right time in the wrong place A game of telephone entre-deux I don’t care for I don’t care for All the things I’ve made imago you All afire Not a finer can of worms I’m still here I’m innocent Guilty ’til you prove it then All afire Not a finer can of worms Write it down, waiting On severe grading All floods through, place it As best I could The fragments They said I don’t care for I don’t care for You from when I felt a shell of me As I crank the siren mouth Firebrands dance on the mount What will I find if I snuff out my doubts Hot-handed time is Running running out I’m still here I’m who I am Useful for you not to proof All afire Not a finer can of worms I don’t care for I don’t care for Your fool’s light cast upon me as a tool
7.
Eidolon 06:23
Standing there Shouldering books threadbare I know what you are Beasts and bells Please don’t hurt yourself I know what you are A feast for ages Laid out on the stair I know what you are Leaves of ash Settled upon the thresh The only way to get this far Exuviae I follow your shadow up a harboring plinth And find you standing where we once were within A decoy! A braddock I’ve not let grow thin It yet lives in violet brambles and makes my blood ring. Exuviae Riven and spent Eroded, your lowlands etch Heavy on the heart.
8.
Tickertape 04:24
You’re wound real tight Like copper wire Will ‘o the wisp, Electrolites devour There is no home. We’re all alone. All along the trail What about you What about you. You’re wound real tight Like copper wire Will ‘o the wisp, You’re hidden under cover Of fallen leaves. Our old schemes I've since gone But it keeps coming through What about you.
9.
Everyone knows you’re cooler when you’re home Away from the world and out in your own Spring tides sow rivulets of sand A strand of diatoms drawn in your hand Everyone knows that when you’re alone You find it again and it changes, leading The season bears its deepest scene All days rush to and send repeating Everyone knows you’re cooler when you’re home. Everyone knows the greyest slopes are green Ripe for the garden, simmering seed Eyes that gaze at forms befitting shade Pretend to the light of day’s brocade. A sigh of years gains close upon bereft echoes of hidden rhyme. All hearts gather up and storm a chamber favorite for a time. Everyone knows you’re cooler when you’re home.

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released November 18, 2022

John Aymong: bass and vocals, keyboard, midi programming
Zack Humphrey: drums
Sam Arnold: guitar

Justin Bernard Williams: saxophone on 'Great Job, Anyone," "Flatbed," programming on 'Tickertape'

Genine Packert Short and Charles Godfrey: backing vocals on 'The Great Wave'

Preliminary mixing and drum recording on tracks 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 by Justin Bernard Williams

Engineered, recorded, and mixed by Charles Godfrey at Scary American Studios, Austin TX.

Mastered by Dan Shike at Tone and Volume

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Dream Eater Austin, Texas

Planted firmly at the intersection of punk and prog rock, Dream Eater ‘s triumvirate of drum barrage, journeying bass riffs and versatile guitar work has been wowing audiences for eons. Currently spanning sonically through the ether and inhabiting the corporeal forms of Zack Humphrey, Sam Arnold, and John Aymong, it is the megalith’s intention to-honestly? I’d just like to make a friend or two. ... more

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