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Alice Finds Home

by Jacob Hales

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1.
To Give the Disease 05:48
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Slurred speech Head is spinning My hands Won’t Hold tight Chills in spine Legs weak Knees Meeker than A sickly flan Tight chest Quick Breathing heart Beating fast My eyes See Spots along the walls Shadows walking in the halls Visions of a sickle Tasted sour as a pickle Hearts that burn feign Gurgles running circles Lungs that cough feign Gurgles running circles Red eyes Burnt holes simmer Blank Face Teeth Sever skin Chew it up thin Fed crows The Mucus swallow It hole Blank face Shows Fake shame Sympathy blooms For what? Spots along the walls Shadows walking in the halls Visions of a sickle Tasted sour as a pickle Hearts that burn feign Gurgles running circles Lungs that cough feign Gurgles running circles -- Devil walks loud down limb littered streets Sew them back together but don’t forget the feet Devil walks proud down Avenue B Crawling with the insects and snuffing out the sweet Devil walks loud down limb littered streets Sew them back together but don’t forget the feet Devil walks proud down Avenue B Crawling with the insects and snuffing out the sweet -- Don’t run so fast Your led astray dear You can’t go home But you can’t stay here -- Black skies Sickles wave With the In- tent to Harvest blues From all The Children’s shoes That lay in graves Make sure They Don’t see you Or skin they’ll shave Right off Your bones
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Sever 02:30
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Planes in plain sight Spread disease in our homes Now the birds have lost flight And the vultures claim their own No more day only night As we vomit and we groan Now the seas are gaining height And mountains start to moan Pick up all the pieces Of the Ones you love to pieces And Sever all the pieces Of the Ones you love to pieces And Call upon the crows to Cure disease in the rough But the bleeding it will grow Everything it wants enough The cracks in the sky are starting to show And the Skin on the ground is starting to puff Pick up all the pieces Of the Ones you love to pieces And Sever all the pieces Of the Ones you love to pieces And Watch as the waves get higher in the sky Pick up all the pieces Of the Ones you love to pieces And Sever all the pieces Of the Ones you love to pieces And Watch as the waves get higher in the sky
3.
Red Dress 04:05
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Red rose ribbons paint Blood red portraits With rose red incisions on your Red dress decisions Keeping karma undressed with Geranium derision Your red dress is blessed with Movements in unison that Keep you confessed to What I like best Your whisper jest Reminds me of cheap tricks that Keep you a mess You can’t best the itch You let it infest and Give you a kiss a Potent little fix Until the time ticks six and Still you’re obsessed for Only a caress and You play like a fool Sopping drool Dribbling little pool with Waves of duress Matter of fact You still love the act you Play it at face to Keep up the pace so Your heart starts a race and Trips up a space to Make it unsafe to Trickle down a fact you Keep just in case the Ribbons in you hair quit Playing it fare and You’re at odds with the stack I can’t seem to bare the Tension in the air then You’re patients will crack taking What you gave back In a sliver of ease you’ll Appease for a squeeze Get’em at the knees drink your Dripping disease You wriggle in the middle Beg for please then your Middle starts to jiggle and your Wrapped up in sleaze
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The Cottonless Gin 06:15
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Sun has now choked On the billowing smoke From the Willowing dome With cracks in its stare It’s eyes gleam a rigor That pumps out a fissure In the lungs of the well-wishers Waiting to be heard Fresh as the liquor That lubricates the ticker With veins made of wicker Spilling kin with a grin Chokes out a sneer Intoxicating leer Vomiting a tear Happiness is piss Warm as the gin Making eyes with the engine A cotton-less gin Cracks your crooked smile Sew on the limb Crawl back to kin This devilish whim A subconscious routine Water in your lung You’re gagging on a sponge The dryness on you tongue Saliva’s spent on sweat Mud when it floods Can you swallow the cud That spit in the blood And martyred your remission Legs on its veins A blotted carpet stain Another shaken in vain The centipede won’t quick Crawls through the sewers Dividing up the loomers Sickle fishing lures Caught you in the act Bubbles to the street Breathing carbon and deceit With the alligators feet A jellyfish with eyes Stung by the sludge The witless will indulge But never will they budge Their eyes are blind with glee Clawing at your skin Probing for a sin A new skin to see you in The guillotine’s public eye Cranking the wheel The rope has mass appeal Feel your blood congeal Silver spoons reflect the sun Floor falls below With the feel of waters flow Suspension, feeling slow The crowd begins to drift Needle and the spoon Ran away with the moon A tunnel no way through Your senses now a crevice -- Open air Stars go out Silent now Want to shout Stiff limbs move Strings attached Smell of rust Rope pulls back Neck less noose Tit for Tat Strings fall flat Rope intact Neck goes snap Rope falls down Such a sound When you hit the ground
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Dancing with the Moonlit Limbs 02:18
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Your sharp as a thistle When you snicker and you sneer For you I’ll bend and nibble if you’d Only come near Hiss in my ear Sweet nothings of cheer Make me feel I’ll never fear Caress as we undress Things as lush as cheeks that blush I’ll scoff and shield my chest but don’t Feel so distressed It’s merely just a test To see if you’re the best To infest my blessed mess The hourglass is broken Time to get some sleep My ovaries have spoken Leave the lonely to weep Your fingers long and pointy I’ll show you where it goes A crevice warm and moisty You’ll touch it with a point see My knees they quite enjoy tease My fluctuating joint pleads For you to come anoint me Concoct your warmest potion See where my intentions lead I don’t want your devotion Just a taste of cold emotion As we frolic in a motion That invokes a lonely lotion As commotion drains it’s ocean The hourglass is broken Time to get some sleep My ovaries have spoken Leave the lonely to weep
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Love Sick 02:28
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Goat heads are severed Damned rivers of blood Trees caked in ash Picking tumors with love Thighs caked in blisters It rains oil from above The moon cracks like an egg On a rusted silver spoon Time to shoot up your medicine And climb into her womb Dry skin skies Drip blood in your eyes Snowflake skin Flakey little fins Are you in love? With the skin that I’m in The moon cracks like an egg On a rusted silver spoon Time to inject your medicine And climb into her womb
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Limb Lungs 03:57
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Vultures here perch pretty on their Blackened branches long Longing to hear your sweet and silky Song that sings so long Makes their stomachs groan and churn and Feel a sickly moan Throats cough up a sneeze and Squeeze words of deceit -- Lungs grown in trees Sucking and slurping A bird is approaching Grown only for pleasure Putrid parliament picnics The bird is getting closer Bodies hung in trees Harvest the legs for walking The bird has flown over Screaming’s of cease from the moon The stars cannot bare to witness Pulsing blisters bloom -- Bleeding cornstalks point their sewn on fingers to the left Screeching of the Poe-faced crow signals dinner for the rest No place like home when you’ve grown limbs of your own I can sell you a bone but it’ll cost you your home -- You wormed your way through the rabbit hole Now stop to smell the seeds you’ve sewn Set fire to the wood and grab your lungs Now puff out your chest and feel your breathing slow
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Little Red Devils 02:09
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Sickly and sensual I slur all my syllables Hallucinated time with fluctuating stomach And the bee stings on my thighs they hurt! Suzy makes me woozy When she gets to choosy With her floozies Little red devils buzz like half dead bees They’re screeching their pleas with the shattered glass knees And they’re pulling at my hair for want of their needs Goat head’s cooking breakfast and the godheads boiling tea Didn’t think them real ‘til a finger poked a hole in me Spiders talking pennies with the fly upon the wall Wondering “should I eat’em?" or if empires will fall Suzy makes me woozy When she gets to choosy With her floozies
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Rat's Nest 02:43
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Rats all scurry through the rafters What is that Clatter in the ceiling matter Maybe it’s Winged things with beaks sing For all the Laughter that’s been forced to scatter So we must Play a tune with scattered matter While all the Rats pick at our hair in tatters Just want to Go home now But where is Home when you’ve Lost sense of Who you are Close your eyes Take a step Concentrate What was that?
10.
Alice Finds Home 06:25
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Nights here are calm The moon in the heavens embalms The stars with a love that’s Blessed by billowing doves The wind whistles a breeze that will Bend you at the knees and Kiss the eye that flutters then Give your speech a stutter The sound of the water A silent beauty fosters A tune on her tongue Meant only for the sun Flowing waves of love so brave she Opened her eyes Despair in her hair Blown by the breeze in the air Flowing waves of love so brave she Opened her eyes Despair in her hair Blown by the breeze in the air Opened her mouth with the Sun Spilling out Roses of white Reaching infinite height Breathes now a breath that could Blow over death Essence of life Effervescent her light Children run faster with Love left unshattered Songs filled with laughter that could Throw off the rapture Flowing waves of love so brave she Opened her eyes Despair in her hair Blown by the breeze in the air Flowing waves of love so brave she Opened her eyes Despair in her hair Blown by the breeze in the air
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Nightmares Recurring 02:20
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Rats at my feet All covered in blood And the tumors in their hair Are falling in love Now the devil’s kinda blue And it’s all because of you Starting rumors with the tumors About the things you really do Don’t touch me I’m sweating Body heat is fretting Brain cells are ingesting Legs won’t quick quivering I’m So tired Crows perched in bloom Grow poison in the gloom Their eyes are poking holes In the truths that we’ve all told Now their picking at the mice And their clawing at the tumors But the devil doesn’t care He’s your unrequited loomer Don’t touch me I’m sweating Body heat is fretting Brain cells are ingesting Legs won’t quick quivering I’m So tired
12.
Deja Vu 03:20
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You’re a honey drizzled rose Blossoming in the sunlight A lake of swimming silk Glistening in the moonlight You’re the feathers of a dove Shimmering in the starlight Your smile shines all throughout The gleaming city lights Take you home and wrap your heart in blankest Hold your waste and waltz through mazes Contented eyes Sing ‘neath the street lights Rest your mind in the dancing daisies Take you home and wrap your heart in blankest Hold your waste and waltz through mazes Take you home and wrap your heart in blankest Hold your waste and waltz through mazes
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The Owl 06:08
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Clouds in the sky Swim to your eyes Your oceans calm And I don’t mean to pry The feel of your skin Lavender’s kin Shiver in my arm The state I’m put in Pedals in the pool I’m drowning with fools To touch your cheek And lips so smooth But now I see your eyes They blush They smirk They put your arms around You fold like silk You touch of roses Thorns are all plucked We’ll dance in poses Sing me your song In a voice loud and strong Take time to choose Which will is the one Listen for the wind It sighs for your grin That smile hides behind Your fortress of tin Speak see Remember me In the limbless trees Of you forest green dreams But now I see your eyes They blush They smirk They put your arms around You fold like silk You touch of roses Thorns are all plucked We’ll dance in poses -- The sun is the brightest When your voice rings long The look in your eyes Keeps me feeling strong The sun is the brightest When your voice rings long The look in your eyes Keeps me feeling strong
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Down by the Water (where nightmares are cleansed) 10:53
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Father’s ghost a basement dweller Mothers voice lives in the cellar Whisper then they shout and holler Oh I need you most Holy ghost lives in the mirror You can’t see him loves her dearer Showed her things that made life clearer Then damasked itself to scold her Son of father sick in the head Pulls her hair and claws at her leg Says he wants to poach her nest egg Gurgles blood from mothers pinprick Devil watches wishing for kids From the daughters pelvic lipids Sick with lust he slits his slick wrists Tells the daughter it’s all her fault Wake me up and dry my eyes I feel sick and belied I forget my name for countless hours at a time Every night the sweat is cold with needles in my side My only wish your arms to hold me through all these nights Father’s ghost is shouting louder When will mother love her daughter? It’s been so long since they shared laughter They need her but she wants no one Holy ghost is getting nearer Palest hands just want to feel her Touch the skin upon her shoulder Squeeze the slime inside her bliss bib Son of father petting vipers Throwing cobras in the flowers Anacondas swallow blue birds Laughter when your stung with venom Devil’s mouth is caked in fodder Just wants to love all the daughter She’ll say no, he’ll want to slaughter Sick with lust he looms to watch her Wake me up and dry my eyes I feel sick and belied I forget my name for countless hours at a time Every night the sweat is cold with needles in my side My only wish your arms to hold me through all these nights -- She went to the water With her lover in hand Asked can I be alone As neither woman nor man -- One foot then the other Walking barefoot into the water A feeling of calm unaltered Her hand brushed her shoulder The feel of her skin then told her She was tired and a little older She washed and she washed Old skin falling off Then clarity struck her with a blow so soft What is but never was Now cleansed with waters love Will sink and wither into the mud

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released December 5, 2012

Artwork by Juliet Arnaudo,
Music written, performed, and recorded by Jacob Hales

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