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The Reduction

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open the blinds look back outside an aperture opens wide to see out in the dark woe oh sign me up sign me up an open chest with checkers and chess caught under your bed laying awake at the thought saw the shades drawn saw the sun begin to come out woe ho sign me up sign me up woe ho sign me up sign me up woe ho sign me up sign me up saw what work brings saw how love stings the way out saw the whole world wasted on your drink saw what life's like with the bottom pulled out saw my feet sink saw fit to see my way out woe ho sign me up sign me up saw the whole world never really measured up saw what life's like with my chin kept up saw my feet sink saw borage float again in my gin woe ho sign me up sign me up woe ho write me down write me down
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The Bothnian 04:44
oh balmy metal in his greatcoat heeding the rhythm of the kettledrum the beating its cadence doesn't tell you the time, but time is running somewhere evil my arms swing they hold they carry you sometimes we fall in place my arms swing they hold they carry you my arms swing ‘round and ‘round and ‘round and ‘round in the siege-works the standards we took all my thoughts are red and without any reason or any meaning my arms swing they hold they carry you sometimes we fall in place my arms swing they hold they carry you my arms swing ‘round and ‘round and ‘round and ‘round aloft in the air shot whistles like a melody for no one but me for my time it will all come back to what i know to be real my arms swing they hold they carry you sometimes we fall in place my arms swing they hold they carry you my arms swing ‘round and ‘round and ‘round and ‘round
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why oh why is my world another kind finches sing and harmonize why try and fight she says and I know i'm lost in all these photographs fixed in this silver halide so i keep all the mystery inside but the moments are so few oh my lover said I thought so too but the moments are so few oh my father time was absent like you but the moments are so few why oh why I’ve no faith in summer time finches sing and harmonize all night i love my solitude but i've got some things to say i'm steeped in nobel gratitude but i've got a past to shake i love i love my solitude but lonely has had it's day why do i find i’m talking to myself but the moments are so few oh my lover said I thought so too but the moments are so few oh my father time was absent like you but the moments are so few
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Wallenstein 02:56
it washed up on our shores coming up from the deepest sea and people hailed dishonest words as so far we lost our minds and we took to something new though i fail my envelope of time we split our minds in two fall on your sword fall on your sword and through our june time and through the coronation day it took the last bone off our plate as so far we lost our minds and we took to something new though i fail my envelope of time we split our minds in two fall on your sword fall on your sword it carries on intrepidly buries reason with penalty cried the sheep we found the truth and all the while we lost our youth and as the empire took its roots we planted our own truth you must fall upon your sword it washed up on ours shores coming up from the deepest sea and people hailed dishonest words you must fall upon your sword you must fall upon your sword
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Pangaea 03:45
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CW Mouse 02:58
your just a creature always in the dumps your always reaching to me you lost the cause and i…. for longing better times you better reach your winter your winter rhymes little mister did you catch the math? and if you ever needed what you lack pretend that you are! didn’t always seem so isolated on these frigid dim light evenings in the spring your just a creature always in the dumps your always reaching to me you lost the cause and i…. melting action figures in the kitchen stove when your done you file them with your clothes little mister did you catch the math? and if you ever needed what you lack pretend that you are pretend that you are pretend that you are your just a creature always in the dumps your always reaching to me you lost the cause and i…..
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this is a song for all my nations sovereign to you sovereign to me we collected so many dispositions like a congress of uncertainty follow you away and follow me we will split hairs and toss them into the sea all my expectations all my doubts forever no matter just a ransom to be free this is a song for my love i lost her now like i lost her then this song for my nations all in arms for our treason this is a song for all my nations you matter too much to me though my heart quips along with the day it finds no moment for solemn restitution my galley cooks a sigh for the pastime this is a song for my love i lost her now like i lost her then this song for my nations all in arms for our treason
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you were buried in the covers like a starlight hungover with my glass tentacles around your heavenly rolls under your pillow like a half eaten carcass was the bloodied things you say was the bloodied things you do she led me out the lord’s daughter to a damp meadow on the ocean’s side never managed to measure your contempt your undead rant let loose clawed at my love and bit my last good nerve killed any hope with your slight of your hand you cast dirty spells emasculate the hell of anyone who you couldn't tell (hymn) you were buried in the covers like a starlight hungover with my glass tentacles around your heavenly rolls under your pillow like a half eaten carcass was the bloodied things you say was the bloodied things you do she led me out the lord’s daughter to a damp meadow on the ocean’s side all too true what she told me then that never after would i be back
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Sung Violins 03:00
reinvention entropy autumn gods spring sex begging for relaxation best selling excuses for evasion push back off that sung violins sung champions sung red trojans nothing concerns me like loss of life loss of time whether i am venus or zeus or being the recluse or fewer fewer reinvention entropy autumn gods autumn gods push back off that being with you sung violins sung champions sung trojans sung always pushing back pushing back reinvention and entropy autumn gods spring sex begging for relaxation best sellers best sellers nothing concerns me like loss of life loss of time whether i am venus or zeus a total recluse always always always sung violins sung champions sung trojans sung trojans

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The full album entitled "The Reduction" was self-released on 4/27/2012. The first full length album by Micaiah von Walter as ElkTest. It also features Jeremy Steinmeier (of the The Harkenbacks) on horns, and classical cellist Rebecca Espinoza.

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released April 27, 2012

All music written and composed by Micaiah von Walter, except cello on the Bothnian, All My Nations, and Glass Tentacles by Rebecca Espinosa. Tuba, Trombone, Trumpet, and Cornet on Introduced 1689, Pangaea, and CW Mouse by Jeremy Steinmeier. Recorded and mixed by Micaiah von Walter in Various locations in San Francisco, CA. Mastered by Paurl Walsh at Exex Audio, Seattle WA.

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