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The Death Vine

by Eleven &the Falcons

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1.
As a boy I’d watch the light as it played off of the dust that danced in the room Stare at the shadows in the corners of my bedroom Watch for the subtle changes in shade as the sun fell behind the clouds and the light in the room faded, only to return without warning Let the points of light penetrating the blinds shatter into stars in my eyes The carpet brushing along my skin in ways grass never could without causing an adverse reaction Reveling in the plushness and darkness Thoughts drifting to the surface of my semi-conscious mind The ebb and flow of possibilities Conversations and ideas perched, waiting, like a ghost in my throat looking for someone to haunt
2.
A little entertainment, not exactly a revival It’s just what I have to do for my daily survival How’d you do? What’s the difference? What’s the sameness? Why’d you change? Come the dawn, day is breaking And I’m not sleeping, just resting my eyes She’s just a little pumpkin girl She’s living in a spooky world
3.
Tigersticks 02:10
Use tigersticks to call the beasts, gather round ferocious kings I have a piece, a but of mind To tell you all what’s mine is mine So long, so long We fashioned up a new décor, coloring all along the boards Ba-boom boom, ba-boom boom We battle another jungle time slumber Feasts in the moon
4.
They said our love was a crime They said that two alike should be two apart, and they scowled at us They said our love was a crime They said that the way that we were born was a choice we made, somewhere along the way They said our love was a crime, then they built their walls so high I guess it’s easier to bury us that way, in all of their misplaced shame And then they cried for us, they cried, cried, cried They said that our love was a crime They told us there was something wrong with us, and that only they could make it right And then they smiled at us, when they said, when they told us our love was a crime
5.
O, Aluha! 02:20
Aaaaah
6.
Periwinkle snowshine in a straight line Come to the window where the wind blows How I hate the grapevine and silly paradigms Sherry sprinkle Buckingham shoots a poor man And all the little buttons on the floor Picked up by the maid, and the dog, and the blues So you say to fasten what is left in my hand, And hide it all away from the sandman Grandma’s makin’ brownies on the floor, there’s a bandstand Led by all the people who have died with an upper hand Carry all your pennies and your wishes in your other hand, And sink them in the well where we all drink Mixing all the bells and the cells in the free world, Tell me where to go where the grass has a greener glow Perish all the ways which we have strayed us in the wrong way Then snatch to sneak them up again My, the wine is dry but you’ve seen this sugarland: The trail is widening everyday Reluctant in my walk, and my talk, I think they’ve found me swimming by the sheep in the field There goes the day; once again I’m in a tin can Crinkled at the bottom of a shoe Choking on the sun, at my neck there’s another hand, And you whisper, “I owe you”
7.
Wish I were a narwhal Oh how I wish I were something more (It’s nice to hear you smile) Wish I were a nar-whale (Actually, it’s not. I saw it on my wall: Violet skin and dorsal fin, a halo on his head I knew which way he was going His blue tusk was showing All the way to heaven) All whales go to heaven
8.
The tangerine rain makes a ghost feel grey And they fly into the squiggly sky Things down here, well they aren’t as clear, But I still can’t help but wonder why Fly back down There is a lack of words at play You’re boring and you’re no fun Let’s celebrate, dear, what we make here And dream about future sunshine Fly back down Well okay, my dear, I’m waiting right here To pirouette into the ground Admonish your fears, I’ll open my ears, All you have to do is make a sound Fly back down
9.
*Speaking in tongues*
10.
I made my planet disappear I made my family disappear I made my body disappear Watch the morse code, shapes and numbers As they’re floating upstream Felt my dreams torn asunder by the cacophony in the hallway Notes rain down like ice and asteroids Get me away
11.
Gipyup 01:58
Three ducks per goose, please I don’t want you to leave, So three ducks per goose, please One boat per goat, please I don’t want you to leave, So one boat per goat, please
12.
Get Haunted 05:49
This song's for you
13.
Move to the city, I’m never so tired Open up my window but it’s still so quiet Back where I come from you’re sung off to sleep by a chorus of tree frogs, crickets, and skeets Don’t stamp your feet on the slippery street, the sidewalk’s wet, you’d better watch your step I don’t want you to slip and slip and fall down Yellow sky (Hello, Skyler)
14.
I’ve been sitting waiting for you under the rainbow Me and Sweeny sifting through our hoard of golden coins When we run out he reaches up to the sun to pull more down I’ve been sitting waiting for you under the rainbow This could be a day that’s just like any other This could be a day that’s not like one before it This could be the day that we go everywhere we’ve always wanted This could be the day that we go nowhere Take my hand I’ll lift you up out of the jungle into the mountains We can leave grey clouds behind and find our pot of gold Slay the beast, abandon the cave Find our way back to okay We’ll go to Thailand, Tokyo, Peru, Buenos Aires, Sweden, the Moon I’ll take you where you want to go or we could just sit here Under the rainbow

about

All songs were written, recorded, and mastered between February 2009-January 2010 at Rainbow Cave II Studios in Brooklyn, NY except the ones that were not. Those songs were written, recorded and/or mastered between February-May 2010 at Rainbow Cave III Studios in Asheville, NC.
Said songs were crafted at every single stage by one or more of the following people: Ali Maladi, Christian B. Church, and Mayor Prankster (collectively referred to as Eleven &the Falcons).
Some of the instruments that these individuals used on this album are as followed: electrical guitar, vocal chords, electronically amplified bass guitar, a series of drum pieces struck with wooden sticks, miscellaneous percussion, musical computer software, digital keyboards of one style or another, and probably some other things.

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released May 25, 2010

All recordings, music, lyrics, and artwork are © Harrison/Torrealba/Vinson, 2010 and
© KillerPOP Records, 2010. www.elevenandthefalcons.com / www.killerpop.com

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