In The Faxed Atmosphere by The Child Who Was A Keyhole

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Warning: a lot of lyrics are going to be wrong, I tried my best. Send any corrections to jeremy.ruten@gmail.com.

Through the Middle of Tree

Shooting through the middle of a tree
I didn't think a tree could drink me
The water is pushing me higher
Every little gasp of light I can get
I get it
I don't blink my eyes
I'm growing into a tree
I'm growing into the leaves
The roots and the vines are encircling entwining
I can taste all that tree

We're all plugged in sockets
Not sockets but branches
We cruise through the rooftops
Of all of Chicago and Brooklyn and Spain
Brooklyn and Spain go away
Swiftly I feel you
That breeze from your lips
All of your breaths sways through the wind
Leaves in my arms

Micha in the Faxed Atmosphere

Me and my cat we took the elevator
The sky it grew upon our wide eyes
But it went black and twinkled
So we skipped over our boards
On the stacks of faxed atmosphere
He done wasn't and took a puzzle wrapper
Three whole days
But there wasn't any light so nobody's counting!
Tom C. Yockey I wanna be a toll
Why not run away with some ease all dee
Hey-ya little kitty I want to draw

We scanned four planets
And found the clay villages
And fell into a horizontal rain
We fought the brutal branch
And the N-O-E-A-A-R
But they got stuck in the atmostache
And the cats got thrown
Can kitty connection out!
Tom C. Yockey I wanna be a toll
Why not run away with some ease all dee
Hey-ya little kitty I want to draw
To draw
To draw
To

Don't know you tell me that you love me
You don't know you tell me that you love me
You want ten
You want ten
Call me lady
You want ten

Arm in the Foam

On the other side of Mars
I stuck an arm in the foam
And I found a latch
So I snapped it back
Warm fleshy fluids pushed me away
From the powdery surface
Over which I was hovering
It spilled backwards
Into glowing stars
And the dead universe
So full around

I can't believe how much beauty is in here
I can't believe how much beauty
I can't believe

Bright sky out there
And the breathing hole
Breathing through a hole
Wide you're an ocean
You're an unplugged cork
For my arm in the foam

I can't believe how much beauty is in here
I can't believe how much beauty
I can't believe

My body is disintegrating (8x)

We Were Alone

I crawled out from the dampness
The grey swung down from the branches
The smoke from the dragons remained
They left us alone in the mushroom field
I drew cautiously closer on her cheeks
And small nose were black dash
Distant train burst through the billowing sound
It wracked us both
And we lurched away!

But oh
We were alone
Such a terrible drone and swaying
But oh
We were alone
So far from the throne
We'd lost that day

The fires were spreading
I ran
She grabbed my hand
Her long hair flying
Oh
Our feet knocking over the rockbed
Until we met Rails
Oh the rails
The shimmering rails
The engines
Rumbling all around the woods
With cargo and passengers
Gloss windows and horses' eyes

But oh
We were alone
And lost in the forest of trains some day
But oh
We were alone
And lost in the forest of trains
Holding each other's hands

You Ruined My Baby

You ruined my baby
You ruined my show
(2x)

And I never heard the sound
From a hundred miles around
(2x)

You ruined my baby
You ruined my show
(2x)

Oh ho
I uh
And I never heard the sound
And I know
From a hundred miles around
Oh and I know
That you'd never heard the sound
Oh ho
Oh ho
From a hundred miles around
Around
Round

Knees High Arms Low

Knees high
Arms low
Knees high
Arms

Knees high and arms low
We're gonna take it downstairs for a while
Knees high and arms low
We're gonna hang upside down

This long fuse will suit me fine
Burn it all down the door disintegrates
This long fuse will suit me fine
Burn it all down the wall caves in

Since my love drifts away
I stay awake all night and sweat
Since my love drifts away
I've forgotten the things
Ya told me on another day
Since my

(Repeat all)

Since my
Since my
Love
Drifts away

Ormus

Ormus the canary
Born a single atom
His parents did not see him
He swam in my eye

I'd open up my face but not today
I'd open up my face but not today
I'd open up my face
I'd open up my face

Barn glaff the air pore
In a big safe summer light
Quiet all night
Hidden behind my smile

I'd open up my face but not today (6x)
I'd open up my face
I'd open up my face

How I Adore the Runaway

How I adore the runaway in stride
Each syncopated foot
Alone with their own
Leaving the sorrowful places
One by one by one by one
They have trodden the concrete alone
Preparing the checklist
For there is but one item
Themselves
How efficient and trim
Go go
Go go go go go go go go go go

But oh here comes the dead love
Here comes the dead love
But oh here comes the dead love
Here comes the dead love

Run not
Be weary
But fidget
Be calm and collected
But with a nervous jiggling eye

Don't go it feels slow on the outside (6x)

Eventually they almost stop
According to the laws
Of stopping and slowing down
And the principles of sleeping
Are even completely forgetting
Some runaways
Forget it all

But oh let the heart grip itself
Make it its own
Let it freeze
Its love
Was greater than people deserved

One two three four

Driving On the TV

Yah
It's the perfect day
In a dream
With the screen
Bordering everything
Nobody's in the window
Nobody's in the house
No sky no weather
Nothing's underground

Cause we're driving on the TV
Driving on the TV
We're driving on the TV
Driving on the TV
With you
Singing to me
On the radio

Making Sense

I've lost the reasons
In the pieces
Of our existence
Cause the bridge to me is broken
And the field is full of fide

Living has become a way of making sense
Living has simply become a way of making sense

Tractors shift in the park
On teeth in the dark
Follow dim projections
Spires blocks buildings spread wide
City levels drop tides
Leaving dimpled reflections

You have enticed arrows
And sheltered tethers
A brimming very true recognition of all we have
And I know that I belong to you
And I see all of your pretty coo

But living has become a way of making sense
Living has simply become a way of making sense

Tractors shift in the park
On teeth in the dark
Follow dim projections
Spires blocks buildings spread wide
City levels drop tides
Leaving dimpled reflections

That's the man on the coast
That's the one she loved most
That's the one mother wanted
Shaking hands with the transparent millionaires
The decadence grows
As the hour hellos

You Came to Stay

You came
To stay with me
Cause you were running away
All night and all day

And all night
You looked the other way
As I made you a bed
And turned out the lights

What would talking have done anyway
Not with your eyes were so clear
What would talking have done anyway
We turned off the lights in the hall

And I slept on my side
And in the morning I felt your shape
Your arms reaching around
Your nose on my spine

We curled like a paperclip

Seeking Clou Shrimp On the Shortwave

I started picking flowers in the wrong side today
Got transmission on my headset
Who finally started running toward the sunset
With my whiskers blowing
I climbed the trellis
That wound up the station
Taryn swung the dish around
And the feedback
Knocked me off the tower's broad edge

I clapped my paws upon my ears
(I scampered in the dead air)
The static poured right through my audio processes
(They're camping in the dead air)
That's how my brain got locked on radio shock
(I scampered in the dead air)
That's how my brain got locked on radio shock
(They're camping in the dead air)
That's how the silence filled my ears
That's how the static filled my ears

The polygrip on my gloves
Wouldn't catch on the smooth sheer walls
Of the intervening canyons
Antennas yeah (wooh wooh!)
The billowing tents below
Held the concentrate
In the shortwave cats
That littered the airwaves
With rats, clou shrimp, tame piranha

They're camping in the dead air
I scampered in the dead air
They're camping in the dead air

The silence filled my ears
The static filled my ears
(3x)

The silence filled my ears
That's how the static filled my ears