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How Bears Are Secretly Trying to Take Back the Earth

by Beneath Ail

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1.
Alteration 03:10
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I am an alteration of what I once was I am an alteration of what I once was I am an alteration of what I once was I am an alteration of what?
2.
Writer 03:09
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Been thinking about cutting out twenty years of writing Believe me, I'll leave me without second thought And I have been scratching from inside this wall of skin So believe me when I say I've emptied the sun Been hurting inside my caved spine where the hell-joints meet They've twisted the nails deep inside of my lungs And I have been jumping in sleep when a thought comes and haunts me So believe me when I say I've swallowed the sun The neurons went and fought a cool war and lost, it's true, we're dead So go on and pick your feet up and never give us a thought, I'm dead Just listen to the center and hear the steps yourself And then calm the nerves that threaten all the living cells You know, you've gotta pick your feet up and never give us a thought, I'm dead
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It's Alright 03:04
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It's all trapped down inside, it's all hidden down inside No one is right, and I'm always so frightened Will anybody ever seem free? I wish that I could open out and bridge our heartstrings Can somebody come on and break me? I just want to have somebody here It's all boiling inside and I am screaming inside Who would I write, and who would write to me? Can anybody ever find me? I want to open up and talk, if I would let me Can somebody come on and break me? I wish that I weren't so ashamed Does anybody ever see me? It feels as though I'm never here, no one can hear me Can somebody come on and love me? I really need the right heart to say: It's alright...
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Maruyama 03:00
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It's slow here without the wind downtown The push has gone that hounds my side It's quiet too, bless me this shrine That the moments that you treasure aren't set aside What's lost is here, it's charged it feels I can't settle, I can't rest I can't settle, I can't rest I did settle in a raven's nest
5.
Winter (Rebirth) 05:27
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A year to go for another count and ring the new one in without A pair to glimpse, a hold to head, no, another headcold, frayed eclipse I’d throw me out Into the cold where they sell warmth and offer us new chandeliers And chimney tops can’t hold the weight of my old burdens, gone to sleep No, you’ll be nothing… nothing! Let in the pierce of night’s cold flow And tease the rain, but not when it’s slowed Dampen your shoes with sorrow’s hearth I’ll tease the lights, for they won’t rebirth A tampered note pinned to the sleeves detailing all of our precious things We set ablaze its borrowed eyes and watch it thunder towards the skies That note is me When days and weeks and months go by, when all but me is new again This heart of bread will tear apart its only thread it’s left to art Say hello in spring Let in the pierce of night’s cold flow And please the rain, only when it’s slowed Dampen your shoes with sorrow’s hearth And I’ll tease the lights, for they won’t rebirth Now hear the pounding on the pans to equal what each finds in bed And at the drop, each kiss will sleep with others they know, love, and keep I’ll walk for miles Until the legs can’t hold the rest and with the cage, come trembling down Onto the knees with nerves stripped dull and lips cut dry and empty-souled I love my life… Let in the pierce of night’s cold flow We’ll please the rain only when it’s slowed Lower your brow in sorrow’s hearth I’ll tease the lights, for they won’t leave Earth Let in the pierce of night’s cold flow And tease the rain, but not when it’s slowed Dampen your shoes with sorrow’s hearth And I’ll tease the lights, for they won’t rebirth
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Nanobear 04:27
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Here we are, on this rock called home When we stand our existence precedes our essence And so the nights grow long and wander to the edge of sights We've found that there will be nothing unless we recognize it otherwise So we search for the coming of the starlight And we're eating up the atmospheric colors And in the heat of finding what we need, our minds turn to borrowed eyes And so the search begins again for what we need done before we die But I want to live lovely (I want to live lovely) I want to live lovely so you'll see my bright eyes I want to live lovely (I want to live lovely) Yeah, the way that your heart beats' the way to find your life Hey, go find what we're looking for I've seen how bears are secretly trying to take back the Earth We all are born with these holes I've seen how bears have found a way to live with gaping wounds in their souls I want to live lovely (I want to live lovely) I want to live lovely so you'll see my bright eyes I want to live lovely (I want to live lovely) Yeah, the way that your heart beats' the way to find your life I want to live lovely (I want to live lovely) I want to live lovely so you'll see my bright eyes I'm going to live lovely (I'm going to live lovely) Yeah, the way that your heart beats' the way you'll find your life
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Rusted Wheel (Bonus Track) 03:36
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So you can't hold a star in your hand, though At least you can hold on to another plan Rusted wheel planted still I can tell it's summer from the Size of the bugs that fly through my window Flying through my window Rusted wheel planted still Rusted wheel can't move on And it feels just like the ground But trapped in another way Just still in the ground And it feels just like the ground And trapped in another way Just still in the ground I can tell it's winter from the Size of the lump in my throat Got a lump in my throat Rusted wheel planted still Rusted wheel can't move on And it feels just like the ground But trapped in another way Just still in the ground And it feels just like the ground And trapped in another way Just still in the ground Rusted wheel planted still Rusted wheel can't move on Rusted wheel planted still Rusted wheel can't move on

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I'm trying something different than I normally would. Already that's evident in me singing on this.

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released March 25, 2013

Austin Williamson - vocals, guitar, bass, synth, drum programming, mixing, production

All music written by me with the exception of The Joy Formidable's "Maruyama" and Silversun Pickups' "Rusted Wheel", whose melodies/lyrics I took.

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Beneath Ail Portland, Oregon

Austin Williamson

Beneath Ail creates music in Portland, forever yearning for the brisk air of the mountain.

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