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Man in the Tall Grass

by Aaron Rothko

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1.
Not Opposed 03:38
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i had a dream i wasn't here somewhere between the clock and the gear but the hands move at a pace i can't comprehend but i'll turn it back when i arrive i know that there's nothing more count me down but i still won't show i'm not opposed to running from every last traffic sign i'm not opposed, but i'm not supposed to be feeling like this i heard you sing it wasn't sure hums slipping between the cracks in the floor but the notes fall off the face of the earth again but i'll be their catcher in the rye it's just like i move too slow count me out but i can't let go i'm not opposed to saving these thoughts for another life i'm not opposed, but i'm not supposed to be feeling like this feeling like this and now i feel far gone where will i go? it's pullin me down it's pullin me down
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3 Miles 05:04
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can't say i'm here no more i'm thinking of another time when it felt right just to be around coin is flipped both sides are on its head this little home of mine really only feels like four walls now i know i'll go three miles from anywhere i'm sending signals in the dark draw blood for all i care just don't lose track of where we are no it don't matter anymore how we choose our words mouth is open and i'm split again seems that we're overrun by all the things we've never heard one more letter i will never send i know i'll go three miles from anywhere i'm sending signals in the dark draw blood for all i care just don't lose track of where we are three miles from anywhere i'm running circles in the yard yeah we'll get outta there just never was good at this part three miles from anywhere i'm sending signals in the dark draw blood for all i care just don't lose track of where we are three miles from anywhere i'm done with bearing heavy hearts draw blood for all i care just don't lose track of where we are
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Speak Up 05:01
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no i ain't hard of hearing but i ain't got no gift of gab i'll leave my voice on the ceiling to get you off my back maybe it's that i'm just scared or maybe i'm just too proud but everyone stays unaware till the day i get loud and they say 'speak up now kid there's a lot going on here no need to keep your mouth shut talk to me kid, you got a lot goin on dear come on now kid just speak up' my loved ones oh how they hound me to settle into my skin yeah she know her way around me but she can't find no way in oh i got so much to say bout all the things that haunt my head but i can't keep on wishing them away till the day i'm dead and they say 'speak up now kid there's a lot going on here no need to keep your mouth shut talk to me kid, you got a lot goin on dear come on now kid just speak up' i'll hold my breath for now push all my troubles down so i can keep a smile on my face but when i drop my head oh my friends come around and they say 'speak up now kid there's a lot going on here no need to keep your mouth shut talk to me kid, you got a lot goin on dear oh won't you just speak up now kid there's a lot going on here no need to keep your mouth shut, oh no talk to me kid, you got a lot goin on dear come on now kid just speak up'
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Lost 03:12
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she saw me crack a smile head in hands eyes gone wild she's my friend by the door she don't wait there no more and i am lost i should have turned around my good night i'm knocked down and i am lost and i am gone
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Porch Song 05:13
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stone footprints run to you roof beaten by the rain hidden from your passersby the naked eye rolls off i can't find a better view the front door ain't the same catch me in the dying light of summer night so soft morning comes through curtain blinds chase me down the hall dress me up in different shades, a renegade again she comes crashing down behind my path through white walls i know that's where she'd rather be, the same for me my Friend owe you more than i could say don't need no back door up upon your hillside, let my pride flee the ground it seems to fall away those nights out on your porch and as the sky blew the embers out, remember how you'd sing with me
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Man in the Tall Grass 05:31
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it started subtly right and wrong and ways to be stop me if you've heard this one before a view of his own star across the monkey bars but the drop was too big for him to ever go back at the festival mouth shut but a handful of memories scattered through his home the windows face the street where he waits for summers heat but when summer comes he never seems to show yeah i'm here somewhere just down another layer words i can't claim fall on borrowed ears i'll take your order now this sleepy border town teeters on the edge for all these years trains screech this city's cheer one-way streets and two-way mirrors glasses on and pickin me apart the view from where you are hopping from bar to bar sleeping sound but waking with a start yeah i'm here somewhere just down another layer words i can't claim fall on borrowed ears i'll take your order now this sleepy border town teeters on the edge for all these years so as you run along, the path they want you on it wasn't meant for you or me yeah i'm here somewhere just down another layer words i can't claim fall on borrowed ears i'll take your order now this sleepy border town teeters on the edge for all these years the backyard coddled me eggshells, china, young man's dreams but i released the bull upon their homes i'll fight the voices in my ear cause the Man in the Tall Grass just fears the ones who think to let him go
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Waterside 05:54
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you and i, we never lived for the same breath we never walked the same world, we were offset oh the cats out of the bag and i'm out of line anywhere you go i'm caught in your footstep i know that i fell in love with a dead man but why does it all feel so real in my head then i was just countin the days till i was gone you pulled me out on my feet from the quicksand drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea take every smile, every crease, every part of me you gave your crown and your blood all too hastily why did you have to go down to the waterside? now all that's left of you here is your mark on me drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea your voice fades out, and i just can't breathe enough you're so beyond the everyday push and shove i'm still here shouting your name, say have you heard? your very first real toy was my last love drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea drop in the sea
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Backstop 03:29
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your first stop rocked me, dropped me off somewhere outside my head the ground overgrown, but never alone i turned my head from that blank silhouette take the beds off their frames you got me rewriting words again you stood so tall thought the wind would sweep you off the balls of your feet we redefined the cautioning signs improvised thrills in the cold and the heat and you'll laugh at my old ames you got me rewriting words again was it not last night we just climbed those branches to claim them as ours? words can't come near just how sincere these levers i'm pulling keep reading out bars you got me rewriting words again
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Narrator/Agitator 05:07
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three months in a room guess we couldn't spare the city any change those days came and went oh but what's the thing they say bout when it rains? and i've been playing catch just to keep it off my mind and i'm still caught in traps that i laid back some time ago but all i've learned is there can't always be a clever turn of phrase i can only fear that it's a chore spin the room until i'm at the door operator, instigator put me through or disconnect the cord the spools around your head seem to hold fast to the rights that they reserve and it still cracks me up that you said when we met i got on your nerves you would leave your weed out on the dresser in my room almost as to tease, i ain't that bold and half as smooth yeah you would tell but it still feels i'm mooching whatever move i make i can only fear that it's a chore spin the room until i'm at the door navigator, fabricator are we close or are we overboard? and i've been fast asleep at the wheel i must confess oh it's classic me to crack a smile, bullshit the rest, yeah it's a vice but i'm still downstairs with you singing "macy's day parade" i can only fear that it's a chore spin the room until i'm at the door narrator, agitator your arc doesn't fit me anymore
10.
Latitude 06:08
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say how far have you come this way? a streetcar on these rooftop lanes your strong will bent like tangled vines but i still feel for you sometimes yeah i'd just play your game when it paid me back in dividends but the night i learned your name was the night i lost my innocence the road home felt so strange i'll breathe though the jamb marks changed yeah you'd just always say it takes time to change your attitude and the day i walked away was the day you lent me latitude

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I wrote and recorded this album over the course of my time at college. See if you can find the naughty joke in there ;)

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released November 5, 2021

Music and lyrics by Aaron Rothko
Mixed by Tieren Costello
Album art by Josh Goldblatt
Violin-Isabel Rothko
Drums-Ben Papsun and Sevine Clarey
Piano-Ben Papsun
Trumpet-Spencer McConnell and Joe Gusmano

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