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Just As God Made Us

by Lloyd & Michael

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1.
You are pretty like a colt, shiny and long-limbed, and smelling of talc like the baby you are Little thing, little foal, so barely born Of ocean foam, eyes like coal, voice like a coda Like something coming to an end, a clot of blood, moving toward a brain on long limbs. A cold clam, smelling of sea and fear of rubbery depths The bottom of a moat, futile protector, long-limbed child… Across the barren wasteland, what cowled figure seeks you out? When I went with it, I went with no pity. I was scraping downward like skiing. A fast swoop on wet snow, with none of the cold. Only dark and hidden, I passed with it through the gate, Through the gated path The shaded path The shadowed path. And I walked or flew, with it ‘til the dent was done In a raid I took from it its glimmer. Now, dull as brass, as a newt’s back, No longer will I ski downward with it But only grate along, grate along like grated gravel So much would I rather dart through hedges So much would I rather have that glimmer for myself.
2.
All the trees are blowing and the mountains are covered in clouds But the grounds are lit up with spring and All the buzz it brings Out in the gardens All the buds are showing when the grounds are hit with the sun But I walk to work with my coat on Collar up and corduroys Right next to the sunrise I’m just trying to have a real time here Out where my head is clear
3.
I curl around the bottom of this tree and I place my hands down into the cool wet grass, the cool wet grass I will later to climb. But for now my hands merely place In the cool wet grass An important time is coming This heralds and important time. When the world moves on Things are moving faster Speeding up, speed speeding up And up I go into the life of this tree And it groans and creaks beneath and all around me
4.
Recycle 03:30
(Harmony in absence) We started out inside a jar The counsel said we would go far The architects of our desire The architects of our desire (Harmony in abundance) Chemicals and adrenaline Alchemy and medicine The architects of our computer The architects of our guitar Recycle into the next We were sitting on the fence Now uncommon, uncouth, and different Recycled
5.
No Scare 01:07
(Words by Eileen Conner) Diagrammatic, your overt hand and overwhelm. I am not green. I am never in the straw. I glow blue as hurricane tipped Upside in the rearview mirror Like a saint, can’t ever tell who’s in the house. I lie in my bed of leaves Faltered, chasten, pilgrim Bleeding at the scalp
6.
New sap, sticky, up lifts the wind, ‘tis the coming of bees Girls will grill beets in the winter fast in their pans. Fat slugs snap into awakeness all along fault lines Boys with soap, donning their aprons, ease into life (I stall) (It’s too fast) (The world is moving faster, speeding up)
7.
Dark turns to grey and I feel OK when the morning comes Alone in my head and I jump out of bed when the morning comes All the pain of yesterday has gone away I talk about taking a walk just to shake it off when the morning comes Alone in my head and I jump out of bed when the morning comes All the pain of yesterday has gone away Grey turns to white and up rises the light when the morning comes I talk about taking a walk and I punch out the clock when the morning comes All the pain of yesterday has gone away
8.
Observation 02:49
Today things were slow. Slow, and they each happened at their own pace. And they each took their time And I had time to imagine each of them fully before they had fully passed. The clouds, each cloud, each step Each thought—each slow lifting of a cat hand And weird regard from half-shut eyes. All the time spent in this warm hallway this cracking bed this broad expanse of desk. With neat rows of pens. And each thing that was there was in its own place And today I had the time And I had time to imagine each of them fully before they had fully passed.
9.
Whale Song 01:56
At the edge of the island I saw a whale with the help of a guy At first I did not see it So thank you man for doing what you can At the edge of the island there was a whale but all I did was fail ‘Cause everybody sees it so why can’t I, what’s wrong with my eyes?
10.
You crouch creature. But how did you get here? You forgot the way you came. And does it really matter?
11.
We were looking at this tall wooden mast Where the wind had swept across it for a thousand years. It was scoured smooth as polished stone Such a thing should rest on the bottom of the sea. But the world has moved on, the world has moved on. We were outside, and it was snowing our footprints went over a mountain and then were swallowed up by a dark forest We stood outside the house, but the world had moved on The world had moved on. Alone in an empty wasteland, you can hear a hawk cry from miles away The sun beats down, the sun sets us on fire. Parched, dying, alone: the world moved on.
12.

credits

released January 22, 2008

tracks 1-4, 6-8, 11 engineered by Roy Silverstein
produced by Lloyd & Michael and Roy Silverstein
recorded and mixed during March and April 2007
@ The Habitat in San Diego, California

tracks 5, 9, 10, 12 engineered and produced by Lloyd & Michael
recorded and mixed during April 2007
@ Lloyd's house in Long Beach, California

mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk/Stereophonic Mastering

all music and lyrics by Lloyd & Michael
(except) lyrics for "No Scare" by Eileen Conner

thank you:
Steve
Roy
Verne
Robin
our families, friends, and fans

LLOYD & MICHAEL IS KATE DAVIDSON AND M. RITCHEY

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