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The First Woman to See Her Reflection in the World Before Mirrors

by Wooden/Apple/Heart

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1.
Nora 03:55
Funny how time splinters, repeats its own circles poor bear awake through winter, no dreams of melted ice She still believes in love what else can she convince herself of? She was alone and feeling lost Springtime came and blossomed as a wreath of haunting images around her head But you’re not dead, you’re not dead, you’re not dead. She was a lonely hunter Cause she was never a killer To be a constant provider She was their only protector Mother, maker, leaves us how we need each other Pattern, pattern feed us No hand to soften the bite We still believe in love What else can we convince ourselves of? She was dreaming of a purple dawn When Summer sings a sentimental song that shimmers aimlessly above her bed She was a lonely hunter Cause she was never a killer To be a constant provider She was their only protector
2.
I never thought I’d have this down to a science The shapes and the sizes Blind to every corner of the sky I couldn’t find it Now snow falls in the middle of the sea with the entire South Pole on fire Blue is just a color of the eye Made of our own device
3.
Steve’s got a watchmaker’s mind He thinks about time and how numbers design and callous every minute that he counts He peels away his desires They’re just cables and wires He holds the soldering iron and needs nothing more than food upon his table He sees the flashing of the brake lights Illuminate the beauty of the turnpike He hears the music of the windshield wipers And lives his life inside the engine So curious and childlike He recalls the moment that he questioned god Or that time he built a synthesizer And felt none the wiser Nora speaks with her eyes She befriends fireflies who light her village at night Brighter than the torches of a thousand angry people She comes face to face with a bear Who was caught in a snare But the pain that they share makes them closer friends and infinitely kinder She sees the dancing of the candle light Throw her quiet shadow all across the room Feeling alone in this whole allegory She lives her life on the tip of her pen So curious and childlike She recalls the moment that she questioned god Or learned that beauty’s nowhere but inside her But still felt none the wiser
4.
This chair is not for sitting It simply is observing Being caught between the floor and the ceiling Who made these legs? Am I just smoke from the factory, Am I ashes in a chimney, Just echoes in a stairwell? We dance along the shores of hell You are so far, so far From where you thought you are This is how we move through time Time moves through us Splinter, repeat You are so far, so far From what you thought you are
5.
Born Away 04:56
When I finally decided It’s too much to justify my relationship to silence Why do I always Have to look away From my thoughts, am I not home? Sometimes I feel like I was born away From the world outside that everyone else has seemed to figure out Dark skies Suddenly collided With paper mountains, they compromise To fold on the horizon Why do I always Have to look away From my thoughts, am I not home? Sometimes I feel like I was born away From the world outside that everyone else has seemed to figure out
6.
Too bored of wearing black Too short and simple on a track Guarding my heart like some artifact Burning beneath the mask Too tall to stand under the glass Naked still feels like the front of the class In your shell, I hear the coast Now those waves are getting close Hesitate when I throw Cannonballs in your boat Lost track of keeping count Of every fossil of a doubt Was there a world before mirrors in every room of the house? Thought it was over then The circle breaks to start again I know this treasure map as well as the back of my hand In your shell I hear the coast Now those waves are getting close Hesitate when I throw Cannonballs in your boat I made you into my romance I turned you into something You’re my melting wax sculpture, you’re my glass figurine Now I’m staring up the east coast Streamlined on a whim I’d jump in the Potomac, but I guess I think I forgot how to swim You walk on a whisper You hide in the crowd Your conversation as light as a feather We float unpredictably around That rooftop’s always with me

credits

released June 8, 2017

Cole Schuster ~ Guitar, bass, vocals, and salt&pepper shakers on "Nora"
Alex Fink ~ Pedal steel on "Born Away"
Scott Anderson ~ Percussion, blips, bloops, and additional mixing on "Born Away"

All other words and music by Kyle Baker

Recorded and mixed at Cat HQ in Shoreline, WA and at Remote Village Earth in Washington D.C., on my trusty Tascam DP008EX.

Mastered by Juan Nintendo in a warehouse on skid row in Los Angeles, CA.

Thanks to Riley, Anders, and Michael for your generosity and trusting me with your instruments.

Cover art by Laiah Mahey

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