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Billow Green

by Names for Sounds

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1.
Cicadence 05:09
Sotto speaking leaves hush up the trees Anticipation, withdraw all defenses Stand down, they'll be here any minute now For you a flower, silent fruit and seed is all the offspring you would need But buzzing bodies here to breed upon your blushing limbs they feed Inhale the air, stoma's open width Draw in, strip carbon from the mix Slap, a heavy bead bends your bough The clicking tones, an everynote Inhale the air, stoma's open width Draw in, strip carbon from the mix Slap, a heavy bead bends your bough The swarm is just beginning now Surviving complication, grace A generation finds its place
2.
The Rule 02:10
Press out what you've made for me Fermenting juice and poison seed Boxes perched on aching knee Sugar Maple, Apple Tree Orchard's order, planted rows Soil turned on rusted hoe Swollen branches, bending bough Cider's bead upon my brow
3.
Teacher 01:59
I was told I'd be swallowed whole and be dancing in your branches I had heard that mum's the word for all the wishes you have granted I was taught it was all for naught all human needs supplanted Take this seed, carry it with me our rule is evenhanded Buried deed, trust all we need growing as time commanded That one day we'd be covered in shade on this barren earth we've planted
4.
Diatom 03:22
Diatom, how you've grown! I'm another son who's left home You're dusting off the ancient tome It's the words that stick - made my bones How can it be that you made me while your other child is a growing tree? You'd say: Bilateral Symmetry? Just another idea you got from me What do you see above the deep? The bright cascading stars In harmony pelagically? Sun-veined coursing sea But on you'd roam, you'd left a note: Return home, dark, remote
5.
I saw the other man, he looked the same as me He chipped the stone and built a home Down there below the trees Hey you, looking down at me Surely you can plainly see this is how it's meant to be A flapping mouth and straightened knee? The use is hard to see And he said: All friends come in Homo georgicus All friends come in Heidelbergensis
6.
Unwound 04:00
The tea is brewed bitter You are lock-jawed and shiver At the thought of another wet winter The favor's in the entryway They come but never stay Conveyor belt carries them away We'll cook on the ashes of fallen birch branches Wet wood smolders and sparking bark flashes When do we fall in line to the well-ordered march of time? Touching your fingertips to your peach and persimmon lips: Stay on footfall Watch me grow seed
7.
Phase One: Sun, light the bright moon Pull tide, a black sheet Tuck the Earth to sleep Phase Two: The exception to the rule Stone tooth, proud and able Facing South, froths at the mouth Phase Three: A scaling, growing green Swollen root cracks the granite Helio and gravitrope
8.
You can't get into it Heifers scream at tanner's blade A lining fit for kings we've made Belching black and trading states At last, machines providing shade So turn the key and make it last Cranking over, speeding past Far horizon's lure and trap Always further, iron eyes cast You can't get into it So build it higher, stronger, wider But only if your conscience finds her Near your naked, burning tire Smoking hot enough to blind her But put your feet down on the ground A trodden rhythm, easily found And with your bones I bet you'll pound The same as ancients would as now And you can't get into it
9.
Floe 02:53
(Such a pretty thing)
10.
Sunbeam 03:36
Sunbeam boils my skin This is happening because the old guard is sleeping deeply at his post On my watch, we pushed it off further down the road to the other town, another home There's that greedy din, all for taking in the work of ages and we're just shaking off the dust Way up: Saturn We are pattern We'll be looking down at sustaining ground sure to find there somewhere something better Some conditioning clock unwinds the spring and then the time's up, shipped out, to some star we read about Way up: Saturn We are pattern
11.
Undefined 02:08
Mine my body for dust Soil covered in musty brine Call down barking the mad, wild call of the dogs Down on dirt and their luck A cold Earth, frozen within Plate tectonics wear thin Mountains are islands and then So mine my body for ice and, trusting that I traded water for wine There'll be none to find I'll be undefined
12.
A Collision 03:38
(I want to be a man at peace)

credits

released June 30, 2014

All songs written, recorded and mixed by Names, except for "The Exception to the Rule" written by Names and Casey Barth

Michael Armstrong - Trombone
Luke Damrosch - Percussion
Ken Field - Alto Saxophone, Alto Flute
Calin Peters - Cello

Nick Zammuto - Mastering

Emma Mällinen - Album Design

Thank you to all of the incredible musicians, my family, zammutosound, Emma Mällinen, Casey Barth, Chris Rubeo, Matt Paley, and everyone else who helped make this record possible.

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