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Mudbather

by Jim Miles

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1.
Four Faeries 12:51
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Tanked in the clutch of days unlikely Sank the ways of yore Onward! Sang the young with hymns a-plenty Banking on one last war Nigh was the dawn of the returning High did the tide flow By the light of the new crimson morning The world was set aglow Doctor of the voids, please advise I can’t silence the inanimate cries Will the dreamers of disorder arise Faster than we realize What will come? Nobody knows It’s keeping everybody on their toes Will it be like Lazarus arose Or bone snapping from the final blow Never could I trust Song dictated by The blurred vision of A nearsighted eye But now I can see The edge of pretend Falling towards the earth In urgent descent If you find yourself Communing with each Grave ground into sand By centuries’ grief Try your best to reclaim The innocence of youth Need you a refrain Need you much more proof Four faeries fly following a grim savior Four faeries fly guiding us to erasure Leave it to the emblems of blight To leave the anxious with a thief’s birthright Leave it to an empire’s foresight To set the kindling of resentment alight Sons of solace, take your aim For existence is a ruthless dame And when the end comes to this ancient game All is dust, yes, all is reclaimed Though the wastelands may confound The children know the way Though nothing may seem profound They know their true fate So if we should meet our end Don’t let it come too late Be it by an accident Or by the new crusade
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Floodboy 05:32
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When the waters have gone away And our soles befriend a ravaged land Ever after and here to stay Are the new archways of familiar clans One of us will arise unscathed Boldly leading us to brighter dawns And one of us will be led astray Swallowed up by every right gone wrong But for now you’ll be A friend found in the great eternity For now you will be A fire that smiles, a welcome company When the instinct to separate Ties me to silos of errand’s yield What’s there left but contemplate The nature of the beast that waits concealed It’s back to basics after the rain Throwing darts at pictures that you drew For in the rubble of what remains Your depravity begins anew But for now you’ll be A friend found in the great eternity For now you will be A fire that smiles, a welcome company For now you will be The artifact in ruins of a dream For now you will be A knower of the in-between we seek
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Get Redacted 02:02
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Cultivator Demonstrator Agitator Get redacted Saturator Hesitater Dissipator Get redacted Litigator Contemplator Complicator Get redacted Venerator Celebrator Consecrator Get redacted Animator Automator Subjugator Get redacted Respirator Elevator Radiator Get redacted Estimator Compensator Violator Get redacted Emulator Concentrator Conducator Get redacted Leave through the entrance and don’t tell anyone Scream in a semblance of notes just cause it’s fun Vow to be silent and to fake your own death Live on an island removed from shiboleth Allocator Calibrator Separator Get redacted Operator Amputator Innovator Get redacted Circulator Oscillator Simulator Get redacted Decorator Irrigator Laminator Get redacted Ruminator Aggravator Instigator Get redacted Meditator Levitator Aviator Get redacted Educator Conspirator Propagator Get redacted Over-rater Under-rater Proper-rater Get redacted Leave through the entrance and don’t tell anyone Scream in a semblance of notes just cause it’s fun Vow to be silent and to fake your own death Live on an island removed from shiboleth Mediator Regulator Obfuscater Get redacted Numerator Iterator Terminator Get redacted Consummator Procreator Decimator Get redacted Comparator Macerator Irritator Intimater Insulator Later gator
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The Right Side of Misery 03:28
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Grant me passage to right side To the right side of misery There’s sanctuary on the right side On the right side of misery Recite your vows to the right side To the right side of misery Join the chorus of the right side Of the right side of misery Resist the ire of the wrong side Of the wrong side of misery Stifle the murmurs from the wrong side From the wrong side of misery Burn the stage of the wrong side Of the wrong side of misery Cut the tongue of wrong side Of the wrong side of misery Sign in blood on the right side
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Post Hoc 12:37
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Fire fills the fountain From which we used to drink Dire wolves are howlin’ From the empire’s brink Psalter of psychosis Please tell us to think Halter our neurosis And make your verse succinct Sire of intrusion Make you demands decreed Tire the solution ‘Til truth’s first to concede Halter your volition Of vanquishing the lead Alter your condition Condition the stampede You can still hear it said From Abaddon to Antioch When oceans turn to red And the messenger has fled We’ll be keeping it post hoc You can still hear it said With a swing of the tomahawk The messenger is dead And the kids are tucked in bed We’re still keeping it post hoc Ladle up the serum Let the answer be told Cradle of delerium, You’re a sight to behold Pull me past the circus Abhorred yet oversold Solely for the purpose Of seeing it unfold Fatal inhibitions Led the seer as she sighed Natal premonitions Can’t save a dream that died Holy is the flame of Disintegration’s bride Fully fueled to claim us From a purpose denied You can still hear it said From Abaddon to Antioch When oceans turn to red And the messenger has fled We’ll be keeping it post hoc You can still hear it said With a swing of the tomahawk The messenger is dead And the kids are tucked in bed We’re still keeping it post hoc
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The Algorithm 05:41
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released April 10, 2020

Written, performed, and recorded by Jim Miles
Art by Devin Rojas

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Jim Miles St Louis, Missouri

Miscellaneous solo works, containing both meticulously crafted musical statements and shoddy experiments.

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