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The Night Used To Be Young

by Humans Etcetera

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1). Mosquito Bite: The beginning, citronella candle burning deep in the red woods forgotten starts a fire as a stray leaf dives off the branch of a nearby tree and nestles by the light. that's how you start a fire... that's how you start a fire... ...a fire burns a leaf as leaps from a tree so dry it burns into the night and we nestle by the light The campers all driving home, none the least bit suspicious, they rest the weary heads on a window as the driver day dreams about materialistic things, errands, and bills and shit. She lives in the night! she says goodbye, and scratches at a mosquito bite.
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2). The Apple in None of Our Eyes She scratches, she heals, she blisters and peels. She is our kin, she's cloaked in our skin. She whistles and howls like the wind, she pollinates the coast. She is a trade-wind moving in from the north. Star, we'll follow you. Just start and we'll follow you. Who is She!?? She laughs, she permits, she cries and submits. She is our mother held under another. She grows, she goes, She gets old and dies. She is the apple in none of our eyes. She takes you by surprise She waits in a line, She's awake all hours of a summer night reading by the candle light, She's carefree and wild, She's a sight for sorry eyes, too pathetic to ever get her right, She's a token of a simple life, she is who. she is who. she is who. She is you.
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Old Tree 02:03
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Pillowcase 04:06
4). Pillowcase Pillowcase: Do you wish you were asleep? Then rest your little head on me until you fall asleep, until you enter the dream. Let's get this going. Let's fall into sleep. Try to sleep, you fucking sheep try to sleep, try to sleep through this. Wake up. Crawl outta bed. The Shepard just came and went, well what the fuck did you expect?
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Vigil 01:00
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Heirloom 02:45
7). Heirloom Passed down, passed out. So tradition plagues us. It's just like a silent film playing in a big empty room, and it's only remotely reel. So the ghosts choose to ignore it. year after year after year after year Stuffing the bottle full of maps, until we'd left everything. Yeah, we bothered leaving a legacy, yeah, but it burned us right to the ground. Look what I found: here's a Box of photographs, every frame is charred forgotten bread. here's a bunch of camping gear stories on the tips of sad tongues, making vows to never pass it down. year after year after year after year pouring a glass full of traps, and we've barely said anything at all. Yeah, so we bothered catching the fireflies, yeah, but we felt so bad we opened the lid. They clung to it like an heirloom they were too afraid to never leave, making vows to never pass it down. year after year after year after year after year after year after bleeding fucking years, I'm so dried up. And I've clearly had enough. I'm too drunk on your touch. I'm so fucking doctored up! I think I've had enough.
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9). Burned Like A Book on CD: The End. A wick hides away with the light like shallow grass loses it's color to the snow. I remember putting out the fire, but somehow she carried it to the sky by the handful. By the handful, it touched the clouds so they shriveled up. Arsonists everywhere thinking out-loud, "That's how you start a fire." It's in the blood now. The wicked blades went through our skin. Burned like a book on CD, cut like the branches, counting the rings. is it comforting to know that nothing lives forever? is it comforting to know that nothing lasts forever? 0011-001-001111-0011-001-001-0 Nothing bites here.

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"In fact, it’s actually rather difficult to decide why I even like this album. It’s poorly produced, erratic, lacks cohesion and is amateurish at best, and yet, its unpredictable nature is what pulls me in so completely and keeps me interested all throughout."

-Quigs (The Monolith)

www.themonolith.com/featured/quigs-best-albums-january-2014/

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released January 1, 2014

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Humans Etcetera Wenzhou, China

Christopher Henry, alt rocker from West Virginia, music master in Wenzhou, China.

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