Like an Island

by The Noble Octopus

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released 04 October 2011

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Track Name: Nesting Calls
White and waking birds nest and call
Rust overtaking beat against the walls
Emplacements and hours
Storms that missed and grand powers
Eye the open water

Is it a question?
Nested we call
Track Name: On the Occasion
Tight little hands
Wonders when we'll land
Pure blue truth

Gray little town
Hands open now
Pure blue truth
Track Name: Prize
Waking words
Grinning inclines
Summer’s cures cut to a-lines

Ooh, we’re making prize dreams

Colored lips
Fluorescent skylines
Careful skips dressed to the nines

Ooh, we’re making prize dreams
Track Name: And Then I Drive
Rolling open, casting stones
Taking time to breathe
Breathless wonder, August thunder
Nine more hours in front of me

Dart in tall grass, bird’s-eyed sunsets
Blue eyed floating memory
Fence post mileage, corn cross the high ridge
Open road and spreading green

And there’s no sound as the sun slips down underwater
And there’s no sound as the clouds fan out over the plains

Flash and diving, cold wind striking
Count the days they’re shortening
Fragile branches, icy dances
Fill the spaces in between

And there’s no sound as the sun slips down underwater
And there’s no sound as the clouds fan out over the plains
Track Name: Pacific House
The southern equatorial
A peak on the horizon
Spike into the open sky
Silver shine inviting

Overgrow Pacific House
Pebbles shake like lightning
Cotton clouds drifting past
River softly winding

The southern equatorial
Setting on Pacific House
A night sky rising
Track Name: 737
Bittersweet, 737 37
Restless dream, 737 37
Spreading sleep, 737 37

Comfort air, 737 37
Aching aware, 737 37

Bittersweet, 737 37
Restless dreams, 737 37
Track Name: To a Kitten
Shaky summer
Darling eyes
Aching other
Shallow sky

To a kitten
Mountain climb
Orchid wisdom
Child’s mind
Track Name: Diamonds and the Rest
Diamonds rest like ribbons
The rest like an ocean
Arms out cross the shallow
Sandbars somewhere slip and change

I spread out
Words just let out and collide

Shorten colors sweating
Takes the time to commotion
Always wakes up screaming
He is something misplaced in this home

I spread out
Words just let out and collide
Track Name: Another Calendar
Tapping on the windows after dark
She is waving
Glassy moon illuminates the yard
Shapes and angles

Realize the sweetness on her tongue
Maybe painful
Constantly the evenings at a cost
Colored shameful

The dog that went stray

Smoothing out the fabric once again
A bed made neatly
Scheduling the minutes all away
Means breathing freely

The dog that went stray
The words never said
The dog that went stray
The thoughts that never came