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Particle Devotion

by Particle Devotion

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particle devotion held me when i saw the way it was peering through the green and blue it died and i was born again as us sat underneath the flag triangles on our cheeks flew back to the west half suspended in our peace the cold came much too quickly brought me twisted thoughts and made-up girls fucked up my stomach so i ripped myself out of that world and i've no way to know where such lines might go but i only hope to know a taxi is getting her home
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there's a beautiful image a beautiful, bright mess just off of I-10 lately I think of her often, I just lay and imagine soft skin and calm wind in the summer we had sat on the grass and nervously laughed by the port and downtown but I was not over december, no I was a mess now there are 700 miles of interstate gravel between my town and hers and from the looks of this traffic it would take 1,200 minutes, but you can be sure that I would excitedly count them, account for each second like rosary beads some soft, simple penance for july but maybe I won't ever get back to valhalla maybe my life just won't go back to the way it was before but I am hopeful of broader agencies just like a resting pendulum but there are times in this life when all is sweet breathing is easy everything is right where it should be see, even as I sing a child is born and suddenly there is such green to all I see there is such love surrounding me maybe I ain't never been nowhere but valhalla maybe my problems are all illusions I create in delusion why suffer?
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Pause Button 05:34
i hit the pause button on my mind so i could re-characterize all that came after as meaningless and therefore much less dangerous to my storyline and my secret life my lover's eyes and another time i keep them tucked away inside oh how i need them tucked deep deep inside so if things should stay bad or get much worse i could say "hey friend well you know of course" we're coming apart at the seams but i'm safe and whole here in these memories where the rain drips soft off the cyprus trees the sunset's light fills everything i take her hand and say "hey you know i'm feeling better i'm feeling home" but i know now the world don't shut down even a thick frown must hold out in faith for another lift just in this ghost town it's easy to drop out it's easy to block out the sounds the beautiful mess but there in the summer in the french theatre the childish laughter had drowned out the demonic hiss and even when it's bitter i can still feel her no one went nowhere it's all still here it just keeps on changing shapes
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Casey's Song 05:07
flames are growing, flee before you burn this life is changing and kid you're gonna learn that nothing lasts now everything changes somehow your father's aging, his father's in an urn the wheel is spinning but i guess it ain't your turn to be in love now if all that you can see is not how it should be how could you concieve of things getting better the past is fading cloaked in a disguise your interpretation shrouds it in a lie it felt so different in the moment but dont be frightened see every fire dies new life will blossom and right before your eyes there is purpose and there is goodness and all the love that you could need is here in me i am sorry for the things that i have been but please forgive me and be my friend tonight those shadow monsters creep ever nearer to my side
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Far Away 03:01
come to me lay with me by the riverbed, my love we'll be lazy be happy share some secrets i will build us a home with my own bare hands ill cut the timber mix the mortar make it perfect we'll have some kids maybe 3 or 4 give them names from some book that you loved once in your youngest days the leaves will change our bodies will age but that feeling will stay and when you lay with me you will see it will be the same everything i could want comes to me in a vision that is so far away
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a frightened tyrant lying bare beside the wife of his foe she whispers curses of the night she donned his terrible robe longing for childhood and summers spent in jessica's van but just rolls over and mumbles "no no no you wouldnt understand" there's nothing you could do by the cathedral and the square at the center of new rome the festival explodes in white roses, confetti and drums the blacksmith's squire spots his lover on her father's shoulders he looks on enraptured crying heroin and magadalene's blood there's nothing you could do
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Johnny Mac 05:23
johnny mac was a sailor of the lonelier type he used to dock in a port town and go drinking at night with the young bastian women in fine irish linnen fresh skin and a smile underneath of the stars they would drink 'till the morning they would dance 'till the dawn stumble our of the tavern fair french maids on their arm but not so for ol' mac he'd make the long walk back to his ship to his hammock and parrot alone but all of that time spent in quiet isolation had taken a toll on his delicate heart and in the dark he would chart out a course more worth sailing, plot out a route blowing back to the start of some silence inside us and peace in the moment, of children in meadows of barley and rye, of a wife, of a bride in a blue dress and green eyes skin glowing bright as the sea at first light one fine day in november in a shop near the shore he laid eyes on a gypsy as she came through the door in a blue knitted shirt and some knickers she cut her hair in a string and the dawn in her eyes and he thought "surely this girl is the sign i've awaited this radiant light, incarnation of god all that's left is to know her and love her and keep her from harm start out anew in these arms and where once there was darkness and anger and sadness, now is overflowing with milk and divine golden eyes a smile full of warm, joyous longing forgiving all i've done in my wretched life" well here is a new thing a feeling i've never had oh, this life, it is not just a sad repetition, a purposeless organ we must keep alive it's brimming with love, now all flowing inside itself our bodies are gardens that we tend we are so young and so green, now the loveliest sounds in this house have shaken the floorboards and the beds and i'm inclined to believe that two lovers have never had what the gypsy and johnny did in that endless spring
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i made a friend of you in bitter wintertime and wanted nothing more than a blankets' touch and made you promise me that you would take your pills and loved you so damn much so these are gracious months like re-rolling my cuffs sporting boyish clothes feeling scared of blood stealing katy's shirts changing in my room the back strap of your bra like krishna's pocketwatch they are back again so i will starve mysef as long as i can i will be beautiful, like a summer home and when we die, my love, i hope it feels like march like crying in our clothes like sharing secret thoughts
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I Thought 20:02
i thought i was a unique being the star of the grander scheme but now, after some more living, i see clearly i am a passing thing i want to love as honestly as god as a thirsty tree, a bodhi leaf as my mom but how my selfishness can make an awful mess of such pure joyousness, of honest contentedness come to me, happiness my sweet, my kind mistress and take me far from all distress make me whole come on and make me whole just start the car and take me home just start the car i've loved i've loved so earnestly and lost i've lost things so dear to me but now, after some more thinking i see that it's me causing such tragedies it is but things are different now im feeling better now fresh out of birkenau i'm on the up and up just a brief acknowledgement some vague admonishment total enlightenment, what a noble cause but these days im seeing the father everywhere these days im seeing the father everywhere these days im seeing
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released October 22, 2015

Particle Devotion is:

Brian Bell - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Percussion
John Cleere - Bass
Scott Graves - Drums
Clyde Bates - Synthesizer, Sampler, Percussion, Saw
John Mann V - Vibraphone, Synthesizer, Vocoder
Nick Garrison - Trombone
Chloe Johnson - Vocals
Ryan Erwin - Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer

Recorded & Engineered by Ryan Erwin at Baton Rouge Music Studios
Produced by Ryan Erwin, Brian Bell & Particle Devotion
Mixing & Mastering by Ryan Erwin
Album art by Sarah Kershaw
Copyright 2015 Particle Devotion, All rights reserved

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