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Lincoln Signal

by Waterslide

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1.
a somersault a flip and spin a trip around the block and back again a pheromone of sprawl and blight the engine flutters at the traffic light a burning sun a warning sign stop at the intersection unless you’re blind a turning leaf a rising span the engine sputters by the garbage cans a quiet ecstasy a smothered joy dreams were endless when you were a boy a line of pebbles a pile of rocks the engine rumbles from the starting blocks just one last time and we’ll be gone we have to do this now, it’s off or on it’s time to dig and scratch collapse and build rev the engine for the Caledonia kill
2.
sleeping in ’til noon dreaming of the fall a moment lost found you on the phone frozen in the snow in the wilds of Idaho echoes from the road no one throwing stones you were gone echoes from the road and the fall of Rome you were sitting in my chair playing solitaire and watching television the president is on says the ‘state of the union’ is good faith is just a trap until you need it most and then it is your holy ghost love is just a dream until you need it most and then it is your holy ghost a thing is right when it preserves integrity and beauty
3.
Gone Missing 03:59
where is the White Footed Rabbit-rat lost with the Puerto Rican Flower Bat can’t find a Lord Howe Long-eared Bat gone missing with the St. Lucy Giant Rice Rat where is the Broad-faced Potoroo left town with the Desert Rat Kangaroo can’t find a Pig-footed Bandicoot gone missing with the Christmas Island Shrew where is the Mexican Grizzly Bear out the door with Schomburgk’s Deer has anybody seen Sturdee’s Pipistrelle gone missing with the Red Gazelle where now is the Caspian Cat took its leave with the Martinique Muskrat lost track of the Eastern Hare Wallaby gone missing with the Lesser Bilby won’t you please come home where is the Mono Lake Diving Beetle on the lam with the Fort Ross Weevil can’t find the Chestnut Ermine Moth gone missing with the Lesser Puerto Rican Ground Sloth where is the Antillean Cave Rail next to the Umbilicate Pebblesnail lost the Pecatonica River Mayfly gone fishing with the Blue Walleye where is the Ash Meadows Killfish washed away with the Tecopa Pupfish what became of the American Lion fossilized like the Ancient Bison where on Earth is the Western Camel don't confuse it with the Stilt-legged Llama lost my Pecatonica River Mayfly gone missing with my Passenger Pigeon Mite
4.
what a way to lie a trick of the light and your shadow’s disappeared but that’s all right what a way to lose when you’re one of the chosen few but you lost the secret code and now you’re through but I will see your veil of dolor bright and blue in your Sunday colors what a way to sin you would not let them in and when you turned away they would not call you friend what a way to die with a dagger in your eye with salvation in the sacristy and all that hate inside see you on Sunday
5.
driving all night passing the time cursing my luck on the side of the road selling these blooms from the back of a truck sometimes I hear somebody calling breathing the dust sweating it out making the rent climbing a hill high as the sky everything spent sometimes I dream that I am falling but Hadrian’s Wall was never that tall a woman and child shuffling by a tulip and rose take a liking to these ‘can you wrap them for me? with a couple of those?’ sometimes I turn to vapor rising it could not keep you out it did not keep you in
6.
stray dog hung around my door I did not feed it newspaper sat out on the porch I did not read it heard a warning in my deep sleep I did not heed it thanks a lot for the heaping heap I do not need it going off of the grid off the grid and on target
7.
you call my name and I have no wants in fields of green and sparkling oceans blue and when I see you there we will walk that path warmed by the sun and though I bear this pain and doubt I know you are there and I am not afraid and I will stay with you all my days
8.
Roma, my home Roma, my love I don’t need the dogma I don’t need the drugs as long as the sun is burning above Roma, my heart I’ll meet you at the wall I’ll catch you when you fall no matter where you’ve been I will not play that violin Roma, my love Roma, my home I’ll wait on the karma I’ll wait on the koan as long as the sky is reigning alone Roma, my heart I’ll greet you at the wall I’ll catch you when you fall no matter who you’ve been I will not play that violin
9.
got my helmet on got my goggles, too gotta watch out for the collateral you know got a pounding heart got this super brain got a lot to do got a lot of pain going outside to play all-y, all-y, in come free kicking the can all day I’m the king of the hill spike the tree got a hole inside lets in the pouring rain wrote my congressman about all this pain got a bleeding ulcer and the end is closer I signed the petition and now I’ll drive the nail
10.
Mayfly 02:21
’neath the willow's lazy sway lived a life inside a day May has flown into breezes blown in the spring we made a vow but promises are broken now
11.
I’m just a spacewalker on a stellar ride she’s an asteroid that I must abide she is a disturbance in the cosmic wind she is the orbiter coming ’round again dancing with the satellites I’m just an average guy in a rocket ship she’s a supernova doing a backflip she’s a streaking comet doing a backflip
12.
I fix my eyes on the road ahead pressing on to arrive by dawn yellow turns to red I drop my head to the steering wheel traffic light shimmers in the night over my windshield I raise my gaze to the smudged rearview at my feet and on the backseat are photographs of you we’re vandals in reverse turning ’round the curse wherever we may go we’re unbreaking the windows Fortuna’s wheel isn’t mine to steer remembering, I rewind everything and throw it back in gear whichever way we turn a bridge is left unburned as long as we shall be we’re unspiking the tree

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Produced by Mark Doyon at The Crow's Nest, Winchester, Virginia. Mastered by Jon Astley at Close to the Edge, Twickenham, London, England.

Words and music by Mark Doyon (ASCAP). Published by WMM Songs (ASCAP).

Performed by Waterslide. Lead guitar on “Fiddlesticks (Roma)” by Eamon Loftus. Banjo on “Spike the Tree” by Logan Claytor.

Cover photograph, “Traffic Light at Triumphal Arch, NYC,” by Catharina van den Dikkenberg.

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released June 19, 2012

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