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The Arcadia Tapes

by Paul Snyder

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Thought I smelled smoke thought I saw the forest burning thought I lost hope thought I felt world turning
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Baby 04:25
Born in ‘71 face turned to the sun gonna make it big gonna find the one face turned to the sun Baby turns a blind eye to him it’s all the same and Baby leaves the light on and dances in the rain gonna make it big gonna find the one face turned to the sun
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Iteration 41 03:07
I received a letter from my friend the other day. I was worried - you see - I hadn’t seen or heard from him in some time. Heard he changed his name and caught the last plane West - heard he joined a cult - heard he walked into the river Anyway - I couldn’t be sure. So for weeks I left his letter lay unopened but every night after midnight it would start - t i c k i n g And no matter where in the house I would hide it I could still hear it - t i c k i n g So finally - you see - I opened it. It read - Dear Friend I have paid an ungodly amount simply to be one step closer to heaven But what I’ve learned about America is that if you believe it deep down it’s probably true
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Realiti 04:30
When we were young, we used to get so close to it And you were scared and you were beautiful I wanna peer over the edge and see death If we are always the same Oh, I fear that no life will ever be like this again 'Cause your love kept me alive and it made me insane There were moments when it seemed okay Whether you go or whether you stay There was a time when the music would play Oh, baby, every morning there are mountains to climb Taking all my time Oh, when I get up, this is what I see Welcome to reality When we were young, we used to get so close to it And you were scared and you were beautiful I wanna peer over the edge and see death If we are always the same There were moments when it seemed okay Whether you go or whether you stay There was a time when the music would play Oh, baby, every morning there are mountains to climb Taking all my time Oh, when I get up, this is what I see Welcome to reality
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Genesis 05:11
Your love is pushing me over Over and into the sea
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Mikel 06:02
Mikel I tried truly wild All I’ve learned is all I’ve done Mikel All I know down I go All I’ve thought is all I’m not Mikel I know it’s not your fault it’s all I’ve got
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TORU 04:30
In this dream I’m on a tight rope and I’m tipping back and forth trying to keep my balance. And below me are all my relatives, and if I fall I’ll crush them. This line, this bloodline, the only thing that binds me to the turning world below and all the people and noise and songs and shouts. This long thin line, this song line, this shout. This thing tightrope, this tightrope made of sound. This tightrope, so thin, made of my own blood.
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No, you're not gonna get what you need But baby I have what you want Come get your honey Every color and every taste Every breath that whispers your name It's like emeralds on the pavement At the heart of some kind of flower Stuck in glitter, strands of saliva Won't you get me right where the hurt is? And the waves come in and they're golden But down in the deep the honey is sweeter And the sun sets on the water But down in the deep the current is stronger No, you're not gonna get what you need But baby I have what you want Come get your honey And the waves come in and they're golden But down in the deep the honey is sweeter And the sun sets on the water But down in the deep the current is stronger Get me right where the hurt is
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Plumes 03:43
My trusty steed was growing tired as we made our way down the other side of the mountain range I couldn’t tell you why but I had to know I had to see for myself those swirling stacks of Mojave those plumes of desert skin haunting the horizon So you see - we traveled for days through the heat through the trees through the canyons through it all But were still no closer than when we started So I cried out and the trees replied - Now at first you see - I thought I was dreaming that I’d fallen to their incantations to the Lizzie’s in the hills And then I saw a red flash and I heard a crack of thunder and I fell and when I woke up I saw them those plumes were getting closer and closer So I cried out and the canyons replied - And before I could answer I felt myself submit and I was swept up swept away into that plume of dust
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Der Berliner 04:34
“There are many people in the world who really don’t understand, or say they don’t, what is the great issue between the free world and the communist world... Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us...Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.”
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Indie Disco 03:49
I was never cool enough for New York I didn’t have enough I didn’t have enough money I didn’t have enough friends, talent, or vision I didn’t have enough followers I didn’t have enough hats I was never cool enough for New York I’ve never kissed a lover on the Brooklyn Bridge I’ve never hailed a cab on Broadway I’ve never seen a Pollock at the Metropolitan I’ve never read Patti Smith at The Strand I’ve never had tea at the Plaza I’ve never seen Vampire Weekend at The Bowery I’ve never been invited to an opening in Bushwick I’ve never been trapped on The L I’ve never danced to techno at Mood Ring I’ve never seen Chloe Sevigny smoke a cigarette on fifth avenue I’ve never felt part of my soul die in Times Square I’ve never stood in Central Park and thought about the 90s I was never cool enough for New York I guess you just had to be there
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Morning Fog 02:16
The light Begin to bleed, Begin to breathe, Begin to speak D'you know what? I love you better now I am falling Like a stone, Like a storm, Being born again Into the sweet morning fog
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The fan whirling like the blades of a copter Lifting into the skies above a foreign land Fire and iron soaked with the bodies of so many friends He was on his way home He waved good-bye to his comrades in arms And all the twisted things he had seen He waved good-bye And the blades hit something Maybe just fate but the blades hit The copter went up in flames He never went marching home They took his name and they carved it on a slab of marble With several thousand other names All the fallen idols The apples of their mother’s eye Just another name Meanwhile back on that burning shore His comrades stood speechless They looked up with misbelieving eyes There were bits of metal - and the embers The embers of his eyes fanned out in the air Black dust flames Someday they will make a movie about him And in the making - some mad apocalypse It will become even stranger than the simple act Of a boy - just going up

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released March 5, 2021

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