The Truth About Fire

from Teen Lust by Distant Trains

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A new/old song, years in the writing but recorded for the first time in my bedroom June 2011. A meditation on creativity and the loss of great past collaborators to the general, expectable flux of life, and an apology for past bitterness over same.

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Cartography conspiracy
If legends fail to expire
Because everything is interesting
Here's the truth about fire
Four hundred children and a copy machine
Could probably get it done
And put the lightning in the trumpets
Yet I grind my teeth in the sun

So long ago is now far away
Wish we were friends
Sincerely I apologize
For the passive resistance
Call it kabuki karaoke
And throw your seat at the stage
It's kinda spooky to be so brokey
Gives the minimum rage, that's all.

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from Teen Lust, released March 26, 2012

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