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Praise Infinite Light

by ELEANOR

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1.
People say oh they do, that you are born that you are new, born under a sky freshly bruised, with a crack and a boom, you've gone green black and blue. His eyes pulled wide telling me how ya grew, how ya use left and right already teething your spoon, but you're gone in a flash across a bright violent sky. I'd have held you then if I thought it would keep you in line. Now I just watch when you return, to scatter my weather and let the sky burn. Pray for me oh pray for me, the cash I keep it's a quick release, pray for me oh pray for me the cash I keep I keep I keep Well people say oh what can you do? Let the sun dry him out if he's come home to you, but if he's laid up in bed in darkness consumed, bring a light to his bedside and speak your truth. It's alright it's okay, why do you walk so proud at the end of a long long day? Oh in your chest that hole bursting like spider eggs. Drop down in the dark, make a home at my door, but you're looking at my face like you've never seen it before Why do you look at me that way momma? I am the one, I am the one that you remember running under so many summer suns, oh out on the street some days momma, oh out on the street where the poor men meet, and the hot concrete would rip apart your feet Hope and forgiveness, hope and forgiveness, pins and needles, pins and needles
2.
You let all your considered thoughts Hold and temper your heart Before you'd even let me start There's a poison in your mouth Afraid to kill me if you have to shout So you shake it off and remove all doubt Oh but I step where I may And I open my hands to receive the day But I hang my head in a longing gaze Reading the stories flashing across your face So in the places where you hid Lost underneath your lulling eyelids Everything in there I couldn't keep You carry it with you as you fall asleep But don't you, don't you hem me in I am a cable cut, place your palm on the counter top And let yourself gather together again.
3.
Clock Tower 01:36
A clock tower about a hundred feet high Fell down on me, and wiped the songs from my memory And oh I'm desperate for them now, Yeah I'm pawing at the ground All those memories and those sounds Its face first and then I drown I bubble up an I fill each lung They distend from the weight That Id never dare replace Do I need them anymore? No I don't believe I do So if you hear that chiming too Yeah the clock towers already on top of you
4.
She's gone, gone for the nurses Tearing down hallways, barely making the turns Shout aloud in need of assistance EMTs are heard in the distance Ruby red passenger seat But it's he smell that really panics me Oh i left her off At the bus stop this morning And I am going to die now Boomerang called back again It's a bad feeling she gets Peer thru the keyhole Press her ear to the door Sweetie please get back in your seat You're tearing apart your family Go out in the other room And find yourself something to do Your cousins want to play with you All vapor this is all an indication It's only fleeting, only fleeting Upon arriving, already leaving Oh I went out for a drive After I left her at school Fish tailed into the divide The last thing keeping me alive
5.
Peace made and done Put upon to me Offered up each new year Hold me under the arms Throw me in the air Each formerly remembered story From those old blessed days Reaching out for the twine Bt I know it's not mine Floating mothers day balloon I like the feeling To think he's growing up right Though it shames me to think of where I was all that time But just as well For I probably would have Left him little more than plastic to push around So each old awning I run under To escape the rain Each hanging glance Denies any disgrace I paralyzed and left to time Peace made and done, put upon to me
6.
You can hear it in the way her voice cracks Reflections dissolving across a parking Cadillac That her father had been driving since he punched out last Wheels stop revolving a voice so disarming wonders why she ever got so mad Here I am again Here I am again Sleeping on my hands It's not my fault No it's not on me! Up and I'm waking to see you there waiting Startled you made me, my calf you were shaking Said shake shake a leg, lift up your head We made it like I said and you're not even dead Yet! I replied square in his eye I dreamt i could fly without having to try And what what did you see, did you feel your memories? The setting and the scene, yeah your present history reigns I will tell you then When I'm sleeping on my hands It's not my fault No it's not on me!
7.
The life around my eyes Pulls so heavily Ran circles for years At hiccup up up pace Our sneakers sweating secrets to read Police suits pressed so neat If they'd only spare their patience Then they might be able to see Magnets pulling metal shavings All across my face Brothers and sisters Lording over their stoop Charades and games All they want to do In the place they were raised It's apart of them the very same And suddenly it's there The past they share The static shooting through their hair Get a few hours in Before that pounding down the steps
8.
Coil 03:21
I swear it isn't you There's not a thing I'd ever ask of you So please make your way With all you need I can feel my courage crash And watch as it recedes. I don't feel like myself But I'm perfectly calm But I'm perfectly calm Baby when you kiss me I burn just like a coil In the bulb beside your bed The filament inside my head In your glow now I could see That it's worth all the energy Blessed be and all it brings Reveals the color of all things When my chest rises and falls I keep my fingers laced Well i know it now I'm not given my time To lay around and wait No matter how much I use to think That things would be that way I don't feel like myself But I'm perfectly calm But I'm perfectly calm So I set myself to whistling And i find the warmth of June Walking trails and breezy leaf I am my own best company Buckled knees and polished boots And I know just what I'm supposed to do Double time to two by two Forget I fell apart over you I don't feel like myself But I'm perfectly calm
9.
Even in my dream, found and free, grandmotherly Terrible sunshine made you stand for a photograph Against the widest wall, demure eyes, roped around mine Try another pose, lower your hands, find yourself close But even in my dream, I just can't believe There's nothing left for me, But to burn a peace of mind Charred newspaper pages Sailing down from the sky Underneath that old lamplight At a parish carnival one night Well I sang a song and found my voice Sing those hymns to the sky Praise infinite light Fast faces flush and bright I'm all embers glowing inside So fold your hands into mine Rolled us out and spread us flat Held four corners, pressing thumbtacks Up against the widest wall To follow along with the lines Praise infinite light Fast faces flush and bright The colors streaking inside Can't wash them out of my life So fold your hands into mine So fold your hands into mine I'm all embers inside, Praise infinite light!
10.
I Shutter 04:47
There the sunlight stands but then it kneels It caught you shot right through the dirty glass Crooks it's neck and pours right in over the window sill It fell and left you beaming I can see you now I am wondering how I am wondering how How the shake and the shutter Could shatter yet another I am wondering now I am wondering now If I'll trip before I stutter If I'll hit the ground Your family had a small dark garage no room for the car We'd hide from the light and pass around smokes and laugh at your jokes Can I come over tomorrow? No you're not allowed We can't go back since they all found out sorry I can't talk right now I am wondering how I am wondering how How the shake and the shutter Could shatter yet another I am wondering now I am wondering now If I'll trip before I stutter If I'll ever hit the ground I Shutter, I close I throw the sheet metal down and lock the store away I Shutter, I fold I surrender, I'll go Yeah well a smattering of laughs Ran all across my back And down the length of my arm I'm shaking and shuffling cards
11.
Following without oh wont you listen to me now Prattle falling from my mouth Belies a hard affection that never makes a sound When it falls apart at the seams The words dissolve that don't mean anything So why are these nettles racing all over me Just to hear you speak is extraordinary Silence is breaking So say what you mean Silence is breaking You can hear everything When you come home scared Cause you're sure you're not alone Conversation more than you can bare Kick off your shoes and run up the Stairs Sing the names of those Sing your part and push the note Sing by the cheek and the open ear Sing to sleep this passing year. Silence is breaking So say what you mean Silence is breaking You can hear everything But if you occupy your hands And stare at the ground Arresting pressing adjectives Adverbs and nouns The life will leave my hands And my fingers will curl And I'll leave this place And I'll return to the word.

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released July 6, 2012

Brendan Morris- Guitars, Vocals
Peter Cernauskas- Drums, Percussion

Mastered, Mixed, and Engineered by Phil Moffa at Butcha Sound Studios www.butchasound.com

Produced by Brendan Morris and Peter Cernauskas
Lyrics by Brendan Morris

Artwork by Patrick Winfield www.patrickwinfield.com

Photo by Crystal Lopez www.crystallopez.com

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Eleanor New York, New York

Brendan Morris
Peter Cernauskas
Kathleen Rivera
Oliver Ignatius
Jay Braun
Phil Moffa
Eric Ong
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