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Water Wishes (381)
04:14
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WATER WISHES (381) (Lyrics/vocals: M. Mikowicz) Okay. Water wishes and pipe dream dreams your water wishes and pipe dream dreams taking loyal best friends, best trends for safety. Inverted microscopes. I'm leaving laughing because we shook hands with clear heads. We shook smiles and eye glances. You're screaming yourself asleep these nights. I'm waking myself up to see the sun rise. And I’m keeping the answers locked up tight. And two accidents don't make it right. And I don't know if you'll see the sun rise. (2007 Gaithersburg)
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PREDATOR vs. ALIENS (512) A predator among aliens. It’s better we don’t know what we’re doing. It’s safer that we don’t care who we’re screwing. Every night, every hot, hot night we’re stealing all your little secrets for a little coin. Every day, every grueling day we’re pretending to be friends for a little noise (on tape). It’s better that we don’t know who we’re hunting. It’s safer that we don’t care. It’s easy because we don’t mind. It’ll pass, so don’t think who we’re leaving and losing and screwing and bruising because on every night, on every, every hot, hot night we’re stealing all your little secrets for a little cash. Every day, every grueling day we’re pretending to be friends for a little while, because on every night, on every hot, hot night we’re mining all your little lies for a perfect line. Every second, every grueling second we’re thinking and tinkering and trying and mining for whys. Every night, every hot, hot night we are stealing. Every day, every sunlit/rainy day we’re pretending to be. Every minute, every stretched out minute we’re scheming. Every second, every passing/passed out second we’re praying/paying for reprieve/relief. This is what you wanted. (2009 Gaithersburg)
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Tiny Victories (484)
03:14
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TINY VICTORIES (484) (Lyrics/vocals: L. Carscadden; backup vocals: C. Nakassis) There’s a vicious thrill in ignoring signs and signals. As we press forward we clip our steps. Everybody wants to be the man on the inside, but no one wants to be the last man in. Hey, everyone’s got somewhere else to be, their own trajectory, and I don’t mind. Hey, we live for tiny victories like these because they happen all the time. We live for tiny victories like these. We’re held back but we’re reaching forward. Our little arms race in these few short feet, every other day we move a little closer. Even if they noticed what could they say? (2009 Chennai, Gaithersburg)
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Magic Bullet (104/143)
03:30
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MAGIC BULLET (104/143) Pay me. Pray with me. Wait for me. Stay with me. Think for me. Think through me. Drink my blood dry. Receive like bullets messages in your veins like ‘Buy! Buy! Buy!’ Chant like children magic in your mind like not my time, all the time. Could you buy my time/mind, could the image/word come from the top of the world, drop down to the slum's soles like not my time/‘Bye Bye Bye!’ My fist opened up five dollars fluttering in the wind, flying in the register’s grip, like all the time. To be our thought, our laws/lives, our wants, our needs, my eyes, the needle frees our hearts, our minds, our burden to be. (2006 Philadelphia)
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GOT THAT CASH GOT US (511) Tear it up. Rip it down. Make it turn. Want it more than. Take it with you away. Use it up to the end. No more causation, no more final causes: to cover our creeping depression, to explain our messy lives, to let us keep on keep on moving, to keep us from right compromise. (2009 Gaithersburg, Philadelphia)
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There Here (514)
02:56
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THERE HERE (514) I’m imagining you here, Aunt Rose, back in the third world. I’m imagining you here, Aunt Rose, back when we weren’t so old. They say your neck exploded when you tried to breathe, when you breathed. You were there for us, but I don’t think we can say the same. You were there for us, but I don’t think it stayed the same. Dead body dance, a parade of you, garlands of roses, left in/at your wake. (2009 Philadelphia)
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Black in Summer (307)
03:59
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BLACK IN SUMMER (307) (Lyrics/vocals: L. Carscadden; backup vocals: C. Nakassis) For just a crucial second the city lets down its defense; and now we’re breathing in the sense of power chords and quarter notes; and when it’s time to go, we won’t know it’s time to go; and when we’re left in the dark, we won’t know it’s time. Who will you be with when the lights go out? We’ll send these good vibrations into the cold Atlantic sea to watch them wash back up into the heart of the Chesapeake. We’re wearing black in summer. We’re praying oh-so-hard for rain. We’re yelling out requests because we forgot what it is to die. Less is more, but more is better. Better will never be enough. (2006, 2009 Gaithersburg)
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Images on Tape (274)
03:52
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IMAGES ON TAPE (274) (Lyrics/vocals: M. Mikowicz; lyrics/backup vocals: C. Nakassis) So tired of waiting, seeing. Step away from the sunlight, dreaming. I just want to press play, to have my favorite memories. I just want light-speed connection. I'm seeing everything. Everyone is so connected with images on tape. Spent our whole lives dilated a shared memory. Everyone is disconnected, images contained. Spent our evenings embracing all our lives, all our lives on tape. But when I think back to when everything was in pieces, blurry, like a heart-broken drunken night. Feelings were pushed down by skylines and shipwrecks. Those constellations, they make me who I am. Every night now we are watching what we shot today. And I wonder how soon you'll hear my requiem. (2006 Philadelphia; 2009 Gaithersburg)
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Push Pull (279)
03:49
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PUSH PULL (279) Instruct me on how to be one self, one true self all alone/but whole. We didn’t come on boats but in them without our names. Fit me back together. I'm broken and in a thousand pieces. Strange words and fake accents spread over as many/entire situations. Piece me back together. I'm fit and in as many corners. Wake up! Start again! Take back! (2006 Philadelphia; 2009 Gaithersburg)
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COPIES WITHOUT ORIGINALS (259) We don’t want anymore than you don’t want anymore than we don’t want anymore than you don’t want anymore than us. (2005 Madurai; 2009 Philadelphia)
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DAYS & NIGHTS & WEEKS & MONTHS (220) (Vocals: Shakthisree Gopalan; lyrics: Shakthisree Gopalan, C. Nakassis) Days and nights and weeks turned months, slipped right by us. Words and glances worked their way in between us. Words and glances worked their way and days and nights and weeks turned months that slipped right by us. Dreamy eyes and dancing lights; whispers in the night I hear by my side; shifting lines and shady lies, plotted schemes in between. You know I've tried to clean it up. You know I've tried to clean myself up, to patch it up, you know I tried. Days and nights, words and glances that just slipped through right by us. And I know you're right here. (2005 Madurai; 2009 Chennai, Gaithersburg)
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In, Out, About (518)
02:25
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IN, OUT, ABOUT (518) In, out, about. (2009 Philadelphia)
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A Study in Her Chicago, Illinois
ASiH is Constantine Nakassis, with Philip Apostol, Andrew Black, Tamara Black, Lucas Carscadden, Julie Cousin, Shakthisree Gopalan, Michael Guggino, Alex Hedstrom, Judith Kaplan, Fluke Lemming, Magda Nakassis, Kyung Nan-Koh, Mike Mikowicz, Jonathon Moser, Justin Moyer, Elsie Muñiz, Kedarnath Sairam, Pavan Segal ... more
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