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Post War Portraits And Sketches (COVID Park Demos 2020)

by Matthew H Welch

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Hans 05:31
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Hans Hans I've returned to sort things out Hans There's something you should know Hans I lost the baby In the plaza You and Franz Are the only ones i know here frankly Hans If I'm honest Hans Are you hearing me Hans I don't think you're hearing me Hans Let's be honest with ourselves Hans Can you give me a for instance please Hans I'll be back in a few hours Hans Think it over while I'm gone There's money on my dresser Think it over while I'm gone Hans Hans Am I going crazy? Is this marijuana? Your magic wand is very pretty and entertaining But I promised your mother I know you're my employer It would only be this one time Hans What should I tell them? Hans Can I count on you? Is that what I'm hearing? Hans We shouldn't lie to ourselves any longer Hans I want you to listen when I'm talking Hans There's a reason I go so slow Hans I'm trying to get you to comprehend Hans How can I get it through your thick skull? Hans Look what you've done Hans On horseback near the seaside Hans What do you think an appropriate punishment would be? Hans Think it over while I'm gone Hans I'll be back in the morning Hans Try to get some rest
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Twins 04:42
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Twins Asymmetrical smiles Incongruent remarks The words to an old song Lost keys to locked hears Put that away for a moment Wait and see what happens Remind you of someone else Over the falls into the rapids Swallow that system Inform your left hand Photon bouncers Blackhole quicksand Seeing double Reading Braille Troubling translation Losing the trail You win Except when You play yourself Or your twin Vigilant ears Hang off the side of a helicopter head Frankly my dear At least a quadrant is already dead Still you're climbing my spine Like a nervous reverse Faye Wray I'm a spider monkey Being eaten by a snake This big rotten apple Is counting my teeth I've been eating worms for so long Birds smoke what I breathe They get my attention And I take it back Keep your good and evil Keep your red and black I win Except when I play myself Or my twin Purple jumpsuit to the present Gift of magic ghosts of Christmases Past and future Dickenses As in rain like numerous incidentses Conveniently lacking witnesses
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Joni Kash Flags 03:44
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Joni Kash Flags
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Shirley 05:22
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Shirley Gaping chasm Roaring Twenties The pretty blonde you were remembers me I spent the whole damned time locked in the library You let me out onto the sidewalk in the morning On the bright side facing the cemetery I stood there in the sunlight Trying to remember What it was I'd buried Shellshocked shoemaker Looking for a fix My ancestors were collectors But I can barely make a fist I dreamt I was Solzhenitsyn I didn't often sleep in beds I got locked in the library And I couldn't separate the threads But they got one of those record players And a box of floppy disks If only old electricity could just learn Some new tricks Somewhere on sixteen millimeter Sixteen means so many things Sixteen hours of any of them Make you take off your rings A replica of this mausoleum in my ribcage With the owl and the jockey and the rabbit I woke up drenched in the snack machine Ecstatic I didn't have a habit I'm basically untouchable is what they're telling me And anyway I'm quitting the band the Aviary Living off the jolly ranchers And the VHS completely The foreseeable forthwith Following my itinerary Pardon our progressives It's just temporary Finesse is in the wrist again Every February Dark humor and pathos Of which centennial American ethos Or whoever's eighties exercises Eccentrics say to weirdos Portrait of normalcy A replica of this mausoleum in every strip mall ribbon cutting Overplay your hand In every local primary I'm locked in the library With the history of everything And I'm not lonely but you can join me I wasn't wired to explode I've become a faithful seamstress I wasn't born this fragrant rhapsode Prismatic rhapsode Troubadour An equation disguised in a broken melody Not sure how i got myself Locked in the library I remain grateful The library ain't locked in me Define free Something old Something new Something borrowed God I'm turning blue Define parameters You may not remember me I thought that I'd forgotten you You probably don't remember me I've most certainly forgotten you
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Umbrella Factory 06:07
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Umbrella Factory There is a subatomic sewing machine Pricking at my subconscious again Just like it did when I was in my nineties I rehearsed that joke in a mirror once In the future we will have more fun We won't have to look for silver linings I know that you're not speaking to me But here's $500 please Remember everything is in the timing Undressing in olive silence gray I just couldn't look away From what you weren't even hiding I could be anyone You don't know me from Adam You say it turns me on and You couldn't begin to fathom In the Umbrella Factory we craft a living world of wonders Rendered in tatters mattering Every stitch unraveling in tragedy neither groundbreaking nor earth shattering Proletarian comedy of blunders pitter pattering Lucien Freud and Harold Lloyd Robin Williams as a boy Lee Strasberg pantomiming See I still see you Now do you see me When can we expect you to release the contents of your findings? We get so pissed so blissfully Trashing whatever's happening In favor of that for which we are pining And the sirens that hoover snow banks for your pimps Wind up smoking drywall over identity politics Empty your pockets and lick the linings It really could be anything Do I detect a pattern lanterning? You say you like the way I say your name It's the opera of the unanswered ring In the Umbrella Factory we craft a living world of wonders Rendered in tatters mattering Every stitch unraveling in tragedy neither groundbreaking nor earth shattering Proletarian comedy of blunders pitter pattering I glisten when I polaroid Like a stained glass lieutenant lactating I'm straight up lying I am obscure and cryptic on purpose Yes to hurt you What time is not mine of dying? Manufacturer of mattresses Envoy to enchantresses Ease my transition into afterlifing Tell the suits Ima be late Need to Lenny Bruce damn straight If you call that unwinding I could be anyone You don't know me from Adam You say it turns me on and You couldn't begin to fathom In the Umbrella Factory we craft a living world of wonders Rendered in tatters mattering Every stitch unraveling in tragedy neither groundbreaking nor earth shattering Proletarian comedy of blunders pitter pattering Seriously Happily Don't worry Someone out her loves you Magically
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Pop's Story 04:43
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Pop's Story Every morning 5AM: The smell of the story drifting in Birdsong bells and women's voices I guess I don't have many choices Red disk horizon Signature move Childhood pockets Missing clues Fingers can't quite reach Skipping up penrose steps Spinning standing still You'll never guess what's coming next Pop's story Combine captures sunrise Assassin Jesse Kennedy screams You and your pipe dreams You and your pipe dreams Go down and light Go down and light Go down and light The furnace inside me For fuck's sake I'm Pop's story Tapping out a heartbeat A vein This rotating mobile home Family geometry DNA Sew me together The slightest move splits the seams The atom the skull the electorate The experts annotating my dreams With a description of a phenomenon That isn't really what's happening An abstraction of a depiction Of someone I thought I should be I chew on Pop's story twenty four seven Got my sights set on an eternity In this throbbing heave Pop's Story In this heaving heathen heaven Speedball by ya Fools and kings Engine sings diamond rings Pop's story Many things Many things In this revving rewarding heaven I can't believe my eyes
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The Gaffer 04:15
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The Gaffer Film crew in the Amazon Film crew in the Philippines Film crews in Laos and Thailand too Film crews in the jungle Every day and every night dude Seems that's just what I do I worked for Coppola and Herzog Lucas and Spielberg I shot the Deer Hunter and the Killing Fields Year of Living Dangerously, First Blood, and Greystoke Art films with little commercial appeal The mad lad hatter Like Dennis Hopper In Monte Carlo The gaffer's gaffer I'm quite a talker I make the juice flow I make the juice flow We do it all for you Mr and Miss Theatergoer I gotta tell you I've seen it all From the other side of the cameras and the microphones I am the gaffer I'm the fourth wall When the shooting's over and they call it a wrap We wind down and try to get loose You can come up to the party and ask any actor They'll say he's the gaffer He turns on the juice I don't make a ton of money But there's plenty of honey And I've always been a king bee I try to maintain perspective Cos I ain't the director But I got the electricity I make the juice flow When the credits roll, remember I make the juice flow From the Orinoco flow to the Gulf of Mexico I make the juice flow I make the juice flow
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Sammy's Data 04:21
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Sammy's Data The Basquiat I bought cost a lot That and the yacht were only part of what we got For Sammy's Data She was hot to trot But I was not So we fought Rehashed the whole episode Over Sammy's data Her name's Murphy She calls me Watt Our expertise is often sought By other insiders who knew We got the drop On Sammy's Data We can go wherever you want Let me drive for a little while We just delivered Sammy's data We can afford to get lost in style We can go wherever you want Let me drive for a while We just delivered Sammy's data We can afford to get lost in style We can go wherever you want Let me drive for a little while We just delivered Sammy's data We can afford to get lost in style We can go wherever you want Let me drive for a while We just delivered Sammy's data We can afford to get lost in style
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St. Kurt 05:34
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St. Kurt 2 14 2020 I can barely stand to see my kids outside the starbucks in the freezing cold i'm always hungry I'm pulling up the kid who was too cool to cry when you died Still breaks down every few years Goes home to do laundry Saint Kurt Cobain How did you escape? Might there not yet be a better way for kids who cut their teeth vaping Amber waves of grain Listening to Kurt Cobain Do your best version of South Central Rain With silver pantyhose over your unshaven face Soul to keep or soul to take Please don't make the same mistake I made Saint Kurt You're an absolute angel I hope I die in your arms So you can feed me to the sharks My look what we've generated Inside our box shaped hearts Saint Kurt Cobain Please don't be waiting for me
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Philip 04:26
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Philip I need to work and I need to see you My children don't love me and all my fear Can anybody tell me Who are all these people? I don't see what it matters I can be funny Who I love Who I love Who I love and all the meanings Broadway or London Black tar or scramble China white Bonita and quinine Even if It's just Shakespeare in the park Bike messenger Massage parlor My agent My agency Are you going to come see me? I have to hang up now Even if We're just dancing in the dark Even if It's just Shakespeare in the park
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Train Lens 03:59
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Train Lens Light bends in the train lens it's alright You and I could glow together all night I wanna give you all the glory Don't you wanna hear my story? There's Chance In the Nike trainers Neon pink Laces right Waiting on the light rail platform Clocking the clicker Carries it light Roll a blunt and tip that hat To the rent a cop brother Puff three times and pass Dumb ass ain't no undercover Ain't got no spray cans I'm strictly pens and magic markers Still dontcha sweat the techniques man Stick to stickers and watercolors I was jumping trains in Memphis When I was in my tens Call it the Southern Pacific Academy Where I learned to train my train lens We gonna ride up to the aqueduct Break something off for the skaters Climb up on them big rocks Act like we're actors and laugh at all the waiters We're up here in a big sky As big as anybody's big time Let me spend some in your light We could glow together shine bright All night We could glow together shine bright all night We could glow together shine bright all night alright Ima hang your name in the sky Write it better than I write mine Glow in the dark and dance in the fire Girl you're so fine Strange butterfly We could glow together shine bright We could glow together all night Light bends in the train lens its alright Wanna give you all the glory all night
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Anomalies 06:27
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Recorded in Roland Park during global pandemic 2020

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released May 6, 2020

Matthew H Welch

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Matthew H. Welch Baltimore, Maryland

Songmaker, Singer, Guitar Player, Producer for SIGINT. Formerly of the Aviary and Pedge. Poetic Rock and Roll From A Future.

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