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Winter Winds (Improv No. 19)

by Mad Gleams

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1.
Winter Winds 04:21
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winter winds are blowing at my door I don't think I like them anymore winter winds are blowing on my face I don't know how to escape winter winds are comin' down time's spinning the wheel around winter winds are blowin' at my door mmm mmm the times are changing every day I can't remember it ever bein' this way the times are changing as we speak we can't get no relief times changing things around we build it up and it comes back down times are changing everyday mmm mmm mmm mmm shadows fallin' on my floor I can't see anymore shadows fallin' on my face givin' up on the race shadows fallin' down everyone's lookin' around shadows fallin' on my floor mmm mmm mmm mmm I can hear the angels singin' mmm I can hear the angels singin' mmm I can hear the angels singin' mmm I can hear the angels singin' as we fall winter winds are blowin' at the door
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Screen 04:17
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list of facts scrawled on a wall lucky if you can read at all list of facts scrawled on a scroll but the center the center will not hold screen is always on I'm here but I'm gone I'm here but I'm gone list of things said in the wind list of everything you did words scattered by the wind it don't makes sense and it never did the screen is always on I'm here but I'm gone monkeys typin' in a room but it don't look like we'll be getting Shakespeare any time soon monkeys typin' in a room writin' letters to everyone you knew the screen is always on I'm here but I'm gone (whistle) 'nother thing said in the brig no way anybody coulda heard it 'nother thing muttered under breath if you're alive how come you're really dead the screen is always on we're here but we're gone the screen is always on we're here but we're gone we're here but we're gone we're here but we're gone
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Ends 05:20
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a little white lie then someone dies nobody notices they just make their beds click in the turnstile another on the pile nobody grieves for them they just hedge their bets nothin's as it seems no witches left to interpret your dreams ends justify the means another cheap watch ticks and then they carry the sticks there's no time left now punchin' the cow nothin's as it seems no witches left to interpret your dreams ends justify the means ends justify the means ends justify the means ends justify the means the means of reproduction they don't seem to function just pull the pin right out cover your ears or you'll hear the sound nothin's as it seems no witches left to interpret your dreams ends justify the means ends justify the means ends justify the means ends justify it
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Sweet Tooth 06:21
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didn't expect anyone not with everything goin' on welcome is there anything we can do we're so glad to have you she saw the sun but she was the only one I saw her eyes cold as ice cold as ice and it's still on my mind I been thinkin' all night and if I ever get back I'd love to tell her that love to tell her that tired of sucking on my thumb I remember who I was I remember who I was and I remember you and your little sweet tooth I fell into the mirror I forgot that I was here simple turn about used to listen to twist and shout used to listen to twist and shout used to listen to twist and shout I remember who I was I remember who I was I remember who I was and I remember you I remember you and your little sweet tooth your little sweet tooth
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Takes Two 06:21
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it was never really good enough but I had to try to wake up from the lies you told me you told me oh you told me because you told yourself it was never what I wanted but it has to do because I am what I am and you are you so I stand in place and sometimes I walk and I like to look through the lines through the lines through the lines through the lines of a viewfinder I guess it was a tall order to expect you to be able to tell this from that this from this this from that or this from this this from that from this from this this from that or this from this takes two eyes takes two eyes takes two eyes takes two eyes takes two eyes it takes two I's it takes two I's it takes two I hope your glad I hope your glad I hope your glad I hope it's not so bad being here
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Middling 03:01
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Middling I watched an old movie I remember seeing but I didn't know its meaning I came in the middle in the middle it said somethin' warm to me it said somethin' warm to me say something warm to me say something warm to me I am biding my time and then I don't know why I persist haven't I been through enough of this shit
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Parannoyed 04:15
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your well informed of what they want you to know and if you think I'm talkin' out of turn well I am might sound a little paranoid but isn't that better than soundin' like a little boy I don't believe I don't believe I don't believe you know what you're sayin' I don't believe I don't believe I don't believe you know what you're sayin' paranoia paranoia paranoia it's bought and sold that's a fact don't have to be a paranoid to notice that I don't think you know don't think you know don't think you know don't think you know what you're sayin' don't think you know don't think you know don't think you know don't think you know what you're sayin' propaganda is the only thing proppin' you up propaganda is the only thing proppin' you up propaganda is the only thing proppin' you up propaganda is the only thing it's a long it's a long it's a long fall it's a long it's a long it's a long fall I don't think you know what you're sayin' I don't think you know what you're sayin' so shut the fuck up
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Now You Know 04:57
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you didn't want to know well now you know you didn't want to know well now you know you didn't want to know well now you know you didn't want to know but now now you know now you know you always look before you leap always land on your feet and when you fall you don't fall far and you end where you start you didn't want to know well now you know you didn't want to know now you know you didn't want to know and now you know now you know you were a voice in the ear got 'em to listen and he ended up here you took what you want you get what you take I won't make that mistake but here I am lookin' at you always something to say somethin' to prove I'm not buying in cashin' out I'm not gonna be here when you need someone to talk about a friend to me has a friend for life why would you think that you qualify you didn't want to know well now you know
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How To Fall 08:03
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think I've forgotten how to fall maybe cause I'm feelin' feelin' like this building's too tall and nothin' nothin' holdin' me up I used to fly I used to I used to know why I used to I don't want to talk about it why should I don't wanna talk about it why should I I used to think I was on really on the brink of the big one and I guess I was right I guess I was right so let it fall and tear this world apart watch it fall tear this world apart you must have learned something after all this time be funny to hear it exactly what your world looks like I'm not askin' haven't you wasted enough of my time sounds harsh harsh lights doesn't it mean anything tell you now how ironic it seems didn't I learn this cynical view didn't I learn this cynical view from you if we never talk again I really wish the best this is what I wish to any one of my friends I hope it all comes down blows right up in your face and when you're lying on the ground starin' out I hope that you lie lie in your own arms in your own arms doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo ooh ooh
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Catching Up 04:07
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seminal experience in my development and I'm sure you feel the same strange what's your association to my name do you have a disc of my old songs and do you sing along got somethin' you wrote but I don't know now could I have written that somehow see you on a screen I get the feeling that I wrote this wrote this scene did yah ever know me and do I know you and does it disappoint you if it's true we only see what we want to see ships in the night names in a file maybe I'll look you up but that's not my style movin' movin' movin' on plenty more where that came from a piece of the puzzle another shade of black I'd be ashamed not to notice that a face in the crowd faces of my face never discarded they never stay I hope you see it the same way
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Dive 03:53
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it works if you work it really nothing to it just give it a try dive if you don't know how you can try it now try it once just for me dive dive dive I've been singing out should've thought about all the other times I committed that crime when am I gonna learn when am I gonna learn when am I when am I when am I going to look in the only eyes that can ever that can ever really shine shine shine this is what I thought about when all y'all wondered what was on my mind love time forgiveness and all the lies that I have tried to stitch into a life it's time to get up off my ass and dive dive dive dive dive dive dive dive dive dive dive

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I would like to tell you about how I made this album:

This initial tracks were recorded on February 1st and 2nd, 2021. Overdubs were completed February 12th.

I wrote the songs as I was performing them. When I got stuck I would start over or punch in where I gave up. All overdubs were done in as few takes as possible.

I call it an "improv album."

I hope it can be of use to you.

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released February 26, 2021

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