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VILLULIA

by VILLULIA

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The chain link was a tattered and weak metal flag hanging limp in the fog and forgotten. We slipped through like ghosts and we hid in the throat of the border between this world and that one. We fall in. I catch a look in your eye I’m pulled out again, I’m here calling a name I don’t know how to say but in the sound of the train I heard every breath I was trying to take and every noise that the world ever made I heard all my friends laughing I heard them falling apart I heard the factories scream and the beating of my heart every voice lost in the steel monster’s roar whispers in your ear through the maelstrom (Nathan) In madness you walk through the air above time and the shape of it stretches it before you beware, beware if you’re travelling there hold fast to your friends who might moor you or go into the blue if they’re sailing with you and sing songs to be heard through the darkness (noel’le) The compass points inwards its needle sews your eyes awake Take one more step in this rusty world you’ll find yourself thin and invisible each tired body is a place made of mountains and laughter’s landscapes. all are blindly moving towards where we will cease to sing our solitary verse. there is something we all are struggling to say it’s in the ripples of the stone you skipped across the bay where is that stone now? When I don’t know what to say when I don’t know what to make or the pitch perfect chords you want me to play I will turn my ears to the trains.
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In the curling smoke of fireworks We watched the moon beyond the bay It slipped out of a hole in the sky It skipped across the night in your eyes As hundreds more looked on in awe We did not know what it was they saw And I watched you arc and I watched you turn I watched you flood and I watched you burn Do we name this place do we call it ours Where fireworks block out the stars In smoke we saw monsters in water the moon With all these people gathered here all searching for an idol Think of all that we could do if we lost our bits and bridles We could summon every memory that we all had forgotten Celebrate it being now learn lessons and relearn them We can sew the biggest circus tent and have ourselves a circus Where we all act like animals and the elephants can ride us Play city-wide capture the flag until we’re all exhausted Build a human ladder to the moon GET THAT FUCKING FLAG BACK OFF IT When you all sang those words Did they catch in your throat When you tried to breathe Did you only breathe smoke Do you love this place Do you call it yours What is yours
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There’s a real big ladder in a real small boat in the ocean If you trust the tide to bring you there let it bring you And climb if you are hurting And dive if you’re ready for the wind Do you trust the tide to return you to the land It will caress you small til you’re a smooth little dot of sand Were you caught in between the softest place And the murky drippy water of a cold dark cave There is a southbound freight with your tag inside Did you wonder if those pieces needed a place to hide But your smile’s like the cracks in an old barn door And your friendship’s a roof let the water pour How do you name the ocean when you cannot name the blue How do you recognize the tide when the moon’s rising inside of you And back to back we measured our heights And An oak tree grows inside of us and we’re climbing it tonight None of us chose to be here, all of us chose to be right here. I watch the lights moving slowly And saw the rest of my life A hollow machine And turn back

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released October 30, 2012

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VILLULIA Providence, Rhode Island

Nathan and Noel'le live together in Providence and are more or less married. They're not playing shows/writing new music right now because of scheduling conflicts, but hope to again someday.

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