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by Slonk Donkerson

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1.
WATCHING EVERY CHANNEL AT ONCE A guy gets kind of tired of making up his mind 'bout what he'll have to tape and what he watches live The volume's up on every box there're soundtracks and opinions These noises I can take or leave in following my vision Every girl that moved out left a TV at my place I couldn't DVR it all there wasn't any space Local, satellite, and cable getting in the zone Move your eyes until you're satisfied You don't need a remote I'm through with surfing round (Watching every channel at once) brain waves just chillin' out (Watching every channel at once) tv breakfast lunch and dinner (Watching every channel at once)
2.
THE SHAPE OF FAITH "Less disturbing then, than from asunder tears the flower." spoke Gabriel, smiles Mary, guiding hair along her ear, the way she'll hold his hand. Less fearful, then, than pages aging blank, enumerated, in rooms Rossetti white. I was born with a different cause, I lost myself, I took up yours. You are the shape of faith. It's gonna have to change Mary The burden's in the name Mary It's gonna have to be
3.
BRICKS AND ROSES leering from the sky into a dirty pond caught between the view babes of Avalon reeling from the plain find the words and spew falls like ugly rain douse the world anew bricks and roses one immortal joke the broken record skips the famous one bricks and roses one immortal from the cold-ass fortress of the setting sun leering from the sky into a dirty pond caught between the view babes of avalon in exile chelsea i like never learned to understand the point of no return bricks and roses one immortal joke the broken record like a setting sun
4.
NOBODY KNOWS THIS IS SOMEWHERE don’t tell me you can’t be here don’t tell me I’m too complacent these distances they speak with promise they can’t keep don’t tell me you can’t be here still they leave like they don’t care like nobody knows this is somewhere just the first in a lifetime of leaving behind say, "it’s time that you got moving. statue stone with moss grown over." subtleties are seen without a change of scene but they say, "don’t the world just make you wonder?" then they leave like they don’t care like nobody knows this is somewhere just the first in a lifetime of leaving behind yeah I know this changes us yeah I know its dangerous but you stay and you get scared that though you were okay you went nowhere just the first in a lifetime of changing your mind
5.
OLD MILL RIVER I am just another white man I have never seen a funeral Pistol in hand, I wander the yard I am an elderly woman I am living with dementia I go to the park to rip up the grass Old Mill River Covers the clover A second is over On an autumn day I am the metal eraser Some old picture of winter Look at that kid- Have you seen him before? I am each and every morning The real home video What I see in my sleep I see in memory more
6.
The Edifice 04:42
THE EDIFICE There is not a path only the bearded, balding father pointing Through the litter of the past and bracken of the future, pointing The romance of the distance, oh! The trumpet that we’re sure we may have heard We walk ‘cause others walked before us and we’ve Got to take their word High valleys, crushing plains We’ve learned to love the way of life, the quest That we’ve been given Trudging on by day The memory remains of faces under-lit by fire Old familiar glow of paint and poem As powerful as words the faces spoke: “Reach for the Edifice Our fathers built it with their hands This is a pilgrimage This is the song that never ends”
7.
Radical Dude 03:04
RADICAL DUDE all that he wants is a radical life, to live up to past great minds and a forward thinking creed it’s not enough to be the boy that everyone loves he’s lost in the gray that he never used to see stealing the heat of the music made in the foundry laced with the verse at the meadowed edge of the sea, here are words that I’m sure that I've misspoken but now ain't a time that it matters that much to me and you might feel like now there's nothing left for you but I've heard that one before what's new? and what we never feel we see in skin that all the breaking up's just breaking in but I could do much worse than being my dad and If I'm blessed with this I'll face it that these are the years we'll be desperate to hold onto. haven't we learned that from every book we read? and you might feel like now there's nothing left for you but I've heard that one before what's new?
8.
Loraine 02:03
Geriatrics ask Loraine if she’s a work of art through her movements they relate to years that drift a part Loraine in agony told me I had to leave to leave Harry X at 83 still worked up the nerve to ask her to a matinee when he overheard that she perverted kids like me finally unchained we’re lions lying patiently waiting to be tamed Loraine in agony told me I had to leave to leave
9.
strawberry blonde bastard there is a love I never thought real audible, audible there is a call I never could hear premonition a fiery son from the union of men where the rivers run not a visceral fool who desires the food of the ear premonition pleading with folklore I woke like I’m programmed to wake premonition
10.
Idiot 03:25
Cold talk radio playing underwater when you jumped in with your glasses off rabid dog dreams that can't be shaken looking more real than a mirror can Ukrainian speaking computer hacker shocking his kids with a power cord that fucker on the news feeling just like Jesus pinned up to see as the dial turns Disillusioned friend of mine the ocean's edge concerned with itself speaking tongues on the phone line rain falling into water Like an idiot rain falling into water Aperture open but out of focus the color you see when your eyes are shut like a blood-red river under desert sand dramamine talker go and blame it on the weather Disillusioned friend of mine the ocean's edge concerned with itself speaking tongues on the phone line rain falling into water Like an idiot rain falling into water

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Musical highlights from the first three years of Slonk Donkerson, released on cassette by Last Place Tapes.

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released November 22, 2013

Dylan Vandenhoeck - Bass, Voice
Parker Silzer - Guitars
Zack O'Brien - The Drums

All songs written by Parker Silzer except, "Old Mill River" and "Idiot", written by Dylan Vandenhoeck, and "Bricks and Roses" written by Slonk Donkerson

All songs arranged by Slonk Donkerson

- tracks 1-3 originally appeared on the
"Watching Every Channel at Once" EP in 2013
- tracks 4-7 originally appeared on "Slonk Donkerson II" in 2011
- tracks 8-10 originally appeared "Slonk Donkerson" in 2010

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