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Livestreams in Quarantine vol. 2

by Xibling

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When you hear me come to town Knife the speed of sound Blood is gonna drown Sun is going way down When the moon is my eyes Murder on my mind Melt into the night No need for goodbye When the clouds roll in Underneath your skin Veins reign change When the clouds roll in Sun is going way down Blood is gonna drown Knife the speed of sound When you hear me come to town No need for goodbye Melt into the night Murder on my mind When the moon is my eyes Hello stranger
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Don’t dance you’re better than that television sets interfacing with rats Where revolutions die offices arise people like people objectified Whats the difference masterpiece or slave you can be as beautiful as a suit and a shave they can’t force you or your will to change me against the world or savior of the day Profit off the lonely their dead but their dead but still kneeling service to the common cents the dollars and the dealing some are selling rockstars others buy the feeling a melody is just a dream without the meaning Understanding is just life eating its own tail Use your mother for a boat and your father for sail Live out your fantasy like a nail in your coffin I know this life is hard baby but without you it will soften Believe that you are making love but remember there’s no reason Our mouths are going to fill our lives with many desperate beings To be something is to think it but that don’t mean you’ve got freedom When people understand you they will love you for the season
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devil works in mysterious ways mourning starts with morning stars illuminates the daisies pushing through the roof, she reigns narcissism exorcism marxist glimmering give something i can hold on to in a dream i fought to wear your colors in to this battle war was only us in truth wheres the truce when Don Quixote cut my throat and rode off seeking silently silently strong enough to break this ice picking pure biased weapons in the fight to meet my eyes fight to meet my eyes
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I exist I remember this So I subscribe To the membership I’m not sure You signed up for this But I did and I am so consumed so consumed me I don’t want I don’t want Nothing I don’t want I don’t want Nothing For free Get one now while it’s still on sale Get it here romantic retail Buy it you can’t fight it Cause it is all you really want And it’s copyrighted
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The goal is not perfection, but presence. If you face the wild void, with eyes ablaze in wonder, and a fluid, alive will, and you realize it’s perfect already, and there is nothing for you to do here, Then you are free to be nothing along with the everything that is nothing more. humbly I suggest experimenting with facing that blank paper, that unknown future, expansive outer (or inner) landscape and admit that it is perfect (which only means that it IS) and admit that you mean nothing Nothing that could ever possibly exist there is no holding back there is no holding back there is no holding back the creative/destructive creative/destructive force inherent to life Perfection is not something for mortals to concern themselves with We are too alive. We are too alive. We are too alive. We are too creative/destructive to bother There are so, so, so many more interesting intangibles To engage with in this earthly life. there is no holding back there is no holding back there is no holding back the creative/destructive creative/destructive force inherent to life
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I whispered in your ear Whispered secrets they can’t hear No truth or tale could be so dear You better listen don’t believe they speak in tongues to carelessly its secrets that I’m making love I found you there in a butterfly net Crawlin spider silken debt Woven round your lonesome neck Cocoon with you nothing left to get Swarming moths swayed love’s hand. Claw it’s fist around the glow emanating from the invisible friction of sparking wings, too fast to know. Nocturnal creature, nocturnal creature, why do you only drink at night if all your thirst is for the light? The Other; The Other; The Other They sighed. The Mother; The Brother; The Mirror The Bride.
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back to the unseen sea this monster recedes just to receive the embrace of debris to trust the words of burning leaves of rotten trees as salt air bleeds true tell the lies you can to the plague and flu they will take ahold of your vessel soon strictly undefined so slippery to try the metal warmed inside and this liquid form abides in the melt down times to purify true tell the lies you can to the plague and flu they will take ahold of your vessel soon though the cyclone spiral shapes do inform the landscape the clouds are not mapped as mountains and tears are not shed for counting its atmosphere so leave it here
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When the ground comes charging up at you And the sound just comes in waves When the downward glance is at the sky And you’re bound up like a slave Oh baby you’ve found sugar town And it’s so profound as you cave Oh wont you come and visit me In sugar town, in sugar town Oh wont you come and save me From sugar town, from sugar town When the walls have turned to jell-O And the hall it only grows When the falls are how you get around In withdrawing all you know Oh baby you found sugar town And it’s so profound as you cave Oh wont you come and visit me In sugar town, in sugar town Oh wont you come and save me From sugar town, from sugar town her taste is sweet and strong she said her name’s salvation but her juices never quench they only tease hydration Oh wont you come and visit me In sugar town, in sugar town Oh wont you come and save me From sugar town, from sugar town
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I learned about the birds and bees When I was only almost three Oh how it was just aimed for me Witchcraft of mister Walt Disney But this is love So how can we be true If we're not free But this is love And how can it be you If I'm not me Contort yourself till I agree Get stuck inside a memory Hold still until you start to see My less than praised delayed debris Cause this is love So how can we be true If we're not free Cause this is love And how can it be you If I'm not me They show us how to know the need And to avoid the enemy blend into the crowd and breed some static lifeless fantasy So this is love? So this is love? So this is love? So this is love?
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self-loathing. long story quickly getting awful Nature is not my thing. I am used; committed honestly like dropped encounters. I know how this is killing me right now I feel like puking time can’t help my mind Spanked with guilt exaggerate This contracted calm the fuck down now. Adventure took a walk on Your relationship material ripped when you put yourself out there just as you are i like you just as you are not A human A dog A limited shape A parent A tool You’re my great escape Words of savage experience in terms of average coincidence The only wonder to have a future in both always and never ever will be I hope that doesn’t ruin it catholic families she says she can’t be with me. ashamed of my cunt Words of savage experience in terms of average coincidence Needs actually don’t exist I just think you’re a maladjusted little shit
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fairytale gang sign archetypal integration big bad riding hood the little red wolf crow caw claws at her blood try angle you can name the cause i’ll effect another angel Silk and fur, all black on black. Red carnation dying on my lips. Leather straps and satin ribbon tied around my hips. And I am a fish swimming in blood two and throes of self//ish//love Lil raw channel hood waltzing, threw the fore rest In comes the big sad wolf and he said "Little dig, little dig, let me in, you're six feet under and I'm four stories thin. Gravediggress bury me and stitch me up all night realitease a'beckoning and I have lost the fight" But how shall I become the crone and crow the grandma song, if all I do is talk with you through shaky walls until the dawn?
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Grave dancer grave dancer are you dancing because we are gone Or did you not notice you were alone Grave dancer Grave dancer Gave no answer Grave dancerGrave dancer dance atop my stone all along the life line this etched map of mine inscribed in secret stories I’m holding hands with time six three aces taste the snake shivering knife in birthday cake trickle river damned up lake flood that honey for springtimes sake so blue so grey such thin white light the earth is damp and gripping tight sandscape quickens shifting slide turn the page and face the knight Grave dancer grave dancer are you dancing because we are gone Or did you not notice you were alone Grave dancer Grave dancer Gave no answer Grave dancerGrave dancer dance atop my stone
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Let there be a landscape of open eyes Birth is cheap and bodies piled high hoping we live to see the next sunrise We're dancing with the devil 'neath the moon our brothers and sisters will be waking soon Living green mountains form as the blood drips down The earth is dead and the lizards slither round the sleepless symbol of the rusted crown The lizard will bite the ones who don't dream The lizard will bite the ones who don't dream Let there be a landscape of open eyes Death comes cheap and bodies pile high hoping we live to see the next sunrise Living green mountains form as the blood drips down the king is dead, the lizards slither round the sleepless symbol of the rusted crown
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I've been Driftin Outside the sum of My zeros and ones Zero one Xoxo hex oh Binary is not what next oh Xoxo hex oh Genders dead just have good sex Me my self an eye for an eye The pictures say that love is blind Framed and hung like fame and lies I circled when you crossed my mind
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Curbstomping Curbstomping the fame of my name's brains out in the gutter like out in the gutter like out in the gutter like glitter and bitter butterflies. The celebrity in me cries out in rhymes with teeth kicked in teeth kick out by mimes. And crimes against the state of my face, state of my face commit to the consequence of loosing the choice between choosing and grace. From there we fall unto this wicked place between your eyes and mine. This perspective will die die in the gutter like die in the gutter like die in the gutter like glitter and bitter butterflies. Face mine truth mine place mine Choice mine
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I have to be true. I have to move, skyclad For a hundred billion nerve endings, through the desert, representing the fullness of softening into my animal body that loves and loves and loves. I can tell you about repair, realizing mine and witnessing yours. 'thout trial the moon breathing tides are dancing the atmosphere here, 'thout trial the wild bees, collectively high here, will fuck flowers again Whoever I am, no matter how certain, the world offers itself to my pollination, calls to me like wild bees, lush and stinging - over and over proliferating my place in the ecstasy of things.
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Messy blessings unto our sweet tooth Candy can dazzle our frazzled truth Soft floating seedlings ungrounded growing youth Folly of holy visions, blind fools Hold fast and foment those knotted rhymes but nothing will reveal. our intimate ties Unless you release these ropes and lies No prior context, but we exist Happily naive to troubles and tropes The sham is shit, we’re so conditioned Actors, lacking the script and scope Putting in time spent all too aural Our forms wiggle dissolve in figments Scarcely held above such shimmering sugarcane wings spread so thin In flightless revelry our intertwining touches of baked confusion sweets Risen, like timing ripe for the reapers feast Midwife dance with the hanged man sidling Forty children feigning laughter For the king who’s laughing now Riddles twisted humors in to fates Those old daemons insatiably orate Inscrutable confections oozing space dust and marmalade onto our swollen tongues, tied.
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I learned I don't have bones just a maze under goes this skin and muscle and veins and elastic fascial planes I peer amidst a maze Am I a pharaoh Sarcophagus less wandering like marrow Junction, bottleneck, vortex, shortest-path entrance, Back track, dead end, cul-de-sac When turning corners strange in tumble and twist parades My mumbling bliss that clings to my lips echos through this maze Junction, bottleneck, vortex, shortest-path entrance, Back track, dead end, cul-de-sac
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when he saw ghost of electricity howling in the bones of my face I said you must have been raised on the same godwords and fathers as me Neptune's daughter, you must have been fed the same water from some neighboring bed. cycling year round like every oscillation power from idols to thieves When i bought him flowers with the rains i made,  he stung like a honeybee n brought me to my knees. granted my palms had cracked this whip, case open like our pomegranates  blooming rubies rich as artists with kids, bleeding stupid crash our miscarriages and when he turned a square on a dime, angling away with the wind at his side we said “maybe someday we’ll align, jinx one two three for five” “wait, you got anymore to spend on me?” “you got anymore to spend on me?” he says “wait, you got anymore to spend on me?” so I juice the juke box and we both drink for free drink for free
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Schadenfreude Oh what joy ta Be defined by You’re wrong & I’m right Schadenfreude I do enjoy ya Fall from grace When I’m not in your place Schadenfreude I’m rooting for ya To get what I say Is coming your way
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I was educated at the roots of trees My higher learning was http I learned arithmetic from birds and the alphabet from bees Stop right there before we proceed My baseline understanding formed in anarchy The cacophony of voices of the truly free Choruses of equal opportunity Dot com down now before we proceed learned analysis from queer witches, praxis from poc Amplify the voices of community Through global inner netgain of unity Don’t stop now this is how we proceed All survival is dependent on diversity We are all in this together so tell me what you need I am not a cop I shall not police thee Don’t stop there this is how we proceed learn relationship from you and embodiment from me And these contain multitudes so don’t forget to breathe learn relationship from you and embodiment from me And these contain multitudes so don’t forget to breathe Yes we sustain multitudes so grateful when we breathe
22.
The occupier government is shuffling its seats. Write in Teressa Raiford bring the power to the streets. The time for change is on the rise So we don’t have to compromise Tear Gas Teddy's family profited off the land The millionaires a logging heir Who’s spine aligns corporate affairs. Boot licking pig picking privileged profiteer. Satisfied to hide and blind behind his changeless fence of fear. Sarah with Hales pr team, She’ll block you if you’re questioning The liberal status quo machine, of surface issue polishing. Bike mom tour guide with a dream to greenwash bureaucrat regimes. White savior of the bourgeoisie and sedative for uprisings. Teressa has been blessing us with action on the ground, suing cops and moving mobs to where the people powers found. supporting us take our place, demand representation, redistribute to the base, resource the true foundation. Humanists who raise your fists think out side the limits unsettle institutions and enact some real solutions. Come November, please remember Raifords name, this fight, and write T E R E S S A R A I F O R D All power to all people today!
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A slow-motion wave of legs Crash upon your body shore Right leg organized in lock step Left leg thrashing for the poor Sufi spinning compass begs For no direction any more But alert in amber waves instead Dictate a salted waltzing war Breakdance splits the seam And part the blood red sea So every limb that reaches wide Shall fight them on the beach Anti fascist Oh anti fascist Set free your dances It’s the movements I adore To all the bodies who believe With birth the burden borne Is freedom and a song to sing Come crash upon my shore
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Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at 900 miles an hour. It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, The sun that is the source of all our power. Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour, Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars; It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side; It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide. We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point, We go 'round every two hundred million years; And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe. Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, In all of the directions it can whiz; As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth; And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, To remind us of it here on Earth!
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Disposable my opposable thumbs can come up with anything better than Disposable It’s what we’ve become Shopping bags floating round an empty sun Disposable We believe that we are Cuz it’s all we’ve been sold But Suppose we all listened to the land instead they will tell you all that it’s all in your head What if you remember that their love’s not dead would you stop pretending pretending pretending You’re disposable I’m disposable They’re disposable We are not disposable It’s all in your head Cuz you ate your whole body It’s all in your head cuz in your hunger you forgotten That your head all in this Tho you treat it like a trash bin Sensation acquaintance nervous neurons system crashin I don’t wanna be your sacrificial lamb Don’t feed me to your golden calf Don’t call me essential Just say what I am I'm Disposable You’re disposable I’m disposable They’re disposable We are not disposable
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Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh In the summertime when the weather is hot You can stretch right up and touch the sky When the weather's fine revolution's on your mind Raise a fist, raise a sign Go out and get that shit aligned Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh If yer governments is rich make em pay for your meal If yer governments poor just do what you feel March along the lane Join the chants and raise the vibes When the sun goes down You can make it, make it good around the fire We're not bad people We got freedom anarchy We love everybody, love our community When the weather's fine Revolutions on the breeze Sing along with us Dee dee dee-dee dee Dah dah dah-dah dah Yeah we're hap-happy Dah dah-dah In the summertime revolution's on your mind

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Songs written for, and performed brand new, from our home studio via livestream during quarantine may 3rd - august 2nd 2020

Watch these livestreams at Youtube.com/c/xibling

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released August 7, 2020

Mastered by Jeremy Wilkins at Underwater Research and Design

All lyrics by Moriah West (except where otherwise noted)
All music by Julian Thieme

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Xibling Portland, Oregon

[pronounced: sĭbʹ-lĭng]
Synthpunk from Portland, Oregon 

"Rather than rehashing ideas already explored, Xibling assembles their music from the core components that made eclectic synth music exciting during the 80s, while diving headlong into the 21st-century avant-garde."
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