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tree(3)ze
03:58
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hello
hello again
i've been upended a few times
but i'm on the mend
and doing sublime
i've been told that the cold
can bend around the dead dead ends
and that an old lack of control
can have lasting effects
but it seeps in through the cracks
old bad news is a reopened trunk wound
and a callus is a coat for attacks
it's the ramshackle vs a monsoon
but we'll win with this flurry of tracks
we'll be warm and well fed soon (soon)
it will dimish, the chill has its limits
the tingle's a murmur, hope feeling's left
if you're kinda numb then look no further
than the skin that's dead
it's kinda fucked up how quick it sets in
frostbit, frostbit, you fucking crossed me
so hard and so cold for so long
i'm numb and exposed
for warmth i'm gung ho
i'm raring and ready to go
i just need myself a space that's enclosed
but i got that shit in droves
i'm feasting off the antidote
with loved ones, break dirt and bread
no straight blue when i scan infrared
i was a sad sapling grappling at doubts
but now there's no wind that can blow me down
i'm as warm as my roots are deep in the ground
what i'm about is what i've found
another ring for a lap round the sun
the cold's sting is a signal of a war to be won
i used to fear the tree freeze
but now i'm tree three
i've got the means to be unfathomably big
i'ma give my feelings a lot of mystique
cause when i was tree(2), those were hid
shoulda been taught more when i was planted as a kid
coasting off survivalist technique skid
i'm out here rebuilding the whole foundation
unlearning bad patterns with quick termination
didn't have enough seeds
or resources before
tree(1) and (2) die
on the 2nd and 4th try
so would i
i'd freeze, wither, and bleed
with alarming regularity
but w/ this 3rd seed
i can see the disparity
i'm the first string
and finally treated as such
despite the elements and everything
i can grow and i must
these arborglyphs
read like hieroglyphics
who was i with?
why does that sting?
whenever i am reminiscing
i find some fault's mine
but not everything, no
i've got three seeds
and that's all i need
all i need
all i need
all i need
to grow!!!
to grow
iterate
undo blows
it's not too late
for roots to take hold
my grove's growth is like a weed
it explodes: the forest in me
hadn't had the means till now
and hate that i was pretending
now that i am lowercase loud
tree freeze isn't threatening
to grow big, make my world small
love a few seeds rather than nothing at all
vulnerable but proud and standing tall
i'm at nature's whims but will not fall
needs are met, anger subsides
i trim and cut loose past abuse
and plan the growth of my life
i fear pruning, i'm scared to die
because i can't freeze and i feel alive
to grow
iterate
undo blows
it's not too late
for roots to take hold
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tree(3)ze (instrumental)
03:58
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ondrew De Kalb, Illinois
lilting in and out of unconsciousness,
brainwaves reel and stutter in limbo;
place: my mattress; position: akimbo,
whisked away by sweeps, centripetal:
wisps of wind, deafeningly whimsical.
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