Axis Askew

from New Public Domain by Talking With Hands

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Pull another card and stack it in place
Now I’m seeing all the things I wanted to face
The pieces look good but the place isn’t right
Like a beetle in the bonnet of a honeyman’s wife

I move it up
To cut it down
I raise it up
To blow it down

Terminal speed as I jump on the train
Life’s a runaway trial on an abstract plane
The engine looks good but it’s running at night
No one up front someone put out the light

I move it up
To turn it down
I raise it up
To pull it down, pull it down

Looks and feels like I’ll never know
The places I’ll go
Who can tell you?
No one really knows
A 1 or an 0, yeah
Can’t say no
And that’s the way it will go

Cables get cut and I’m drifting away
Always stumbling toward what I wanted to say
Direction looks good but the axis is skewed
I always end up at the angle I didn’t intend to

Looks and feels like I’ll never know
The places I’ll go
Who can tell you?
No one really knows
A 1 or an 0, yeah
Can’t say no
And that’s the way it will go

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from New Public Domain, released July 29, 2023

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Talking With Hands Los Angeles, California

Equally inspired by the pop sensibility of XTC and the ethereal styles of Air and My Bloody Valentine, Talking With Hands blend intelligent song craft and mesmerizing atmospherics into a sort of pop-art that aims to change the way people think about music. ... more

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