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Grad School Application

by Drew Danburry

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1.
Destined Be 01:36
We're in the place we're meant to be, and we came this way by destiny And I'm meant to say, what you're meant to hear, and maybe it's meant to fall on deafened ears. Awaiting for times, you're ready...when? Your mind remembers what once was said, and maybe nonsense once becomes a creed for life, and what once was a passionate belief, denied. For we change and grow, adapt and mend we understand and learn and fend for our own happiness we fight, so let's not struggle gasp and die but easy, easy mind the course exerting effort only towards the goals we're sure of as we prepare well knowing we are unprepared just pushing plodding day by day at some point we'll make it stay that constant calm, that confidence no matter what we'll make it hence and if it falls apart in hands we will know when to start again. We'll know when to rest and when we've failed, we'll know it when the time avails. Sometimes doors open too easily if we didn't struggle we wouldn't see, how precious it is that which we seek, sometimes, its slowing that we need.
2.
Execute 01:23
It was your birthday and I sang for you, but you cried like never before. Because I made love to your best friend when you swore you loved me more. But this one night's stance, well it wasn't plant. It was more animal than harvested when we sunk beneath the floor. So give me your hand, not this cold cement. It's so unflinching, unforgiving like your face of stone when you said and meant. Everything you said, you meant, and you meant everything you said. And as I realize the consequence I'm feeling better off like John who's hat flew off with a cold gust of winded runners pant and breathe at the pacemakers keep the beatnicks use badaylight savings came and took the sunshine now i can't have any white lined paper comes in handy when you need to scratch things out. It's less a stress than living life ‘cause you can just use white out. It's less a stress than living life. Three hundred and twenty one college ruled lines and shapes With every placement perfect in a specific individual way Basic themes and doctrines line up just like pawns in chess Taking turns and waiting patiently so we can make them all a mess Everywhere I go I get by gracefully, it's never easy but by the grace of God the ends always meet. It's like I'm finally understanding life for the first time If I put in my best things won't be perfect but after awhile I'll feel fine.
3.
Memorial Day 01:28
I'll stand the gaff tonight but these perfidious motions constrict breath in breast ephemerous songs of patriotism it's not the 80's anymore that masquerade was run with broomstick All this convenience is someone else's sacrifice call them infidels and hussies well learned are stereotypes While we play gadabouts and royalty, oh how we love the living dead let the conversation lead to bed, with the wine upside your head exclaiming rape and screaming murder but the truth will leak from pen exclaiming rape and screaming murder bristling sharp and bristling red metal coffins taking flight lost in an ocher line of sight, oh how majestic it's to love a memory blood crying from the dust a country lost in lust oh mother how I love you so hope your birthday is so wonderful despite the fact that I cannot be there the military pension will take my place.
4.
Well you stopped floundering in the summer of 2006, you stamped the wet cement of time and stopped to watch it sit, But there's a mindless repetition, filling you with rage, And there's a seedy character, he's always crashing stage. Asphyxiated bombs or clocks, stuffed full of hollow time, and you can sway with tides or currents but you'll only find, There's a pariah pressing in, a pugilist by trade, he'll square away for atavistic archetypes and saints. And while we walk with imitation Cleopatra fakes, our heavy insecurity will burden and will break, cause there's a cheering cavalcade, a chorus that will swell, and it will shatter scintillating things they try to sell.
5.
The eloquent art of sharing, to take as if to give, to thieve as if it's daring, no confrontation was required. we had two bikes now we have one, you left us with an empty box; filled up with violence for a person no return address was left though. palpable liquor poured in my veins with my mouth sewn up tight, red rag to bull, slow car left lane powerlessness provokes four letter thought, can we shake hands recite history can i know who you are? a bike is less value than you to me, it's selfish but I'd rather be friends.
6.
Blood rushes to your cheeks, victory. my fingers become vines, your hands hanging ivy, your mouth is so metallic. middle class morality, champion. the last stitch is in your nose now, anything to get my eyes back. red flag hoisted to the sky, hero. whistling while wearing your sadness. I'm dancing in sandboxes... but silence is unnerving, Circle runner? dumb with depth, i'm digging deeper, belligerent misgiving. The corners of your mouth have loosened, challenger. Paper is more patient than man. Oh, oh my aching self esteem.
7.
Home 01:24
The haze of red and green passing, need my glasses, 3am. Rain comes jumbling, loud stereo, stay awake! passing on the right, Iowa. Jolted by a buzzing, loose change, i love you, 7am. Vigilant. Hours pass, seconds count. No recreation. Red light reminder. Gasoline hands, police, hiding beneath, 11am. Scraps of bread, going strong, sliding forward, losing battle. The sun will win. Lord, I miss her...been too long, a throbbing rhythm, 3pm. Grieving hands and hours lost, black horizon, helpless fate...Nebraska. Flurried snowstorm, tired eyes, curse Wyoming, 7pm. A whipping wind, a reckless road, 90 feels slow. Water heals hunger. Gold lights, anxious fury, nothing stopping, 11pm. Familiar arms, loving hands, never leave your side again. Home.
8.
Teamwork 02:03
By now, you'll be, a million miles gone, your tongue between your teeth, captive conundrums, replaced with a lark, riding those railings, well into the dark. And execrated when you're found again. And although you won't consider coming home, at least consider those, kissing their Bibles and gilding their eyes, jarring the heavens with their plaintive cries, and throwing their bonnets o'er mills. In the light of your own vampire you can always count on being empty and greedy, cause piling tomorrows will leave you empty days with waiting games to skin your knees. You haven't hit your stride, you've hit an access, a coward's contest, Presenting prattle to ironed ears with a stethoscope in your hands. But if you could just remember winsome days, withholding your disdain thin skinned and hopeful, conjecturing how to kill your albatross and to avow chivalry among all men. With acquaintances like an interlacing arcade count on them at hazard when in disaster, you know well the price of ladder rungs but lost the value of good friends; not realizing criticism doesn't contribute. Eviscerating, defenestrating. Traditions once maintaining joy, now sullied and undermined. But oh how it helps when mavens thrush like tones outweigh those making bones, and if all the auguries are looking bleak if words twist to justify death for belief, Well good timber does not grow with ease.
9.
Ostensibly mordant morceaux, mitigated by placement and form. Manifest how gates quickly close to outlying obstreperous storms. Apocryphal promises placed up high in a rookery guarded by mansard incline, at sixes and sevens for fear of flight but I climb. Continue to climb. Surrounded by stuff shirted foes, the bolero dancing heel and toe. A five and ten pilgrim I rove, my revetments now battered and broke. But springing from cover you fashion our fate, desirous and starving, you facilitate, by siphoning deep enough we'll find the strength. With you, I'll always be found. Darling there is no one else, that completes me the way that you do, no doctor could restore my health, quite compared to a visit by you. But if there are demons destroying my dreams, than you are an angel with snow white wings, to carry me places where i can be, Strong. Again.
10.
Done 01:28
Amaranthine eyes, blink. echo. A rustling of nylon lining. 1/1000 of a second plucked from midair. Flash of gold and pearl. (pause) continue... A distant scent of coffee, identifying cataleptic images as canon. Deep forest green, (laughter) waltz. A quiet stain upon an oak table. Defying the present, misquoting Tom Paine. Chartreuse trimming, rest, at ease. A sting of heat, evaporating. Awkward silence lacks ideals. A scream of fabric, secure departure, the smooth curve of a ceramic cup Presenting lavish approbation to a crown.

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released December 1, 2010

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Photo by Chaunte Vaughn

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Drew Danburry Baltimore, Maryland

Drew Danburry has independently toured and released records since 2002.

He's released over 400 songs on over 20 albums/13 EPs and played 800 + shows worldwide. Including 2 Daytrotter sessions, 3 invitations to Pop Montreal, 1 to Pygmalion Music Festival and 1 to Treefort Music Festival.

He's accomplished this long list of acheivements almost entirely DIY.
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