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Sangamon Sun

by A Howling Wilderness

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1.
Feed the Beast Until It Dies 04:20
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dawn is sneakin' round roman collar on withered pedo gif tentacle of monolith migratory birds pass through tadpoles frozen in the winter stream my baby is bone dry graver don't need no man to save her my baby is a bone dry sailor don't need no weekend whaler for you see, she's already an angel feed the beast until it dies true love or a meteorite feed the beast until it dies on bone-bleached blacktops stake thy vines junk cruisers flickering in the firelight creek in the autumn sun we found a car in the mud a thunderbird on the bluffs a dashboard message in dust "i only love u because" all you need is because all you need is because my baby is a sasquatch shaver don't need no man to save her my baby is a demon barber trace the blood up to Northeast Harbor for you see, she's already an angel feed the beast until it dies true love or a meteorite feed the beast until it dies grieve sacred spaces shaped by time press thy diamonds into coal mines my baby has one rule and that's that she must feed my baby has one rule and that's that she must feed we are but acolytes reduced commodities at windows dawn to dusk amber to tangerine foxes & baby bunnies swallow tail, the indigo bunting oh, to get lost out hunting oh, to get lost...to get lost my baby is a mattress flappin' rachet-strapped to a station wagon my baby is campfire flag in a quicksand-sinkin' caravan, yeah feed the beast until it dies true love or a meteorite feed the beast until it dies wander the earth that trail of slime to Northeast Harbor on a serpent spine Northeast Harbor on a serpent spine Northeast Harbor on a serpent spine
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Sun in the Living Room (with Sofas) 02:47
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say what you want from me you could be the picture of my friend on the mantle in the living room i just wanna be who i was before the storm cracked & smashed me into dust before the long road before the big fuss the dust on the sun in the living room the phone rings in the kitchen with mom picking up saying "hang on" calling out to me from afar but i am out in the dark digging moldy bones from the garden you can stand him up in the yard and/but there's no damn chance this man will ever dance again sun in the living room sun in the living room so i slide back into that old living room with you looking down at there/at me oh my goodness, goodness me there is a long con going on we can see and if i could just get back on the past/right track i'd be free say what you want from me you could be the picture of my friend on the mantle in the living room
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Coyote Feathers 04:09
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i don't wanna dream alone i'd rather not dream at all yellow-eyed dog said the voice from the basket of bones coyote feathers fall in alcohol real men sleep alone in my House of Dolls tennis balls real men sleep alone not you he tried to join the QLF but he couldn't speak a lick of French well, there's no glory or healthcare sitting on the bench so he married up a separatist with two identities & two green, green eyes who's cinders flamed in the gas station bonfire but it was nothing vindictive that the bride you wed was fictive but i don't want you to go home now cuz i don't wanna dream alone said the voice from the basket of bones coyote real men sleep alone not you real men sleep alone that ain't true... at a boondock bbq with my buddies Al & Gorithm we don't know much but we talk about our forefather who made his way shakin' & achin' through the snow till he was barely there i walked into the shaman's tent glowin' in the empty black basket in a sack skull emptied & cracked real men sleep alone not you well, real men sleep alone that ain't true... cuz i don't wanna dream alone said the voice from the basket of bones
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Other Colors Too (with Sofas) 02:17
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the wall is down the guard's asleep but that is not enough to keep me from staying like i didn't know i could leave at any time, time, time the purple house, the quiet town the sea inside my nose the bloom is off the rose Angie, baby, maybe could ya take me home? i promise to be good i always did what i could there's a stain on the ghost in my house i wanna say something, & have it really come out great usually i wait there's a stain on the ghost in my house blue & grey other colors, too no one says what yr supposed to do can't get the colors out there's a stain on the ghost in my house blue & grey other colors, too no one says what yr supposed to do can't get the colors out can't get the colors out can't get the colors out can't get the colors out
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Ghost of Coachy 05:23
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we left our window open on a stormy summer night an old barn cat squeezed in like smoke & took our other cat's life we called this new boy coachy he took our other cat's place was he a lie? in clever disguise? carved into his burnt muppet face who opened the door? it's just the wind comin' in & what the hell was i doin'? umm... no one is sure it was different before who the hell knows what else flew in? i quit my job by the end of the week cuz i have a new private tyranny if stars are distant diplomats peekin' out from the shrouds of the sky is something outside? in clever disguise? something from nowhere? cuz nowhere is fast approaching nothing is all around beautiful noise beckons from the void cuz nowhere is fast approaching nothing is all around beautiful noise beckons from the void it is you that i have found it is you that i have found it is you coachy in my bed instead of my wife me? i'm on the floor last time i saw her she didn't look right so the kids barricade the door i splash gasoline through the window i lean drop a match on the floor if stars are distant diplomats & love is everywhere is my love a lie? a dead lullabye? a housefire nowhere? cuz nowhere is fast approaching nothing is all around beautiful noise beckons from the void it is you that i have found it is you that i have found it is you that i have found it is you it's different when yr older things that make you cry laughter is never too soon so i pay my brother a surprise at Fall Festival with his hot air balloon set adrift by tooth & by knife if stars are distant diplomats peekin' out from the shrouds of the sky this barn cat & i burning alive we will never die we will never die, Juliet we will never die, Juliet Juliet? Juliet?
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Fuck your White God 02:05
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it's a clean hell it's a clean hell seen it in the alley the city slickin' gov'ner turned my kid into a Furby what's this world comin' to? comin' to me in a hurry litterboxes in the school? did I say Furby? I meant "furry" with my white god fuck your white god turn the others into demons turn my son into a seaman i am standing in the mirror i am just a Gentle Minion i am WHITE HOT, WHITE HOT in a clean hell i never left the city they don't call 'em bigots here they're in bed by 7:30 in a clean hell i never left the city they don't call 'em bigots here they're in bed by 7:30 clean hell seen it in the alley the city slickin' gov'ner turned my kid into a Furby what's this world comin' to? comin' to me in a hurry litterboxes in the school? did I say Furby? I meant "furry" did I say Furby? I meant "furry" did I say Furby? I meant "furry" did I say Furby? I meant "furry" with my white god fuck your white god fuck your white god fuck your white god fuck your white god
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Basement of Heaven 02:39
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people don't kill babies for adrenochrome think about it (think about it) how often do babies use their "fight or flight"? (not much) they don't have much adrenaline (think about it) JFK Jr. is not dead neither is JFK Sonny Bono is not dead but Cher is since '98 you might be dead you might be dead in the basement of heaven in the basement of heaven ice walls seal in a flat earth but there's a hole at the pole that'll let you inside there's no hollow earth the crust wouldn't hold us we're fat there's no tiny man living in your penis why would a rube choose the pubes? if someone could live inside you & choose the best place to be like a big -------- ----------- on Avenue P in the basement of heaven in the basement of heaven you might be dead you might be dead you might be dead you might be Jon Benet is alive & well doing time at the Comedy Store what if i told you ya knew her well i tell ya brother it's Amy Shumore i think i'm coming around now i've been saying that for years & corey feldman's still hunting vampires michael's eating worms while he's drinking beer *cracks ice cold bear*
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Bear Skull Cave 04:07
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at Bear Skull Cave on Halloween my friends as drunk as I'd ever seen & a girl we'd never seen before in bonfire light upon the shore, quietly quiet as a dead man she said there's worse things in there than the undertow things that only the sea & I know well, it might take a while no nautical mile deep in the ocean & i'm moving my feet & my arms are pushing get me back to the beach sun starts sinking but i'm feeling to float let a sky surround me tentacles twist around my wrist deep in the ocean & i'm moving my feet & my arms are pushing get me back to the beach sun come quickly cuz i'm feeling to float let a sky surround me then i feel a pull from a short-limbed man in wool he smiles in the breeze says "creatures from the deep eat folk like you & me but you got buddies everywhere you go" deep in the ocean & i'm moving my feet & my arms are pushing get me back to the beach sun starts sinking but i'm feeling to float let a sky surround me take me where you go autumn rains turn snow fireflies on hemlock soil & rotting stone take me where you go endless tides we row fireflies on hemlock the birdsong, the glow
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Long Yellow Light (with Sofas) 03:12
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there's a long yellow light outside my hometown i should speed up & go through but i always slow down i wait there for awhile i wait there too long so by the time i get home everyone's gone the tide is going out the floor is all mopped but we honestly just sloshed the water around and the owner don't know he's been too long in nice clothes he's completely outta touch he calls us his bros while we laugh behind his back & he pays all our bills there's a long yellow light outside my hometown i should speed up & go through but i always slow down i am a caught fish i won't get my wish never to pee in the woods again inside confined with a room of men living lies just like me it's true what else would you expect me to do? there's a long yellow light outside my hometown i should speed up & go through but i always slow down i wait there for awhile i wait there too long so by the time i get home everyone's gone there's a long yellow light outside my hometown i should speed up & go through but i always slow down i wait there for awhile i wait there too long so by the time i get home everyone's gone everyone's gone everyone's gone

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This album was inspired by a pile of dead coyotes someone left in a ditch near my house, & a piece of print media propaganda mailed out in my area, a newspaper called the "Sangamon Sun". It's yr basic transphobic, xenophobic, white nationalist propaganda mailed to farmers & other people in my rural area. It's the reason that once a week someone comes up to me & says something like "they're putting litterboxes in the schools because they're turning kids into furries!" Between this & the theocratic turn America has taken--and DEFINITELY the fact that I recently had a daughter whose rights are being taken away by said theocracy--this is an album about resistance to indoctrination, & ya know, being a nervous new parent & overcoming fear & loving each other & what-not.

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released October 22, 2023

B. Banach, S. Mulcahy, D. Ervin

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A Howling Wilderness Pleasant Plains, Illinois

A Howling Wilderness (known as The Deadbees until 2021) is Ben Banach & his friends. He is a farmer, the leader of a controversial spiritual group, & (is rumored to be) the notorious Hog Barn Strangler of Sangamon County. For more, go to his one-man comedy podcast Beautiful Night at www.machineculture.com ... more

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