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The Pine Tree State

by Ian Miles

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1.
Time Travel 03:13
If I’m digging a hole and you’re jumping in the air Tell me you love me and you’ll meet me sometime, somewhere Maybe in a dream of south station This time getting on a train and leaving Boston Side by side I know you agree with the picture I see Boasted on the mantle in our future home And you look so pretty standing next to me And I look proud just to be there Side by side I’ve been writing theories And studying prospective diagrams That support the construct of a time machine That we can slip between the fingers of you and me And made up of only materials we know Time is just a fabric we can fold it if we want Cause when the summer comes we won’t let it end this year And we’ll never have to spend another night apart Because the clocks won’t move if we don’t want them to As we tangle up the threads of time and space Side by side
2.
Open the doors and let the sun soak the dust buzzing around the childhood. Today is a special day. the cars line up, and everyone says, "The love was so good." Pallbearers are birthday guests when we celebrate the anointment of the slender bone hand of death wrapping the heart up like a present. look at my stupid grin.
3.
She drops her white summer dress to the floor The lights go out; cars spin and crash Everything’s a quiet audience To the snowflakes kissing the leaves from the branch It all looks dead Except for the concrete monsters With a million brilliant eyes Keeping close vigil with the same view As the moon floating silently by There is a god here Swelling in my chest I want to scream your name And put oceans to rest The minds of bundled children Grow as thick as the snow is deep As they dig through the white jungles That grew while they were asleep A city under snow
4.
Ugly bloody little red picking And pulls the heart From it’s teeth Or the metal will keep digging Old skin stretched over new bones Molded like temptation She beckons whoever’s alone For asphyxiation What pretty teeth you have; all steel Hiding in the brush for an unsuspecting heel If an ugly boy is screaming For help out in the woods Nobody hears him So he cries only for you As I raise a white flag to reflect The barren jar so aptly titled self respect As I the fool take the bait The two halves of a bear trap bite my leg
5.
In my just woke up and still tired eyes Everyone turned their backs and walked away what had I done in my sleep? Where did I go in my dreams? and I clung to what little made sense with shaky hands like leaves fittering in the smoke of a forest fire it's flames were the echo of your voice that brought me in to life and it flittered hot and bright an electric whip crack and I too was disembodied like ash I was suspended almost dancing on the air for a minute at most and the exciting memory of you saying my name played over and over in my head like a tape loop that my father's father carved into the strains that make me him but for that minute I knew only you and I found comfort in that chaos I was crazy and I was calm I shifted from solid to gas then from black to orange I was sleeping in your car I was startled by the spark I was running up the stairs that I knew so well but somehow forgot there was nine and not ten and my foot fell with more weight than I was carrying in my just woke up and still tired eyes everyone was not turning their backs not a single quickstep was taken in my offense I had done nothing in my sleep but dream I was somewhere else with you and everything made sense like volatile and thin plants catch flame and the leaves of the greater trees dance in warmth naturally, and with pride and I thanked my fathers for their wisdom I was shown absolutely and apparently the breadth of my bones and how clearly you were carved across them

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released March 24, 2010

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Ian Miles Spokane

Ian Miles is an independent singer-songwriter based out of Spokane, WA.
His Music has been described and "a little cool and a little weird – in a good way" and "very story-telling".
Sometimes mellow and bittersweet; a songbird at your window sill and at other times a thunderous full-throated roar of emotive stomping and hollering like a wild preacher of the end-times!
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