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Enduring The American Dream

by CHEER-ACCIDENT

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1.
Vacuum 07:57
2.
we collide at the intersection I fly through the windshield into your arms we embrace the ambulance sirens as the sound of metal is cut away we display intermingled remains
3.
4.

time does not pass it disappears
 somewhere in the middle of these events 
things simply cease to exist
 nothing is all that will endure 
 as men race toward death 
waving their tongues 

as the slowness of artifacts 
create history 
nothing endures 

a sign reads "dead end" set against 
a house under construction as
 workers, hammers and saws inflict sound
 the biggest mall in the world is
 being built across the street from
 what was the biggest mall in the world

 shopping for the economy 
in our regional retail center 
fully enclosed 
climate controlled 

time does not pass it disappears 
somewhere in the middle of these events
 
 things simply cease to exist 

nothing is all that will endure
 as men race toward death 
waving their tongues 
 at the center
 of the target: gold


5.
Failure 06:51
the rain up to sky 
drenching a cloud 

the rays from the earth 
burning the sun 

the effect and cause
 transgress the law
 pendulum gravity

 reverse the flow upside-down hourglass
 figure-eight infinity set on end

 the scar breaks open 
forming a wound 

the bullet returns 
tracing a line 

the effect and cause
 turn back the clocks
 making up for the loss

 reverse the time lapse image of decay 
from the grave to the cradle life unfolds 

an old man holds a dead child 
in his arms as the dead child tells him 
the forgotten story of his life 

a tableau of war raging over
 the surface of bodies dreaming of death 

 impotent bodies fucking energy
 projected onto a screen of flesh
 
the outline breaks from the contours
 as it forms an abysmal downward spiral
 the destiny of bodies fall
 as everything unravels
6.
God's Clinic 01:31

man built a soul 
the elevation 
of the mammal
 writes a book 
and by these words we live
 the sacred fetal tissue 

abort the soul
 the consecration
of this murder 
cleansed of lies 
the holy invalids 
crawl into their heads and die


7.

I scandalize history
 I rape the statue of liberty 
beat her about the head and face
8.
9.
Frozen 07:25
10.
Desert Song 13:07
11.
Metaphysical 04:07
the old man is buried in the clouds
 spread the rumor of a new heaven for sale

 the public and private sectors collide 
as the corporations buy up the night 

we lie under the sign and embrace 
as they sell us the old dream of a new god

 the lovely terrorist and I take arms blast the corporations out of the sky 

shatter the constellations
 of power in the name of
 absolute love we destroy

12.
Exit 02:24
13.
do you know
 do you mind 
that I've taken up a hobby 
of my own 
on the side
 she's no less beautiful than you 
and she's mine
 but you're the only one for me
 you're my profession
14.
1/30/94 02:06

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Recorded from 1992 to 1996. Released in 1997. Remastered in 2014.

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released April 15, 1997

Instruments: harmonium, guitar, drums, synthesizer, bass, trumpet, vacuum cleaner, oboe, voice, piano, trombone, organ, tapes, 12-string, alto saxophone People who play them: Jeb Bishop, Michelle Morrone, Dan Forden, Jeff Libersher, Scott Rutledge, Chris Block, Dylan Posa, Phil Bonnet, Thymme Jones, Ross Feller, Laura Brown

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CHEER-ACCIDENT Chicago, Illinois

Born during the first few seconds of 1981; many decades later: still here.

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