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New Colony

by Secondary Modern

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1.
you fastened half a sinking ship around your ankle with twine you said they do it in lafayette and in jersey city too but I’m able and alive could I die in massachusetts with you? I had a dream I singed off all of my hair your body moved as if to console me your eyes were black and your arms were around me your mouth, it formed a shape your lungs were triggered late and your lips, they moved for quite some time before your words were conveyed never heard the artillery fire the sound of traffic had lulled us both to sleep and all the walls will be repainted and the sidewalks cleaned by the time we’re awake and back on our feet you really are an obsessive bastard and you know it one day we’ll burn all of these lies on your skin and we’ll bill you for it
2.
Dismissed 02:13
down and out in the colonies we never knew were real there’s nothing left to numb the butcher’s stripped us to our heels I can see through my knuckles so why do my hands hurt? you can’t see yourself in mirrors anymore I can’t stop shaking spanish weapons saviors are dismissed despise all that I know about you come give me a kiss we’ll simplify our books to phrases exponential facts and figures buy and sell your trembling fingers unloaded pistols fire unloaded pistols and their triggers fill our hearts
3.
when your letters all come back to you and your words are shaking like the birds on the power line don’t call me ex-lovers and ex-friends they all hate me equally I suppose they have meetings new aloof soiree you built an alter to the birds of prey I know you never meant to skew this dance so badly “Clytemnestra”, I heard him say I’ve never wanted to strike someone so badly new aloof soiree
4.
kicking over anthills, that’s all this is to you I’m on a mission, honey—we’re gonna kill all your friends show you how to burn holes in precious monuments an apparition, honey, can be money well spent food for the dead! food for the dead! food for the dead! you didn’t have to do that set me loose in the city It’s a thing of the past, my child, to walk into a room and turn our heads and change the way we’re sitting you live in fear every day who are you lying to?
5.
this town is hideous and I’ve been walking all morning trying to find a threshold to nail my toes to I’d like to hold every stone in the fire burning blue but I’ve been told I must remove both my hands I’ll apologize for anything that you ask me to I’ve been wrestling with ghosts again, so it seems once I announce that I’m in love it disappears like a dream from my sight but not from my mind you know I’ve loved you for such a long time I saw goliath-- I saw his family. filling in numbers under new fruit trees saw the filthy execution of fortune, fame, and things just down the path we used to walk among the aces and the queens saw you glancing at your shoes and at mine we used the silence then to pray we’d both go blind we hurled a stone into the chapel across the street a waste of time words aloft and poets buried beneath the height to which they’ve climbed sacred, beaming, and clear red envelopes and the lunar new year
6.
Table Dance 03:43
darlin’—I believe you should cover your hands If you plan to handle evil things but I still love the way you discard all your non-essential dreams and you’ve been putting everything you can get those hands on In your nasal passage, it seems and I’m sure all of the drunks on the street have asked you sawdust in their voices how it feels to be all alone as a result of your destructive choices oh, and that’s not saying that they’re asking a lot or that they’ve stumble up to maps unknown you can do what you like-- go on and slither in the night just remember that you’ve been dethroned oh yes, remember that you’ve been dethroned we’ll, there’s blood on my tongue but my shoes are still tied and that’s more than most can say the whole world was on fire but some widow called the station I’ll be breathing in this bag until her sister hauls her husband away oh, and you were with a troop of vampire snowmen at the top of a mountain so late that you nearly missed the flood that killed your second cousin and returned the world to its potentially combustible state there was a business plan at one point but I lost sight I’ve never entered a room I couldn’t walk through I just might the rope was severed in the middle so I never could have used it those are the legs of your enemies you see beneath the door If you look right
7.
the endless stream of moments can summon up thoughts of boredom and thorough contemplation of what it would be like now the thoughts of why and how they form a cloud the way we all collide just wears me out particles of light enter my eye Is this all I see, these particles of light? energy for the future day woe am I who believes that my thought are untrue ecstatic am I who realizes that my thoughts are the ultimate proof
8.
I remember street names by repeating them backwards and I swallow a deep breath and follow myself wherever I go follow my self wherever I go I heard there’s been a conviction made in the case against your father It seemed to please the papers well enough we all let out a cheer and walked along as marionettes from walnut street to here followed direction there and shortly after we traced the lines of her bone structure through her clothes we couldn’t bare to sully such fashion remember with that added light comes shadows that you have never known follow myself wherever I go…
9.
the train is rolling softly parallel to the atmosphere of monetary tribes steal your green from the mean green machine It’s only wrong if you look them in the eye we’re going to colonize your favorite places walk with me you don’t owe me anything save for, what, your unabiding love

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This is the sixth album by Secondary Modern. It was recorded using an eight-track reel to reel in a mansion with a lot of windows very near a pond. All of this occurred between the months of November 2012 and January 2013.

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released August 11, 2013

Secondary Modern is:
David Brown - vocals, guitar, keys, bass, percussion, etc.
Danny Brown - vocals (lead on "Favorite Places"), drums, percussion, guitar, sitar, etc.
Matt McGuire - vocals (lead on "Out The Abyss"), bass, guitar, keys, percussion, etc.

All songs by Secondary Modern
Recorded by David Allen at the Skihouse Mansion - Carbondale, IL.
Mixed by David Allen and Secondary Modern.
Mastered by Erik Rasmussen at Observatory Studios - Chicago, IL.
Photo by Jay Goebel

[promo short by Dustin Houston] vimeo.com/73111021

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Secondary Modern Carbondale, Illinois

Secondary Modern is comprised of three young men from the Midwest. They make music together and have done so for quite some time and will do so for quite some time.

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