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It started with Michael Stipe and a grand piano

I practice every day but life gets weirder; this is how you get to the Uptown Theater

This recording is the only one on the EP which bears any relation to how it will be performed live

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I’m the overcast sky, I’m the orange ball
At least one night a week I am nothing at all
I’m the title i’m the deed I’m the red brick wall
I’m the house that I grew up in I’m the tiled kitchen floor
I am lost, I am lonely in a shopping mall
But my heart gets pumping when I hear you call
The old man once told me I’d be six feet tall
I’m still waiting on that one inch more
You’re my truth, you’re my light, you’re my wonderwall
I get knocked down, but I get up again and THEN I fall
Through corruption, through insanity, throw me a ball
I’m defiant but I'm also just a brick in the wall
I learned to walk before I could crawl
I’m a self-fulfilling prophecy and ripe for a fall
I practice every day on my way to the wall
This is how you get to Carnegie Hall
I’m carol Kaye I’m Brian Eno, I am Lou Reed’s drawl (this is how you get to Carnegie Hall)
I won’t stop until I take all my meals through a straw (this is how you get to Carnegie Hall)
I’m my father's lungs, I’m his broken fall (this is how you get to Carnegie Hall)
I’m his second heart attack and nothing more (this is how you getto Carnegie Hall)
My father told me I’d be six feet tall (this is how you get to Carnegie Hall)
I’m still waiting on that one inch more (this is how you get to Carnegie Hall)

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from Illusions & Iterations, released May 7, 2021

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The Peregrine Effect Chicago, Illinois

Why I don't have a band.

Sad, angry guitar songs; the happier ones are usually about death.

All recordings are a reluctant compromise; I want to sing directly to your face in a sweaty basement. ... more

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