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Glyph Pickers

by Justin Potts

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1.
An Arrow Unseen 02:30
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An arrow unseen wound the clocks too tight above the bed there's a portal's eye between the scenes all set up in the mind an arrow unseen wound the clocks too tight all tangled up inside old systems, old resistance fairness, truth, respect, love, honor seeds of peace growing upside down screen obscene and the siren sound In the night way down low where the factions fight an arrow unseen wound the clocks too tight all tangled up inside and they're fighting all the time old systems, old resistance fairness, truth, respect, love, honor
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Auspicious Takes 03:32
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A loose analog arcade on a holiday alone cave bones and violets the fragrance it stays close to somewhere through distant homes where every hour it speeds to the dawn and the blue fly lines up the log scene -- can I fade in, I'm stuck in the station with a newsprint fire to find - so we take off the lone masks and the soothing warm will it stays free - can I dig up the view from the far field when the sounds take shape in the night - auspicious takes and they're growing too You left off on a good place where we flow ways unknown somehow the lost legs return and we learn record numbers soon take a slow wave find the flower in weeds on the lawn (Kyleen in the red room)
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Commonplace 03:12
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Commonplace Turn the lights off exit through the bedroom you get away in the long cold night looking for a fight you get away but you wanted to stay you get away you can't fathom these patterns and then you fall right into your own engage it don't fake it be patient and then you fall right into your own well and through a common place and you fall into a common place...a forgotten phase that you know with your eyes closed saw the walls beyond you you get away in the long cold night just looking for a fight you get away but you wanted to stay you get away you can't fathom these patterns and then you fall right into your own engage it don't fake it be patient and then you fall right into your own well and through a common place and you fall into a common place a forgotten phase that you know
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Be Kind to Your Mind 02:55
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Be kind to your mind Off to the races, greyhounds of stasis howl in the great unknown far from the ears of all the obscure and bold this is the soundbyte: light on the inside open your eyes we're gliding above the below you know make this place that you find more refined take this time to be kind to your mind causal highways, time's not sideways what makes the cables hum here we go down below, places of relation helping all the waves to roll, oooh they're turning gold put this key in your mind and you're fine make this place that you find more refined take this time to be kind to your mind x2 (mind rattles) repeat chorus
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First for Real 02:08
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First for Real Cool and hot crust covered heals back when the old winds blew out the seals and you dig and you dig you dig the relics out the first for real you dig the relics out the first for real and when the papers grow all covered in dust and so the old is new right under the rust you dig the relics out the first for real you dig the relics out the first for real the exclamation point points under the hill you dig the relics out the first for real when you find it will you know the strength of your motion can take off away for real
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Dig up the Mounds 02:58
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Dig up the Mounds Nowhere to go, stuck with the flames of I've been here before talking to doors, open up please I have waited for ages what is this for, an obstacle course designed by sadists and whores crawl on all fours, hoping to find the end of the tunnel calling out to the responsible parties delivering unto the unreachable darlings seeking the heat of a portion of paradise found now that you've gone rang and I sang you're only as good as your eyes gazing outside, what do they see there upon the horizon we could be real, use the day's impatience to foster the feel searing the deal, the shadow blends into the cool evening air it's unfair calling out to the responsible parties delivering unto the unreachable darlings seeking the heat of a portion of paradise found Dig up the mounds
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Velvet Cup 02:52
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Velvet Cup We’re under new stars tonight; we’ll stroll for a spell in the blue moonlight and though I’ve said it before I adore you, I’ll bore you, but I hear myself say three words again, oh I cherish this time we spend ooooooh baby, ooooooh holding a velvet cup Let’s take in the scene awhile; we’ll stare through the fog toward distant lights held up in the arms of graciousness patiently changing the stage while we're out in the tide and unmoored, adrift on love’s sweet and tender course ooooooh baby, ooooooh holding a velvet cup ooooooh baby, ooooooh and you’re holding a velvet cup
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Rhythm of Stars 04:44
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Rhythm of Stars Just past the wall, in a formless frame photon receivers fill the fountains for a new day a hyper-scopic view, a you zoo review elemental meaning in terms of what has always been true countless points in a milky abandon gazing up at a shower of photons in love you've the rhythm of stars you, yeah you, you've the rhythm of stars here's your finding song, here's your golden flame take a breath of reason, and ride a raven's wing to owl cave the inner far beyond, your finger's magic wand the overwhelming feeling of full immersion in the always countless points in a milky abandon gazing up at a shower of photons in love you've the rhythm of stars you, yeah you, you've the rhythm of stars *breakdown into mystery lyrics* you've the rhythm of stars you, yeah you, you've the rhythm of stars
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Stay Home 03:42
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Stay Home Stay home, take a breath and stay home, so I decided to stay home, away from trouble, stay home, wait for your friends statements retracing oh was I mistaken my mind slips a beat in the pause it set the stage but my mic was distorted, it's coming back too bad, events and the thoughts and the feeling was falling, should have, my words full of flaws didn't say what I wanted it put this bruise on my brain, I'm looking back through a passage to times where I said what I meant and meant what I said and I came back intact who's there, my words full of flaws didn't say what I wanted who cares, my mind is aligned with the fate of the mother Stay home, take a breath and stay home, so I decided to stay home, away from trouble, stay home, wait for your friends it put this bruise on my brain, I'm looking back through a passage to times where I said what I meant and meant what I said and I came back intact who's there, my words full of flaws didn't say what I wanted who cares, my mind is aligned with the fate of the mother
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Today is Tomorrow 03:33
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Northside Rebellion 02:58
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Northside Rebellion A summer scene at the Northside rebellion in greens and in the background a glimpse of renewal indeed we're coming back at night attuned to the sound the only thing that could keep is down is our minds we see through the dark shadow they cast looking forward and letting go of the past we found a source of the brightest light we can know and now it moves with us wherever we go giving the process time straight through the stratosphere out of the atmosphere pulling the self in line shake up the status quo reclaim the world we know the fake parade showing off for a nation in grief behind the door there's a deal made in death for greed and through the long days and nights of our lives we can reject the distortion and open our minds giving the process time straight through the stratosphere out of the atmosphere pulling the self in line shake up the status quo reclaim the world we know let inhibition go I want to see it through no matter what they do let information flow open the channel wide fight on for those who've died northside rebellion, a summer scene is all you get (repeat)
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Snow at Night 04:37
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Snow At Night Poem by Peter Sears "Snow At Night" from Orion. Copyright © 1997 by Peter Sears. I go so far away that from there I can hear myself talking to someone and an echo like when you turn away from a river and you can't tell if it's the river right then or a sound of the river echoing through you. I want to go there and watch in the eddies near shore the caught sticks turning, popping back, then turning again, as if they would break in two to shake free. I'm like snow at night in a field. Most of the time you can't see it; then it glistens.

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A home recorded mix of newer songs with a handful of previously unreleased oddballs finally set to stroll into some ears other than my own. This album marks my 10th solo release.

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released September 16, 2018

Justin wrote, sang, played guitars, drums, keys and a magical Tibetan singing bowl.

Many thanks to the group of enchanted meta-humans who contributed to this thing, they include:
Kyleen King, Matt Lewis and Dave Jones on Auspicious Takes.
Todd Gunderson on Be Kind to Your Mind.
David Wetzel on Velvet Cup.
And David Volker on Rhythm of Stars.


Cover art by Justin. Glyph Pickers, collage on wood panel 24" x 24" 2017.
Special thanks to Cynthia, Vivienne, Jonah, Mary, Tom and the late, great NW poet, Peter Sears, who's words breath life into the album's closing track: Snow at Night. Used with permission and gratitude.

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Justin Potts makes songs, art and biological entities in Portland, Oregon.

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