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front cover of LP jacket. It reads "WHOLE EARTH CATALOGED" along the top, and in smaller text on the bottom it says "DRAGGING AN OX THRU WATER". There are some collaged black shapes on the white background, but most of the center is taken up by a black and white photo taken from above of someone sitting on some grass in the darkness next to a bright light - there is also a cat with bright reflective eyes visible toward the left. Collaged on top of the photo of are four pressed dogwood blossoms, and one of them has the black silhouette of a fifth blossom partially visible underneath it.
front cover of LP jacket. It reads "WHOLE EARTH CATALOGED" along the top, and in smaller text on the bottom it says "DRAGGING AN OX THRU WATER". There are some collaged black shapes on the white background, but most of the center is taken up by a black and white photo taken from above of someone sitting on some grass in the darkness next to a bright light - there is also a cat with bright reflective eyes visible toward the left. Collaged on top of the photo of are four pressed dogwood blossoms, and one of them has the black silhouette of a fifth blossom partially visible underneath it.

01 Deathwatch Beetle

Dragging An Ox Through Water
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Deathwatch Beetle
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Deathwatch Beetle

Dragging An Ox Through Water

I can't keep singing the songs I always sung
Obituaries for the horizon

An earthquake kit and a chair by the gun
I don't know what you think remains to be won

Blinding hills burnin up under the door
There's a vacuum itchin to be abhored

Time's come around, all will be revealed
Your investments are gonna get peeled

Those you hurt in cruelty and those you did your best
Revenge and clemency, all blessed

Burn this world before my eyes
Distill and drink up my surprise

I learned to love from tv shows -

I learned to love from tv shows
Vague and tender portfolios

I learned to love from tv shows
The witness tends to decompose

I can only hear the words I know
I'm just mouthing the sounds of snow
Fallin down on me
Under oath I see
Darlin take my hand
Walk me into no-man's land

Time's come around, covered everything with ash
Automata jumping angels in the trash

Hours bury deeds into the land like it’s a vault
Water storied soil with salt

Among the tossed and covered souls
There’s a hole we do descend and bore with friends

First Aid kit and a chair by the store
Wonder what lays in store

I learned to love from popular song -

I learned to love from popular song
Revenge and clemency tagged along

I learned to love from popular song
Tho my thoughts for life ain’t strong

I can only read the lips I see
A deathwatch beetle clickin free
With a bore and a gouge
From the walls we slouch
Ringin past remands
Walkin to the no-man’s land

I cant keep singin the songs I always sung
Obituaries for the horizon

Lean back and listen to the beetle tick
Oughtta ain’t my bailiwick

I learned to love from every meal
And from the tone of every peal
Ringin joy or force
Thru whatever-concourse
Rubble run at hand
Fortifying no-man’s land

Time’s come around, angel's only lookin back.

Physical drums by John Niekrasz
Vocal harmonies by Alex Hebler

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