SOMETIMES,
offer more than talking.
say, "i like you very much."
As i mentioned in the node for the band, Caithlin De Marrais and Kyle Fischer of rainer maria are poets. These words (from the first song on their 1999 album look now look again) seem as if they're going every which way. But they are not.
Cody is right: "much like Low, the lyrics don't do the songs full justice, you just have to hear the aching way Caithlin sings slightly out of key, the dynamics between loud and soft. the bitter playfulness in their simultaneous singing of different lyrics." But alone, the words almost become something else.
Say nothing if it's forced.
Intertextuality - they borrow a line*, asterisked and credited in the liner notes, from Eric Frost's "The Pruning Diaries" I listened to this album very much back in those days in Northampton, when the apartment seemed colder than anywhere else, when the roommate was moving out and leaving me with my own doomed project of a life-simulation. These are words that come into your consciousness one line at a time, later on, and start to pattern your thinking.
Devise a way of saving your words
Hadn't been writing much since i left
Bard College.
My words all floated into the
air, not even into letters. Exploration brought me to this
site, and i found a place to stash my words,
secretly, to
play and build.
Is there someone who can take me in?
I put the song on a mix i sent to Holland, asking myself the question just as much. I have sheltered people enough, and pruned myself down. But i've grown in other ways, ones that couldn't be seen yet. Was i ready to venture out? Who would accept me?
Is it time for me to rise?
*for each inch cut, the roots grow ten where we can't see them.