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Red + Blue = Yella

from Home (2009) by Gavin Castleton

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Like the dream that used to scare me as a kid
where my head is not in concert with my feet
which are just sliding on the checkerboard beneath
making bloody angels at a tugboat speed

I see blue for a second
just before the second wave falls through
and it's the only sky I've seen
since we made this barricade of dog food
Then in a flesh flash flood it's covered up
and it occurs to me
that I’m about to get my check cashed
'cause there is a dead mass deposit of teeth

I see one way out and one way in
and I the spitting image of my father's sin
The trouble with the first is that it's teeming with them,
the second is a place that I have already been

I see one way out and one way in
and I the spitting image of my father's sin
The trouble with the first is that it's teeming with them,
the second is a place that I have already been so
what should I do? Head for that blue?

Well I guess I stopped screaming
when my feet got a grip on the floor
I threw a whole shelf of tuna
at the three between me and the front door

I saw red ribbonnettes
blossom out from the head of the undead
by the time I could blink I was blinded
and before I could scrape off the violence
I was kicking at the deafening silence, “Please!”

There's just one way out and one way in
and I the spitting image of my father's sin
The trouble with the first is that it's teeming with them,
the second is a place that I have already been

There’s just one way out and one way in
and I the spitting image of my father's sin
The trouble with the first is that it's teeming with them,
the second is a place that I have already been

I see one way out and one way in
and I the spitting image of my father's sin
The trouble with the first is that it's crawling with them,
the second is a place that I have already been so
what should I do? The red or the blue?
To help me decide... a gash in my thigh!

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from Home (2009), released April 7, 2009

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Gavin Castleton Portland, Oregon

Gavin has released 9 solo albums and 8 EPs. Over the last two decades he has performed and recorded with acts like The Dear Hunter, Gruvis Malt, Ebu Gogo, Paranoid Social Club, Sage Francis, Club D’elf, Lex Land, Facing New York, and One Drop.

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