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I want to tell you
Underneath the porcelain sun.
In the glass veranda room,
We watch the sky through crystallin.
Portobello parasol.
Solar-powered hydrofoil.
Psychological delight.
Intuitive new insight.

Ooh…
Ah...
I want to excite you with some insight.

Dreaming doesn't cost any money.
It doesn't matter what you own.
No one can say what you can and cannot do.
That is, I mean, no one but you.

Their world is a macabre menagerie.
Most of their problems are imaginary;
Except until they try to make you believe them.
God help you if you don't want to receive them.
Ah, it seems so cruel.
A montage of espionage is their sabotage tool.
Satellite pictures of our beautiful planet,
Reduced to a weapon of inestimable damage.
Just cause what they do is evil don't mean it must be secret.
They say he who forgets history is doomed to repeat it.
They can't expect the whole world to be fucking complicit.
If this is the new world order, well then I'm gonna diss it.

I want to show you
How to put it to rest, this is a test.
In the most metaphoric sense,
That is to say, Life's a tempest.
Serene serendipity.
Marley didn't shoot the deputy.
Deleuze, Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud.
Civilization's paranoid.

Ooh…
Ah…
I want to invite you to envision.

Imagination doesn't have to be earned.
There is no work that you must do.
No one can say what you can and cannot think.
You understand, it's up to you.

My world is a periscopic paradise.
I can see right through them and all their deluded lies.
This universe, so elegant in its parsimony,
Their discord hurts my ears and disrupts the harmony.
Ah, so here's a toast
To all the solemn souls who look, so lachrymose,
At this broken jigsaw world in all its puzzling pieces.
So few fit together, the enigma never ceases.
And of all of them, not many put it together.
Every one is unique, we're all in this together.
If only everyone could see the big magnificent picture,
Then I think we'd know why we were all made so different.

True love at first sight happens all the time.
It could very well happen to you.
You must keep your heart and mind wide open all the time.
No one can do this but you.
No one can do this but you,
No one can do this, but you.

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from You Are The Song I Heard In My Dream (2015) [LP], released December 29, 2015

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Jim Byron Minneapolis, Minnesota

U.S. alternative musician, songwriter, and producer. Has released over 30 albums since moving to Minneapolis in 2015. Genre- fluid. Mentored by two poet laureates of major cities: Jack Hirschman of San Francisco, and the late Barry Spacks of Santa Barbara. Also mentored by the mythic Baby Gramps, who once toured as Bob Dylan's personal backstage entertainment. ... more

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