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Ben Leiper - The Trees, Then The Buildings

from SDR​-​25 you could be a cop / Ben Leiper Split Tape by Slow Down Records

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They built this city on rocks and rolling dices, tax returns, Chinese burns and crude devices. And it’s a pity it sucks to talk about it, because when we talk about it all these buildings are a bait and I see one great city where you see one you hate. And all these floorboards are so cruel they will replace our weight with someone new as you fold and follow your headlights home.

You build your premise on gloom. Say foreign powers, panic, fear, riot gear or meteor showers will bring eventual doom, it’s estimated. But they miscalculated. For all these buildings will defy, adapt, endure and multiply until all their corners intersect to blur the borders between one place and the next.

So you fold and follow your headlights home to the curfews and the trees we climbed to get to windows slightly out of reach. To the school yard where we made our mark with two initials carved inside a heart. And you said that all you'd ever want was a rat race we could get out of. And I thought maybe you'd delay me.

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from SDR​-​25 you could be a cop / Ben Leiper Split Tape, released February 5, 2024
Recorded February 23-25, 2018 at Six Feet Over, Oslo.
Produced by Sjur Lyseid.

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