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Go By Train

by Jonathan Hamlow

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1.
There’s no there there no matter where you go you’ll end up here make your own path; do the math make your own souvenir I followed the sign it said “go by train” with the paradox shocks riling up my brain it was an ill fated journey an unlooked for leap and it gave birth to a splinter that got buried deep
2.
One eye clean one eye mean His eyes California gray-blue-sea-green Hammer in hand So much we’ll never understand This nail’s head is where the strike shall land What you could have had you’d have to call him good not bad But you are more than a stroke of the hammer of dad Still the strike leave’s it’s mark this is no walk in the park and the striking’s rhythm leads both to and from the dark
3.
Tigers is tigers fear itself is plenty to fear and the point to panic and the Psycho Dynamic is there’s nothing and nowhere but now and here instilled by a crisis instigated by an error the snowball rolled down the hill the ever more bitter pill bred a simulacrum of terror virtual is real all things visible, invisible still recall that you beat it when you chose not to feed it and bowed to the self, indivisible
4.
Not for your own good not as evidence of faith not for father or son or the holy wraith but just for the answer that must call your bluff just because art is good and good is enough not to separate the truth or the wheat from the chaff not to put the eternal period on the divine paragraph but to let you know I’m with you even when it all gets rough just because art is good and good is enough because souls were made to ascend because hearts were made to love because the whole damn universe fits the pattern hand in glove just to generate more eternal stuff I say art is good and good is enough
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Take No Jive 01:51
85, 85, 85 Take no jive, take no jive, take no jive go to college, go to college, go to college gain new knowledge, gain new knowledge, gain new knowledge
6.
Burger Queen Burger bitch I’m on to your bait and switch But I got jipped on fries I could not believe my eyes As if it wasn’t bad enough you chose you bitch to short change my stuff jipped on fries jipped on fries a little part of your faith in people dies die, the light in my eyes not only do I have to work here but I got jipped on fries
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In the second aspect of the second sight sketching in the trenches sorting out the wreck all night the exhibition: the purpose statement of the mission dismantle and recreate stuff your modern muse into a suit and force them to administrate The fundamental aspect was the party of the first stroke the koan of the painter was a running joke the brush moves the ink the ink moves the brush only the mind is truly moving what a riddle what a rush the final aspect was all empty; all full none could understand it though all could feel its pull but in the second aspect we all became mired contemplating Buddha’s brood and the illusions that they sired

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Lyrics for Go By Train were inspired by the art of David Hamlow and written for his installation Archival Structure Two as diplayed at the Minnesota Biennial 3D II at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul in 2007-2008. Some lyrics may be profane and offensive to some.

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released September 25, 2006

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Jonathan Hamlow Minneapolis, Minnesota

Upon the rumor that he hatched from an egg laid in a dunghill and brooded by a toad the Artist vehemently denied. Upon the charge of being a semi-autonomous text generation engine, no comment was issued.

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