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Ransom Notes

from Ransom Notes (Single) by Other Families

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Recorded and Produced by Jesse Manou at The Other Families Recording Company.

Side A - Ransom Notes
Side B - ALRIGHT [Kendrick RESET_

lyrics

RANSOM NOTES:

Suspect,
animals do take some sympathy on men.
Cannibal,
a praying mantis-- yes,

symbol blade.

Here’s nothing
only the stairs.
Blisters sequin symmetry
there.


Calm down.
Down.


This armour caresses me a little bit. It’s serpentine,
and glows within a neon sign.

What’s crouching at the foot of my bed,
distinguished guest? I’m ashamed!


I ripped off the side of hurricanes
saw the patience in my

Life’s a feast for animals,
passionate as we go.

Turn the lantern of your face.

Flies careen into the wall
like helicopters gone a--

I’ll carry I’ll carry my own.
god knows you’re a good person, rag.

My body’s a mailbox for ransom notes.

and everybody loves the sunshine.

god knows you’re a good person, rag,

and pictures other people take.
But in my mind there’s a fire,
i don’t recognize

your face.

So shake your knives--
look at my satellite dish…
as I go back and
dust away the traces of your entrance.

Here the dust is trapped,
now all the angels go a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Your face!

Doll duck under.
He blinks black.
He built a house for us out of japanese crepe paper on fire in the forests of glass.

Birds trade lives
(dragonflies),
so the dragonflies become lizards and they search in the footprints for traces of

bones.
pet.
cognomen.

Distinguished guest!
animals do take some sympathy on men, cannibal.
A praying mantis yes.


My body’s a mailbox for ransom notes
and pictures other people take,
winds change with my mind and scrape
what never was away:
more furniture for a home I’ll chase
to the ends of the earth.

The word of the day is hours.
pulling weeds from the ground’s wall where they’re
anchored and pale, more civil
than you sink. In sunburst
clay clouds stripe the sky
like a couch where airports
Chill pills spill and climb
out of the cracks. A line
of pink caulking, like
long intestines, goes round
the house in a divot the worm coils,half-coils
its organ the hornet throbs, prey
of the sinks swallow. discovering insects the word of the day is ours, for free, a gazelle coloured rainbow crinkle

sprinklers


Suspect, dust the traces of your entrance off the carpet.
We’re peeking through the gloom.
Everything under the sun is too
true.

credits

from Ransom Notes (Single), released June 2, 2016
Zach Buck - Lyrics, Vocals
Jesse Manou - Electronic Percussion, Drums, Bass, Synth
Chris Ning - Vocals
Seabeau - Vocals, Piano
Lucas Manou - Trombone
Ola Kado - Violin
Nicole Cain - Additional Bass Guitar
Sonica Carnegie - Choral Vox

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Other Families Toronto, Ontario

Experimental DIY arts collective.
We are self-made, self-produced and we've independently released everything we've put out.

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