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MUSIC IS LIKE EXERCISE FOR WORDS

from The Natural Sweetness of Cream by Stoney Spring

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Music is like exercise for words.
Music is like exercise for words.
Music is like exercise for words.

Words Sit around, grown useless weak and flabby
Get up run around through those streets and those alleys.
Make ‘em sweat, make ‘em shine.
Make ‘em swim, make ‘em climb.
Make ‘em memorize these coordinates in space and time.
Cut 'em up in pieces, eights and quarters and thirds.
‘Cause Music is like exercise for words.

Words sit around and wither on the vine
And I don't even know if they're yours of if they're mine.
So I put 'em to work, run the hills of my mind.
Rhythm is the better half of time. Walk in circles, ticking tocking running time.

Have you heard the one about the chubby worker?
He knows more than you ever will.
And the knowledge you got in college is increasingly decreasing,
Like a bloodbank bum you sell your brain to the surveillance economy
As you snap another photo of the world's slowest lobotomy.
But the words that man whistles as he moves around in circles
Say "Music is like exercise for words."

Well we've used all our words till they're worthless.
They dick around all day on Facebook acting cute
And then you expect you them to do something worthwhile.
And then you act surprised when they can’t walk half a mile
When you're all alone you speak freely,
So listen carefully,
Music runs and hunts and chases, forces words to breathe.
It's the first time they've mediated in 143 weeks.
As breathing releases, physicality increases
Destroy your temples and your pimples, and all your fucking problems,
Music is like exercise for words.

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from The Natural Sweetness of Cream, released October 20, 2017
Background vocals: Rob Waller and Paul Lacques

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Stoney Spring Los Angeles, California

Featuring the founding members of acclaimed alt-country band I SEE HAWKS IN L.A., Stoney Spring still has one toe in American roots music. But songs like Revenge Rock, New Blood and Swimming Class bring to mind a bold hybrid of Captain Beefheart and mid-'70s Neil Young.
The driving force behind Stoney Spring is Anthony Lacques, the Hawks' original drummer and still one of its songwriters. ... more

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