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Strangers, Vol. 1

by Derek Porter

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1.
All I Know Will Be Forgotten 02:50
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All I know will be forgotten Everything I’ve seen will pass away And I’ve been trying to remember I’ve been trying But I can’t quite get it right Our birth’s a sleep and a forgetting What was it that I used to be? Some purer me I feel a presence – it’s disturbing I am ajar the draft is fine A sense sublime I’ve got you right where I can use you Right where I can say You roll right on through everything You don’t, spring catch Keep choking your neck All I know will be forgotten All I’ve seen will pass away And I’ve been trying to remember I’ve been trying But I can’t quite get it right
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Your Fruit 03:42
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I dreamt you were dead That you caught a disease And your memory, it hung It was fruit on a tree Your branches were bowing Were begging of me To taste your fruit Or forget you I split my lips I set my teeth It’s been so long Since you’ve bitten me Since you’ve spun my stem Sung your ABCs Or steeped yourself In irony I bite the skin around your body Dream up words to skin your memory But they won’t do If I learned a hundred languages I’d still Barely taste Your fruit Such strange fruit
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I Remember 02:54
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Every now and then I get a little ‘round the bend I get a little A little ‘round the bend Every once in a blue moon I get real drunk and I talk to you I’m drinking up I’m staying up with you But I can’t remember My first remember I just remember All these full moonbeams And solid things And sick kid dreams I remember I remember A little bit of everything After my parasite It was real when I was younger When I drank all your water And you saved my life I make believe I talk to you When we both know it isn’t true When there’s no way in hell You’d talk to me Still every time I gotta sneeze I do so on my bended knee I’ll be damned If you’re not in such subtlety But I can’t recall Your touch at all Not since I saw All your wagging tongues My mystery train Its adage was – we saw it all We remember We saw everything In the dark of the night It’s truer when you’re older But one dip in the water Might save your life
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I Forgot 02:32
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May your memory bless you May you remain in light May your memory keep you Out of my dreams tonight May you rest in ruin Before the bleeding starts May I rest there too if I forget where it is that you are But if I remember where to start Tap my toes, the tempo In this disco of mine It moves so slow I tap my toes I forget that I’m doing fine And I make up for lost time I felt you in the daytime I felt you in the dark How to let go, I did not know While you held down my heart Now I remember where to start Oh my god, I forgot
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Hermeticist/Alchemist 02:37
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Watching for the signs Pray your body calm Break the bread and drink the wine Bleeding, bleeding taste the sponge Oh, Mother Mary Oh, Mother Mary Change
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The Rabble, Pt. 1 01:07
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The songs on Strangers, Vol. 1 deal with the idea of distance and disillusionment - from oneself, from one's God, from what-have-you. I consider them a difficult but rewarding set, one to which I'm very devoted.

This is the first of two volumes - the second is already written and principal tracking has begun.

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released March 15, 2010

All songs written, performed and recorded by Derek Porter.

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Derek Porter Nashville, Tennessee

Derek Porter is a songwriter from Chicago currently based out of Nashville, TN. He performs with the group Pageant and writes for the group Little Sisters.

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