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by Zoe Boekbinder

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trackonrepeat A massive undertaking that yielded impressive results. This is a special album in the context of Boekbinder's other works because you can see recurring concepts, including an entire verse being given new life in the more recent song "Becoming a Nun" from Shadow. The last 30 or so songs make up a musical, showing off an impressive range of vocal tones. Worth all 3 hours and 40 minutes of your time.
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Lee Ann Ratzlaff Zoe is one of my favorite musicians. Her voice is incredible, with a range from operatic to raspy, and her prowess with a variety of instruments continuously amazes me.
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Too Late 03:49
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Missouri 02:40
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One Cure 02:06
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Big To Do 01:12
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Sick 02:12
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Supernatural 02:24
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51 02:44
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Riots 03:06
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Every Song 02:46
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Your Way 00:47
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Fade 00:58
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Humdrum 00:56
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Tough Enough 02:19
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Gigi's Bed 02:16
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Baby Bandit 02:38
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Dark Light 01:29
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Secrets 02:46
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Little 02:32
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Human Person 01:10
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21+ 02:00
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Stuffy 00:41
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Today 01:08
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Elijah 02:34
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Stop Talking 01:42
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Marrow 01:48
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Atrocity 02:01
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Adult 01:20
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Profits 02:30
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Gory Fiction 01:18
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Giant Swells 02:01
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Out story begins with an autumn morning after the rains been pouring outside of the city on a one lane road with the city still close a city much smaller than others around and for nothing renowned yet overly proud a boasting that tried compensate for being such a sleepy place its a place where you will never go on a planet of which you don't know though its much like your own, or so I've heard at least it was before this occurred but let us return to the story before i give it away now that you can picture the place now that i've set the stage onto introductions as I turn the page in walks the star of our production
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I’ll Put Life Back in You What a lovely morning no people I can see and the buzzards are soaring high above the trees when they double back and circle round and round then I’m on their track a treasure has been found just a little thing that lost its life in the ring but I’ll put life back in it I know I’m getting near the vulture’s overhead could that be an oaklamere on the ground there dead? I thought they all died years ago in a flood of acid rain but here one is with a bullet hole perhaps the last and such a shame you’re just a little one lost your life to a gun but I’ll put life back in you
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The subject of our story has been witness to a gory scene this person’s name is Quill a title quite felicitous standing there spooky and still by nature inconspicuous Quill bends down to touch the beast cold there in the leaves muttering a prayer it seems acting as though bereaved after a very long time Quill gently lifts up the oaklamere then begins the long climb eyes still full of tears
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What a glorious creature you were don’t worry, you will be once more I will be gentle with your skin and fur fill with straw once I’ve emptied your core I will put braces on both of your wings pose them stretched out wide so you can still feel the rush of the wind forever you can fly once we get to the top of the bluff my house won’t be far its not much but its enough its small but its all ours there are many friends for you creatures of all kinds years left in life, i have a few but you will have all time wait, i hear some squawking slogs they’re getting closer now soon we’ll be lost in the fog where they will never track us down I’m not sure we’ll beat them there I feel them closing in their bulbous noses in the air your stink thick in the wind
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The slogs caught up and were called off just in time by two hunters following fast at first the two apologized but they saw as they passed and each let out a gasp
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Whats on your shoulder? Stranger, come here. I don't believe it. Its an oaklamere. What we thought was legend now we see with our eyes but tell us kid how did it die? give it here we want to see is that a bullet hole? come on now, speak! well, there's no need. clearly you're the one. your silence shows you're not innocent. we have no choice but to bring you to town to see the sheriff then you'll have to make a sound give me the bird i'll take it if i must resistance won't work don't put up a fuss the sheriff will reward us killer captors must get paid so come on now we're on our way
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I've been avoiding human kind its been years since I've seen one with my eyes now these two yelling all the way to town I can't speak at all, can't make a sound my voice is dead and buried in the ground. always been silent, without a word to read and write, i never learned if only i could just explain I never caused them any pain will they let me survive that oaklamere must be revived let me put life back in it let me put life back in it
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This city is so sleepy its the sleepiest around its so quiet no one really makes a sound not much crime to speak of only petty little things we've got this town under control its the order law brings I'm glad its safe for my family and happy to do my job well but sometimes I want some excitement a story to tell in the old days I was a hero I locked bad people away these days it seems like I've got no job at all just don't tell city hall this town never makes planet news our own paper is boring to read a story of the same escaped slog has been the headline all week chorus first verse
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The hunters had Quill by the arm a citizen's arrest the oaklamere slung over one shoulder red blood on a green vest they dragged Quill all through town straight to the police department they busted into the sheriff's office and began their exaggerated statement
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Sheriff, its urgent look what we found this kid in the forest no one else around ravaging this creature look right here you won't believe it its an oaklamere the evidence is gory see the blood on the kid's hands we couldn't let the killer go we had to take a stand see on its neck clearly a bullet hole where the gun is i don't know the kid must have stashed it suspicion runs high a villain in our midst committed genocide perhaps it wasn't what we thought just some acid rain it was the kid all along what will the environmentalists say? Sheriff we were scared frankly terrified but we need not be rewarded for risking our lives we conquered this monster stronger than it looks you've got to believe us when we tell of the strength it took
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an oaklamere how very queer i thought they were extinct but it is real as i can feel even after i blink risks you did take to keep this town safe for that here is your bounty now go at once and go get drunk while i lock this con up in county good night you chums goodbye, well done beck to your city travel safe i pinch my skin the smooth leather I'm in and realize I'm awake this villain arrives and just in time to paint me as a hero the election is coming my competitor running with this will get zero now to your cell to sit and dwell on this mistake you made you'll inspire nightmares with the stories I'll share of this creature you slayed
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Listen to the Judge's advice and don't lose sight of what is wrong and what is right its wrong to kill an oaklamere to shoot it with a gun its right to defend the defenseless to stand up for the little ones its clear this person is dangerous and has a taste for gore what was Quill killing these animals for? a personal museum a corpse collection a shrine to death itself a deadly affection will it stop with animals will Quill become fed up? will Quill get bored and move on to us? its begun with pets already consider the missing slog if you think Quill is innocent imagine if you're wrong do you want those deaths on your head? imagine our children stuffed! ask yourself when enough is enough imagine a personal museum a corpse collection a shrine to death itself a deadly affection the evidence is clear we're counting on you now lock this killer away for the safety of our town just look at that face Quill is disturbed only a sociopath would ever have the urge to have a personal museum a corpse collection a shrine to death itself a deadly affection
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there is little evidence to support this claim they never even found the gun on someone who cannot protest its easy to place blame but I say Quill is not the one unable to testify mute and cannot write we can't be sure of anything at all speaking of defenseless Quill here cannot fight does that mean that they should fall? its a possibility Quill found the creature dead is simply carrying it wrong? if Quill could speak what would Quill have said and would those words have been a song? let me put life back in it
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the hunters having left town could not be found not a single witness around no evidence to present no story to defend it was already the end before it began and now the jury decides
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we the jury decide without reasonable doubt Quill endangers our lives theres one way to sort it out we the jury do find the defendant to be guilty the sentence is ten years to life
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all the little creatures all the little creatures i will never revive never bring back to life and what of all the ones i saved before? where will they go now i can't keep them anymore? all the little creatures all the little creatures will rot on the ground by buzzards be found they will never stand and never fly while i wait alone to die that precious oaklamere its rotten by now i fear it will never live again gone for good like way back when it will never see through marble eyes poor thing had two times to die all the little creatures all the little creatures let me put life back it them i want to put life back in them
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extra! extra! read all about it! oaklamere killer gets ten years to life the shortest hearing in the history of the court no witnesses and no evidence Luceph Large made one compelling speech now the killer is behind a fence your children are able to come outside today our city is safe again extra! extra! read all about it! sheriff gives an exclusive interview tour the home of the crazed killer see the photos from the scene of the crime the sheriff reveals the killer's sick collection Quill has an obsessive mind buses leaving daily from the square see the house from the inside extra!
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yes dear yes dear as you wish I'll get it done and make it quick I'll get work to you when its complete thank you dear, have a splendid day when you pick up then you can pay goodbye goodbye goodbye good grief what a dull job this had become they're all trophies now, every last one a proud and morbid celebration its not why I started when I was young I did it for the creatures that I love so much for immortalization but whats this, my name in the paper, I see? someone was inspired by me used my book to make a shrine the pictures show the work is fine this person is charged with murder, says here for killing the very last oaklamere doesn't make sense, the work shows such care and none of these other creatures are rare I'll look into this, soon I will I must meet this prisoner Quill
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Now we see Quill in a cell the stillness is unsettling the cold grey walls and the cold grey bars are altogether menacing a guard comes by to clear a tray the food there is untouched there is a threat of punishment if Quill continues as such but it has only been three days since Quill was locked up
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Extra extra read all about it killer dies in prison cause of death unprecedented extra extra read all about it coroner believes it may have been sadness no one has seen something like this before the floor of the cell was flooded with tears six inches deep and Quill never weeped there were no sounds of wailing such a show of sorrow seems to bring to question the quickness of Quill's conviction Extra extra read all about it Quill is to be buried in the prison cemetery
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I say good riddance, I say keeping Quill alive was a waste Quill was dangerously strange Quill was different and deranged someone who did not behave and could not speak to explain I say good riddance, I say keeping Quill alive was a waste I stand by the arguments I made and for the crime Quill has justly paid a life for a life, thats what I say Quill was a killer and killed just for play I say good riddance, I say keeping Quill alive was a waste and think of all the money we have saved now the streets of our city can be repaved
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I never had an apprentice I never had a protege could I have prevented this? Quill died of sadness yesterday Quill modeled after me but what does my work even mean? nothing compared to what Quill made I just work to get paid I never had an apprentice I never had a protege could I have prevented this? Quill died in prison yesterday this is not happenstance I'm meant to give Quill a second chance I'll give meaning to Quill's sad fate like for our creatures, its not too late I never had an apprentice I never had a protege I wasn't meant to prevent this Quill had to die this way
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the prison is heavily guarded unlike the prison cemetery criminals never escape once they're dead and buried unless they are dug up and carried Finius Feather snuck in thought no sneaking was required a shovel snuck over shoulder stepping easily over the wire Dear Feather dug for three hours straight until the shovel struck wood Finius pried the box open it wasn't easy but it felt good the shovel left behind Quill's body took its place heavier than Finius and Quill's body was a dead weight still Dear Feather did race panting and red in the face Fin kept a good pace
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Dear Quill I am your apprentice now teach me how to give you life now I've raised you from the ground I will use my knives to gently free your hide you'll no more need to cry with your new marble eyes let me put life back in you you will stand tall your legs will never tire you will be perfection you will be admired your arms will stretch out wide a martyr's pose clay in your fingers and clay in your toes I will put life back in you I will surround you with creatures of all kinds I broke into your house on the hill and took every one I could find I've sewn up your skin now you're straw inside the sky is growing dark and finally it is time I have put life back in you
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When the sun rose the next morning the people of the town gathered in the square and guess what they found Quill perched up high looking down it was a breathtaking sight the crowd was growing in size no one made a sound they barely blinked their eyes watching death in a lovely disguise the square was decorated with creatures a thousand marbles watching Quill who was alive and who was deas? everyone equally still to see it would give you a chill this followed for three days and nights some praying in whispers and hums mostly only silence on the third day what came with the sun Luceph Large looking humble for once the confession had already begun
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I've come to say it was a lie I see the truth now in Quill's face none of these creatures had to die Quill's love brought them back to stay I made it up and even I believed Quill's silence filled me with fear but now I know and now I grieve my evil now shows so clear I don't deserve to be alive I should go and be unseen don't bring me back with marble eyes leave me to the buzzards to feed I can't live with this mistake I created so much hate now its the peoples' choice to make to live or die, which is my fate? be merciful, let me die in turn self loathing will kill me anyway Quill had to die so we could learn and I can't live with that another day
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We will decide if you live or die Luceph Large you came to realize on your own, your lies can't be condoned Quill demands we claim your bones bones bones we will take life out of you we will take life out of you should we let you suffer though? would Quill want it to be so? no need to ask, we already know Quill would not wish that, even on a foe We'll show mercy in Quill's name though for this you are to blame your face will no more be known be still while we claim your bones bones bones we will take life out of you we will take life out of you we will take life out of you

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A challenge album: I am writing, recording, and posting one song per day for 100 consecutive days. Oct 1 - Jan 8

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Zoe Boekbinder New Orleans, Louisiana

Nomadic at heart and a creator at their core, Zoe Boekbinder (they/them) was born on a farm into a family of four children. While music wasn't very present in their upbringing, Boekbinder recalls some of their first memories as making up songs. For them, music is as natural and as necessary as breath. Songwriting has become their resistance language. ... more

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