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The Milk

by Ortega Fuerte

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Human Smoke 02:07
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I'm all alone/ on the beautiful road The plane touches down/ too slow to explode I'm all alone With the human smoke And I have to fix/ everyone All by myself. Each broken bone/ each unknown ache I am covered with blood/ I'm all by myself
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These Onions 01:58
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I grow these onions/ I grow them myself They're dried, chipped and bottled and they're put on a shelf I trade these onions for a bottle of wine. I trade these onions for a piece of your time. I trade these onions with a good friend of mine. I get soil in my fingernails early in the morning. Sunny day, rainy day, early in the morning. Water from the well drawn up early in the morning. Fire burning, kettle brewing, early in the morning. I make mistakes/ Oh no I do it alright. Keep this dichotomy strung the way that I like. I spill my coffee on the seat of my car. Complain about it, yeah I act like a star Hitch my troubles to the trailer that I drag to the bar. I get cigarette fingertips later in the evening Communicating complicated later in the evening A thing on my body blinks twice later in the evening The message storing system linking late into the evening, I loot.
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Overt Like a Shirt 03:27
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We're winding like a wind Across the long gray land Where an ocean used to sway Stretching our peninsular point of view Across the long dry day See them threshing the grain Mountains in the distance, Battleship gray Defending the mouth of the long dry bay. Somebody poisoned the well/ he did it for himself The message on his shirt/ was just too overt A million people bought it/ a million people hurt A million people hurt a similar hurt/ Ain't it surprising that the marketing's sound: You're either upper crust or underground But in the morning, there were shores There were people fishing the shores. There was ground, people walking the ground-- There was sound, people touched with the sound. There were stars There were people drawing lines. There was time/ There were people marking twine. Something that happens briefly/ Something that happens briefly/ Something that happens briefly...
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Wings of Excelsior 03:43
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Before he goes to work/ be sure to fasten his wings They button to the back of his coat/ wings of excelsior Make sure he's always right/ no matter what the scientists mights say What do they know/ of course he's right/ He's got his wings/ What more does he need/ He's got his wings and his chart When people move their hands While fast asleep or making points/ to reach something and clutch it in Becomes the strongest gesture of a person's Who I Am To have it sings your blood and bones a Christmas Song It cuts your childish fear a slice of cake It decorates your lake with yellow moons.
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The Memory Song 02:52
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Imagine that fashion believes that it's real: It takes a diamond to know how someone feels/ To know/ The way you feel/ Does compressed carbon symbolize true love is what you thought/ Or does it simply symbolize your love can be bought? We jump into vehicles with people we don't know. If we were us again/ where would we go? Where/ would we go? Does doing something symbolize we're doing something else. Does symbolizing something symbolize something else? Nobody's telling you the truth. 'Cause you can't memorize the truth. You have to know it when you recognize the truth. Do you still recognize the truth? Memorize this sequence all the way through. How does it do what you memorize it to/ what you memorize it to/ Never mind someone's already figured out for you. So you don't have to memorize the Why it wanted to.
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Dog Shelter 02:28
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How I met your scribbled sister: on the wing of a paper plane Walking to the hilltop dog shelter Legs collecting stings and scrapes. And the cloud of the dogs barking... Working hands clutch locks and leash chains/ Rubber bands hold hair and letters/ Some of these things still remain. The soup we made in the old apartment left a window in the bottom of the bowl/ Looking through your mothered mishaps/ Cage and curtain, forward roll. And the cloud of the dogs barking: Neighbor's basement is rank with AIDS/ Stick your toe into the gas chamber/ William Faulkner is not afraid. And I receive this bread, oh to break for you today. And I believe the dead/ Are never ever ever ever ever gonna go away. Broken screws in the brand new coffin/ the worn-out bible on the mistletoe tree/ Can't hear a thing outside of all of that barking/ Looks like the shelter set another one free/ Down the deadgrass hill rolls a grey creature/ Look up his picture in the Audubon guide. He mocks the lecture of the homeroom teacher/ One of these days, she's gonna tan that hide.
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The Old Cardboard Way 03:17
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Town Hall 03:01
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Dyed in the Wool 03:28
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10.
Garage 02:22
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11.
Grandmother Chang 06:10
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Uncle Sandbag Souvenirs 03:34
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13.
The Tea 03:06
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14.
The Beach Inside the Mall 03:21
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15.
Integrar Para Nao Entregar 10:06
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released February 18, 2006

Produced by Chris Rohlf

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Ortega Fuerte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ortega Fuerte are a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists founded in 2003 by core member Hugo Grayling and often including the contributions of Air Anchor's Chris Rohlf.

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