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Clouds and Cages

by Matt Kjeldsen

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1.
Insipid 03:11
nobody cares about insipid little songs nobody living here will ever sing along so write it down, dream, envision it and long nobody cares about insipid little songs nobody cares about your vision of the world or wants to hear about the future to unfurl so throw your poems and lectures into the whirl nobody cares about your reasons for the world cause the Earth is spinning at one thousand miles per hour through an endless universe of frightening power and the Earth is flying around a giant ball of fire at sixty seven thousand miles per hour nobody cares about the lessons you once taught nobody living now cares what the dead once thought it’s just a game get down, get high and get off nobody cares about your insipid little thoughts the Milky Way’s rotating and we’re flying around its center at four hundred and ninety thousand miles per hour standard deviation and we’re sailing at two hundred and forty two miles per second toward the Leo constellation there are one hundred billion galaxies residing in the universe yet observed from here and our Milky Way will collide with Andromeda in a mere five billion years
2.
why did you leave me here? why did you fly this empty room? where the city lights seep through my window forming ghosts and shadows of faded gray and blue why did this city change? why did the music die and leave a tomb? and these barren walls, now sad reminders just ghosts and shadows of faded gray and blue why did the fates step in? why did your spirit fly and leave this gloom? and these aching notes won’t help me find you in the ghosts and shadows of faded gray and blue ghosts and shadows, haunting visions of you
3.
build your prison people complete the walls build your prison neighbors we will protect you all build your prison children we have assumed control build your prison comrades we own your minds and your souls respect your AI wardens they’ll make it safe to live and this surveillance web is your protection grid nestle in to the mega-city no need for private land your rented air and coffin home are courtesies of life within the master plan give up your liberties in the name of a greater nation pay no attention to the poppy-cocks above your station we appreciate cooperation in your servile subjugation it’s a lifeless, lovely lie incarceration nation build your prison people complete the walls build your prison neighbors we will protect you all build your prison children we have assumed control build your prison comrades we own your minds and your souls incarceration nation incarceration nation
4.
Ready to Fly 04:09
it’s all passed me by it’s all passed me by in the blink of an eye it’s all passed us by it’s all passed us by we gave it all away it’s all passed us by what if it’s too late to shine while you still live you own the time what if it’s too late to shine while you’re still breathing find the rhyme the future is the night the sun no longer shines but today is yours, today is mine and I’m ready to fly ready to fly what if it’s too late to shine while you still live you own the time what if it’s too late to shine while you’re still breathing find the rhyme the future is a dream that we all hope to find but, today is yours, today is mine what if it’s too late to shine while you still live you own the time what if it’s too late to shine while you’re still breathing find the rhyme the future is the night the sun no longer shines but today is yours, today is mine and I’m ready to fly ready to fly
5.
slow motion homicide slow motion homicide you and me have x’s on our freedom loving hides as we die from slow motion homicide look up and breathe the metal from the skies look down and eat the poison in your pie take your injections and swallow all the lies absorb the airwaves and prepare to die slow motion homicide slow motion homicide you and me have x’s on our freedom loving hides as we die from slow motion homicide stand in line and don’t ya dare ask why conspiracies aren’t true those people lie, lie, lie everything around you is a product you must buy take your pills and meekly say goodbye reality is carefully contrived for those too lost in simulation to survive the test is finding wisdom when illumination lies open up your third eye and let the truth arise slow motion homicide slow motion homicide you and me have x’s on our freedom loving hides as we die from slow motion homicide as we die from slow motion homicide
6.
beyond the beyond beyond the beyond on a tiny planet, mostly water moving very close to Mars life seeks its last chance for survival with a journey to the stars beyond the beyond beyond the beyond when all is lost for life in this world all that remains are star ward dreams a second chance at living forward beyond this planetary stream where forms of carbon needing water and air provided by the trees where daylight follows every nighttime and life is present in the breeze beyond the beyond beyond the beyond a tiny planet, mostly water appears beyond a warming star a second chance for survival for future flyers from afar beyond the beyond beyond the beyond
7.
naked stands the king dressed in full delusion presiding over everything a masterful illusion where every prol is happy all the peons are fulfilled the wars are talked of on tv no blood is ever spilled the people are connected so together, they are fooled news served to the collective is but, the rise and fall of tools and never do the people ask what lies beyond our gates of poisoned food and modified air the dead stare into fate and naked stands the puppet rube the mirror loves him so every word a promise betrayed life is death and yes is no games and gadgets control the children fashioned and fitted to trace and track every sense awash in distortion every organ under attack But alas, the ceaseless slow cull is supplanted by the fast the injections of the debt slaves consumed health and wealth en masse but the reptiles grew impatient for the planet to be erased of all the human animals no longer needed by their race now metallic machines service the lords so humans must die by chemical sword all resistance bred out subservience well trained the cattle line up and take a bullet to the brain and the narcissist clown adjusts his crown and paints a sad-ish tear from the corner of his eye, a dark heart cries and seeps a trace of fear for on this day, the triumphant play is finally thus concluded and the world has been freed of the livestock to feed and their spirits diluted I wonder, your Royal Highness he queried to his reflection as if the answer would appear in his mirror of inspection if vanquished are the followers and there’s no more blood to bleed who then remains to kneel, for this marionette to lead? and the naked actor shrivels the adulation fully bled the world belongs to the lizards who feast upon the dead and the puerile peacock who sold the scams the poseur for the plan is nothing more than lizard food the remnants of a man the remnants of a man
8.
Mind Blown 04:16
my mind’s been blown but I’m not crazy no I’m not crazy a seed is sown an answer lies and deeper whys reveal unknown an eagle flies with hidden plans but never lands a metallic bird flying clear won’t disappear no matter what you’ve heard there is a darkness in this world that leads us spinning in the night deceit is deadly, paralyzed by our own plight but you know darkness fears the light my mind’s been blown my mind’s been blown away there is a light left in this world a brave companion in the fight a life is lived and passed, a candle in the night and the darkness fears the light
9.
at first there was a vision and everything was me nothing happened anywhere that I couldn’t see life began when I did the world around me was the world every action, my reaction every day a play, mine to unfurl and then came realization life didn’t exist to serve me and life persisted onward with or without me, with or without me rough then was discovering I wasn’t in the inner ring there was an order to the universe, I was the jester, not the king but alas, the days and nights of hurried tasks and ceaseless chores led to a love and magic in the rush of more and more and the new life I had fathered would be sheltered from the storm as I watched my own dad shine and then fade in human form and the dreams were dashed and cashed away in hopes for days ahead while most days the sun rose as I slumbered I was fatigued and lost in fate or just too late to watch it set every day and every week every year of find and seek the sunsets were forgotten in the maelstrom of it all in the finding and the keeping and the losing and the weeping in the cheering and the hoping in the praying and the coping life slips away as we hope for better days there is capturing the sunsets along the way we fill our hearts with the hope that we have lived, we have achieved and some shred of us remains when our spirit simply leaves at first there was a vision of everything to be what’s left are just decisions between the sunsets and the sea
10.
One Life 05:36
no second chances there are no second chances for you here you chose your poison so let’s be clear there is no salvation just quiet summation determination there are no second chances for you here the truth must be fought for it isn’t offered up for free you must earn it you must want to see there is no redemption there is no exception no exemption for it is now or never will it be one life one life the ride is finite there are no new lives yet to relive we choose our own paths we take and we give there is no salvation just quiet summation then termination there are no second chances for us here one life one life and no second chances one life
11.
Come Along 03:28
we’re gonna heal the day we’re gonna change the way we’re gonna write this play instead of fading away stop fading away we’re not fading away come along if you feel alright come along you can free yourself come along do not fear the night come along and change the world the future days are ours the numbers and the power we face the zero hour the guard tower will fall together we are tall they can’t get us all come along if you feel alright come along you can free yourself come along do not fear the night come along and change the world we are relevant their time came and went we must not relent we are meant to stay stop fading away we’re not fading away come along if you feel alright come along you can free yourself come along do not fear the night come along and change the world
12.
scintillating scenery a vision for the blind where real is warped and wonderful ordinary and sublime follow disconnections disregard all signs and enter through the exit to the empire of the mind the empire of the mind whispers turn to moans in the whipping of the wind and the sun must be extinguished before the moon lighting begins nothing lasts forever sans the eternity of time so travel with alacrity to the empire of the mind the empire of the mind

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released April 7, 2015

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Matt Kjeldsen Austin, Texas

With well over 1000 songs to his name and about one hundred independently produced and released albums over the past decades, Matt Kjeldsen is a veteran of the music industry and the eclectic Austin, Texas scene. His sound ranges in tone from irreverent to sublime, from angry to resigned, from simple tracks to grand soundscapes, from singer-songwriter to avant-garde groove designer. ... more

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