SOTW : THE MICROPHONES : I FELT MY SIZE

the heat from the closeness of me tilting towards the sun
was storing up to ignite the night and light up
the coldness of the cave the billowy flames lit up my face
the thinning smoke hung in the branches waiting for wind
my front was warm, the cold backs of my arms
never felt the dawn, the night was long
when the real dawn came i saw it crawl over the hill
and i felt clean and shook my hair out in the light
i looked up and hurt my eyes on the painful powerful sky
i looked down and felt motion under me
i looked out across the freeway at the people flying by
and turned my head, i closed my eyes, i felt my size
i recalled my fire, and my lack of dawn
my one sided warmth, i just wanted more
but i’m small, i’m not a planet at all
i’m small, i’m small, we are all

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Deluxe Edition #2 – The Microphones – I Felt My Size (Acoustic) // The Moon (Version)

My favorite tracks off the 2008 K records reissue bonus disc.

Phil Elvrum on the bonus disc:

“There were about six actual songs from the Glow era that hadn’t been released. So there are those, and then I just made these things I called “destroyed versions.” They aren’t really remixes, because remixes tend to imply you add a house beat. I didn’t add anything, I just took stuff away. So it ended up being a studio collage where I spliced tape together and added weird stuff, backwards tracks, part of one song on top of part of another song. It was a weird, chaotic mash-up of the album. They’re all excerpts from the album versions themselves.”

The_Microphones – I_Felt_My_Size_(Acoustic)

The_Microphones – The_Moon_(Version)

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