Objects in Space (live)
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Yesterday alone I laid everything out on the carpet
Books, kitchen things, objects with specific purpose or none
Arranged them sideways in a grid on the floor there unmoored
Out of context and then considered it
First the whole picture, then everything individually
Humming along at the deadest pace imaginable
One object then another and then the next
And I wondered what they meant there
If they meant anything still
Found notes
Camping supplies
A book you bought in the desert
"Identifying Wildflowers"
Pictures from vacations
From parties
Kitschy gifts we bought from rest stops
On that road trip out West
Objects
Everything itself
And then memory
All of it laid out there
From the dining room
The living room
The hallway and the basement and the kitchen
From that room we called the office
But never used
Even the bathroom
Everything laid out there on the floor on the carpet out of context
And I sat there for hours
Today I moved everything from the floor to the table in the dining room
Placed each thing carefully without reason or at least without one I understood or could describe
There on the table together and when I was done and stepped back I realized what I had made
Keepsakes Pictures Letters Ordinary objects all collected there
A memorial
And I thought of ones on highways or set by gravestones
All the things you see there but don't understand but still bring a remembered thing back vividly
Invoke someone's reality when there together in that place in that way out of context
And I knew I had to take it down before anybody else saw
Tomorrow I plan to put them all somewhere
Those things
In boxes
Side of the road
Attic maybe
All these things that push and pull me through history
To places I once was, places I might've gone, places I ended up going
Postcards
Ticket stubs from one thing or another
A personalized coffee mug neither your name nor mine
Phone cards and old phones
A page from an old calendar I bought once at a thrift store and insisted on hanging
That cycles of the moon print
Photos
Old boots of mine
Put them in boxes
And I sat there for hours
In the living room first
Then in the dining room
Moving things around
Picking things up and seeing where they took me
To what place in history
What moment on our timeline
Where we were, where I was, where I thought we'd end up
In this house or on the highway
Driving somewhere near Christmas
In the desert or anywhere else
And I put them in boxes
Books, kitchen things, objects with specific purpose or none
Arranged them sideways in a grid on the floor there unmoored
Out of context and then considered it
First the whole picture, then everything individually
Humming along at the deadest pace imaginable
One object then another and then the next
And I wondered what they meant there
If they meant anything still
Found notes
Camping supplies
A book you bought in the desert
"Identifying Wildflowers"
Pictures from vacations
From parties
Kitschy gifts we bought from rest stops
On that road trip out West
Objects
Everything itself
And then memory
All of it laid out there
From the dining room
The living room
The hallway and the basement and the kitchen
From that room we called the office
But never used
Even the bathroom
Everything laid out there on the floor on the carpet out of context
And I sat there for hours
Today I moved everything from the floor to the table in the dining room
Placed each thing carefully without reason or at least without one I understood or could describe
There on the table together and when I was done and stepped back I realized what I had made
Keepsakes Pictures Letters Ordinary objects all collected there
A memorial
And I thought of ones on highways or set by gravestones
All the things you see there but don't understand but still bring a remembered thing back vividly
Invoke someone's reality when there together in that place in that way out of context
And I knew I had to take it down before anybody else saw
Tomorrow I plan to put them all somewhere
Those things
In boxes
Side of the road
Attic maybe
All these things that push and pull me through history
To places I once was, places I might've gone, places I ended up going
Postcards
Ticket stubs from one thing or another
A personalized coffee mug neither your name nor mine
Phone cards and old phones
A page from an old calendar I bought once at a thrift store and insisted on hanging
That cycles of the moon print
Photos
Old boots of mine
Put them in boxes
And I sat there for hours
In the living room first
Then in the dining room
Moving things around
Picking things up and seeing where they took me
To what place in history
What moment on our timeline
Where we were, where I was, where I thought we'd end up
In this house or on the highway
Driving somewhere near Christmas
In the desert or anywhere else
And I put them in boxes
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:16.06] Yesterday alone I laid everything out on the carpet
[00:19.55] Books, kitchen things, objects with specific purpose or none
[00:24.36] Arranged them sideways in a grid on the floor there unmoored
[00:28.12] Out of context and then considered it
[00:30.15] First the whole picture, then everything individually
[00:32.13] Humming along at the deadest pace imaginable
[00:37.12] One object then another and then the next
[00:41.64] And I wondered what they meant there
[00:43.90] If they meant anything still
[00:48.30] Found notes
[00:49.81] Camping supplies
[00:51.72] A book you bought in the desert
[00:53.33] "Identifying Wildflowers"
[00:55.69] Pictures from vacations
[00:57.18] From parties
[00:59.07] Kitschy gifts we bought from rest stops
[01:00.95] On that road trip out West
[01:03.90] Objects
[01:05.93] Everything itself
[01:07.64] And then memory
[01:11.57] All of it laid out there
[01:12.89] From the dining room
[01:14.28] The living room
[01:15.50] The hallway and the basement and the kitchen
[01:18.79] From that room we called the office
[01:20.46] But never used
[01:22.44] Even the bathroom
[01:24.49] Everything laid out there on the floor on the carpet out of context
[01:40.19] And I sat there for hours
[01:51.43] Today I moved everything from the floor to the table in the dining room
[01:56.10] Placed each thing carefully without reason or at least without one I understood or could describe
[02:01.36] There on the table together and when I was done and stepped back I realized what I had made
[02:07.99] Keepsakes Pictures Letters Ordinary objects all collected there
[02:13.67] A memorial
[02:16.39] And I thought of ones on highways or set by gravestones
[02:19.84] All the things you see there but don't understand but still bring a remembered thing back vividly
[02:25.50] Invoke someone's reality when there together in that place in that way out of context
[02:33.11] And I knew I had to take it down before anybody else saw
[02:39.59] Tomorrow I plan to put them all somewhere
[02:42.11] Those things
[02:43.33] In boxes
[02:44.80] Side of the road
[02:45.93] Attic maybe
[02:47.85] All these things that push and pull me through history
[02:51.50] To places I once was, places I might've gone, places I ended up going
[03:01.12] Postcards
[03:02.32] Ticket stubs from one thing or another
[03:05.95] A personalized coffee mug neither your name nor mine
[03:10.92] Phone cards and old phones
[03:12.86] A page from an old calendar I bought once at a thrift store and insisted on hanging
[03:18.00] That cycles of the moon print
[03:20.59] Photos
[03:22.25] Old boots of mine
[03:26.18] Put them in boxes
[03:31.89] And I sat there for hours
[03:31.95] In the living room first
[03:35.34] Then in the dining room
[03:37.54] Moving things around
[03:39.24] Picking things up and seeing where they took me
[03:42.14] To what place in history
[03:44.68] What moment on our timeline
[03:46.94] Where we were, where I was, where I thought we'd end up
[03:53.01] In this house or on the highway
[03:55.17] Driving somewhere near Christmas
[03:57.82] In the desert or anywhere else
[04:01.42] And I put them in boxes
[04:03.74]
[00:19.55] Books, kitchen things, objects with specific purpose or none
[00:24.36] Arranged them sideways in a grid on the floor there unmoored
[00:28.12] Out of context and then considered it
[00:30.15] First the whole picture, then everything individually
[00:32.13] Humming along at the deadest pace imaginable
[00:37.12] One object then another and then the next
[00:41.64] And I wondered what they meant there
[00:43.90] If they meant anything still
[00:48.30] Found notes
[00:49.81] Camping supplies
[00:51.72] A book you bought in the desert
[00:53.33] "Identifying Wildflowers"
[00:55.69] Pictures from vacations
[00:57.18] From parties
[00:59.07] Kitschy gifts we bought from rest stops
[01:00.95] On that road trip out West
[01:03.90] Objects
[01:05.93] Everything itself
[01:07.64] And then memory
[01:11.57] All of it laid out there
[01:12.89] From the dining room
[01:14.28] The living room
[01:15.50] The hallway and the basement and the kitchen
[01:18.79] From that room we called the office
[01:20.46] But never used
[01:22.44] Even the bathroom
[01:24.49] Everything laid out there on the floor on the carpet out of context
[01:40.19] And I sat there for hours
[01:51.43] Today I moved everything from the floor to the table in the dining room
[01:56.10] Placed each thing carefully without reason or at least without one I understood or could describe
[02:01.36] There on the table together and when I was done and stepped back I realized what I had made
[02:07.99] Keepsakes Pictures Letters Ordinary objects all collected there
[02:13.67] A memorial
[02:16.39] And I thought of ones on highways or set by gravestones
[02:19.84] All the things you see there but don't understand but still bring a remembered thing back vividly
[02:25.50] Invoke someone's reality when there together in that place in that way out of context
[02:33.11] And I knew I had to take it down before anybody else saw
[02:39.59] Tomorrow I plan to put them all somewhere
[02:42.11] Those things
[02:43.33] In boxes
[02:44.80] Side of the road
[02:45.93] Attic maybe
[02:47.85] All these things that push and pull me through history
[02:51.50] To places I once was, places I might've gone, places I ended up going
[03:01.12] Postcards
[03:02.32] Ticket stubs from one thing or another
[03:05.95] A personalized coffee mug neither your name nor mine
[03:10.92] Phone cards and old phones
[03:12.86] A page from an old calendar I bought once at a thrift store and insisted on hanging
[03:18.00] That cycles of the moon print
[03:20.59] Photos
[03:22.25] Old boots of mine
[03:26.18] Put them in boxes
[03:31.89] And I sat there for hours
[03:31.95] In the living room first
[03:35.34] Then in the dining room
[03:37.54] Moving things around
[03:39.24] Picking things up and seeing where they took me
[03:42.14] To what place in history
[03:44.68] What moment on our timeline
[03:46.94] Where we were, where I was, where I thought we'd end up
[03:53.01] In this house or on the highway
[03:55.17] Driving somewhere near Christmas
[03:57.82] In the desert or anywhere else
[04:01.42] And I put them in boxes
[04:03.74]