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MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT: an LP written, recorded, and released in 24 hours

by Alex Reed

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V1 I caught just a glimpse as you Left the planet Lightning from the ground So I spent half my life learning Ways I could follow your lead To borrow your speed Now at last at last I'm watching from space But you're back down below And you're wearing my face And I'm laughing though Nothing is funny in the dark I just wanna make a spark Chorus We switch back like current We're opposites thrust In electrical Dances of minus and plus Our polarities split And we can't set it right You're day into day And I'm midnight to midnight You were born at the instant I died on my first go around And I've chased you through Masquerade parties And funeral trysts But always just missed Now at last at last You hold court in a room Where the clockface is frozen forever At noon And I'm kicking the door Invitation in hand But my name is spelled nowhere man Quicksilver, quicksand And I crash land Chorus We switch back like current We're opposites thrust In electrical Dances of minus and plus Our polarities split And we can't set it right You're day into day And I'm midnight to midnight The dirge and the midwife The squid and shipwight And the priest in the redlight I'm midnight to midnight
2.
Marianne 03:34
It's getting better in here Jack is making friends with all the others in here Kelsey and Marie have learned to stop interfering With the dreams that Alyssa Brings to me It's almost normal in here Ty divides his time with Adrian and Guinevere Since you last checked in with me There's not much that I fear There's just one thing There's just one thing It's Marianne She don't get along with the rest of them Poor Marianne She always wants to be alone It's awful busy in here Still I think it's calmer than it was this time last year I can keep a job as long as she stays clear Just gotta keep her down Gotta keep her down But Marianne is cavalier Paints her face in blood and shakes a gilded spear Scares the other kids until they disappear Can't keep her down Just can't keep her down, no It's Marianne She don't get along with the rest of them Poor Marianne She always wants to be alone ALL YOU KIDS GET OUT OF MY ROOM GET OUT OF MY WAY I'M COMING FOR YOU AND ALL YOU KIDS BETTER RUN AND HIDE SOON I'M COMING FROM OVER THE MOON
3.
photograph me like cassandra unbelieved blowing past me the hammer of the mind broken mirrors showing decades unredeemed photograph me it's sickness of time diagnose me sickle cell crescent moon go and ghost me I'll be haunting every frame broken bodied not a century too soon diagnose me dare to speak my name find the illness find the dragon inside find the stillness see it magnified fight the illness figjt the dragon within fight the sickness that's spinning underneath the skin
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if it's astral projection if I'm after perfection it's a need for dissection it's enough that I'll mention all i want is protection all I want is a lesson in the ways you can reckon in your truest direction and if I'm leaving my body if the decade has got me fleeing illuminati like dog at's been shot see then it's astral projection then it's taking me hotly I am just an inflection there's a billion just like me who needs the skin they were born with? who needs an in to the sworn kith? who needs all that world war two horseshit? not me, so I leave myself forthwith blue sky but not blue like you know it true lies but not truly where I'm going if it's astral projection if I'm after perfection just close your eyes and I'll show it - show it I'm burning / I'm burning Like magnesium in the open air I'm burning / I'm burning Like magnesium I'm helium I swear I'm a medium I'm a deviant No more tedium I cross the proscenium
6.
who's that comin' round the block who's our hero in the war got his targets set on lock what's the song the kids adore Everybody loves the guillotine man comin' round in the guillotine van give it up for the guillotine man give it up for the guillotine van heads will roll heads will roll bless my soul heads will roll the spirit of seventeen eighty nine the risen rage of robespierre these wheels'll make you feel just fine so let's go find a billionaire the guillotine is on the road we're comin to your town drink up all the spilling gold there's enough to go around
7.
Cryofreeze 04:18
just like that, you've left the hospital or maybe not just like that was it slow like the snow melt was it sudden as a seizure was it a wish you wished you felt just like that, you split my head it was hard to breathe, hard to think but I'd have laid there on the gurney till the whole of medicine collapsed My skull loving every injury you dealt So cryofreeze me I will wait in ice Yeah cryofeeze me Till the end of time I kissed your eyes when they were open I kissed your eyes when they were closed Can you see that way that winter Makes a body feel so fragile makes the blood just slow down and surrender so just like that you made me mortal or maybe not just like that was I always a bit too old was it always a bit too cold in the ward where you said you'd wait forever You're crying in my deep dream Centuries gone by Yes, wake me warmly In some faraway July
8.
Generation Z 02:21
who will stab me the eyes? who will feed my spine to an angry skunk? who will invent new surgeries to dismember me in zero gravity? who will make cannibalism great again? who will I turn to when I have too many mouths? who will comfort me with sulphuric acid and maraschino cherries? who will replace my children with arson? who will rewrite the alphabet so that my esophagus falls out? who will smolder me like a catfish steak forgotten on a campfire? who will make good on the promise of the neutron bomb? who will turn my hopes and dreams into bleeding cacti? who will forgive me for allowing the century to go this far?
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Invest in the heart Far from the market And live in your starship Invest in the heart And crash out the dollar And crash out the hardship And there is no currency but now And ours is the fluency of how The noise of the muscle inside Not traded and not commodified Invest in the heart Invest in the beacon Of worlds without reason Invest in the heart Immune to recession Become the secession And there is no currency but you Where numbers are far off and dripping with dew The circular noise from the ground The wheel overturned and the table spun round
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all lyrics originated from various pages of the December 2019 American Way in-flight magazine ______ The American Way Protect your eyes A mountain for everyone Beachfront living at its finest Just the right amount of elasticity We want to think of jewelry I love that I'm part of a team Terminal renovations Drink responsibly Aliens did not make this There's an art to relaxation More is always better Make it personal Get the whole picture Annihilation tastes good I'm a very obsessed person No politics Cold is coming It felt like the end of something The cost of real estate is very high It's very romantic You want to grow your business Into the jungle Managers started descending History is like a secret handshake What's in a name? Magnetic interchangeable Everyone deserves an upgrade The best eyeglasses in America Hike on the hanging bridges A dance like no other Remarkable transplant care

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MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT
by Alex Reed
an LP written, recorded, and released in 24 hours
January 2, 2020
the first album written in the ‘20s
the full process was livestreamed for patrons at
www.patreon.com/salexanderreed

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released January 2, 2020

All songs written by Alex Reed on January 2, 2020. Project begun at 12:05 AM and concluded at 8:30 PM.

No pre-writing.

Many thanks to my patrons who inspired this and in several cases offered excellent suggestions during the process.

Photo by Benjamin Torrey.

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