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Thank You

by Skylar Kergil

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    A 4-panel-eco-wallet style CD with color printing of "Thank You." Album collage designed by Skylar Kergil, photographs by Cody Herlihy Photography.

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the holes in these notes have since been boarded up i made enough mistakes to call it rough my name is becoming something i've learned to forget and when i said i'd leave - it was an empty threat if i follow the moon i'll learn i've done this wrong there's no expression left in any car radio song kicked around the thought of us and the thought of regret and i have had enough of these empty threats but love grabs horns and shakes us to the core just enough momentum to start up from a rest possibly the most beautiful words mixed in with all these empty threats my name is something i'm learning to forget and when i said i'd leave - it was an empty threat
2.
Basements 04:15
"don't let it out - if you hold it in only truth will come from your mouth." and i wear these scars like badges, like ribbons, like 'hey this is who we are.' the tide told me if you cross this bridge it will lead you to the sea but all that's left is land it's hard to believe but these books say we are sinking and in the basements we saw that god didn't care - they let our friends be pushed so deep beyond any repair and if it's a heavy hope, you better hold it close and don't ever let it go so now take all you know - and show it to the kids who need it the most with forty percent oppressed and taking lives that were never spent and in the basements we saw that god didn't care - they put our friends down in a world far from fair and if it's a heavy hope, you better hold it close and don't ever let it go all the maps ever drawn are slipping through the lines like decaying songs everything always changes - the tide, these scars, these suicides, the lack of rights and the basement nights cos in the basements we saw that god didn't care. they let our friends be pushed so deep beyond any repair and if it's a heavy hope, you better hold it close until the day you let it all go and so now, let it out 'cause if you hold it in only lies will come from your mouth
3.
Anna 05:19
so what was it that you said? i'll never forget the way you meant it the wind whispered in my ear, "i just wish you were here." the days were dark when you were gone you always held the sunlight in your arms so darling, won't you please just share i just wish you were here. and i was trying to run away and i was trying to run away the most dangerous part is the first time i tasted summer was on your lips. don't hesitate and don't be afraid what's up with all these dumb rules we've made? let's just throw em all away. the days were dark when you were gone you always held the sunlight in your arms you've got the most beautiful, well, goddamn, everything. and i'll miss the home that i knew and i'll miss the light behind you but darling i'll be honest here - i'm just going to miss you. i'm just going to miss you. so what was it that you said? i'll never forget the way you meant it.
4.
my darling don't you worry about anything this will be here singing and swimming in your dreams and i hold you, like i hold onto the sea she slips through my arms sometimes but always comes back to me my darling in 8 million beats you'll be gone but in 28 million you will be back in my arms and i see you in the moon, sun, and sky on the mountaintops where i let my body lie oh but if you should find yourself doubting my love just remember i'm yours - i can't say it enough and out of all these things i say i love, well it's always you i'm singing of my darling in 7 months i'll still be here with empty arms and a smile so wide my dear and i've seen you always in my day dreams and i've saved your space so when you return, you can lay next to me oh but if you should find you never wanna come back just send me a line - i've got my backpack packed and i'll walk to you, and bring the new day, hey i've always needed to run away my darling, don't you worry about anything this will be here singing and swimming in your dreams and i hold you, like i hold onto the sea - she slips through my arms sometimes but always comes back to me oh but if you should find somebody new i'll be ready and i will not blame you just follow your heart - i'll rewrite my dreams hold you in my hands, then send you back to sea
5.
these walls are thin the paper creaks and in my house i cannot sleep but don't say i say, don't say i say i'm coming home my mouth won't move and my lips won't shake this could have been a beautiful date but don't say i say, no, don't say i say i'll take you home oooohhhh my pen is drawn and my hammer is out but i never said i'd build this whole house so don't say i say, don't say i say this is home the meadows fold and the rivers roll this is a good place to grow old but don't say i say, no, don't say i say this is home cause as i write these words, my lonely bones creak and i cannot build a better box since skin doesn't keep oh what did i say? well, i quote the silence in my sleep. what did i say? well, i quote the silence in my sleep. this foundation will fall as our faces become caverns but isn't it funny how this world turns? don't say i say, no don't say i say i said it first we're all just as lost, i know i'm not the only one who follows the rising and the setting of our sun but don't say i say, no don't say i say i said it first cause as i write these words, my lonely bones creak and i cannot build a better box since skin doesn't keep oh what did i say? well, i quote the silence in my sleep. what did i say? well, i quote the silence in my sleep. but don't say i say, no don't say i say don't say i say, no don't say i say i'm coming home.
6.
i imagine a world full of all the living boys and girls and in between - all forgiven with no discrimination based on race, class, gender or sexuality - this is what i've been dreaming but it is all in my head this can't be all in my. we're sitting here, waiting here, wanting here no more hope the answers knock on our door but our doors closed and our clothes torn we can't see this clearly anymore so i say, let's break the divide open that door, and come outside less human, more being oh this is how i've been seeing but it is all in my head this can't be all in my come help me out of my head come help me out of this mess the simple path is not always the easy way but you will, you will get there some day less human, keep breathing the simple path is not always the easy way but you will, you will get there some day less, more but it is all in my head i can't get out of my yeah this is all in my head come help me out of this mess.
7.
make me coffee, make me tea make the bed, make love to me i'll write you songs, tell you stories maybe even read you some poetry and we will stagger, we will crawl but we will never look back at all you'll run away and i'll be fine dancing in the summertime someone asked me, "did you see her last night? she was on fire!" so i came running with my arms up high, i won't let you die, no. braid your hair, give and take, yeah this can be our first date scratching skin, sinking in - oh how i could never let you win you don't believe in anything, you read my books and laugh and sing and in the morning we are shy - so it goes - so it goes someone asked me, "did you see her last night? she was on fire!" so i came running with my arms up high, i won't let this die, no. this is sweeter than the sea, oh it is everything we need pouring nectar in our tea and saltwater on our teeth yeah this is sweeter than the sea, oh it is everything we need pouring nectar in our tea and saltwater on our teeth make me coffee, make me tea smoke some green, make love to me i'll write you songs, tell you stories maybe even read you some poetry and we will stagger, we will crawl, and we will never look back at all you'll run away and i'll be fine dancing in the summertime someone asked me, "did you see her last night? she was on fire!" and of course i did, i'm always by her side she keeps me alive.
8.
yesterday i found out that my bones are hollow, when did they plan on telling me that? so today for the first time i'm going to try to fly don't test me now. and my body says, "you can't do like you used to, boy, no you can't do like you used to." and what part of, "i need this to survive" did you not understand? did you not understand? it's hard enough to say "i am alive," how could you not understand? how could you not understand? and tomorrow, i'll be found eleven miles west in the grass when did they plan on telling me that? so for now - i'll just leave my world behind i'll just leave my wife behind, yeah. and my body says, "you can't do like you used to, boy, no you can't do like you used to." and what part of, "i need this to survive" did you not understand? did you not understand? it's hard enough to say "i am alive," how could you not understand? how could you not understand? i felt like i owned this land - but now i'm not all i could be, now that i know what i could have been. i feel like i am whole again - with solid bones and ripped up skin, this is all that i've ever been this is all that i've ever been and what part of, "i need this to survive" did you not understand? did you not understand? it's hard enough to say "i am alive," how could you not understand? how could you not understand?
9.
Brake Lines 04:25
i was eighteen when i cut the brake lines from the back of my heel to swim and fly. i was barely twenty when i realized pictured myself in fields, pictured you by my side while the current swore to the windy sky, don't be afraid - everyone will be fine on that day i saw those tears in your eyes, just let em fall. they are so bright. and one day, i'll cry. i will cry at all the beauty making a nest in the aftermath of our caved in chests with our warm hands tangled, salty dust the kelp and dust - what we become and one day, i'll cry. i will cry at all the beauty i've seen in this life. yeah one day, i'll cry. i won't lie. i was eighteen when i cut the brake lines from the back of my heels to swim and fly i was barely twenty when i realized wanted to live in fields, pictured you by my side and one day i'll cry, i will cry at all the beauty there's left in this life yeah one day, i'll cry. i won't lie. (there's so much beauty left in this life.)
10.
Thank You 06:35
i am tall, i'm not tall enough and i am small, this is all "small stuff." i thank my father for all that you've known. i'm proud of my brother, look how you've grown. i am wild, i am wild and free. so much time to stop being, and just be. i thank you mother, i thank you for this skin. i thank my best friends for this happy state i'm in. 'cause i may not have a plan, but i know who i am. and i may not know my way, still i walk every day. (thank you so, thank you so much.) (thank you for these bones that i've grown to love.) and Kali reads, recites her poetry about the land of dreams, she says, "just follow me." we're all alone, we're all together now thank you for this chance to learn how. 'cause we may not have a plan, yet we know, we can. while we don't know the way, we still walk every day. (isn't that beauty? isn't that true love?) (isn't that beauty? isn't that true love?) (thank you so, thank you so much.) (these brittle bones I've grown to love) (isn't that beauty? isn't that true love?) (thank you so, thank you so much.) i may not have a plan, but i know who i am. and i may not know my way, still i walk everyday. come with me, my friends, this is a journey with no end. though we don't know our way, we can walk every day. (these brittle bones) (thank you so) (these brittle bones) (thank you so)

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This album contains songs written throughout my life and transition - it is intended to be a bit of my life tangibly recorded for the first time, given out to those who have supported me, and, above all, inspired me to make this happen.

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released December 3, 2013

Mastering done by Chris Graham.
Photography on the album art by Cody Herlihy.
All music and lyrics written, performed, and recorded by Skylar Kergil.

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24. northeastern nomad. just a little man with a guitar and too many words.

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