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Didactic Debt Collectors

by Other Houses

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Matt DeMello (himself)
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Matt DeMello (himself) Always a pleasure to find such an evocative talent on "both sides of the aisle" in music writing and music. Didactic Debt Collectors is focused in the tradition of multiple decades of acoustic-driven DIY, and rendered with academic deliberateness.
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1.
Lately, I’m leaning into the whole idea Of reshattering the glass Of a company attack But then I’m increasingly Leaning toward the ceiling Of a paucity of feeling Of tearing to the dry cleaning No savoring nor seething Alack, it’s threatening to stab At the center of my back Lately, I’m reeling from what my eyes are seeing There’s no strongman at the helm No one to lay your burden down So go on stealing away to country living One noisy trip around a wheel Back to a script for how to feel So go on fiending for personal completing No penance is a pawn nor pass You all but went and menaced us Frankly, I’m freaking at the corrosion of meaning A bedlam of calculuses with no architecture underlying And they’re gorily colliding I was straining for connection But I’m unelected, so I’ll cease trying And throw my hands up high This is the wage was up and given up I’ll hold my purse out grudgingly
2.
Party to the planning of Mach II, III, G to Z, I was thrown into disharmony A chilled-bone snap The throttling realization friends could not exist Presented the planet’s smallest violin Rendered see-through (((Skim off the top Of the till))) Scene time is the lean time At the same time It’s a scream Planck time is the best time Like the last time It’s obscene Then everything was normal but I was hung by inertia The craven need to turn the faucet off Bull, china shop So I ascertained dimensions and what is, what’s not There’s no box limitless, unquantifiable No dish unhinged the jaw Scene time is the lean time At the same time It’s a scream Planck time is the best time Like the last time It’s obscene
3.
I position myself as a student I disconnect curriculums Claimed by the dogs Our backs to the wall Nobody had them Flying on fumes, I’m fluent in strange old languages long lapsed Do the collapse All you didactic debt collectors Take the biggest words you can say Throw most of them away Then spend them as you may with no loose change And while the hacks all scrounge and scrape In this economy You’ll do great I met the motorcycle mama of Maya She read me like a file I’m drained of my guile I’m an advantageous star I can hear them sound the refrain About how you’re doing great Compared to ancient history And maybe when they all drift to off sleep Down in Gethsemane You’ll do great Great Great!
4.
I’m cashed Put me out to pasture A last lump sum to spare Is rescinded The flare has flamed out If not for me, what have you got? I move so quick that I skid out How does a man Pin a thing down? I’m blinded by expertise I don’t know what I believe I’m your fall guy I’m your attack dog Realize and heed, assign the essence of this mire Submit your flawless offering to the blackest blades of accidental fire One of these days The library will lend me out I’m blinded by expertise I don’t know what I believe I’m trusting God’s calculations Realize and heed, assign the essence of this mire Submit your comment envelope to the catacombs of accidental fire It burns the same as the competition’s distant and dispassionate outliers You’ll only taste the taste of failure if you stop trying altogether
5.
Tepid layers Playing players It’s hard to understand beyond my shoes Cry, soothsayer Crass inflamer Readymade Menassahs sing the blues Cold, corporate and clean Elucidate me Too slow, there they all go The palisades are shone blades for a dandy like me Reliquary swine With articulating spines Sentenced layman Reeducation It’s hard to understand why I can’t choose Unrelations with teeth Are picking on me Too slow, there you all go Why won't Lord Fauntleroy rent his own pad? Those reliquary swine With articulating spines Reliquary swine

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released July 7, 2023

Morgan Enos — all instruments and vocals
All songs written by Morgan Enos
Mixed by Morgan Enos
Mastered by Nolan Perry
Water pitcher photograph by Daniel Fernandez
Layout and art by Julien Fernandez

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Other Houses Hackensack, New Jersey

The songs of Morgan Enos. Also seen writing about music for various places. I did this before I did that. Still do it.

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