Album by Brendan Bonsack

1. Ocean Dance

2. Missing

3. Beautiful Traveller

4. FOMO

5. The Light Before

6. Photophobia

7. Stress Leave!

8. Early Warning

9. Goldfish

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/ollimoth


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

1. Dressed Like an Engineer

2. Frequently, Kenneth

3. Up Against the Bell

4. The Snake and the Birdcage

5. Hyperbole Sits

6. Tuesday Orange Day

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/fruit-of-the-day


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EP by Brendan Bonsack

1. No Light in the Firmament

2. Softer Times

3. Big Fish Little Fish

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/we-who-remain-are-composed-of-snow


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EP by Brendan Bonsack

1. Parlour Magicians

2. We Can be Anything

3. After Honey

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/the-heart-is-older-than-the-hands


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Single by Brendan Bonsack

The elevator wants to talk

Beyond your destination

It's been listening

To everything we have to say

Number 10 is breaking up

Number 4 is so in love

They miss their dog so much

In Number 68

Number 99 forgot

The birthday for her brother

Number 30 is still hiding

The illness from his mother

The elevator wants to talk

But only knows the words

For up and down

Floor and ground

If there is fire

Please do not use

Number 1 travels to

The rooftop every day

17 takes vegetables

To 5 and 88

27 has a lot

Of passion over trains

And was so lonely till they found

That 40 has the same

13 has a symphony

She's humming all the time

14 wants to hum along

But is really very shy

209 only goes

Outside before the light

Worry beads in fingers

And mumbling all the ride

The elevator wants to talk

But only knows the words

For up and down

Floor and ground

If there is fire

Please do not use

70 lights up a smoke

Always apologising

The voices change

The floors remain

And the rents keep rising

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/elevator


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Single by Brendan Bonsack

Fourteen thousand steps ago

I ran into a neighbour

Their hearing is on Wednesday

Their mother has the cancer

A chat bot told them

If you put a frog in boiling water

That it's better for the tadpoles

For the warm will grow them taller

They're copying the books

And then burning the books

And then they're

Selling us the ashes

Once upon a time, you know

I knew a story came

From the heart of an artist

(or ghost-written by their lover)

My neighbour tells me

They were up all night with GP Chatters

They think it might be sentient

It seems to know them better

Than anyone they've ever been

Or lain with altogether

I feel so old, a box under my bed

Stuffed full with letters

They're copying the books

And then burning the books

And then they're

Selling us the ashes

Monday, Tuesday disappear

My neighbour can't be found

Take the kittens and the passwords

They said, if things go down

Fourteen million steps ago

I'd have told a different story

But all previous instructions

Always can ignore me

They're copying the books

And then burning the books

And then I think they must be selling us

The ashes of our words

Dressed up as water, jump

Like frogs, it's just warm

Enough for swimming

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/selling-the-ashes


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Single by Brendan Bonsack

Her glistening eyes as round as the moon

Extending to my mouth a spoon of mango chutney

The joyous whole of a day in June on a tongue-tip

Oh how the body surely is a work of magic

Blood orange

Missed Calls

Falling for the love of the fear

Of falling

She is turning and she is saying:

Do you now what's wrong with you?

Absolutely nothing

The glistening moon as round as her eyes

When a love too big for one body it slips into disguises

I am tied at the tongue-tip, an actor forgetting all his lines

And how surprising, this old déjà vu tonight

Blood orange

Missed Calls

Falling for the love of the fear

Of falling

She is turning and she is saying:

Do you now what's wrong with you?

Absolutely nothing

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/june


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Single by Brendan Bonsack

A Bunsen Burner removed my eyebrow

In fourth form science

To this day, there's a corner

That never grows back

Carl Sagan says

Matter is composed

Chiefly of nothing

The universe is cold and empty

And wants to kill you

This morning

A person I'd never met

Picked me a straggly

Bunch of flowers

To give to my friend

For their birthday

Carl Sagan says

Matter is composed

Chiefly of nothing

The universe is cold and empty

And wants to kill you

I hugged another human

Briefly transgressing

The local laws

It was sunshiny and novel

I could feel my

Empty spaces closing in

Carl Sagan says

Matter is composed

Chiefly of nothing

The universe is cold

And wants to kill you

Unless it wants to make you

Over and over

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/carl-sagan-says


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EP by Brendan Bonsack

1. Airbag Blooms

2. Facts About Dinosaurs

3. Dusk Birds

4. Caught in the Storm

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/bronto-meaning-thunder


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Album by Brendan Bonsack

1. Supermarket

2. Ladderism

3. Bee in Every Dream

4. Sewing Room

5. Civil Defense

6. Café Fly

7. Talk About the Passion

8. A Reed Among Many

9. Flower Wall

For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/all-quiet-in-the-laundromats


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