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horizon hunting

by coraldefense

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in middle school I moved into a new house, and the view from my bedroom window literally changed my life. unlike the view from my childhood home, this view spanned multiple cities and gave a broad view of the horizon and sky. for a few years afterwards I had a hobby of using binoculars and google earth to identifying every major structure I could clearly see on the horizon line, and now I've run out of things to identify. this window became an escape for me when I was bored with my surroundings, spawning an intense interest in and familiarity with my local geography, and this track is an attempt to musically capture that curiosity.

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you don't have to live here
if you don't want to sometimes
you don't need to live here
you don't even have to move to escape
you see the hill and the hill sees you
it's the silent contact
through dirty glass
over hospitals long dead
and growing-back grass

chase down every irregularity
on the line
ID every condo project
every tv, water tower
in the way

there's a whole 5 mile radius to tackle
it breathes and it fidgets and blinks
faster in the day and slow at night
dark lake-like shade
has a home at all times
and streetlights disguise themselves as windows
easy to believe when your eyes go out of focus
why live here when there's a nicer place
than the one you're in
that you'll only ever catch a glimpse of
through the holes inside your city
and then bare branches will swallow it
again

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released December 19, 2016

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