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Perennials

by Public Universal Friend

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1.
Firestarter 04:38
stay inside isolate say it right, or oscillate you might be thinking you know that's dangerous we're all concerned that's a strong word say no more, you might be right you're afraid (I think) when I am visible, threatened by what I don't hide hide it's just as well think I knew it then sanctuary self, filtering the apocalypse, the unveil thinking for myself can you tell? we're all concerned that's a strong word say no more, you might be right you're afraid (I think) when I am visible, threatened by what I don't hide hide firestarter, the prisoner could you hear it then? can you hear it now? can you hear it now? we're all concerned that's a strong word say no more, you might be right you're afraid (I think) when I am visible, threatened by what I don't hide hide hide hide
2.
Can't Keep 03:48
you stole that line of scripture and drew it 'round my silhouette, negating all the spaces in my rhythms of breath you took my heavy handed and drew it like a cigarette, but here's an absolution, indiscreet, without illusion; you can't keep what you once called your valley you can't keep, can't keep what you once called yours serenity is shifting, unintended, salvific current, wrestling the alchemy like I didn't want it yet in that solace instant, to validate above the water, hope raptured in ivy in all that's standing still you can't keep what you once called your valley you can't keep, can't keep what you once called yours under cover of lighthearted, I recognize the glances, so I breathe aside discretion, but am I just seeing my existence as somewhere in between? you can't keep what you once called your valley what you once called yours you can't keep, can't keep what you once called yours
3.
Continuance 05:04
if everything were equal, would we all have been embodied in the beauty of our choosing? I see my name on the officer's paper yeah, the moon seeks equanimity over the tree lines as the summer sings her valediction they say it could've happened to anyone I see a stranger at the door continuance continuance continuance continuance nothing here is real in our society of reason the almighty documentation when truth is detail, law is broken we assume these sensibilities like gospel from a holy other in the garden I learned the truth who am I to be one and the same? guilty until granted continuance continuance continuance continuance who do you think you are? who do you think you are? who do you think you are? who do you think you are? who do you think you are? who do you think you are? who do you think you are? who do you think you are?
4.
Healer 04:46
up the stairs, out this window I've been staring out at the holy ocean in my room, the night that knew me dreaming I'm alone except for everyone here when I'm force-fed sights, impenetrable night, I just lay back and wonder why I'm wondering I hope all your pathways make you die and live again daddy tried to reconcile his silence, but never mind, empty won't justify it walk you down and give you over, ever could never find a way to die forever when I'm force-fed sights, impenetrable night, I just lay back and wonder why I'm wondering I hope all your pathways make you die and live again but you don't know 'cause you were blacked out, stumbling in the room of the wounded healer when I'm force-fed sights, impenetrable night, I just lay back and wonder why I'm wondering I hope all your pathways make you die and live again die and live again die and live again die and live again
5.
Soft Choices 03:41
four hundred ninety thousand miles an hour. but you don't feel it you've still got blood in your chest but you don't believe it you're making your soft choices when no one sees it you're making your tender exchanges in everything affected I don't know what it is, but feels different every time and you're hoping it's something real am I as miserable as I feel? isn't there something you wanna say? suspension of belief is killing me in the oblivious significance, singing entropy is abdicated I don't know what it is but it feels different every time I don't know what it is but it feels different every time
6.
Lifted 03:42
it's cold and bright but the sun offers no protection temperament is temperate at best you're full spirited existence cracking knuckles dry and white yet the winter's got you dreaming mother nature lies awake she was born in her deathbed I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner chemicals in my brain I'm a vessel of temporal pain gentleness beside truth as virtue is it genetic or just my human condition I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner isn't each soul a congregation? are we as simple as we seem? ah, distinguished with our outside voices, are we really who we mean to be? I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner only alive when I'm giving up the ghost I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner only alive when I'm giving up the ghost I wanna see the grave lifting up its owner
7.
Poser 04:23
oh, in the ocean of my mind, it was more like a baptismal am I what you had in mind? will I forget before it matters? I'm here to fuck this up, to explode the notion, to fulfill the very thing that you've forgotten I become the unthought known in blood, sweat, and consequence universe behind the forms yet outside, I sigh I'm not trying to replace it, just trying to get to it; not trying to erase it, trying to embrace it duality is one is it all in my head? have I got it right? am I losing it? I become the unthought known in blood, sweat, and consequence universe behind the forms yet outside, I sigh diversity's a human word, a human descriptor preach indoctrination conditioned to comply to the common form how could the Author author me but for the immanence to be born again, but in which direction? I become the unthought known in blood, sweat, and consequence universe behind the forms yet outside, I sigh
8.
Heather 02:50
I've watered it down to be easier to take I've tried to fit myself into your margins I am the gray in your black and white pages enumerated colors, golden hour, baby, holding the tide in the moon I am the ember alight in the ashes, cold snap in the summer, heather in the thistle, perennial in winter far too long spent on concern for the sorry sake comfort gotta keep the camera rolling for who am I reserving? through your gaslight is a projection screen superimposed on me a lie of dichotomy for my dawn and dusk I am the light coming through your window, dream that you remembered feel the morning dew seep in your shoes breathing, no more buried breathing no more, buried breathing, no more buried breathing no more, buried I am the light coming through your window, dream that you remembered feel the morning dew seep in your shoes
9.
Pluto 03:37
sun setting, linear and quantified, the revolution of no comply I still wonder, cosmically, why can I get a witness to speak for the times? I'm the lonely planet it's episodic, a journey of face and emblematic of my time and space, then lifted above the astral plane, anthology of give and take sun setting, linear and quantified, the revolution of no comply I still wonder, cosmically, why can I get a witness to speak for the times? I'm the lonely planet liminality, the threshold of fate do you believe in that sort of thing in this obscurity to be reclaimed given a voice and a different name sun setting, linear and quantified, the revolution of no comply I still wonder, cosmically, why can I get a witness to speak for the times? sun setting the revolution I still wonder can I get a witness to speak for the times? I'm the lonely planet
10.
Tomboy 03:05
blooming here, the coast is clear, within fear and wonder a tomboy, a waif, an ingenue, perennial incantation embodied as within, to be one, amidst inhabitations, still keeping up appearances, appearances to be lovely, to be fair, I begin I am the son, I am the daughter, I'm the new iteration, subversive as someone in between your definitions the fine line you've drawn that's disappearing, delicate, impossibly aligned damn, I just wanna be I just wanna be to be lovely, to be fair, I begin
11.
Vigil Annie 04:21
maybe it's more than you've found when does giving up look like settling down? you can find me wherever you try, but you just try and remember your lines I just want you to say it like you mean it can you help me out? standing right where you are like a planet afraid of the stars yet you make it up in your mind that you're defeated wherever you begin ephemerality of mine at rest upon your shoulder and you cover me in lights to be enough or am I too much? as to a mother all will gather you're afraid of taking your time yet you're worried that you're wasting your life with the visions and prophetic lines that always spell out whatever you'd like but you know that the present time is always waiting for you to arrive I'm tired of turning it down no longer to edit myself just as I breathe now, with nothing to prove where I'm becoming, to be anew ephemerality of mine at rest upon your shoulder and you cover me in lights to be enough or am I too much? as to a mother all will gather as to a mother all will gather

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album cover art designed by BA Thomas with portrait by photographer Courtney Michele

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released March 26, 2021

PUBLIC UNIVERSAL FRIEND is

Jody Galadriel Friend
vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, organ, keys, piano, and drum programming on Firestarter, as well as secondary recording and co-production

Chris Hickman
primary recording engineer, editor, mixing engineer, and co-producer, as well as designer of tape deck mechanism on Lifted; oh, and “shit!”

Jared Garner
electric guitar, additional acoustic guitar, bass on Lifted, and trumpet on Heather

Jarrod Bright
drums

Phil Lofton
alternative percussion

Jenny Garner
drum fill on Lifted

PERENNIALS was recorded at
Wistful Vistas in Noblesville, IN
Meat Cousins Studio in Louisville, KY
Farmland Studio in Nashville, TN
at Immanuel Church in Nashville, TN
and at the PUF House in Indianapolis, IN
from February 24 - October 4, 2020,
and was Mastered by John Behrens at Farmland Studio.

engineered and produced by Chris & Jody

all songs written by Jody Galadriel Friend, and are performed as the collective Public Universal Friend®

dialogue samples in Poser and Lifted derived respectively from the 1954 video “Facing Reality” by Knickerbocker Productions and the 1950 video “Who’s Boss?” by Affiliated Film Productions, via www.archive.org and are each in the public domain and are utilized under Creative Commons with notation:
archive.org/details/FacingRe1954
archive.org/details/WhosBoss1950

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Public Universal Friend Indianapolis, Indiana

Public Universal Friend is a real life queer goth americana musical force based in Indianapolis, IN founded by songwriter Jody Galadriel Friend.

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