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The Microscope

by Monster Furniture

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lyrics

Terra life begins and ends in ground
Fruit and gardens
And the genius of man alone

Who triumphed over nature
And I, a boy who played in soil
I dug for worms at your suggestion
But came up empty-handed every time

Fungal houses and inhabitants
Cataloged, accounted,
Genius, man, alone

Who draws no wing nor beak in his lab book
I once snuck a peak at it
Render, observation, back to the microscope
His stains will settle the
Science and the signs ungiven

Polystyrene, immaterial
Pray for bugs in my economy motel

Whispers of creatures as of now never seen
So what’s the point of it all?
I’d trade my voice, my reasoning
For the bones, the clues, the evidence

All of life in our terrarium
Nothing breathes beyond the geodesic dome

You say you found a breach in it
Jamie, I have missed your leadership
Write me into your ghost story
I never lost my faith in animals

These pages domino
You got your reasons
Manuscript overflow
Work through the seasons

The more that you push
The more that I retreat
The more that you check your notes
The faster I vanish

Breath, or was it only wind?
Death, when did it ever win?

The more that you push
The more that I retreat
The more that you check your notes
The faster I vanish into the dirt
My soul becomes the nitrogen
The honeypot, the melody, the bank account
I wait here suspended
Inert in the ball-fisted
Shake of a snow globe

credits

released September 22, 2023
Sarah Cocuzzo @scocuzzo - sax, percussion
Jonathan Gardner @jonathangardner - upright bass
Lauren Grubb @grubbdrums - drums
Alyssa Manzi @lyssielovely - vocals
Hannah Sheldon-Dean @mehaffyhannah - vocals
Gabe Smoller @monsterfurniturebk - vocals, guitar, bass, bari uke, wurlitzer, percussion
Jason Smoller @jsmolls - oboe
Scott Sugarman @scott_kodi - guitar

Recorded by Gabe Smoller and Lucas Murray @looshas
Written and arranged by Gabe Smoller
Mixed and mastered by Mike Butler @mixbutler
Produced by Lucas Murray

Single cover photo: Michelle LoBianco @brooklynelitist

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Monster Furniture Brooklyn, New York

"Giant Egg" out now!

Monster Furniture is the moniker of Brooklyn-based recording artist Gabe Smoller. Across genre-spanning albums and with a rotating cast of collaborators, he writes songs about dogs, death, containment, illness, and home renovation, finding complexity in the mundane (and with just enough DIY eccentricities to keep things from getting too heavy). ... more

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