[Verse 1]
Tiny windows
Stacked to the sky
Click a date stamp
Lose track of time
Housecat
Highway
Dreams of the sea
Late night laundry
Talking to me

[Pre-Chorus]
Every entry
Pins me down
Every sentence
Spins around

[Chorus]
Infinite scroll of strange days
Little bright boxes in a long gray maze
I keep falling through your side notes
Trip on the tags
Tangled in quotes
Infinite scroll of strange days
Breakfast confessions and backyard phase
I don’t know you
But I know your tone
All of these pages
Make my head your home

[Verse 2]
Weather forecast
On a paper heart
Pixel postcards
Tear me apart
Odd obsessions
Stacked in a pile
Tiny monsters
Learning to smile

[Pre-Chorus]
Lost in headlines
From your mind
I skip years
One at a time

[Chorus]
Infinite scroll of strange days
Little bright boxes in a long gray maze
I keep falling through your side notes
Trip on the tags
Tangled in quotes
Infinite scroll of strange days
Breakfast confessions and backyard phase
I don’t know you
But I know your tone
All of these pages
Make my head your home

[Bridge]
You say
“Today I feel like…”
Then drift into a dream
I read the crumbs
Connect the dots
Turn a diary to a screen
How many lives in one life
How many thoughts in one line
I chase your shadow down the archive
’till your yesterday’s mine (hey!)

[Chorus]
Infinite scroll of strange days
Little bright boxes in a long gray maze
I keep falling through your side notes
Trip on the tags
Tangled in quotes
Infinite scroll of strange days
Breakfast confessions and backyard phase
I don’t know you
But I know your tone
All of these pages
Make my head your home

[Verse 1]
Cracked path
Fresh cut grass
Joggers pass in neon tracks
Geese parade like traffic cones
Kids trade cards and dial tones

[Chorus]
Wandering the greenway
Counting cracks
Heartbeats racing handlebars and railroad tracks
Wandering the greenway
Wired and awake
Sidewalk serpent doing figure eights

[Verse 2]
Dad hats
Camera straps
Sprinklers hiss like secret taps
Old stone bridge with spray-paint names
Vending can stuck
I kick the frame (hey!)

[Chorus]
Wandering the greenway
Counting cracks
Heartbeats racing handlebars and railroad tracks
Wandering the greenway
Wired and awake
Sidewalk serpent doing figure eights

[Bridge]
Is this a highway for walking?
Is this a park in a line?
Is this a thought I can follow
Or a route I ride in my mind? (my mind)

[Chorus]
Wandering the greenway
Counting cracks
Heartbeats racing handlebars and railroad tracks
Wandering the greenway
Wired and awake
Sidewalk serpent doing figure eights

Day 20,400

#thegnarledbranch day 3 catch up –  “Phantom of the Fireplace “

Going for a Gentleman Ghost /   Charles Dickens / Phantom of the Opera vibe.

#doodle #art #phantomofthefireplace #gentlemanghost

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Day 20,399b

#thegnarledbranch challenge number nine – Grisly Gift Wrap A doodle of a retching Yule log, wrapped in a festive red bow, atop a pool of black ichor and mottled in holiday colors of gangrene, blood-clot red, and pus-cream. I am so sorry. Mind the teeth.

#art #doodle #gristlygiftwrap #whattheheck #forgivemesanta

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Day 20,399

Catch up for Creepy Cookies #2

They are coming to get you! Better eat them first!

#doodle #art #thegnarledbranch #creepycookies https://www.instagram.com/p/DDXRBbMxVln/?igsh=cW9uYXJibW1uaHg5

Pearl keeping an eye on us this morning from the top of the loveseat.

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Day 20,398 b

Playing catch up, a frightening wreath from day one

#doodle #art #thegnarledbranch #frighteningwreath #bones #evergreen #wreath

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Day 20,398 Krampus mug. Now I really would like some hot chocolate. Preferably with a peppermint peep melted at the top.

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Our book club’s classic (or ought to be) assignment that I’m currently reading is Lord Dunsany’s “Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley” Has anyone reading this post read the book? I would like to ask them a question or two, especially if they have knowledge of Spain’s history. I’d never heard of it before last week, and I’m enjoying it thus far, but I am only about 10% along. From the preface:

“After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element of mystery, arising partly out of ignorance and partly from the compulsion of those oaths by which magic protects its precincts from the tiptoe of curiosity. Moreover, magic, even in small quantities, appears to affect time, much as acids affect some metals, curiously changing its substance, until dates seem to melt into a mercurial form that renders them elusive even to the eye of the most watchful historian. It is the magic appearing in Chronicles III and IV that has gravely affected the date, so that all I can tell the reader with certainty of the period is that it fell in the later years of the Golden Age in Spain. “

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Panels from Billionaire Island #1 https://www.instagram.com/p/DDSPFATx_2p/?igsh=MXdkajU3dGYza3I2aA==