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Pictures of Screens

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1.
www. 00:42
Congratulations! You are today’s lucky visitor Endless possibility Runs the length of a loading bar And all you have to do Is click here
2.
Chilling, scrolling Doing nothing I go online The days slip by Pull up some pics From times I’ve lived Back when I did something I keep waiting For something to happen Liking, faving Never posting Nothing to say Wasting away I’ve lived, but I’m stuck Between two lives Not living, killing time I keep waiting For something to happen I’m clicking some link When it’s done loading I will be complete Baptized by phone In the screen-white glow Just me alone at home I keep waiting For something to happen
3.
IRL 04:31
I’m sitting in my room And ghosting all my friends Imagining a life So cosmopolitan A map up on the screen Of some other continent A picture of a world To dream of living in A party on a roof Aristocratic friends A reference deftly made A comfort in my skin But again My phone is buzzin’ And I’m back In real life When will I encounter What I see in my mind In real life? When will I become Who I’ve been being online In real life? Waiting for the moment When it finally aligns In real life In real life Upon a smaller screen I level up again I’m off to save the world Some 80 hours in But out there in real life My childhood best friend Is just the answer to A security question At least I signed in alright I’ll move some numbers tonight Because the rent’s due Bills too, on loop for life When will I encounter What I see in my mind? When will I become Who I’ve been being online? Waiting for the moment When it finally aligns In real life In real life When will I encounter What I see in my mind In real life? When will I become Who I’ve been being online In real life? Waiting for the moment When it finally aligns In real life In real life
4.
Painting the walls of your room I cut my hand and started bleeding A drop of my blood got on the wall But you didn’t see me I didn’t cover the mark Or clean it off, or do anything I guess a part of me believed That it could keep me There in your room You said that I was the moon You were the sun, and we were separate But for a while we were there Sharing an orbit Now I just see you online Pixels in someone else’s photo Scrobbling songs I’ve never heard There in your bedroom Painting the walls of your room You covered over everything I think I finally believe I’ll never again be There in your room
5.
Guy Online 04:29
Every day I photographed my face Like the guy online I sought to replicate Everybody goes online And snaps a pic from time to time But I don’t know I think that I was onto something sacred Then, when my computer died The pixel-painted face In every picture I had taken Was erased The moments aren’t immortalized The data don’t exist The days keep slipping Futile to resist Yesterday I photographed my face (I’m taking pictures of me, you’re taking pictures of you) From the angle that I learned on MySpace (coastTOcoast533) Turn the filters up and down Maybe I will find out how To stay alive forever In this gallery curated To present my stronger side And leave out all the rest The highlights of my life Are on the internet The moments are memorialized The data still exists Just keep me on your drive And I’ll persist
6.
One and Only 03:24
Whatdya know? They’re at it again I’m drowning ‘em out The best that I can Turning my head Back over my shoulder Dreaming of being alone A place of my own Now I lay me down Nobody beside me Logging me out And cutting my ties Cuz I’m all I need I’m my one and only So why do I see you When I close my eyes And start to fall asleep? Tell me again Why I never left And boarded a plane That carried me east To live upon a mountaintop Away from everything Now I lay me down Nobody beside me Logging me out And cutting my ties Cuz I’m all I need I’m my one and only So why do I see you When I close my eyes And start to fall asleep? I’m all that I need My one and only
7.
Maybe 03:07
Scrolling down my feed Filtered photos on my screen I’m reminded of the places that I’m not And I’ve got you on my phone Thinking maybe when I’m home I will find that what I’m hoping for comes true The way you talk to me Has got me thinking maybe Maybe in a month Or maybe in a year or two Or maybe not at all We will become Asleep when you’re awake And I’m dreaming of the day When I dig a hole to Lansing from Hanoi Some romantic comedy Is filling my computer screen And every time Meg Ryan speaks Your face is all I see And still you talk to me And keep me thinking maybe Maybe in a month Or maybe in a year or two Or maybe not at all We will become
8.
With your face streaming to my rig From your phone held up by a selfie stick You begin to talk about my sin And through the artifacts I catch A tear upon your skin Blood on the Mac And I say I’ll be right back You’re counting all our blessings But I’m not keeping track I could have sworn We would not open this door But I have been wrong before With your voice on loop in my head But your name missing from my texts I begin to cut the cord again And find it makes a bloody mess To try to disconnect Blood on the Mac And I say I’ll be right back You’re counting all our blessings But I’m not keeping track I could have sworn We would not open this door But I have been wrong before
9.
I am a hoarder of eternities Living in JPEGs and MP3s In folders on a drive Where nothing ever really dies But is it me I see Inside my screen? Where do I end and I begin? I’m counting the pixels of my skin Before I digitize What’s left of me tonight Where do I end and I begin? I’m singing the words to turn them Into what’s immortalized I’ll post it up online And hoard it on a drive Safe in the pixels of a frozen world No fleeting moments are ever over Just waiting for the eyes Of some digital passerby But is it me they’ll see Inside my screen? Where do I end and I begin? I’m counting the pixels of my skin Before I digitize What’s left of me tonight Where do I end and I begin? I’m singing the words to turn them Into what’s immortalized I’ll post it up online And hoard it on a drive
10.
.com 02:10
Following the link With boyish certainty That I’ll find what I’ve been promised At the end An animated “congratulations” Is leading me to find out What I win Claim your prize Guy online Everything Will be fine

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released February 3, 2023

All songs written by Andrew Adams (Injektilo Songs, BMI)

Produced by Andrew Adams with Shubu (2, 3, 4), Kurt Roy (8), and Paul Cherry (9)

Recorded mostly at home by Andrew Adams with additional tracking by Shubu (2, 3), Paul Cherry (6, 7, 9), Kurt Roy (6, 8), Joejoe Faught (8), and Jase Ihler (8)

Mixed by Shubu (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Kurt Roy (6, 7,8), Paul Cherry (9), and Andrew Adams (10)

Mastered by Rachel Field at Resonant Mastering

Design, cover photo, and ASCII art by Andrew Adams

Performed by
Andrew Adams - vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, and synthesizers

Shubu - keyboards (2, 3)
Kurt Roy - background vocals (6)
Graig Stasicky - drums (6, 7)
Joejoe Faught - bass guitar (8)
Jase Ihler - drums (8)
Paul Cherry - bass guitar and synthesizers (9)
Roy Arsenault - drums (9)

Thanks to Blush Cameron, Sam Cathcart, Paul Cherry, Kurt Roy, Shubu, and Ian Siporin for listening to demos and providing guidance along the way.

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