Contest Song (EP 55)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contest Song is track 11 from the Where Quantity is Job 1 compilation on G7 Welcoming Committee Records. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matt Milkowski:</span> <a href= "https://www.catchingconfettimusic.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.catchingconfettimusic.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Willems Heijmans: <a href= "https://www.antillectual.com">https://www.antillectual.com</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lyrics to "Common Threads"</span></p> <p><strong>Common Threads</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The sediment dissolved,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">the thread between us all.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A parting gift invisible hence incapable of </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">filling up the limitless bounds,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">a token of appreciation</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">in every cubic foot of sea and sound.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A suite of ocean beasts </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">born in hot embrace of molten molds,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">personified in polymer for budding hands to hold.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then ritually shed, replaced to keep the pace,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">the perspiration of generations' </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">treasures turned to waste.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Return again,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">a billions shreds,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">manifest in every nook,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">destined till the end.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tangled in a web, every fuckin cent, </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">spent upon the endless stream of trinkets </span></p> <p><span st