Moon Lemon Tangle

Single by Brendan BonsackAt this hour of night Leaned over the bridge The river is that place Where two banks never meet The old bikes and trolleys Gone the way of stars Bitten by a singularity This is how the universe speaks In weak knees And stomach lurching The love of the fear Of the love of falling Look, somebody’s scratched In the cold steel railing: “I woz ere, so woz you” I think I may have etched that On some Summer eve In the low of the moon I think I may have etched that When I was younger And it was true At this hour of night Leaned over the edge The mechanical click of the walk Don't walk at the lights It's ritual an echo Stitching our breaths Even when there’s Nobody there This is how the universe speaks In hold please Hold on to something The love of the fall, The fear of the loving Look, somebody’s scratched In the rust of the railing: “Rest in peace, Break on through” I think I may have etched that On some Summers eve In a winter's mood I think I may have etched that When I was younger And it could be true For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/etched© Brendan Bonsack 2024

EP by Brendan Bonsack1. Half a Room Away 2. Something Something Something 3. The Way that it Goes 4. The ReturningFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/a-gathering-of-cats-in-a-lane© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan BonsackIn the river With my brothers Playing sinking down And shouting underwater White teeth bared Air enspheared And spiral scrambling Up towards the light Understanding nothing but The precipice of drowning The long game Stretched between our lungs Playing water With my brothers Who can touch the River's floor? The magnet dark Biting ice rush Between our ears We'll ever find it Understanding nothing but The precipice of drowning The long game Stretched between our lungs In the water hole For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/shouting-underwater© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan BonsackHe brings a painting of a flower To hook upon the wall In the café, buys a coffee It will probably never sell But he loves it It reminds him of someone God will be calling him soon To do the bidding of men Ten thousand eyes For a single tooth For the King says For the Rich say Hang the expense He makes a pastry for the painter He says it's on the house Just how his mother made them And the pumpkins are in season Smell the spices in the oven That is love God will be calling him soon To do the bidding of men Ten thousand eyes For a single tooth For the King says For the Rich say Hang the expense He reads the paper To his father At the table by the door Two pits behind his glasses And he doesn't really talk Describes the colours Counts the petals In the flower on its hook Skipping over pages God will be calling him soon To do the bidding of men Ten thousand eyes For a single tooth For the King says For the Rich say Hang the expense For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/hang-the-expense© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan BonsackThe woman with the turtle tattoo Says you have not Enough moon in you, You need to shed Like a creature, a pound Of your fire Tiny dark pearls of peony Rose water glasses and poetry In paper squares On wooden pegs And lights underneath them High on the breeze Lip cherry balm Way past its season Side here with me You don't need your faith You don't need your reasons Says the woman with the turtle tattoo Tea of ginger and Cranberry juice You're turning the vinyl She's dropping the needle in And her eyes say You've been here before We leave a little love At each door You're just thirty three And a third revolution The woman with the turtle tattoo Says you are a little light On your moon Your sun is an anchor Afloat on your water Never ever ever going down And her eyes say You've been here before We leave a little love On each shore Even even if we are A little unsure High on the breeze Lip cherry balm Way past its season Side here with me You don't need your faith You don't need your reasonsFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/lip-cherry-balm© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan BonsackOh Kenneth Well he still won't tell you The frequency Rather Rather Dan Though he was the wrong man Faces are strange Far from the future At its zenith Well we all got a thrill From the mystery Contra cartoons Evil weather balloons People are strange Though they're not so stranger Draw the stars Interstitially Why are we so confused by love I wonder wonder wonder it And frequently, Kenneth Oh, Kenneth Sneaky peaking underneath The ferric curtain rail His satellite jams In unmarked cans People are strange Though they're not so stranger Lucky Ken They never ever got you then Your kilohertz Bleeding colours into VHS And no-one guessed Draw the stars Interstitially Why are we so confused by love I wonder wonder wonder it And frequently, Kenneth For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/frequently-kenneth© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Single by Brendan BonsackMy last coffee before My next paycheck Has a tiny crooked heart The barista is my neighbour With up all night eyes, We talk about the birdsong Swifty in the playlist, Alexa play it louder, Sunshine on the counter Sixty seconds older, I catch a breath of love And then it goes I catch a breath And then it's gone I catch a breath of love And then it goes I catch a breath And then it's gone My last coffee before My next paycheck Has a tiny crooked heart They'll still drop bombs, y’ know Just smile more and pet Cute piglets while doing it Circle table bursts of yellow a boxer kissing gold Cuts of wattle in glasses No, No, No No, not blooming early, Just, my neighbour's saying, Just doing what they do Just doing what they doFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/sunshine-on-the-counter© Brendan Bonsack 2024

Album by Brendan Bonsack1. How We Go 2. Fewer Shoes 3. Ships and Goods 4. Lighthouse Child 5. Sparrow Rescue 6. You Know What We Are 7. Note to Self (Remember Your Heart) 8. Everything CreaksFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/how-we-go© Brendan Bonsack 2024

EP by Brendan BonsackAnimal Sun The Crow Switch Sleeper Talking in My Sleep Special Interest FlowerFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/b-side-of-the-suns© Brendan Bonsack 2023

Album by Brendan BonsackOther Impossible Things Two Suns Once 70/30 Still the Feathers Moonflowers Blood Donor Post Trying Meditation Measuring Permafrost The First DayFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/two-suns-once© Brendan Bonsack 2022

Single by Brendan Bonsackthe echocardiogram does make a sound but you can't hear it in the deep sea a hard shell will save you except from the octopus if you will not break they will drill you a tiny hole soften you with a poison examine the shells you've found along the shore: not every one but any one will have such holes have you ever lost to love? an echo detects the change your broken heart assumes the shape of takotsubo: the old ceramic traps crafted and lowered by human hands for catching octopus no bait is required no noose to tighten, they just climb inside believing their bodies must be made for these curious places suspended and utterly held it is possible to live like this with your bloated ventricle left wondering could it be fatal? For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/takotsubo-syndrome© Brendan Bonsack 2022

Album by Brendan BonsackRadio Ghosts Oh, Firefly Afterlife Reservoir Bicycles Pea-green Sea Boat The Truth About Birds Picnic Ground Runaway SparrowFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/static-of-crows© Brendan Bonsack 2022

Album by Brendan BonsackThe Lodger Returned Someday Maybe Someday Best Laid Scheme Speaking with the Fishes The Party Next Door Crash in YellowFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/the-lodger© Brendan Bonsack 2021

Album by Brendan BonsackPorch Light Three Horn Face Tide Tracing Stegosaurus Old Lovers Lane Election Night Nana Light PollutionFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/favourite-dinosaur© Brendan Bonsack 2021

EP by Brendan BonsackWaterless Deep End Google and The Bomb That Bridge Oh Hansel Dear When the King FallsFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/silence-in-the-library© Brendan Bonsack 2021

Album by Brendan BonsackPicking the Stitches (of a year that was) Can't Fall Any Further Nana Europa A Penny Sonata If You Should Find Your Key Those Three Words Graveyard Tale A-tishoo A-tishoo Smoke That Keeps the Fire 100 Days I Prefer the ArrowFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/iso-haircut© Brendan Bonsack 2021

Album by Brendan BonsackMystery.History.Science.Romance Age of Stone (Part V) Empire Down Aneurysm Cherry Wine Twist in Your Tree Quiz Show Lovers The Bus that Kills MeFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/the-orbit-of-your-breathing© Brendan Bonsack 2020

Album by Brendan BonsackNot Leaning, Not reaching After the Bee What Should We Tell the Kids? Out There Breaching Quarantine I Wish I Could Tell you Closing My Eyes on the Up Escalator A Natural Selection Their Joy Everybody Hungers (2020) Tell Me About the Revolution Sing for You When Fever ComesFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/i-dont-remember-the-future© Brendan Bonsack 2020

EP by Brendan BonsackRunaway Last Exit I Once Knew a Doctor Danny BoyFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/specks-on-a-map© Brendan Bonsack 2020

Album by Brendan BonsackA compilation of previously released singles, 2013-2020. Henry Lee For Everything Else There is Song 1992 Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song) What I Like About the Sun On the Beaches The Future's Forgotten Our NamesFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/oddities© Brendan Bonsack 2020