Moon Lemon Tangle

EP by Brendan Bonsack1. No Light in the Firmament 2. Softer Times 3. Big Fish Little Fish For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/we-who-remain-are-composed-of-snow© Brendan Bonsack 2025

EP by Brendan Bonsack1. Parlour Magicians 2. We Can be Anything 3. After Honey For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/the-heart-is-older-than-the-hands© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Single by Brendan BonsackThe elevator wants to talk Beyond your destination It's been listening To everything we have to say Number 10 is breaking up Number 4 is so in love They miss their dog so much In Number 68 Number 99 forgot The birthday for her brother Number 30 is still hiding The illness from his mother The elevator wants to talk But only knows the words For up and down Floor and ground If there is fire Please do not use Number 1 travels to The rooftop every day 17 takes vegetables To 5 and 88 27 has a lot Of passion over trains And was so lonely till they found That 40 has the same 13 has a symphony She's humming all the time 14 wants to hum along But is really very shy 209 only goes Outside before the light Worry beads in fingers And mumbling all the ride The elevator wants to talk But only knows the words For up and down Floor and ground If there is fire Please do not use 70 lights up a smoke Always apologising The voices change The floors remain And the rents keep rising For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/elevator© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Single by Brendan BonsackFourteen thousand steps ago I ran into a neighbour Their hearing is on Wednesday Their mother has the cancer A chat bot told them If you put a frog in boiling water That it's better for the tadpoles For the warm will grow them taller They're copying the books And then burning the books And then they're Selling us the ashes Once upon a time, you know I knew a story came From the heart of an artist (or ghost-written by their lover) My neighbour tells me They were up all night with GP Chatters They think it might be sentient It seems to know them better Than anyone they've ever been Or lain with altogether I feel so old, a box under my bed Stuffed full with letters They're copying the books And then burning the books And then they're Selling us the ashes Monday, Tuesday disappear My neighbour can't be found Take the kittens and the passwords They said, if things go down Fourteen million steps ago I'd have told a different story But all previous instructions Always can ignore me They're copying the books And then burning the books And then I think they must be selling us The ashes of our words Dressed up as water, jump Like frogs, it's just warm Enough for swimmingFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/selling-the-ashes© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Single by Brendan BonsackHer glistening eyes as round as the moon Extending to my mouth a spoon of mango chutney The joyous whole of a day in June on a tongue-tip Oh how the body surely is a work of magic Blood orange Missed Calls Falling for the love of the fear Of falling She is turning and she is saying: Do you now what's wrong with you? Absolutely nothing The glistening moon as round as her eyes When a love too big for one body it slips into disguises I am tied at the tongue-tip, an actor forgetting all his lines And how surprising, this old déjà vu tonight Blood orange Missed Calls Falling for the love of the fear Of falling She is turning and she is saying: Do you now what's wrong with you? Absolutely nothingFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/june© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Single by Brendan BonsackA Bunsen Burner removed my eyebrow In fourth form science To this day, there's a corner That never grows back Carl Sagan says Matter is composed Chiefly of nothing The universe is cold and empty And wants to kill you This morning A person I'd never met Picked me a straggly Bunch of flowers To give to my friend For their birthday Carl Sagan says Matter is composed Chiefly of nothing The universe is cold and empty And wants to kill you I hugged another human Briefly transgressing The local laws It was sunshiny and novel I could feel my Empty spaces closing in Carl Sagan says Matter is composed Chiefly of nothing The universe is cold And wants to kill you Unless it wants to make you Over and overFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/carl-sagan-says© Brendan Bonsack 2025

EP by Brendan Bonsack1. Airbag Blooms 2. Facts About Dinosaurs 3. Dusk Birds 4. Caught in the StormFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/bronto-meaning-thunder© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Album by Brendan Bonsack1. Supermarket 2. Ladderism 3. Bee in Every Dream 4. Sewing Room 5. Civil Defense 6. Café Fly 7. Talk About the Passion 8. A Reed Among Many 9. Flower Wall For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/all-quiet-in-the-laundromats© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Single by Brendan BonsackI thought of you again today, Much younger, a wine glass in hand That share house election party Gathered together in a smoke haze Round the TV, Keating's finest hour, Nineteen ninety three; I was western suburbs unemployed You'd just started teaching The sweetest night of all, You said, almost planting a kiss "They tried to divide the country, but the people have kept the faith" Do you first write your victory speech Then the other one just in case? A clarion of pots and pans All down our Somerville Road. I got older than you. Your wife has begun to see someone new, I bumped into your kids, And well they're making happy as they can What a time we are having. I feel narrow as a Polaroid "They tried to divide the country, but the people have kept the faith" Do you first write your victory speech Then the other one just in case? True believers True believers True believers I think of you every time I am standing in the line For a sauce and democracy sausage That election party invitation On the fridge, photocopy of a photocopy I got older than you I don't truly believe In this illusion of choice, But you gotta use it Or they'll certainly take it away What are you doing Saturday with your ghost? Pick a marginal - I'll tell you if it falls. "They tried to divide the country, but the people have kept the faith" Do you first write your victory speech Then the other one just in case? True believers True believers True believersFor notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/true-believers© Brendan Bonsack 2025

EP by Brendan Bonsack1. Retreat Hotel 2. First Person Shooter 3. Biopsy 4. All Previous Instructions For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/still-life-creatures© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Single by Brendan BonsackThe king has died, the king is dead They’re minting special coins They’re firing rifles in the air Birds are scattering everywhere The king has died, the king is dead It’s all over the news The writers right and the writers left Are rifling through the things he said What is a king, what is a king? But dirt surrounded by a ring Of men in suits, of men with guns Some pointed out, some pointed in Who built the roads, who built the rail Not the king with the silky hands Never knew the soil nor splinter He flew abroad for every winter Who fired the shots, who dug the holes? Who drove the trucks and trains? Who put their wages in the banks To furnish him with bombs and tanks? What is a king, what is a king? But dirt surrounded by a ring Of men in suits, of men with guns Some pointed out, some pointed in The king has died, the king is dead There’s children waving flags Look how well the children sing How well the song fit for a king Oh boy, oh girl, oh let this be A footnote to his fugue They may shoot you down for not digging But the earth remains unmoved What is a king, what is a king? But dirt surrounded by a ring Of men in suits, of men with guns Some pointed out, some pointed in For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/what-is-a--king© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Album by Brendan Bonsack1. Sixty Six 2. Bubble Gum 3. Holler and Wave 4. Brain Scan 5. Shooting Hoops 6. Down to the Buttons 7. Honeymaker's Waltz 8. After Diane For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/albums/december-tapes© Brendan Bonsack 2025

Single by Brendan BonsackWhen I was seven I was convinced I could hear the sun A high pitched roar Flailing the tall grass and Rumbling the tops of the trees You're big enough to walk now But watch out for snakes Around your feet Nana said it was just the insects Talking to each other But she couldn’t hear a thing It has to be the sun, I said I only ever hear it in the daytime Under the covers at night I gazed at my astronomy book That blazing giant and All of its planets in a row Pastel and smooth A finger and a thumb between them When I was seven That snowball Pluto Was still one of them My science book says Sound is the changes That we feel inside us In the air pressure pressed against us The lilt in Nana's voice Is a long summer's day And she said it's just the insects Talking to each other But she couldn’t hear a thing It has to be the sun, I said I only ever hear it in the daytime For notes and lyrics, visit brendanbonsack.com/songs/the-sun-sound© Brendan Bonsack 2024

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