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Half​-​Imagined World

from New Mexico by Jacob Smigel

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"Half-Imagined World" is a song that I added to this album at the last minute. After my father died, I was struck by how many of his projects, including the cabin, remained unfinished in the sense that they died with him. He was a unique person that was clearly sensible and pragmatic, but also a senseless and foolish collector. He enjoyed the company of his sons above all else, and dragged us to the ends of the earth to retrieve a rusted-out car body or salvage some roofing material. Though I occasionally doubted him, or inwardly questioned the usefulness of our endeavors, I’m glad that we did these things together, and I’m sorry that my own children with never know him.

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Half-imagined World

I’m sorry to every dead tweety bird,
Whose legs I sawed off.
You see I did not believe they were diseased,
Like the local kids told me.
Like the local kids told me.

Part of me was playing along
With the things they wished were true,
Lightning-balls and underground bunkers.
I scoured the country for clues.
So I scoured the country for clues.

I found something unexpected,
In their half-imagined world,
It was sad and sweet and I knew complete,
I and never would have found it on my own.

In the same way I followed my dad,
To the hills he loved so much.
Filled with crumbling homes
Like bubbles that burst to the touch,
Bubbles that burst to the touch.

Part of me was playing along,
With the things that he wished were true,
Cabins, car bodies, and water rights,
Still I scoured the country for clues,
Yes I scoured the country for clues.

I found something unexpected,
In his half-imagined world,
It was sad and sweet and I knew complete,
I and never would have found it on my own.

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from New Mexico, released May 14, 2007

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Jacob Smigel Austin, Texas

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