Dimitri Mendeleev
Astronautalis

I dreamed up the maps,

give me charcoal and the paper now.

We invent paths they cannot see,

and they're to scared walk.

Between my hands rests 52 plain old playing cards,

And I trapped God somewhere between

the trump and the kind of hearts.


Joni Mitchell said we are stardust,

we are golden, we are all the same.

Blood paints the story of our love,

across the bathroom floor towards the drain.


Funny how everything just piles up, till one day,

you can't believe how far you came.

I'm made of mountains, made of metal,

made of whiskey, and waves!

You won't believe your own breath,

when the bold words finally escape your mouth.

Keep your secrets hidden,

till we're certain of just what we've found.

Yeah, they bleed just like us,

but our calling is what shapes us now.

We won't be held back, won't be tied up,

we won't be pinned down, not now.


I dreamed up the maps,

give me charcoal and the paper now.

We invent paths they cannot see,

and they're to scared walk.

Between my hands rests 52 plain old playing cards,

And I trapped God somewhere between

the trump and the kind of hearts.


It came to me, as strange as it seems,

From a simple deck of cards laid ace to kings.

With my fingernail slipped under King Charlemagne,

I flipped the edge and traced the grain,

and watched it fall like a breaking wave.

The ace of spades was last to splash.

Trump to suicide kings, they all turned Bicycle backs.

I stared in the pattern, a pair of seraphim flashed,

And it just fit, elegant, aww shit!. That's that.

Its strange how you can waste away pained with one thing,

The watchmaker breaks sweat, he can't tame a dumb spring.

Then one day its as plain as the nose above your smug grin,

like, look what the cat dragged in!

Woke from a dream, hands heavy in cold sweat,

Jumped from the bed, snatched up charcoal quick.

Sketching frantically upon the bedroom brick,

It came together and it fit like this:

Give me a lever and a place to stand, I'll move the world

You think you're clever, but you never, seen how it really works.


I dreamed up the maps,

give me charcoal and the paper now.

We invent paths they cannot see,

and they're to scared walk.

Between my hands rests 52 plain old playing cards,

And I trapped God somewhere between

the trump and the kind of hearts.


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  1515 Washington   17 Summers   A Love Song For Gary Numan   An Episode Of Sparrows   Astigmatism   Astronautalis   Avalanche Patrol   Baggage Claim   Barrel Jumping (A Man Of Letters)   Boiled Peanuts (feat. Lizzo)   Brighton Damn Park   Contrails   Cut The Body Loose   Dimitri Mendeleev (Single)   Down And Out In The Bold New City Of The South   Fax Machine   Forest Fire   Fourth Of July   Fourth Of July (Feat. Radicalface)   Gaston Avenue   Guard the Flame   Holy Water   Hurricane Isabel   I'm Never Right   I'm Never Right (Feat. Isaiah)   In The Tall Grass   Kudzu   Kurt Cobain   Lakefront Property   Life The Curse   Lift The Curse   Lost at Sea (Part 1_that Old Sinking Feeling)   Lost At Sea (Part 1: That Sinking Feeling)   Lost at Sea (Part 2_ the Getaway)   Measure The Globe   Meet Me Here Later   Meet Me Here Later (Reprise)   Midday Moon   Mr. Blessington's Imperialist Plot   My Boo   My Dinner With Andy   My Old Man's Badge   Now and Never More   Oceanwalk   People Often Tell Me I'm Good At What I Do   Running Away From God   Seaweed Sheets   Secrets Of The Undersea Bell   Secrets On Our Lips   Short Term Memory Loss   Sike!   Sike! (GodDamnChan Remix)   Skeleton (Everybody's Favorite)   Skeleton (Everybody's Favourite)   Somethin' For The Kids   The Case Of William Smith   The River, The Woods   The Story Of My Life   The Waterfall   The Wondersmith And His Sons   This Is Our Science   Thomas Jefferson   Tightrope   Trouble Hunters   Two Years Before The Mast   Uncle Danny   Xmas In July   You Know What It Is!

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