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noun: mimesis: representation of the real world in art and literature

WORDS LOSE MEANING

Brannon McKay / Christel Vinot

Artwork by Misty Ogle

LYRICS

Vinot underground

Words lose meaning

When you’re swinging to the sound

“Hi there guys. My name is Christel Vinot, and I am a…”

Young Boi

named Taciturn Eternity

Hey girl, Lil Bil Bil said you’re stealing

souls of men in the night

Bran Man was A Girl,

In your future smiling back

Singing Yung Boi,

My mind’s a heart attack

Live for reasons to die

Reasons to die, reasons to die…

Words lose meaning when you’re swinging

and you’re rocking with a…

It’s a beautiful world

The outside on the inside

Man, I love you now, Girl

Math could never explain it

No, math could never X

Vinot underground

Vinot, Vinot underground

Words lose meaning

When you’re swinging in the Vinot underground

Now I’m rocking with a

Young Boi, love hard til we collapse, singing

Hey Girl, dance now cuz nothing lasts

Words could never suffice

No, they could never confine our essence inside

We’re a storm of small reflections

The wind that makes us real

Hey girl

You wrote this song in my mind

Song in my mind, song in my mind…

Words lose meaning when you’re swinging

and you’re rocking with a Yung Boi

Cuz it’s a beautiful world

The inside on the outside

And I love your Boi, Girl

Math could never explain it

No, math could never X

Get up one more time

Resume singing til we die

The real world has no words

The real world has no meaning

It’s just a dance of feeling

So we’re gonna get down

In Vinot Underground

The real world is a process

Our melodies are fleeting

You help me resume singing

So we’re gonna get down

In Vinot under, Vinot under

Ground / ground

Words lose meaning when we’re swinging to the / swinging to the

Sound / sound

So we’re gonna get down in

Vinot under / Vinot under

Vinot underground.

Yeah, the words lose meaning

When we’re swinging in the Vinot underground.

MUSIC VIDEO

Brannon McKay on Guitar and Vocals

Christel Vinot on Cello and Vocals

Painting by Misty Ogle

Video footage compiled and Edited by Brannon McKay

Video Starring Brannon McKay and Christel Vinot

Featuring the Southern Crescent Symphony Orchestra

Thanks to Rick Thompson for some of the kayaking footage!

on Instagram @rickayaker

MAKE ME

Written and Performed by Christel Vinot

LYRICS

You’re the thrill

I seek

My curiosities

You peak

as I think

of what you desire (I’m already high)

but you’re taking me Higher

My mind

Won’t stay still (what’s it like to have)

Free will

Make me wonder

Make me want

Make me feel you

Tease and taunt

Give

Me chills

Intimidation

Thrills

My knees

Go weak (at the thought of your)

Powerful

Physique

Make me feel

The force (make me feel you)

Your body

As the source

Make me nervous

Make me hot

Your intentions

Have me fraught.

The look

In your eyes (lusting over me)

The quiver

Of your thighs

Down

Make me lay (let the butter flies)

Take me

Away

Anxieties

Swell (as I’m under you)

I’m under

Your spell

Make me wonder

Make me want

Make me feel you

Tease and taunt

Make me nervous

Make me hot

Your intentions

Have me fraught.

HALF OF YOUR PARTY

Brannon McKay / Christel Vinot

Artwork by Misty Ogle

LYRICS

BM: Name’s Justin, need a table for ten.

CV: That’s five or ten minutes, your piano tattoo’s cool man.

BM: I forget that it covers almost half of my face

The absurd part is I am not a real pianist, I was

Both: Held down and tattooed against my will.

I am not a real piano player.

CV: It’s like a dream I had as a little girl.

BM: She was

CV: Shot by tiny nazis darting around my shelf.

By the time I awoke, my skin was all ablaze

The burns on my back were coordinates of missing persons

I was

Both: Held down and tattooed against my will.

CV: And I know that some are missing still.

BM: Held down and tattooed…

CV: Better listen real close, the past is nearly present again

Both: Held down and tattooed…

BM: Heard at least five needles

The pain felt like eternity.

BM: Heard at least five needles, couldn’t read what they were singing to me.

CV: The past is in the present now.

— The Past in the Present —

BM: ONE, at least FIVE needles, TEN, almost HALF

CV: FOUR, FIVE, TEN, HALF

The absurd part is …

We only exist …

… as interactions.

CV 2010: Justin, party of TEN.

Are you ready to be seated now?

BM: I am not a real piano player.

CV 2010: Oh there’s only FOUR of you?

— Seating —

CV 2010: No, we cannot seat you…

BM: UNTIL

CV 2010: HALF of Your party arrives!

— Piano Outro —

BM: I heard at least five needed

CV: And I know that some are missing still.

CV 2010: Gotta wait for half of your party, shawty

Sorry!

MUSIC VIDEO

Brannon McKay on Vocals

Christel Vinot on Cello and Vocals

Painting by Misty Ogle

Girl and Spider drawing by Christel Vinot

Video footage compiled and Edited by Brannon McKay

Video Starring Brannon McKay, Christel Vinot and Buck Nasty

Thanks to Buck Nasty from Official Ink of West Atlanta for allowing us to film in their studio @BuckNastyInk on Instagram

BETHANY LEIDLEIN

Brannon McKay / Christel Vinot

Artwork by Misty Ogle

LYRICS

Bethany Leidlein

Destiny hiding you underground

Beneath all you knew without sound

Wanted to live as a real human being

It's too late for that now

The things we believe in

Shout to the clouds - they return no sound

Justice is a tear washing down

Wanted to live as a real human being

It's too late for that now

Justice is a tear washing down

Bethany knew but she hears no sound

I want to be real

It's too late for that now, Bethany Leidlein

Bethany's suicide note:

"My name is Bethany Deaton. I chose this evil thing. I did it because I wouldn't be a real person and what is the point of living if it is too late for that? I wish I had chosen differently a long time ago. I knew it all and refused to listen. Maybe Jesus will still save me."