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VOLUME THREE

by * THE BIG FLATTENING *

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i wake up from a fast dream. it's snowing outside, that seems meaningful. i saw you had a beer. i saw your car. we're making it so weird. it's where we are. i wake up from our last dream. it's raining outside, it isn't painful. beginning at the start of june, in summer we're talking at the start of mass, unchanging i love you like i've never really loved a person how can an ending make an evening last forever we're older than our last dreams. it's hard to admit what is leaving us. i saw you had a beer. i saw your car. we're making it so weird. it's where you are. i wake up from our last dream. it's raining outside, that seems meaningful.
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I am here and I'm strong for you Letting go of my sorrow Would you do the same If you feel safe? I am here and I'm fading away (Round and round around the sun We would never go to far)
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NOBODY’S LUCKY THIS YEAR Nobody’s lucky this year It’s not what anyone expected Wish we could just take it back And claim it defective Nobody’s coping alright Not when it’s all so uncertain Not when the one thing to hold to Is somebody’s worse hurting because that fact don’t change the pain That people are feeling Or the way we oscillate between Fine and reeling By the week, by the day, by the hour And we still get up, take our pills, and take our shower My parents want me back home I said let’s give it a few weeks Cause I don’t think I’d do well there I think I’d lose it at one creak Of that noisy old floorboard Outside my room on the first step I’m sure I’d break down at the sound Of my childhood swing-set Back where they’d send me off to sing When the house needed quiet Back when my voice was just my voice And I didn’t worry who’d buy it when I sang so big and so proud I have to wonder when a girl stops being loud Nobody’s lucky this year I learned I am but I did not know So I want to scream for what’s lost But each sound has an echo Like in my very first apartment As I am packing up my room I didn’t think I would be leaving here so soon
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Do not take a peak at Plubbage plubbage plubbage Plubbage is not what it may seem like Dreaming of gold grass, winter is trash Speak to me before I turn crazy What a mess You have left Goodbye now You have gone What a mess You have left Dreaming of the soft moonbeams Shining from the sky and it gleams Dreaming of the soft moonbeams Shining from the sky and it gleams Dreaming of the soft moonbeams Shining from the sky and it gleams Dreaming of the soft moonbeams Shining from the sky and it gleams What a mess You have left Goodbye now You have gone What a mess You have left Do not take a peak at Plubbage plubbage plubbage Plubbage is not what it may seem like Dreaming of gold grass, winter is trash Speak to me before I turn crazy
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i’m standing still at least that’s what they tell me i’ve been caught in the thrill of adolescence and in that i’m blind confined to words in my mind though left unspoken you read his will at least he went and left you something oh in his brilliance he forgot about his other child now they’re blindly floating on by with binds still broken and oh his grace is breathing down your spine i know they’re tryna be something they’re not cause they don’t have a mind though i bet they’ll put up a good fight i guess you’re right and we’re blindly floating on by overkill a cease of condescending glory i don’t even have to try any longer not that i would put up fights or sacrifice i’d blindly float by, but i saw them let you sit there drink your wine let you yell at all the waiters when they wouldn’t serve you soon enough but i i couldn’t care to live your fine-tuned life least you’re going out in style oh old flame don’t burn me twice we’re finally getting used to your bark and bite life’s a game i know you played your cards right and oh his grace is breathing down your spine i’ll just wait and i’ll just float on by
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Joseph Street You know how to bring out the worst in me. When I come home late and tired You pry me open and drain me like a soup can Your hungry mouth sings A lullaby of longing Every night I need it more and I want it less Every day I inhale Hold my breath, and let it out before I can let go. How could I quit you You teach me so much every day Pain and pleasure Pride and shame Sacrifice. I am not innocent. I am conflicted. You hold so much beauty Every curve Every story All the beautiful tears and laughter You're a bottomless ocean I could explore forever. You get me high Life with you is an endless vacation And I've forgotten what home looks like.
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Here it is! * THE BIG FLATTENING * is a 3-volume compilation of music by NEC students & alumni. This is a fundraiser – 100% of the proceeds will go towards mutual aid coronavirus relief organizations across Boston.

These mutual aid networks are truly grassroots efforts - not receiving formal funding, run by-and-for the people they serve, sprouting out of relationships between neighbors donating their resources and skills to support each other. Funds donated to the mutual aid networks will then be available for people requesting financial assistance, or will be put towards the purchase of food and supplies to be distributed directly in those neighborhoods.

Here are links to the mutual aid groups:

Dorchester: tinyurl.com/y8sdgnv9
Medford and Somerville: mutualaidmamas.com
Jamaica Plain and Roxbury: tinyurl.com/y7tjovxz
Allston and Brighton: tinyurl.com/y8svs5n5
Quincy: tinyurl.com/ycon73n4

The goal of this compilation is for students and alumni to share what they've been working on with each other while simultaneously generating funds to give back to communities in Boston. It is now known that low-income communities of color are hardest hit by coronavirus (tinyurl.com/ya4rd28x). These are often the same communities that are routinely priced out of their neighborhoods by the process of gentrification. We recognize that transient student populations are part of this process of displacement, and we can start to give back by leveraging our networks of friends and family to redistribute wealth to people most impacted by this horrible situation. It is a small gesture of solidarity that while this virus does not discriminate, not everyone is equally impacted by it- so let's share what we love to do while raising funds for people who need it.

Organized by Olivia W-B and Raef Sengupta
Album art by Olivia W-B

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released May 7, 2020

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* THE BIG FLATTENING * Boston, Massachusetts

A compilation of work by NEC students & alumni to raise $ for coronavirus relief in Boston. 100% of proceeds go to mutual aid projects!

Dorchester: tinyurl.com/y8sdgnv9
Medford and Somerville: tinyurl.com/ycqn2t7t
Jamaica Plain and Roxbury: tinyurl.com/y7tjovxz
Allston and Brighton: tinyurl.com/y8svs5n5
Quincy: tinyurl.com/ycon73n4
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