Name: Basics and a Portable Tree
Duration: P00H02M41S
Description: I wrote this track in Toronto after returning from 10 years in Santiago, Chile. I was living in the Dufferin and College area and felt like I was in a creative limbo. In retrospect, several good songs came out of that period.

Basics and a Portable Tree

from Shades of Dysphoria by Paco Dvoi

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I wrote this track in Toronto after returning from 10 years in Santiago, Chile. I was living in the Dufferin and College area and felt like I was in a creative limbo. In retrospect, several good songs came out of that period.

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I’m sleepin’ on the edge of creation
Sleepin’ on the edge of crime
Sleepin’ with the boom box blarin’
Sleepin’ with my slippin mind

I’m waitin’ without weighin’
My chances in ethereal climb
Wavin’ without swayin’
Correctly to the ruling blind

I’m dreamin’ of a correlation
Between my station and the perfect scream
Dreamin’ of the bitter sensation
Of sickness in my beloved genes

I’m sailin’ without sayin’
Precisely what I’m hopin’ to see
Savin’ without slavin’
Just the basics and a portable tree
Just the basics and a portable tree

(Solo)

I’m cravin’ deeper inhalation
Kind of like the yogic sheep
Cravin’ transformation
But deliverance isn’t cheap

I’m fadin’ without flailin’
As the member of some inner retreat;
Fadin’ without failin’
Enraptured in a world of sleep
With just my basics and a portable tree;
Basics and a portable tree.

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from Shades of Dysphoria, released March 21, 2012
Lyrics, vocals and guitar by Paco

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Paco Dvoi Ottawa, Ontario

Paco Dvoi is a lyrically-driven artist whose songs and spoken word often touch on the mystery of life, the reality of death, the struggle for fulfillment, and the delicate state of the world.

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