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“Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side,
I'll spare you my goodbyes:
The truth belongs to God,
The mistakes were mine.”

Aaron Weiss

In a Market Dimly Lit.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“When the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears!”

Aaron Weiss

The Dryness and the Rain.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“You've got it all turned upside-down.
Does the rain that's sent each spring anew to fall on her not fall on you?
You project on her your inward scenes, she's a blank, external movie screen.
But the One who looks out from your eyes looks through hers and through mine.”

Aaron Weiss

Bullet to Binary (Pt.2).
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“The Donkey whispered in His ear:
"Child, in thirty-some-odd years,
You'll ride someone that looks like me (untriumphantly)."”

Aaron Weiss

A Stick, a Carrot and String.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.”

Aaron Weiss

January 1979.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“A fish swims through the sea
While the sea is in a certain sense,
Contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain
If all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans - ink?”

Aaron Weiss

The Dryness and the Rain.
Brother, Sister (2006)

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“Elephant refused to swear the oath,
Said, "I don't know anything about truth,
but I know falsehood when I see it,
and it looks like this whole world you've made"”

Aaron Weiss

Elephant in the Dock.
Ten Stories

“And all of what little joy in the world
Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine.”

Aaron Weiss

Nice and Blue, Pt 2.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“You made this world to look so nice
I wonder what the next one's like?”

Aaron Weiss

Yellow Spider.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“The sun and the moon,
I want to see both worlds as One!”

Aaron Weiss

The Sun and the Moon.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet,
Then crushed the stones into the softest sand between our toes…”

Aaron Weiss

Seven Sisters.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“And the snake who'd held the world, a stick, a carrot and string
Was crushed beneath the foot of Your not wanting anything.”

Aaron Weiss

A Stick, a Carrot and String.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

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“I said "water" expecting the Word would satisfy my thirst,
Talking all about the second and third
When I haven't understood the first.”

Aaron Weiss

My Exit, Unfair.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“You wear a thin disguise,
O, Light within my Brother's eyes!”

Aaron Weiss

Every Thought a Thought of You.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“Her soul in the balance, my heart in her hands
I made her a widow, she made me a man.”

Aaron Weiss

We Know Who Our Enemies Are.
A→B Life (2002)

Aaron Weiss Quotes

“So may we old-fashionably suggest the Unmarried not undress?”

Aaron Weiss

Bullet to Binary (Pt.2).
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“So turn your ears, you musicians, to silence
Because they only come out when it's quiet,
Their tails brushing over your eyelids…
Oh, wake up, sleepers, and rise from the dead!”

Aaron Weiss

The Soviet.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives,
And heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters,
I'd set my course for land, but you well understand
It takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters.”

Aaron Weiss

Messes of Men.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“The Angel of Death came to David's room,
He said, "Friend, it's time to go."”

Aaron Weiss

The Angel of Death Came to David's Room.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“Daniel broke the king's decree,
Peter stepped from the ship to the sea,
There was hope for Job like a cut down tree,
I hope that there's such hope for me.”

Aaron Weiss

The Sun and the Moon.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?”

Aaron Weiss

Torches Together.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“The needle's worn the grooves too deep!”

Aaron Weiss

In a Market Dimly Lit.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?”

Aaron Weiss

Four-Word Letter, Pt 2.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“But I slew Goliath with the sling and stone,
It's not my time to go.”

Aaron Weiss

The Angel of Death Came to David's Room.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“Let’s return now to the dust as the dust we are”

Aaron Weiss

February 1878.
Ten Stories

“Grape on the vine… why not be crushed to make wine?”

Aaron Weiss

Son of a Widow.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Oh, rejoice, the Cleansing of my lips… rejoice, Salvation of my soul!
I still have a thousand half-loves… oh, my God!
I want to shoot myself just thinking about it!
And you think I don't mean what I say?”

Aaron Weiss

Seven Sisters.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“I often wonder if I've already died,
Or if the 'I' is an unintelligible lie”

Aaron Weiss

Cardiff Giant.
Ten Stories

“Even the wind lay still,
Our essence was fire and cold and movement, movement…
Oh, if they ask you for the sign of the father in you,
Tell them it's movement, movement, movement and… repose.”

Aaron Weiss

Paper-Hanger.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Let's give up 'sacrifice' next Lent"
Eh, that joke's long since been spent!"”

Aaron Weiss

East Enders Wives.
Ten Stories

“But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai.”

Aaron Weiss

Carousels.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Down by the tracks watching trains go by
To remind me: there are places that aren't here.”

Aaron Weiss

Carousels.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Please, catch for us the foxes in the vineyard… the little foxes.”

Aaron Weiss

The Soviet.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“The invisible is seen among the shadows and the mist:
Before my doubting eyes,
The infinite appears this time,
The unquestionable is questioned
But makes no reply!”

Aaron Weiss

A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“We've both been untrue but i'm still counting on you like an invisible rosary”

Aaron Weiss

East Enders Wives.
Ten Stories

“There, strapped like a watch on my wrist
That's finished with gold but can't tell time,
Was all of what little pleasure exists
Seductively sold and uselessly mine.”

Aaron Weiss

Nice and Blue, Pt 2.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“I was dead then alive,
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine;
You can pour us out, we won't mind,
As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine."”

Aaron Weiss

Paper-Hanger.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“My life's a cup of sugar I borrowed before time began and forgot to return.”

Aaron Weiss

January 1979.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“What unseen pen etched eternal things
on the hearts of human kind
but never let them in our minds?”

Aaron Weiss

My Exit, Unfair.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
And on that day, nothing clever to say.”

Aaron Weiss

Wolf Am I! (And Shadow).
Brother, Sister (2006)

“I do not exist, only You exist.”

Aaron Weiss

In a Sweater Poorly Knit.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“When I satisfied each need invented by my eyes,
I was a nest by a fox's hole or dirt underneath your boot soles.
Then I satisfied each need invented by my eyes,
Till it was nothing like I'd imagined.”

Aaron Weiss

Disaster Tourism.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Put music to our troubles and we'll dance them away.”

Aaron Weiss

The Ghost.
A→B Life (2002)

“I threw the stones down at the reflection of my image in the water
And it altogether disappeared.
I burst as it shattered through me like a bullet through a bottle…
And I'm expected to believe that any of this is real?”

Aaron Weiss

Seven Sisters.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.”

Aaron Weiss

Silencer.
A→B Life (2002)

“In everywhere we look,
In everyone we meet,
In every blade of grass,
Allah, Allah, Allah, in everyone we meet.”

Aaron Weiss

Allah, Allah, Allah.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“Brother! I am far away from everything good.”

Aaron Weiss

Tie Me Up! Untie Me!
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“The Son of the widow
You raised from the dead…
Where did His soul go
When He died again?”

Aaron Weiss

Son of a Widow, the final lines of the album.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Blind as I'd become, I used to wonder where You are-
These days I can't find where You're not!”

Aaron Weiss

The Sun and the Moon.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“You strike the match… why not be utterly changed to fire?
To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?”

Aaron Weiss

Four-Word Letter, Pt 2.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“And You dance inside my chest where no one sees You!”

Aaron Weiss

Seven Sisters.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Tell all the stones we're gonna make a building…
We'll be cut into shape and set into place.
Or if you'd rather be a window, I'll gladly be the frame,
Reflecting any kind words, we'll let in all their blame…”

Aaron Weiss

Torches Together.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“I was once the wine, and you the wineglass.
I was once alive, when you held me.
God became the glass:
All things left were emptiness.”

Aaron Weiss

Nice and Blue.
A→B Life (2002)

“As the Moon rose and the hour grew late,
The day help on a Coconut estate raked up the dry leaves that fell dead from the trees,
Which they burned in a pile by the lake.
The Beetle King summoned his men, and from the top of the Rhododendron stem:
"Calling all volunteers who can carry back here, the Great Mystery's been lit once again."”

Aaron Weiss

The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“Stealing a bicycle chain as the handlebars crashed to the ground,
And the back wheel detached from the frame, it kept rolling, yeah,
But aimlessly drifting around.”

Aaron Weiss

Four-Word Letter, Pt 2.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“The music our collisions make!”

Aaron Weiss

In a Market Dimly Lit.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“Lord, for sixty-so years I've surrendered my love,
to emblems of kindness, and not the kindness they were emblems of,
Trammels and rings, with the strength of old strings,
and some hobble skirt spring, by the old problem caught,
Children, sometimes I think all our thoughts are just things,
and then sometimes think things are just thoughts"
and the rabble rang.”

Aaron Weiss

Elephant in the Dock.
Ten Stories

“But good Angel, don't I get a warning sign
Before it's my time to go?”

Aaron Weiss

The Angel of Death Came to David's Room.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)

“The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!”

Aaron Weiss

In a Sweater Poorly Knit.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see,
Like a thick fog…
If there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.”

Aaron Weiss

Carousels.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“…as I go showing off again
Self-impressed by how well I can put myself down!
And there I go again
To the next further removed level
Of that same exact feigned humility!”

Aaron Weiss

Wolf Am I! (And Shadow).
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (2006)

“I do not exist, we faithfully insist,
While watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew.
If ever You come near I'll hold up high a mirror
Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You.”

Aaron Weiss

Messes of Men.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“Why tear off a single page when you can throw away the book?”

Aaron Weiss

Torches Together.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“God is Love and Love is real, yet the dead are dancing with the dead”

Aaron Weiss

The Soviet.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)

“Megalomania’s only mania if you’re wrong”

Aaron Weiss

Cardiff Giant.
Ten Stories