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Keith Helt - Unweaving
release date: February 15, 2026

This album was recorded between November of 2024 and November of 2025.
The songs were then mixed between November 2025 and January 2026.
The words were written throughout 2024 and 2025 and assembled into song lyric form in the fall of 2025.

All words and music written and performed by Keith Helt. Except for Stutter which is a song by Elastica.

lyrics:

01 go colonize the sun

theft of livelihood
theft of joy and lives
and theft of meaning

theft of hope and dreams
theft of homes and land
theft of air and water

theft of all to consolidate all your wealth and your power
theft to enable all your nation state partners to do the same

bombs bought and bombs gifted and bombs detonated
bombs dropped on powerless and exploded bodies
and families and humans – immediate
and horror and wordless and meaningless

you billionaire corpse zombie brain
collect and horde and dictate
rockets bombs and oil and plastic
and death and death

your dreams of colonizing the moon and mars
and asteroid belts, outer planets, the solar system –
go colonize the sun

vaporize your own self and return your body to atoms
for the betterment of galaxies
for the betterment of all

your need for power, to own, to plan, to order
your lust for authority, commanding others what and how to do

so deranged and sick with whiteness and supremacy
you can’t see other people, let alone all their pain

so beholden to wealth, shareholders, stock options, monopolies
no empathy – you cut out your heart

you husk of money, you greed embodied

murderous murderers

02 vow

a ruinous mass
a void of empathy
atomize existence
and colonize the brain

theft of emotions and depth of feelings
kettle thoughts and bludgeon
enclose the terms of discourse
the parameters of possibility

the failure of words
the failure of prose
the failure of poems
where is the metaphor

not here
shattered and undone

in the face of you
in spite of you
I will continue
to care to feel to love

I will live life free
in joy in care of all life

03 immensity of copse

immensity of copse
as cornfields breaks against
in such a rush

latticed with cicada soundings
sodden heat inspires trees to sing

small and fragile green leaves
vertical eruptions
of tight and twisted bundle

the shrub – it has erupted
and the window – it has disappeared

here with inward and collapsing
you are older than you look

the house settles
with increasing plaster rumble
subtle topographies

all the towels smell of mildew
edges frayed
holes and ancient stains

here with haze of sleep
desire dripping from eyes
body pulled down towards ground

a spider walks across white ceramic tile
it is well past midnight

here with inward and collapsing
we exist in folds of time

04 both things are true

doom despair and the lack thereof
system locks and stasis and feeling trapped

echoes and states of dust and bone
capitalist nation state authoritarian catastrophes

stuck in this moment this perpetual now
doing dishes while the world burns

all the ways we inevitably fail
all the ways we sometimes don’t

blurring the lines between person / object
feeling afraid to be brave
feeling alone and telling yourself it’s true
– when you know it’s not

through space and time as it closes in

as suffer
and torment
and pain
enmiserify

so also beauty
and joy
and love
and pleasure
– large and small

the awareness to encompass them both

05 interrogative

we carry song
within our own bodies

we are alive
with all the weight of fear

we read the future
in patterns already set

how it happens again
it will happen again

cyclic and novel
imminent and final

the world is ending
it always will

what will we build

06 the web you wove

Here you are, awandering aimless
your feet shuffle from room to room
observe yourself – tidying and rooming
you’re moving things, afinding place

filling this time in between
one event, one task, and another

And still the dishes apiled in kitchen
they’re strewn across all surfaces
bending mind in imprisoned bars
astuck and unforthcoming with words

stuck in tension
in habits
and in thoughts
in the web you wove

You weave your webs always outwards
you learn the requirements of weaving
shed and pick, batten and pattern
warp and weft, fabric and time

07 herein

herein
the automate
automatic
assumed presumptions
bifurcate this riddle

illuminate the brain
and unconscious understandings
interpretations of the world

the beauty
the horror
the beauty
the terror

you porous and fibrous wonder
emancipated beyond all doubt
not thinking
without premeditation

08 to the core

I cut you and you cut me
keep your distance but please pierce me
to the core you are me
we emotions share, this life is shared

unconscious understandings
interpretations of the world
abundant and bountiful
the wonder of the universe

from nothing the wondrous being
				 - quotidian arisings

10 deer hex variation

shadow these trees against darkening sky
condense them into both their form and their shape

emerge from ink black
antlers and fur
glow eyes silhouette
hover liminal

deluge of deer summoned by our presence
materialize and stand on hills and banks

forming revealed
unweaving from strands of night
one after another
singly and clustered

they observe our passage with patience and silence
we hold hands and walk backwards
against wind and under the light of the full moon

11 root into water

here within this suchness
interwoven with both sides of energy
existence / non-existence
form and no form
potential / completed

beneath this darkness membrane
a wondrous arising and the birth of wings
liquid drips in ripple water
a plunge beneath the plunge – depths and void

such a fragile tissue
air, life, sustenance
breathe this spark

such a fragile tissue
erupt in creation
spontaneous spire

root into water
show yourself your true face
before you were born

***

eyes at night appear along the road
emerge corporeal from ink black
summoned, unweaving from strands of night
particles gather, condense into form and shape

shift and grind
thrust and friction
jut massive
subduct and spread
gout and geyse
erupt in flame
release the pressure
particle dense
