florid - exit | npr tiny desk contest 2025

Описание: #nprtinydesk #tinydeskcontest it isn't false modesty or hyperbole to say this video only exists because of my friends. i wasn't going to enter the contest this year. after i was persuaded, i canceled the shoot. three times. they prevailed upon (threatened) me and made this happen. i'm glad they did.

thank you:
Jen - always, picking this song, pushing me, inventing the violin.
Darrin - making us look amazing and opening up Slyph Street.
Christian - jumping in and filming without any creative direction and making a funerary gem on short notice.

credits:
Jen Ho, violin
Jake Stam, tech support
Darrin Clayton Stewart, styling/set
Christian Stevenson, video/lighting/editing

special thanks:
JJ Mazza
Shogo Yamagichi

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this song is called exit.

lyrics

and i come to
an exit into focus
as i steal through
a mass of hallmark moments,
carcasses of parting gifts
that pepper the floor
douceur to the Spirit of
consumer value stores

down a one way
for the rented house
where i discerned my name
to follow every fissure
for one reason to remain
to claw up mounds of earth
for some symbol of a self
absurdly optimistic
hungering to help
but the portrait is someone else

i've opened every door
to every empty room
called down every cloud
and they wouldn't move
my weary eyes wrung out
my soul a vacant pool

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