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Transcript from the Jensen Tapes: Well There was four of us and we were looking for something to do. Well, we happened across Rick Hansen and things got a little out of hand. He was deformed, but not in the normal way. He was born with little stubby arm things sticking out of his back. Well, you know how kids are. None of us really understood him or tried to get to know him. Sometimes one of the parents would try to make their kid play with him, but is always turned out bad. Rick just learned to be happy by himself. Anyway, as he got older his deformity got worse. The arms grew longer and longer. When he was young he kept them folded on his back and covered them with a coat. Well eventually they got way too big for that. His mom had to cut holes in the backs of all his shirts. By the time he got to middle school the arms started growing feathers and started looking like wings. It got harder and harder for him to sit the longer his wings got, so he had to sit on his desk, instead of his chair. About a year later rumors started going round that he was able to fly, and apparently he had taken Becky Stevens up with him. Well it was around this time that we met up with him. We were just any young boys, always out looking for fun and some way to relieve the boredom of small town life. I wish to God we hadn’t met up with him that day.

Well anyway, we surrounded him and started taunting him. I told him to fly for us and the boys joined in with me. We were all acting tough, like his flying was somehow disgusting and we just wanted to make fun of him, but honestly, I wanted to see it. He told us that he was deformed and we should leave him alone, but that was his mom talking through him. She loved him, but also wanted him to leave her be. You could see it in her eyes. Well we decided to rough him up a little bit, since he wouldn’t fly for us. Well he was built for flight, you see. We didn’t realize that. His bones were all hollow and brittle. We only roughed him up a little, but by the time we was done, Rick was lying on the ground with his arms and legs bent in all unnatural ways. When we realized what we’d done we all took off running. I was more scared then I’ve ever been. We all came up with a lie that we was down at the river all day and went our separate ways. Rick died in the hospital a week later. He never told anyone that we was the ones that did it. I’m not proud of what I did, but we was just kids. We didn’t know what we was doing.

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from The Death of Billy Jensen, released July 20, 2010

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Chris, Aaron, and Bill, the three constant members of Spiral are desert born. They played childish games amongst dunes and cacti and now, their music breathes sand.

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