1. |
Darla
04:53
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In hindsight, my foresight’s pretty bad
I couldn’t tell when I’d been had
And you, I clung onto
Like a sinking sailor to a schooner’s mast
I grabbed on tight and I held fast
But I could've known, it wouldn’t last
And we splintered we sunk and we broke in two
Through the abyss
I still miss…you
But you’re down too far
And I can’t ignore
All the things you put me through
Any time, any place again
I’d be your first mate, O my capitán
But when the iceberg is your closest friend
It’s a real frigid affair
So why’d I salvage what was down so deep?
I had my artifacts, had shit to keep
We lost the Sweepstakes but I didn’t weep
I just hid it all away
Through the abyss
I still miss…you
But the pressure’s too high
And you can’t surface now
But I hope you swim up real soon
Is everybody running away now?
Well I’d love to jump with you, but I’m afraid I don’t know how
We knew there’d be some suction when the ship went down
But you’re pulling me under, I don’t want to drown
Through this sea mist
I’d still like to kiss…you
But you can’t understand
Why I am what I am
Why I’m saving myself from your rescue
…cause I miss you
and I wish you
the best, Darla
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2. |
Souldive
04:11
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My mind’s in the water
But my soul’s further down
And you are my anchor
Keep me on the ground
Darling, you’re sinking
Drowning in tears
Moving down my forearms
Flow out all my years
Somehow you’re smoking
Through the downpour
I thought you were joking
When you said no more
But it’s over now
Veins, down the drain, get out
You spoke of an exit
From this haunted cave
Lost souls held me back there
Romance to the grave
I had a dream, love
You had a laugh
Cause I said I need you
My lonely epitaph
The windows are foggy
The radio’s on
And you’re looking groggy
With the pills, you’re gone
But it’s over now
Souls at a sunken luau
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3. |
Vicious Cycle
05:06
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It’s not what you say,
it’s what you mean
No point in speaking
figuratively
And since you’re going
out this evening
I think that I
have caught your meaning
Drowning in molasses
It’s the sweetest, slowest death
you’ve ever seen
Air tastes awfully bitter
Yeah, I think I’ll keep on swimming
There’s nothing here
to keep me going
The end is near
I think it’s showing
This diving mask
will not come off
The air is stale
and I’ve gone soft
Suffocating in sunlight
My lone friend darkness won’t keep shadows to my face
Yeah, the dark used to scare me
But it lets me alone
like any other place
(there’s nothing I can do)
I wish you never left
But you still did
Now you best leave
Leave me bereft
With all your bags
beneath my eyes,
among my misdeeds
And evil
rubs off on me
Your evil
keeps me around
should you
need
me
And evil
Your evil
And evil
You're evil…
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4. |
Slop
06:01
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Oh my god, what a fool I am
Shot to shit and I’m alone again
Shattered illusions reflect in the mirror
Faced in solitude, could anything be scarier?
I’m not what I seem, capable of these things
I can’t stand what I was, can’t stand what I’m being
Running myself numb to the clawing at my heels
Just glimmers in my eye or misfires my heart deals
Cast aside in the dwindling light
I can’t be who you want if you still know I’m right
Screaming your head off at pigs to stop wallowing
But when there’s no dry spot, you see, they’re just drowning
Chased tails so long they’ve curled away
I’m fighting the circles I draw everyday
Whelming the pity I create to destroy
For the short little while I can swallow my joy
Lonely and scared and just sick with myself
For writing that word, never anyone else
Oh, what shall I do and where shall I go
Just a crown on the tongue, one more delusive blow
Cast aside in the dwindling light
I can’t be who you want if you still know I’m right
Screaming your head off at pigs to stop wallowing
But when there’s no dry spot, you see, they’re just drowning
(But when it’s all mud, don't you see, they’re just drowning)
Dying in irony, slaughtered salvation
Pork to the butcher of my own creation
Screaming your head off at pigs to stop wallowing
But when there’s no dry spot, you see, they’re just drowning
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5. |
Pacific Aggressive
01:54
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There’s so much the matter
But it’s no matter
Cause I’m getting fatter
And somehow wasting away
You don’t care too much
Can’t argue about such and such
Cause he’s got a special touch
And I can’t touch you that way
And there’s an ocean
Causes such a commotion
That I’ve been drinking potions
To help me block out the day
And it’s not your fault
That my life has ground to a halt
Oh, I’m just lost as Walt*
And that’s all I’ve got to say
That’s all I’ve got to say
*(4 8 15 16 23 42)
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6. |
Intermezzo Nº. 1
02:19
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7. |
Phony
06:21
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Dark desert roads, driving alone
Checking the passenger seat and my phone
Delusions you might reappear, least on one
You mirage, oasis, course you never come
Cactuses waving and smiling on by
Gazing through windows, waiting to die
But stereo blaring, it feels like a dream
We all dreamed together, inside this Airstream
And it’s not something beautiful, it hurts when you focus
And then it’s just gone, blooming to locusts
That I am invisible like everything else
But when you all move I move myself
That dream makes me nervous, cause nothing goes on
So I speed it up and I cruise along
Steeling my eyes to quit checking for you
There’s no time for dreaming, there’s too much to do
We used to talk fore it became a chore
Now it’s so simple and sweet to ignore
Stuck in my head I just talk to myself
Thoughts once not unleashed on everyone else
Trying to be two people at once all the time
Lying and dying and saying it’s fine
Feeling alone, like it goes on forever
We all feel it, but we’re not alone together
…uniting together, still alone as ever
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8. |
Sloane
05:20
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I had seen that look before from
Way back when you used to laugh
You would wear my shirts and high you’d
Spin into the moon
Laughing you walked off the deck
Into the forest, unimagined
She asked when you’d be back
And I lied, soon
I can’t see why you’ve been waiting
Don’t you trust me; I’m with you
And I have drowned with you on
So many occasions
Won’t you let me rescue you
I laid with you out in the gloaming
With leaves among us, running wild
For trees were falling all around us
Yet I never heard you smile
I’ve wandered long now in the darkness
I caught your light, part of me died
Clouds in your eyes, sunbeams in your hair
Rippled my reflective mind
Don’t say you still can’t talk about it
Don’t say it’s just not the right time
You’re still a mystery, I don’t doubt it
But you’ve got no clues left to find
Sloane drifts off to dream at times, and
She knows that I never mind, but
We have so much left inside, that
We’ll just never know
I drift off to sleep at night, and
She knows that I’ll never find her
Still I tell her things there that she
Just can never know
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9. |
Vomit
02:58
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Illusory, don’t you know me
Since you’re back from the grave
And my thoughts can’t behave
Out of reach, on a short leash
But amidst the denial
Least I could eke out a smile
So why can’t you stay gone‽
I was alright on my own
You left and I was leaving well enough alone
And now you’re real again
Could we ever be –
friends?
Reluctantly
Hormones and idiocy
When I’m out of control
I let you in, to drown my soul
You were confirmed dead
Though your wounds never bled
Still I hang on your words
My hoarse pleas(e), never heard
So why can’t you stay gone‽
I was alright on my own
You left and I was leaving well enough alone
And now you’re real again
Could we ever make amends?
Can we overcome the bends?
Oh, do we have to pretend?
Could we ever be –
friends?
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10. |
Intermezzo Nº. 2
02:30
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11. |
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Spoken:
(i almost never went back there, it was so sacred
yet i yearned for the sentiment i left there
i thought i’d felt all the love flow out of me
gotten so irreversibly wise to it all that I’d never get it back
you don’t even know what you’ve done to me, do you?
while you’re consumed by some twinkling snowdrifts
here i am, sliding up a canyon’s spine
looking for something within me i've convinced myself i left here with you
it’s strange, though - i don’t even know what i’m going to find
aside from the demons and the howling wild spectral faces
it’s just a cave, it was just a cave
like an empty romance carved into a tree
shine on, shine on, shine on you crazy diamonds
we shone, maybe you still do {your eyes, they turned me}
there isn’t a hell of a lot you’re incapable of
but knowing what i do now - which is its own hell
i forced you away
see, i was crazy but no diamond
and though the cave and i got wiser
our shine eroded away
but even as it mocked me i could not find fault with it
you do no wrong - i mean, you do know wrong
*but what am i to do?
we will stop speaking to each other in a few months
and then, if we’re lucky, we will speak every now and then
i don’t even know anymore
but you should come over anyway
i like the company*
oh, i know damn good and well you won’t
…hey, ✝ that’s life for you {your eyes, they turned me}
someone always waiting for someone who never comes home
someone always loving something more than that thing loves them
and after a while, you want to destroy whatever that thing is
so it can’t hurt you anymore✝
i’m sorry for everything, i’m sorry for nothing
it hurts to remember, it hurts to forget {your eyes, they turned me}
it’s all one big fucking obnoxious paradox spitting in my face every time i think
but it’s over now
and god willing, it’ll stay that way)
* adapted from the music video for Blood Orange’s “You’re Not Good Enough”
✝ taken from Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Fog Horn"
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12. |
Arson
07:29
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Open up the doors
Let the light flood in
Hammering on the high strings
Cutting and breaking; ringing it in
Overload the senses
Evaporate and burn
Calling off the spitfires
But you don’t turn
Cause what you’ve never realized
Is just how light I am
That I float when it’s breezy
But shudder at your winds
In the vortex of your twister
I stand no chance
I used to be embers
But now I’m ash
I could’ve relit you
Fore I burnt out
Least I don’t fade away now
I just spark doubt
A canary in a mineshaft
More golden than all the ore
It’s caving in, fleet fly away
As you have done before
But I still see you down there
Twinkling away
And we are irretrievable
No matter who they save
I know I can look out with you
For palm trees or polar bears
And you will look into the woods
And say let’s take both paths
So if we’re lost, we’re lost together
Andante, allegro, dead
It’s all the same, nothing will ever change
Again...
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13. |
Roadkill Stories
05:12
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It’s not the first time, I need to let go
Hold it against you, I couldn’t, you know
I nearly hit you in the rain on that night
I owe you a lot, but I still think I might
Sliding across in circles to the sea
So all you demons, won’t you play with me
Oh please god, just let anything...
But don’t end with trying to cop
So live your life as if it’s death
and never stop to catch your breath, oh no
You’re just a shadow I know I could break through
I stay out at night, just so I might shake you
I’m sorry we wasted and ruined and cared
Somehow it’s worthless, the things that we bared
You can string me along, but I’ll dig out your hook
I’ve lost too much time to spare one backwards look
And I lie to myself, just like you lied to me
And I tell myself, "just one more roadkill story"
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14. |
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Moose Tears San Diego, California
Moose Tears is the project of San Diego-based songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Theo Stone. Since picking up the guitar at 4 and starting to write music, he has spent his free time writing originals and recording covers. His first self-titled LP was released in 2015, followed by "Evie" in early 2017. His third LP, Cameo, is inspired by 80s post-punk and pop, and due in late 2020. ... more
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