1. |
Epiphany I've Had Before
02:14
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Trudging up the mysteries
At the part where everyone is still enthralled
Give yourself like two weeks
Another chance to get absorbed in something small
Spending all your time with doubt
Said I know, but I’m not sure
This monologue is getting crowded
Epiphany I’ve had before
Off on good behavior
Fill your time catching up on chores
Learn to love the labor
Lean into routine and do your best not to get bored
Spending all your time with doubt
Said I know, but I’m not sure
This monologue is getting crowded
Epiphany I’ve had before
Distant and dismayed
With all that self-help shit I wrote off yesterday
Dissolution parade
Yeah, you’re gonna try hard until it’s hard to relate
It’s a shame you can’t focus coming out of the gate
And every good decision happens just out frame
You almost did something brave
But every new beginning’s the same
Spending all your time with doubt
Said I know, but I’m not sure
This monologue is getting crowded
Epiphany I’ve had before
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2. |
I Think You Earned It
03:48
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Don’t know
Well, go ahead
I think you earned it
You really terrified us all
Everyone thought that you were leaving
Like they never met you before
Then it came down to a decision
Got caught up in the lights
Broke your stuff, but it seemed worth it
Never made one before
I got my
Head bottled up
When my brains are running dry
Feeding on the prairie life
But I can’t catch a fly
Everything is numb
And I keep staying up too late
Because I get so disappointed
Turns out I’m not so great
Don’t know
Do you think this trope is universal?
Works the same for everyone
Like we both know where this is headed
But I’m still doing something dumb
Gotta hang my hat somewhere
Make stuff happen in this world
See everything that I created
All this garbage, like a ton
I got my
Head bottled up
When my brains are running dry
Feeding on the prairie life
But I can’t catch a fly
Everything is numb
And I keep staying up too late
Because I get so disappointed
Turns out I’m not so great
I found the map
I walked around
And I wrote it down the entire time
I found the map
I walked around
And I wrote it down the entire time
I wrote it down the entire time
I wrote it down the entire time
Don’t know
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3. |
Warshboard
01:08
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4. |
Too Much History
02:58
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Not enough time in the day
To figure out who I want to be
Read everything I want to read
Too many facts and too much history
Working my way through the week
To use a little of my unpaid leave
Check the numbers
Add up the fees
Is it everything that you want to see?
Reflect and reflect
(Yeah I know what I said)
I thought you already know who I am
Dissect and dissect
(Once the moment has passed)
It's like catching a fly in your hand
Reflect and reflect
(Yeah I know what I said)
I thought you already know who I am
Dissect and dissect
(Once the moment has passed)
It's like catching a fly in your hand
Sometimes it comes
Then it goes
I lost the point a long, long time ago
A good story to tell, nothing to say
Have you read my bibliography?
It's kind of all that you know
You are breaking down, it's clearly time to go
Swallow it whole, your anxiety
You'll live again another shitty day
Reflect and reflect
(Yeah I know what I said)
I thought you already know who I am
Dissect and dissect
(Once the moment has passed)
It's like catching a fly in your hand
Reflect and reflect
(Yeah I know what I said)
I thought you already know who I am
Dissect and dissect
(Once the moment has passed)
It's like catching a fly in your hand
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5. |
Nice to Me
03:55
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Oops, I gave away all my free time again
Really gonna regret this in the morning
Made a big impression, now I'm kinda stale
And I never even did enough to truly fail
Got a crutch and a shovel
It's an awful lot to juggle
But you've gotta play it safe
Or you're gonna burst the bubble
There's a sum that accrues
If you just stay put
It's the dream
It's a scheme
What do you think?
Seems nice to me
Oops, I gave away all my good will again
Really second guessing all that effort I put in
Can never picture this fulfillment I'm out here seeking
Sometimes I think I do, it's just another commodity
Go find a field and a shovel
You can bury all your troubles
Say you want to speak your peace
Then you just proceed to mumble
So it's the only way out
It's a flawless fit
It's a dream
It's a scheme
What do you think?
Seems nice to me
Keep setting intentions
Building new traditions
Come up with something of your own
Cause you needed a reminder
Your tethered to an old world
And versions of yourself that you let go
So, pull some will from the rubble
You can put away your troubles
But you're gonna feel alone
It's a process, it's a struggle
Like the better part of valor
Or the awful truth
It's all a dream
All a scheme
What do you think?
Seems nice to me
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6. |
Transmission
00:56
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7. |
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Talking with my friends up in the sky
Convincing them I'm not that kind of guy
Just fear the ways that I might disappoint
It's funny til it's something to avoid
So explain the way these items can do good
Because I'm failing in my fight against my mood
The sticker's wearing off in all this heat
Read it once, but can't say what it means
Intend to
Never stop
Raging bull
China shop
Intend to
Never stop
Lose control
Punch the clock
Desire wormed its way into your brain
Ran it off, but it left a wicked stain
And your sick over the water that you spilled
Worshipping this holy molehill
Intend to
Never stop
Raging bull
China shop
Intend to
Never stop
Lose control
Punch the clock
Farther than the city sounds
Somewhere in the past
Tryna get us settled down
Can't build anything that lasts
Let my shadow drive awhile
Guess it's here to stay
Blessing our endeavors
In its own peculiar way
Intend to
Never stop
Raging bull
China shop
Intend to
Never stop
Lose control
Punch the clock
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8. |
66
02:17
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Well, Jesus take the wheel
I'm sobering up, I feel
The rumble strips
The fear it grips
Another rips exactly what I need
And a lighter…
I took a dose
For each of the coasts
And one white line
For each state line I've crossed
And no matter what I smoke
It doesn't calm me down
Even cigarettes can't get me through the night now
The light gets in through pupils dilated
It's the universe that I'm mainlining
And I went blind with the proof
Geometric beings of light explained existential truths
And that was pretty cool…
I'm just an empath to the nth degree
Tryin' to make a difference with a bachelor's degree
I know I shouldn't go and rhyme degrees with degrees, but degrees, degrees, degrees
Don't let me get carried away with the breeze
I'm just tryin' to find a way to ease
This pain before it becomes a disease
Where no matter what I smoke
It never calms me down
When even cigarettes can't get me through a night, yeah
The light gets in through pupils dilated it's McConaughey that I'm referencing
Alright, alright, alright
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9. |
Deer Spit
01:03
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10. |
A General Malaise
02:26
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It's just a general malaise
Something I go through
No need to call attention to passing waves
It's just a general malaise
Everyone gets them
But the shop has to open
Even on these days
Yeah, oh yeah
I know that I've been had
Tried to exorcise my demons
Ended up ripping my pants
Yeah, oh yeah
I know that it seems bad
But the fact of the matter
Is the matter never lasts
It's just a general malaise
Could use a screen break
Got too much information
Running through my brain
It's just a general malaise
Throw a few things out
Time to return to nature
Or ask for a raise
Yeah, oh yeah
I know that I've been had
Tried to exorcise my demons
Ended up ripping my pants
Yeah, oh yeah
I know that it seems bad
But the fact of the matter
Is the matter never lasts
Carry a weight past
Separating plates that
Were one big thing
A long time ago
Hearing the reasons
Everybody's leaving
It was all one big thing
A long time ago
It's just a general malaise
Passed down in my genes
Chemical composition
Tells me to be afraid
It's just a general malaise
Growing up nowhere
They lost some competition
Now they're gone without a trace
Yeah, oh yeah
I know that I've been had
Wanted to feel better
Now I'm hooked on opiates
Yeah, oh yeah
I know that it seems bad
But the fact of the matter
Is the matter never lasts
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11. |
The Wrongdoing
01:24
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Read a lot of books
Did a lot of studies
These are my final 15 stories
Changed my stance
Maybe I was wrong
Underfunded prisons were the problem all along
Rehabilitation isn't something I've done
How can I truly know what's going on?
Take me Mississippi penitentiary
Teach me all the ways of the wrongdoings
Put me front and center on the magazines
Praised by politicians just to save a buck
Given backlash by those who gave a fuck
In the end, it doesn't matter, I fell flat
On my back
Bastardize the rites of passage
With a perverse purveyor of the message
A sentence long
You can't retract
Absorbed through the floor
We're just filler for the cracks
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12. |
Step Brothers
03:01
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I'm falling backwards down a slippery slope
I just can't cope
With the world as it appears to me
It's driving me to misanthropy
Abandon all hope ye who enter we've drifted from the cosmic center
Living on the fringes
Trying to secure the hinges
Sifting through a scripture if science fiction
Trying to fill the hole, where god is missing
Falling through reality
Subsisting on false memories
Sometime it feels like a disease
That only believe in what I read
The zeitgeist incites conspiracy
The ghost inside of the machine unseen
Howling at the phases of the moon
The door is unlocked but I haven't left the room
Falling through reality
Subsisting on false memories
Sometime it feels like a disease
That only believe in what I see
Inspiration countered by steady procrastination
Left to my own devices planned obsolescence
Inspiration countered by steady procrastination
Left to my own devices planned obsolescence
Inspiration countered by steady procrastination
Left to my own devices planned obsolescence
Inspiration countered by steady procrastination
Left to my own devices planned obsolescence
Falling through reality
Subsisting on false memories
Sometime it feels like a disease
That only believe in what I see
Steady supplies of serotonin
Phoned in to my modem
Self-improvement, Onanism
What we do when we're alone
Ergonomic grip, analog stick
Bluetooth connected to a wireless dick
Turning digital tricks for a chemical fix
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