1. |
Cognition
04:35
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Born into a world
Delicately rhythmic
Everybody knows the rules
No one knows who wrote them
Mine is not a name you’ve heard
Made of words of little worth
Washed out in a storm of other
Online pseudonyms
Take your own way out
Sabotaging memory
To better suit the mission
Sleeping with the clouds
You can stop the dream but…
You know that you can’t escape it.
You can’t escape cognition.
I am in a bad way
So I frequent nasty places
Those kids are cannibals
Gnawing at the bit
One drink for inhibition
Three drinks deep I’m pathetic
Awake against volition
Cocaine cut with anaesthetic
Take the long way out
Sabotaging memory
To better suit the mission
Sleeping with the clouds
You can stop the dream but…
You know that you can’t escape it.
You can’t escape cognition
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2. |
Fruit of Knowledge
03:52
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Illuminate the dunes of deceit
Excavate the ruins of meaning
Breathe! Breathe! Sulfuric breeze!
Drink deep petroleum seas
Feel the tame rage
Shame in the body
Rewrite your brain
Like a blank page
Or put another faceless
Baby in a nameless grave?
Hey! Why not?
The world is your video game!
Let the children play
Recruiting for a new crusade
In their name
Welcome to the US of A
We’re bombing innocents in your name
And locking little kids in a cage
The world’s gonna end anyday
If we don’t change our ways
Assimilate!
Or you’re coming with me!
See? See!
The diamonds are violence
Silencing sirens with grief
Who’s free?
Cyclical prisons insist freedom is greed
My identity’s a fashion statement in a fascist state.
So watch what you say!
Go and get an education
Never mind the interest rate
You can’t pay!
Welcome to the information age!
They’re watching you so watch what you say!
Your secrets are safe with the surveillance state, but
Who needs COINTELPRO when you have Facebook?
Living the American Dream
Forty hour week and you can’t afford to eat
You could lose your cool and kill a billionaire in the street
But could you keep history from repeating?
Change our ways
Change our ways
Change our ways
Change our ways
The world’s gonna end anyday
We can’t wait
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3. |
Grains in the Hourglass
04:48
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As the years go by
I see I paid for my mistakes in wasted time.
Youth and potential drain like
grains from the hourglass.
I’m not getting any younger.
What am I waiting for?
Transfixing fissures
Futures diverge
Clairvoyant visions
Losses incurred
Spectres erotic
Secrets divined
Sleep till despotic
But which dream was I?
Now my
Hourglass’s
Grains are draining
Fate awaits and
You must claim it
All my wills are
Numb and vacant
Prime escaped
I hesitated
I’ve been waiting
Waiting and waiting
Waiting and waiting
Waiting and waiting
Waiting and waiting
Waiting and waiting
I’ve been so patient
But what am I waiting for?
What am I waiting for?
Forbidden visage
Futures don’t learn
Sacred decisions
How to discern?
Defile my body politic
Tempestuous gaze
Bomb every mental monolith
My conquerors raised
Why don’t you?
Acquiesce!
And quit complaining!
Be a man!
And make your payments!
Spare your praises!
Let’s get wasted!
Find a lover!
Learn to hate them!
I can’t take this
Fatal existence
I made this, I made this
Framework of cynicism
I need it! I need this!
I cannot defeat this!
My strength is my weakness
What am I fighting for?
What am I fighting for?
What am I fighting?
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4. |
Cosmic Kamikaze
02:05
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Naughty naughty naughty
I just can’t seem to behave
I abuse my body
Till I disassociate
You can try to stop me
I’ll do anything
To escape from feeling the pain
I been in a bad way
But when I’m feminine I’m okay
I get my panties in a knot
Cus I’m not quite famous
But I’m hot and I’ve got cocaine!
Looking for a new touch
Is the lipstick too much?
One lover is too many
A thousand is never enough
Naughty naughty naughty
I been on my worst behavior
Discipline me mommy
Tie me up and make me pay
Gotta get my body
Back under control
Fly my spaceship into the sun
If you got a problem
Well that’s your problem, sweetie!
Everyone’s against me!
I’m an angel though!
Just look at me!
I can use my looks to get shit for free
Twist truth enough to change history
I’ll abuse your trust to gain sympathy
When the consequences come
I’ll be nowhere to be seen though
Oh, okay! You caught me!
I’m a fucker
I’m a faggot
I’m a cheater
I’m a liar
Cocaine came up on me!
I’m a sinner
I’m an addict
But at least I’m inspired!
Tell me that you want me!
I’m an alcoholic ingrate craving desire
Past mistakes they haunt me
Past mistakes they haunt me
I’m a cosmic kamikaze
On a suicidal pleasure cruise
Can’t escape my body
Still I’m gaining altitude
I need a new attitude
But today is too soon
Fly my spaceship into the sun
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5. |
Sex Addict
04:35
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It just takes a touch baby
Intoxicate me
With your energy
But it’s getting late baby
And I’ve got someone
Waiting on me
Something in the moonlight
Glitters in your eye
Like a crystal stream
Of mysteries
And paradise is on the other side
Lead me not into temptation
Yes I know it’s wrong
I shouldn’t lie
We’ve all got our weaknesses
I am no different.
I don’t know what to say
It’s my past, I can’t erase it
I’ve got guilt and I’ve got shame
But what good do they do?
What good would it do
To say sorry
If behavior doesn’t change?
But I quit coke!
I changed my name!
But what good did it do?
I just need to be alone
I just need to be alone
I just need to be alone
I just need…
To talk about trust baby
I know that you tried to trust me
Did I take too much baby?
Or did we both give when too depleted?
You know I’m such a slut baby
And we both know you love to discipline me
It just takes a touch baby
And I get drunk on ecstasy
It just takes a touch baby
I get hooked on your sensation
Taste me baby
I get drunk on ecstasy
Touch me baby
But lead me not into temptation
Taste me baby
We’ve all got our weaknesses
I am no different
I don’t know
What to do
To expose
My inner truth
I know my youth
Is no excuse
Did I reenact abuse?
Now the city loves to shame me
Put the stigma onto my name
I guess I’m here for your entertainment
I’ll destroy what I’ve created
I don’t want to be alone (what’s that mean to you?)
I don’t want to be alone (what’s that mean to you?)
I don’t want to be alone (what’s that mean to you?)
I don’t want to be alone
So touch me baby
I get hooked on your sensation
Taste me baby
I get drunk on ecstasy
Touch me baby
But lead me not into temptation
Taste me baby
We’ve all got our weaknesses
I am no different
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6. |
Lies
07:20
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I been telling lies
All day
I been telling lies
All day
I been telling lies
I’m afraid to show my face
I been late to rise
Soon enough you’ll all know my name
Vespers of the night
Delegates of envious fates
Purify the sky
Loving is an empty escape
Empty escape, empty escape
Empty escape, empty escape
Empty escape, empty escape
Empty escape, empty escape
I been killing time
Time will take her vengeance one day
Comet tails alight
Spirits through the whispering vein
Pixelated eye
Vitriolic, vacant and vain
Tell me what to buy
I’ll never see the glory of space
The glory of space
Hide my face! Go to space!
Hide my face! Go to space!
Hide my face! Go to space!
Hide my face! Go to space!
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7. |
O, Misery!
03:01
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O, misery!
How many seasons I’ve wept beneath
Your cold canopy
Grieving beneath the sweet evergreen
Where the hooded silhouettes march through the mist
With their eyes alight like violet amethyst
From the depths of night a violent premonition
A silent horror without intermission
Antipathy!
Your gloom could mute the blooms of the spring
With frost and disease
Wraith that haunts my dreams and my waking
The sky is colorless like deep depression
And my faculties are dulled into regression
Aimless now I walk without direction
In this land where prayer offers no protection
I’ve returned in dreams but always I’m pursued
By phantasmal apparitions of my youth
Though I question their verisimilitude
They lock me up and drain me of my youth
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8. |
Be Free
06:12
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I must take my own advice
Confront this misery
Choose whose war to fight
I must fight
To survive
Adapt or die
Is my design
You better pay me for my time
Life is still finite
In the space you have divided
Can’t reciprocate her kindness
I want you to be free
You won’t find peace in me
I want you to be free
To feel, to see
Be free
Temptations of the night
Eyes that prey on need
Choose which wolf you’ll feed
Till you bleed out in the streets
In pools of need
Meet your defeat
Will you build a better life?
Phoenix tails ignite
I won’t be your casualty
Won’t let temptation conquer me
I just want to be free
Be free
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9. |
Agoraphilia
04:38
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I’m reminiscing on the vernal
Equinox of our love
When an ocean of blossoms
Erupted above
I thought our love could be eternal
But my addictions were infernal
Now I yearn for an alternate branch of the timeline
I wish I could journey back when
We were in
Love! Love! Love!
Beneath a citrus sun
We were euphoric, idyllic
And agoraphilic
When we were in love
We were in
Love! Love! Love!
Like nothing I could dream up
We were like chamomile and honey
Or hard drugs and money
When we were in love
Well the spring became the summer
Then my pride and then the fall
The sea combusted with a vivid color
The embers raged into a squall
The ashes of my lover
Blot out the sky, eclipsed the sun
Apocalyptic winter, endless and abysmal
I wish I could change the past
But I bet it all
On a moment of pleasure
Lost it all
Now my grief knows no measure
And I wish I could build myself a time machine
Just to take it back
I blew it all
Like a sack full of powder
True to form
I was drunk on my power
And I wish I could build myself a time machine
Just to stop myself from ever being born
Our love!
It was a soft pink sunset
Our love!
It was a lilac serenade
The sunbeams kissed
Our shoulders as we undressed
Naked, we bathed in
A lily covered lake
Oh!
Our love! Love! Love!
Perished too soon, too young
We were like indigo magic
Poetic and tragic
When we were in love
We were in
Love! Love! Love!
Like nothing I could dream up
We were like chamomile and honey
Hard drugs and money
When we were in love
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I’m a hurricane
Of altered states
Drinking wind and rain
From the window pane
Blow a blade of snow
From the mirror’s face
A ghost you used to know
But something’s changed
Try to run away
But you can’t escape it
A decade of heartbreak
Can’t be cured in one day
Ten Years In
Ten Years Out
There’s a tortured train
Whose reverberations haunt me when I’m sleeping
Crying out in pain
A grinding choir of iron phantoms weeping
It winds behind the automotive graveyard
And the barbed wire of the penitentiary
Where the warden sells the prisoners for free labor
He says time and time alone will set them free
But they know better
They say
Ten Years In
Ten Years Out
Our love is dead
And I murdered it
Your blood inscribes the snow with poetry
To narrate our love
In all its tragedy
I was wanted then
And they came for me
The past is now my prison
I’m the author of my sentence
Etch the walls of all our memories
With penitent inscriptions
Hundred letters to you written
Sentimental dead laments I never sent
You never read them
Cus my words were murder weapons
When the anguish of the train reverberates
Through every junction of my being
Singing voices in refrain explain instructions
To create this composition
A final fatal work of fiction
Full of rage and strange addiction
Learn to live with my decisions
Ten years in
Ten years out
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