( )PRESSION – 2020
Here are the complete liner notes from the full length album ( )PRESSION. You can scroll through the lyrics with the forward and back arrows, and there is a music player below that – also here are some handy links, in case you’d prefer to consume all this material a different way:
( )PRESSION – 2020
Here are the complete lyrics from the full length album ( )PRESSION. There is a music player below that – also here are some handy links, in case you’d prefer to consume all this material a different way:
1. A KING GRIEVES
Hollow, moribund. Suicide?
Tomorrow, I kneel beside my only child
And bargain for my life
Eyes closed
Confused by triptophan
Play alive
Arms folded, hands tied in spirals round my throat like
“please just tell me why”
go to sleep
count your blessings
one for me
one for my tender love
my love
can’t sleep
with every blessing, the curse deepens
hold my tender love to my lead heart
my love
put me to sleep
with every blessing, the curse deepens
hold my ten
shallow, I’m breathing pressure from my chest
cuz there my tender lies
2. CAKE
I did good (sure did)
Did good, good god
I made sure
Sure thing, not that hard
I did good
Did good, good god
I made sure
Sure thing, not that hard
Once I did, they knew, good god
Cuz I did good, did good, not that hard
I turn the oven
Fetch my ingredients
Beat em down and heat em up, gotta
Get mine, cake time
Bake a cake I can teach you how
Gonna crack a couple eggs and trample couple flours
Need a cake got the taste for power just bake one
Cake’s done
I laid low
The line went dark
Hundred thou
My god, I made out
Once I’m back, they’ll have to factor that
Hundred thou
Not sorry, cash me out
3. SUMMON THE SUN IN
summon the sun in so go in power
pour me one
in a qualified mug
i’m on a quest to make something count
on second thought
a second cup if you don’t mind
i wanna feel like I could jump a mile
i wanna feel like I could climb a building
up high where the clouds don’t dare flying, it’s office hours
crack me one
sunnyside up
toast to what we could become
second thought
a second egg please darline
i wanna burst right out my shell
i wanna soar over all the buildings
gonna climb and the wind just lifts me higher and I can’t come down
4. EASY
This is easy
I’m in love with you
So whatever you do
Do it easy
And love will be easy
This is simple
I don’t think about it much
But whenever I want her love
I just tell her so
Cuz love could be that simple
I bet you wonder where we go at night
Kiss goodbye, and life gets harder
Everybody works, each with our own type
Get through and you’ll find it easier next time
Next time a little less crying
This is simple
I don’t think about it much
But whenever I want her love
I just tell her so
Cuz love could be that simple
5. BITE DOWN
Baby
You make me bite down
Jaw’s tight
Teeth are grinding to a halt
I’ll keep the struggle up
On the furniture and proud
So I bite down
Baby
I’ll holdyou
Arm’s up
Run in circles til we drop
Let’s get to dressing up
Someone in the mirror you’ll like
And I’ll bite down
You got tools got boots with heels on em
You got height that’s right so I bite down
You’re getting rude cuz you’re too cool to care
So turn, give us a stare, for rude babies everywhere
6. OPEN ARMS
stone knees
cloudy eyes
ocean deep
mountain wide
sun rises
wind blows
sky opens
roots hold
open arms in the morning
open arms to the waking star
in the stone and the water
its heart beats alike
ocean deep, mountain wide
flowing leaves
rooted mind
hundred rings
thousand lifetimes
open arms in the sunlight
open arms underneath the ground
from the soil and the water
as the needs arise
ocean deep, mountain wide
open arms to the sunlight
but open arms to the darkest clouds
from the fire to the frost
flood or siege alike
ocean deep, mountain wide
when the heart slows
and the grounds frozen
however low the sun’ll reach in the sky
ocean deep, mountain wide
the wind will blow
and the clouds will close over my head
I will hold my arms out
sure as the sun, alive
ocean deep, mountain wide
7. SHIFT RED
star in the sky
what do you see
worlds around me
young light
who holds your heart
of all of these children
every one tells me
“in every rock on every shore,
beats the heart of our glowing sun.”
when darkness surrounds
the hearts last beat
gaze fixed eastward
rise in peace
star in the sky
what have you seen
wars in silence
with every rise and inevitable fall
heaves the chest of their glowing sun
and as they turn to the desert and drown
shift red, smouldering out
rise in peace
8. YOUR LUCKY SCARS
Along the length
Of your shoulderblade
The whole of your life extends
Run my fingertips across the seam
Balance on a razor edge of other possibilities
Rest my love, turn away
Brace for what comes next
I wonder what you’re thinking now
I wonder if we couldn’t have counted on your lucky scars
Short of breath
No regrets
Just keep her safe and warm
How many she’s left to take I don’t want to know
But every last breath is a miracle
Brace for the final one
I wonder if we couldn’t have counted on em
Cuz everything you are was in doubt
Until you got your scars
I wonder how we’ll pay the debt down
Promise that you’ll wear them proud
Our lucky scars
9. GARBAGE
Here comes our man
Our man is back
To sell more trash
I’ll tell you straight
Straight away
This will end badly
Said are we gonna fall for the same old garbage again – this is garbage
Said the same guy is selling us the same old garbage again – and its garbage
I think he should take back what he said the last time
Still the garbageman comes
The thing with trash
Trash can last
And I smell it on you
The things you said you cant take them back
Not like you’d want to
But it’s not hard
Not hard to recall
What happened last time
Cuz all that rubbish is still piling up
All up on our streets, our alleyways and backyards
And it still smells
That’s why I say are we gonna fall for the same old garbage again
Said the same guy is selling us the same old garbage again – and its garbage
Our man should atone for what he did the last time
Still the garbageman comes
Every time the man comes
Its all that we can smell
So I say
are we gonna fall for the same old garbage again
Said the same guy is selling us the same old garbage again – and its garbage
I say he should hang for what he did the last time
Still the garbageman comes
10. YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE NORTH
excuse me sir, it’s your friends from the north and we’ve heard your discontent
that the boss is bad, he’s really made a mess and he’s boring you to death
we’re gonna help you figure it out cuz we’re just that type of friend and we’d like nothing more than to assist in your effort to free your fellow countrymen
now experience says that you’ll need someone who can rouse the fire inside
it burns in every chest, man woman and child and we’re glad to report we have just the guy
he was born with a spoon but it was covered in rust and his father drove a taxi cab
of course they struggled to make ends meet, so he knows its hard, things can be bad
history shows and I think you know that our man must look and sound alike to those that he would represent, and in this respect he’ll do fine
he has the curls of a native and the brow to match, and his skin’s correctly toned
but the best are his lips, for when he speaks, I can see “el mico” and I’m not alone
now the real trick is what he should say if they ask him what he’ll do.
for of course we’d like, in exchange for our help, a tiny shift in attitude
towards your friends from the north, should we need control of the resources we seek
so we’ve taught him to laugh and deflect from the facts and in this he’s quite uniquely good
ha! no I haven’t heard that one. oh that’s good.
although we all know he’s the man for the job,
we’ll hold elections for the peoples sake and I assure you sir,
we have many a way of helping them avoid any silly mistakes
some are legal, some we’d rather not say, and some we can’t recall
but what’s most important is your man will man and of course that means all of you as well
some people may not accept our man as their leader and their friend
so they may act out in any number of ways, but we’ll show you tricks to reign them in
and regrettably at times you might find that violence is the only way
I assure you sir that we’ll have your backs with arms, training, salaries fully paid
the old boss will be gone and you’ll have a new one and he’ll have the number to my personal line
and as long as he’s on our good side and you’re on his I’m sure that you’ll be fine
but if the rebels’ discontent persists and you need the ultimate cure
we have some bombs we’ll sell your boss that will leave your land clean, sterile, and pure