1. |
Jupiter Cruise
02:06
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He’s on the Jupiter Cruise.
He’s in the daily news.
I wondered what his name was.
I watched his family say good-bye.
I woke up and the sun was gone.
Yes, I woke up far too late.
He’s on the Jupiter Cruise
(And he won’t come down).
He’s in the daily news
(In every town).
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2. |
I'm Taking Care of Him
03:39
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He was a hero of a modern age.
He had us figured out.
So many people are so filled with rage.
And we filled him doubt.
North Carolina, it wasn’t her place,
They said when she was found.
She don’t belong in the human race.
She couldn’t stick around.
She’s so cruel and so sad,
And oh, she don’t care about strangers.
She loved romances and sun
And dresses and movies and danger.
He said, No Mama it’s just a phase.
She said, This ain’t your home.
Out on the street he sold wisdom for praise
And wept in mono-chrome.
She can’t stop dancing and tripping
And falling and smoking and sipping.
And all the colors around her are
Haunting and changing and dripping.
So tonight, while everyone else was wasting,
I stayed in. He cried. She moaned.
I’m taking care of him.
(Do you have someone you can see tonight?)
Yeah I do, but I feel useless.
(You’re almost there, just walk toward the light)
Oh, how did I confuse this?
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3. |
Jacky Bryan
03:44
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Back in the heartland
When they said you were growing up,
You were already dying.
Then you were older,
In the woods, they told you nothing was real
But they were surely lying.
Cause you were born with a heart of golden slush
And a mind to rely on,
You never thought this unexpecting rock
Would be the planet you’d die on.
To all the strangers I’ve kissed
And all the ones that I’ve missed,
My name is Jacky Bryan
And If you’re hearing this now,
It means I’m already gone
But let’s not waste time crying.
Way back when solitude was just a word you’d heard
And not a thought you’d consider,
There was a time when your home was beautiful
And now your home has gone bitter.
All of the voices
All of the human girls
All of the voices
Talking about starting a new world.
Beautiful, there are trees coming out of the ground.
Wonderful, in all of earth not a discordant sound.
Beneath the radio waves,
In a time of terror and slipping phase,
A girl is trying hard to change her.
There was a time she felt alive,
And then the world was on fire,
And she was kissing strangers.
But in the end, she knows, she doesn’t mean much
And oh, she can’t explain why she’s crying.
Out in the meadow and no one wants to talk,
And heaven knows that she’s trying.
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4. |
Riverfriend I
03:46
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Darkness aside, I’m fine.
If by mistake I smile,
I have found a frog in the river bend,
Made my tiny frog my riverfriend.
Never-ending nights, sober when the lights come on.
God I been buried alive so long.
Slowing down the clock is such a monstrous force.
Breaking in the stars is such a terrifying chore.
(Dance with me)
Hold me in your hands,
Take another drag, and
Put your hands where I can see ‘em.
(Eat my blood)
Love the aftertaste,
Think it’s pretty swell.
Wish I loved your living soul as well.
All my highest highs,
All my oldest fears,
Lost ‘em all when I
Wiped my riverfriend’s tears.
(Dance with me)
How I wish that I could dance again,
See the light of day by the river bend,
And feel, finally feel, like a human.
(Eat my blood)
Take my lifeless hull,
Make it beautiful,
And away from this world and from this planet.
All my highest highs,
All the woods that clear,
Lost ‘em all when I
Lost my riverfriend here.
All my highest highs,
All the love I send,
Lost it all when I
Lost my river bend friend.
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5. |
No Space
03:19
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Randomly, on a summer night last year,
I was flung into the ocean
For my head to stop and my life to start.
They stripped my soul of all emotion,
And they made me learn these words by heart:
There is no space.
I could have called to arms
A pixelated version of you, but
There is no space.
It’s a wonder that we’re grounded at all.
And now everything is moving away
And I wondered why I’m feeling so small
I built this house up from scratch.
It’s amazing that I did it alone, but
There is no space.
I believed them when they taught me back in school
And they’ve vanished again without a trace
And they left me on this earth to look a fool.
I thought I resented my childhood,
But all the memories were just in my head.
There is no space.
They said Earth would bring you down and that’s for sure.
But they’ve lied to me before and they’ll lie again.
I’m Eurydice’s forever and for more.
I could have invented light,
I could have been the man on the moon, but
There is no space.
There’s a reason that they get you when you’re young.
They read all of our stories from off our face,
But they overlooked the blind, the dead, the dumb.
One of these days,
They’re gonna find out.
I’m gonna tell them all what you did.
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6. |
Short Crush
03:26
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Are you waiting on me?
Are you waiting on me?
Can you see the irony in that?
Let’s go out a couple nights.
One feels up while the other bites.
Let’s do what feels all right.
Let’s not fight.
Let’s take drugs, let’s fake hugs,
Let’s got lost in each other’s arms.
I was waiting on the back of the hill,
Now I’m staring at the highway
And I’m trying to stand still, but...
Are you patient? Oh please.
Are you patient? Are you free?
Can you see? How obscene is that?
I was counting on deceit of the day
To create a proper feeling of
What I was gonna say,
But I would make a false report
That said I never trusted strangers
And my crushes weren’t short.
Used to think life was bad,
Always wanted what others had.
Never could understand.
But I’m older now,
So they say.
Wonder how I’ll feel today.
I was waiting on the back of the hill,
Now I’m staring at the highway
And I’m trying to stand still.
But I’ve been waiting on my life to be this way,
So I’ll tell you where I live
If you never go away.
Do you think this is the reason that I’ve been falling apart
And do you think that there are people
Who will take you as you are?
Do you think that that’s a feeling people have?
Come on now, make a scene.
Come tomorrow I’m coming clean.
Cross my heart, hope to die.
Always wonder when next I’ll lie.
Let’s take drugs, let’s fake hugs.
Let’s get lost in each other’s arms.
Let’s make love.
Let’s make love.
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7. |
Supertimes
04:38
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Your highs,
Your lows,
Your fasts,
Your slows,
Your bleeding hearts,
Your faithless cries,
You’re gonna die.
Your supertimes.
On Earth,
You know,
There are people who
Go slow.
But not around
These supertimes.
Don’t think I’m ready
Think I’m ready for these supertimes.
Don’t think I’m ready
Think I’m ready for these supertimes.
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8. |
Floating
04:14
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9. |
Everyone
03:27
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Started running away everywhere that I go.
Gotta get away from the window.
Started thinking about all the things I ignore.
Gotta keep away from the door.
And I think I’m a little upset, just because
The world, the world, the world
And everyone in it.
I’ve been so very upset.
Started making escapes just to see what it’s like,
But you can’t get far on a gym bike.
I started seeing what’s up in the world at a glance.
Never going back, not a chance.
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10. |
Riverfriend II
01:03
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All my highest highs,
All the woods that clear,
Lost ‘em all when I
Lost my riverfriend here.
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11. |
Eye on the Easel
05:22
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Wind in the walls tearing us apart.
Smoke in the light, whispers in the dark.
Do you have an acute fear
Of the bugs crawling under your skin?
And does it ever hurt to hear
You rot from the outside in?
Sitting on the floor, waiting to hit the wall
Like when I was a child, waiting in the hall.
And I shouldn’t make fun of myself,
But it’s really so easy.
All of your books on a shelf,
Your eye on the easel.
(Oh make it so) We are creating.
(Oh make it so) And within, created life
(Oh make it so) With a hexagon
(Oh make it so) And a pocketknife
(Oh make it so) We are cooling off
And with a pocket of songs and a half,
We are traveling. We are traveling.
We are.
We are traveling
Into the fading light.
We are traveling
Into the fading light.
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BEND Poughkeepsie, New York
BEND is a mercurial project from Los Angeles, fronted by singer-songwriter and electronic musician Sean Eads. BEND's live iteration features various musicians and recordings feature production by gnash.
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