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Destruction
03:01
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Into the familiar unknown I must go
all alone
with a gun on my shoulder and a knife
by my side, I will ride
If I find what I seek, I'll put my mind at peace
or I'll die with my beliefs unconfirmed
I will capture the unnamed
A holy rapture I shall tame
in an attempt to understand my own disdain
When it comes time to fight upon the sacrificial rite
I will look this fear directly in it's eye
If I succeed in my chase I'll put nature in it's place
and I'll claim victory for God's awful grace
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2. |
Vaster Than...
02:02
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The spoken word of this song is an excerpt from the short story "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" by Ursula K. LeGuin
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3. |
CYCLE
01:21
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4. |
Nothing is Sacred
03:41
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Mountain bathed in pale moon light
Casting a shadow, a trick of the eye
A figure shifts among the trees
I pretend I can't remember my dreams
I'll just forget my dreams
Something here is haunting me
I lie to myself through yellow teeth
The truth it hurts, the veil is thin
The water reflects the shape I'm in
If nothing is sacred, everything is sacred
If everything is sacred, nothing is sacred
How I wish I was here alone
But they're shaping sigils with the stones
To cast a curse that preys on fear
I'm not alone, there's something here
Salamanders slither and hiss
Something secret whispers a kiss
The forest knows, the trees can see
Casting back an image of me
Covered in mud I crawl along
Writhing around to an ancient song
The taste of blood in my mouth
I am now without doubt
If nothing is sacred, everything is sacred
If everything is sacred, nothing is sacred
I gasp for air, I scream for help
But it's all just copies of myself
All deformed, all unique
Human faces attached to the trees
And they can see me
A presence felt, a conjuring
In human form, the forest sings
Capturing an empty vessel
My hand is forced, my hands they tremble
I am not special
If nothing is sacred, everything is sacred
If everything is sacred, nothing is sacred
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5. |
...Empires...
01:53
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The spoken word of this song is an excerpt from the short story "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" by Ursula K. LeGuin
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Haunted
02:50
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There's something speaking from within me
Guiding me to do it's bidding
I can't see but I can feel it
Whispering right in my ear
It's breath is hot it's voice is chilling
Promising secrets if I'm willing
Heart is pumping blood to something
Hiding where there once was nothing
Possession, Obsession, one way to learn a lesson
Impulsive, revulsion, under control I must be haunted
In my feeble mind
By my flawed design
Finally a sign from a horrible devine
Feel it in my bones
Drags me from my home
Sticks my face in shit and tells me I'm alone
That Baba Yaga's calling my name from the woods
My feet follow her song
I'd stop them if I could
I'm haunted
By my shadowed past
Caught in my own trap
Now that succubus has got me sitting in her lap
By my inner child
Something dark and wild
Sharpened teeth take shape into a smile
Skeleton woman sends me searching through her swamp
To reflect on my regrets, to remind me what I've lost
I'm haunted
By what could've been
By my long lost friends
By a path that could've lead to a better end
By the soiled land
By my bloody hands
Cast out like a devil now I understand
Satan reaches out his hand for sympathy
He moves my mouth, rattles my bones
Makes his home inside of me
I'm haunted
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7. |
EAT
00:43
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If the forest eats me
I am worthy
I become one with the Earth
I shall not bow to an alter of anger
I will stand and face it's form
Life, Death, Life is a cycle
With many endings other than death
Life, Death, Life is a fire
Yearning, burning, bright with breath
I won't cry for the end is nigh
And the forest eats me alive
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8. |
Bandishaum
02:55
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Can you hear me silently screaming through the veil?
Oh, so frail
The seasons shift with me, my reason is drifting
Palms to the sky, in surrender
I am worthless now that I have found purpose
This search comes to an end, and it starts again
The great unknown has claimed me for it's own
I'm changing shape, I'll never be the same
I am begging for an ending, I'm holing on for dear life
I must go further, frantic with fervor
Dying for the art in my dying heart
I study the folklore of chaos and disorder
This prison inside me, I shall be free
After all that I've gathered, I collapse in rapture
I bow before the thrown of letting go
The great unknown has claimed me for it's own
I'm changing shape, I'll never be the same
I am not going anywhere, I am somewhere
I am now
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Sacrifice
03:13
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Sacrifice me to the god of brutality
Of heat and wind and frost and pain
Lay me to waste in the name of normality
Deformed and horrible and all the same
Sacrifice me to god of carelessness
That fatal phrase, fuck it all
Spill my blood for the lords of loneliness
They avert their eyes as I crawl
Sacrifice me to the gods of cruelty
In constant crisis I'm carefree
Kill me ritualistically
Characterized by cannibalized beliefs
All hail, inhale, exhale
All hail, in hell
Sacrifice me to the god of fertility
To slow growth and soil turned
Dig my grave, place a stone without a name
I'll give my flesh and bone and skin
Sacrifice me to the god of honesty
Deeply devoted do devastation
I build my alter the the goddess of tenderness
In hopes she'll grant me some affection
Sacrifice me to the gods of balance
Somewhere between war, and peace, and sleep
Allow me empathy to all I meet
With the knowledge that none of us will ever be complete
All hail, inhale, exhale
All hail, in hell
Make for me a faith without a name
Embraced entirely without question
Blind worship, naïve belief
Stories told without a lesson
All hail, inhale, exhale
All hail, in hell
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10. |
...and More Slow
02:38
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11. |
Suffocating Lullabies
04:03
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Average Joey Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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