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You Just Wait
03:46
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Take what’s left,
Spin it upside down,
Captured in a moment
That you don’t have now
You don’t have now
You don’t have now
And follow me to the sun
Take what’s left,
Spin it in the air,
Living for a reason
They don’t have here
They don’t have here
They don’t have here
And follow me to the sea.
If it floats high above,
Orbiting the sun
If it takes all its time,
Burning all its lies
If it gives everything,
Whatever’s left is mine
You just wait
You just wait
You just wait
You just wait.
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Doing Time
03:57
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You’re in the watchtower at the back of my mind,
And I’m stuck doing time
Airplane shadows in the sunshine,
Crash into mine
Yesterday’s sorrows aren’t worth a dime,
We’ve left them behind
But you’re in the watchtower at the back of my mind
And I’m stuck doing time
And everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
Sucking out poison is part of the charm
With you in my arms
Getting so angry don’t know where to start,
Shots in the dark
Feeling so tired but I can’t seem to sleep,
Life on repeat
But sucking out poison is part of the charm
With you in my arms
And everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
But you’re in the watchtower at the back of my mind,
And I’m stuck doing time
Airplane shadows in the sunshine,
Crash into mine
Yesterday’s sorrows aren’t worth a dime,
We’ve left them behind
But you’re in the watchtower at the back of my mind
And I’m stuck doing time
And everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
Everyone is dying to meet you
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3. |
Hourglass / Wishing Well
06:19
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Burning ships are piled to the sky as
A dead breeze carries our words like knives
To the centre of a concrete gate,
Littered with the ruins of our failed escapes.
“Easily the strongest of us all”
Spoke the wearer of the mask to the concrete wall.
There’s never been an easy path,
Even as the sand shapes the hourglass,
Even if the first really do come last;
Lord knows the sun is burning fast.
Are you afraid of the big bad wolf
Standing naked in the rain at the edge of the wood?
At the centre of a pitch black mine;
Only in your heart are you doing time,
Gotta use your claws if you’re gonna climb,
Sign away your life on a deadline.
Honey I told you there’d be days like this,
I know it’s hard getting over it.
Throw those dreams in a wishing well
And I promise I’ll never tell
Honey I told you there’d be days like this,
I know it’s hard getting over it.
Throw those dreams in a wishing well
And I promise I’ll never tell
Honey I told you there’d be days like this,
I know it’s hard getting over it.
Throw those dreams in a wishing well
And I promise I’ll never tell
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4. |
Attendre
00:27
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J'ai l'orgasme dans l'âme et le corps qui patiente
Où dansent les bassesses silencieuses
Mais j'ai les ailes trop courtes pour mourir
Et je la voix
Ma tête rouge
Attendre dans l'assiette du philosophe
Alors laisse la virgule reprendre son souffle
Et garde mon nom pour la prochaine éclipse
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5. |
Jack of Dried Clay
03:43
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Tell me creature in the night
Is the child made of clay?
Does he whisper out of sight
In the coming new age?
All who hear him are destroyed,
All connections torn away,
Coded signals in the dark
Making Jack of Dried Clay.
As he wipes away the dust,
As he sinks into decay,
As an engine made to rust
Takes the final man away.
Well alright, alright, alright
You’ve noticed, by now,
You’ve noticed we’re just going around and around
You’ve noticed, we’re just going around and around,
You’ve noticed.
Tell me what I oughta say,
Spitting diamonds in the dirt
Carefully disposing of
Every creature formed of hurt
When she calls is it a ghost
With a heart like a gun
Tied backwards to the earth
Spinning deathly round the sun?
Make the most of what you are
Just before your final spark
Just beyond your final thought
Silent whispers in the dark
Well alright, alright, alright
You’ve noticed, by now,
You’ve noticed we’re just going around and around
You’ve noticed, we’re just going around and around,
You’ve noticed, yeah
Tell me is this what you say,
That the earth has shot it’s lungs
If destruction is your name
And the final chord is strung
If the final war is won
If we’ve reached our final day
If the child in your heart
Turns to Jack of Dried Clay
Well alright, alright, alright
You’ve noticed, by now,
You’ve noticed we’re just going around and around
You’ve noticed, we’re just going around and around,
You’ve noticed, we're just going around.
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6. |
What Good Is It Now?
04:29
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I’m picturing a record spinning
It’s kinda hard to tell which one of us is winning, now
But if you break my heart I’ll know that it’s you
You say if it breaks your heart
You know that it’s true
Love
True love
True love
True love
True love
True love
True love
And clear as crystal, and bright as the sun
If all the world is captured, if all the wars are won;
What good is it now?
I told you but you seem to forget it
I was waiting but you left already
Well if I take my time would you say it’s too late?
If we hurry along, whose the mistake?
Well if you break my heart, I’ll know that it’s you
You say if it breaks your heart
You know that it’s true
Love
True love
True love
True love
True love
True love
True love
And clear as crystal, and bright as the sun
If all the world is captured, if all the wars are won;
What good is it now?
No more grey skies, true love is in her eyes
I see shining back again like no other, no other
No more grey skies, true love is in her eyes
I see shining back again like no other, no other
No more grey skies, true love is in her eyes
I see shining back again like no other, no other
No more grey skies, true love is in her eyes
I see shining back again like no other, no other
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7. |
The Present's Waiting
05:22
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My past is growing and future’s getting smaller
I’m running faster but the world’s getting farther
I never thought I’d make it this old without a moment of rest
Still searching for death, and I’ve been doing my best.
My past is numbered and I keep it in line
I drink it backwards with a tall glass of wine
I tell the new girl she didn’t mean that much to me, anyways
Still living that daze, but hey ain’t it the craze?
I’ll never tell my friends exactly how I feel
They’ve never understood and I know they never will
We’re all alone in there, dancing in our own little rooms
I drink a gallon to swoon
So I can howl at the moon
Swim along the lagoon
Sing my own little tune
What the fuck am I doing?
The past is over and the future’s never here,
The present's waiting for my head to get clear
Sometimes I see it and you know I gotta smile, it’s true
She’s always good to you
She always good to you
She always good to you
She always good to you
She aways good to you
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8. |
The Lost Art of Living
07:04
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There is a voice in my head concerned with the fate of the world. The children of grey skies are mounted high above the clouds in ricochet-mountaineer-getups awaiting the fall of the world. I am one of these children. We can see for miles and miles, the plains of the great devoured lakes stretch far beyond the eyes of narrow-sighters. Into the depths of emotion one stifles the forges of creation, endeavouring the resuscitate the lost are of living. Murderous crows perched perplexingly on great sheets of ice, the scattered remnants of distorted oblivion. My courage to break free from death is witnessed only by the silent winds of the North, whose voices echo the fate of the world. The void began a million parsecs from the edge of the infinitum, a great microbe spoke of the ensuing destruction to his fellow Microbians, “Behold, the edge of nowhere is approaching, the last days of life will crumble in the fall of the world. Death is the bringer of nothingness, the nothing that will become the world”. When the void spread and encompassed the entirety of the earth, the shells of Man were shed. A relieving of physical attribu-tation let rise the sky-beings of now. The cloud fortresses hold strong the remaining energy forms of the human race. We scatter our dead like fallen leaves as the inversion of life has made break the natural order of transients. We now move from ethereal to solid, and the dead fall towards the earth, towards the nothingness below. What say you of the Gods above? What say you of these beings almighty who neglect, who foster not our care, who nurture not our wounded, our broken men? I speak on behalf of no one and no one speaks on behalf of me. I take part in games, no races, no times, no places, no if’s but’s comma’s spaces writing literealis statickanesous: the philosophical diseasus. I take part in no arrows or bows, or teardrops or rainclouds. I take part in no earth, air, fire or despair. My children number in the infinitum for I claim to borders, I claim no un-allegiance. I am a being of no being, I am product of the void, I am a product of evolution, I am the result of the Great Change, I am the invisible man.
Many years ago the earth was a very different place, indeed. The trucks moved like trucks, the cars like cars, the planes like planes, and the people walked and stepped across the concrete jumbles to extricate their time in ways fit for an insect, a swine. Many years ago the tubes ran in circles and the currents held the hopes of electrical impulse men forgetting themselves on their way to school and work and bars and social events, and forgetting along the way that the tubes ran in circles and that they were truly getting nowhere. The nowhere proceeded the nothingness, it laid the groundwork for the Void. The men and women and children went into their no-spaces to learn of nothing and speak of nothing to each other. The nothingness in their voices, in their minds, laid the ground work for the Void. The basketball players and football players and baseball players fought fervently in futility for a meaninglessness which could only have taken meaning in a world without, and so also laid the groundwork for the ensuing Void. I was young then, perhaps I was already dead then see, death was life and you could hear it on the radio, on the television, in the comedy and paltry of the times. You see, Nothing sold very well, Nothing was the rage, nothing was trending without ending, and it laid the groundwork for the Void. In most children there is too much Something, ones job was to make that Something into Nothing, and the tubes which ran trains, and the trains which ran people, and the people which ran corporations, and the corporations which
ran electrical currents all helped in fostering the proper development of the Something child into the Nothing child. It was very important to become Nothing as soon as possible; Nothing was celebrated, Nothing made sense.
And Nothing could have predicted the Great Change, the emergence of a strange temporal anomaly; an infinitum of un-being. First beknownst to the Microbes, first beknownst to the wolves and sheep, lastly to the shepherds, to leader ones; self- appointed, mad, broken things. There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop. There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.There was supposed to be a lot to this but at some point you just have to stop.
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James Parm Montreal, Québec
James Parm is a Montreal based songwriter/producer type person. He is writing this in the third person to make it seem like a more legit bio. James' albums are conceptual in nature and weave his philosophical meanderings into "fun" and maybe strange melodical melancholical chansons. James is always writing new music for reasons which escape him momentarily. ... more
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