1. |
Bad Scene
04:11
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Bad Scene
Written by Jane Mabrysmith
Copyright Neatomajick Productions 2019
Ain’t interested
In taking this
Exit again.
It’s like you don’t know who I am nor what I just said.
The scattered debris
Of you and me
Will not be ignored.
I’ve doused your drive in kerosene and locked you out my door.
You gotta do more
Than say you’ll change!
I need action with results, cause I’m
Walkin away from a bad scene
Bad scene
Before I burst into flames.
I’m not the author of your bad dream-
Just another perspective to entertain…
You call me up
Crying,
“Tell me, what have I done?”
And I gotta wonder aren’t the scars on my face enough?
You try to persuade
The blood in our veins
Make us one.
I hate to break it to you lady, blood don’t equal love!
You gotta do more
Than say you’ll change!
I need action with results, cause I’m
Walkin away from a bad scene
Bad scene
Before I burst into flames.
I’m not the author of your bad dream-
Just another perspective to entertain…
Love is the word you say
When you’re desperate to get your way.
Do you even know the difference?
Or is this just my experience?
An orphan I remain,
And I’m okay with that!
You gotta do more
Than say you’ll change!
I need actions with results, cause
Every time we speak
It’s the same thing:
No respect for boundaries, so I’m
Walkin away from a bad scene
Bad scene
Before I burst into flames.
I’m not the author of your bad dream-
Just another perspective to entertain…
hey
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2. |
To Believe in You
04:43
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To Believe in You
Lyrics by Jane Mabrysmith
Copyright Neatomajick Productions 2019
The world’s fables and meanings
Tables plates of lies
Served on the side
Like a dish
Of mushroom pie
Battered in shit
And covered in flies
How I wanted to believe in you
How I hoped there was more to you
Nothing like waking up
To a rabbit in your cup
Except the rabbit’s dead-so dead
And the magician
He’s dancing with
His pants on his head
How I wanted to believe in you
How I hoped there was more to you
Nothing but the ground to hold onto
Floating above the painted roses
There’s no Alice to be found
When the Cheshire Cat’s around
Meow meow
How I wanted to believe in you
How I hoped there was more to you
I was so desperate to believe in you
I can no longer believe in you
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The New Day, the Mountain, the Sun, and the Shade
By Jane Mabrysmith
Copyright Neatomajick Productions 2019
I like sitting on the mountain
Away from
All this mess
The knots, the strings, the ties, the hooks that bind
Everyone into
Hardened fractures-
Beliefs pieced together in a shape
Unintended:
Oblivious awareness
And how do we wake them?
And how do we
Tell them it’s time
For school
When the alarm clock works
But no one
uses it; no one cares
Just an apparatus: a pointless stare...
Like the clock’s tick
Made us all unaware of the world within ourselves
And without
It means nothing to them when the clock ticks ahead
The sonic pitch
Falls dead against the cochlea’s end...
My head pounds as my mind explodes into tiny
Million fragments.
There’s no more room in the body for the
Broken lines
Scattered behind your sleeping eyes
Can be seen now.
It is seen now!
And you don’t know who’s looking
And you don’t know
Who’s been counting
And you don’t know
Who’s been waiting
For this
Time to arrive
Oh blast from the past
Blast me like the last time you saw me crawling from the crevasse of hell
Do tell me, when was that me?
The echo rings like a vow I made before I could breathe
In the open sea
Tell me!
Was that really me? !
The cross roads is clear, trust me, I know the way
Cause I made it
Step forward tall, for the mountain is yours
Once and for all
Welcome to the new day
And I’ve been here before
Years ago
When I could say I knew
Everything
About nothing
And nothing
About everything
But this I know, this I know
Nothing about nothing
There is only the heart and the breath
The new day, and the mountain, the sun, and the shade
Carve me into the cliff where I will always meet the wave
For as still as I might, nature always has the last say.
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4. |
Once Upon a Caterpillar
06:43
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Once Upon a Caterpillar
By Jane Mabrysmith
© Neatomajick Productions 2019
Useless skin withers in the sand
Serrated knife falls from my hand
The heat of the sting burns
As the vespa's wing covers
The collective mind
Veiled like a bride before me.
Are we ready?
Cause it's time to be married,
To graduate life:
Once upon a caterpillar,
Now a butterfly.
Some people call it dying
But it feels like rain
Cause we never stop crying
On the existential train
Some people call it trying
And we'll be here again
Cause we never stop flying
On the existential plane
What is me, is you
What is you, is me
We design our lives
With the thoughts we think
The thoughts we drink
The thoughts we speak
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5. |
Offline
04:33
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Offline
By jane mabrysmith
Copyright Neatomajick Productions 2019
Want to get my hands on it:
Your promising words
Outside:
My window sill
Knock’s of yesterday’s
Anxiety
Don’t sing for me no more,
The world has changed
And I’m here waiting,
For you to call me.
Working on what I want
To share with you,
And I’m here waiting...
To engage
Oh! The beams of sadness
Stream down my walls,
But the support frame
Remains so strong.
My support:
What little there is, maybe
It’s all I need…
Or maybe my stupid dream of meaning something
Is empty
And I’m here waiting,
For you to call me.
Working on what I want
To share with you,
And I’m here waiting
For you to know me
But I’m afraid the darkness
Has taken everyone
To the table of digital games,
And I am on the chessboard
Waiting to engage
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6. |
Virago's Lament
05:24
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Virago’s Lament
By Jane Mabry-Smith
© Neatomajick Productions 2019
What is so
Unforgivable?
What is that point?
When an apology
No longer cuts it.
Is it the offense,
Or the perspective
Of the offended?
They no longer care…
Perhaps… ohh
When sorry’s not
good enough
Sorry’s not
Good enough
There’s nothing to be done
But you want
To make it right.
You wish for the real
Conversation.
You wonder
What you have done;
Or is it just them
After all. Is there anything
Left...
When sorry’s not
good enough
Sorry’s not
Good enough
There’s nothing to be done
Why are you
So unwilling
To state your case?
What has pushed you past
The edge of care?
Can you name it?
Will you face it?
Is it them, or is it you?
But in the end, there’s nothing you can do…
When sorry’s not
good enough
Sorry’s not
Good enough
There’s nothing to be done
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7. |
Virago Seattle, Washington
Virago is a psychedelic progressive rock project newly created by vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Jane Mabrysmith (Love and Fury, The Januariez). The band features Amy Denio (Kultur Shock, The Tone Dogs) on bass and vocals and Alex Dillard (Huey and the InFlowentials) on drums and keys. ... more
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