1. |
Royal forest
03:06
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I know what it looked like yesterday
Fled from the yard all unsteady
Wrent from the kingdom
It was a bright start
Much like a birthmark
Here comes the melody
La la la la la
What do you engrave
on all those constraints?
The story that my blood hates
It was a bright place
Yes, it still glows
But promises move along
Once you let go
Just an idea though
By the way I made a mistake
I know what it looks like
That is just to say
The story that your blood makes
Sometimes you have to walk away
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2. |
1526
04:37
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1526
The last time we saw Venus
Our twin played along
Bet she can’t explain it
I tried to explain
Hesitantly fidgeting with my phone
I’m battling a sinking state
I appreciate stimulation
Existential conversations
Telescopes they contain
Sidereal expectations
Only looking for a perfect ideal
It’s educational
I feel invisible
It’s not material that I can’t see
what’s in front of me
Only you can reach
What’s in my dreaming
The transiting Venus
Why can’t I see it
Hung up on the usual stuff
The dao fucked me up
You’re driving drunk
So come right down to my place
I think I’ve got good taste
But only one side of the coin
Pertains to how we paint each other
Pertains to what we break in others
Sustain is what you need to mother
And Venus is a long way
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3. |
Alarm goes off
03:55
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It’s fucking crazy
Being your baby
Hummingbird parks
Cuts make a mark
Hours of tightening
In my shoulders
I’ve got a copper wire
And I’m soldered to you
Portioning out
Skin is coarser now
Don’t be alarmed
Somewhere outside over there
I swear
It’s fucking crazy
Being your baby
How all the ecstasy
Eats up a part of me
Writ from the stone
Don’t be alarmed
Something about a baby
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4. |
Halloween
01:23
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Is making words enough?
Do you understand me, how?
Is what I see not what you see?
A parable despite the pull
Unfuckable
A festival
It’s perilous
My porousness
I can’t quite get past it.
Running down the street
Pockets full of candy
So sweet, baby
Kiss me now
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5. |
Caught on the shoulder
02:45
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Churning molten before dawn
Resting my head all over Oregon
Redwood trees exalt their meanings
Mountains I’m so high above
Just a moment
On the shoulder
Where do I go
Wanna go home
Caught in the snow
Have I left behind things that I don’t like
Where am I going?
Round the corner faster faster
Up to Seattle pastures on pastures
I stop the car a severing sky
Between the clouds a blackbird flies
Fly
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6. |
The safe
07:11
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It sounds about right
I've brushed it all my life
Like horses in wintertime
The coats that they wear at night
Instead of arising
I cut my teeth on
White sand and light
Is it a surprise
Say what you like
I believe in paradise
It seems about time
I've waited long enough
To hold it up
Without calling it out
Nothing to write home about
Spark of the moment goes
It all spills down
The safe is so heavy now
The fire keeps going out
How could I write?
Can’t see a way
Nothing to say
The safe
It echoes
Rearrange
Stay the same
It’s in the weight
It’s all in the weight
People don’t lie about
It’s what it is now
Companions you cannot help
Publicity overdrive
Fantasy of Jesus Christ
All the things we don’t keep around
All the things we don’t talk about
Overpriced mysteries
wear me out
The safe
It echoes
It’s empty
If there’s no pain
It’s in the weight
It’s all in the weight
I believe in paradise
I believe in one more time
I believe in fireworks
I believe the lock that turns
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7. |
Judy occasion
03:52
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Judy’s in my car
Passenger side
Blending highway lights
Half asleep on the phone
Driving up the west coast
I’m an oar without stroke
Wishing she was in the driver’s seat
Driving
The west coast is the most
I’ve been alone
Judy’s in my car
She’s the open and close
Of my devotion
An occasional song
Lights at dusk and dawn
in the parking lot
Like a pallet of stones
All to keep me afloat
Now and then I think of her
Sink down around her shoulder
Held me in the summer
Oh I really love her now
I know I left you
But I didn’t mean to
I didn’t leave you
Just for something to do
The west coast is the most
Sometimes I don’t get it right
But still she stays by my side
Not a day goes by
That she’s not on my mind
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8. |
The party
03:06
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Canceled the party
Cuz I thought
The fold between
Was meant to be
A temporary piece
Damn it was gonna
Be the best party yet
But a final act
Limits the suffering
First time uttering
What felt permanent
See how it moves to the side
Praise the subtlety
Tell me it’s not just me
Once in a while
Once in a while
I don’t wanna be left at home
Shut the door cuz frailty knows
What comes always always goes
Canceled the party
Cuz I thought
If the wine was strong
I’d cast myself
Into a different form
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9. |
Mississippi (for Joan)
03:44
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I can hear Mississippi
Crystal clear
Lone black dog
Guiding me home
the words we don’t know
the words we don’t talk
Put your head on my shoulder
Shirt touching the dirt
Motherwort stirs
Thinly I purr
I’m hard at work
It’s hard to learn
I’m barely burning
I can hear Mississippi
Coyotes turn
Just like a chapter in our book
Just like the things we had to learn
Just like the things we
Don’t talk put your head on my shoulder
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