Levitiathan

by JANG

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All songs written and performed by Nick Stanifer

There is no programming, sequencing, or looping on this record.
I try to keep all of my albums free to download, but if you think my work is any good, and could find it in your heart to donate any amount of money, you can find a 'donate' button on the bottom of the left margin over at www.nickstanifer.com

that way I could keep buying cd-rs, strings and other stuff necessary to make more music!

thank you for listening


recorded at Renegade Studios
in Sacramento, CA April 2012

cover photo by Laura Li Simpson

credits

released 10 May 2012
Nick Stanifer:
Drums, Bass, Guitar, Piano, Synth, Vocals, Melodica, Mouth Harp, Harmonica, Bongos, Percussion

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tags: experimental rock & roll bedroom rock electronica lo fi love songs magic prog psychedelic rock rock weird rock Sacramento

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‎"Risk taking individual, fights against the burdens of life through a quest for excessive stimuli. Not only impulsive but ... more admires impulsive behavior, as this is perceived as being free of the exhaustion he or she feels from everyday life. Best method of entry is to appeal to the novel and the future development of our protocol."
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Track Name: Everlasting Cup
It's all uphill from here
and from anywhere really
am I in the inferno?
or just the infirmary?

but

No matter what you say
and no matter what you do
some quiet part of me will always be in love with you
So walking through your storms
don't forget about my love
although it's in the past
it's an everlasting cup


I thought I had landed
I thought I was home
Now I'm stuck and I'm stranded
Disinherited, Dethroned


but

No matter what you say
and no matter what you do
some quiet part of me will always be in love with you
So walking through your storms
don't forget about my love
although it's in the past
it's an everlasting cup


I never did get you
you never did care
but we can still be down for each other
high five in mid air

cause

No matter what you say
and no matter what you do
some quiet part of me will always be in love with you
So walking through your storms
don't forget about my love
although it's in the past
it's an everlasting cup

No matter what you say
and no matter what you do
some shadow part of me is still in love with you
so walking through your storms
don't let it get you down
when cowards act like fools
and chumps don't stick around

No matter what you say
and no matter what you do
some quiet part of me will always be in love with you
So walking through your storms
don't forget about my love
although it's in the past
it's an everlasting cup
Track Name: I Believe In You
I believe in you
Do you believe in me?
One day we're gonna be old
and neither of us will care about fears or anxieties

I believe in you
do you believe in fate?
Someday we'll all find that special someone
some of us will have to wait

I believe in you
Track Name: Saturn's First Return
This past year
I almost did it
almost brought myself to an end
But let it not be thought
even for one second
that anything, or anyone else
could do me in

now Saturn
is a little bitch
no it could not be said that I'm a fan
but as I reach it's heavy exit
it's purpose
I understand

Cause
To walk through the valley of the shadow of death
you gotta fear no evil and take no rest
you gotta cut the throat of demons
with the sharpest knife in the shed

and the path of the righteous is beset on all sides
by inequities of selfish and tyrannical men
who would rather see you suffer alive
than see you dead

but it's alright, somehow it's alright

Cause I'm a lover not a fighter
but I'd kill a man for my love
but sometimes you get your hands cut off
before you throw down the glove

but it's alright, somehow it's alright

because although the planets will tear your heart and soul apart
you can always find shelter in friendship, and in art.
Track Name: The Psychic
The psychic told me
you'd have brown eyes
The psychic told me
you'd have brown hair
The psychic told me
you might also be a musician
yeah yeah yeah

The psychic told me
I was a captain
of a 17th century English ship
that looked for passage through the North Pole
that sounds about right

The psychic told me
that I won't be content
until the age of 32
The psychic told me
that I may be a genius
but I think we both know that's true

The psychic told me
there were dark swirls
'round my spirit of anxiety
The psychic told me
that the brown haired girl
has lived 100 happy lives with me
Track Name: Strange Generation
And we're born into a fiction
and we die for our illusions
and we stick by bad decisions
and we cry for restitution

and we howl for revolution
but we confuse our own convictions
and we disconnect connections
and we consider our bodies confections
and we consider new ideas infections

and that's my generation

degenerate invocations
of godless rights and freedoms

lost in empty chasms
believing in a merit-less spasm of thought
to be just parent's orgasms
humans who like animals better than humans
in the fast lane to a hell
there's no room in
Track Name: Leñador
Leñador
C-c-c-c-cut my shadow

The Number 9 and the Tower in flux
The blackest hole in the universe sucks
the light away from a dying star
but nobody cares cause it's so far away

Leñador
C-c-c-c-cut my shadow

The furthest thing from marble and stone
are the fountains of blood made of flesh and bone
rip out this page in the history of Nick
crumple it up and give it a kick

Leñador
C-c-c-c-cut my shadow


My citadel on high
full of fine archers stand
upon my tongue
well-trained to protect
the jar of viscus heart
that stitches blindly it's shadow impressions
of the cold blue finger of the moon
that once did touch it's flesh
beyond a thicket of purple veins and without effort
her eyes darting elsewhere
and she dissipated like fog around noon
and the fingerprint of the moon
burned a small hole in the heart
that resembles a mouth

and from this floppy, leaky orifice
the heart mutters nonsense
that is interpreted differently
by whom ever's ear
it might gurgle and spit in

the monarchs, with their narrow ear for the heart's sludge
demanded that we better train the archers

moon wound
Track Name: She Was Once My Nurse
She was once my nurse
but now she's just my friend
things had gotten worse
but they're better, I hope, in the end

When we were just cool
there was no church in which to sin
but I end up feeling worse
than before I checked in

There were razor blades
behind a friendly smile
so we had to cool it
leave it alone for a while

She was once my nurse
but now we're barely friends
things had gotten worse
but they're better, I hope, in the end

We started to sink
and pull each other down
now I don't see her much
but I don't mind when she's around
we might have a smoke
at some comfortably crowded show
she'll ask me how I am
and we'll pretend that we don't know

She wanted to plant roots
I'm not the one and never would be
but she bore some tasty fruit
and I didn't mind watering the tree

she used to be my nurse
Track Name: Don't Expect A Call
Let me ask a question
and tell me the truth
am I now too old to start completely over
all these disappointments
put a weight upon my soul

Don't expect a call

Not much is worse
than not meaning
much at all to
someone else

First I am your friend
and then your one true love
then it's lose my number
and don't ever call me
think I'll put a bullet in my head
if this won't end

Don't expect a call

Not much is worse
than not meaning
much at all to
someone else

Is she showing up?
Well then I'm best to leave
wouldn't want a snide remark
or confrontation
my mistake for thinking
that 'I Love You' is not just words

Don't expect a call
Track Name: What Will Become of the Workers in Sound?
What will become of the workers in sound?
I know that it can't go on forever
that we scream in the darkness of the internet cave
a neurotic, quixotic endeavor
To be heard, to be seen
To be loved as a champion of the heart
and not of the dollar
To have second thoughts
as our bodies they rot and our rooms
become instruments and squalor

to play a few shows
with one single row
of your friends
and some cross-armed casual critics
to realize you won't be a Beatle or a Stone
but a peddler of wares to bored cynics

We drop off like flies
as the fury subsides
and look for a day job that pays
what's right and what's wrong
and who decided a long
time ago these are the only two ways
Track Name: Together
May you always have something to look forward to
May you never know how bad it can get


It's better
to be lost
together
than apart