1. |
Autumn Ritual
02:14
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2. |
Frustrated Machine
05:34
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Fallin' love with men
Is an act of forgiveness
Velvet kneelers and
A dozen souls rubbed clean.
Confessional alley
Walk like everyone you see
W/ one foot ahead and one
Behind.
Misery walks from dawn to
Dawnhead,
Fixed w/ dreamlessness and
Touched by steel.
In the pink light behind shattered glass
Everyone looks and
Everyone sees
Handprints disappearing into
Dust.
And there will be
Dust.
Now I am a spider
Holding up two pieces of
Web, broken enough to
Fly.
Breathing engine warmth
You are the brightest car in
A dark parking lot.
Once new this image of
Survival in love and all his
Victims carrying
Visions stretched grey with de-
Light some face down closer
Than the others to the
Source.
Then I lose my name and I am
Down again.
Though I know my spirit will be
Freed.
Lovin' like an engine wears the
Tire thin.
Lovin' like someone who can't
Believe.
Feel like a foreign anything
Feel like a foreign anything
Feel like a fraud.
Mm-mm I want to linger
Mm-mm a little longer
Mm-mm a little longer here with
You.
(I'm thinking about buying a car. A fast, steel, motorcar. I want it to have my name on the tires so that it cannot be seen when I drive it.)
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3. |
James
04:03
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All my friends like hangin' out.
They go to clubs and parties.
I know a guy who almost died
Stifling a scream.
They call him
James the elder,
Cuz we don't ever wanna be like him.
He gets me so down whenever
I lose my faith in a bottle of gin.
Give me anything that doesn't have
An American label
Take your body anywhere
Close your eyes
Keep your mind in the North.
My brother, he says,
Will drink anything that makes him sick
But I feed it back to him
When the money's passed the nation's lips.
Careless
All of us
Careless.
Careless
All of us
Careless.
My brother, he says,
Will drink anything that makes him sick
But I feed it back to him
When the money's passed the nation's lips.
Eventually you'll stop caring about
Your teeth and the anxiety
Dims and then it disappears
Touch your tongue
To the molars at the back of your mouth.
They slope into your gums
As a river bank erodes and falls.
You will come to accept this
Checking a watch wound for a lifetime.
Endless
All of us
Endless.
Hopeless
All of us
Careless.
They slope into your gums
As a river bank erodes and falls.
You will come to accept this
Checking a watch wound for a lifetime.
James the elder,
Cuz we don't ever wanna be like him.
He gets me so down whenever
I lose my faith in a bottle of gin.
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4. |
Crick
06:03
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Tell me that I slept forever
I don't wanna know if I've
Come and gone.
Right about now or never
There's a place beyond.
Tele-pain refrain but don't strain
Your plastic brain it goes
Up in flames.
Keep the fire in the fire
Place where it belongs.
Tell me that I've gone to flower
And that every part is being used
Of the body that we cared for
You me
I you.
I don't know if you have noticed this
But the billboards that speak to us
Are becoming more judgemental
With every year.
And it's all about where
The line breaks slowly
Down and bleeds
As the time washes over me.
People call and they ask me why
I saw you there
I saw you there.
Anyway for a better time
I been there too
I been there too.
When I left my house
I was six feet tall
Now I'm just below five-nine.
Must be the weight of the world
Cuz I lost my head
And I'm fractured by the skyline.
Now though the moments
Go so slow
You're already left behind.
They poured the pavement
In the womb
And there's nothing left inside.
A token of age
Spent by the youth
Comes at the cost of pride.
The light and the chorus
Leaves your voice
And enters the broken line.
Watching a while
Slipping away,
Dare you become unknown?
The horizon's eyes
Are teaching you
That that's where the fever grows.
See how the noise I have
Has lingered the night away
The moments they can't unbleed
I save.
The dwelling on the baseball diamond
At the middle edge of left field
Is small and bound in places with pieces
Of cloth and rope.
It does not have a covering
But it does have something there.
It will probably be destroyed
When the game begins.
(scream)
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5. |
Poisoned!
02:26
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6. |
Real Ghosts
07:14
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The carpet was sharp
In Vic's old room.
Well I never quite made it
Out of there.
It's a tail growing
From me, an ingrown
Scream a tumor made of
Empty noise.
If this is the day
When I rejoice
Give me just a little
Of my voice.
Then there are those days when
You look so good and the drugs
Are just ooh babe.
Far be it from me to say that
I'm livin' life in a dead way.
Every morning goes so slow and
Every night is a mile away.
As the stars will come out in the
Dark, I chart my life in such a way.
Took you like a river
Takes a blind child
Spitting flora grinning
Rose gardens.
But this was a white room
At noon on Thursday
You walked a high-wire with the
Strength of fame.
Give me a reason
Give me a voice
Give me anything that
Smells like choice.
Then there are those days when
You look so good and the drugs
Are just ooh babe.
Far be it from me to say that
I'm livin' life in a dead way.
Every morning goes so slow and
Every night is a mile away.
As the stars will come out in the
Dark, I chart my life in such a way.
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7. |
Tiny Sailor
04:25
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O, Tiny Sailor,
Born triumphant
Where is the noise to
Reveal you?
Since we've been dreaming
Of your passage
Write me a wave I'll
Smile for you.
When you take things over
Bright as light can be.
A red lamp in a green field
The moods that come to me.
Even as the old ways are
Sacrificed they all
Stay with me forever
Like fungus on a toe.
(Captain, my captain...what do you see?)
Look out over the horizon.
Look. Beyond it's eyes and into the sun.
Stare at the space between sea and sky
And into the eyes
Of God.
Daylight
Breaks so slowly.
I am gone and I am on my way.
Searching
For adventure
Out here on these super groovy waves.
When I was a boy
I saw my name
Chalk dust white breathin' turpentine.
Something lost in the coming waves
Raise your sails past the given time.
When it's gone it's gone and
When it's gone you're gone.
Two months later knee-deep in the brine.
When it's gone it's gone and
When it's gone you're gone.
Shave my hair into a thinner line.
O, Tiny Sailor,
Born triumphant
I've got the noise to
Reveal you!
Since we've been dreaming
Of your passage
Write me a wave I'll
Smile for you.
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8. |
Cracked
05:11
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Fold up your hand youngest one
The dough is yet to rise.
How dare you think that your strength
Comes from inside?
Just like these lowlands I love
You are not your own.
I'll sing your praises with my
Fingers.
Admire the plastic bags that
We keep in a vase.
Grown in the community
Garden down the block.
When bloom I watch these
Plastic lungs take in the air.
Given life only to
Collapse against the stair.
Become my voice and I swear
I'll never say a word.
I'll bring the view into my head
So you can take us there.
God, let a crack move through me
And tear up every seam.
Maybe someday you'll speak through me
And you'll say everything.
Admire the plastic bags that
We keep in a vase.
Grown in the community
Garden down the block.
When bloom I watch these
Plastic lungs take in the air.
Given life only to
Collapse against the stair.
Where have my weaknesses gone,
How is it that I stand
With weight that's all my own
And so much in my hand?
All of those pretty plastic bags
Carried home filled with air
Something deflated enfolds me
And then it sets me free.
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9. |
Last Afternoon
01:13
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10. |
The Dawnheads
13:46
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You, you're invited
To shed everything that marks
You as unclean.
Like something close to nothing
You'll be touched by only those who can believe.
Welcome to the distance that's between us
Bow your head drop to your knee
Send forth your love.
Enter and become the light above me
Needing nothing among everything reside.
So die away
Inside of me.
You're not everything I've
Wanted you to be.
Full of grace
You've chosen woe
And it hurts that you're not
Wanting anymore.
Yeah,
It hurts that you're not
Wanting anymore.
You, you've decided
To feed styrofoam to gasoline all night.
Wake up feeling sticky,
Ain't no thing that can't be
Burnt away alright.
Bigger make it bigger make it easy
To ingest the space that
All things occupy.
Me happy me home and
Me like water.
Me be drinkin up the dawn like every night.
So die away
Inside of me.
You're not everything I've
Wanted you to be.
Full of grace
You've chosen woe
And it hurts that you're not
Wanting anymore.
Yeah,
It hurts that you're not
Wanting anymore.
But lord I've never lived that way
So how can I still believe you?
I know of a child
Who saw Christ the Lord
In line at a deli
Ordering some soup.
He seemed so familiar
To all who were there
Cut him and beat him
And do it on a dare.
Late to the matinee
The lobby entertained me fine.
I stumbled when I walked away
From a love that is Earth's time.
I struck a bit of gold one day
As the day was losing time
And held it in the dying rays
So something of mine could shine.
Silence
Silence on everything.
Silence in one heel
Wears out the ankle
Of Lady Rage.
Who stands
Right in her scattered place.
Sucks in a breath
And buttons her eyes
With the foul taste.
So come in come in
Come alive
Wake me up and cut me off.
I'll blue the doorknob with my rain
And let no one else inside.
Then lay me down to rest one day
As the day is losing time
Hold me in the dying rays
Tell me I'm not but a lie.
Silence
And here comes the everything.
Walk on the feet of eight billion hands
And finger nails.
Shaking
The warmth out of every face.
Tie down your floorboard
Up your good neighbour
And scream away your name.
And when there was no child to bare you
Picked up and ran away
With a little porcelain egg
You were told would never break
Summoned like a chorus angel
But for the open road
Maybe I'd be white as all hell
And stories will be told.
My baby
Threw my hightops
In the ocean.
Guess I'll be exactly
Where I am.
Some people they don't change
But they break so easily
Like something close to nothing
Close to death.
And even when the light that held you
Slipped where the awful go
And there was a noise around you
You held your beauty on
Maybe I'll be cold forever
Or old for just one day
Stand alone beside me
Let me hear you say
My baby
Threw my hightops
In the ocean.
Guess I'll be exactly
Where I am.
Some people they don't change
But they break so easily
Like something close to nothing
Close to death.
Fetal on the floor
Outside my apartment
The most pathetic thing
I've ever seen.
I love you so I'll let you hold me
Underwater
Till I become what you wanna see.
Am I really gonna have to
Strangle
Myself to survive.
Some people they don't change
But they break so easily
Like something close to nothing
Close to death.
And even when the light that held you
Slipped where the awful go
And there was a noise around you
You held your beauty on
Maybe I'll be cold forever
Or old for just one day
Stand alone beside me
Let me hear you say
Anything.
Say anything.
Say anything.
Say anything.
Say anything.
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11. |
3 Memories
06:36
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Joko Tea Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Stokes - d
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