1. |
Fall Off The Earth
04:47
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FALL OFF THE EARTH
paralyzed as you walked by
we'd been talking about you that day
careless coincidence left me behind
while your next victim led you away
can you understand what you have done?
all said and gone I am the stupid one
I lit my last broken cigarette upon the setting sun
and burned the dawn
now everybody sings the songs they wrote for you to me
since you threw away the comfort of my company
serenaded by a dead end symphony
and searching for a guarantee
guarantee
guarantee
to the mystery
I sat alone on 2nd ave
collecting my debts in a garbage bag
my broken heart safe for a while
from the synchronicities in a circular file
"goin' to the chapel" played in the air
like a dead end symphony when you appeared
for better or for worse I realized you’d left me forever
and ever
now everybody sings the songs they wrote for you to me
since you threw away the comfort of my company
serenaded by a dead end symphony
and searching for a guarantee
guarantee
guarantee
to the mystery
don’t fall apart for her you're one of the many
she’ll never understand what your love is worth
just play your part in her dead end symphony
she’ll lead you on until you fall off of the earth
Lyrics copyright 2010 Ristaino/Towbin
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2. |
Cobalt Silver
04:56
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COBALT SILVER
The whole world’s bust a nut with out a screw
Inside my magic pumpkin room
Magnetic poles have switched
The tiny earth lost her shit
Broke all her marbles two by two
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue
The weather shines inside my heart for you
Showers silver rain feeding fields of cobalt blue
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture me loving you
Scramble cross this twisting burning world
Butterfly nets catch the biggest wave to drown you down the swirl
Girl no matter what you do you’ll never find a love like I feel for you
unless of course you do
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue
The weather shines inside my heart for you
Showers silver rain feeding fields of cobalt blue
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture me loving you
I need you to need me this way
When you trip across my fate
And you drift over so many lifetimes
Now one of them is mine
If love is blind then defy time
and trace my story on my simian line
Know me in your heart as I feel you in my mind
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue
(I feel you in my mind)
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue
The weather shines inside my heart for you
Showers silver rain feeding fields of cobalt blue
And if it all becomes too much for you
Picture me loving you
Silver and blue
Picture me loving you
Silver and blue
Picture me loving you
Lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino
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3. |
The Reason
03:47
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THE REASON
Punked I push the paper boulders up the week forever
Drunk on mediocre missions chasing trash for treasure
Origami time machines fold my life together
To an endless string of Wednesdays holding now to never
What can I do? I must pursue this money shot into the blue
And what is the reason
When a soul conceived in freedom
Falls entangled in its dreaming
Is the reason to be?
I’ll melt the mirrors till my fire's smoke and sand
I’ll earn enough for us if you trust me to be your man
(8 days a week)
I work a hard days night the paperback rains help
(I need somebody)
to feed the Heavens underneath my frozen over (hello hello hello)
What makes a teenage carnivore become a corporation whore?
And what is the reason
When a soul conceived in freedom
Falls entangled in its dreaming
Is the reason to be?
I shoulda slaughtered every worthless rule
I woulda tore this fucking world in 2
I coulda sworn I’d never bend or bruise
The Buddha grabbed the ring and tagged the moon
Wish I had know how much I had to prove
I woulda whipped the horse’s eyes to glue
I coulda gave a shit and made a move
I shoulda quit this bitch and spit the truth
But now it’s building up inside of me
Still wearing half a heart upon my sleeve
I’m like a dollar bill without a dream
Fallen far off from the money tree
So now I’m grinding daily finding maybe
All my time is wasted paper chasing
Faced with endless strings the Wednesdays bring
I’m even melting clouds for silver linings
And what is the reason
When a soul conceived in freedom
Falls entangled in its dreaming
Is the reason to be?
Its this conditioning
To fish for pole positioning
That leaves us living wishing
For a reason to be
Lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino
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4. |
Stereo
03:57
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Stereo
I receive in stereo
And emit a soothing glow
And I’m in your mind
It’s a clever scenario
When you become your own hero
Then you unwind
There’s a real relation you don’t understand
Mythic box of complications opens in your hands
And as I wade through dissatisfaction
I know you lie
Compromise my dignity
To get you to look at me
And I won’t go away
In the spiral of history
I’ll be there, repeated endlessly
A hero to them, but a tyrant today
There’s a real relation you don’t understand
Mythic box of complications opens in your hands
And as I wade through dissatisfaction
I know you lie
Lyrics copyright 2010 Allen Towbin
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5. |
Hero With 1000 Eyes
07:16
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HERO WITH 1000 EYES
(THESE ARE DREAMS)
PLEASE HOLD ON
I STILL SEE THE FUTURE WE LET SLIP AWAY
ALL ALONE
IT’S THE EGO’S JOY TO SEPARATE
WHEN DAYS FALL DOWN
AND THE STARLESS NIGHT’S AN INFINITE DECAY
NEW HOPE DAWNS
ON THE FOOLISH AND THE BRAVE
IN MY DREAMS EVERY REGRET
IS WASHED AWAY IN CAMBELL’S RIVERBED
STREAMS OF NEW MYTHOLOGIES
METAPHORS LIVE LITERALLY
NOW I CAN SEE AS OTHER’S SEE
A LIGHT THROUGH HISTORY
I
I’M THE HERO WITH A 1000 EYES
EVERY LIFE YOU’RE LIVING IS MY LIFE
AND IF YOU SHOW ME JUST WHAT IS RIGHT
I WILL FIND OUR WAY OUT OF THE NIGHT
LIFE’S NOT LONG
FOR A HOLLOW MAN TO WIN A MORTAL DAY
BUT LIFE GOES ON
THROUGH THE GENERATIONS WE CREATE
HEROES GONE
BURNED PROMETHEAN, AND LIVED TO SEIZE THE DAY
NOW OUR TIME COMES
TO REVEAL THE WISDOM THEY ONCE SAVED
SOME ARE FOOLED SOME OF THE TIME
BUT YOU CAN’T BLIND A HERO WITH A 1000 EYES
YOU MAY THINK THE STORIES LIE
I BELIEVE THEY ARE ALIVE
WORDS TO BRIDGE THE GREAT DIVIDE
A THOUSAND SYMBOLS POINTING TOWARDS A SINGLE
I
I’M THE HERO WITH A 1000 EYES
EVERY LIFE YOU’RE LIVING IS MY LIFE
AND IF YOU SHOW ME JUST WHAT IS RIGHT
I WILL FIND OUR WAY OUT OF THE NIGHT
I’M THE HERO WITH A 1000 EYES
EVERY LIFE YOU’RE LIVING IS MY LIFE
AND IF YOU SHOW ME JUST WHAT IS RIGHT
I WILL FIND OUR WAY HOME
THEY SAY ITS DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN
(I WILL FIND OUR WAY HOME)
THE DAWN IS OVER, NOW ITS OUR TIME
(TIME MELTS STREAMS)
STREAMS OF NEW MYTHOLOGIES
(THESE ARE DREAMS)
METAPHORS LIVE LITERALLY
NOW I CAN SEE AS OTHER’S SEE
(A LIGHT THROUGH HISTORY)
I’M THE HERO WITH A 1000 EYES
EVERY LIFE YOU’RE LIVING IS MY LIFE
AND IF YOU SHOW ME JUST WHAT IS RIGHT
I WILL FIND OUR WAY OUT OF THE NIGHT
(I WILL FIND OUR WAY HOME)
I WILL FIND OUR WAY OUT OF THE NIGHT
(I WILL FIND OUR WAY HOME)
I WILL FIND OUR WAY OUT OF THE NIGHT
(I WILL FIND OUT WAY HOME)
(A LIGHT THROUGH HISTORY)
(THESE ARE DREAMS)
Lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino
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6. |
Her Favorite Song
04:28
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Her favorite song
I play dj
Spinning other people’s songs all day
I could blow away this bar
But I can’t play the guitar
She begs me for bon jovi
She’s so drunk she’d promise anything
Buys me an umbrella drink
But will she be there in the morning
She’s screaming
All night long
She keeps beggin’ me to play her favorite song
She’s screaming
All night long
Boy you gotta spin it till the moon goes down
So she can get down
Underneath 9th st
Slackers boogie to the local freaks
I’m stuck backstage running sound
While these honeys run around (lookit all the honeys)
Put a guitar in my hands
I’ll turn alcoholics into loyal fans
When I finally get my chance
Even the chick behind the soda jerk will get up and dance
She’s screaming
All night long
She keeps beggin’ me to play her favorite song
She’s screaming
All night long
Boy you gotta spin it till the sun comes round
She’s screaming “if you play my song for me I’ll be grateful eternally
Shake my thing till 4:03 and leave with you in the morning
That’s what she promises
I stare into her dress
Her hypnotic cleavage
Gets me so distracted and the record skips record skips
Closing time comes around
But c-c-crazy Katie ain’t nowhere to be found
She’s passed out on the backstage couch
Her head will be screaming in the morning
She’s screaming
All night long
She keeps beggin’ me to play her favorite song
She’s screaming
All night long
Boy you gotta spin it till the moon goes down
She’s screaming
All night long
She keeps beggin’ me to play her favorite song
She’s screaming
All night long
Boy you gotta spin it till the sun comes round
So she can get down
Lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino
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7. |
Alchemical Dependency
03:35
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Alchemical dependency
Can’t go through life with no in your heart
You can mix pop rox with jolt and sweet tarts
Came to party in this bitch so let the party start
Burn hits up charts, turn farts to art
Call me Al Chemical mold flesh to gold
Drum beats bang booties into tootsie rolls
I’m known to turn the other cheek into a profit
And every time you hear me speak, you hear a prophet
You ain’t gonna stop it
Turn the other cheek into a profit
I’m so sprung when I open my eyes
Every day I wake up and get addicted to life
I spout off words running my mouf sprung a leak
All the ladies say “honey, Money Shot’s a speak freak”
Burn Hallow’s Eve calories from tricks to treats
The brave inherit the earth, the meek inherit the weak
Call me Mr. Show I’m understandishable
Drinking cokesacola claxic with the new pope
Turn the USA into a UFO
Hear the shit I say, say them shits is doh!
(real doh, on the real)
You ain’t gonna stop it
Turn the other cheek into a profit
I’m so sprung when I open my eyes
Every day I wake up and get addicted to life
(we should go out for coffee some time)
I'm addicted to change
addicted to weed
addicted to language
fucked from tv
I'm a fiend for music
g-g-gimme a beat!
strung out from getting your ass out that seat
I'm a fool for the girlies walking down the city streets
when they ass go boom and they titties beep beep
celebrity porn is like heron to me
hooked on phonics, phonetically
you see the more.....
the more I travel round this crazy world
the less places there are to hide
you might get sprung over a dime or a girl
but I'm deeper than that, yeah,
cause I'm addicted to life
Lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino
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8. |
Political Criminal
02:55
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Political Criminal
Wave your sacrifice around
With a selfless fist
Blow up the ones you mean to save
And save yourself a facelift
the backhand of God
Drunk on power, righteous to shiv
Say “It’s a privilege to kill
For people Dying to live.”
I’m dying to live
You are who you believe you are
But you can’t always see who you believe you are
Take time to see through your beliefs
Believe you are
The morning star is not who you believe you aren’t
And there you are
Right back down at the start
Believing that you are what you believe
Criminals trust their instincts
When the politicians drive us to drink
Pirates spinning spider webs
Liars wielding tridents of truth
You think its all about you
You think its all about you
Now I’m a criminal
Pay no taxes, live off the grid
Do what’s wrong for the right reasons
To mirror your bullshit
I’m forced to help myself
Take my life into my own hands
You take away our rights
For our protection, no
Criminals trust their instincts
When the politicians drive us to drink
Pirates spinning spider webs
Liars wielding tridents of truth
You think its all about you
(but its not all about you)
two sides, the same disgrace
we wear each other’s faces
I’d try to take your place
But I hate what you do
You Lie and do the opposite
of what you say you do
to be the opposition I must do the opposite
and same as you
Criminals trust their instincts
When the politicians drive us to drink
Pirates spinning spider webs
Liars wielding tridents of truth
You think its all about
You think its all about
You think its all about you
lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino
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9. |
Watershaker
03:54
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Watershaker
Woke up this morning everything had changed
Water shook the evil up and washed it all away
Called out to my baby “something feels brand new today”
She said “what we oughta do is let the water shake”
Shake it for me one more time
One more time
One more time
Shake it for me one more time
One more time
One more time
Driving cross the bridge the light is gold the air is clean
Baby’s hand inside of mine so cool yeah she’s my dairy queen
She says “I feel like I could live forever only more”
We shook up the highway waves till we reached the ocean shore
Shake it for me one more time
One more time
One more time
Shake it for me one more time
One more time
One more time
Annunaki made me I ain’t come from plankton
Trip the deep space set like I was Splangston Angstrom
Drank some protein from queen vagine a water shake
Immortality awaits now I’m wide awake
Every minute hour day yo these are dreams
water bears the ebb and flow of energy to everything
Sip the Aten’s rays till the soul is slaked
Living for this day so let the water shake
Shake it for me one more time
One more time
One more time
Shake it for me one more time
One more time
One more time
Lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino/Allen Towbin
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10. |
33
05:04
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33
If everybody wanted to be me
then were would I live?
I couldn't fit them in my American room
if everybody wanted to be as pretty as you
what would you wear?
we'd have to loot the bodies for irregular shoes
if everybody wanted to win
the trophy smelting factory would never close
i had me a dream that didn't have me in the dream
how can I be washed up at thirty three?
I'd like to thank the academy
(for this "greatest lover's" trophy)
but all alone its just a hollow victory
if everybody wanted to smoke weed
then who'd be on time?
we'd change New York back into New New Amsterdam
(if you live in Istanbul then you once lived in Constantinople)
if everybody wanted to be on TV
then you should check the warranty
cause I don't think this box can handle that density
(I am your density)
if everybody wanted to breathe
we better shut down the trophy factory
I had me a dream that didn't have me in the dream
how can I be washed up at 33?
I'd like to thank the academy
(for this "greatest lover's" trophy)
but all alone I’m just a pyrrhic victor
I am the winner of a thousand years of emptiness and
A champion of worldwide airwave lies
We’ll turn the graveyards to amusement parks at gunpoint
Singing “Give Peace A Chance”
Hand in hand
All night
To win a hollow victory
a hollow victory
a hollow victory
to win all alone is just as empty
Lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino
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11. |
Weightless
06:13
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Weightless
I made a mistake today
And gave my whole life away
To shoulder the burden of your trust
I don’t care you think I’m wrong
I’d rather be left alone
Sifting the sand for light in dust
Should I die for what is gone?
hanging on broken imagination
bear the heavy veil of freedom?
defy gravity or sleep on as
Slaves chained to diamonds
Carbon holding pearls
Names heal the ages of facelessness
We become weightless
When Atlas lets go of the world
Nothing in sight forever
So Atlas shrugs and forgets the endeavor
Wanders straight into the new sun
Billions all tied together
A shift to the side and the old wreck goes over
Left to rebuild or ruin
Do you know which side you’re on?
Brittle leaves torn in a windstorm
either choice a weight is borne
defy gravity carry me beyond the
Slaves chained to diamonds
Carbon holding pearls
Names heal the ages of facelessness
We become weightless
When Atlas lets go of the world
Do you know which side you’re on?
Do you know which side you’re on?
Do you know which side you’re on?
Do you know how to carry me beyond the
Slaves chained to diamonds
Carbon holding pearls
Names heal the ages of facelessness
We become weightless
When Atlas lets go of the world
Lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino/Allen Towbin
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THE POST RELEVANT MOVEMENT
It comes from nowhere and it goes back into nothin
Zuben El Genubi with his fingee on da button
It comes from nowhere and it goes back into nothin
Post relevant movement gets behind all that is frontin
It comes from nowhere, it flows near, Halt, who goes there?
Infinitesimal tap dancing, microscopic Fred Astair
Climbing Ginger Roger’s dna debuting debonair
It is a spiral without rival and a debutante with flair
It comes from nowhere always something generatin
Puzzlein and piddlein two riddilin for concentration
You can focus hocus pocus on its magic while you’re matin
Rhyme and reason Jackie Gleason sends you “To the moon!” frustratin
Every earthly attempt to tune in the big G’s home station
You can clear and you can repeat, or repeat a clear pause
Applause thanks, and money, too, Zoinks!
Shaggy and Scooby getting greedy snackin oinks
Bong rips and bumpin hips in the mystery machine
Animatin Post Relevancy fancy and obscene
Its obscurity is purity, its wisdom obsolete
Cause it’s over when it started, before it’s finished it’s complete (plete)
I have seen
(I have seen)
Windows to dreams
(Windows to dreams)
Feeding
(A glowing machine)
Breathing
Freedom
A pattern Esher understood
Post Relevancy dances wid da wiccas in da wood
Doin whatever comes naturally to bruddas in the hood
Jumpin ropes at zeotropes, baptisin popes because he could
So all the Chinese in the house say “Post Lerevancy”
The business men see $ and say “What’s in it for me?”
The Eskimos eating ice cream say “Shit, it’s fuckin freezing!”
And all the sisters round the way say “Saltine you crazy!”
No I ain’t crazy, I’m Post Relevantly wack
I ain’t lazy, I post relevant slack
Do I amaze thee? Then you must PR lack
And can I touch those titties? You got the PR rack
So don’t be mad or sad because the fad ain’t fake
I’m Post Relevantly rad my dads is bad with the rake
Liftin the Autumn leaves to re-align with the trees
Cause spring is back in rotation modulating a permanent vacation
I have seen
(I have seen)
Windows to dreams
(Windows to dreams)
Feeding
(A glowing machine)
Breathing
Underneath it all
Comes from nowhere and it goes back into nothing
El Genubi with his fingee pokin’ pop n’ fresh’s belly button
Stuntin’
Moving mountains into molehills munchkins
Take a pudgy penguin pavement pounding till that bird’s a puffin
It’s a whirlwind with a spiral generator with a spark
It’s a baby black sheep’s baba, white milk in the dark
It’s an underwater engine serenading all the sharks
It’s the belly of the whale and a walk in the park
It’s a movement
It’s a movement
To tap in you raise antennae and groove with it
After all, you will recall no need to prove to it
Cause its you when you are through and you are smooth and mint
Mocha chip double dip cream dream so flavoric
Silver surfer smurfing solar systems top of my cool whip
I trip on every possibility, nothing specific
The Movement’s anything wrapped into none just listen to it…
lyrics copyright 2010 Phil Ristaino
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AoV's hyper-melodic masterpieces are piped in from deep space with the blessings of the Sun Eve, inventing psychedelic lust- letters to the Goddess of Love herself. Songwriters Allen Towbin (aka Agent 333, vocals, guitars, bass, keys) and Phil Ristaino (aka Artron Avalon, vocals, raps, lyrics, art) bloom purple coated sunflowers of sound down your noise-holes and into your hearts and minds! ... more
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