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Lifelines

by Bad Witch

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1.
Comedown From Infinity 03:36
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I haven't slept in years! I stay inside and feed off other people's fears So they can chase one giant at a time I really need new friends! I need some assholes who don't even own a bed So I can feel like shit with purpose now William, meet your Thomas Time to learn what loss is like I made myself a promise And when I broke it I said I felt empty, but I felt alive If all your mantras end up untrue What would you give for a precious redo Would you do things differently this time? How many skulls must I put my fist through To get it through that nobody likes you Can't wait to not see you around William, meet your Thomas Time to learn what loss is like I made myself a promise And when I broke it I said I felt empty, but I felt alive I'd sell you my soul but I don't have the time So manic or not, try and kill me, I'll be just fine
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Shit Week End Credits 07:18
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"...what that process meant. And who knows, by the end of my career, by the end of my life, maybe I'll get it right... one day. But I've often thought as well... that perhaps, the true definition of being an artist, is that you're so deluded that you think getting it right is an actual possibility. When I listen back to these records, when I think back to these records, what I focus on is the recognition of the technical aspects of the record that I didn't get it... EQ or compression... or in hindsight, maybe that song that I thought was a great addition to that work as an overarching statement, in hindsight was only appropriate because of the frame of mind that I was in, and now I listen back and as a piece of music it doesn't hold up to me. Maybe I am so deluded that I think that the objective of being a human being is to finally understand-" ~ Devin Townsend Let the choir know if something goes wrong Tell them never to come to me Just 'cause I'm shitting where the priests shit don't mean That I'm the second coming of Easter extremes I ride the buses in my sleep End up in nowhere for the week Crumple up another sheet Just put the pencil down and leave Caffeine stained into a daze I'm running out of ways to say: (Let me blunt 'bout this) Oh God, I feel like fucking shit I take pride in Base my life in The evil things The evil things There are those There are those in need of me I can be human once more All I must do is try I live off eight words a day Hidden out in bathrooms Changed my name Spin it all however you please But deep inside it's all the same Topographic veins across the chart Mountaintops of skin begin to char I'm nothing without a heart My body cramps and falls apart now I take in pride in Base my life in The evil things The evil things I take pride in (Never start with the pages blank, but isn't that how you buy them?) Base my life in (Never start with the pages blank, but isn't that how you buy them?) The evil things (Never start with the pages blank, but isn't that how you buy them?) The evil things Take us out, I know a place where I can tear off your Old Navy blazer Scopolamine hallucinate that Everything's alright I'm in need of something new Someone to spill my soul out to Because the bitch I'm seeing won't let me speak Until everything gets rhymed
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Patroness Of Impossible Causes 05:04
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Infant self in the bedroom crying Will you hold him, will it be enough? Childhood self in the mirror whining Let him be, or make him grow up? Teenage self in the headlights Give him some advice? Advice!? I'd kick his fucking ass! You can stare into the sun Fight battles lost or won But no matter how devout Sometimes the best route Is just to cut all ties and run Can you feel it? Moving onward Can you feel her? Moving onward Patroness of Impossible Causes Hear my plight so It can be forgotten If old horizons lead to sunken ships Will I know if this is there all this Let me go Let me go Let me go You're my patron saint I've got a piece of your bones And other trinkets I stole From memories of our youth Still don't know what to do You're my patron saint No response at all What's that say for my cause? Out of spite when we're through I'll still name my kid after you My confessional days are over I'm sorry Father, I'm getting older It's hard enough being a one-way lover I tire of being her good soldier I'm moving back up to San Anselmo I'll fake my death where the weather's colder This time I'll really leave But no matter how I plead The tide turns against me I'll be back on my knees For you within the coming weeks Can you feel it? Moving onward Can you feel her? Moving onward Patroness of Impossible Causes Hear my plight so It can be forgotten If old horizons lead to sunken ships If I stay here, will you give a shit? Infernal war, plague me nevermore I'm moving forward! If old horizons lead to sunken ships Won't somebody tell me if this is all there is Let me go, God Let me go Something's bound to happen If you let me go This crusade has a hundred years of Innate strength but it's not enough Play villain for a different hero It's all the same, it's not enough The tide turns against me I'll be back on my knees For you within the coming weeks
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Lightspeed Sickness 03:55
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Fallen in with a bad crowd Now I've fallen from the gods and kings Fallen out with the rebounds Now I hate all my favorite things This was my favorite haunt This was my favorite haunt There's nothing left for me here Except the graves of cowboys of centuries past I'll try my luck out on the new frontier Earth was fun but it didn't last This was my favorite haunt This was my favorite haunt I need your body, butterflies I need your skin until nothing phases me There are two kinds of sleepless nights I'm having both and approaching near lightspeed When you return you will be Corrupted beyond your wildest dreams Emerge from the wreck beyond belief All these new colors should not be seen Go where no man has gone before Eyes trying to hide that sinister glow Prowling the warp for those like me Invade their dreams and guide them home
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Dullahan Song 03:58
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When I was a young boy One time I stuck my dick in Hollywood excess And when I pulled it out It was dripping liquid chrome Now I'm taking Adderall for chaos magic And Xanax for astral projection Tell my A&R I wish I was the kind of crazy that's selling records These people aren't my friends Just cause I live with them Nothing I can say Can make them go away I'm just a concept Just a figment, canvas, persecution complex They say I won't be real until somebody really loves me From there I work to capture pain But these confines are slowly leaking "What the hell has gotten into you?" Why, the spirit, the spirit These people aren't my friends Just cause I live with them Nothing I can say Can stop me from going insane This is my last road left This is the only option for me My head is way too big To be attached to the rest of my body, woah All I ask Is that I'm sent into the tamest fires of hell For all I've done, for all I've failed to do, not give you all I have If I had another chance I'd go out with a brighter flame 'Cause I can't live with myself again This is my last road left This is the only option for me My head is way too big To be attached to the rest of my body, woah
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Interlude: It's All As It Was 01:28
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City Slicker And The Piss Artist 09:54
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New life is born through the black breath Of lords of public favor crowning rejects Shed my latest effects and rise from my tomb Power here is gained through the dark steps Cults of sex and death make the knees bend And with this monstrous body, which do I choose? They chose me to be a trendsetter Necromantic acts are my accelerant There was no catalyst, just a stream of food Mimic my moves for the digital consciousness First as mirrors, give them other options Dopamine sensation, tell me who's the fool? You probably love this too Come on into the city, come on into the city So you can bleed like Come on into the city, make sure you're looking pretty So you can bleed like never before I SACRIFICE MY BODY FOR THE CONTINUING OF YOUR CRIMES SEX AND MURDER BE MY BREAD AND WINE Come inside, read my mind Manic visions fill my golden eyes I must erect these walls to testify That I can take my rightful stain in time There's blood out in the streets The opulence of loss I am a heartless god, I am an artist's god Subscribe to no aesthetics Don't let them bring you down You will rise above them Nothing can stop you now It's lonely at the bottom Let the stream pass through your face You will grow not one bit warmer But your wings will melt away I SACRIFICE MY BODY FOR THE CONTINUING OF YOUR CRIMES SEX AND MURDER BE MY BREAD AND WINE Come inside, read my mind Manic visions fill my golden eyes (I AM CONFINED TO THIS DYING PLANET) I must erect these walls to testify That I can take my rightful stain in time (FOR THE REST OF MY FUCKING LIFE) There's blood out in the streets The opulence of loss (I TAKE NO PRIDE IN FICKLE JOYS) I am a heartless god, I am an artist's god (I TAKE PRIDE IN STAINING TIME)
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Interlude: Glassway Into Sunrise 01:51
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9.
The Wedding, Pt. I 03:24
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My mood is dampened By a sea of nothing Out a whorehouse window I'm tired of running Brides cloaked in Greyhound smog That's never ending She'll care to soothe my nerves After the wedding There are places that my dick will take me that I wouldn't even want to go with a gun I've seen inside your dreams and I know you need me, but I oughta tell you that I'm doing this just for For fun Hungover Easter Day In my lily garden The sun begins to fade As the mourning's starting The flesh may be willing But the spirit's weak, it's true I want to be useless To everyone but you There are places that my dick will take me that I wouldn't even want to go with a gun I've seen inside your dreams and I know you need me, but I oughta tell you that I'm doing this just for For fun There are places that my dick will take me that I wouldn't even want to go with a gun I've seen inside your dreams and I know you need me, but I oughta tell you I don't love you anymore
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The Wedding, Pt. II 06:01
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Realize this stoic stance is a bundle of lies For it turns to worship when my back is turned I could try to hide from this emotional blindsided So I can lie to myself again and again and again and again and ag- See you in another two and a half years I know what it's like to lose the summer months Were we even different people back then I say I'm different now Although I still pretend I can never wound at all I'm an iceman drunk on rum and I'm melting all over your porch We both have more jokes than we're letting on I can smell the dirt from here, I don't care who you're getting off This manic attraction needs a jumpstart Hey, prowler in the yard Just so you know, you won't get far Without an alibi Though I'd like to see you try Hey, terrifier over there Dressed in that carcass, got that headless stare Though, you're out of time Yeah, you're out of time Bury the body and run See you in another two and a half years I know what it's like to lose the summer months Were we even different people back then I say I'm different now Although I still pretend I can never love at all (Surprise and Terror!) I WRITE ANOTHER LOVE LETTER TO A GIRL I BARELY KNOW I DO IT FOR THE EXPERIENCE, I DO IT FOR THE THRILL SO ONE DAY I MAY CRAFT WORDS THAT KILL
11.
Dalliances 04:06
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Faces turn to wasps Who travel through the wires All the noise has stopped Drowned out in the fire The clock resets again No matter what's been had So you're stuck with the shape Of what you want but cannot have Love's standing by For no one but you And it won't move until you do Turn and walk away I'm not worth it anymore Sing my endless praise From the bottom of the floor Love's standing by, baby For no one but you And it won't move until you do Plunging underwater and deep into the theater I dream of different features Separate futures, non-repeated That lonely gremlin freak is at the center of one Staring down a conquered realm like the barrel of a gun, but It won't end like that It won't end like that Love's standing by, baby For no one but you And it won't move until you do Love's standing by, baby For no one but you And it won't move even when you do You just missed it! Try again later.
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The Time Traveler's Coda 03:23
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Hey, are you okay? Nothing will happen Even if I dream it Nothing will happen Looking for my blue sky Nothing will happen Trying my hardest Nothing will happen I spend my Friday nights alone And I don't take nothing from no one Some secrets should die with me But she's moving out the country in a couple of weeks And I know how, I know how, How this will end I'm not ready to let you in But I'll study all your scrapbooks and steal all the cutest sheets 'Cause I know how, I know how How this will end I spend my Friday nights alone And I don't take nothing from no one Open my new wounds next to the old Start new obsessions, it's time to go Let it go Let it go Nothing will happen So let it go And everything is at it was, again We're lying to ourselves, again What am I doing here? If I know how it all ends I must try my hardest to change it
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Everything Will Be Alright In The End (Except You Die!!!) 06:16
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I left my old life, left to rot Our chained unrest set off a bomb And I know that you would've liked me to be free I left my old life, never again I saw my friends tear each other to shreds And I know that you would've liked me to be free A thousand years have come and went And really I'm the worst that I've ever been But hey, I'm just glad that you were in them I should be happy it's all at an end (Who knew?) Instead I feel like I'm fourteen again (You'd never leave this room) And I know that you would've liked me to be free (And you'll be sorely missed) My eyes glaze over, fists into balls (Who knew?) I scream at shit until I'm nothing at all (That this place would be your tomb) And I know that you would've liked me to be free (And even though I'm loving mold, I know that you'll be sorely missed) A thousand years have come and went (You died at the old house, love) And really I'm the worst that I've ever been (I'm sure you had nothing left to give to us) But hey, I'm just glad that you were in them You wouldn't know What this means Even if my worms Were crawling in Your wilted ears And whispering these words, I can hear Leave the life that you know Aren't you so alone? Learn to reap what you sow As you've done before Tell, tell him again Tell him he's a man now And he must do his own thing Hey, I'll tell him again This water's not as deep as yours But I'm still drowning

about

I told myself I didn't want to do a long concept record so here's a long concept record. It is called Lifelines because all these songs are my tethers to human connection and experience and emotion and whatnot. In the beginning I wrote about girls and feeling like shit, and then I wrote about having to feel like shit to write, and then I wrote about how stupid writing music is, and then it came full circle and I wrote a couple more songs about girls. There are some long tunes and some short tunes and some loud tunes and some soft tunes and I hope that somebody is listening and they really like it. Thanks.

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released July 8, 2022

Wes played and produced most everything.
Wes wrote most everything, where the hymn at the end of "Everything Will Be Alright In The End (Except You Die!!!)" was written and performed by the United Servo Academy Men's Chorus.

Inspired by the works of Devin Townsend.

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out of tune guitars and manic visions, recorded in my bathroom est. 2017

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