Get all 6 tsosis releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Second Nature, First Contact, Acoustics, Underwater Tell Each Other Secrets, Red Version, and Blue Version.
1. |
To Kelly Lee
04:27
|
|||
Please don't leave
Believe in me
I would not lie among the artifacts
Within the sacristy
I know they’re sacred
I know we stand in hallowed halls
I would not speak with such conviction
If I did not fear for us all
But something happened
Something changed
Since we met yesterday evening
The symbols all have rearranged
This now reads “Fire”
That one says “Flame”
And my transcription might be off a bit,
But I think that one says “Pray”
Gather yourself
I need you calm and collected
I feel your dread. I know the fear.
But these thoughts are crippling you
Hold your head high like the minarets
We haven’t been beaten yet
When the whole world starts to pirouette
Let me be your safety net
I know that you’re scared of the local lore
But we’ve conquered worse before
The soothsayers can’t always be correct
‘bout what hasn’t happened yet
Hold your head high like the palace walls
We’re fearless. We stand up tall.
We won’t be afraid of our fates at all
We’ll be brave when judgment calls
If the ground opens up to swallow
The love that we’ve built
Will our world end in grief or elation
trepidation or guilt?
It’s all for naught
The world’s gone to pot
And no heaven’s waitin’ on me
But, when I’m down where it’s warm
Would you still call me yours?
I think I’d still like to be
|
||||
2. |
Winter Solstice Baby
03:53
|
|||
That came out all wrong
Tangled and twisted
I wish a cure for
My cold tongue existed
On top of the world
I’m such a cool cat
Living alone
Among ice caps
Smile with your eyes
Thaw the heart I claim
Soften hard hexes
Make warmer my domain
That all came out wrong
Heres’s what I meant to say
Was how I’d prefer you
Cruel, cold and grey
That came out all wrong
Here’s what I meant to do
Put you up in a castle
Not an igloo
smile with your eyes
Thaw the heart I hold
Where now pumps warm red blood
Banishing the cold
You are my sun
Winter has begun
Where did you go?
out in the snow?
Smile with your eyes
Change snow to rain
Where I once felt your warmth
I now feel only pain
I’ll find new warmth
and move away
a brighter sun
I’m glad that you didn’t stay
|
||||
3. |
Anyanka
02:55
|
|||
You’re a part of me
I don’t know what I would be
If you abandoned me I think I’d
Do something terrible
I’m a part of you
You must feel this way too
Still, there’s some disconnect
I can’t keep what I say in check
Suddenly amorous feelings transform into
Why can’t I have you right now?
I’m so drawn to you
Your sweetness cuts me right through
I’m damned. It’s bleak. It’s dark
Someday you’ll rip out my still beating heart
Then all at once I feel instantly better
I hear you outside on the porch
When our duplicate gazes align
I can’t bear it
When you’re closing your hand around mine
I can’t bear it
When you’re warming my cheek with your breath
I can’t bear it
It’s scaring me half to death
And I can’t bear it
When the change comes
I’ll go completely numb
You’ll think, “I’ve never seen him look
So vulnerable before”
I’ll ask, “Why” and “how”
“Why are you doing this now?”
“I built myself around you
Now all of it is just a souvenir.”
Time itself will stop
You could hear a pin drop
But all I hear is the sound of the air
deflating out of me
I’ll watch with sparkling eyes
As the light in yours dies
Already I’ve become
A fond and fading memory
|
||||
4. |
||||
Séance séance
Hey, who turned the lights on?
The planchet was movin’
Spelling out our fates
But the light holds it in place
We’ve been trying to make a connection
With the other side
What defines us as mortals gets casted aside.
Now watch the room divide
Light as a feather
Stiff as a board
Don’t pay with blood
For what you can’t afford
Will-o’-wisp
I’m convinced
Will-o’-wisp
I’m convinced
Our borders breached
No earthly kid
Has ever done
What we just did
|
||||
5. |
Opassa's Grotto
04:30
|
|||
Meet me tonight at a quarter past ten
Remember: bring your guitar and a few of your friends
We'll hang our toes in the cerulean tide
We'll sing together and watch the night go by
The song reverberates off sea-dampened walls
Intertwined with the ocean's empty calls
The moon shines down through a hole in the cave
Down in the tide pools which reflect your face
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba baaaa baaa ba ba brrrrup ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
My toes prune up, but I don't mind
because I've got you sittin' by my side, girl
There are somethings static that the tide can't wash away
As we sing together and strum along
I see a glow across the ocean that must be the break of dawn
It must be the break of dawn
As we exit the cave
I can't help but sigh
We can never come back and I'm not quite sure why
It could never compare to last night
we'll never feel better no matter how we try
No matter how we try
|
||||
6. |
Lots of Love for Logan
03:50
|
|||
Act natural
Be interesting
Don’t overthink
The night inside a box
The actors vignetted, the camera zooms in on her every time that she talks
depth of field shrinks
With each additional drink
So cinematic
The sets look fantastic
The script is dramatic
anticlimactic
Now the second act
A shot reverse shot shows two characters talking
The second one is trapped
framed in profile
She wears a forced smile
So stylistic
This shot’s so artistic
The script is realistic
so pessimistic
|
||||
7. |
The Macabray
03:43
|
|||
I count ten in the dusk sun
on the wet grass
facing the woods
And I can't find
Where you have gone
And a cold trail
Is a sign where you've run
and I said, "Ready or not, here I come."
Ready or not, here I come
Trippin' on my laces
I am afraid that I've lost my place
at the end of the neighborhood
edge of the world
This was a mistake
With night clear upon us
I am shone fear
In the autumn of my seventh year
An alarming lapse of sound
I see my breath
just like in the stories
Don't want you to turn around
I don't wanna bask in your ghastly glory anymore
|
||||
8. |
Soulmate 2.1
04:16
|
|||
Pass me that soldering gun
I know what to do
Red LEDs under her cheeks
Make her eyes green, not blue
She’ll talk in code
In javascript, C++, Python, maybe
But I don’t mind
I’ve needed someone to talk to lately
prototype
so my type
flawless data
still in beta
She’s built exactly to
My specifications
A deity designed for me
Soul Mate 2.1
With all the traits
I’ve looked for in one container
even still
She really couldn’t feel plainer
There’s no recognition. No love in her eyes
don’t recognize cognitive signs.
zeros and ones put her hand into mine
Her skin like marble her grip like a vice
What have I done?
My darling exchanged for this
Callous automaton
Gone all gone
Left here with only a husk
Of a lover
Designed desire
empty shell
I have created
My own living hell
Doing it yourself
Always turns out bad
Schematics can not
rebuild what had
No luck
Self-destruct
I’ll try
Harder next time
To work out
The little glitches we find
There's no
simple solution
No shortcut
No substitution
I’ll try
Hard to work on
Being patient
On days when you’re gone
Forgive me, sorry
I’m just so damn
Sick of waiting on
Your fucking program
|
||||
9. |
Kid Ghost II
02:10
|
|||
Home at last
Moonlight through the glass
and my eyes lay still
Fixed o'er the windowsill
And far away
I said that you can stay
A familiar light below
A haunting of the friend I used to know
|
||||
10. |
The Oddest Sea
02:55
|
tsosis Sacramento
Formerly The Speed of Sound in Seawater
Streaming and Download help
tsosis recommends:
If you like tsosis, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp