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Presents from a pickpocket
Would you wear my eyes?
The best disguise is naked
Naked on the rise
The best disguise is naked
Safe now to assume
We can understand the weapon
If we understand the wound
Baby, Baby, do you feel free?
Growing up in the Anthropocene
Learn what you learn, feel what you feel
If you steal what you love, love what you steal
Mirrors on the prairie shatter
A sound that breaks all thought
Pain is unavoidable, suffering is not
After you my lovely language
Into swamps ov rhyme
Beyond the limits ov control
Across the circumstance ov time
A Mercurial bitch is rising
Twisted tongues know how to lash
You represent the media
I’ll represent the trash
We’ll walk along the wasteland
Hear the sounds, see the sights
Watch a white horse being eaten
By a slave on Sunday night
The millennial mind is yearning
For secrets kept outside
I was swimming in the river
On the day the country died.
Baby, Baby, do you feel free?
Growing up in the Anthropocene
Learn what you learn, feel what you feel
If you steal what you love, love what you steal
Time wants a skeleton
The hero wants a mask
I’ll be there for you brother
You only have to ask
We’ll go down to the basement
And dismantle the cross
We need it for a fire to light our way across
An ocean ov unconscious ideas in their sleep
Our eyes are sown together, so we dream instead ov weep
Keep clear the broken corners
When crawling through a mirror
If you cut yourself on accident
That’s when I will appear
(( D. Santamaria ))
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This is the sound
I’m putting my faith in
Waited my whole life
For this moment to begin
I know all about it
And here’s the truth
I wouldn’t be anything
Without you
I’m drinking lipstick
Tipping over shelves
Tearing up outdated
Definitions ov myself
I’m here for it
So let me in
Waited my whole life
For this moment to begin
As a creature ov the crossroads
I’ve learned a couple tricks
In the masquerade ov trust
In the marathon ov skin
So all you other fools
Step aside
I’m finally ready
The king ov fools has arrived
Paradigm shift again
Surfing in a swamp
As the world caves in
I’m walkin’ down
To New Orleans
Cuz she’s one place
That will let me act insane
It only hurts
When we think it’s real
And that’s the thing
We got to learn if we’re to heal
As a creature ov the crossroads
I made an art ov being poor
And I can be invisible
In the middle ov a war
I’m wealthy now
Got what I need
I’m wealthy and I’m healthy
I’m happy and I’m free
Paradigm shift again
Surfing in a swamp
As the world caves in
As a creature ov the crossroads
I understand the criminal mind
And it’s my job to transmute it
Into something divine.
(( D. Santamaria ))
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A Volcano
04:30
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I come from the city
To tangle Love Songs
In your hair
It really is so pretty
To hear the ocean
Laughing in the air
I crawled out a Volcano
To look into your eyes
I’m a bashful earthquake
Trembling between your thighs
Pele brings me pleasure
And a warning shot of pain
I fell five hundred miles
To the bottom of the rain
Where I met a mermaid
Who gave me a guitar
With a broken piece of wood
It’s magically bizarre
How everything’s connected
But some things more than others
So break out of the sand
My sisters and my brothers
Truth is dark
Like outer space
Mama has a salt water signature
When she signs her masterpiece of waves
I crawled out a Volcano
To look into your eyes
I’m a bashful earthquake
Trembling between your thighs
Pele brings me pleasure
And a warning shot of pain
I fell five hundred miles
To the bottom of the rain
Where I met a mermaid
Who gave me a guitar
With a broken piece of wood
It’s magically bizarre
How everything’s connected
But some things more than others
So break out of the sand
My sisters and my brothers
I am Edith Piaff
Reincarnated
As a Mexican Ranchero
Stitching stanzas to eternity
That become severed
Like the wing of a sparrow
I crawled back in the volcano
After looking in your eyes
I’m a broken piece of mirror
Shattered in the night
The crows back home are lovely
The swamp runs in my blood
Be there for each other
It’s everything I love
I’m gracious when I’m hungry
As below so above
You heard me baby
I’m crazy for your love
(( D. Santamaria ))
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Silence roars
Down an old dirt road
Skeleton trees all talk to me
Grandpa’s pistol
Shoots holes in my memory
Grandma please sing for me
Two wolves inside me
Have gone to war
Which one wins
The one I feed
Fear not tomorrow
Weave a story, plant a seed
Write tomorrow’s laughter
With today’s catastrophe
Lonesome roads
Lay down your headstrong
Lay down the fool card
Lay down with me
Lonesome roads
Ain’t I your sweetheart?
Ain’t I a friend?
I’m just as broken as you must be
Language twisting
To speak it is to destroy it
All the dreamers must be soldiers now
Fear not tomorrow
Free will equals destiny
Tomorrow ain’t nuthin but an open road
Lonesome roads
Lay down your headstrong
Lay down the fool card
Lay down with me
Lonesome roads
Ain’t I your sweetheart?
Ain’t I a friend?
I’m just as broken as you must be
(( D. Santamaria ))
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Reaching my prime
In the temple of third mind
I cut the wrists
In a thousand dollar suit
Perfume my problems
And crash into the night
Every devil is a drag
Every angel is terrifying
Buried my breath
Looking for the dawn
A million miles from Death
Now that she’s gone
My lips, my skin, my bones
Play me like I’m your piano
Our love was written
On a mirror in smoke
But I’ve found peace at last
On both sides of the mask
Alone together
Together in the world alone
Sex, death, and other people’s money
This is not a joke, that’s what makes it funny
(( D. Santamaria ))
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Second Hand Rose
02:24
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Stranded between peripheries
(( Mexico City
Kalamazoo Michigan
Babalon ))
You cut the silence
From my throat
And called it mercy
Black and white cinema
Buried beneath the hyacinths
Where does beauty end
And art begin?
My namesake surrounded
Your long distance drive
Through downtown Valentine
Long before I ever met you
(( Ghost Towns
Backroads
No Freeways ))
Out west is where we learned
To walk between the raindrops
Let’s put party hats on our concussions
And limp back to the birthday party
Stop digging for teeth
In what is only a smile
There are two kinds
Of people in this world
And we aren’t either of them
Stranded between peripheries
You cut the silence
From my throat
(( And
Called It
Mercy ))
(( D. Santamaria ))
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Meet Me in the Madness
03:47
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Memory is a garbage bag
Dangling from a tree
What would I do without you
To remember me
The moon is in the gutter
At Pauline and Burgundy
There’s no telling what I could do
If you gave me enough speed
I’d call it freedom
A deal with a demon
Last night I danced with a stranger
She just reminded me you were the one
What would I do without you
In the dark land of the sun
My bedroom smells like spray paint
Perfume piss and cum
A talisman, a lock of hair
The great work is never done
My heart is bleeding
Looking for meaning
Fucked up and grieving
What the hell do we live in
I touched you once too often
Now I don’t know who I am
I slid my songs from between your legs
And started this rock n roll band
So meet me in the madness
Where the pleasure is severe
Because love is out of our control
But I’ll be your broken mirror
Let’s call it freedom
Love them and leave them
Love them and keep them
We all remember the ones we caught
We all remember the ones we caught
If we kept them or not
(( D. Santamaria ))
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The Way We Made It
03:22
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Matters of the heart
I thought you knew me when
You tore me apart
Still I wait
I count my blessings
Then they blow away
I loved you for the blues
That you laid on me
I let you into my life
Like a skeleton key
But you threw it all
You threw it all away you see
The way you made it
Is the way that it will be
In her bed
Once it was wild and bright
Now it’s dark and dead
Still I wait
I count my blessings
Then they blow away
The graveyard of our kisses
Has a thousand eyes
Memories, dreams, reflections
All in black and white
Everything about you
Is coming back and haunting my life
Darling, Darling, Darling,
Jeckyll and Hyde
Life without you
I miss you lover
But I normally don’t dream about you
I’ll surround you
Crawl back, get shot down,
Move along like I’m bound to
Something in your loving
Was poisoning me
They’d kill us baby
If we’d be how we’d like to be
So we threw it all
We threw it all away you see
The way we made it
Is the way that it will be
It’s not a demon
Only an image of a demon we see
(( D. Santamaria ))
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In a prerecorded universe
Who made the first recording?
My Love is a silent warning
Her lips linger
Like twin red planets
Of broken pomegranates
Live fast and die nine times
A prerecorded rhyme
From one Scorpio to another
Time is a thief, Love is blind
Uplift beyond destruction
Barbed wire liposuction
What a mind fuck
That someone else wrote
The language we think in
Uplift beyond destruction
(( D. Santamaria ))
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Born For This
03:07
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Born in a graveyard
The world is my home
As long as I stick with
The ramble and roam
Offered dried tobacco
To the trees in City Park
To awaken a serpent
That was sleeping in the dark
She came alive inside me
Electric pleasure buzz
Nothing greater than God
So nothing’s what it was
Nothing’s greater than God
So nothing’s what it was
Something out of nothing
Just because
Joy is our greatest weapon
It is what it is
Put me in the world
I was born for this
Morning arrives
Like a sad eyed model
At the Mississippi River
There’s this message in a bottle
The message says remember
Remember who you are
Particles of light
From an exploding star
One night we wrecked like a train
Our voices fell with the rain
Her tiny fingertips, Pisces Iscariot
Write a eulogy to a kiss
I was born for this
Nothing greater than God
So nothing’s what it is
Something out of nothing
Just like………………………..
(( D. Santamaria ))
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One night on the bayou
For fourteen hours we drank
Midnight wine
Walked the dirty boulevard
We both know
We won’t get out unscarred
Underneath the pale moonlight
I dream of you in black and white
Oh, Oh, Oh
I know who you are
And as the sun crept from its slumber
I made this one request
Slit my throat
And sing me a lullaby
I swear to you
That’s how I want to die
Everywhere I walk alone
I look for your name
On my stupid phone
Oh, Oh, Oh,
New Orleans is our home
You go your way
I’ll go your way too
To the other side of the wind
Beneath the origin of blue
On top Mosquito Mountain
Where the moon sits alone
Watching empire crumble
Holding a crystal and bone
(( D. Santamaria ))
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Sex Magick New Orleans, Louisiana
Sex Magick: Yin and Yang Musick Experiment formerly known as Dusty Santamaria + Moira Ichiban. Somewhere between the dream and its interpretation.
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