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Downstream

by Comprador

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1.
Face your fears All our friends are here Make a wish Cinder for each year Let's go let's go outside through the woods learn to dive Downstream, then (Float on what you are not) Don't be scared We'll come up for air Splash and make it rain Everyone sang
2.
Dark Neon 03:51
When we cry tears will rise as vapor purified of our eyelids Crystallizing Return to us Quieting our voices & colours Freezerburning in the dark neon
3.
All Debris 02:58
(You know) We are all debris in the stream Make no eye contact with other floaters face down feigning death Everyone holding their breath Don't speak don't breathe or move an arm or a leg or your neck Hold back Hold your tongue Don't say a word to anybody who could have heard Here we are drifting down and down toward the cataracts See the mist See the sun iridescent now Stream within the stream Blood we are the cells We'll not crawl out Water cuts too deep Banks too high to reach
4.
Second Rites 03:34
In a rill, in the water we'll erode our hearts hollow them out Fearless we'll swim in our conceits (childish) of our own deaths As the sun sets we are not alone Parasites fly to our glistening skins You look alive
5.
Realize you have no purpose You're the last of your breed that's obvious There are none left like you who share your views Or your thoughts or how you make decisions So let's swim up to the riverside Stick your head out think about the heat lightning (Stream down again) If you wait a long enough time the rain comes down What do our reflections tell you? Seek mirrors worth comparing ourselves to But the waves' distortions make them untrue More impressionistic than I see the real you So let's paint a picture or grow blossoms Or sing into the night under the heat lightning Somewhere but not here The sacred rain comes down The silent rain comes down
6.
We'd not Never really interacted I hope at least once you'd meant the world to someone but I never sought to Contact you Let our lives play out til yours finished I'm standing by your coffin Your life's blood circling some drain So deft the handiwork of the mortician To be taken into death's quiet earth Your molecules will find their level Take them to the ocean who'll not give back Waves hiss forward Won't get her back Take your medication take your medicine Every one a sedative Get sedated see your stars meet your maker Who'll not want anything to do with you, your sisters or your nephews So far we can't see the shore
7.
So if you've lost sight of shore clench your fist in mine
8.
In Your Name 03:28
Waves Transform into silt a series of disconnected bored moments No commitments, no purpose Swim to surface Spice must flow in your name Dry my bones Wave after wave before wave
9.
Drink your fears put your voice on now Drive so far clothe yourself in doubt Scare us with your rising gift Shake our rust yeah get spirited Downstream now (Stream down) Float on what you're not (Again now) Share your words read our minds Is that so hard? Yeah I've tried So you have the perfect prayer Get it heard that's what friends are fo
10.
Flower Parts 04:25
(We dove in soaked our skin) All of our plans swept us out here We thought we followed a muse / spark but in truth the void of no resistance easily led us out and down Do not fear the sediment suspended in the water Pull my eyelids open gaze into that bloom The only thing I want the only thing I see and I sound like I'm singing underwater The only thing I have chewing on those flower parts Red clots from the bite Where ya bit? Drifting down the wrong branch of the river the same sick Turning red from where you’re bit drift down the river getting sick seasick motion sickness
11.
Kissoff 01:47
Yeah one in five catch the mind's eye but my dreams trounced the flesh Yeah warning signs last hopes burning birdsong truer than a pitch-less voice
12.
You're already sick of me So hold my head under the waterline I won't hold my breath Stay submerged and lie in wait til our palms blur and no one reads our fates
13.
Skyward 03:54
River sands tattooed signs on our backs Look skyward through the weeds and lilypads Sought to forsake our lungs Unable to speak or make a fist Now my fins cannot hold you Sought to forsake a mocking touch
14.
Come to my house when I'm alone We'll strip shaking flesh from my hollow bones This is not an idle threat or command this is prophesy Return my molecules to where they were always meant to be I can hold my breath submerged but only for so long before I break the surface and try to outrun our dogs You can leave your house You can't get away Think you are alone? Well well well We'll pick out your face in a crowded place Feel alright til they come in and flash their stupid sign They are vectors this year's model in an aged and vicious line Keep in mind they've relearned death as win/lose and not shared fate Keep your guard up, there's no mercy here when we're playing this game How shall we empathize with anyone who wants us down eternally to serve their fortune and then die w/o a sound If helping us constitutes a fatal systemic shock they do fear death at our hands and I have no key for that lock
15.
April 01:34
16.
Kiss On 04:42
We don't care why you thought we'd care about why you split Flake when I show I'm weak but spray your proxy spit Do me no further favors oblivion won't sell Inflate your circle I'll prowl in my lower hell yeah Yeah one in five catch the mind's eye but my dreams trounced the flesh Yeah warning signs last hopes burning birdsong truer than a chorus with a pitch-less voice You bright and risen secrets long to be un-kept Gorgeous failures float unheard Banal devour and intercept I can see confusion glowing read the writing on the walls The successful wolf blows and blows down his inept halls
17.
We want you here You are welcome here (stream down again)
18.
Sublimating We won't shed a tear now Blood reddening the water So if you've lost sight of shore Far out so tired all alone Saltwater burning to the bone Sink down leave no trace no one knows Sediment is blinding us Our plans dragging us down Under the water’s surface our friends will be here for us soon Clench your fist in mine we’ll bring you home Face our fears all our friends are here We’re outside, through the woods learn to dive
19.
On Land 07:08
On land watch the sun through the thinning air Strange to feel the dry dirt underneath our limbs The ceiling that mirrors us is so distorted Free us from each others' views the light that burns us Do you wonder about the countless hiding suns? Yeah I feel I had more to say Heal our gills Learn to kiss learn to crawl Learn to speak It's all I wanted So, So long, Seeya, sister

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released May 18, 2018

Charles D'Ardenne - recording, drums, bass, guitar, piano, synth, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, vocals, lyrics
Jon Delvaux - additional guitar, synth
Brianna Kelly - Rhodes piano on 'Sacred Silent', additional lyrics on 'Downstream Then'
Corey Waddell - slide guitar on 'All Debris'

Recorded April to November 2017 on Pullan Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45223

Thanks Jon Coontz at Audiodidact for additional guitar recording and Ben Sloan for drum track editing on 'Sacred Silent,' 'Flower Parts,' 'One Reads Our Fates,' and 'Kiss On.'

Photography: Natalie Jenkins
Art Direction: Jon Delvaux

Mixed by Jon Delvaux
Tracks 1-12, 16-19 mastered by Chris Lee
Tracks 13-15 remastered by Elaine Rasnake at Daughterboard Audio

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