Vestige

Written, produced, and performed by yours truly.

The album title, and a lot of the lyricism, drew from the experiences, emotions, and thought patterns I've had over the last year and a half. I have lots of anxieties about the world, but I'm grateful for the love and support of my friends and family.

Musically, the biggest inspiration for this album has been my Weber upright piano, which we bought second-hand shortly after moving to CT. It has a practice pedal, which plops a nice thick felt right down between the strings and the hammers. I'll sit down and doodle on it daily. In the end, I ended up recording it for every song on the album except the two instrumental songs, ironically enough. The last song on the album is a solo piano/vocal piece.

I hope you enjoy Scenes from a Window.

Lyrics:
Hey, where are you headed
Can I hitch a ride
Wait, let me get this
I’m on your side
Please tell me your weakness
I’ll watch over it for you
There’s no need to check in later
I know you have things to attend to

A familiar scene, a hit and run
Count another one
It doesn’t use its given name
Changes where it comes from
It bites at the corners of
The people and the self you love
By the time you know and call it in
It’s already wheels up

Started out with something pure
But it slowly degraded to the state it’s in now
Look at me getting myself down
You'd think I’d have learned by now

A familiar scene, a hit and run
Count another one
It doesn’t use its given name
Changes where it comes from
It bites at the corners of
The people and the self I love
By the time you know and call it in
It’s already wheels up

I can’t get myself up from the chair
The fabric’s faded and the cushion’s bare
The place called home is somewhere else
It left behind its hollow shell
I know my mind plays tricks on me
Slowly learning about entropy
Bring me back to the ground
And hope I come around

It’s a familiar scene

Wheels Up

Tapioca w/ Verest

what I'd give to be you again
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(Verse 1)
Another day, another reason not to look up
Wash your eyes, stay inside
Try your hardest to forget who we are
Strangers with common pasts
(We are strangers with common pasts)
It's alright, it's alright
Though there's barely any time
It's okay, just look at me and jump off the fence
I know you'll make it

(Chorus)
I know you'll make it
I know you'll make it

How many moments apart
Lost in the dark
How did you and I become so different?
You brought the raging tides
And the wings to fly
What I'd give to be you again
Myself in the past

(Verse 2)
I don't believe in enough anymore
I can barely write this song
Rock bottom, mess up, get back up
Don't call me on my phone
I'll pick up and hang up

There's a reason I suppose
Why you stay up late alone
It's cause a glimpse of the future would hurt
One where you didn't care at all

(Pre Chorus)
Was it worth it losing everyone you knew?
It will be harder now
I hope you'll see this through
Caught in a riptide doing everything for you
If we make it out I'll leave it all to you

(Chorus)
I know you'll make it
I know you'll make it

How many moments apart
Lost in the dark
How did you and I become so different?
You brought the raging tides
And the wings to fly
What I'd give to be you again
Myself in the past

(Bridge)
What's the point
Too late to go back now
I'll stay and rot
Like everyone else does
Is it impossible to live again?
(Like everyone else does)
Maybe we can
And maybe we cannot
But I wanna try
And find what I stand for
Maybe you'll understand along the way

(Pre Chorus II)
I know
You're too young to have everything it takes
But you can't afford to give up
And let it go to waste
So we'll try
We'll try to face the tide
We'll try

(Chorus II)
As we're restless
Staying restless
Staying restless through the night
As we're restless
Staying restless
Staying restless all our lives
As we're restless
Staying restless
Staying restless through the night
As we're restless
Staying restless
Staying restless all our lives
All our lives

(Chorus)
All our lives, all our lives, all our lives
All our lives, all our lives, all our lives

How many moments apart
Lost in the dark
How did you and I become so different?
You brought the raging tides
And the wings to fly
What I'd give to be you again
How many moments apart
Lost in the dark
Maybe you and I could find another way
I've had a change of heart
Will gladly take it back
Everything that I said to you
Myself in the past
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this sounded so weird 2 years ago lol https://soundcloud.com/noirwastaken/raging-tides-wip/s-vF4AozycqNU

RAGING TIDES

Koki Chant is here!

𝙇𝙮𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙨:

He said to me (to me)
That I don't wanna think about it (think about it, 'bout it)
Just tell me what can I say?

"Koki, Koki, Koki"
Chant 
"Koki, Koki, Koki"
Why?

He said
That I don't wanna think about it

He said to me (to me)
That I don't wanna think about it (think about it, 'bout it)
Just tell me what can I say to make it go away
He says the Koki Chant can promise better days
(says the Koki Chant can promise better days)

I don't want my chance to go away
I could see it, feel it, but I cannot reach it
I could watch the day slowly pass me by, but I
I don't wanna waste my time (waste my time)

I don't see the reason to wait out these awful days
He said,
"We don't need a reason to weigh on these awful days"

(I don't want my chance)
(to go away)

He said to me
That I don't wanna think about it
Just tell me what can I say?

"Koki, Koki, Koki"
Chant 
"Koki, Koki, Koki"

He said to me (to me)
That I don't wanna think about it (think about it, 'bout it)
Just tell me what can I say to make it go away
He says the Koki Chant can promise better days

stream/download 🍃

Koki Chant

venture deeper into the 'views:' story & lore  ⮯

https://www.glacierofficial.com/views

lyrics:

sunlight on my face
I'll try every day
don't say it's my way
cause you'll see it someday

well you said something
I got it
your worried stayed
I'm listening
you're waiting but
I got no say

don't say it's the only way
the light cuts me through the day
but I know, I know you'll see through it

settle down here and have some fun
I promise things wont come undone

don't say it's the only way
the wind goes around my face
but I know, I know you'll get there too

sunlight on your face
we'll try every day
let's say it's our way
when we see it some..

sunlight on my face
I'll try every day
don't say it's my way
cause you'll see it someday
sunlight on my face
I'll try every day
don't say it's my way
cause you'll see it someday

Stream / Download 🌘

views: the wind between the light

SAME CLOTHES

Hi guys! Here's a new track by @jetomoosic and I :)
***WATCH ON YOUTUBE*** https://goo.gl/17JdKC

❤ production: @jetomoosic
❤ vocals: slyleaf
❤ mix/master: @jetomoosic
❤ art: bds-mic.tumblr.com/ (edited by me)

lyrics: 

The shapes we make 
We give and take 
Colors we paint
With our own name

Fluid motions
Deep devotions
Uncharted sequence
thought without sense

So much air it’s easy to drown
Floating atop oceans we’re bound
Give me a place to be 
The lights within the city

Of wonder 
Of strangeness 
We make it
Our own

We never 
Know what to
To make of it
We make it
Our home

buy/stream

Slyleaf & Jeto - Myriad

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Lyrics:
Going ten over the limit when I didn’t have a place to be
I was dreaming ‘bout the future, but the present got away from me
I only focused on a measure, and I didn’t hear the whole symphony
I didn’t hear the beauty

Called my mother, couldn’t help her on a crossword question
She’s a wordsmith, it’s a daily obsession
I wonder if she sees in me her own reflection

Don’t wait up for the closure
It won’t ring the door bell
We live and then we die, no other order
But we all process each moment in parallel

On the water with dad, hoping we might get a couple bites
But there’s a rain coming in, all we’re catching is tangled lines
We’ll laugh it off, sing a song, and try another time

I don’t deserve this
So many blessings on my plate
I gotta keep the most important thing straight

Big brother’s on, gonna log in and play a few
Hundreds of miles away, and we’re right back in the groove
He’s a constant even when I don’t know what to do

Buy + Instrumentals

Parallel

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Lyrics:
Tracking down a runaway claim
Sifting through the trail of blame
A full review, long overdue
I’m taking myself back by the roots
Hiding in a popular cause
Bathed in undeserved applause
A constant plug, a modern drug
Scared I’ve forgotten how to love

“I don’t think I can change,” says me, the hypocrite
I don’t know why I waited to issue my personal permit
If I could do as I say, tomorrow would have been today
No more too-lates, I’m tired of saying it
I sold myself in chains to muscle memory
I put in too much of my time to watch it bury me
If I could do as I say, I’d be proud of yesterday
No more halfway to full recovery

Salvaging a faded grin
Looking from the outside in
A wounded man with folded hands
Can’t seem to follow his own plans (frozen where he stands)
Written off a story line
Simplified a complex sign
The curtain breaks, a twist of fate
Now’s not the time to hesitate

I’ve been a beggar, I’ve worn a crown
I’ve seen a sunrise skip along the ground
I’ve flipped the tables, I’ve changed the terms
I’ve tried every method but I can’t heal the burns

Full Recovery

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Lyrics:
When did we turn up our voices so loud
We don’t see eye to eye on anything now
Loosing words over the lines that we drew
We’ve got some work to do to get to the root

Clean out the attic
Cut the feedback
It can get dramatic
When opposites attack

Two territories getting smashed into one
A war of attrition has already begun
Who says we can’t make a truce for one night
Maybe negotiate by candlelight

I’ve left my weak side exposed
And left the burner on the stove
For the safety of our lives
On three, let’s both apologize

Parallel

Adam Tell