A dance version of the iconic Joy Division song.
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https://buddhabox.bandcamp.com/track/digital-joy-division

Digital (Joy Division dance cover)

A little techno-punk-pop with an 80s twist on it!
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https://buddhabox.bandcamp.com/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DLQxufZgs

Eight billion particles splitting apart, 
smothering each other, 
tearing me apart
Playing pinball with my life
Hit the bumper, ring the bell, tilt the machine, fuckin hell!

I'm A Particle

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The Fall is one of our favorite bands and this song was inspired by their music.  The lyrics are about Bro Culture (yuck)and the idiocy of young males. Plus, there are too many love songs; we need more break-up songs!

Listen, I’ve got two minutes to tell you why I'm over you

When you come over, you drop your body off and send your mind elsewhere
When I talk to you, you’re not there, a phantom body, a mindless stare

All you talk about is football, your friends are stupid, always stoned
Arguing about the best brew and what’s gonna be your next tattoo

I’ve got a minute left, then I’m out of here

Always flirting with other girls and being such a tease
But when you talk about your tats and football, yeah, they flee

You’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer
About as dumb as a bag of hammers
Dumb, dumb, doo doo doo doo doo, dumb, dumb, so dumb

I’m too good for you, besides that, I can do better, so . . . laters

It's Like Coffee

yOU'rE dEAd tO mE

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https://buddhabox.bandcamp.com/track/all-the-little-monsters
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0L3k20Ld3E

One of my greatest fears is succumbing to a degenerative brain disease, especially dementia. The slow descent into the darkness and leaving reality, or the light, needed a haunting and sad sound for this song to capture that feeling. Will my demons and monsters emerge from the dark and into the light to become who I once was?

I can’t walk in the light, so please hold me up and whisper
So they can’t hear, so they can’t hear
I can’t sleep in the light, so you gotta hold me and whisper,
“It’s gonna be alright, gonna be alright”.

In the end it all comes down to a single memory, a single thought.
In the end it all comes down to a single memory, a single story,
then a single word.

Do my dreams ever see me or talk to me? Talk to me?
Will they ever send me a plea or a prayer, to help me? Help me.

Now that you know that I can’t live in the light
I’ve gotta hide, I’m gonna hide.
Cause one day you’re gonna see all of my
little monsters, my little monsters.

All The Little Monsters

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https://buddhabox.bandcamp.com/track/therapys-not-working
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdxeaFeO7LI

How to compose a song about climate change anxiety?

This song is about a woman who psychologically embodies GAIA and feels the earth dying. The Suits (business men and politician) have lied to her and offer little fixes (THERAPY) to make her feel better. The White Suits (scientists) have argued about climate change with only a handful willing to say we passed the tipping point, and there's no turning back. They offer her more therapy saying the earth will heal with new technology and innovations. All she can do is hide inside of herself to escape their world.

Let's hope the younger generation will not accept the Suits and the White Suit's therapy. Young activists are our only hope to heal the earth. Our generation accepted their therapy while knowingly and unknowingly, we allowed the earth to die.

Therapy's Not Working

Is it about loving coffee, or that coffee is like loving someone?  Not gonna say; you decide.
Together we're steamy, together we're frothy, it's like heaven, it's like coffee

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https://buddhabox.bandcamp.com/
Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6GL3HqUdYo

It's like Coffee

Wabi, "Make a short song with fewer lyrics".  Sabi, "Can do".  

Wasn't liking the world when I wrote this song; too many Neo-fascists crawling out of their holes.  We gotta stick together and not repeat the 1930s, and smile, cause Fascists don't have a sense of humor.
Artwork by the amazing Felipe Echevarria.  Here's his art:
https://www.felipeechevarria.com/

Against The World

"Can’t screw my head on right: it’s all wonky" 
We like jazz, but sometimes it just needs to be a little darker. How about "Dark Alt-Jazz" as a genre!
Instrumental version on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/ambientmachinesghostworld/its-all-wonky

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https://buddhabox.bandcamp.com/track/its-all-wonky

It's All Wonky

Instrumental version.  To listen to Wabi sing this song, go to Buddha in a Box on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/buddhainabox/its-all-wonky

You can also own this song on Bandcamp!

It's All Wonky (instrumental version)

A whimsical song about Shinto, Japan, and Loneliness
WATCH THE VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQm9Zi7Mr4

Everyday I’m out of bed, have some tea and look straight ahead
There’s no one there in front of me, no one to share their life with me
I’m such a romantic, every night, I want to give flowers to you
Wake up, turn over, and see you there, sleeping right next to me. Yeah.

There’s somewhere - someone for me
Send my message to the one to search for me.
Send it.

Eight Million Gods

A song about not voting, speaking out and doing something when you could.  Our current world is seeing a surge of extremists trying to take power and destroy democracy.  Regret, worry, and fear make up the core of the song's emotions.
"The O.M. [Old Men] sold their souls, now we wait for their demons to come".
Available on BANDCAMP: 
https://buddhabox.bandcamp.com/track/world-of-hurt
Artwork by the amazing Felipe Echevarria. Here's his art:
www.felipeechevarria.com/

World Of Hurt

Ambient Machines of the Ghost World records ambient music and postmodern sounds from Vashon Island in the Puget Sound.  AMGW is a sub-project of Buddha in a Box, also found on SoundCloud.

It's All Wonky (instrumental version)

Ambient Machines of the Ghost World

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