from Demos, released Fall 2011

Lyrics:
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless fear in my eyes as I try to hide from the northern lights 
The pain, just as the train, goes by 
We relinquish a sigh, relieved of any further crime 
The crow outside my window slays its glide 
It sits atop the thicket pines, and runs a block of picket signs 
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless shame floods my sides as I’m trying to hide from the northern lights 
Star-gazing towards the city of wine 
All of the bystanders align; I can’t help but to stay behind 
Shipwreck in my dream from what she’s shone 
She’s got me tremblin’ to the bone, but she has left me all alone 
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless fear in my eyes as I try to hide from the northern lights

Northern Lights

written/recorded live in 2011
from Old Sleep EP, released Spring 2013

Lyrics:

Monsoon, welled up right from your wrist 
Monsoon, I can’t go on just hating this 

Bright moon, there was a film of trust surrounding us 
Bright moon, I will think of you as anyone 

Too soon, it was myself I saw inside that hearse 
Too soon, an angel chorus sings a broken verse 

So soon, we'll fall apart and find there’s only dread 
So soon, I hadn’t time enough to clear my head 

Typhoon, destroying all in its wake 
Typhoon, there’s only so much more that we can take 

In tune, if only words were left to say 
In tune, the sound erased will come another day 


Monsoon, it welled up right from the earth 
Monsoon 

Bright moon, there was a film of trust surrounding us 
Bright moon 
- 
Oh my darling what could lead you astray?
Oh my darling where did you go that day?
I’m all alone; I have no home 
You tore me down and now I’m free to roam 

Oh this heartache, never have I felt this way before 
Oh this longing, you left the honesty at the shore 
Can’t find myself or no one else 
Been beaten down and sent to hell 
Can’t say I’ve earned it but it sure as hell was worth it, no 

Come inside now, I still wanna be your friend 
I don’t know why now, but something about you makes me never want this to end 
Can’t feel my feet, I’m obsolete 
Been shown the path to pure defeat 
Everything’s changed; taste the pain 
Girl, somethin’s twisted inside of your brain

Monsoon/Oh My

from Old Sleep EP, released Spring 2013

Lyrics:

I’ll wait on the guard that placed the burden 
Are we lamb lighting up the lawn? 
Hold me up; hold me up long 
Believe under reason 
Aren’t we lovin’? A long since past 
Aren’t we lookin’? That mind can’t cap a reason
Eden left us 
Ah, ease up
Up above we all can see
What we are

Blessed heat
In all 

I saw what you did to soften the blow in the act 
But try I again and you’ll know what you’re up against, Jack 
And to see how that tear fall, honey, could it feel like your wish? 
Poison all mystified guise, I’m breakin’ through to you for schnicks !

You can never expect a turn from the wheel on the road 
Why’s everybody always rushin’ home? 
Wouldn’t you find somethin’ better, made of stone? 
Would you come back down to me, darling, on your own? 

No, you never expect the one that you love to turn into stone 
Would you stay away from me, darlin’, on your own? 
On your own 

And would you know a better break; a quake to impart? 
Set through the noise wake all that shows in discrete scenery 

But I’m not one to worry 
Better get out of here, boy, in a hurry 
An end to what you’re doing; been put to rest 
I’ve been to where you’re going; there’s nothing left, love 

But going crazy in the distance howling violently 
Agony of Coyote 

What is is becoming but does not wish to be 
Nor shall I traipse wishingly 

Now your tapestry wraps the apple trees 
In the yard where we’d lark 

I know it grows weary in the darkness wishing viciously
Agony of you only

Turnwheel

Just reworked this to get it closer to the final version, 11-7-2015
Demo for the second full length, out later
Watch live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/Wabc4dJzogk

Lyrics:

Seems that you arrive
Blessed star, managed the surviving
Please be calm and stay 
Without delay lay within these wings
Forsake your kings

From the wreckage, it’s seen: the vestige
Stripped to the wire
Hail from the fire, in the form in the fire
Burden snuck under the night as your tired dried eyes perspired

Sink into my substance
Expand; ooze all over with 
Quiet confidence
Flow in luxurious nakedness

Screamed verse to be heard there in sign
Align with the presence, oh Holy again!
How blue leaves seemed flowery then

From the wreckage, it’s seen: the vestige
Floating above, you cold iron dove
Vanish for now or call it forever
Though my balance sinks through, all creeps unto you
That flightful fight

Try not to grow adrift in the grimoire
When everything seems to be similar
Flip foot and stare while you flee blinding cause
Cause and prepare

I’ve tried but I’m still there

Jungled through the snare
Where I’ve gone, I can’t compare to
Where I fare

Well Fared

We’re going to Hell
We’re going to Hell 
And we ain’t ever ever ever getting out

It’s a sold your soul
On a circuit board of souls 
And a love that’ll eat you whole
It’s a kill your friends
In a world that bends 
Forevermore as we pay their toll 

We’re going to Hell
We’re going to Hell 
And we ain’t ever ever ever getting out

Oh she cried “You used to be such a warm presence in my life
But that boy, now, did he die?”
I laughed “There’s someone in here looking out
You know he’s dying to be found”
She asked “when you see my smile
Does it make you cry a little bit deep inside your soul
Or did you lose your sense
When you got off that fence
And then committed to steal the goal?”
I said “I’ve held my breath 
But now that’s come to crest
And death will be the only rest
It was a choice I made back on a lonesome day and now I’ll get it off your chest
It was a choice I made an age ago before your sweet caress
Around the time when you and Baphomet first grew your little breasts”

And she said
You’re going to Hell
You’re going to Hell
And you ain’t ever ever ever getting out

So have a happy day
Yes, there’s a life to pave
But it won’t be as great
As the one upon the screen
And I think I watched just a bit too much TV
‘Cause now I wanna kill something

I’ve got nowhere to be
And nobody to left to see
The only one left alive is me
And that’s why
I got it
Easy

You're going to Hell

You're Going To Hell


Lyrics:
Mission grieves
To be blunt
Run and gun
One and done

All I was
Lie in wait
My new blood
Wide awake
This fading
Sense repaid
Past the dark
Dark sensor made

Open wait
But the trial's here
Tabled tales of fear, blind
Tarry or decay will take its place

Make the mark
Simpler sin
Praising under
Influence

Hope and wait
But your end is near
Take your wings, my dear
Fly
Your eagle
His bride across the sky

Newblood (first draft)

Watch this live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/5-vXIM0OvPg

Lyrics:

Now wasn’t I purer blood, Adonai?
Tame where it stood
But bring in close, just hope for good
Her motor on; ride out, right on
Her leapin’ t’wall to wall

The call seems so inviting, but no one’s able to get exciting
A lack
What you gonna...
Tie ‘em to the train tracks
Her hair to the burnin' haystack

When the team reached the cave, it erupted in disgust and disarray
The time to walk through the flame
Why now...... why now

Claimed she’d start to watermark, she made another stitch
Asked her for the number, she flopped around like a fish
She wore her...
Claimed that she was married, she got off without a hitch

She wore her open mouth like a miter
While the frogs all crawled out and tied her to the tracks
I’m not comin' back
From this I’m not comin' back

So you just keep on goin' ‘til it’s over
And I do believe that is soon
But there’s nothin’
You can do

Fishin' With Frog

Wrote this over the course of three days, right after dropping out of college. Another one of those songs with an unclear future. Watch this live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/8Tfs0zNu5OQ

Lyrics:

Each night
To make it right
Call out the fore                        

Then we begin
To breathe again
But still tend to slow more

Winter, take the fire
And raise the light
'Til no one comes found

Their face slips
Into a grimace
Baffled by the witness

Hold your heart beating
Turn in your destroying

For you
Few would speak in
Someone culls to weaken

Her course
Stays the main shore
Hull in solid lake door

Hang while you come down
Someone sails, there's no one left now

But they sink
Away in glory
Dreary-minded worry

They know
Trail of paint flow
Tucked in by the stain coat

Hang your heart beating
Turn towards me and stop destroying

Still know
I would see through
Every rite to speak to

Each night
To make it right
Call out the fore

Then you begin
To sing again
But still tend to slow more

They know
To blind the story
Still inclined to hurry

But they still sink
Away in glory
Dreary-minded worry

Hang while you come down
From the sail
There's no one left now

Hang, Your Heart Beating

Track 2 of Furnace EP
Lyrics:
I heard your voice
Angrily scream
That you loved me
And I never noticed 
And so you hated me

And I saw the man
In the street with his gun
As I sang
And he shot
He was led
Obsession

And I saw the change 
In the driver’s face
Gargoyle to an ape

Inhuman veil
Driving to Hell
Down the well
Stuck in my head
Screaming, “it’s over”
Screaming, “you’re dead”

Too stoned 
For this
Too stoned 
For this

Too Stoned

Track 3 of Furnace EP. 
Lyrics:
This
Too stoned
This
The window don’t own
All ya held alone
Wait on
Wood sown
Too wired
Too stoned
New eyes
Take on 
Wait on

This
Too wide
Fell down

Too wired
Too tired
And it’s found

Too tied to this
Fell bright
Soul might
Somehow
Shelled sight
New now
Swoon out…


Too stoned
For this
I was
Too stoned
For this

This..

I just felt like posting something new, and this track poses a mood that's unique to the other songs. Also, it's great fun for me to let people in on the process of making songs, and this one's definitely still "in process." At the moment I'm working on three new full length albums: Be It Known..., one with more of a "rock" and progressive type feel, and one with more straightforward folk songs. This track will be on the lattermost of the three, which will be released next year. I know it would be more efficient to work on one thing at a time, but I seem to lack that capability. Anyway, here ya go, another bloody demo! Lyrics, below. Watch live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/_EXp_l66laA

Lyrics:
Bread to the fire
Lake, dawn
Blare of the siren
Lays like the fawn
And all the way you could have been right in the sun
Ya rest in the place you stayed on

Made a comeback
And they played on
Ever holy
Made in love

Moment to breathe
Take time
Say what ya need
But mean the line
Maybe we'd stand for more when it comes
Brace for the fall, brave when it's done

Made 'em comeback
And they played on
Ever holy
Made in love

Your wade applied
Face mine
Made in the heart
Take time
Mailed in the harbor
A-way in a boat
With the ropes to the blade
Made out a road

Harbor

Remastered by my friend Jon Hasz, of Ramona Music
Didn't know he was gonna do this, so it's an awesome surprise... 
Thanks Jon! https://soundcloud.com/jonhasz

Lyrics:
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless fear in my eyes as I try to hide from the northern lights 
The pain, just as the train, goes by 
We relinquish a sigh, relieved of any further crime 
The crow outside my window slays its glide 
It sits atop the thicket pines, and runs a block of picket signs 
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless shame floods my sides as I’m trying to hide from the northern lights 
Star-gazing towards the city of wine 
All of the bystanders align; I can’t help but to stay behind 
Shipwreck in my dream from what she’s shone 
She’s got me tremblin’ to the bone, but she has left me all alone 
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless fear in my eyes as I try to hide from the northern lights

Northern Lights (Remastered)

Watch live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/38cXQF5f1lw

Lyrics:

Away too long
You waited too long
And left to find
That cautious mind
Your way undone
Your path was none
The wave will break
The hit you'll take
And fall along
An idle stake

Away too long
You waited too long
And what you hold
A sight untold
The cruelest front
Now on the hunt
For what you've got
And you've got a lot
And that is why
You cannot stop

But the way's too long
And you waited too long
Just turn it back 
To seek the track
I know it's hard
You've thought and sparred
You've fought and warred
And all unarmed

Away so long
Why're you waitin' so long

You'll be received
With open arms
You'll decede
You'll fall into love

But oh, so long
You waited so long

Away Too Long

A new early demo; planning to put this on the third full length, but I'm feeling like this still isn't really done. Watch this version live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/TVumI_z3ZOw

Lyrics:

Dew on the vine
The birth of all mankind
To leave married in twine

The dawning mocks the sun
A hunger reign begun
And we wouldn't have to worry
About that...

'Neath surface lies
A time when peaceful liars come to rise

Move, lest we forget
The wound that hasn't transferred yet
And hardly regret
The ones who will not answer yet
A clerk is hard pressed
Exchanging signs that never met his debt

And ya left me on the way
But long forgotten soon
Just lay here for the night
You take me for the moon
But take note yet
Our body has a debt
Remembering the leisure in white and wine
We walked it all away
The tense in stone rough hewn
Embrace me for the day
You take me for cocoon

Awoke to feel alive
But in this hive
Could I
Survive?
(And we wouldn't have to worry)
About that...

But left me on the way
Your long forgotten soon
Just lay here for the night
Mistake me for the moon
But take note yet
Your body has a debt
Surrendering your pleasure in spite of mine
We walked it all away
A tense in stone rough hewn
Erase me for the day
You take me for cocoon

Dew On The Vine

Really just wanted to post something new, so I scrapped this together yesterday, even though it's not finished, and decidedly messy. This is the first draft. Planning for this to be the opener for my fourth full length, which is sort of intended to be a return to form in terms of folk structure, and I have two albums in the wings to complete before that one... so, ya know, time changes all things, even if only in perspective.

Lyrics (first draft):

When the river left me dry
Well, I searched it my whole damn life
Just to thirst for what I had to find
Though I saw it down the line

So we sit and waste this prime
As we fall for the laymen's lie
With a fog upon our eyes, 
I move to cease the blindess of mine
A river struck with time...
(To feign sycophantic sighs)

Faithfully drawn
To ponder the con
Just tell me the secret to lean on

Burn it all
Make it whole

When the river left us dry
Well, the dust was my drink at night
I slither'd 'cross the core, a desert floor to 
scrape and stretch my stomach wide
My mirage, the water seeks to hide

Fatefully spawned
A lord, or a pawn
Though neither through the nether 
Stays too strong

Drown us all
Make us whole
Drown us all
Make us whole

So the river laps our minds
And it laughs as we fall into line
Falling lightning tricked your eyes, your sunken
gaze is dulled by cracks of thunder
You go with the flow, you get swept under

Yeah, take me along
A look back and it's gone
We'll fall for all the innocence
And once upon

Burn it all
Make it whole
Burn it all
Make it whole
So burn it all
Just make us whole
Oh God... burn it all
Just make us whole

Burn it all
Make it whole

Dominic Bennett's Album

River Left Me Dry (loud version)

first draft

Lyrics:

Wroth, we maim, cut down, and lash
Collect your language, you'll see
How the man you knew is gone in a flash
He's done considering

Nightmare, unseen
You're cutting out
You lie there, unclean
But equal now

Ripe with thought, but still arguing
Collect your language, and see
How the man you loved is gone and he's free
He's done considering

Forget your pain
There's nothing to grasp
The damage rests at last
Wrought in vain, taken to task
Just speak plainly...
It's all that I ask

Nightmare, ya found me
A murder scene
We lie there, unclean
A tragedy

Now we sit, blood on our hands
We still live, and learn, we grow
Even all my finest words, they'll never convince
Decisions you made long ago

Nightmare, our scene
We play it out
We lie here unclean
We're equal now

Wrought In Vain

another something new, in its early stages

Lyrics:

Stay gone
Wake up
Stay out
'Til the mornin' shakes you down 
And turns you 'round 
To bear the weight of what you crown

-

Stay on
Wait up
Stay in
'Til the hour shows you old
You've bought and sold
The years that traveled through our souls

--Live on the slight
--Most every night

-

Stray song
Far gone
Run on
Like a memory growing old
You've gotten cold
With all the motive now to fold

Live on the slight
Most every night

Mournin', divine
Chasin' your line
Back 'round, the heart and sound

Stay Gone (Stray Song)

very new song, only spent a couple days on it. kinda liked the rough quality that i came up with here in this demo so it stayed as is. 

Lyrics:

Feels like my life is just a test case
To practice your weapons on
Shot up with diseases from your rape
And studied all the day long

Feels like I’m spinning in a centrifuge
Feels like I’m buried alive
Feels like there’s air inside my veins
Feels like I got frostbite

I hear their ghosts call out from the grave
They had a hell of a ride
Lived as a prisoner, lived as a slave
And death’s a merciful prize

And oh, would you look at the time
With these screamin' dreams
I can’t align
Oh, how I hope
They don’t come to life

We don’t thrive here
We die here
Sullen symbols
Call the angels

We don’t thrive here
We die here
Swollen samples
While we ramble 

We don’t thrive here
We die here

Just wrapping up the demos for this album. The goal is to finish the writing for the "skeleton" before the year ends. I think I can definitely accomplish that. That will mean it took me 7 years to write this album, and the 8th year, the number of completion, will mark the year the album is completed.
Lyrics:

Could we rest a while
On behalf of these happenings
Waves in tragedy
Becoming

For us…

For that Northern image
Turns to see the end of the line
For the lusts
For the lions immortal

Or more…

When somethin’s right
Run and gun died
Someone guns

Pale night
Recite
Where came
Prayers unleavened

We’ll alight
While they blight

For more…

When somethin’s wrong
Growin’ in here
Somethin’s near

Be It Known... Skeleton

Voyage (Interlude)

(Angel Of) CLAMOR

War, War, War

Folk Album '16

Time Will

Redemption

Proverbs 21:16 - The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

And I hate what you’ve become 
You’ve become
Something worthy of giving up on

Carry in the rope
You mattered in their hope, oh 
Sad to see ya go
When ya only had to cope, oh

And there was a line 
You had to cross
You took the bait
You took a loss

And there was a fine 
For spurning the light
Out on the sidewalk
Back in the night

Cowards hate fearless men
They envy them 
To the bitter end
I hate what we’ve become 
We’ve become 
Something so worthy of giving up on

Bottled in your ghost
A black host
The warlock had your throat 
Oh what an ugly time to croak, oh 

What we’ve 
What we’ve 
What we’ve become

Out of the wire 
And into the sun
Finish it now
What you’ve begun

Though you grow old
Step to the fight
Stilted we become 
Condor without flight 

Your dogs are at the door again
They’re not comin’ in
But the barks won’t end 

And rumor dogs me down
Dead inside this town
Greeted with a frown
A chaos wince from empty sins
That no one can interpret 
But maybe if I took your route
There’d be some new forgiveness 
‘Cause no one blames the dead
When you’re in it
The world 
And devoted 
To the girls
Or the sense of them
That they’re worth all this worship 
And worth all the gold
But they will get old 
And they’ll find themselves
In bed with you again
Dead

Babalooo, Lucy
A brand new controversy 
But this misery just bores me
Maybe they’ll get their wish 
And throw me in prison
And if my crimes weren’t enough
They can always just lie 
Which they’ll try 

Songwriting 
More like crafting
Mixing up and mastering
Your song is here
It’s saccharine 
And nobody will give a shit 
‘Cause I did some shit
And nobody forgives 
Or lets go 
And nobody can live 
With your ghost
They don’t know
But if they saw you now
They’d let go
And they’d know 
Where you go
When you go
Off the edge
And let go 
Off the edge 
There you go
Off the ledge
You let go
And you're dead
And that’s all

And you hate what life’s become
It’s become 
Something worthy of giving up on

California Condor - A Tribute

written/recorded live in 2011
from Old Sleep EP, released Spring 2013

Lyrics:

Oh, I’mma lookin’ for a ghost. When’s it gonna find me? 
Mmm is it underneath this house; is it dead on the street? 

Quickness, reverence 
You made an empty promise and it turned out to be shit 
It’s time now; don’t look down 
The past will keep you haunted only if you want it 

Mm late at night she cried in frame, but she was never answered 
You’d think the age would orchestrate a change, you’d think the movement would be forward 

Pieces of violence 
Your life will be a-shakin’ when the break of dawn hits 
We can’t be square; you beat me there 
It’s gonna end with anguish when you least expect it 

What do you think you’re gonna find? 
There’s nothing now but time 
Something strange that makes you seem so blind 
The joke’s on me for ever witnessing such a crime 

Honor, not lately 
The comedy we see is only part of what is never ending 
And truth is a blessing 
On Earth it burns as bright as any hole that you can make a mess in 

Oh, my love is just a ghost 
When’s it gonna find me? 
There is someone planted inside
But she’s forever asleep

Old Sleep

My sister requested I record this song for her, Christmas 2011
I threw it on soundcloud, sometime 2013

Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan)

All tracks available for free download.
Everything here is more or less demo quality, all self produced and self recorded.
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The albums are meant to be listened to from beginning to end, as complete projects. Thanks for listening!

Dominic Bennett

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