Lyrics: 

Running reds 
The blood won't stop even though it should 
My heart goes on never thought I could 
Do this bad when I'm feeling this good! 

I'm painting with you 
But all the paint just runs together 
The reds turn black and blacks forever 
Can't turn back cause back is never 

I ride through the city 
still feeling pretty shitty 
traffic lights i’ve ran like fifty 
disregard for the good and pretty 

RUNNING REDS 
MY BLOOD won’t STOP EVEN THOUGH IT COULD 
My HEART won’t pump I think its broke for GOOD 
I Did what I never thought I WOULD 

Just Keep Swimming, 
just keep swimming, 
just keep swimming 
towards a new beginning


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The expulsion of emotion through song. This is a project I've been working on since late 2016. These tracks are a personal chronicle of both my struggles and breakthroughs. A blend of 90's synth and grunge mixed with punk and folk influence. Some post hardcore-esque screams. All instruments excluding drums are played by me, and drums are done by Benny Qualmann of Fight Fall on 9 songs. Benny has a scream feature on "four lights?" .

Lucid Screaming

Running Reds,

Sniff And Sneeze

Lyrics: Caught in you
Smyrna blue
Waves wash away my sandy shoes
My sole imprints on this beach

Done with dunes
I’m done with swoons 
All I do is croon to you
My ovation, master bating  my mind 

Watching me fall down
Watching you’ve been watching me fall
Watching me fall down

And I can’t get back upppp
I can get back up
So help me get back up
Help me get back

watching me
Paranoia convincing 
Get me out of this 
Play I read
Exit stage right

Liberatus, 
Liber, I am 
not what you are you are 
everything
I thought
You’d become

Watching me falll down
They’re watching me falll
I’m watching me fall

And I can’t get back up again
No I can get back up,
So help me get back
No I gotta get it, 

and i gotta get back
i gotta get back
i gotta get back
I GOTTA GET BACK UP!!!!!!!

liberatus, liberate me
i can, i can’t
i can get back

LIBERATE ME !
I CAN GET BACK UP!

“we know that people do not know who rules or why and how He rules and yet they know that there is a power that certainly rules.” “God and His law will not liberate me from its operation.” “THE LAW OF TRUTH AND LOVE”

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

People Liberate Themselves

Lyrics:


Fall 
in, to a daydream
Of a nighttime 
Shared by two

Pinching,
every minute
To know they're in it
A seed in soil grew

From a shoot, 
to a sprout
To a tea tree 
In a few weeks

Dreams
don't last forever 
But they never
Fail to speak

In my ear
Like you do in your bed
Whisper every night
 to get those voices out of my head

I'll fall so deeply into sleep
In your arms
Dreaming dreams 
You're the tea my mind steeps
Drinking daydreams for weeks
You're the tea my mind steeps
Drinking daydreams for weeks


Loose leaf, 
in neck deep
Hot water, 
You're lounging in

Sipping on your silence 
and the violence
We've both breathed in

I’m Coming 
out of boxes,
Out of bags,
Straight from the branch

I’m Grown 
for your pleasure
And my pleasure 
Through the weathering

Of a heart in a hurricane of pain
Acidic pasts, this acid lasts 
and I'm sure that it will stain, so

Cleanse my gut with your heat
Beat all my demons, 
beat them out my seat
Help me get on my feet
So I can walk to our beat
My loose leaf baby
my loose leaf baby

my loose leaf baby
don’t lose me baby

Loose Leaf Baby

Lyrics: 

You are sweet
You are nice
You are lice in my hair you are my vice

You are nothing
And I am nothing
But we are everything I want 
yea You suffice

 And I stopped doing drugs 
And I vacuumed all my rugs
But I still step around with muddy feet

I cropped all my pictures
And I melted all my scissors 
After I cut away those moments I had loved 

So I won’t cut again
myself or any friend 
I’ll keep em close and keep you around
Because I found a sound that sounds like me

/////////

you are my sunshine you’re my moonshine you’re my wine

and you are the drug that i’ve taken too many times

my honey my bee stop buzzing round my mind

why did you sting?

it hurt me and killed you but you didnt feel a thing

bury me in pollen, if these walls could talk

they’d say your sadness is written in sidwalk chalk 

it’ll wash right off, oh you’ll wash right off, 
you’ll wash, right?

///////

(your guess is as good as mine)

Scissors / Sunshine / Honey

Lyrics:

eye-eee-eye-ee- I 
can’t see farther than my footsteps
In the front and in back
And eye-ee-eye-ee 
I will release the strain of yesterday 
and train into a better way,

but I won’t betray Youuuuu
I Won’t let you through 
I need it in my spine
that marrow so divine 

And youuuuuuu 
you’re a bag of broken bottle caps, 
fizzing up and pouring out
And youuuuu 
reduce my use, recycle me,
Don’t throw away what you’ll later need 

And you’ll need me
I hope that you’ll agree
that fleshy rubber string 
Brings possibility of a sting 

(Fun Bonus poem that didn’t make it on the song….Sting me just sting me, dig your pinchers in. 6 times and then again. 

Sting me and I’ll sing to you, my wings are falling out, your things are all about)

Stiiiiinngggg

Fizz

She was riding to her 9 to 5
Crashed my car trying to feel alive
But I know
She’ll never do it again

Stopped smoking her cigarettes
Traded it for some minty breath
cause I know
She might do it again

Snapping at the back of her
I’m Biting my tongue
Buzzing all the time when I’m having no fun
Cause I know, I gotta do it again

I gotta work it again
can’t stop til the end

You are, you are, You are, you are
Too heavy to hold in my arms but

You are, you are, You are, you are 
Something I can deal with on me

You are, you are, You are, you are
Free to love and free to leave 

but You are you are, You are you are
Mine, all mine!

I was riding to my 5 to 1 
AM I’m saying I’m having fun
Cause I know, might never work it again

half day, half paid, zippin off
Trying make a tip but I’m tipping off
but I know, might never work it again

Money is the motive in this evil mind
Spinning round the world of clock-in times
cause i know, I gotta rock it again

I gotta rock it again
Can’t stop til the end

You are you are, you are you are, 
Too heavy to hold in my arms

You are you are, You are you are
Something I can deal with on me

You are you are , You are you are
The reason I feel self sustained

You are you are you are you FEEL
Rich! But you’re a broke bitch yea

broke bitch, broke bitch, broke bitch, broke biiiitch!

you are you are you are you are you are you are

you are free

Liberatus: People Liberate Themselves

Broke B

(samples Ghandi’s Spiritual Message (ON GOD) speech. Also appears in People Liberate Themselves).

“I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.”

“in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists”

(public domain bc ghandi died in 1948)

Changeless

Lyrics:

1st, your 2nd person voice is the like the 3rd time today 
i’ve been reminded of incisors falling out all teeth decayed 
wisdom drops from a web of others’ thoughts in my head,
and a contraction is the only thing you think you’d ever wed 

(we’d) (we’d) (we’d)

we’d get mean, right now we’re just getting clean
from a buildup in the past, dark thoughts are (n)everlasting
(((we’ve been mean mean mean))))
but we were lookin in a smudged screen,
We got a new light
And i got a new life

4th time I sang this song
Was the time I wrote this verse 
A fifth of gin having 6 for 7 hours bodies hurt
Feelings 8 times as good as anything I’ve had before my 9 lives are up I’ll try to love and stuff just to end back up on shore 

And he’d we’d he’d 
We’d get clean together
 we’ll be so lean
we'll get cleaned by this ocean this ocean in my dream
I am so free I am so free finally

finally
finally
finally

Nine Lives

Head Banned is an Orlando-based DIY dreampunk band consisting of Brett , Austin, Cody, and Freddy. 

Liberatus is their second release as a full band, and they look forward to the world hearing it on 2-22-19. 

People, LIBERATE YOURSELVES!

We've got lyrics and goodies on the bandcamp.  

Head Banned takes inspiration from Bright Eyes, (Sandy) Alex G, Pavement, Weezer, Touché Amoré, and others. 

headbanned.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/headbanned

HEAD BANNED

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