LYRICS:
here’s to all the wasted lives
here’s to those who never get time
raise your poisons up
as the wheels are spun

here’s to those whose chance slides away
overwhelmed with nothing to say
you’re the world’s great cogs
til you’re slunk from the job

here’s to all the rust in the world
as beautiful as pearls
link this love my dear
wear it fierce

here’s to those who take their angst
loop the chords and shape their stack
into medicines
into brilliant flags

and you know it
move forward
do ask for more
get order
your hits are
adored by
all the ones you love
and that’s everything

here’s to those who keep on the grind
little lights allowed to shine
this is not the end
this is not the end

Nelson

April 12th 2021

Pearls (Here's To Those)

LYRICS:
curtail me
flow of bleach
take advantage
terror-free

yes sir please
death of dreams

no more trying
let them lead
i’ll just lie here
blank and sweet

yes sir please
death of dreams

bricks need reducing
balloons need bursting
men need seeing to
time needs wasting

Death Of Dreams

LYRICS:
and we said that linking arms
it would make a work of art
that would make a killing yes
and would elevate the sand pit
a temple for motion
and redemptive seeds

and we want it to be
an axe-swing to the face
and we wanted to see
how the moving would shape it
but this lassitude
has spored in you
and it’s hosted in me

and we had a plan to craft
to defeat the gloom around 
but we have to stride in it
and we come home depleted
i need you to help me
but i can’t bring myself

and we want it to be
an axe-swing to the face
and we wanted to see
how the moving would shape it
but this lethargy
has buried me
and it took you away

so bare me the warmer ghosts
of our hopefulness 

when i know the will is gone
wonder if it’s possible
and i’m in the car alone
and i can’t help from screaming
when will they absolve me?
will they give you light?

and we want it to be
an axe-swing to the face
and we wanted to see
how the moving would shape it
we’ve warped the path
a hand’s width apart
as this bows to fatigue

When?

LYRICS:
give me drive!
this is where i go to live
give me drive!
to burn my tinder with
i’m on fire!
for about an hour and a half
then i wonder
if this is better than dying…

cavalcade
while i stare at trade
never stops
punch on the clock
sugar laced
deftly Janus-faced
as my heart
is lamely cleaved apart

you can’t become a firefly today
you have to come to terms, i’m afraid
the numbers ebb and flow
i guess you know, i guess you know

give me drive!
get me through this eight or nine
give me drive!
present company inclined
switching sides
if it makes us all alike
killing time
and killing all desire

give me drive!
give me drive!
give me drive!

Drive

LYRICS:
so fool me
the way to navigate
is unsure
and strangely sedate
but there is hope
burst out of sparks
but nothing catches
locked in the dark

because i try
to be an isle
to myself
the river’s dry
a strung-out dive
into the well
the other side
is so alive
i could cry
and i would like
to reignite
the chains that died

but it’s easier
said than done
and i’m not the only one

it’s the hum of emptiness
between hurt and comforting

how can i be
so jaded and bored
whilst being bathed
in sensory overload?

because i try
to be an isle
to myself
the river’s wild
open-eyed
and then it’s quelled
the other side
is so alive
i could cry
and i would like
to be outside
tasting life

but it’s easier
said than done
when you’re sinking down
in a tempered lounge
yes it’s easier
said than done
and i can’t be the only one

it’s the hum of emptiness
between hurt and comforting
it’s the hum of emptiness
that swirls around

The Hum Of Emptiness

LYRICS:
sun up sun down
when you strike me with your feather
sun up sun down
and you wield and cleave like mad
sun up sun down
as the waters in me settle
sun up sun down
the smoke is less a rapture
over time

no no no
i’ll cling to the possibility
no no no
i’ll smile right down this slide
no no no
i’ll dance with familiarity
no no no
there’s so much more besides  

sun up sun down
every pang of hunger
sun up sun down
neutralised with faith
sun up sun down
circling the airport
sun up sun down
stretching out the yarn
that’s tied to home

no no no
i’ll stay with my positivity
no no no
i’ll laugh when hollowed out
no no no
i’ll snake across the laminate
no no no
there’s much to think about

another day
another day
another day
another day

no no no
i hope to steer this vessel
no no no
i see my hands melting
no no no
project to another town
no no no
the sun goes up and goes down

sun up sun down

Sun Up Sun Down

LYRICS:
i flew the nest
four glorious miles
i am now free
four glorious miles
the loosening tap
four glorious miles
the tiny balcony
four glorious miles

i crouch to get clean
four glorious miles
the view of the fields
four glorious miles
sounds through the roof
four glorious miles
a litter of ads
four glorious miles

the stomping upstairs
four glorious miles
vans come and go
four glorious miles
my route to work
four glorious miles
the curtain risk
four glorious miles

i still love you
four glorious miles
i’m not too far
four glorious miles
i’m up a rung
four glorious miles
i could jump in
four glorious miles

a butterfly house
four glorious miles
an opal from dirt
four glorious miles
a means to complete
four glorious miles
a bohemian dream
four glorious miles

i’ll get there soon
i’ll get there soon
i’ll get there soon
i’ll get there soon
i’ll get there soon
i’ll get there soon
we’ll get there soon
we’ll get there soon

Four Glorious Miles

This is an entirely acapella cover of 'Separator' by Radiohead.

It's all my mouth (with some effects and self-sampling).

ENJOY!

Separator (Acapella Radiohead Cover)

Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Jake Lotus.

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LYRICS:

can’t you see down cloudrunner?
shaping vapour in your haste
the blurs of icy summers
and cirriform mosaics
in a moment, this is anything
you want it to be, within reason
oh cloudrunner
the weather breaks
to let you see the day

can’t you slow down cloudrunner?
burning your candles past the night
you strafe through sentry gunners
though you welcomed them to hide
when the feeling, is an avalanche
you can guide the sun, and melt it
oh cloudrunner
with all that early
april morning light

please breathe
those dreams
in deep
amniotically
you don’t have to choke in pain
the womb begins again
sure of birth
hostess sea
routes in rain
wisdom as a key
this sphere
is clear
when satellites become afraid

feel the full sound cloudrunner
heed the urge for you to cry
if there are dotted lovers
or if union is denied
when the moment, like a hurricane
is inevitable, it’ll reach you
oh cloudrunner
a rüppell’s and beluga
pass you by

Cloudrunner

A dreamy slice of poptimism.

Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Jake Lotus.

LYRICS:
weightless falls over you
as a dream
that sails above
stations unveil a view
of a train
that clasps to love

breathe over the rain
i will never see you thrown
i’ll never see you cry
breathe over the rain
seraphim are waiting to be known
imagined in the sky

weightless is our balloon
carries me
right back to you
shapeless tones on our loom
telecine
a magic hue

breathe over the rain
i will never see you thrown
i’ll never see you cry
breathe over the rain
seraphim are waiting to be known
imagined in the sky

slow now
we eject it all
no time
do let it go
slowed down and crystallised
we go

weightless falls over you
weightless falls over you

breathe over the rain

Weightless

I found a vocoder app a while back and messed about with it one evening, doing all the vocals for this in one go. It took about six months to finally complete this. So lazy!

It is of course a cover of the supremely barmy Laurie Anderson classic. Enjoy!

O Superman

I've wanted to do an all vocals track for ages, but never cracked one completely that I could finished. Then I heard Kanye's 'Lost In The World', and then 'Woods' by Bon Iver, and so I decided to combine them into my own big choral mash-up. I hope you enjoy it. These are all my vocals, with no auto-tune.

Jake Lotus

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