when you walk in the room / behold its crowded silence / as they gag on the sound / that is crippling your defense / if you cannot choke it down / then don't pretend with patience / and don't ever doubt / what the stone look on your face meant / give no second chances / and always make a stand / when the sun hits your eyes / in blinding truth and vengeance / with a hole in your side / relenquish every grievance / there is no one dead or alive / who could give these actions meaning / hear a gunshot / like a sigh / embracing your completeness / what's it gonna' take / to make you understand / wash your little hands / you'll never be the same / take this song to heart / and raise your voice in anger / submit your siren cry / and cast away all danger / hold me in your arms / and finally make a stand / this is the end of it


Dead or Alive (redux)

Produced by Taylor Gauge and feat. guest musicians Michelle Gunn and Eboni Nash (https://soundcloud.com/the-n-factor) on viola and violin respectively.

Members of Japan In America included:

Daniel Valdez on piano and keyboards
https://soundcloud.com/couchwaker

Marcus Bryant on bass guitar and cello
https://soundcloud.com/marcus-bryant-1

Charlie Jones III on drums and violin

And myself on vocals and guitar.

Japan In America - Otherworld Blues (feat. Couchwaker & Marcus Bryant)

o severance stings / never lasts / these noble failures / have fallen on / yesterday’s lost hopes / and you realize you’re laughing / on fire / ‘cause it’s been so long since you could shed skin / that you can just barely feel the pain/ this is how i feel / as i’m caught / laughing on fire / o i feel like i’m laughing on fire / sunless on strawberry fields / idol worship tattooed on our foreheads / hands of the clock around our necks / these are delusions hidden deep within the voices of angels / COULDN’T FIND THE THINGS WE WANTED / IT’S SOMETHING THAT THEY NEVER TAUGHT US / EXPECTATIONS GROW BRUISED AND CLOTTED / NEVER FORGIVEN BUT SOON FORGOTTEN / O i feel like i’m laughing on fire / IN THE VOICES OF ANGELS / sunless on strawberry fields / idol worship / tattoed on our foreheads / hands of the clock around our necks / these are delusions / in the voices of angels / even when there is no hope / this is how i feel / as i’m caught / laughing on fire


Laughing On Fire

Turn your back to me
Where I can't relate
Seeking no relief
Rapture calls my name

Hell
Is a place inside
Where no due is paid
Made up in your mind
Finish your mistakes
Well

You've got to break your habits
You've got to break your habits
Still

You've got to break your habits
You've got to smash them up until
They have no face

There is no way to see
No way to prepare
Please don't wait for me
I must kill this fear
Now

I make this offering
So the rain will come
Clouds start emptying
All of me
Unborn

And so it fell
To wash away
Beneath the weight
Of heavy rain

I made this offering
So the rain would come
Clouds keep emptying
All of me
Unborn

And so it fell
To wash away
This awful smell
Of dark decay
All suffering
Begins to fade
Beneath the weight
Of heavy rain

I make this offering
So the rain will come
Clouds start emptying
All of me
Unborn

Unborn

WAKE UP YOU SLEEPERS / WITH PENS AND NEEDLES / SLEEP / SLEEPER / NOW WATCH AS THE MOON STARTS TO OPEN / AND OUT OF THIS TOMB / A NEW HEART BLED / THE BODIES EXHUMED / AGED FORGOTTEN / THEIR WHISPERING DOOM / UPON OUR HEADS / WAKE UP YOU SLEEPER / WITH PENS AND NEEDLES / 'CAUSE YOUR BED NEEDS SOME TURNIN'

Sleeper

Composed by http://soundcloud.com/stephenyeargan
Lyrics & vocals by http://soundcloud.com/josh-mcgill

a little pea under my bed / the doors are never closing / this is not a drill / and if it seems imposing / i'm sorry child / you cannot stand still / a little pea under my bed / rendering my nights sleepless / and hear the beckon / the call / if your waiting / you will fall into / the holes in forever / it's happened before / but don't worry / you are not that frail / why are you hiding / crept in while the door was open / let myself in / lied down in the bed you slept in / lied in your bed / pictured myself as you are / and saw myself / never losing track of time / as you did / counted clothes inside your closet / scared terrapin / took inventory of your wallet / cover your head / left nothing outside it's place / turn yourself in / walked out the same way i came in / an island / a little pea under my bed / rendering my nights sleepless / a little pea under my bed / a little dragon in my head / I know this feels important / but you realize / that you cannot win / but nothing has to happen this way / if you wanted you could turn these sands / into a river...


(art by couchwaker)

ESTARA - Sleepless (collab w Steve Yeargan)

Vocals, string pad, bass, and beats by http://soundcloud.com/josh-mcgill
Piano, synth lead, and art by http://soundcloud.com/couchwaker

LYRICS

could you please wait patiently / for whatever your needing / this is not a charity / when i get cut i bleed / would you fall down to your knees / have your property seized and / and divide your family / for the things that you believe / would you give up every hour / would you hand in all your days / for these sympathetic interests / for your god and your country / could you intervene / without politics / could you go on suffering / you decided / long ago / before you were born / if it doesn't make a difference / then why do we change?

Model Citizen (ft. Couchwaker)

Arms and legs crossed. Cigarette in left corner of mouth.

Joshua McGill

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