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Hype Machine Favorites Vol. 1

SANTI OUTRO LADO

Verse 1 : I’ve been hanging out of sight , just hoping to feel a change , a change of fortune , a change to my scene . a chance to turn the page , cause what started out as good has descended so slowly …but wait ..cause maybe I forced it maybe I lost it maybe I’m just to late 


Verse 2 : Out of sight and mind , is just what it used to be , like a sucker for torture , the Achilles to my heal , it’s getting much harder to see , but I won’t lose my hold , I’ve been clutching this  edge so long… yeah I’m gonna make it , I got to just take it , I got to just carry on … 

Verse 3 : I’ve been hanging out of sight , just hoping to feel that change , a change to my fortunes , a change to my scene . a chance to turn that page , cause what started out as good has descended so slowly …but wait ..cause maybe I forced it maybe I lost it maybe I’m just to late … 

Chorus: We always reach for the stars ,my mind is fading , it’s been this way from the start , and still I’m waiting , why do I reach for the stars , in vain I’m sailing when will I wake up and find my way through the night

Reach For The Stars

This is the beautiful and poignant film that inspired me to write this song. It was like I had Ellen in my head for three days..... https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ellen
Ellen is taken from The Hag and the Whore, the third album from Steph Sweet, singer-songwriter and underground musician and author. Influences of freak-folk, psychedelia and angel-punk and songs about hags and whores, paedophilia, the selfie-generation, a beautiful girl, a break-up, teepees, death and spamsters and wolves. Album art by Skinny Graphix
stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/the-hag…e-whore-album

Ellen.
Ellen, she’s at the changeling age, only fourteen.
Her Mum’s lived inside a bottle, since she had her at fifteen.
There’s drinking ‘round the house most days.
Let the men in. Let the men in.
Her Mum just wants to dance with them.
Her Mum just wants to dance with them.
It’s like they’re factory-farming humans just to boost the GDP.
There’s no way out for the working classes, no jobs and no money.
Ellen’s lonely and she’s hurting, hurting so bad inside her head.
She lashes out at everything.
Ellen wishes she were dead.
She’s difficult and mouthy.
Doesn’t make a good poster-girl for the BBC.
And everybody turns their head.
Ellen is the girl that they don’t want to see.
And everybody turns their head.
They don’t want to see.

He’s older and she thinks she loves him, he gives her tenners, vodka and speed.
A plastic bead of kindness in a vacuum looks like a diamond ring.
Who's going to help Ellen?
Nobody.
Who's going to help Ellen?
Nobody.
There’s a million girls like Ellen in all the big cities.
Too difficult and mouthy to be poster-girls on tv.
It’s like they’re factory farming humans just to boost the GDP.
No vegetables unless they’re frozen, crisp sandwiches for tea.
Ellen’s lonely and she’s hurting, hurting bad inside her head.
She lashes out at everyone.
Ellen wishes she were dead.
Who’s helping Ellen?
Nobody.
Who’s helping Ellen?
Nobody.
Nobody.
Nobody.
©Steph Sweet September 2016 All Rights Reserved

The Hag and the Whore

Ellen

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Teuto

This is my return to psychedelia and an idealist's dream of peace, you can watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVf-SiufWU&feature=youtu.be 
and buy the album here http://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/the-hag-and-the-whore-album

Teepee Valley
So you tell me you’ve got everything.
Well would you like to share some with me?
So you tell me you know everything.
Well would you like to share your omnipotency with me?
Always somewhere here on the outside,
On the outside looking in.
So you tell me that you’ve got the answers.
Well would you like to let me in on them?

Seems to me that you’re not real.
Seems to me that you got caught in your spiel.
Oh big deal.

Let me tell you, I don’t care about it.
I got ways of being free.
So you tell me you’ll ban everything.
Well would you like to lift the ban on being free, for me?
Let me tell you, I don’t care about it.
I don’t care what you squares say.
So you tell me you’ll ban everything,
And now you’re going to tax the bees and the air and the trees?

Seems to me that you’re not real.
Seems to me that you got caught in your spiel.
Oh big deal.

Teepee Valley, let’s go home.

Seems to me that you’re not real.
Seems to me that you got caught in your spiel.
Oh big deal.

Teepee Valley, let’s go home.
Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Steph Sweet
Teepee Valley ©Steph Sweet 2016 All Rights Reserved

Teepee Valley

I'm really grateful and proud to have made this song with you. thank you so much steph. 
song by steph and marco.
steph: lyrics, vocals, piano, mix, mastering, magic. [@steph-sweet]
marco: guitar, bass, keyboard (mellotron/cello sound) analogue drum machine, mix. [@drunkeninstrument]

White Dwarfs And Red Giants

I can feel your heart beat when you put your hand on mine.
I can feel my hand shake, giddy and frenetic tide.
I have built my fine, strong walls, protecting me and mine.
Cut-throat in the rose-thorns, gold sickles on the vines.

You can feel my heart beat when you press your mouth to mine.
Red giants and white dwarves implode in free-fall time.
I say you can’t come in.
You laugh and smile that smile.
You and your crooked smile that drives all the girls wild.

Stood there like a worldly knight, to say you’ll wait for me.
But I try hard to resist, no more dishonesty,
Easy broken promises and practised casual charm.
But just who am I kidding?
Not you and your crooked smile.

White dwarfs and red giants
White dwarfs and red giants

I can feel your heart beat when you put your hand on mine.
I can feel my heart beat when you press your mouth to mine.
Red giants and white dwarves implode in free-fall time.
I can feel my heart beat when you put your hand on mine.
You can feel my heart beat when you press your mouth to mine.
White dwarves and red giants.
White dwarves and red giants.

White Dwarfs And Red Giants by steph sweet and drunkeninstrumentcorporation

My extreme gratitiude to Marco for adding such magic to my peculiar song. I love theremins! Grazie Marco! :) 
Our EP is available here https://stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/mindspies
Listen to his outstanding music here @drunkeninstrument 
Marco Abba: theremin, analogue synth, mix and backing vocals
steph sweet: lyrics, vocals, midi mix and seagulls, master

Entities
I was born kicking.
This crescent scar still branding me.
A reminder of all that’s been.
A reminder of mortality.
Salt-water entities, all the armies of all of the seas.
Salt-water entities, all the atoms of all of the seas.

I can wait and I can float,
‘Til the girls come swimming by, proud as pretty pearls.
Cell servitude, forever doomed to be
Forever on the land and never of the sea.
This rock is mine, for me to watch the waves,
To be singing my lament to the dead men in their graves.

I was born kicking.
This crescent scar on me.
All the armies of the oceans.
All the atoms in the sea.

©steph sweet 2017 All rights reserved.

Entities

Entities by steph sweet and drunkeninstrumentcorporation

Golden Planchette

Music, Guitars (Les Paul), Bass, Drums (AD2), Mix & Mastering (DAW): @bonetender
Lyrics (see below), Vocals, Vocal Effects: @steph-sweet

Dark, heavy Stoner vibes, strong scary vocals and lyrics, thank you so much incredible Steph for this great Collab :-)

=== Lyrics ===

Crawl

Let’s see you crawl.
Let’s see you crawl.
Let’s see you crawl.

You think that women are weak, don’t you?
But I’m only as weak as the gun in my hand.
You think that women are weak, don’t you?
But I’m only as weak as the gun in my hand.

Let’s see how fast you can crawl with lead in your legs.
Or how loud you can plead,
Begging for life, on your knees.

You think that women are weak, don’t you?
But I’m only as weak as the gun in my hand.
You better crawl.
You better crawl.
You think that women are weak, don’t you?
But I’m only as weak as the gun in my hand.
You better crawl.
You better crawl.
You better crawl.

Let me see how fast you can run from my malevolent gun.
Or how much you can bleed,
Begging for life on your knees.

Let’s see how fast you can run now.
Run from my malevolent gun.
Or how much you can bleed, 
Begging for life on your knees.

Run from my malevolent gun.
Run from my malevolent gun.
Run from my malevolent gun.
Motherfucking rapist scum.

©Steph Sweet & Bonetender 2017 All Rights Reserved

Crawl

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