per butterfly itches advising
you'd better fly someplace else

Written & Performed by Lazarus Dance
Produced by Johannes Plank
Cover art by Francesco Grillo

David Einbeck - Sound Engineer
Christian Dangel - Electric Guitar
Richard Seifahrt - Drums
Marius Leicht - Keys 
Johannes Plank - Bass, Flute
Lara Heller - Backing Vocals
Jost Schreiber - Congas, Percussion
Daniel Freitag - Mixing Engineer
Shola Risch - Mastering

Lucy

song written by Lazarus Dance
track produced by Garrett DeBell
& performed by Lazarus Dance & Garrett DeBell

Harvesting

i could never grow strong in sorrow
as long as you still borrow tomorrow
time and time and time again
time and time and time i lend

harbor me and my love
harbor me, be my drudge

another pierce around your ear
the trail of wounds starts to appear
did he hold you down to st-ck it in
is he your rabbi, is he your sin

a sacrifice is needed here
a surrogate for your fear
are you hungry, is he weak
the one you slaughter, the one you seek

harbor me and my love
harbor me, be my drudge

i carried your pennies in my bucket
but no one came to observe the market
no demand, no supply
the circus gone the tea leaves dry

so eat my body, shed my wine
release me from this prison of swine
eat my body, shed my wine
release me from this prison of swine

harbor me and my love
harbor me, be my drudge


i never saw shame as so steep
yet off this cliff i gladly leap
with your pity gun now out of range
some thoughts you keep and some you change

Demo recorded in Linienstraße, June 2018.

Harbor Me

well he seems like an angel of course
but angels don't know what they're for
underneath what we project
underneath what we protect

how can you be in love with a nation
how can you make eyes with the streets
when embracing this public masturbation
away from the crowds can you weep

did she lay down her knife for the peep
at what cost to the life that she keeps
underneath what we project
underneath what we protect

how can you be in love with a nation
how can you make eyes with the streets
when embracing this public masturbation
away from the crowds can you weep

if my childhood had something to say
then a photo took his soul away
and now he cries
and now he weeps
in front of no eyes
he softly weeps
underneath what we project
underneath what we protect

is it not enough to be somebody
is it not enough to write your name
is it not enough to free one body
why feel these things you cannot claim
why speak these things you cannot claim
why be these things you cannot claim

Demo recorded in Linienstraße, June 2018

Underneath

did you open yourself
did you right or wrong
with somebody else already?

did i come along
in time for the song
or did he leave already?

were you already whole
before the surgeon
was i born alone
from the virgin

did you have eyes
did you have eyes
before me

i felt you before
i knocked at your door
a push against
my existence

as the heart became full
the push became a pull
and i did enlist
in this counter-resistance  

can i sell you on
on this version
can we be born alone
from the virgin

did you have eyes
did you have eyes
before me

they say it forks and divides
they say it never arrives
they say it forks and divides
they say it never dies
this longing to be pure
this longing to be reborn

i’ll eat light
as you will
i’ll have foresight
as you will

The Pull

i am holding for a man
i am holding for us all
i am running from the stand
i am running from the fall

were your structures built from plans
were they meant to loom so tall
are these lambs at your command
will they answer to your call

because they want to, they want to
they want to, but they can’t
but they want to, they want to
they want to, but they can’t

now that you have chosen peace
now that you are free from sin
did you sacrifice the beast
or does he still live within

do your questions ever cease
do you share them with your kin
are you tempted when you tease
trick yourself towards giving in

because you want to, you want to
you want to, but you can’t 
but you want to, you want to
you want to, but you can’t

you sold me wisdom with a seal
duel intentions hid below
you fed me honey every meal
worked me up into a show

i would prove the craters real
with your flag upon my pole
i used to know just what to feel
now i feel like i don’t know

but i want to, like i used to
oh i want to, but i can’t
but i want to, like i used to
oh i want to, but i can’t

but we want to, we want to
we want to, but we can’t

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Written and Performed by Lazarus Dance
Piano & Production by Ignacio Etchegaray

The Push

teach a man to hunt
teach a man to watch
give a man a crutch
and walk away

Written by Lazarus Dance
Produced and Accompanied by Ignacio Etchegaray

Teach A Man To Hunt

the message started like any other one
sent a thousand steps outside my fort
the message started like any other one
one step into a thousand

but within it contained a broken note
and i hoped that you could feel it
but contained within that broken note
was my hope that you could heal it

take from me everything you are
to be so complete is to be so far
take from me everything you are
to be so complete is to be so far

but you were not there to receive it
you were off haunting the clouds
and as my mind lays low to conceive it
he remembers the man, forgetting the shroud

and then the rain pours down upon my fort
one drop upon my head
and in my soaking ear a quiet retort
from my love, down to my dread

all shall pass through my door
who can part the ocean from her shore
all shall pass through my door
how can the ocean even be without her shore

she's an ocean
i'm a man
she's an ocean
and we're swimming

All Shall Pass

Song written and performed by Lazarus Dance

Recording, wood-wind & vocal accompaniment by Johannes Plank (Berlin, DE)
Mixing, additional production by Nick Leng (Los Angeles, CA)
Song Mastering by Sage Audio (Nashville, TN)

Artwork by Francesco Grillo. 
Special thanks to Zacchaeus Dance.

dearJoan(loveJohn)

Lazarus is a songwriter and performer located in New Orleans

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