Been Diagnosed

I Live Alone

Love Addicts

First you were my love
Then my agony
And you’re slipping away
Away from me
The end of love 
Is the start of pain
Oh why does love demand everything?

Hold these pieces of you
I’ll hold these pieces of you

First you were a dream
Now you are a tear
A tear in the rain
Sliding down my face
And I’m clinging onto 
That afternoon
When you gave me 
These pieces of you

Hold these pieces of you
I’ll hold these pieces of you

Don’t care what you say I know the truth
Don’t care where you hide ‘cuz I’m finding you
You were meant for me and I was meant for you

Pieces of You

Reach real high
Touch the light 
You gotta let go
Lose all control
You can’t deny 
The beat inside
Your heart is pumping 
And you’re alive
You got your head in a spin  Let It Begin
So bit down hard
And feel the sin
Feel the sin
Feel the sin
So step right up 
And let it begin

My Head’s on the run
I’ve had too Much Fun 
(Never Gonna Die Never
Never Gonna Die Baby)

Pull on your violent eyes
Your pleasure pout 
It’s fight or flight
You can’t deny 
Electric thighs
Your heart is pumping
And you’re alive
You got your head in a spin
Let it begin
So bite down hard 
And feel the sin
Feel the sin
Feel the sin
So step right up
And let it begin

My Head’s on the run
I’ve had too Much Fun 
(Never Gonna Die Never
Never Gonna Die Baby)

Let It Begin

I put it down in a letter
That I wrote and forgot long ago
I threw the words in a bottle
That was lost far from home

And it hurt
And it hurt

He is the sun 
I am the sand
He holds me tight 
In his clutched hand
I am slipping through his fingers
I am wild like my father

I washed ashore on the cold sand
Far from home

Two Of Us

I want you

I gotta fire in my pocket
I keep it there so no one else can steal how I feel
You’re everything I ever wanted and everything I ever lost
You’re gone again, the world ends

I want you

Lightning crashing on the ceiling
White hot breathing
Our hearts beating
Blue spark, the night sky
The moon falls lazily into your eyes
Brown velvet eyes

I want you

I Want You

He lies awake at the end of the day
And he stares at her beautiful back

Under the covers he weeps silently
She’s so near but the distance is vast

Let the waves lull you to sleep
In the blue green black

Let the tide bring you some peace
All your emptiness cast

(Come to me)
Run to sea

He rests in the meadow now
Flowers and wind in his hands

Through the shattering waves you can still hear him wail
For his girl and her porcelain back

(Come to me)
Run to sea

Hey Johnny, come away with me

Run To The Sea

Sirens and Alarms
I know what I’ve been told
And we find ourselves alone
Touch me, I explode

Inside Outburst
You’ve got me in reverse

Your face is burned in the back of my mind
If we keep this up then I’ll go blind
It’s no use to tell me to try and stay cool
‘Cuz I’m hot, hot, hot to break the golden rule

Floating on blushing air won’t last
Too bad it goes away so fast

Inside Outburst
You’ve got me in reverse

Inside Outburst

Hand in hand lovers look at each other 
as if nobody else is alive on Earth
In a year or maybe less will those same lovers 
have new lovers or just hearts with bandages

Love’s an outlaw
Love’s a real outlaw

I drove all night to tell you
I won’t give you up
By the dashboard light I swear that
I’m not giving up
How can we make love stay
With no strings attached, no strings attached
To hold love in it’s place

Love’s an outlaw
Love’s a real outlaw

I drove all night to tell you
I won’t give you up
By the dashboard light I swear that
I’m not giving up

In a year or maybe less
Will those same lovers have new lovers
Or just hearts with bandages
Love’s an outlaw
Love’s a real outlaw

The Outlaw

Waiting out here on the porch dreaming
The night’s breath is wrapping us up in a feeling

Love

Searching to find where you are in the moonlight
We got an understanding there’s no room for fear or pride
We’re stealing away to a better feeling
We’re stealing away to a better feeling

Love

It’s so good with you
If we make it through

The Unknown

Standing in the waiting room
White and blue, white and blue
The sun glinting off the surface of the sea

Legs Unsteady
Knees Unsteady

Make a wish even for our enemies
Make a wish time is crashing
Say a prayer on the golden shore
Make a wish

Someday I’ll wake up from this dream
And this will all be over
And I will regret nothing
And when the time comes to swim for the other shore
Slowly I turn around
And wait for you

Slowly I Turn

Mad Planet sounds like love-lorn aliens high on MDMA crashing spaceships into the Pacific Ocean or “Neo-Cosmic Rhythm Electronica” as one of their fans put it. Their sophomore album Ghost Notes (release date: August 28, 2012) is a rhythmic and spirited exploration of love and commitment.

What started as colorful musings in vocalist/bassist Cooper Gillespie’s notebook and song sketches on guitarist Tony Crouse and drummer Greg Gordon’s Macbooks was crafted into an album at producer Ethan Allen’s (The 88, Tricky, Gram Rabbit) Royal Triton studio as well as Red Star Recording in Silverlake, CA and the infamous Hicksville Trailer Palace recording studio in Joshua Tree, CA. Allen and Mad Planet worked tirelessly on the album over the course of four months unveiling layers of dark, twinkling synths, delicious grooves, magnificent washes of drums, gigantic bass lines and sexy guitars which Cooper’s sultry vocals float effortlessly above.

Ghost Notes explores the many facets of desire from ecstatic eroticism (Inside Outburst) to questioning monogamy (Two of Us), from post-break-up longing (Pieces of You) to the album’s final track Slowly I Turn, a haunting acoustic guitar-led track where Gillespie ruminates about love after death:  

“Someday I’ll wake up from this dream
And this will all be over
And I will regret nothing
And when the time comes to swim for the other shore
Slowly I turn around and wait for you.”  

The result is a beautifully constructed album with music that touches the highs and lows of human emotion.

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