Collapso Calypso

Into Gold

Minimum Descent Altitude

A life in a mirror
Of someone’s design
With a fleeting interest
In my own mind
New, improved rules
Assimilated inside
Genuflect and pray
Before your mobile device
There’s a new boss in town
Polarized from the other guy
Queens is quiet tonight
 
I hate when bands make me wait
For something I’ve already seen
With survival less guaranteed
It matters less what it all means
Falling through the seasons
Of my dreams
Observing the fire hydrant ejaculating blood
On my $100 jeans
It’s hardly apathetic
Noticing where we no longer align
Queens is quiet tonight
 
The urgency of yesterday
Becomes an uneasy today
In a broken contract with safety
Which used to account for the price paid
And the poets always miss
The sunset’s indifference
And the politicians equate a vote
With a kind of spiritual deliverance
The Internet has fallen
And now there’s nowhere to hide
Queens is quiet tonight
 
My notebook’s privilege
Might be something you forgive
In the mad dream of culture
Where we both live
Somewhere a phenomena  
Uncommented upon
The High School cafeteria
Is our everlasting god
But there’s little hope in it
Those trapped in the monitor’s light
Queens is quiet tonight

Queens is Quiet Tonight

Twilight of the Gods 

It wasn’t about hope 
They just couldn’t take a joke 
But they let you run your mouth 
Because it gave them more rope 

You said they’d remember your name 
For all the honor in literary fame 
But you wound up crying outside your mother’s 
In the rain 

Twenty-five years to retire 
An indefinite date to expire 
Almost got fired over a pothole 
Dad never taught you how to change a tire 

Twilight of the gods 
Overcome by the odds 
Blasting out the bad thoughts 
With the music in our cars 

Twilight of the gods 
Fate shuffled all our cards 
Is the mud deep enough 
To plant a basketball hoop in the yard? 
And what of your friend’s silver dreams? 
All the pool parties, beers, rehearsed scenes 
You’ve got to be slapped by real life 
To comprehend what fantasy means 

You always had a soft spot for Angela 
Even when she yelled at ya 
The flower in her hair 
Was a yellow chrysanthemum 

And her soulmate Blaine’s persistent tinnitus 
Combined with his chronic right shoulder bursitis 
Compromised the showcase after those 
Fringe suits had hyped it 

Twilight of the gods 
Overcome by the odds 
Blasting out the bad thoughts 
With the music in our cars 

Twilight of the gods 
Fate shuffled all our cards 
Is the mud deep enough 
To plant a basketball hoop in the yard? 


To whom do you owe the pleasure? 
Of carrying on
You don’t even need 
To fill out a form 
You just keep waking up
Even when you’ve had enough 
To take your swing, shoot your shot 

Twilight of the Gods

Paradox World 

Sometimes at night 
I fall into soft shadows 
Because the way of the stray 
Is to shelter from harm 

Then the bread-truck is unloading 
While the birds are calling 
From perches above the boulevard 
It’s like an algorithm remembering your favorite song 

I’m ambivalent about sunlight 
Like when these gridlocked cars 
On narrow blocks sweat like battalions 
Led by someone terribly wrong 

And we’re in a paradox world 
Someone love me into submission 
A paradox world 
Someone guide my hand in composing 
This transmission 

A paradox world 
There’s always tomorrow until tomorrow
Paradox World 
Time takes life, it doesn’t borrow 

Now the flakes fall at twilight 
With the streetlights turned on
It looks like static in my vision 
Camouflages the crosswalk 

No one asks if I’m lonely 
They only stare like I don’t belong 
They might find I have old music inside 
If they ever wanted to talk 

Is it the scythe or the hood? 
Which they find so off-putting 
Sometimes they run, others just turn white 
As their outlines in chalk 

It’s a paradox world 
I have centuries of notes 
It’s a paradox world 
Full of promises and high hopes 

Paradox World

To kick off the New Year’s Eve celebrations, Moby has created a special DJ mix just for you. Enjoy the music, and have a safe and fun start to 2025!

Tracklisting:

1 moby and Chris Stussy - Go 
2 moby ft. Benjamin Zephaniah - Where is your pride? (essel remix) 
3 moby ft lady blackbird - Dark days (undercat remix) 
4 Anfisa letyago & moby - You and me (sg lewis remix)
5 moby ft. Miss Monique - Feeling so real 2024
6 moby & Armin van Buuren - Extreme ways
7 moby ft. Benjamin Zephaniah - Where is your pride?
8 moby ft. Choklate - Sweet moon(Jung remix) 
9 moby ft gaidaa - Transit(lafayette remix)
10 moby ft. akemi fox - Fall back (Coco Bryce remix)
11  moby ft India carney - Precious mind (April remix) 
12 moby ft aynzli - Medusa (808 remix) 
13  moby ft serpentwithfeet - On air (strings version)

moby pod: dj set 1

Gravity

here is a cover for you as I work on writing the rest of my album
<3 much love <3


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqUrdjp_yc

Crying (Roy Orbison Cover)

The Boys of Summer

The Boys of Summer (Live at EartH, London, 2019)

I Didn't See

Matt Waters is a singer-songwriter from New York City. His songs range from character studies of the contemporary American to intimate explorations of love. A writer of fiction, he attempts to meld the musical and literary realms through detailed lyricism. He has been particularly inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Billy Corgan, Mike Scott, Isaac Brock, David Bowie, Tupac Shakur, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, Nicole Atkins, Damien Rice and Bruce Springsteen. As a guitar player he’s influenced by the progressions of John Lennon and George Harrison. The lyrics to his song Aurora were published in the March 2017 issue of American Songwriter Magazine. An essay about being a performance artist called A Moment of Honesty was published in Guernica in May 2016.

Queens is Quiet Tonight

Matt Waters.

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