Jedi Mind Tricks - Razorblade Salvation [DjSonic's Polar Instrumental]

Addiction has held hostage some of the most beautiful minds and souls. It doesn't discriminate or pick and choose for any reason. It just rots and decays everything good about a person.

This song is about living inside a lifeless mind, lying stagnant somewhere between life and death. Wishful for one or the other, but unable to move. Purgatory.

I wrote this song after being there myself for well over a decade. Only ever living in and out of a "Whiskey Purgatory". Addiction comes in countless forms and destroys lives. I chose to take mine back and pray that anyone still struggling can do the same.

"Whiskey Purgatory"

This one goes out to the hopeless! Enjoy!

2021 - New

Whiskey Purgatory - Live

The pursuit of independence
The truth can start to mess with
For some it's just a long, dark, and dusty road to Heaven
The belief that we are greater
We just fell until it faded
With traumas that have bonded
The once loved now is hated
Karma makes a man accountable everywhere his heart is
Unless you don't believe in karma, that's even deeper waters
A fistful of the wishful thinking, simple's not an option
A lifetime of it all now there's a pistol in your pocket
On the corner there's a light that's shining brighter than the rest of em
The fight that's in your spirit not the night for which it's tested in
Lesser men have rested, in death to get what's destined
Left the men behind with a debt to pay the rest in
Blinded by the pride, now confined to limits penciled
Afraid of truth and time, until it finally gets the best of
The street he grew up on has been leveled by machines
For profit in the pockets of ones that made it green 

Can you tell me
When it will stop robbing them dry
In the deepest of the water I know
How do we know
Can you tell me
When the tears start to fall from their eyes
In the deepest of the water I know
And I don't even know what I'm doing here

Well from a dude that’s got a death wish
Nothing to prove to pass the test with
The anger that’s inside from every contusion he was left with
Every bruise that makes his head spin
And the dues that rake the debts in
Every fool that’s ever messed with
Never lose cuz never messed with
Just the booze that he was bred with
The abuse from every direction
Heaven should knew he had a future
Taken his truth and made it different
He could choose to change his shoes but too many miles they’ve taken steps in
With a slew of thoughts had crept in
Turned it from two up to eleven
With the news the wake of destruction
Rather choose to stay in anger
With a crew cut and a stone wall 
The abused is now the breaker
He’s more comfortable in danger 
Want to just stay where he’s been raised in
Cuz the world that burned around him
Gave him the flame that came in blazin'
Now the fire in his eyes has taken him places never dreamed 
Never gone but never here 
Never change and never seen
Never will know what to do
Only adapt and learn to be
Well that man you never knew
I think you know that man is me

Can you tell me
When it will stop robbing them dry
In the deepest of the water I know
How do we know
Can you tell me
When the tears start to fall from their eyes
In the deepest of the water I know
And I don't even know what I'm doing here

The Stranger

Jill Barber - Broken For Good

The Family Album is now available on Outside Music

iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/ca/album/the-family-album/id1075555634?app=itunes
Bandcamp: matthewbarberjillbarber.bandcamp.com

Matthew Barber & Jill Barber - Comes A Time

From The Family Album, available now on Outside Music

Matthew Barber & Jill Barber - Summer Wages

4 shots (L.A. Vibes remix)

Gypsy music from the roots of the soul and mind that my descendents cursed upon me. This is the music for travelers and wanderers. Those that have no feeling or meaning of home. Still searching for salvation.

Mad Chad - No Place Called Home (Gypsy Music)

Grand design
I'm always getting caught up with these plans of mine
I always got to have a distracted mind (uh huh)
I barely pay attention almost half the time
Must not have had a lot of crap happen right (nope)
Just want to relax but I'm past the point
There's too much on the path that is asinine
So what's that, it's just a bit of life
That you won't get without a fight
That's why this music, is where I would escape, like a drug it would grab me and start to relax my mind (yeaaah)
Cuz I was young when I learned about the worst parts, a little kid standing on his porch with a dandelion (la la la la)
That's when the cops kick the door shoutin get on the floor, with their guns drawn pointed at my mommas eyes
And I don't get it, and I don't wanna get it
Mom, why you getting taken by this man with your hands behind?
The same thing happened to my dad
Had to watch him get cuffed in the street for the second time
And thus begins
A lifelong battle of resentment for cops cuz I couldn't understand the crime
I just saw a bunch of cowards without a spine 
That would bust up in your house just to pass the time
And I was pissed, I must have been six, with my hands in a fist, and I'm sick with this askin why
So I started listening to Slim Shady (that's Rock Bottom)
Him and Dr. Dre had a way that they rapped these rhymes
I put my headphones on, as I drift away and just relate a bit to these master minds
I've got a million emotions I can't define
When my heart and mind they just can't align
I smack rewind and then I go and black my mind and chill with a track that could take me back in time
And get it



You could be my favourite place
I've ever been
I got lost in your willingness
To dream within the dream
You could be my favourite faded fantasy
I've hung my happiness upon what it all could be




There's something about when you start to get sad
Or when lifes getting harder and part of it's bad
And you let down your guard in your heart that is wrapped up in scars from the parts of your heart that were shattered
And listen to artists with heart when they rap
It can heal all the trauma that stops you from laughing
Cuz music can take all the carnage and damage and make em just memories locked in the past 
When your young and your mother and father get hammered
And use you to get on each otherss last nerves
And custody battles where judges get mad
And your mother gets drunk cause she just couldn't handle
The pain that it causes, when love doesn't last
Cuz it started out happy with mommy and daddy, but feelings they change (change)
And everything changes
Til all they demand is they want understanding
And all that you want is some peace in your home, but it seems like it even just hardly would matter
It's all that I'm after, cuz after my father got cancer I promised to God that I'd had it
And life doesn't stop, in fact its just giving it all to you back going farther and faster
And dark as it gets, we don't have the power to change anything but our thoughts and reactions
It honestly really don't matter how broken and battered and scarred from the battle
There's always a thousand more bars in this ladder you gotta keep climbing up all that it has
And turn up the speakers so loud that you can't hear your thoughts over all the guitars and pianos
Til all of the curtains they close, and all that is left is the stage and the sound of this audience clapping



You could be my favourite place
I've ever been
I got lost in your willingness
To dream within the dream
You could be my favourite faded fantasy
I've hung my happiness upon what it all could be

My Favorite Place ft. Damien Rice

Song from the upcoming EP.
The Slip EP

LYRICS:
Lying and trying to put up a front
Nothing makes sense
Slippin up give in again, just to repent
Simple again, til it was not
Small town with a ranch
And havin a family it was the plan
But tendancy hinder the way that it panned
Isn't it sad? Just to withstand
Knowing that the bottom isn't the end
Get to the top just to visit a friend
Figure out that the biggest doubt
Was the trigger that had entered in with the gin
Luck stopped with the buck shot
Trust not for that one spot
Bumped out of the club now
Slump down to that truck stop
Fun is the game, andrenalain
Bringin pain to a world that is already wounded
Refusein to change remaining with the dead, then be excluded
But truth is who is gonna be suited up when it's time
Or get booted uprooted to the place you been headin to the pine
You flew the coop, to the point there's no return
Sure, you're feeling the burn but nowhere to turn but where you don't belong and don't deserve
A learning curve
hoping there's room in the future to beat the verdict that you earned
just burn down the curse of the past and be rid of the hurt for the terminal work that you learned

[Chorus]
For the last time
It got me for the last time
I swear I did it for the last time
You know I did it for the last time
I swear it got me for the last time (like the first time)
I know it got for the last time (like the first time)
I swear it did me for the last time (like the first time)
I know it got me for the last time (like the first time)
Yeah

Smile,
Even when no one's around
Learn to be holdin it down
Don't go with the crowd
Wow, how can you pout
When nobodys choking you out
Drip
Sit down for you flip out
Git down for you trip out
Slip out of the spotlight
Went down to that strip house
Wishing that the itching coulda
Given something different but it
Didn't I admit it I'm not kidding
From the beginning
It's been a mission
Driven to gold and anything that could hold up my interest
Always try to be bold individual, plus all the things I stole from Pinterest
I wasn't always in a pinch
When it was a sinch
I never would flinch
But when I was given an inch
I figured I'd give it a mile before I turned into the grinch
But to this day, to my dismay, nothin has panned out
The old ways that I grew up, blew up in my hands now
Truth is that it stands out, who says that you can't shout
Bruce Wayne in the skylight, two face in the town now
But I ain't a joker I been in the ditch and know what deal is
I give it all that I got now, to give respect to the realness 

[Chorus]

The Last Time

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