8. Cyan (Double Check)

3. Mesquite

Ink spotted hands
reenacting chords and rings
Manny lost his use
then lost his use for time
His insides reenact the eyes wide days
Now he squints but he never walks alone without his teen tunes

There’s been a loss of light
And the pencils for plans have disappeared
just like time after work,
work I picked up to buy more

Now at the forefront of new technology
are new ways to remember the old
And someone’s bound (And someone’s bound)
to be the next one who’s right
or just right
in the right place
at the right rhyme

Although we had the same dreams
that stemmed from the same videos
we were surprised to find we had different songs to sing
once the videos were over

Picket signs on pause
While you found the note to the song in the background
I hurried you so we could push play
And hear their chants again

8. Finding Notes

Stones pass stones
Tomb stunts tomb
Light holds there
Through a headphone
Guises blown
Light holds there
On the many heartaches

Grown
But seem to go nowhere

And it holds us down
As we see what’s been said so different
Light holds there
With all this ground so
nearly impossible
I
Try
Head back askew
Light right there
On the many heartbreaks

Dark
Lays before me
Past
Means nothing anymore
And the web
Got us all in tight
Steps
Start to pour

7. So Dark

Laurel wreaths upon them
Always implies
Seen through screens cracked and dirty
From some place worse
Low belief, low belief
Always implies
Seeing this here party
From far away

Ring bell at 10:30
Long shirt sleeve applied
Pick a self in the elevator
And an Instagram filter
Low sighs
Lulu on her arm
Miranda speaks with words she never uses
and Lucia’s quiet
With the blonde bonds all around them
Talking and standing where they aren’t
Miranda feels what's going on here
Lu whispers “call your sister”
Low sighs
Sometimes implies
She’ll be outside in an hour
in her Corolla

And after an hour and a few
They leave the corner of the room
And they take the stairs down
The horn arrives
and they jump inside
and speed away
And play their songs they know and can sing to

Whoa, that place back there

but now
but now
but now
but now

It's just them three

6. Miranda & Lucia

5. Interlude - Pt 1. Bit By Bit - Pt 2. Now We're Talking (feat. The Voices in Town)

Pulled from the trees
For relentless grieves
With a little cheese
There’s a little groove there
And with a little pow
Comes a know how
Huffed in
left out

An all day pretend
With wished amends
Heavy defends
Ifs only
What a range
Of mind to arrange
And not a change
It’s such a wild spread

With dust on the rise
Amid the blueberry cries
I see the tries
Your very own kind
And if the rolling speaker’s flutes
Don’t move your boots
Well something will suit
You and you only
And when the couch gets a bit foul
And the night turns you into the owl
Don’t scowl
The moon will lay too
If the eyes don’t see whats grand
Because behind them holds your reprimand
New land
Waits until after

This every day pretend
With all this to amend
Tough to defend
If only
And damn this fight
Because, you know, you just might be right
Tonight
Tonight

Now, I’ve seen you before
Dance along your floor
Just a little more
It’s just a little more
And what a range
Of all this mind to arrange
Just a little change
Just a little change

4. Had They Heard

Oh have I the only mind sold
On carrying a message solo / so low
Hold my own someday
Sending to sparkling nodes

Oh you know me good
that I'll stand
Deep in under stood
Oh and the breeze of a sigh
Will blow me out
For it all

Turn around and what a window I see
Now hold me before I drop
And hold thine door, Sue-Marie
Last sip, I’m grabbing my coat

Hope pan
Trope scan
Seep in free from desire
Ole hand cups
Scoops in loops in streams
That smooths the brine
To a flowing candor

3. After The Window

All the wheels been checked
As a tiny speck
between hills and trills I roam
Passing through
All but two
seats filled within this home
A holy cue said it was true
in that mirror with a mouth of foam
So now I ride
soon arrive
and will weigh on the loam
And on this train
feeling insane
That I only got on now
Play along
between songs
Then see what legs allow
Fail to end on a note
then leave reluctantly
One by one
passed to the next expecting city
Then look up this long table to the new ones I know now
and then its time
(To sing)
It’s so far
Along

1. On This Train

Track composed for Anna Zett's documentary film "This Unwieldy Object".

Opening (This Unwieldy Object)

On The Bay

What Do You Call It?

For Teen

Steam Park (Demo)

Nothing Together

Double Track

In the Momentary Room

My Room on the Left

Another Courtyard

Maroon Moon

Black Key Trot

LYRICS~

I've found this state of mind 
For about an hours time
This must be the one 
That means that life of fun 
Maintain to keep it there 
Break away but I fear the tear
Is this what I let soar
How do I know if I've never felt this flame before 

Pass through these states of mine 
Find those I don't seem to mind
Keep the obvious ones 
If only there were obvious ones

That's not true
Felt a few
Then they grew,
disappeared and then renewed 
Disguised themselves as things to fear

Now I see
Easily
Pity
The old me couldn't agree
That's just how one goes

I try for the reasons that keep me from home
There's a fire that burns there and in my heart 
I stay in fears, in hopes, that they'll become familiar 
And I can know them and I can finally let them pass on by

Let me think
Too much think
Start to think
Need a drink
Start to feel it move 
From the toes 
To the nose 
Around it goes 
Does it show
Standing in a moment of still

Then another comes 
and I don't think I can face this one
So I run in hopes it'll stay where I used to stand 
But the fire spreads all over my body 
So I stop and then I drop and then it's a flame

Bam-bum-bum

Keep Stills (demo)

LYRICS~

Hand me downs
from Mariah
I pick them
or do they pick me

Being followed 
in the boutique
by the man 
that thinks this whole thing is strange

I’d like 
to just browse 
in the clothes
that raise me up

hold me down
Put me in the ground 
or you can put me in a gown
that keeps me from getting down
rise up to the scene
that made you mean
now tell them what you mean
with a brand new seam

The conversations 
are much better
no matter the color
no matter the weather

they help me 
release that inside 
I’ve always thought
I should never be

What a flow
I feel like an infant
I’m anew
A brand new elegant

Feel it all
Rise up to the call
that made me so alone and all
but now I’ve got it all
brand new necklaces
this just is what is
got no reason else
than for a brand new self

Feel it all
rise to the call
that made me so useless and all
but you got to feel it all
for the good to feel good
even in the old neighborhood 
I’ve got it now held so well
and they can tell

The Glowish Is (demo)

Circles (demo)

From the radio show Love Songs and Dedications hosted by Leo Zylberberg

The Mimic

A show about what happens in the streets/the outside world. Journalism thru basic accounts of strangers: narrating what they're doing, reenacting what they're doing, thoughts which they ignite, and conversations with them/us. A bit of interactions with those no longer strangers, and some music to tie it all in.

Walk Thru This World With Me (ep. 1)

Bunublum

You can purchase and download this song here:

https://arambulapaul.bandcamp.com/track/mesquite

(Featured on Democracy Now!- 02/07/2020)

Thank you!

-LYRICS-

The water comes down
They flush to a sea
Where they get into boats
And they manage to flee
And go with the flow
As we wait like some bait 
for a modern pa
to make a flaw with a law
and a new definition for “all” 
holding on
occipital to the thumbs
cover ears with the palms
favorite song sung in a hum
By the velvet mesquite 
Where the guards cannot see
someone sees the bright light of possibility
and when it moves
they yell “run”
Amá and apá sweat yet baby is cold
it shivers with the quivers of the 8 year old’s 
concrete hold
Come out of the sun 
Into the inside
a drop into the rising tide
The old, won’t hold
Noé was the one who was their ideal
Forced to dream, dream until he’s real
now his touch and codes now intertwining,
the pulse silently refining
on both sides of the wall
So we see how it can fall
Because our hands, well they move
with this electrical groove
And the dirt in our nails
becomes soil when it gets wet
from the tide

Mesquite

Escalated Blue

Recorded in Vivi's apartment in Berlin
February 16th and 17th, 2020

Floating To The Waist Side

Teller / To Want To

Orangish Red

Write me!: arambulap@gmail.com

Bandcamp: 
https://paularambula.bandcamp.com/album/stills-keep-4

Paul Arámbula

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