You have a way of ruining my day. I can't explain what it is you do to my brain. You're the only one who calls me that name. Now the world is coming to an end and you haven't even heard my song yet. I have a way to put on a new face so I can get my way. You're the only one who lets me out of my cage. I want to tell you everything is fine but I've been hiding from this all my life. I am not your son. I am an alien. So someone had to illustrate these fragments of a life that I remember. Someone who'd be close enough, someone who they thought that I would trust. Of course there was a flaw you see, everything they hid from me I found inside your mouth.And in the parlor of your tongue my secret swept under the rug; my whole childhood was just made up. And when I look into your clouds, the mothership beyond the shroud. It's still comforting somehow. When you speak, I hear the machine calling me from somrewhere lightyears away. Asking me if I'll come home someday. Why do words fail to convey the most important things we have to say? Do we only use them to betray the things inside us we wish we didn't hate?
credits
from Verses,
released October 30, 2016
All songs written by Vivian K
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Arik Victor at Creep Records Studio in Philadelphia, PA.
Produced by Jesse Gander of Japandroids & White Lung, the latest from Philly’s Fire in the Radio is full-throated rock & roll. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 6, 2020