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The Swayed LP

by Jesse LeJeune

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1.
Lightpipe 04:53
In such memories I've found It is not safe to move your eyes I'm reborn of your own wishing And such memories abound But it gives me nothing Fear's nowhere by my soul; black the walls within it Fear's nowhere by my soul A weep a splendid marsh she marched on Reason it malnourished A world warm and sparse Fear can waste it all for naught Ah, weeping splendid heart she marched on Jesus it's malnourished A world warm and sparse Fear can waste it all for naught It was all within herself Unbearable things took flight on Frost from Wings of Valkyries. I'm reborn of your own wishing, gives me nothing And raise arms against this anomaly, We'd remember us.
2.
Spirant 03:40
Golden cords Line suggestion Speak directions To the feel of curling toes Twined beneath sheet She leans forward Rested elbow she's well over The soft pillowed cloth Her doe-eyes, her dove-like flutter Be my jacuzzi, be my jacuzzi Like the sea's foam Like morning-after rain Like commands worth taking Whispin' over tan, covered shoulder bare Mouthful of innocence Give me more You're at perfection Begat inspection Glad detection of golden cords Twined beneath sheet, She goes under cover You're so winsome that I'll Excuse the venom somehow Mouthful of innocence Clicks wash round sibilance. Be my jacuzzi, be my jacuzzi.
3.
Dawn Chorus 05:43
I know a perfect place that we could fit in Eye to eye in the dark oblivious to sin Oblivious to how time flies And how the more I think, the less I realize But all is what you make of it, is all I know a human race that doesn't understand Eye to eye with the cross with wings made of sand Oblivious to how sight blinds They com-modify our souls so they can advertise. But all is what you make of it, is all. (Chorus from previous track, "Spirant"): Like the sea's foam Like morning-after rain Like commands worth taking Whispin' over tan, covered shoulder bare Mouthful of innocence I know a perfect place where we can fit in (live in/be friends) Eye to eye with the cross and wings made of sand I'll take you to this place where could live in But I'm found in the real world, and that doesn't swim.
4.
Lacuna 05:58
to me the point is to discover them the truth is to find them one for the ages One for the ages the truth is defined in youth for the blinded one for the ages one for the ages another for the ageless youth of the sages to me truth is not some vague foggy notion truth is real and at the same time, unreal fiction and fact and everything in between plus some things i can't remember to me The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks truth is the cry of all / the truth is to find it but the game of the few / the point is to discover them The general welfare is not the sphere of truth to me to me to me one for the ages one for the ages another for the ageless none for the aimless one for the ages one for the ages one for the ages the point is to discover them the truth is to find them one for the ages one for the ages truth is defined in youth of the blinded youth of the sages youth of the ages one for the aimless one for the ages one for the ages to me to me to me to me truth is not some vague foggy notion truth is real and at the same time, unreal fiction and fact and everything in between plus some things i can't remember rolled up into one big thing there is some fiction in your truth and some truth in your fiction and to know the truth you must risk everything one for the ages one for the ages one for the ages one for the ages one for the ages one for the ages
5.
Wake up its night time It's time to rise tonight Rise and blind This time/it's time (No) I don't wanna take you out for awkward glances over pie What if I decide to be lonely, sick of playin' my part What if I decide no one fits the bill Run until dawn
6.
Feel the humanity With a tendril-scarred heart And a semblance of sunlight In life with the dark What the hell is going on out there? Blind percussionist of blood, I impute love and care Where is one who I can adore? Where is one who I can love? Can no one see the music for the window that it is? Feel the humanity With a semblance of decency It was too much to ask of this one. Where'd you learn to be so cold? Your name causes me great pain I'd rather not hear it I should have known. Feel the humanity With a semblance of heart And a sickness for sunlight.
7.
The Farplane 04:00
8.
Beautiful girl, please tell me you're in the mood tonight to explore new eyes, and watch as they fall down with your dress I slip into a black hole while we lay on the floor our ears to the ground like headphones half-worn (HUU! HAA!! haaaiiiee. haaaaahhhhh) I'm looking for something and whatever it is I know isn't inside my door so I balance just outside centered on redemption and remorse centered on adventure and remorse centered on redemption and divorce centered on admission and remorse centered on prevention and discourse centered on remission and recourse
9.
(Verse 1) It's not unusual to fall for affection, It has been with us since time The nature of a woman is commitment So is that of one who is mine (x2) Oh lovely So much of you raptures my gaze, To you I could pray and worship for days Oh lovely You're beauty's unbidden but welcome to me, You're the element of purity, dedication, Oh lovely (Chorus) You're my goddess and religion You're my love Let me render you in marble. Oh lovely (Verse 2) It's not unusual to fall for a fiction I am not worthy to see the flesh you wear Feel the air your breathe, Oh lovely (x3). Kept in the abstract, never to be Plagued by reality, kept from me I would have it no other way Impossible you stay, wholly apart Your image will never be falsened from art, dedication Oh lovely. (Chorus)
10.
(Love) In the likes of your hearts all All above heights, try to take it in the right light: You can't run, there's nowhere left to hide But in His arms that reach out. This is the way the illuminated door, I was led to a next-world (Oh yes) A missed sign, a naked eyeball hides me Heirs to the ease, sway us
11.
(Lyrics, by Hudson McCain) Take a breath Do not be afraid No, you will not fight alone Fight we must, We can't let the empire destroy our hope in love My sight, I see With my eyes all I see is deception Although it seems hopeless And now my breath I can breathe but only in fractions of the air you stole from me Must we die so young? Do you believe in sacrifice? Do you believe in what we're dying for? (Steady your hands, ready your rifles, men Never look back, we are never looking back) So we burn the lights of surrounding cities To illuminate the path that we must travel We will fight until their temples fall to pieces And cast away their crowns made of stone My only passion tonight is to take this to the grave. The 19 year long war has finally ended, The Rebellion succeeded. But now it would seem that we are Without loss or pain but it's strange The days have grown so longer And the nights more unbearable than ever We have lost our purpose We are at a stand-still, Do we turn this page or slowly wither away?
12.
Bloodletting 03:40
Bloodletting Imagine it: a lifetime away from everything you've known No family holidays No going here or there with anything in mind No going here or there at any given time Just an amusing refusal to stop it It all taken by a refusal to stop a bleeding clock It all taken by a refusal to rise From that wreckage others dumped To the shrapnel that homes To that part of you that thumps Somewhere deep in your bones I forgot what it is called Oh damn what's that term? ...That red thing that objects When others tell you "squirm!" Don't worry it is for the best We'll just let all of your blood out Why don't you try and rest The problem is you You're to blame for this Why they've blistered you And crippled your good name Why they mangled and abused The good out of your bones They pinched out your nerves and set them in stone Imagine it: every one in stone.

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Started 5/7/2013.

This album is entitled "The Swayed" and is in compositional dialogue with the title of a past song; "Heirs to the Ease, Sway Us". This song first appeared on "Like Spinning Plates EP", and was reconceptualized the first of several times on "1,333 ft Guyed Mast". "Heirs to the Ease, Sway Us" was written lyrically out of an existentially suspected need to exit what I took to be a sheltered existence, established by an upper-middle-class upbringing within academic institutions. "The Swayed" is a direct response to that concern. The responder counts himself as having sufficiently been in the real world, and sets to meditation the damages incurred and the lessons gained.

Only select songs are shown here, all of them can be listened to upon downloading the album.

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released December 28, 2013

This (and all albums here) are essentially home demos. For best effect, listen with high-end headphones. Most of this is mixed with Sennheiser HD 598s.

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