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888 EP

by THE VIVIDS

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1.
SIDE A there's no natural reason that I had to give my spirit started running like I couldn't live RE-CALL, lay low RE-CALL, lay low up for three nights already ALL INCARNATIONS UNDER PRESSURE SIDE B and I know a bullet is the answer question is who's the first that's gonna fire? a life of promise until he got arrested a poem recited that he didn't know rest of hack into an atm, watch the money free me THIS IS THE PROCESS, DON'T WORRY HELLO, SHADOWS ALONE, GO ON FEAR IS THE QUESTION, HOW WILL YOU ANSWER IT'S YOUR LIFE, SO DON'T LEAVE IT UP TO COMMITTIE HELLO, SHADOWS ALONE, GO ON HOWL ON SIDE A hey baby you don't understand that when I, when I say that of course, don't push we're sitting here drunk and everybody's talking shit I hear every conversation: SINE QUA NON and I hated the fact that I had to, you know, it's just one of things I couldn't really explain it SIDE B then again I only come back to real world to confront the vacancy of sanity and subtle dogma so how you gon' just how you gonna tell me? There's a million reasons why I do the things I do I don't really think about it that much I just try to HA HA ... laugh THIS IS THE PROCESS, DON'T WORRY world is a stage, sir I'm playing my character only thing I'm guilty of is over committing HELLO, ALONE HOLLOW, ALONE SHINE ON, BRIGHTLY GO ON HOWL ON IF FEAR IS THE QUESTION, HOW WILL YOU ANSWER IT'S YOUR LIFE, DON'T LEAVE IT UP TO COMMITTIE
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NO URGENCY 02:47
so out of it can't even walk right now something is missing christ image with the cross cropped out or is it my cell phone? the 3rd dimension is the hardest because of time, delay in sight but no harder than the drugs i do because i think life ain't abstract enough what stupid shit is that? old, cynical odd, out of touch slow growing up (fast drinking) human drama drags you down & out of the spirit and into the crowd but keep your head up you'll wake up once death counts to three there's no urgency Whiskey for me tonight pour my fears the day is yours to keep go ahead i'll take night & broken teeth old, cynical odd, out of touch slow burning out human drama drags you down & out of your soul and into wild crowd but keep your head up you'll wake up once death counts to three there's no urgency
3.
let me show you leisure in a weight that you can measure drug war in my pockets this is my block and I walk it 500$ in 20 sacks you can take them off my back the echos of my soles in the night with a runny nose, the law behind me dumped the 9 to 5 to do crime just to get my ways and means, it's a riot ah ah ah ah society salacious flying saucer-like eye sockets generation fiendish faster-beating hearts means a profit drugs are bad for your health i can help you kill yourself (chorus] if i'm juxta posed against police headlights ways and means are my reason
4.
her colors suit her and are truths unto me I've always felt that not even separate deep down i know i still hope her suitor is me symmetry / shimmer It stares into only see half of it but her form is soothing to me can you explain that I hope you do though i'd sooner never know. la belleza no mira, sólo es mirada la belleza no mira, it looks at me la belleza no mira, sólo es mirada la belleza no mira, when it looks at me it's object not subject worship at the feet of learn to speak the mother-tongue of inherent mystery to keep always in searching in search of reasons I don't need now what's the slang of oh that one phrase from italy ? la figa (la figa) so beautiful so beautiful so beautiful la belleza no mira, sólo es mirada la belleza no mira, it looks at me la belleza no mira, sólo es mirada la belleza no mira, and it looks at me it's object not subject a form that is so pleasing you forget ego is suffering you forget ego is suffering, baby To have, to feel to touch, or be it To have, to need to hold, to see it To have, to know how love's inspired la belleza no mira, sólo es mirada la belleza no mira, sólo es mirada it's object, not subject
5.
THIGH SKIN LIKE MILK COP A FEEL I PULL THE HAMMER BACK YOU CAN'T TAKE YOUR EYES OFF MY THIRD WORLD MINI SKIRT YOU GRIP THE WHEEL I GRIP THAT STEEL FILL BODY WITH A BULLET SHELL BY HOOK OR CROOK YOU'LL LOOK SHOOK IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT 9MM RIGHT TO HIS JELLY SKULL QUEEN OF JUSTICE DIANA THE HUNTRESS SHE SHE SHE SHE NOT A WHORE DON'T IGNORE WOMEN OF JUAREZ AMAZONIAN INSTRUMENT OF VENGANCE ALL IN BLACK PACKING HEAT I CLEAN THE STREETS SCENTED LOTION PACKING HEAT I CLEAN THE STREETS GONNA KILL HIM FOR PRACTICE GONNA KILL HIM FOR PRACTICE SHE SHE SHE SHE FLOWERS ON IN SO MANY COLORS COLORS COME IN MEN ONLY BLEED ONCE
6.
soma to your angel head horrors in mind mix them in the holy cup horrors in mind walking through their door holding tight to the love you carry not to vague, nothing innocent make your way, earthly hedonist must achieve, absolute resonance play the game of absolute resonance but it's hard to re-live and to benefit from the lesson haunted in my curse looking at my voices energies replaced oooo bit by bit not to vague, nothing innocent make your way, earthly hedonist you must achieve, absolute resonance play another game of absolute resonance those who said the world was caving in i believe them now those tasteless, carosel of faces are only your reflection and you wonder why they taunt you i don't fear omen language i don't even care now darkness doesn't haunt you
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SIMPLE LINES 02:14
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look out for him cos he's a fiend perpetrator of our suffering behind vice and greed and murder, every blasphemy you're sure to find him somehow pulling strings (no ) destroy this offensive thing this, which keeps us from paradise and is himself a dark purpose (no, i'm not) yes you are yes you are it would take millions of years to recount all the pain he's caused and his is an occupying hate as ancient as fire against night's darkness it's us or them either lit with us or enemy of enlightenment yes you are yes you are it's us or them them are not like the rest of us these were crimes of passion just a little habit a coping mechanism for confusion and disorder belligerence and fear now let us be clear mixed up with free will creates a certain potency that never should be tampered with but we like to experiment and in my defense i, too am bound by earthly paradox God left the way I came in and I got here the same way you did not alone with accomplice

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released November 25, 2014

credits: guitars, vox, bass, drum programming - sim jackson
drums "not listening but please continue" & "ways and means"- mike shelborn
"women of juarez" - gustav mentzer

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The Vivids Los Angeles, California

The Vivids are an LA post-punk band consisting of Sim Jackson (vocals), Brenden Snyder (guitar),Manya Koolzemchenko
(bass), and Gustov Mentzer (drums). Their album is called “999&13,” a moody
and raw exploration of self-destruction and self-renewal shot through with spacey, bright guitars, sharply
observant lyrics, and propulsive drumming that’s anyt​hing but lo-fi.“
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