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Ruins

by Towanda

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1.
Man is the child, is the pupil, is the prince, is the king, is the pyre! The season is the reason; it’s all there’s to believe in Man is the babe, is the virgin, is the dame, is the queen, is the crone! The season is the reason; it’s all there’s to believe in. Man is the first, is the future, is the force, is the fury and the fall The season is the reason; it’s all there’s to believe in. So keep it short and sweetened, us never-weres and has-beens, we pick our cardinal sin, in the end we’re all even.
2.
Clouds form, the sun hides, under end times under which we thrive Rain falls, the seas rise, takes a vision of death to make you feel alive Smoke grows and the walls cave, when there’s no way out there’s no such thing as brave Lakes dry and the flames wave, Judgment Days- it’s too late to be saved Pluck the last rose, Hear the last bird, Swim the last stream, Sing the last song, Sing the last song! Sing the last song! Sing the last song! Sing the last song!
3.
Dust to Dust 03:12
I weep for the world and the people in it, I weep for the trees- deep green mystic, I weep for world and the trouble it’s in- I weep for the seas, man plus plastic, I weep for the sun as I watch it burn out, I weep for the void as I stare and doubt, I weep for the earth as we sell it out, I weep for the sun I... I weep for the sky and the atmosphere, I weep for the river in the hills far and near, I weep for the night and her cloak of fear, I weep for the sky even when blue and clear, I weep for the moon in the still of it’s light, I weep for the ferns, the mosses, the vines, I weep for the birch, the fir, the pine, I weep for the moon, I... Someone once said they’d a cure for me: drank the serum, it was poison and I’ve still got this disease, Someone once said, I’ve a plan for you, give me purpose and meaning now I weep for that too, Somewhere I thought there was a home for me, so I rattled these bars, I shook like a leaf, Someday I’ll weep an ocean with all my tears as I weep for myself I...
4.
Forever Foes 02:57
I took it bad, when I heard talk took place, won’t you be a good friend? Won’t you say it to my face? I took it bad, you’re a slithering snake, you’ve come out from your rock, you’ve come out for a taste! I took it bad, so I put me in your place and I’m still not sure who you’re trying to disgrace! I took it bad that you’re such a sad case and after all these years I take it bad with grace! I took it bad when I heard what went down, you’ve been shedding your skinsuit all around town I took it bad, that’s a pile of lies sown, and they make a real mess when you smear them around! I took it bad, yes it just makes me frown, you’ve been slipping about like a very sad clown, I took it bad right out this dark playground, I won’t lay down and die in this venomous wasteground! Crawling, climbing, seething, writhing, coiling, biting- slithering snake!
5.
The sky it is falling, the end it is calling, it’s all so appalling, I embrace the chaos! Surrender to bedlam and pandemonium, you’re caught in the maelstrom, so embrace the chaos! The thread it unravels, the rose it is trampled, to live is to suffer- just embrace the chaos! Dissonance now! Disharmony how? Cacophonous row! Oh embrace the chaos! It’s just like a storm to hit you in the face and call it love You can feel the foundation crumbling from below and above It’s a natural disaster of a situation run amok! Maybe one day out of the rubble and the dust there flies a dove Cast into the deep end, you’ve no way to defend, you’re no good at pretend- just embrace the chaos! Pile up all your friends, they’ve come to their dead ends, spiral and descend, just embrace the chaos! The handle is broken, the tempo it quickens, the yoke it is tightened, just embrace the chaos! Your drunk on the madness, and life is your canvas so rip up it’s surface and embrace the chaos!
6.
It’s a brand new year, almost young new me Aim for more self-helping so unselfishly, Met a guru, had a vision, now a whole human-being There’s no such thing as can’t if it can’t be me, I no longer fear the unknown, give me entropy, Vacuum-sealed up the flesh for all eternity, Cast the mother, cleansed the innards, fasted faithfully, Hydrated, stimulated, minding mindlessly, You’ve a brand for yourself, fully actualized and aware, The cloud up above, just another shadowy affair, Reborn and remade for all the world to bear, Drank the nectar now forever free from all the cares! Renew the new you anew every new year Renew the new you anew every new year Renew the new you anew every new year Renew the new you anew every new year Renew the new you anew every new year Renew the new you anew every new year Renew the new you anew every new year Renew the new you anew every new year
7.
Like Lambs 02:00
You bring me down, to this ring of hell and make me feel things, I simply can’t tell, You threw me down, this unending well and make me do things words couldn’t compelled, Awake or dreaming, it’s gets hard to tell and I don’t find out with an undignified yell, It’s a strange fever, it’s strange where I swell, cowed and waiting like a lamb to the kill! Into the violet night, into the deep sleep, into the end we go- just like lambs! Everyone in their own private hell, just give them time- gets harder to tell, Everyone feels a little unwell, alone together down here where we’ve fell, Everyone sits in a pretty nice cell, why that’s where you learn to keep to your self, Everyone’s fear is starting to smell, cowed and waiting like lambs to the kill!
8.
I dream in a brown, gold, dark sunlight I soak up a warm, peach sunset sight I bathe in a warm spring breeze at night I breathe in an essence of pyrite Sienna, burnt orange, toffee and bronze, Molasses, citrine, zircon and malt, Honeycomb, topaz, copper and rust, Spessartine, amber, maple and brass! I reach for new aesthete pleasure heights I long for true adventure at night I move in a living mystic rite I dream in a brown, gold, dark, sunlight

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released August 17, 2023

All Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums and Hammond L-122 Organ performed by the Rosie Gripton

All songs written by Towanda 2023

No gratitude from the wicked.

Album Artwork by Anna Jo Beck

Girlsville Records 039

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TOWANDA Winnipeg, Manitoba

And if you won't listen to reason, there's always Towanda.

UPCOMING GIGS:

AUG. 17: Ruins tape launch @ the Good Will, Winnipeg, MB w/Soft Switch

AUG. 18 @ Black Cat Tavern, Saskatoon, SK w/ Man Meat

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