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diff --git a/album/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise.yaml b/album/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise.yaml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c9b3e4cc --- /dev/null +++ b/album/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,663 @@ +Album: Gravity Makes The Flame Rise +Artists: +- Michael Guy Bowman +Date: January 26, 2021 +Date Added: February 12, 2021 +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise +- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lq-rVPYo6-1z313xT4bIwwkXqrGqYJoGA +Has Track Art: false +Cover Artists: +- Kazee +Color: '#b2a89d' +Groups: +- Michael Guy Bowman +- Beyond +--- +Track: Gravity Makes The Flame Rise +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +- Tensei (guitar solo) +Duration: '5:26' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/gravity-makes-the-flame-rise +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GOscE_AAEQ +Lyrics: |- + Is this an ending + If it all works out + We'll be all screwed up + If we're all still standing + There can be no question + + Or just an omen + And if so, so what + Do the doors swing shut + When the big one opens + To the sound of trumpets + + 'Cause all I see are effigies + The howling of the flames + And you can tell the energy + Will never be the same + + Is this a climax + When the gloves and guns + All go off at once + At the intermission + And you lose your program + + Or just the footnote + From a book you read + For a quiz you flunked + In a classroom episode + On a history lesson + + 'Cause all I feel is gravity + So heavy you could drown + Before you know it's happening + You hear it in the sound + + Everyone is waiting for a sign, sign, sign + Sign, sign, sign, + Chemicals reacting in your mind, mind, mind + Mind, mind, mind + All the empty stations on the line, line, line + Line, line, line + I don't want to be the one who's left behind + Left behind + + Here in the house + Where the window's always white + And the walls are black as night + When it comes + + Out of a dream + Where we both went for a ride + You are laying by my side + When it comes + + Is this an ending + If it all works out + We'll be all worked up + If we're all still working + In a club called nowhere + + Or just an omen + 'Cause it's all so dark + And it's all so drab + And we're all so broken + In a streetlight ocean + + 'Cause all we have are effigies + Of who we were before + The pictures and the Polaroids + We buried in the drawer + + The paradox of promises + The breaking of a heart + And you can feel it burning + Before the fire starts + + Everyone is waiting for a sign, sign, sign + Sign, sign, sign, + Chemicals reacting in your mind, mind, mind + Mind, mind, mind + All the empty stations on the line, line, line + Line, line, line + I don't want to be the one who's left behind + Left behind + Left behind + Left behind + Left behind + Left behind + + Smiling and waving + To where your family stands + With the cameras in their hands + When it comes + + Flash on the screen + There's no order to the slides + There is nothing left to hide + When it comes + + You're bored and ignored + And you're barely not alone + It's the worst you've ever known + When it comes + + Bright red with the shame + But you can share the blame + Catch the roses for your name + When it comes + + We're running back in time, yeah + We're running back in time, yeah + We're running back in time, yeah + We're running back in time, yeah + We're running back in time, yeah + We're running back in time, yeah +Commentary: |- + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6xxSx9-Ww">Music video!</a>) +--- +Track: They Want To Live Forever +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +Duration: '2:50' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/they-want-to-live-forever +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0M0dljCPcY +Lyrics: |- + When the young rebellion rides + At the crest of a raising tide + In the dance at the world's end + You better watch your back, my friend + + They come on like kamikaze planes + They got the chemicals in their veins + They want to know where the danger lies + And the magazine man cries + + They want to live forever + They want to have it all + They want to kiss their idols + They want to break the walls + They want to die for love + Before the love just dies, dies + They want to live forever + They want to live forever + + When the true believers run + Through the fire of the falling sun + In the clash of the new and old + You better hope that the water's cold + + They want to know what heaven's worth + They're gonna make a little hell on earth + They got a ticket to the teenage dream + And so the morning headline screams + + They want to live forever + They want to have it all + They want to kiss their idols + They want to break the walls + They want to die for love + Before the love just dies, dies + They want to live forever + They want to live forever and ever and ever and ever + And ever and ever and ever and ever + + They want to live forever + They want to have it all + They want to kill their idols + They want to break the walls + They want to die for love + Before the love just dies, dies + They want to live forever + They want to live forever and ever and ever and ever + And ever and ever and ever and ever +--- +Track: Burnout +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +Duration: '4:30' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/burnout +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpgbfXU6u84 +Lyrics: |- + Congratulations, Sir What's-Your-Name + You're all that glitters, like a moth into the flame + Designer clothes, imported cars + And just enough cologne to cover your cigars + + Your power station is quite secure + Haunting the hallways and hiding in the doors + Your innovations don't ever last + Your occupation's got you going nowhere fast + + If you really want to have it all + You're never gonna have enough + Baby, you'll be burning up + + If you really want to rule the world + You're gonna have to burn it down + Baby, you'll be burning out + + Year after year, locked in the game + Update the menu, but the venue's all the same + The power players already know + You hit the ceiling such a long, long time ago + + You take it out on little things + Swipe at the insects underneath you when it stings + Dreaming of conquest, dreaming of pride + Throw down the whip, my friend, you're cracking up inside + + If you really want to have it all + You're never gonna have enough + Baby, you'll be burning up + + If you really want to rule the world + You're gonna have to burn it down + Baby, you'll be burning out +Commentary: |- + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJ6poFhBJI">Music video!</a>) +--- +Track: Get Tough +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +Duration: '4:04' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/get-tough +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk63Bsib_Vk +Lyrics: |- + Don't talk to me about living the dream + I might be dreaming, but I'm not sleeping sound + Don't talk to me about living on handouts + When you're living on hand-be-downs + + I feel like I must be losing my grip + Clinging to memories, but trying to be hip + All the other ways I could've gone instead + I could be a lawyer or a doctor or dead + + It's a long time living + Long before you're living it up + And every chance I'm given + I've thought about giving it up + + There are bills to be paid + There is love to be made + There are treacherous waters + That we all must wade + And you can beg on your hands and knees + But it isn't enough + You've got to get tough + + Don't talk to me about beating the odds + I'm only standing where the world beats me down + Don't talk to me about rising above + When you run with the underground + + I feel like I must be losing my mind + Opening windows, closing the blinds + All the other ways I could've gone instead + No matter where I go I can't get out of my head + + It's a long time living + Long before you're living it up + And every chance I'm given + I've thought about giving it up + + There are bills to be paid + There is love to be made + There are treacherous waters + That we all must wade + And you can beg for mercy, please + But it isn't enough + You've got to get tough + + And just a little bit stronger + And just a little bit wiser + For just a little bit longer + We'll get a little bit higher +Commentary: |- + <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i> + (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qvyplr1Z3A">Music video!</a>) +--- +Track: The Real Thing +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +Duration: '2:46' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/the-real-thing +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbxPoJRifPc +Lyrics: |- + Now that the money's run out + What was all of this all about + Counting the hours and days + Every moment you sold away + Looking for the right stuff + Waiting for the right friends + Vanish in the light of + Morning when the night ends + Were you only dreaming + Don't you feel like screaming + + I want the real thing + I want the real thing + Oh oh oh + I want the real thing + I want the real thing + Oh oh oh + + And if it all comes back + And you find yourself on the track + Where you came off the rails + When they promised you couldn't fail + Reading all the right books + Thinking all the right thoughts + In another light looks + Like you had a blindspot + Who would ever choose this + Would you rather lose this + + I want the real thing + I want the real thing + Oh oh oh + I want the real thing + I want the real thing + Oh oh oh + + And when the diamond in your hand was only coal + And every bullet in your plan was full of holes + And you're not sure there ever was an easy street + It's a minor defeat + 'Cause you know what you need + And you want something real + Do you know what is real + + Well + + I want the real thing + I want the real thing + Oh oh oh + I want the real thing + I want the real thing + Oh oh oh +--- +Track: Manufacturers +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +Duration: '3:44' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/manufacturers +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtSvK1dCJow +Lyrics: |- + Who controls sound? + Who controls sound? + Who controls the music you hear + The music you hear + + Who controls love? + Who controls love? + Who controls the way that you feel + The way that you feel + + Manufacturers + Manufacture us + Satisfaction guaranteed + + Who controls light? + Who controls light? + Who controls the wonders and signs + The telephone lines + + Who controls words? + Who controls words? + Who controls the stories you read + The things that you need + + Manufacturers + Manufacture us + Satisfaction guaranteed + + Who controls time? + Who controls time? + Who controls the magazines + The changing scenes + + Who controls us? + Who controls us? + Who controls the things that you do? + Is it only you? + + Manufacturers + Manufacture us + Satisfaction guaranteed +--- +Track: 2020 Visions +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +Duration: '3:01' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/2020-visions +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4PbMSvieU +Lyrics: |- + Last year was a total bore + This year is a total war + Last year was a total joke + This year we go up in smoke + + 2020 you're a memory now + They're lining up at the end of our town + 2020 you're a memory now + They want to burn the government down + + Ooh, I had a vision + Burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + Ooh, I had a vision + Burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + + Last year was a big mistake + This year see the chessboard shake + Last year was a safety zone + This year is the great unknown + + 2020 you're a memory now + They're coming up from the end of our town + 2020 you're a memory now + They want to burn the government down + + Ooh, I had a vision + Burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + Ooh, I had a vision + Burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + + Ooh, I had a vision + Burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + Ooh, I had a vision + Burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + + Come on and burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + Come on and burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + Come on and burn baby burn baby burn baby burn + + Last year was a warning sign + This year is a firing line + Last year was a failing grade + This year is a midnight raid + + 2020 you're a memory now + They're coming up from the end of our town + 2020 you're a punchline now + They want to burn the government down +--- +Track: Anarchy +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +Duration: '3:42' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/anarchy +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66z3wjsnDak +Lyrics: |- + There was a time + You thought it all was for you + You saw the sun in the sky + You breathed the air and you knew + That the world was yours + It was something to have + It was all-you-can-eat + You took all you could grab + + Oh, what a time + What a sight to behold + You were more than alive + Your ambitions were bold + You were high on a bluff + Could not confess a mistake + You demanded the best + Left the worst in your wake + + You could never be stopped + It was your moment + All the destiny talk + It kept you going + What an awful surprise + To see it all flash through your eyes + + Tonight we live in anarchy + Tonight the idols will fall + Tonight we live with the heartache + Fooling like you rule it all + + Tonight belongs to no one + Tonight is bigger than you + Tonight we're going to show them + There's nothing that we will not do + + These are the thoughts + That we have in the dark + While you're calling the shots + We're swimming with sharks + In a battle royale + In a bevy of blows + Every bump in the road + Like a punch in the nose + + This is the crowd + That you cannot control + They are calling you out + They will swallow you whole + There is fire in their eyes + There is blood on their hands + You're the one they despise + And they're making demands + + There is nowhere to run + They're at the front door + And now that you are the one + That they have come for + What a horrible shock + To be the new head on the block + + Tonight we live in anarchy + Tonight the idols will fall + Tonight we live with the heartache + Fooling like you rule it all + + Tonight belongs to no one + Tonight is bigger than you + Tonight we're going to show them + There's nothing that we will not do +--- +Track: Land Of The Free +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +Duration: '3:33' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/land-of-the-free +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XydnukcuI0 +Lyrics: |- + We don't know who we are + We don't know who we are + And we don't care + We don't care + + We don't know what we want + We don't know what we want + But we want it now + Yeah we want it now + + And we know we have rights + Written by magical men + With the wave of a pen + In the land of the free + Where you don't have to be + Anyone at all + + We don't know why we're here + We don't know why we're here + But we won't leave + We won't leave + + We don't know when to stop + We don't know when to stop + And we won't slow down + No, we won't slow down + + And we know we're in charge + With a license from God + To take whatever we want + In the land for the free + Where you can give your disease + To anyone at all + + And we don't negotiate + And you can't retaliate + And we hold on to our hate + Because it's all we have + And we don't think twice + When it all comes crashing down + Crashing down + + We don't know who we are + We don't know who we are + But we know where + We know where + + And we love it to death + And you can't disagree + Because it's all true to me + In the land of the free + Where you don't have to be + Anyone at all +--- +Track: With The World Sitting On Your Shoulders +Contributors: +- Melancholy Robot (drums) +- Thomas Hatfield (piano) +Duration: '3:28' +URLs: +- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/with-the-world-sitting-on-your-shoulders +- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfYadGpHk5c +Lyrics: |- + There's a riot on the pavement + When you walk into the street + With a dream of retribution + And the rising of the heat + + Do you kiss the feet of beggars + Do you let them stand alone + When you look down to your fingers + And the body's not your own + + Tell me how it feels + With the world sitting on your shoulders + All the time + + Tell me how it feels + With the blood inside you running colder + On and on + On and on + + There's a blackout in the city + When the poles are realigned + And the compass spins forever + So you have to speak your mind + + At the mercy of the public + In the violence of the state + If you cannot change your answer + Will you trust the hands of fate + + Tell me how it feels + With the world sitting on your shoulders + All the time + + Tell me how it feels + With the blood inside you running colder + On and on + On and on |