Album: Hush Artists: - Michael Guy Bowman Date: August 19, 2015 Date Added: February 12, 2021 URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/hush - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nB5-QshLTbHnnUmt-jJYSI7qVSWKEPCF0 - https://open.spotify.com/album/4av83oSpY9NosL1J6LicSE - https://music.apple.com/album/hush/1410952325 Cover Artists: - Michael Guy Bowman Color: '#da3434' Groups: - Michael Guy Bowman - Beyond Art Tags: - Bowman Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://web.archive.org/web/20151103064947/http://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/hush), 10/27/2015) Hush is my first new record in a few years, and it's just as shotgun as ever. There's dance tracks, rock tracks, and ballads all mixed and cross-pollinated to create this album. The songs are about communication, secrecy, transformation, madness, and silence. No guests this time - just me and my big ego. Fall in the Hush. Michael Guy Bowman: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/hush), 4/7/2016) Fall in the Hush. # Additional Files: # - Title: Photos and Track Listing # Files: # - _01.jpg # - _02.jpg # - _03.jpg # - Title: Lyrics # Files: # - details.txt --- Track: I Have A Plan Duration: '3:18' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/i-have-a-plan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfA0PDMOFr8 - https://open.spotify.com/track/4rHW8u1iTDmUDyJZyUcJj3 - https://music.apple.com/album/i-have-a-plan/1410952325?i=1410957705 Lyrics: |- The conclusion that this journey Has me hurdling toward Is terrifying The confusion that we're feeling When we're not feeling bored Is worse than dying If the river has a course It's been dammed, it's been dammed If the journey has an ending It's a sham, it's a sham I don't know a way out But you know what I have? I HAVE A PLAN The redundancy of dreaming When we're living awake Has got me crying The abundancy of scheming That we just throw away It ain't worth trying But the one that lingers on Carries through, carries through I can feel it on me tongue Where are you? Where are you? Well, this could be the one So I guess I always knew I HAVE A PLAN Reading the words behind my eyes Guided by promises, some future prize Giving control to what you hear Behind your ears, behind your ears The wind that has been whipping Has been changing the way The birds are flying The direction that we're taking We've been faking to the point Of just denying Well, we're early in the stream Let it flow, let it flow If you're clinging to a dream Let it go, let it go For the one that follows you You will know, you will know I HAVE A PLAN --- Track: Hush Fell Duration: '4:14' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/hush-fell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLZkP5_Bvw - https://open.spotify.com/track/1M6AoWweJGwWCFkEzFSA7e - https://music.apple.com/album/hush-fell/1410952325?i=1410957706 Lyrics: |- The HUSH that FELL stopped them cold Upon these streets where dreams are sold Cheap cologne, cheaper thrills Served on ice, slightly chilled Strangers passing by Met each other's eyes Looks they thought they'd owned Made their secrets known To the HUSH The HUSH that FELL FELL on us The lies we tell To the HUSH The HUSH that blows On all of us The ones who know The HUSH that FELL shook the trees Old receipts blew in the breeze Paper nights, plastic days Earth stood still, red with haze Lovers lost their grasp Losers would not ask Nothing could be said All just hung their heads To the HUSH The HUSH that FELL FELL on us The lies we tell To the HUSH The HUSH that blows On all of us The ones who know --- Track: Synchronize Suffix Directory: true Duration: '3:54' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/synchronize - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDdzKy4Fcow - https://open.spotify.com/track/0833CC9k2kpwnIdDpTRPbw - https://music.apple.com/album/synchronize/1410952325?i=1410957707 Lyrics: |- All I wanna do is synchronize with you, babe All I wanna do is synchronize with you All I wanna do is synchronize with you, babe All I wanna do is synchronize with you All I wanna do is synchronize See the look of terror in your eyes At the moment when you sympathize with me All we ever do is fantasize About the life that you've romanticized Well, the lonely nights are no surprise to me All I ever do is simulate with you, babe All I ever do is simulate with you All I ever do is simulate with you, babe All I ever do is simulate with you All I ever do is simulate All the moments that we could create When you're acting like you don't relate to me All I wanna do is stimulate All the feelings we could consummate If you'd let your heart negotiate with me All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do is synchronize with you, babe All I wanna do is synchronize with you All I wanna do is synchronize with you, babe All I wanna do is synchronize with you Synchronize Synchronize Synchronize Synchronize Synchronize All I wanna do is synchronize See the look of terror in your eyes At the moment when you sympathize with me All we ever do is fantasize About the life that you've romanticized Well, the lonely nights are no surprise to me All I ever do is simulate All the moments that we could create When you're acting like you don't relate to me All I wanna do is stimulate All the feelings we could consummate If you'd let your heart negotiate with me All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do All I wanna do --- Track: Tribes Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '3:51' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/tribes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYcbEKrrpqw - https://open.spotify.com/track/4XAchzcSVBSLvPdNqcV8iQ - https://music.apple.com/album/tribes/1410952325?i=1410957711 Lyrics: |- Just a word to the black-and-white Hungry for the latest fight When you draw lines in the sand Take a look at where you stand Tough talk (bad words) Rough talk (mad nerds) I'm not somebody's sheep to herd What we are is who we hate Who we castigate for all the rest of time Little children, it would kill them If they knew what we were doing to their minds What we're for is fighting wars Filled with anger we did not choose to receive Some will fight, some will fall How can anybody choose what they believe? Just a word to the loud as hell Are you buying what you sell? No one has to join your side The world is more than just your TRIBE No flags (no signs) No names (no lines) No nation lasts for all of time What we are is who we hate Who we castigate for all the rest of time Little children, it would kill them If they knew what we were doing to their minds What we're for is fighting wars Filled with anger we did not choose to receive Some will fight, some will fall How can anybody choose what they believe? Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 10/4/2017) I'm glad you guys see the value in the message stuff. I feel like outside of hip hop you don't see a lot of music with a message these days. A lot of very personal work, a lot of good grooves, but not a lot of musicians who feel like putting their worldview out there. --- Track: Redshifts Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '4:36' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/redshifts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Af7R-OUdlU - https://open.spotify.com/track/1B6roFCo0IwNNnpMDpOcsr - https://music.apple.com/album/redshifts/1410952325?i=1410957713 Lyrics: |- This is no debate This is no apology Things fall apart, you know We can't fool the energy Is it push or pull Or is it spaces in between? Everything must come and go With forces we can't see Nothing that we have we're keeping Every star is always creeping Pulled apart by cosmic forces Isotopes in long divorces This was always bound to happen You can go down crying or laughing At least you're not the only one Don't be insecure Something else has moved the stars Every light that's guiding us SHIFTS RED and gets far Someday we may know But then we might be dead by then What good is knowing, anyway? We can't get it back again Everything we have is borrowed Past and present and tomorrow All of what we are, we're losing Nothing much is ours for choosing Give back to what you're given And as long as you're still living You'll know you're not the only one --- Track: Rage Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '4:16' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/rage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LzemZ9_ynA - https://open.spotify.com/track/03o2UJCBIucpATZhBEwBuL - https://music.apple.com/album/rage/1410952325?i=1410957714 Lyrics: |- I'm feeling shaken by the changes at this stage Though I can't count to it, I know I have an age Don't make me think of it, I'm writing on my page Don't take my toys away or I'll go blind with RAGE Blind with RAGE I'll run my fingers 'round through any woman's hair I'll steal anything that I've been told to share I'll scream that word I know if I can't leave my chair I know just what I want and when it isn't there Isn't there Blind with RAGE now Rip my page now Lose composure Curse the air Blind with RAGE now Act your age now I'm exposed, yeah Blind with RAGE I am not listening to that speech you have rehearsed I have my own agenda to attend to first You're just another stranger I will soon disperse Please love me at my best, for you will know my worst Know my worst --- Track: Wrong Or Right Duration: '4:22' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/wrong-or-right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfiKfWKbf2Y - https://open.spotify.com/track/5tsb7oUjgGHTo9zWg7vKD7 - https://music.apple.com/album/wrong-or-right/1410952325?i=1410957715 Lyrics: |- Wide awake in the dead of night Hung up on a losing fight This debate has lost its sight No moves left, WRONG or RIGHT WRONG or RIGHT, what's said is said WRONG or RIGHT, my hands are red WRONG or RIGHT, I am not ashamed WRONG or RIGHT, to endure this game Why'd you got to be so cruel? I'm just trying to play it cool I feel like such a fool When you're looking through me Why'd you got to play so rough? Haven't I been hurt enough? You wouldn't act so tough When I'm looking through you Don't act like you're so surprised I'm not afraid to meet your eyes Don't tell me I'm too uptight I'll face you, WRONG or RIGHT WRONG or RIGHT, this is who I am WRONG or RIGHT, this is where we stand WRONG or RIGHT, you'll know my face WRONG or RIGHT, you'll learn your place WRONG or RIGHT, what's said is said WRONG or RIGHT, my hands are red WRONG or RIGHT, I am not ashamed WRONG or RIGHT, to endure this game Why'd you got to be so cruel? I'm just trying to play it cool I feel like such a fool When you're looking through me Why'd you got to play so rough? Haven't I been hurt enough? You wouldn't act so tough When I'm looking through you --- Track: Talk To The Words Duration: '3:15' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/talk-to-the-words - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdk5Xoa_cv4 - https://open.spotify.com/track/6SSEQI2za2LSi77LbTydF2 - https://music.apple.com/album/talk-to-the-words/1410952325?i=1410957716 Lyrics: |- Hear it now, what is spoken WORDS are hanging in the air Take control, feel what's happening Speak to only what is there I am changed in my purpose Set in motion, come unlocked I am found in this ocean Of vibrations, learned to TALK To the WORDS All my life, I've known the WORDS But never knew the way to really use them Speak to only what you've heard The WORDS are there, and you are passing through them Was this here? Was this always? I was certain, I was wrong Now so clear, definitions Plainly written all along Ebbs and flows so resounding Waves are pounding in my ears I can feel what you're proving I am moving, I can hear All the WORDS All my life, I've known the WORDS But never knew the way to really use them Speak to only what you've heard The WORDS are there, and you are passing through them Kid myself I had control But I was part of something whole Or broken, how I let it get away Talking like I'm in a mirror I would have to learn to hear Or nothing would be there for me to say What could I say? (TALK) What could I say? (TALK) What could I say? (TALK) What could I say? Say it now, there's your answer In the questions you have asked Listen close, know you're welcome Let these moments truly last This is more than an echo This is feeling, this is touch Use your voice, make it clear now. You are here, now fall into hush --- Track: Hush Duration: '4:50' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/hush - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5i7HfQYPc - https://open.spotify.com/track/49VC16OEU48aJEsfi0nJUO - https://music.apple.com/album/hush/1410952325?i=1410957717 Lyrics: |- Movement in the dark Stationary sky Shadows in the park Formless in the night Breathing in your ears Whispers in the brush Nothing there to hear You against the HUSH Oooh, fall in the HUSH Oooh, fall in the HUSH Oooh, fall in the HUSH Oooh, fall in the HUSH Further down the road Nameless as a babe Lost within the cold Aimless as a grave Ears could not relate Eyes would not adjust Creatures of the day All fell into HUSH Oooh, fall in the HUSH Oooh, fall in the HUSH Oooh, fall in the HUSH Oooh, fall in the HUSH Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpts, 10/9/2017) Still very proud of [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5i7HfQYPc). Based on a lot of different visual art. I'd love to spend more time on video art. Some of the art I was studying at the time. I think I'm always trying to figure out what level I'm going for
Music and otherwise
Trying to find a balance between abstract stuff and really literal stuff Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor) The visual piece Bowman was studying is an untitled work by Ed Moses, most likely from 1975-1977 (cross-referencing the description in his photo with [this print sale page](https://web.archive.org/web/20240427213204/https://www.printed-editions.com/artist/ed-moses/untitled-leslie-sacks-gallery-ifpda-1-27/) for a similar work). --- Track: Chameleon Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '4:08' URLs: - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/chameleon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46w0v3_C6c - https://open.spotify.com/track/6zNSbCpYmCe8Mjw4yrP5pH - https://music.apple.com/album/chameleon/1410952325?i=1410957718 Lyrics: |- CHAMELEON, I, masked, advance changing my shape at every chance Lost in the truth of who we were Once long ago Radiant skies turned to ash Turbulent highs burn and crash Living our lives on borrowed cash Once long ago This is this, the lips we kiss Are worn as red cocoons Hats and wigs and Meyers-Briggs Like phases of the moon There was a time, once I knew Sent from divine, I was new I put you on, you wore me too Once long ago Into the blue, out of sight What we perceive, wrong and right All fades together in the night Once long ago The costume rips. The skin unzips We leave behind the lie Let it be, what once was me CHAMELEON am I Commentary: |- Michael Guy Bowman: ([Music video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46w0v3_C6c))