1. |
Animals
03:56
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Been alone now in so many ways
Can’t seem to hear
Your comforting words
And what’s worse,
It’s you that it hurts
I had wandered to the edge and it was night
I’ll admit I was just curious what’s alive in my mind
When the velvet veil falls upon the land
I go inside, can’t fail
Must protect my fragile hand
My hotel is made of steel
And it keeps out all the animals
In the dark, I am saved
Infrastructure infallible
What I want and what I need
Torn by my insatiable
Urge to shield and to feel
So I keep out all the animals
Oh it’s seems there’s so many ways
To care for a fellow man
So why am I so hard to love?
I just do the best I can
Well everybody wants to be seen
Vixen costumes to appeal
But when the mirror turns on me
It’s the heart that needs to heal
My hotel is made of steel
And it keeps out all the animals
In the dark, I am saved
Infrastructure infallible
What I want and what I need
Torn by my insatiable
Urge to shield and to feel
So I keep out all the animals
Silver inside is the sword
Thats aura is more than its might
Still I must upkeep my armory
Fit for the internal fight
Should you say you need me tonight
My hotel is made of steel
And it keeps out all the animals
In the dark, I am saved
Infrastructure infallible
What I want and what I need
Torn by my insatiable
Urge to shield and to feel
So I keep out all the animals
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2. |
Mojo Mountain
03:43
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Most mornings, rise with the sun
Every afternoon’s the same
Polishing the silver, taking my spirit beat
I’ve only got myself to blame
I feel I’m wasting away
Losing precious hours in the day
If deviation’s in vain
Then I don’t mind pissing in the wind
I wanna turn away, ahh
I wanna break away, yeah!
Cos up on Mojo Mountain
My generation
Generating steam heat
See it on the TV
Feelin’ empty and so tightly wound
It’s like we’re working our way down from the top to the ground
Tell me, how many machines do you need around?
Do you see my soul?
Sick with the rhetoric that they deem profound
Am I out of my mind to think there’s something else around? T
hey keep on telling me they wanna keep me on the ground
Oh is that so?
I wanna turn away, ahh
I wanna break away, yeah!
Cos up on Mojo Mountain
My generation
Generating steam heat
Singin’ on the TV
Shame the kids for what they see in the stars
Who’s gonna wipe the counters at the bars?
Wanna know true freedom,
You don’t have to look far
Just outside the bell jar
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3. |
Day by Day
02:55
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Sometimes in the moonlight
In the morning sometimes too
My mind goes reminiscing on the reels of film accrued
I feel a hot hand on my cold chest
And I lose my rigid form
I’m worried about the future
And what the hell I have left to show
But you know just what they say,
To get out alive, you take it
Day by day
Said it plainly, I still love you
It’s like a hermit crab’s old shell
You’re a home in all my memories
But I fear we don’t fit well
So I feel naked, but not too afraid
To try on something new
If fashion is a statement,
I don’t know which words to choose
But you know just what they say,
To get out alive, you take it
Day by day
But you know just what they say
But you know just what they say
Well you know just what they say
To get out alive, you take it
Day by day
Sometimes in the moonlight
In the morning sometimes too
The bridge’s beams seem skeptical
With the weight they can hold true
Said it plainly, I still love you
And you know it hurts me too
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4. |
Tenderness
03:08
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Who am I to think I’ve got something to say?
Cries the ego desperately
As it schemes to strip my dreams away
If eternity is in love with creations of time,
Is it such a crime I desire to immortalize my mind’s eye?
Walking on these tightropes
I go downtown
To drop on into what could be around
Find myself in reflections of the brake lights and glass
Silver city,
Learn to love the night
Try!
A little
Try!
I’m talking to me
You should try
A little
Tenderness, if you wanna get
Try a little tenderness
A little understanding when you’re looking at yourself
Velvet is the hand, stretches out to you in darkness
Look to your heart
Alright, you should. you should try
A little
Try!
A little
Try!
I’m talking to me
You should try
A little
Tenderness, if you wanna get free
The moon
The birds
The spirits
The bees
You’re everything
You’re everything
It’s all a part of me
The sword
The chalice
The scarring on my knee
It’s everything
It’s everything
It’s everything
You’re everything
Learn to hold the darkness
Mother may I jump the gun?
Take my hand it’s gloved in velvet
There is no game to be won
You’re god in drag
Born into the street
You’re everything
You’re everything
You’re everything
You’re everything
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5. |
Creature Chorus
03:44
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Did you tune in?
Did you drop out?
Heard times is right for dreamers
Did you gain the world?
Did you lose what you’d found?
Really hope you got it now
Too young, too gold to burn out
You’re my rock ‘n roll angel
And I’m, I’m your man
Howling in the streets at dawn
You’re my light, my counsel, my friend
They say you could tune into heaven
Or darkness, that’s a choice
And when I switched on my radio
Said you could really hear my voice
On the waves, floating sweet
Honey you don’t know what you did for me
You wanna make it on your own
You turn away any hand to hold
Don’t get wrapped up in all your doubts
Too young, too golden burn out
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6. |
The Barrier
02:38
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I have been lost many a time
How do I get back to the light?
Dreamed I fell from the top
Of the roof
Like a drop
Was so easy to wash me away
Guess I wanted to be
A part of all I see
How do I break down the barrier?
Washing laundry in the rain
Something grand in the simple things
Standing in line for oranges
Letting time fill out its orders
Counting all of my quarters
Said it’s a quarter of life
Won’t you stay?
I have been found in the kindest of eyes
It’s the lonely who know not to hold on too tight
Cos I’ve been around a planet or two
And I’ve felt all the waves
Rolling right through
Washing laundry in the rain
Something grand in the simple things
Standing in line for oranges
Letting time fill out its orders
Counting all of my quarters
Said it’s a quarter of life
Won’t you stay?
I just wanted to be
A part of all I see
How do I break down
Before I break down
How do I break down
The barrier
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7. |
Living a World Away
02:26
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In the static of the beams
Ashes falling from the trees
Artificial autumn leaves
Fires blazing on TV
From the comfort of my seat
So very unreal to me
I’m a natural
At living a world away
See it in my gaze
Shaded to be free
Eyes glued to the screen
Whenever you rattle your chains
Sounds just like the rain
Delusion feeds the flames
I must choose now not to need
Everyone else’s belief
To fortify my dreams
Call it crazy
Say I do just what I please
But I don’t share my grief
So you never really know
I don’t let it show
I’m a natural
At living a world away
See it in my gaze
Aching to be free
You never really know
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8. |
Silver Screen
03:54
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Supposed I’d be someone great
Then they wouldn’t turn away
They'd wanna know just how I feel
Projecting all your hopes and fears
Blown up on a silver screen
But would you peer behind the veil?
Mending all the ways I’ve torn
And broken myself down
Trying to be anyone other than me
See me
Have I proved I’m here?
Well I don’t wanna fight anymore
I wanna know my dreams are real
These doubts are running around
These doubts
They’re running, they’re running oh
Reach out
Touch me, I’m right here
And I don’t wanna cry anymore
I wanna know my love’s for real
Tell me you won’t turn me out
I don’t wanna hurt anymore
Wanna make something that could heal
Don’t wanna burn out
I don’t wanna break
And I don’t fight anymore
Wanna know my love’s for sure
Is it sure?
These doubts are running around
These doubts
They’re running, they’re running
These doubts
They’re running around
These doubts
They’re running, they’re running
Oh!
These doubts, they’re running around
These doubts
They’re running, they’re running
These doubts, they’re running around
These doubts
They’re running, they’re running
Supposed I’d be someone great
Then they wouldn’t turn away
Still I’ll say just how I feel
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9. |
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We don’t want the same things
Oh honey how I’ve tried to figure out why
Was it something that you said?
It kinda sounded like a goodbye
This isn’t healthy anymore
So why is it still so hard to really close the door?
You are who you are
We don’t want the same things
Oh honey how I’ve tried to rectify
But it’s dawned on me we could be erasing
The best part of our lives
It doesn’t feel that way
I wish the times could really stay
Just something I thought I should say
You are who you are
Destined for something great
So you don’t have to live that way
Could I give you anything?
At least a little bit of faith
Is it the pain of losing someone
That causes us to glorify
Humans in an otherwise disturbing world
We like to keep our eyes to the sky
This isn’t healthy anymore
So why is it still so hard to really close the door?
You are who you are
You are who you are
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10. |
Dirty Mirror
03:01
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I don’t have the time
For another break
In my better knowing
I gave you the key
You gave me the reason to leave
Tried my best not to believe
How does everything get so damn hazy?
I, he
I, he
Dirty mirror, dirty mirror
Dirty mirror
I tied my own limbs
Fixed them all together with pins
Precariously
I, he
I, he
Dirty mirror
Turning inward
Water within
Tides are shifting
What is without thee?
Dirty mirror, dirty mirror
Dirty mirror, dirty mirror
Is it a king who gives you wings?
Apparently only when he leaves
There is no one looking out for me
I have never felt so free,
Ironically
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11. |
Angel City Radio (outro)
01:11
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My hotel is made of steel
And it keeps out all the animals
In the dark, I am saved
Infrastructure infallible
What I want and what I need
Torn by my insatiable
Urge to shield and to feel
So I keep out all the animals
My hotel is made of steel
And it keeps out all the animals
In the dark, I am saved
Infrastructure infallible
What I want and what I need...
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Alexandra Riorden California
Alexandra Riorden’s debut LP Angel City Radio is an abstract chronicle of the tumultuous healing process after experiencing trauma, wrapped in a smoke-scented velvet curtain of shimmering indie-rock. Progressing like a Lynchian dream sequence, each song takes the listener down a different hallway in the labyrinth that is recovery; some dark, others reflective, but all moving towards empowerment. ... more
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