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Dark Molasses EP

by Jarvix

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Cryogenic incubation Intellectual suffocation No cerebral stimulation Anymore Dormant as the years fall distant Place and purpose nonexistent 'Til the end of this persistent Civil war But when it comes, I'll breathe again The air of God, the dust of men As the land was torn asunder I assumed no blight or blunder When they caged me, put me under Long ago All was meant as temporary Skip the war, come out unwary But alas, results may vary I should know I administered the oath For I am captive, jailer both I changed my mind Can't change the past I'm caught behind This casket glass Can only pray Belated peace Will quell the fray And bring release But when it comes, I'll breathe again The air of God, the dust of men
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Gotta be another way home There's gotta be another way home Ragged remnants on the shore Of the way we were before Daring voyagers and astronauts Took our chances in the wild Rare discovery beguiled Hungry visions, now they're after thoughts Can't repair the vessel that we made Untamed ocean, infinite blockade Nightfall dark and distant thunder tell Any step away is just as well We'll roam the loam To scout a route for home We'll roam the loam Can't doubt, stay stout for home
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Salmon schools are crawling motionless in waterfalls of dark molasses slothing down Sticky, sweet, and suffocating every breath of life, a sugar-coated way to drown
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Last one of my kind So lonely; if only They were not so blind They’d be here, my friends dear Someone tell me how To populate with no mate Nothing to do now But await my known fate Well I might as well be frozen There’s no place to be Mother Nature has chosen And she didn’t choose me So why did she on that day Choose to play with my mind? She should’ve let me decay With the rest of my kind But no I am left to roam No choices, no voices Taken from my home By master disaster Can’t ignore the tombs My race it but traces As extinction looms I’m frosted, exhausted Well I might as well be frozen There’s no place to be Mother Nature has chosen And she didn’t choose me Why did it turn out this way? I feel so small Everything’s in such dismay What is the point of it all? I don’t know I fall in a pit It pulls down, aiming to drown I guess this is it I'm sinking unblinking All fades way to black Heart slowing, mind knowing Everything is slack Deceased, I find peace

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An ample sampling of songs I wrote in a fairly depressed state, Dark Molasses EP is about loss, doubt, regret, and other such slippery companions, but usually with a faint ray of hope in the distance. More literally, it is also about tar-pit mammoths, shipwrecked sailors, dead salmon, cryogenics and delicious molasses.

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released September 18, 2014

All songs written & produced by Evan Jarvicks
Artwork by Casey Pankey

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Jarvix Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Quirky songwriter, resourceful musician, and root beer enthusiast.

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