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An Exorcism

by Jarvix

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1.
Melt this flesh Grind these bones 'Til I'm nothing But me
2.
The void is my soulmate And it's yours if you've a genuine say And the reason that my soul aches, that my heart breaks Is the void wants to steal me away The emptiness loves me The way ain't nobody does It starves and it shoves me, leather gloves me And it feels so good because One size fits all This physical dimension Does nothin' for the person inside And since God is an invention, no ascension Will ever turn this barren tide But the body's just a shell of us The void knows what we're about It serves to develop us and envelop us It molds to us inside and out One size fits all One size fits all The void writes me notes Perfumed in black cursive, pressin' my buttons Seductively it gloats Of all it can provide by the dozens and dozens It sends me a carriage To the other side, never to return to hard times My hand in marriage Is all it asks, knelt with a ring that chimes: One size fits all One size fits all We rise, we fall One size fits all It's a toxic relationship, I know, I know 'Cause when I play easy to get, I know, I know The void will lose its interest, I know, I know It's never worth the permanence, I know, I know One size fits all
3.
On the 5th day God created flight Feathered ballet God, what a pretty sight Gave each a song For each resounding chest So they sang along Damsels undistressed And He saw that it was good What is good? He saw that it was good What is good anyway? On the 6th night God created beasts: Bears of appetite Wolves of bloody feasts Weighted to the ground With the sky above Songless in sound Envious of love And He saw that it was good What is good? He saw that it was good What is good anyway? My crocodiles snap at feathered friends Bulls run through my genetic strings Blessed are the hungry and I yearn to have wings And He saw that I was good But am I good?
4.
dadaddadadadadaaaaaaa dadadadadadadadaaaaaaa It was a place of rest It was warm, soft It was eternity For the worthy But none are worthy for long I, of impure bloodline, was cast beyond the gates And fell from heaven Never to enter again Drive away Heaven fades Behind Now it is a tainted memory It is a blind signpost It is a crumpled diary page And the ink stains my days That elapse under this heathen sun As I walk this cursed civilization Constrained in flesh A human dadaddadadadaaaaaaa dadaadadadaaaaaaa
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Buried Alive 03:59
the toe bone the foot bone the heel bone the ankle bone the shin bone the knee bone the thigh bone the hip bone the back bone the shoulder bone the neck bone head Ooh, marvelous, marvelous gadgetry Circuits of majesty Buried alive Ooh, all of the cells that exist in me Ever persist in me God, what a jive Asphyxiated by the skin it bears It's a sad state of evolutionary affairs When an organism buckles from too much of what it's meant to be So cut another notch in the bible belt It'll take a climate crisis for the pounds to melt And the inbred bulldogs are running this century My brain's about as urgent as a bureaucrat Who'd rather bottleneck systems than trim the fat And my body's not a temple - it's a government facility The pavement and the wheel make a fortunate pair But it doesn't really matter if you're goin' nowhere Cause the traffic's full stop, revving engines in futility Ooh, marvelous, marvelous gadgetry Circuits of majesty Buried alive Ooh, all of the cells that exist in me Ever persist in me God, what a jive Skeletal, muscular, renal, nervous The systems in me all provide a life-giving service It's beautiful to witness them in action to recant the kill My body feels the pain to prevent self-harm And when alcohol flows the liver sounds the alarm (Though the reproductive system is a system I shant fulfill) The blood that pumps the oxygen for sunken boners Is also what preserves the goods of organ donors But otherwise my guts are just immaculate Polyfil The purpose-driven life is just a ruse from the druids I know I'm but a mass of bone and bodily fluids And in the end I'll feed the worms like every other body will Ooh, marvelous, marvelous gadgetry Circuits of majesty Buried alive Ooh, all of the cells that exist in me Ever persist in me God, what a jive Ooh, marvelous, marvelous gadgetry Circuits of majesty Barely alive Ooh, all of the cells that exist in me Ever persist in me Just to survive
6.
(I'm never gonna have a foreskin again) Once upon a time There was a dick And yeah it wasn't much worth lookin' It was hardly longer Than it was thick Though not a choad it was forsooken Got happy all the time Just like a stray Waggin' its tail at passersby But when a friendly hand Came its sorry way It didn't want to even try This dick is broken And so the dick Fell through the years Didn't excel at dickin' school It did find a way To shed its tears But not in the way it was meant to Who would ever want This abomination Of gaudy, useless flesh and blood Hanging like a nail No vindication Only the curse of dysmelia This dick is broken
7.
(chop it off!) The only thing my dick ever did for me was get me addicted to porn Kept scratchin' that itch to bleed no matter how I'd sworn It's only natural to have physical needs But you gotta be masterful to keep from plantin' seeds that turn to weeds that turn to deeds that turn to seeds I wanna yank the fuckin' roots out of this attraction, no primal actions fulfillin' me I wanna kill the way to climax, 'cause all that gets me off is hard fellation I wanna mutilate my body through male castration 'cause this damnation is killin' me I wanna crucify my penis & bury my scrotum inside an iron maiden Wish my soul could be released from evolutionary ties Seems the only way I'll get some peace is if some part of me dies I crave some purity that I will never find There's no one sure as me both love and lust are blind They poison the minds of humankind; I hit rewind dnecsnart I nac htaed hguorht ylno ;yloh si gnihton ;ytinamuh sedavrep ytilanrac I must melt my flesh and grind my bones until I'm nothing but me

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***TW: This album includes themes about religion, gender, suicide, self-harm, dysphoria, dismorphia, fat-shaming, and nihilism that could be triggering to some listeners.

'An Exorcism' is a questionable damnation of the flesh set to an odd genre spread of Jarvixian tunes, most of which are decidedly not family-friendly.

Like religion, sexuality, and everything about the human experience, this EP is seriously absurd.

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released November 13, 2020

"Buried Alive" contains elements of "Dem Bones" (Johnson, 1928) and "The Blob" (Bacharach & David, 1958)

Everything else by Evan Jarvicks

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Quirky songwriter, resourceful musician, and root beer enthusiast.

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