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SAMPLER 2017

by Baby Arms

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    Limited edition CD in card wallet featuring 13 tracks including Eviscerator and 7 previously unheard demos AND original cover art by Akbar Ali!

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Eviscerator 03:12
I will pull the truth out of you, And your guts will spill. Pick your brain like a fresh scab. And I don't drink But I still do things that I regret. I live in high definition And die with the upset. Why can't I leave it alone? Not everything has to be known. Attraction does not become passion, And passion does not become love. I dive into awkwardness, I enact my drama as if it were fiction. And I don't drink but I still do things that I regret. I live in high definition and die with the upset. Why can't I leave it alone? Not everything has to be known. If I could dull my racing mind. Oh, if I could tune out your racing heart. Attraction does not become passion, Passion does not become love.
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She was sending me pictures of hardy heathers and mountain flowers. Wiry and delicate but with unknown power. It was around the time that I was waking in the night But to avoid exhaustion, sleep walking in the light. And they said "This is a sign" But you can make up your own mind. And they said "Don't go to the woods at night". But you can make up your own mind. They will offer opinions, They will chastise and malign me And I brush it off, But when I wake up they've encircled me. Every time I'm in a pit, They drag me out to face another day. And to avoid exertion, I let them have their way. She wouldn't stop scratching at the mosquito bites "I'm sorry you live in this swamp with me" She said she's quite fond of parasites. I don't want to, I don't want to be here anymore I know the darkness is coming And I want to be outdoors. And I don't want to, I don't want to be here anymore. I hear the darkness, it's calling me and I'm headed for the door. They said "don't go to the woods at night". But I can make up my own mind, Yeah I can make up my own mind.
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I will build a garden city where we can greet each other, Every morning, under the cherry tree. Where I will never be so far away That you forget my name again. I imagine we live in the trees, in tree houses And I can hear you crying, I can hear what records you put on. If we shared a balcony I could hear you laughing, Having breakfast with your girlfriend, smell what you're cooking. Why can't we talk about it? We're all in each other's business. We inhale and exhale Gossip and rumours. But I know you don't think of me And what records I put on And I don't know what records you put on. So I will build one (1) garden city, So I know what you're sad, when you're happy.
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I can not utter it. Dark silence escapes my lips. I am dimly lit, Civilised society has deemed me unfit. Tired eyes and bad hair In the bathroom mirror. Moths round the dull bulb. Let in the light, someone let in the light. My mouth draws your name, draws breath. Alone but I keep you in mind, My eyes are your eyes, I keep you in mind. Lace and elastic, Sheer polyester blend. Staring into the pillow, And crying into space. Bad eyes and tired hair, In the bathroom mirror. Moths round the dull bulb, Let in the light, let in the light. Dark looks, soft breath, red, red, lips. Alone, but I keep you in mind. My hands are your hands, I keep you in mind. Oh I keep you in mind.
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And it all piles on, I didn't have to do you wrong To take this bullshit on, I didn't have to do you wrong. All 'cos I resisted, All 'cos I wanted a choice. All 'cos I imparted. I could have saved my voice. Teeth clamped down on my tongue, Every night, as if to say: "Shut up or lie!" And it all piles on me now. I let you take everything Just so you'd stop taking. So there's nothing left. And I never did you wrong But I like to have something to work on.
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The low art I create, The liberties you take. With omission of intent You stumble into minor success. I will name the demons that keep me down, The choices I make I'll take to my grave. I am so proud. I don't like this revelry, The record label laid it out for me. I tried to steer my fledgling career But anxiety got the best of me. Oh the high art I will create. I grit my teeth, I lie beneath The lights spelling out our name. I'm not to blame for the choices I take, I don't make my own fate. Oh, the low art I will create, The low art I create.
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2am (demo) 03:54
How do you sleep at night Now that you know for sure...? I left a single, glowing nightlight on For you at my door. How can you stand it? Aren't you thinking about me at 2am? I behave myself so nothing happens. Okay, I've run out of momentum. Why is the moon shining on me? Oh, the cold light Coming in through my window. Why is my mind picking on me? Why won't the moon let me sleep? Oh how I've been behaving. It's been super painful. Are you getting these fateful signs How can I contain it...? Will you tell me, Am I making it easy? I don't want it to be. I want you to think of me at 2am Okay, I know summer is over. Okay, I know summer is over, It's ending with a crushing feeling. Delusions aren't always of grandeur. The cold light should be on you. I'm afraid of the lie - I'm all too familiar with the truth.
8.
Something has broken. Looking back I, too, was afraid of upheaval. Bonds, they wear thin. Stories we tell each other ring untrue. By the time our words were spoken Years of my young life had passed me by. If there's justice Something bad will happen to me And all I'll wish for Is a square meal and someone bound to me. And we'll fuss and rearrange the furniture, As we hurtle towards eternity. Something has to break for new life to awake But if you want to stay the same Then things, they have to change. What breaks you? For now, don't let me Live/lift someone else's routine. Comfortable stupor, Oh, it'll feel safe but it'll kill me. If I lose my sense of security Being alone will break me too. What breaks you sets you free.
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Fumes (demo) 02:53
Oh, I'm sorry for the romantic altercation That may well serve as an inoculation 'gainst my inculcation through self-portraiture. I'll testify When I've got the spark of scorn on me I'm on fire. Is that me or who I aspire to be? I'm running on fumes, Reeling from bad news, High on deprivation, Getting by on brief relief, Lying on the floor, Holding out for something more, Getting clean air from underneath the door. I'll dedicate myself to inertia again, Discover, atrophied, a life free from pain. Short term goals won't fuel me now, I'll dissolve in time. If I said I'd lost sight of my goals, Would beauty get me by? If you could see the state of me would you want/warn me? Oh is that me turning soft and weak, My heart slowed down to the faintest beat...? Is that me? Is that...?
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Not Too Soon 03:20
She colorblind tired eyes Her hallway aching She'll never move him, likes it that way He's just a walker and he'll never stop walking away It's not too soon, he said, you know it's not too soon at all And you might as well be dead, he said If you're afraid to fall, I said, I know her She said, oh, my, why do you stare so hard? Wrapped up like a doll in bad dreams and broken arms Make these old bones shiver It's not too soon, he said, you know it's not too soon at all And you might as well be dead, he said If you're afraid to fall, I said, I know her The last time I saw you, you were standing in the dark And with a freezing face, I watched you fall apart It's not too soon, he said, it's not too soon at all And you might as well be dead, he said If you're afraid to fall, I said Done your time, been in your place I couldn't look you in the face and tell you that it turns me on it makes my stomach turn I know, I know her

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Here is my newest track Eviscerator along with my discography to date and 7 never-before-heard demo tracks from the last 3 years. Feel free to share with friends or on soulseek when you get your download.

Download and CD copy features 13 tracks including the Radio Béton session, A Sign and Not Too Soon all thrown in for free.

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released July 22, 2017

All songs written, performed, recorded and produced by J Doveton.
Bass guitar and additional guitar by Laura Ankles.
If you hear real drums/percussion then it's Jaca Freer doing their thing.
Illustration by Akbar Ali.

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