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coconut almond vanilla...
peanut butter cups chopped up on grandma's counter
she's making an ice cream cake
she's making an ice cream cake
I blush on rivers and bluffs...so proud
feel ahead, feel amazed
shaking off the dairy craze
I am learning to survive
and I turning to arrive
it's sound!
oh feel ahead, ablaze
giving the prairie our praise now
I'm just surprised
burgers and fries
we are praying to give each other more
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2. |
FJ Cruiser
04:37
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learn into danger, opportunity
the subtle nuances of ecologies...
you came here to listen for your death
we're outside today and stretching our breath!
oh, to reclaim is what is ours
lineage extending backwards
i leap for the day, a new found desire!
i run for the pay, until i'm tired !
there's no contending without the water
there's no pretending i sort for the daughter
head for the night to mask all my senses
contagious blame courses all consensus
merciless light
i fold to the acres
i'm going to die
if not sooner than later
grandmother's rye,
ride the ranges by strangers
i dig up these slices
of galactic danger...
i can't wait for someone else's song
but i've left the dishes and laundry a just little too long
meme steal the heart beats from us while we're in bed
when will these melodies sound like the ones in my head?
my life went from floppy disks to cds to usbs to clouds
i hope next that it's soil
o! i hope next that it's soil
merciless light
i fold to the acres
i'm going to die
if not sooner than later
grandmother's rye,
ride the ranges by strangers
i dig up slices
of galactic danger
merciless heights:
my mind can't shut off!
i'm grieving the bite
this microwaved fuzz
i burst into years
friendless over gardens
all work is shears for the theater of money
merciless night,
why am i so afraid ?
of playing the chords i know i must play
fitting clothes to a body
i'm exhausted over nothing...
exhausted over nothing
exhausted over nothing
but am i missing something?
i am missing something
i can't wait for someone else's song
but when i sit down to write all the words come out so wrong
meme steal the heart beats from us while we're in bed
when will these melodies sound like the ones in my head?
i'm exhausted over nothing...
exhausted over nothing
exhausted over nothing
but am i missing something?
cause i know i'm missing someone when i am sitting along in the dark...
trying to figure out how to leave my mark...
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3. |
United States of Gelatin
03:34
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little sister
got another blister
peeling off the toast
like skin is just a whisper
you never tip her
running from a twister
she'll never know another rainbow
she'll never know another rainbow
big refrigerator
pulling up potaters
legislature
excavator
agitator
detonator !
you make another waffle
and you save it for later
you procrastinator
fly through solar radiation
raw medicine
sister lounges in the dark:
united states of gelatin
shadow ranch secrets,
i dance my regrets
little sister
got another blister
peeling off the toast
like skin is just a whisper
never tip her
running from a twister
she'll never know another rainbow
big refrigerator
pullin' up potaters
the legislature 's
regulator
speculator
agitator
detonator
shadow ranch secrets,
i dance another regret
oh little sister, are you dancing on your blister?
it's cedar boiled mercury
it's ornery mercy
peel the deal
hey sister, where you going now?
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4. |
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in the yoke of gossip
measuring the sun on signal hill
i terrified my pocket
by the shirt of long lost thrills
working behind mill-owners
miles of desert clay between starshine
and craigslist, i go slower
just to touch ocotillo and feel alive
he's the girl with the wild in his eyes
whistling bagpipes
no clues but those three stripes
last fixes for distant dream
more mixes for the teens
utensils have lost their sheen,
cut costs and qualities
oh, i can't believe i'm still alive...measuring the sun on signal hill.
saddle up your ice cream
when you're running from
the crows watching above
pine needle shakes
the fullest moments of life
are always hardest to rationalize
a passion that consumes you inside
until it's flame
summer cold at lakeside
we're soaking wet and laughing to hide
grandma's joy wrapped around more than pride
until it's cake
sing my name! yeah she sings my name...
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stinging nettle tea
i go out walking
i love your company
through all its shocking
we're in the stacks
and we're stacking the signs
all of facts
couldn't trick the divine
all of the facts
couldn't curve like a spine
is it the force
that greens the flowers
spilt at the source
our solstice showers
we're drinking time in seattle square
i'll never rhyme when i cut my hair
watch my baby eat a javalina
you wish that you'd have never seen her
i water the weeds in my backyard
everywhere a massacre
a bitter mother lover, a bitter mother lover
i never did ask of her
a bitter sip of rubber, i wither when i touch her
the task of us is to remain
in tact, the trick is not insane
rip your throat and choke
it's a slip of laughter's joke
is it the force
that blues your eyes?
split at the source
someday we'll die
i'm on a train, neon pastries
i can't explain the empty waiting
a stinging memory
i go out walking
Seattle is lush
in all of its dumping
i pick you up and carry your body
out of the bar and into your car
everywhere a massacre
a bitter mother lover, a bitter mother lover
i never did ask of her
a bitter sip of rubber, i wither when i touch her
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6. |
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out land if you cannot out run
then you've got to try and tuck it by yourself
i know what i want is bigger than a body
got to trick what haunts me
not to fall industry all alone
i know there's not too much of hope
in the darkness groping
how to be composed...
out here in the field getting so muddy
i cut up all these tree limbs--they are not of me
permission to go slow,
ambition to let go
the earth will fight back with all that she knows.
i wonder of the crows
who fly above the soul
and plant the seeds for all that's our own
the earth is meant for singing on
so why wait for the buildings to come on down in
chemical reactions that white men are laughing?
oh community, i am spending all my time on screens
the ancestors are watching me as i build my body queer
the first in the line of many that are not built by fear
the last in the land of plenty, i'm ordering myself
to become more than slumping
i know that there is help
i grow into the spirit that i will always chase after
who was the one that put the fake mustache on
to become someone else?
who was on the that put the fake mustache on
to play in a basement
a game of 31
i know that grandma's watching
as go i out walking - trying not to stop these thoughts...
do i always place my body in front of the camera
do i always need somebody to tell me what i'm after?
do i always need to prove that i am no disaster?
i wonder if the groove will ever out live all this cancer?
oh the pain that i've become
gets worst as i grow numb
an orchid in full bloom...
the phases of the moon
i gather summer's pyrite,
the weeping in my spine
is it supposed to be...?
from ashes to ashes and dust to dust
i hope i out live every one of us
through my protection and my own correction...i will roam
don't play the fool when you fool yourself into thinking that there's nothing greater than your mental health
$6.99 for a dozen donuts
and if you 69 then you know that you can own it
$6.99 for a dozen donuts
i call up my cousin cause i don't know how to hold it
$6.99 for a dozen donuts
i call up my cousin cause i don't know how to hold it
who was the one that put the fake mustache on
to become someone else?
who was on the that put the fake mustache on
to play in a basement
a game of 31
i know that grandma's watching
as go i out walking - trying not to stop...
from ashes to ashes and dust to dust
I know that I will out live everyone of my bad thoughts
for myself and others
who's got the general purpose
who's got the sort of feeling
that plays us to the surface
that sees that we are reeling
a mind is just a spiral
a brain is just a soul
and you don't need to let go of control to feel it now
to feel it somehow.
live bigger than I've ever lived before
I want to forgive myself when I walk through that door
I don't need permission to put my ears flat against the earth
that tells me that she loves me in a myriad of ways
that tells me there's no reason to be afraid of life
and to just understand I'm here to enjoy myself
without letting go of my ethics
without underestimating that we're all a little crazy
and the music that perpetuates my life
is supposed to be what it's supposed to be
(music)
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7. |
They Came
01:40
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they came and i wrote them:
in the desert with a bitter heart
they came, still naked,
and i ate them with a bitter arc
the most pressing, depressing life stuff
on a carpet
i'm never enough
they came, i wrote
in the desert, a trope
i'm concerned with the origin
i'm concert with a spell
i am twisted with magic
i am shifted in hell
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8. |
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return to your route --
the pain that comes at night
can't close your eyes for fear of their return tonight
return to your roots
and hide your peanut butter cups
if you wanna live
then you can't give up
return to your roots
and hide your peanut butter cups
if you wanna live
then you can't give up
return to the route --
the pain that comes at night
can't close your eyes for fear of their return tonight
return to your roots
and hide your peanut butter cups
if you wanna live
then you can't give up
return to your roots
and hide your peanut butter cups
if you wanna live
then you can't give up
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9. |
American Wildlife
05:50
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combat american wildlife
fight off the nature of design
online american wild nights
we will our own demise
you're crying for a night sky that
you haven't seen in thousand years
politicians continue to deny that
artificial light ain't theirs
who's got the cold, when you're in the heat?
and what tends to bite, when you need to eat?
where will we paint life when we're feeling dead?
who offers up a tale when you need some head...
ahead of all the poison inside your system
I'm so sick and tired of blaming the victim
so where are the seeds at the time of harvest?
i'm dreaming of the grasses in a forest
count single lifetime,
and get every single star
combat american wildlife
fight off the nature of design
online american wild nights
we code our own demise
i reach out for the palm of your hand
i'll take your touch apocalypse
politicians continue to deny that
america is rotten
combat America,
come back a miracle!
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10. |
Come On Pongo
04:24
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11. |
What U Heard
04:20
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performance becomes a bed
wherever I lay my head
we don't know what to do with the body
but the birds are watching
I hope the mushrooms get me first
decaying this human thirst
for another morning
just looking at cars on the internet
optically speaking, I miss you
all the crazy shit we used to do
does the moon know of the outbreaks
denim jackets and milkshakes
does the moon know of the outbreak?
denim jackets and milkshakes
what you heard was a flash of light
you deserve the eternal fright
we run away from the beach soaking wet
I tried to cover you with my jacket
but know I the shapes that I used to admire in the bakery windows
were just illusions
does the moon know of the outbreaks?
all these frosted cakes
I watch them with jealously
I miss you more than you miss me
optically speaking, I miss you
all the stuff we used to do
I'm now sure that I will answer
the call
to fall down on my knees in front of you
what you heard was a flash of light
you deserve that eternal night
we waited in line to buy groceries
the creak in my spine
is an old injury
what you heard was a flash of light
we deserve a more peaceful life
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french fries on a saturday
i am not the champion
meet the world, mistakes
falsehood in halcyon
i trip down staircases covered in leaves
bundle up my body to ignore my grief
instant satisfaction or bust
these iron satellites, oh space rust
i'm looking forward i'm heading back
not sure what i need except more snacks
you document life with a film camera
a flash goes off and you're hammered
i toss some corn into the air again
walking around troy, michigan
approximations never shadow feeling
all of these decades have turn into beatings
well, pre pandemic -- it caught me eating
french fries on a saturday
I know I'm grieving
i am not the champion
victory of people
moonlight glosses are so surreal
I know it's not quite over
until I fall down the stairs.
you document life with a film camera
a flash goes off and you're hammered
walk around troy, michigan
i toss some corn into the air again
(i know that i am not arrogant
but these days can't go peeling on
cause I'm so sick of trying to find a song
over and over again
i have no friends
spend my nights on my phone
and i wonder why i feel so alone?)
I've been consumed by a mirror of life
there is nothing left for me
I'm not sure that I know what my dreams are anymore...
except trying to drink enough water
and being grateful for the stuff I've already got!
...my body grieves for a time
before I broke my spine
I document life with a film camera
I can't remember the last time we got hammered together
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13. |
intimidation
03:40
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intimidation, intimidation, intimidation...
it takes a leap of faith to find comfort in disaster
it takes a lot conversation to redefine what matters
life is always darkness sourced from a star
form is myth made science-bizarre
you contest the figure of the century:
unspeakable misery !
sunshine, sunshine, sunshine...
a dance is a spiral
is a root of survival
come hear the revival
come hear the revival of joy
intimidation, intimidation, intimidation...
it takes an uprising to love immediate vision
it shakes the soil in the song of all wisdom
life is built blackness sourced from a void
solar myth is bread digested and destroyed
it's destroyed!
sunshine, sunshine, sunshine...
a dance is a spiral
is a root of survival
come hear the revival
come hear the revival of joy
well, down with the legend!
and screw what's expected!
we're here and connected!
BY JOY!
the sun goes down on the empire,
we all burn in the fire
the reckless demons of whiteness
are so uninspired
it's a dark dreamscape
but the movement is clear
this universe is bigger than you!
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14. |
Sun Shine, Sunlight!
01:51
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sun shine, sun light!
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15. |
Your Ice Cream is Ready
04:35
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there is a planet leaving tonight
outside of silence that you must fight
if you're not careful and destroy your name
the universe won't let you sing out her space
spooky elm underestimate what you must give, what you shall takeÂ
life is of life and only forward
death is the echo of all you have heard
pull a tarot, holy crow laughs absurd the answers you seek weigh much more than a word
oh holy repetition
i see you wandering through my mind
like a biscuit
why order a cake here?
the politician's waiting to smear
my own thoughts around an eternal silence
i've got to bite it:
but can i believe when i want to leave you?
oh, oh, you've caught the echo
oh, oh you're spacetime glow oh, oh, you're all seeds we sow
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16. |
o! computer
09:16
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praglize your salutations privatize public informationÂ
surprise genetic mutationsÂ
traumatize with regulations compromise won't fix the nationsunrise lives by rotation centralize the devastation  xfiles eyes mutilationÂ
run until results are incomputeri am americanoh computer
a name for everything always forms itself a prayerrearrange the springuntil life itself is bare
paradigm shiftsdigital wastelandspolish your instruments to free up your hands
from the day we are born
what can't be said
in a language of rivers
is never bled
and never centered
i am stuck on an empire
burnt out and wired
work my fingers to their nerves
catching up to a life i deserve
from the day we're born
planting and tossing corn
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17. |
poppies #4
06:27
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i've got poppies on my mug opium is opium i'm too weak to resist that tongue but i've got poppies just like my grandma in the kitchen our undersold labor regret the habits on this wax paper kolaches turn into funeral craters but i've got blisters just like my grandma i've got sister's hair in bags tiny poems of her death i'm too weak to still speak on breath but i got a garden just like my grandma... i'm growing food just like my grandma but i speak into my hands soaking up some compassion training my satisfaction cause i do not know how to make it slow i'm just a stranger in a basement leaping for my amazement running my own estrangement i praise the earth for life i praise the earth for death i've got saturn on my jacket i'm just an astro-physic faggot i always wanted to live in outerspace but i've got duties just like my grandma detroit obsession on my knees i draw the outline and release i want to beg you pretty please cause i've got to climax just like my grandma
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18. |
7th Sun of the 11th Son
04:16
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7th son of the 11th son
had a trans son
11 days into the 7th month
and i'm still running toward
where i came from
i went to war just to start a war
i don't know my destination
but i know that i've been craving
the hope that Great Mother has life enough for us All...
so take my life and let it live!
take my life and give a kid some hope
delight is here to serve you
in the spaces that you breathe
power left unaccounted lies its thrown into disease
don't abandon the land that sources life
ravens and crows soak up the light
their blackness holds the love of everything
ocotillo bursts like a firework
weaving us out of the universe
the sun is obvious source of life
but we still dig deep down to fright
Washington becomes Arizona
Arizona becomes Cuba
and Cuba returns to Nebraska
7th son of the 11th son
had a trans son
11 days into the 7th month
and i'm still running toward
where i came from
i went to war just to start a war
i don't know my destination
but i know that i've been craving
the hope that Great Mother has life enough for us All...
so take my life and let it live!
take my life and give a kid some hope
saddle up your hope
it's already been a long, long ride
already been a cold, cold night:
flowers arranged.
the fullest moments of life
are always hardest to rationalize
a passion that consumes you inside
until you're flame
summer cold at the lakeside
we're soaking wet and laughing to hide
grandma's joy wrapped around more than pride
until it's shame...
sing my name!
she's sings my name!
sing my name!
she's sings my name!
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coley - piano, guitar, bass, drums
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i love things a little out of tune
conor says welding is for me too
i drive my disco over rocks and shit
even after people fuck with it
though i am not on top of it
I feel like a droplet
i dream that songs are real
i dream that i will feel
a little bit less alone
it's so 2004 of me
to feel stuck by gravity
i trip in this injury
exposed to the sun
i plug and unplug the wires
trying to figure out why i'm tired
but mama's buying us
peanut butter cups
oh mama says that you want some peanut butter cups
and i know that you're gonna get another drop
and i see everybody's fucking up the cops
and i...want another peanut butter cup
a peanut butter, but-but-butter cups
mama bought a bag of peanut butter cups
and all of us are trying to get off
of the planet
as fast as we can
o o o
another text message i don't answer
I'm dancing by myself like a dancer
a cowboy hat that is pink
i wonder what the reading quality
is like
to some convergence but instead
i feel more emergent in my head
i look at leaves on the ground
and wonder how they've made it
plug it in, pull it out
you gotta plug it and pull
mama's got a bag of peanut butter cups
we're having a party
I dance all by myself
but it's so 3D
I'm gonna get a bag of peanut butter cups
cause there's no better conversation than chocolate and peanuts
you will try to not survive
they cut the copper from the house
and it's only worth a $1000.00 now
they watch the economy collapse
because they can sit around their cash and laugh
at the poor
that are preying on each other
well, I just want some peanut butter
I want some peanut butter cups
cause nothing else will fill me up
a flash goes off
and my head
gets a migraine
I guess it's not 2004 anymore
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what can't be said
in a language of rivers
is never bled
and never centered
i am stuck on an empire
burnt out and wired
work my fingers to their nerves
catching up to a life i deserve
a mirror
sports bracket
get nearer
bad habits
the good life
unpromised
a dull knife
resharpened
destruction
it's all here:
a mirror
sports jacket
get nearer
all faggots
we have lost everything we need to lose
lay in bed, change color by bruise
generosity shows us what is already here
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22. |
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you wanna keep it cooler than sourdough
strong and coordinated feet
i wanna learn how to grow my own
something the world can eat
you click the link for details and find the shelf cost
i unsubscribe from proofs of point
on the internet we all are lost
but the web holds my voice
oh where will we go?
rent a house on zillow
buy that chair on offer up
grandpa fought for no freedom
you wanna keep it hotter than secret sauce
stronger than instagram ads
i wanna learn how to camouflage
before somebody finds me out
i am sadder than i've ever been
white, white capitalism
i walk the city before language kills us
dark and radiant poems of queer life
you know i'll be there taking the bus
wishing the soil would spark queer life
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Coley Mixan Seattle, Washington
ol' coley gonna build a sod house.
coley mixan is a multi-instrumentalist + visual artist creating sonic pieces that resonate on the same frequency as microwaved bananas. đđđ°
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