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M I R A G E

by Jack Adams

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30gallontank Another stunner, little brother! Favorite track: No Enemies.
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1.
sometimes I just want to be alone sometimes I don't want to leave home don't want to look at my phone just want to be on my own I don't want to see my baby now crying off in a room somewhere in the early light it's too early in the sunlight baby on top of how it all seems and I try to look in her eyes and I saw everything well the ends coming sure the "yes" in a rule I keep on walking away my body assumes so why do you care? care? I imitate we're all complaining love is real collect how you feel watch it all slip away watch it all slip away watch it all slip away watch it all slip away away In the words it takes to make ends meet one step my falling eyes complete wash away don't wear parking now there's someone trying to keep an abortion down there's someone trying to keep it around I see the end has come I don't want it around oh my, oh gee cigarettes for me I wanted with somebody is somebody to leave keep away all the moments so easy to do baby find you someone gonna pull you through mess around with some big dog, let him lead us around it's a time and a place that you keep in your mind and falls down in pieces left for you to find and the world is so sweet, man tell me that it's easy to do baby One In A Room.
2.
I watched it end the other day set my old cold collapse of clay in the hours I don't believe in me everything my faith beat out of me is it cruel, is it cave, is it old, is it lame, is it me? is it something you need, is it me that you feast on week after week? my only fate we all agree my bloodied eyes my only reprieve set my beliefs to brighter seas tonight I race towards a righteous feast Am I alone or am I to waste? I see the answers written all over your face is it cruel to believe that there's someone to root for me? once in awhile did it come back around to my sole belief am I crazy? am I crazy for thinking this way Play It As It Lays. Play It As It Lays. oh watch me fade watch it come watch the world feel light as any moon feel it come feel the brightness of the moon feel it come set behind me walking down we're the same as a raining novel
3.
No Enemies 05:21
none of my ends are really edgeless none of my enemies are down anymore I was cold and alone in the city I was leaving the coup de grâce I was always out in the open going back aways and the airwaves are running thin and they're calling somebody again hear the sound way back in your head No Enemies. No Enemies in the air no silence where your soul should be keeping all my fondness around see the emptiness again and it's fee I seemed cold as the clay I was always away keeping on my way, you see am I falling away am I keeping inside of me? so? am I wasting too much time? I'm not sensing peace of mind sinning's always on the line keeping always up on the time is there time? was there time? all the time? it's a war, it's away it's a keep any way for love it's the ball, it's the chain I see all my comfort hang oh, nevermind...
4.
Illusion 04:03
I had a dream but it gets harder to move toward every day I've got something on the tip of my tongue that I still want to say but I can feel it all all slipping away I can feel it all all slipping away I look around the room at all the reminders of the man I wanted to be I couldn't finish anything I started I couldn't make myself believe that I was something more oh it's all Illusion... but I feel like time is running uphill oh I keep getting older and it feels easier to just stand still well there's a vision of in my mind of who I wanted to be but when I look inside the mirror I'm confronted by me I'm not trying to move towards my best
5.
Alibi 12:05
know myself a million fold scared my soul's already sold and I say a rare hello and my mind keeps bringing me home maybe now is the perfect time to say goodbye maybe now is the perfect Alibi. maybe now is the perfect time to finally say and watch it all watch it all slip away come back home come back home come back home I'm on my own on my own on my own watch it all slip away watch my car pulling out of the driveway driving down the street oh the passing streetlights glimmer driving out of town feel all my memories grow dimmer and the saints, the saints are on their way they call, they fall, they fight, they pray I'm tired of living this way watch it all, watch it fall I don't know my heart at all is it always this hard finding the right thing to say? better off, I'm off, I'm on my way I imagined my woman the other day said "bay, bay, bay, baby, baby come back... come back, come back, come back to me I want to start a family oh and if you want you can marry me" oh but I don't know my way back home to that safety zone in my heart and mind and soul I'm deep in a hole build my walls and I'll be there I fall asleep in bed all my convictions are away somewhere deep inside my head I can't find words enough to know the sound of being alone watch her bend against the wind that blows out of my soul breathe it in don't ever lose control I need love, need love need something new not something I've just grown used to I'm tired of the same old routine oh no no I'm just unburdening my heart I'm just breathing in not letting new feelings start then you walk in the door and I don't know why I needed something more but every time you're gone I get the feeling something's wrong why can't I shake these restless blues? oh why can't I shake these godawful blues? oh why can't I shake these godawful blues? oh why can't I shake these awful blues? you said I was somebody to you and the boundlessness around is somebody to choose I think about it, all about you oh the closing of these bodies brings me down oh the closing of these bodies brings me down said you don't want to die alone I think I'm all washed up said you don't want to die alone i think i'm giving up well we all want somebody and we're crazy for going it alone yeah we all want somebody and i'm keeping on my throne send away the love you give me to the wandering of my mind til won't oh somebody give me peace of mind guess i'm leaving on the airplane guess i'm leaving on the train and i'm picking up direction and i throw away the flame and i'm back again with nothing leaving nothing to my name and i'm happy where i'm going but i'll miss you all the same
6.
Prayer 10:47
when i'm alive send me from this evil place i'm sliding back the more i'm sounding grace just leave me out come back, i miss you out of reach baby the sounds completely give it away oh baby it's a falling waste oh it's a waste be watchful it don't slip away be watchful it don't slip away now watch that it don't slip away watch that don't slip away watch out, you're falling asleep again watch out, you don't even love again i just want to be in love again make sweet love to me once again baby it's a fallen leaf baby it's come from myself now baby it's a fallen tree watch it all away all leaves in a vase baby oh leaves in a vase well i slipped inside out in the air today i was on the distant shore i was gold in the clay and the windows were up and out in the warm coming rain well i've been wondering the same thing about it i've been wondering the same thing about it but you don't want to know this time no you don't want to know this time another cig and all all is there a rocking bed somewhere? is there a rocking bed somewhere? it's an illusion it's an illusion it's an illusion it's an illusion (Prayer.) oh my God i need you this time yeah i'm back again and i got some things on my mind see i've been cold and alone, i need you and i don't think anyone else can heal me like you can or to bring me back to health oh i'm so scared by all this illusion well i'm so scared by all this illusion oh my God again again my God this time oh well i'm singing the blues i'm singing the blues oh my God again, it seems my only friend is Love to the world... world.

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Self- Portrait

It's all mirage illusion, like cinnabar-and-azure paintings, this
human world. We wander here for a time, then vanish into dust.

Things aren't other than they are. That's all anyone can know.
Don't ask if this thing I am today is the thing I was long ago.

-Wang An-Shih

transl. David Hinton

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released June 4, 2021

Mixed and Mastered by Jon Markson at Savaria Studios

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