our second album,
plastic death
, has now been released! listen here!

the cover of glass beach's second album, plastic death

we have also announced a US tour, beginning in march 2024. get your tickets here!

a poster for glass beach's 2024 tour

about glass beach

glass beach is a band based out of the Seattle, Washington area. Their first album, “the first glass beach album” was released independently in 2019 and rereleased on Run For Cover records the following year. Their second album, “plastic death” will release on January 19th, 2024.

The band first formed in 2016 when J McClendon, who had been releasing solo music under the name casio dad and was looking for other musicians to form a live band, moved into an apartment in Los Angeles with bassist Jonas Newhouse and drummer William White, who had discovered casio dad on their college radio station and connected with J online. The trio would play a handful of shows around LA while working on developing J’s demos into an album. After years of writing and recording in their apartment and practice space (which was shared with several other bands), using audio equipment borrowed from the warehouse where Jonas and William worked, a drumkit borrowed from a friend, and every bit of spare time they could find, their album, titled “the first glass beach album”, would be released independently to little fanfare outside of their family, friends, and fans of the trio’s previous projects. However, over time word spread of glass beach online, and the record started to develop a cult following as fans praised its scrappy yet adventurous production, its oversized ambition, and its unflinchingly honest depiction of queer life and mental illness as mediated through the internet. Soon enough, a couple of independent record labels took notice, and the band, now with guitarist Layne Smith (who had been initially brought on to play J’s lead guitar parts live but quickly became a core member) would ultimately sign with Run For Cover Records, who rereleased the album in 2020 and sent the band off on their first tour from Los Angeles to Seattle.

glass beach returned from this tour to find the world had turned upside down. The Covid-19 pandemic was spreading fast, and a lockdown was instated, effectively putting the band on pause as J now lived separate from the other three members which made band practices impossible. Unsure of how to proceed, they tried many different experiments pieced together over Zoom calls and Discord, including “1015”, a hyperpop-influenced single about the 2008 recession, “running”, a rock anthem which was commissioned as a prospect for the third Bill and Ted movie but ultimately rejected, two cover songs which had been voted on by the band’s supporters on Patreon, and several ‘live’ concerts that took place in Minecraft and on Twitch streams. Meanwhile, J had begun making ambitious plans for the band’s follow-up record. Having developed a brief obsession with the works of Carl Jung, J wanted to explore what Jung calls the shadow, the hidden side of the self which holds one’s anxieties, repressed desires, and traumas which Jung believed must be welcomed into the conscious mind in order for a person to truly become the most complete version of themself. J was also meticulously studying the structure and composition of much of her favorite experimental music, writing essays and drawing diagrams in her journal, nestled inbetween vivid descriptions of her dreams and nightmares. These writings, combined with demos the band had passed back and forth over Discord, would become the seed for the second album, “plastic death”.

In late 2021, all four members of glass beach as well as J’s partner Daxe (the band’s primary visual artist who had painted most of their album and single art) moved into a house together. Now able to have in person band practices with less covid risk, they began working on their new material in earnest, with a new level of dexterity on their instruments from constant solo practice in isolation. Songs would be jammed out, recorded, tweaked, re-recorded, digitally chopped up and resequenced, all in service of finding a sound more abstract and emotionally resonant than anything they had done before. The band opted not to rent studio time as they felt it important to take their time to figure everything out without the pressure of paying for every hour, and so all of the recording took place in their practice space and house, and was engineered by Layne and J. By the end of 2022, the record had been trimmed down to 13 songs (of the nearly 20 ideas they had been working on) and fully recorded. Layne and J, with input from the rest of the band, mixed the album over the course of the next couple months, and then Will Yip, who had been connected with the band via Run For Cover, mastered the album. In the summer of 2023, with the album fully complete, the band relocated to the Seattle area.

The public would first catch wind of the new album in October 2023, when the band began posting cryptic videos on their social media which linked to a bizarre labrynth of hyperlinks on the glass beach website. Fans who went deep down the rabbit hole discovered a hotline which gave out the album name, release date, and tracklist, as well as numerous hidden videos featuring clips of various songs from the new album. Eventually two of the album’s songs, “rare animal” and “the CIA” would be found in full on the website under layers of obfuscation. This ARG (Alternate Reality Game), created by J, was built to set the tone of this new era of glass beach, an intricate, surreal world. the CIA and rare animal were released soon after, the former featuring a music video directed by William and the latter with a lyric video animated by J. “plastic death” released January 19th, 2024, and in March the band set off on their largest tour yet. Glass beach is now back home and working on their third album.

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(if you're into that kind of thing)

j's tumblr
(the only social media j is currently active on)

j's (very unfinished) neocities page

2024 US TOUR! get your tickets here!

a poster for glass beach's 2024 tour

the first glass beach album

classic j dies and goes to hell part 1
how could i ever sleep at night?
my conscience left me petrified
staring at the ceiling wide awake
reliving all my worst mistakes

til i finally got a decent job
and i got a place i'll never own
we'll knock some holes into the walls
to make it feel more like a home

how could i ever sleep at night?
when you left you left me paralyzed
tryna keep my head above the waves
holding out for brighter better days

and you boys just lift me up to let me down
every single time you come around
i'm making friends who don't know who i am
tryna turn the hurt into a brand

how could i ever sleep at night?
i'm blue dreaming about the better times
anything to bring me close to you
anything to take me back to

friday nights
foggy streets and christmas lights
wake me up on saturday
grab my hand and float away
into the abyss again
and i will always be your friend
so grab my hand
take my hand i can't do this alone.

na na na na nana na na
na na na na nana na na
na na na na nana na na
we'll make this feel more like a home
bedroom community
here it is again, a heart of excitement
in the form of a girl who hates her life
as she sits alone on the floor of her bedroom
waiting for answers, wasting time

here it is again, the son of a soldier,
remington shotgun, rolled up sleeves
to keep satan out of the walls of the suburbs
his last bastion of modernity

but satan waits upstairs, watching over his daughter
she writes emo songs, she's so depressed
her lyrics are naive but she still sings her heart out
the only way she knows how to confess

and as she gets up to shut the bedroom door behind her
he stands right beside her, she's trying to get her head on straight
with box dye hair to match her black thigh highs
and scratched nail polish, she performs feminity
she laughs so hard i watch her lose her balance, fall over backwards
to the arms of mephistopheles
but she'll never leave her bedroom in this bedroom community

you'll never be ok, k, if you don't come to your senses
with you everythings the end of the world
melancholia can spread like a virus
I'm sure you got it from that stupid girl

you'll never be ok, if you don't come to your senses
but I feel so defenseless, so alone
i thought he was right when he said that he loved me
he's still thinking of me from up there

and as they stop to look at her they won't look further,
like it's not a murder, it's an inevitable tragedy
the bloody hands of all the heartless fuckers
who emotionally fucked her to monetize her suffering
flipping through a spiral notebook for some
sad hopeless words to turn into a liturgy
so she'll never leave her bedroom in this bedroom community

da na na na naaa
na na na na na
na na na na na
na na na.
na na na na NA na
NAA nana na na
na na na na na
na na na.

no no no no no no no no no no
no no NO no, no no no no
nonono no no NO no
no no no no no no
no NO NO NO, no no no no
nonono no no NO no
no no no no no no no no no no
no nooo NO no, no no no no
nonono no no NO no
no we'll never leave our bedrooms,
we're a bedroom community

here it is again, a heart of excitement
in the form of a girl who hates her life
as she sits alone on the floor of her bedroom
waiting for answers, wasting time
(forever?????????)
(instrumental)
bone skull
"ughh i'm so miserable!!!"

blocks of empty storefronts renting to nobody,
dead cacti hang limply in old valley apartment hallways
i'm always making a list of all the people i'd help
if i wasn't helpless myself

standing motionless in doorways and parking lots
pigeons coo on the balconies
dilapidated couches, mattresses
i'd care about the future again if i knew i could last long enough.

oh oh ohhhh
oh oh ohhhh
oh oh ohhhh
oh oh ohhhh
neon glow
i could see a neon glow
from the woods behind the backyard
thrusters made the whole house shake
louder than a thunderstorm

we don't need to sleep it's the weekend,
i wanna stay up late and chase all the skylights

we watched as the starships fell
brighter than a trillion sun rays
they pierced on through the atmosphere
shining burning sattelites

we need to get off of this planet
before the sky falls down and the earth goes up in flames
you reach to grab my hand and hold me close
while we float away from everything we loved

when the bombs fall, take me with you.
i'll keep breathing.
you look so cool in the starlight.
you look so cool.
cold weather
na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII love the way you make me feel
when i'm staring at my screen
at four AM,
trying not to fall asleep
and you hit me up just to see if i'm ok.

i loved it way too god damn much
when you told me you don't mind
when i keep you up
sending mamegoma lines
you know it's shit like that that makes me wanna be alive

i wanna say i think it's ok if we just don't both feel the same way
but i feel like we're more than just friends
cause it took six sad months to realize
i didn't miss the cold weather i just missed you and
i didn't miss the sweater weather i just missed you.

YOUUUUUUUU, youuuuuu
YOUUUUUUUU, youuuuuu
YOUUUUUUUU, youuuuuu
YOUUUUUUUU, youuuuuu

i used to think I'd get by fine
tryna hide what's on my mind
friendships felt feigned and
strangers' shapes seemed so unkind
i was alone in crowds but not alone in sentiment

i've been so isolated by
the time i trade to stay alive
brought up with the choice
of success or suicide
so i'll call in sick again just to spend the day with you

wanna say i think it's so gay that we really both feel the same way
that I feel, like we're more than just friends
it took too long to realize
i didn't miss the cold weather i just missed you
i didn't miss the sweater weather i just missed you.

i didn't miss orange county, i just missed you
i didn't miss 69 tarocco, i just missed you
i didn't miss culver city, i just missed you
or getting drunk outside the Smell NO i just missed you
cuz i don't need the cold weather like i need you
and i don't need the sweater weather i just neeeeeeed you.

na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! hahahaha
calico
some stray cat came through the backyard
must have climbed up some fences

you'll pick him up off the ground
and hold him in your arms
and you kiss on the head
and you tell him he's a lucky boy

you'll pick him up off the ground
and hold him in your arms
and you kiss on the head
and you tell him he's a lucky little
calico, don't go

you're not gonna leave him alone
you're not gonna leave him alone
you're not gonna leave him alone
you're not gonna leave him alone, oh oh
glass beach
i promise you're not wasting
anybody's time
and all the things they've told you
are so god damn rough, i understand

they said your friends will hurt you
and you're friends don't really care
you told me you're their daughter
and they treat you this way just to keep you safe.

so please listen clearly, i love you dearly
it hurts to see you so torn apart like this
another sleepless night
to laugh about the times we tried to die
with heavy eyes
i'll stay awake with you
and we'll keep us alive
til the morning comes

in here
you'll be ok
and when your heart breaks
i'll be beside you
so please
stay here with me
breathe in like waves
on a glass beach

IIIIIIIII stopped taking calls for the first time then I cut off my phone line
and took the highway one for nowhere south
when Yuki said i should just call up family
and tell them how i felt
no one who loves you should make you feel so unsafe
noooo no one who loves you should make you feel alone

in here
you'll be ok
and when your heart breaks
i'll be beside you
so please
stay here with me
breathe in like waves
on a glass beach

blood in your veins,
the blood on your hands
so stop it, you're fucking hurting her

can we forget about the places that we should be?
we don't have to go home today.
i'll sleep on a million couches,
if we have to, to keep us both safe.
until we can take back
the years they've stolen from us
we'll always live like we're
hopeless kids.

but when
we're with all our friends
can we just pretend
that no one can hurt us?
cause hey,
i love you, ok?
it's so hard to say
that i fucking need you too

tonight
when they close their eyes
look up to the sky
and climb up the moonlight
it's ours
the moon and the stars
they'll forget who we were
and we'll be together again.

sleep til the sun sets
sleep til the sun sets
sleep til the sun sets
the summer sun sets.
(blood rivers)
(this one is also instrumental ok)
dallas
it's lonely out there.

everywhere froze with you
everywhere froze with you
i was overcast in happy arms

i was overcast when the blood filled the highway underpass
i was overcast by 2000 floor rat castles
i was overcast by old god long dead cowboy billionaires

everywhere froze with you
everywhere froze with you
i was overcast in happy arms

i will give you love don't writhe don't bite stay motionless
i will give you love don't writhe don't bite stay motionless
i will give you blood it flows to you in endless rivers

you were the part of the picture
i can't recall
you were part of the skyline
i felt so small
you were the part of the picture
i can't recall

you were the part of the picture
i can't recall
you were part of the skyline
i felt so small
you were the part of the picture
i can't recall

i was overcast when the blood filled the highway underpass
i was overcast by 2000 floor rat castles
i was overcast by old god long dead cowboy billionaires

you were the part of the picture
i can't recall
you were part of the skyline
i felt so small
you were the part of the picture
i can't recall
(rat castle)
these days i don't know what to do
these days i don't know what to do with you
these days i don't know what to do
these days i don't know what to do with you
planetarium
i would like to explain everything
the words won't come out right
i would like to ignore the lock on the door
the words won't come out right

when you left you locked us in a burning building
candid cameras in every corner always filming
everybody running scrambling for an exit
helpless people running scrambling yeah we used to

play piano, placing palms in perfect patterns
crave capsacin in useless coups of connate caverns
sing succinctly, symbiotic, democratic
swing so sweetly, semiotics semiautomatic

i would like to explain everything
the words won't come out right
i would like to ignore the lock on the door
the words won't come out right

i guess he's the best but i've never known anyone else
i guess he's the best but i've never known anyone else

yeah you left us locked us in a burning building
yeah you left us locked us in a burning building
yeah you left us locked us in a burning building
yeah you left us locked us in a burning building
yeah you left us locked us in a burning building
candid cameras in every corner always filming
yeah you left us locked us in a burning building
yeah you left us locked us in a burning building

i would like to explain everything
the words won't come out right
i would like to ignore the lock on the door
the words won't come out right

yeah you left us
yeah you left us
yeah you left us locked us in a burning building
yeah you left us
yeah you left us
yeah you left us
yeah you left us
soft!!!!!!
yeah i know
know what you're thinking
it seems like i
just can't stop making
everything about myself

time goes by
and nothing's changing
but i stay here
and i stay waiting
all the time
i'm out of my mind

and i tell you i'll be better
but i can't guarantee it
cuz when you say that you think i'm perfect
well i really just can't see it
when i'm standing in the bathroom
and i'm crying in the mirror
cuz i just can't stop wondering
how could i get so soft?
yoshi's island
i can't take the pressure
yeah everybody thinks that you just need to grow up
i know it's hard it's fucking impossible
tryna make sense of the things that you feel now

with spiro and estro from vanuatu
what the hell do you think that'll do to you?
i won't say she cuz i know you want me to
i know that it's hard but i swear i still love you.

i can't take the pressure
cry on the bathroom floor when you look in the mirror.
cover your neck or they'll cut your head off.
j you're only cute with your hearteyes and legs crossed.

write the things you think when you're out of your body
run yourself out of words to say you're hopelessly lonely
and don't leave the city and DON'T leave the covers too
i know it's hard but i swear i still love you.

i'm never gonna understand.
i'm never gonna understand.
i'm everything you think about her
behind her back, the whole truth
does it hurt to say you love her like a son?
the world could her just cause she can't fit in right.

yeah!!! they'll make it so dangerous
when they leave no room to breathe in the space they carved out for us
when they get inside your head, give you white lies and black eyes
when they try to change your shape until your sense of self dies

but you make me feel like i'm out of my body
we ran out of words to say we're hopelessly lonely
so don't leave the city please don't leave the covers too
just stay right here babe let's live life like lovers do

i'm never gonna understand.
i'm never gonna understand.
i'm everything you think about her
behind her back, the whole truth
does it hurt to say you care about your son?
the world could her just cause she can't fit in right.

you take spiro and estro from vanuatu
you say you won't think about nothing but loving you
we're sleeping harbor seals on the seaside of malibu
ok i won't think about nothing but loving you

spiro and estro from vanuatu
you say you won't think about nothing but loving you
we're sleeping harbor seals on the seaside of malibu
ok i won't think about nothing but loving you too.
orchids
we watched the smoke clouds rise until we couldn't see the stars
and everyone was down below breathing in the fumes
one day we'll meet up on the moon and then we'll be ok
and we'll be together again

blue orchids bloom
through the city streets at night
into starlight we call out
"we're still here, can you hear me?"

from up above the moon
she's bathed in burning neon lights
as the starlight just fades out
there's no tears no celebration

blue orchids bloom
through the city streets at night
into starlight we fade out
there's no tears no celebration

from up above the moon
she's bathed in burning neon lights
as the starlight just fades out
there's no tears no celebration

plastic death

coelacanth
the ghost rots away
in the embrace
of its own gaze

in automatic cycles and habits
paper the mirrors, closed eyes see clearer
die cut my shadow into the drywall
ego at half mast, gas masks and hazmats
chemical war

children were singing
animals bleating
markets and town square
in dissonant fanfare
laughs at the gallows
a truce in the trenches
guards at the fences
saying “all that you’re seeking won’t be found here”

goodbye, mayfly.
fly from still water
how long i have loved you
how long have i loved you?

goodbye, mayfly.
call it a bad dream
how long i have loved you
how long have i loved you?

skin to walk into
warm blood to fill you
a heart with a glass door
all that you asked for

from family nexus to family nexus
vox populi, vox dei

held like a headwound
violence will free you
heart with a glass door
all that you asked for, coming to you.
motions
paralyzed with possibility
gotta get me out of this mess
new york times best seller
rehearsed conversation

meet me at the tip of the iceberg
and cut me out of my clamshell
tallow taste on a forked tongue
not my problem

hell is other people
damned to abject heads
i’ll win the devil’s favor.
i’ll wean myself off dread.
reveal your underbelly,
i’ll hollow out your shell.
i spiral in dark patterns
i’m so sick of

going through the motions
i wanna be the new routine
i wanna kill the competition
and i wanna run like a machine
i wanna find another way out

select all images containing traffic lights.
select all images containing stop signs.

i am not a person
beyond my own success.
beneath my chitin jacket,
i wear no human flesh.
i only want to eat you,
i come with no pretense.
i spiral in dark patterns,
i’m so sick of

going through the motions
i wanna be the new routine
i wanna blend into the background
and i wanna run like a machine

i wanna find
i wanna find
i wanna find
i wanna find
i wanna find
i wanna find
i wanna find

protect me from what i want.
slip under the door
by no design,
in the stairwell of your carapace
your fortress of sinew and steel

don’t you get bored
just staring through the crack in the door?
you know no one is home

so why act unsure?
your malnourished architecture
trembles with each austere breath.

a recursive dream of
a panic attack.
the bell keeps ringing
slip under the door.

don’t you get bored
just staring through the crack in the door?
come on in, it’s so cold outside

we’re stocked for a war
munitions from the ceiling to the floor
show your teeth, let me be terrified.

a recursive dream of
a panic attack.
the bell keeps ringing
slip under the door.

is the body a property?
razor wire anatomy
maybe i’m “4real”
let me spell it out
in the soft topography
of corporeal territory
maybe i’m “4real”
is the body a property?

is the body a property?
take control of your property.
mutilation autonomy,
reclamation of territory.
guitar song
draw salt circles
kiss your needles
afraid i’ll give you
what we want will bore us.
all verse-chorus
green light red light
i don’t know

on doric legs,
tail to head, or the ouroborous won’t flow.
only love, drunk isotope,
your burning hearth, your self-appointed silhouette

said you dreamed him in a garden
murmuring some tune like

“twenty-eight birds go along for a walk,
twenty-six birds tug the wheat from the stalk,
twenty-four birds on a line in the chalk,
twenty-two birds singing,

twenty-eight birds go along for a walk,
twenty-six birds tug the wheat from the stalk,
twenty-four birds on a line in the chalk,
twenty-two birds singing”

on doric legs,
tail to head, or the ouroborous won’t flow.
only love, drunk isotope,
your burning hearth, your self-appointed silhouette
rare animal
guess i maybe misunderstood
i mean i guess i maybe had misspoke.
we’re living in two different dialects
we’re speaking two different zip codes.

gold star, look me right in the eye
i mean gold star, see the shapes on the lightbox?
it’s sleepless car rides on anxious nights
it’s nothing after nothing.

thinking was he some gig you had to quit in 1999
thinking about the fireflies on your back porch in mid-july
thinking about if he keeps playing db cooper through her life
thinking about you

thinking about you
he’s just sleepwalking on weary feet
your headache,
your absentee
(don’t get lost in a metaphor, don’t get lost in a metaphor)
in a daydream.
(don’t get lost in a metaphor, don’t get lost in a metaphor)
tectonic as all you do, thinking about you.
thinking about you.

parachute backpacks and cash stacks,
abscond the plane.
no one was watching,
he’s lost in pacific rain.

run with the ransom.
head in a handgun.

tomorrow was all smoke and mirrors.
tomorrow was all smoke and mirrors.
cul-de-sac
every single day, circling a cul-de-sac
alligator eyes staring out of storm drains
walking in your wake, circling the refrain
“i know it’s not gonna last.”

ease your bellyache, occupy your fever dreams
your disembodied voice still blaring from a tv screen
“the modern earth was born in a two-car garage”
“i know it’s not gonna last.”

let it fall from your grasp.
half asleep, foraging
silver screens for a dream.
that we aimlessly reenact
only now every town is the same town,
every doomsday cult pleading we’ve gone off track.
we’re circling a cul-de-sac.

the new age cut their hair,
found eternity in crypto mines.
the new age cut their hair,
sincerity is anodyne.
the desert of the real was overcast by its map.
“i know it’s not gonna last.”

i want to be your tv girl
plastic-wrapped on bladderwrack.
to find a stable plot
across the rotting corpse of god
ghosts of the past, living just to react.
“i know it’s not gonna last.”

little foal in the grass,
in your youth, in a fugue,
sigil signs in hexadecimal hues.
your view will never stand beside of the fact
all your love, went away.
all the mayflies died in a day.
your autumn will pass,
your moonlight will wane and wax.

circling a cul-de-sac
circling a cul-de-sac
circling the refrain
“i know it’s not gonna-”
whalefall
toss all your change to the wellspring.
i won’t offer me, i want all for me.

as i lay awake
as i lay awake
i have just one request.

past the babbling brook, lapping languidly.
abandon ship to the northern wind.

as i lay awake
i have just one request.

in the undertow
in the undertow
feeding on the body of a
in the undertow
in the undertow
feeding on the body of a whale

as i lay awake.
puppy
we made great plans
every single day
we were alive with hate
we were quiet company.

we made great plans
every single day
but these days bear weight.
this shame is gravity.

call it back and forth and you call it back and forth
and just to turn and say “where the hell are you trying to go?”
and you call it back and forth and you call it back and forth
and just to turn and say “where the hell are you trying to go?”
and you call it back and forth.

hold your hands
inbetween the bars
and i’ll lick your palms
and bite your fingernails

hold your hands
inbetween the bars
and i’ll just lay here
so effortlessly still.

call it back and forth and you call it back and forth
and just to turn and say “where the hell are you trying to go?”
and you call it back and forth and you call it back and forth
and just to turn and say “where the hell are you trying to go?”
and you call it back and forth.

i want to let you know.
i want to let you know.
i want to let you know.
i want to let you know.


i want to let you know.
i want to let you know.
(call it back and forth and you call it back and forth
and just to turn and say “there’s something missing.”)
i want to let you know.
i want to let you know.
(call it back and forth and you call it back and forth
and just to turn and say “there’s something missing.”)

panic signs,
every single day
when your hands betray
no sense of sympathy.

and you hold my head
every single day
but these days i fear
the love in everything.

and you call it back and forth.
the killer
in pouring rain,
the killer will wander the wet riverbank.
in sneaker tracks,
to lead him back to the folks he’d chased away.

as foxes dodge his soles,
and root through rabbit holes.
underneath as nesting dolls
the tender flesh to carry home

a trail of blood,
crimson and warm spattered cross the ragged brush.

“oh little fox, you got caught in the teeth of a hunter’s trap.”

and tore through skin and bone,
where iron teeth take hold
and underneath as nesting dolls,
the tender flesh to carry home.

as you decide through killer eyes
taken by your trembling trigger hand
in gentle jaws, the barrel of your .22
the CIA
can’t help but fall into your arms
blink at every false alarm
there is nothing i can do
to separate myself from you.

yeah you’re my panopticon
with your radar always on
empty cells in hollow dens
a reflection in your lens.

always terrified
under a spell
wiretap my head
i’m a chemical well
horrified, nothing to hide this emptiness

always terrified
under a spell
wiretap my head
i’m a chemical well
your vacant eyes
is your surveillance tenderness?

lost without your love
there’s a war inside us

i can’t help but volunteer this heart
for the fear when we’re apart
in the belly of the beast
born are we as ambergris.

happy in your eagle eye
til the aqueducts run dry.
hung on every word you say
oh we love the CIA.

always terrified
under a spell
wiretap my head
i’m a chemical well
horrified, nothing to hide this emptiness

always terrified
under a spell
wiretap my head
i’m a chemical well
your vacant eyes
is your surveillance tenderness?

lost without your love

in your teeth, on your mind
your sympathy’s a waste of time
little blinking light you hide behind
i can’t help it i keep coming back to you

cut through the artery suck the blood
cut through the artery suck the blood

can’t help but fall into your arms
blink at every false alarm
200
nav lights, across gasoline seas
come as you like, march as calvalry.

cause i’ve been waiting on you so long
i know i could crumble
carrying this weight.

the poison swims into deltas
an insatiable autocannibal
drawn to you

what did my eyes ever tell you?
it’s just the cries of an animal
baby i don’t care

cause i’ve been waiting on you so long
i know i could crumble
carrying this weight.

all your impulses and all your troubles
will lacerate the skin
so move your body like it’s automatic
it’s all you have to do

baby, i feel sold for entertainment,
desperation as riot control.
i feel sold for entertainment,
desperation as riot control.

i feel sold for entertainment,
desperation as riot control.
commatose
i couldn’t even hear you on the phone
we’ve been caught up in a one note monotone
i’ve been living with my head down, comatose
your memory walks as a roving ghost.

tacet alibi,
hold me underwater.
in your sweet embrace
wear me out.

terror at your heels,
whatever makes you feel good.
burning through each hour,
to wait it out.

i couldn’t even hear you on the phone.
we’ve been caught up in a one note monotone.
i’ve been living with my head down, comatose.
your memory walks as a roving ghost.

and when i tried to reach her on the phone,
we got lost in the three note area code.
she was soaked into the carpet and her clothes,
monument to the fear that has taken host.

i couldn’t even hear you.
i couldn’t even hear you.
i couldn’t even hear you.

turn to the left.
turn to the right.
turn to the left.

gold rush
bleeding hole where the coal was.
a raging bull where your soul was.
i love you better when you’re kept in check.

plastic death, plastic death
suck the marrow til there’s nothing left, nothing left
send every message as an SOS, SOS
i love you better when you’re kept in check.

there’s no mystique.
even in death just a cheap pastische.
we’re belly-laughing in the nosebleeds.

plastic death, plastic death
suck the marrow til there’s nothing left, nothing left
send every message as an SOS, SOS
i love you better when you’re plasticine, in stark submission,
trepannation bloodflow.

dawn will glean clouds of bone
let your hatred take control.
in sacred sleep, you will seize
daylight unbound by flesh.

in this light, this gorgeous lie
weathered white, in tempestuous tides
bleeding out in advertising red
couldn’t wait, couldn’t handle all the love to pass through you.

rows of evergreen stand by silent water
all is full of love, all is beautiful.
abyss angel
all the burned meat, all the blood in the trees
i am burning with the blood in the trees

and i know it’s not easy to see
it’s not easy to me
it’s not easy to me
it’s not easy to me

all the burned meat, all the blood in the trees
she’s a lost fawn in a frozen creek
licking numb limbs, mending blistered knees
in a little white pill you refuse to eat.

all the burned meat, all the blood in the trees
i am burning with the blood in the trees

and i know it’s not easy to see
it’s not easy to me
it’s not easy to me
it’s not easy to me

family nexus swallowed all exits,
your house is a double bind
in hallways so hard to find,
your love is a double bind.

family nexus swallowed all exits,
your house is a double bind
in hallways so hard to find,
your love is a double bind.

family nexus swallowed all exits,
your house is a double bind
in hallways so hard to find,
your love is a double bind.

cause i want to hurt you so so bad
when you lay there on the floor i will laugh.

quilted sheets,
let me be as clay
in your coarse fingertips.
your plastic silhouette, i will lay.
i am a human body.

do you know?
do you remember?

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