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Time Being

by Tree River

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1.
Time is a silent killer It's a crime when your life's just filler 'Til your day is what you ate and the screen you stared at Wait and waste away like a bleeding bear trapped I’m sick of all this stalling Through my prime, so I’m overhauling Hopping every little fence 'til I find my future Needle pulling thread to the self I suture I’ve been burning out Coughing dirty clouds Pressure churning, I’m turning around I'm not gonna drown In the underground Ready to get loud I am the Earth Birthed from a star Big banged and scarred, with no copy Free as my will With wilderness eyes Nothing but time and my body I've been dreaming of some big something I can feel that the real thing's coming I’ve been burning out Coughing dirty clouds Pressure churning, I’m turning around I'm not gonna drown In the underground Ready, writing new songs to swallow All the silences All the violent whispers and woes This is working now And I'm journey proud Finally found my sound Here I go finding the fountain Clear I know I’m climbing the mountain, and I am Out of the park Out of the pack Out of the dark Out of the blackness Out of the box Out of the bag Out of the fog Out of the vastness Into the light Into the glow Into the fight Into the open Into the fray Into the flow Into the day Into the moment Watch me breaking the locks of impossible Watch me wandering off of the road Watch me conquering all of the obstacles Watch me grow I’ve been burning out Coughing dirty clouds Pressure churning, I’m turning around I'm not gonna drown In the underground Rowdy, shouting my songs to swallow All the silences All the violent whispers and woes This is working now Cause I’m journey proud Finally found my sound
2.
I’m a punk Little beach bum poet Coming up with the nothingness With a tongue In a cheek, I’m joking I'm writing songs and I’m talking shit But you got a conscience And you’re honest with my verbal vomit So do you even want it? Are you laughing at or laughing with? My head is a spaceship with No compass on an acid trip And I’m wasting all my oxygen On getting you to grin But you got a conscience And you’re honest with my verbal vomit So do you even want it? Are you laughing at or laughing with? I am nothing but a child, you’ll see Why are you spending so much time with me? Do you see something more? A demon you adore? What was that face for? And you, you’re no different Dipping into cosmic sickness It’s true, I’m a witness And I’m laughing at you laughing with
3.
Crossroading 03:39
I get mad at the magic makers I get mad at the habits I have I get mad at the vapid vapors I get mad at the fact that I’m mad No, I won’t... Fuck apathy Feel like everyone’s passing me Had a path but now I’m stuck Drowning in a cloud of dust Low, like I have lost control And I’m alone and old Throw me back onto the throne Where I can own my on-key ennui Why? Why not? Fuck apathy Feel like everyone’s after me Had a path but now I’m stuck Drowning in a cloud of dust Wide awake when daylight bleeds I won’t fall back asleep Crash and burn or turn the key The door’s my enemy Fuck apathy Feel like everyone’s mad at me Had a path but now I’m stuck Drowning in a cloud of not enough But I still believe There’s more on the horizon for me Have a past, I’ll live with it Now it’s time to give a shit It seems I seem to dream too loudly I sleep so sound that the sound is maddening Cull all the cults that they call so happening I would if I could I would if I could
4.
Homesick 04:01
I try to climb up my family tree Its limbs are lost like an amputee I'm getting sick of swallowing my pride I drink it down but my mouth is dry It won't show, no Don't deny, grow Seven souls in a quiet cage Pretend the world’s gonna be okay I drew a line so I can’t look back I need the lying like a heart attack Don't know where I stand And the silence is resounding It's harder to demand Than give in to your surroundings Don't know where I fit But it doesn't even matter It's harder to commit Than to will the ice to shatter
5.
Same Blood 04:23
I pace this place Steps synced to the clock It’s so small on the wall But mocks me as I walk And it’s wrong how long They’ll store you on this floor With no light in sight Through the closed hospital door All I want is for you to say “Just wait, I’ll be okay, Believe in better days" What I need more of is time Plan what I can't define Just stay alive But you die, so I cry When I try to say your name Bad bruise, tattooed Now I’ll never be the same I wanna hold this sorrow close I wanna feel it breathing Don't wanna get to know your ghost Don't wanna keep on healing “I know your pain, love But we are of the same blood You’re always made of what I once was” All I want is for you to say “Just wait, you’ll be okay, I'm never far away" What I need more of is faith Something will fill this space That I create Trying My best to break out from hiding Improve at food and outsiding And learn to be alone Writing At first just feels like I’m fighting The blurry hurt that I'm mining That will not be disowned Flowing The pages' gauge ever-growing The sadness suddenly slowing Inertia nearly gone Knowing My wounds won’t soon remain showing My pen performing the sewing I’m moving up and on For the moment I'm finally feeling focused I'm over their condolence The future fills my line of sight So I'm coping I've heard each word you've spoken I'll dry the eyes you've opened And carry you inside
6.
Saw it happen in your eyes Reflection of the sunrise I’m high and riding your light wave I’m siding with your face You’re shining too Sky watercoloring and cloudy Thought bubbles hovering around me Heart muscle fluttering and sounding Like a drummer that’s way too drunk to play Take my brain, it’s broken now I dive down the drain when you’re around Even if I could maybe move my mouth I doubt a sound could make it out Is it my heart or my mind I’m losing? Every thought is of you and consumes me I look down and the ground starts moving You are floating in slow motion over to me This has gotta be a first time feeling I don’t know if it’ll hurt or heal me Is it real or am I just here dreaming Of a face that'll fade when I’m awake? Take my brain, it’s broken now I dive down the drain when you’re around Even if I could maybe move my mouth I doubt a sound could make it out Find your hand in mine It’s not the drugs Breathe in time Believe in love Memories they always fade But nothing fucks with your face You’re baked in place Here in my hazy haven And bracelets we braided Take my brain, it’s broken now I dive down the drain when you’re around Even if I could maybe move my mouth I doubt a sound could make it out And we’re making out
7.
Patient 03:52
I’ve been searching your eyes Through the pupils and behind ‘Til I can read your mind And the ripples of light That flash and flicker from inside Project the pain you hide Just open your mouth to speak Unfold your soul to me All your fears and your beliefs And tell me that I’m worthy Please? We'll go crawling through the vast And empty hallways of your past With a flashlight and a map And if your body gets trapped Or your agony attacks I’ll strap you to my back So rise up and try to trust You can shake off all your rust And when we’ve cleared the dust Just know we’ll still have us No one’s alone You’ll know as you go Home and hope Both ebb and flow So please Just share this space with me I swear it’s safe Let’s see all those shadows roam free Embrace all that you are From breath to death to stars And I’ll trace along your scars ‘Cause healing's a work of art Hey patient! Stay patient!
8.
Catalyst 04:32
I said you wouldn't last long I said you weren't right I said you were an answer I said you were a lie Don't want this to ever subside This feeling of being alive Who? Tell myself that it's not me I know your chest is empty I'm falling for the freezeout Stalling till I speak out Waltzing while I bleed out Why do I still believe? Who? I wanna know I’m enough When I’m out of your sight I wanna feel like I’m loved On the lonely nights I’m gonna make you call out I’m gonna make you call out my name My name I know I’ll wake up Someday and shake off this dream And all the makeup The tears will wash it all clean And when the time comes I hope you find someone new Someone who loves like you
9.
One night to take it One night to know I tried One night to break this chain And make it out alive This cage is quaking I’m waking up inside I wanna taste the fear Tear up, and smile wide I cannot cope with heavy hopelessness, this prison sickness Make no mistake, I will escape and shake my shit existence Waste away, decaying, deader by the day Or try to run ‘til I become a bloody, brutal bird of prey I got a map I got a light I got a plan and a place we can hide Where the camera can’t see the fire ignite Win, lose, or draw, we're choosing lawlessness with this resistance We'll be the ones speaking in tongues and they’ll be bearing witness They will pay, obeying every word we say We'll coordinate to storm the gate and swarm like hornets towards the fray Death is calling like the sound of a siren I'm betting a life on a future I don't deserve And I know that out there no man's an island I'm a parasite afraid I'll lose my nerve Can't go back Can't go home Live on a Wanted post Cut to black Or die real slow Take this chance and don't let go
10.
I followed your footsteps off the road And into the forest shadows The city light faded behind the trees I knew you were waiting for me I heard drums As my heartbeat pounded Filled my lungs With the air around and took off Under the stars and through all the dark Felt courage as I embarked I don’t fear love I’d spent every night, suspended in time Searching through the earth for you Then finally fate found me your face And when I breathed, you flowed through me I heard drums As my heartbeat pounded Filled my lungs With the air around and stood So tall in the dark, under all of the stars Felt courage as fire sparked I don’t fear love No new words could follow The only line I could find Was the one that I’d always known All I said was “I love you” And all the moonlight above you Formed a halo, and I knew I’d found my truth I heard drums As my heartbeat pounded Filled my lungs With the air around and sat So still in the glow, I was finally home Felt courage as I let go I don’t fear love

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Tree River is Trevor Friedman, Phil Cohen, Julie Rozansky and Zac Pless.

‘Time Being’ was recorded in October 2020, during a global pandemic, at Two Worlds Recording Studio in Whitestone, NY.

CREDITS

Produced and mixed by Kevin Dye
Mastered by Mike Kalajian
Additional vocals by Max Bemis and Kevin Dye

Artwork by R N Taylor
Additional art direction by Pat Fennessy

Management and publicity by Jamie Coletta

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Kevin Dye, Jamie Coletta, Mike Kalajian, R N Taylor, Billy Mannino, Henderson Cole, Max Bemis, Kevin Douch, Dave Owen, Ellie Kovach, Pat Fennessy, Luke Ottenhof, Callie Feingold, The Friedman Family, Talia Kovacs, Ira Cohen, Ben Reynolds, The Rozansky Family, Episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return, Maiko Kikuchi, The Pless Family, Brooklyn Drum Collective, and The Sweatshop.

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released April 1, 2022

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