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Marisol

by iimaginary animal

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1.
Open 00:27
2.
I Say Yes 04:16
these are times for being reborn, times for feeling thorns, times for taking chances and i have been chosen since my birth, to understand that thirst, to swim into your ocean and you, you wash over my bones I can feel you in my toes I know you’ll make me clean again Yes, I say yes, broken unmasked dressed in withered stars, walking like a ghost through my childhood I say yes I say yes, choking like a fish on heavens carrion weeds, giving everything just to feel again I say yes… These are feathers set on fire a thousand visions of desire frozen unblemished eternities and you, you are the flower of my soul, you’re the starting line you’re the goal you guide my footsteps forward and you, you wash over my bones I can feel you in my toes I know you’ll make me clean again Yes, I say yes, broken unmasked dressed in withered stars, walking like a ghost through my childhood I say yes I say yes, choking like a fish on heavens carrion weeds, giving everything just to feel again I say yes, I say yes, walking down the runway in a crown of thorns, shielding my eyes from angelic choirs I say yes, I say yes, when the cat rings the bells of prophesy, through diamond studded slums of mediocrity I say yes, I say yes, like kerosene in the hallways of harmony, under moonlit archways of empathy I say yes, I say yes, over frostbitten ramparts to calvary, into cloudless skies full of memory I say yes I say yes I say yes
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This world is a shade of what's to come unleavened bread rising to the sun the sepulcher is bleached as a horses nail a withered hand beckons through the veil the fruit is ripe and falling from your hands its a madrigal we guess how it will end oooh ahhhh lalalalala oohhhh ahhhh lalalalala If you want the keys to my heart tell me that the world you built is ours tell me that you burn for me at night tell me that you're blinded by my light tell me there's a castle in the clouds with a vault unbroken where we left our vows and the sacred hill of blank eyed cows nightmares that we fought for hours and hours oooh ahhhh lalalalala oohhhh ahhhh lalalalala goodness fought is goodness won like drinking wine from a loaded gun like making peace with a slippery fate like over-arching truth that is past debate I'm in a maze of shadows and wildflowers bewildered but holding on for now oooh ahhhh lalalalala oohhhh ahhhh lalalalala
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These are the seeds of my rapture my indian song of blood my dog collar of pearls I am the village, a moment of beauty a thin fleck of consciousness in a river of gold I am the village, and my sons scream disaster for the mountain is falling, for the terror awakes Stars on the horizon build me an atmosphere call it yourself fill it with idols, torments, and virtues deny me an empire I'll take your body instead I am the village, and the ground calls me master for I swallow its purity and cough up my love I’ll follow the one ah ah I’ll swallow the suuun I’ll follow the one ah ah I’ll swallow the suuun I’ll fire the gun you hold your hat up fill the riddle with holes we are but children on a drug user’s holiday some hero will save us someone has to die oh you children on a drug users holiday I am the village and life is a memory that left lovely impressions when I closed my eyes I am the village and my voice is paramount degraded and pitiful as clear as a storm I am the village I’m ready for real life the stage is prepared for us so let us be born
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Jewels and Riches I have plenty of then the curtains opened from above who could ask for more then love? who could ask for more then love? There are magic lamps and pretty things There is wine and music and shiny things who could ask for more then love who could ask for more then love Since I first saw her my life hasn’t been the same from morning to night I sit and sing my lover’s name who could ask for more then love? who could ask for more then love? There are kingdoms rising everyday every empire crumbles in the same way who could ask for more then love? who could ask for more then love? on a vine grows the brightest flower its life is over in an hour who could ask for more then love? who could ask for more then love? Since I first saw her my life hasn’t been the same from morning to night I sit and sing my lover’s name who could ask for more then love? who could ask for more then love?
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I saw her, the god of war that filthy whore she took my hand, then kissed my neck my winter cloths are full of gasoline and sayings obscene from the Nazis and the police Moon fled the city it was dark and empty full of glowing souls and many other holes meet me in Brooklyn I’m looking for my friend I can’t remember him just his taste and his scent meet me in Brooklyn I’m looking for my friend I can’t remember him just his taste and his scent meet me in Brooklyn I’m looking for my friend I can’t remember him just his taste and his scent can you sing it so that saints on high will listen will heed your cry will heed your cry Moon fled the city it was dark and empty full of glowing souls and many other holes meet me in Brooklyn I’m looking for my friend I can’t remember him just his taste and his scent
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Book Of Love 04:59
I will dream you I will dream you out of brittle flesh dream you out of listlessness dream you up from ghost caresses I will love you wider then an open wound bigger then an empty room warmer then a prairie moon I’ll always want you, but I will never want you hard enough, I will never touch you soft enough, or erase you from the book of love let’s do this softly, let’s do it softer then a work of art, let’s string it up and stab it through the heart, let’s open it up and see its hidden parts and I will want you more often then I’ve had enough, tighter then a fisted glove, more real then midnight conversations let’s take it, take it in its innocence seasoned with magnificence in all its past and future tenses and you will hurt me with claws made out of ivory with jaws made out of candy with passion made from victory and I will want you but I will never want you hard enough I could never touch you soft enough or erase you from the book of love
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In Central park there is a lily which tastes like salt and makes you horny and all of us are lost in silence and the trauma of our brave defiance we grew from the earth like little mushrooms return us to our greenhouse womb Brave enough to ask for mercy the burning malls above New Jersey feel the doors of love swing wide open feel the triumph as his crown is broken I’m afraid to say what i can’t remember one word will make the be over What we need is a child commander who can compel our hearts to surrender who can populate the earth with romance and the courage only found in children in Central Park there is a flower that will emanate the world with power It seems like a scepter a primitive sound it seems like the planets spinning around I float like a feather in an infinite world I wrote you a letter from a garden of pearls We are not sleeping we have not woken up we are not strangers we drank from the same cup I remember your body I remember your smell I remember the part of you inside of myself I’m the the weather like the end of the year I wrote you a letter from a garden of tears
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Its a long lonely heart a stranger standing guard achingly beautiful but hard and change ahahah and change ahahah and change, is the best part Its a strange a strange ritual what’s the rule what’s the goal and how did I fall into this hole? new world ahahah new soul ahahah new world, new soul why did I fight like a fool why didn’t I play it cool I didn't have the right tools new world ahahah new soul ahahah new world, new soul I will build you a world I will build it with love and it will never dissolve New world ahahah New Soul ahahah New World New world!!
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I am a moth I am a fallen leaf I am a full life I am the breeze I am a stray curl I am your body’s need I am the writing on the wall watching you freeze I am the underground taking you all around I am magnetic pull holding you down I feel like flowers I feel like rain I feel like moths and rust leaving a stain You are the last call you are the bar you are a child clinging to my arm we will find poverty we will find wealth we will find love at last at the bottom of a well I am you loving God I am your hate I am your deepest doubt I am your faith I am you loving God I am your hate I am your deepest doubt I am your faith Wherever you go to sleep in the city you are same as the poor who feed under the stars build ourselves higher up that’s what we’ve learned down in Van Cortland Park there are people who burn I am you loving God I am your hate I am your deepest doubt I am your faith I am you loving God I am your hate I am your deepest doubt I am your faith
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Open Valley 05:23
It is my birthright to tell stories it is my battlefield it is my glory I act surprised when the world ends stars like raindrops water Bethlehem I am the night, I am the starving stars I am the burning rocks in the summer sun I am horny in an avalanche I am empty under street lamps And I, I am awake in firestorms I’ll have drink and I, I am asleep with salamanders in the deep Moonstruck open valley I know my love can barely hear me it is our pain it is our struggle that we’re in love with so many others empires crumble into the valley I hear them fall I hear them rally mine eyes have seen, they have seen laughter they have seen pain and what comes after And I, I am awake in firestorms I’ll have drink and I, I am asleep with salamanders in the deep
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Come, Come fill me cup the sound of her love could fill a hundred oceans could fill the place thats dark inside my heart, inside my heart don’t let me hate just sing for love sing for love just sing, for angels from above brought you to me Come, hand me that star the weight of your heart could drown the deepest rivers could wake me from a dream into a dream within a dream but don’t let me wake just sing for love sing for love just sing, for angels from above brought you to me Come, come take my hand and together we’ll strand on a hundred highways you’ll stand up for the truth and I will stand, right there with you I’ll stand there with you and together we’ll sing for love sing for love just sing, for angels from above brought you to me

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Marisol is a hybrid orchestral rock collaboration with several Bay Area luminaries. The album was a labor of love done in parts over the course of a year by Josh and his friends while he held down a cold calling job in San Francisco's financial district. Marisol is based on a play by Jose Rivera, which narrates the mass desertion of New York based guardian angels to fight a celestial rebellion. You'll hear some of that metaphysical angst along with Josh's own as he did battle with his own metropolis. The music strives to be as epic as its themes and features lavish string arrangements and synthetic walls of sound.

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released December 21, 2016

Philip Watt - Trumpet
Yehudit Lieberman - Violin and Viola
Ruthie Dineen - Arrangements and Flute
Mia Pixley - Cello and Vocals
Sam Trusley - Electric Guitar
Cody Rhodes - Drums and Percussion
Mike Blobaum - Bass
Brian McMahon - Saxophones and Flute
Josh Martin - Vocals, Keyboard, and Guitar

Recorded and Mixed by Ian Pellicci at New And Improved Recording
Mastered by Carl Saff

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iimaginary animal San Francisco, California

Raised in a yurt in rural Sonoma County by ex-hippie survivalist parents, Josh Martin has always had a taste for the unboring. Josh’s first time singing for anyone besides his pet llama Valentine was in college up in the Evergreen State with an experimental folk duo called Horsefly. The band came to roost in San Francisco where it blossomed into the Psychedelic Glam band We Will Be Lions. ... more

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