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Blue Basin

by Rare Seed

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1.
The Royal We 04:16
Shake and rattle as we stack the gold And revel with glee Not for nothing, we will always grow And do as we please We've led men straight to their grave But we feel no blame We feign glow and masquerade But we show no shame Prey and dine while our worries wane from wine What's yours is mine No denying we befit the throne It's our destiny So we're smiling in our golden homes A grand place to be Our minds are fine they ossify In cycles of greed Save the divine, all ebbs with time So how will you plea? Complacency is futile in the fade Everyone jump down a hole Few can see this and the rest they are remiss These days indifference gets really old Prey and dine while our worries wane from wine What's yours is mine
2.
Hazy Malaise 03:09
I am reeling Rumbling inside Cracking ceiling A mouth to the sky You get the feeling that you know But just then it starts to go I am reeling Rumbling awry Fissure feeling That's loose in my mind Caving in, out of my head Leaning in And I try so hard But I can't understand What it is, what is done What it is, I am numb
3.
There are days where I don't find you so pleasing I'll say anything just to hide for a while And there are lies from which I cannot simply run Away, the rising tide will not abate Eat it all inside of my four walls Cosmos and all inside of my four walls Escape it all outside of these walls There I go contrasting myself with another I laugh in the face of my dismay Remember your roots when you're destitute, they'll be all you have When everything has washed away Eat it all inside of my four walls Cosmos and all inside of my four walls Realize it all outside of these walls
4.
I've got an inkling that what you know is sinking into dust A thorough crushing, the current comes in flushing all it must Cold catharsis rings you and it brings a moment of bliss So come on down here underground and come see what you've missed Cuz you know that it's inside Where death and change sluice your mind Only clutching sure ain't loving you've got to really be All this vying while everyone keeps lying through their teeth Everything you see you must believe will come to an end But what you do is up to you so let us not pretend Feeling numbness straight to your heart Saying you know nothing is just the start Knowing you are nothing now you can depart Cuz you know that it takes time To feel the change, sluice your mind Thinking only of your bind Limits all pleasures you find
5.
Quiet minds will run the gauntlet While smaller men get forced to bend The wind it stirs, still we all taunt it Let it go and then you'll know At turns, you feel alive It churns, your guts untie So free, the feeling's right Inside the lake of light Wading out the water's shining There's nothing for you on the shore Your body hurts cuz you're still pining The zephyr blows and now you know Let it go and freely flow At turns, you feel alive It churns, your guts untie So free, the feeling's right I heave a heavy sigh You steal yourself to lie Inside the lake of light Inside
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7.
When I watched it all unfold I just searched for meaning Having such a solid mold, still you shape my being I saunter through the trees, all the time I feel you there with me On a plane where nothing's told, it's you I'm seeing Wavy pictures show me what I'm missing There is no glare Your presence fills the air I'm shivering You're everywhere The rain is pouring as we walk, but I can't help but smile The world has crawled inside my socks and it's pretty vile I look on back and no one's there, but it's just then that I feel your stare Time's been ticking on the clock, but I'm not in denial Wavy pictures show me all that I need Man if you'd ask All the things I thought that were behind me Come through the past Now When I feel it weighing down I retreat in myself Undulate out of your ground If only for a spell Oh this glee it comes and goes I find a way to love Myself and all the ones That show me that they know
8.
When I find it all hard to swallow I take a day and follow The beat of the void Then I walk in a place to thrilling Where everything's strange I'm living In spite of the noise Feeling all that I can Reaching out, extending my hand Either way it seems I'm floating at my feet Either way it seems you're drifting, will we soon meet? Got a feeling you won't try with my eyes I know my blood-filled skull is ceasing One could worry or want but it's easing To relinquish to time Hearing the natural hum from your mind For my unending friend I will find A reason to climb Inside, straight through your ear To keep a head on what is real Either way the world is shifting, you're not what you think Either way you've got to listen, you'll miss if you blink Saying how these things they should be but, to some it's just cant Can you tell the Sun when to rise, no you can't
9.
Undulations 02:46
10.
Blue Basin 04:31
We see our dreams In red and green But in the grand scheme They're all blue A wailing tone That calls you home Is it better to keep Your sheen eyes wide shut? The flora there And misty air Can never compare To what we've made So I'll stay in The blue basin Only then I'll feel The real truth

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Following in the footsteps of the "Cultural Cannibalism" espoused in Brazil during the 1960s Tropicália movement, Rare Seed adopts aspects of artists such as Ween, Thee oh Sees, Caetano Veloso, Deerhunter, and even Haruki Murakami, to find and form a unique voice. Themes of discontent, change and the natural and unnatural worlds all wash over the listener during the course of the album's ten tracks. Surreal and whimsical at times, psychedelic and heavy at others, Blue Basin maintains a conscious and deliberate ebb and flow through its showcasing of biting guitars, dripping synths and pounding rhythms ...

Written, produced, and performed by Rare Seed

Cover Art by Bill Nisenson

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released April 18, 2022

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