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Costs of Surviving Today EP

by Osiris Saline

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Lemmings 03:52
Step up Orders met now Fall from grace like Lemmings locked in place
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Wild flowers bloom [Pluck their petals for the moon] Each one sang it's identity [Onto floors of scorched graves] And born with it the specters [That lost all that brought it whole] A soulless void once more deployed [To ground as worn as coal] And faded as the earth that cries [We walk across in haunted sighs] You lied for genocide Sing to us, your everything I wish we ran [After your shadow] I wish for you [Entombed] Cities of forgotten age [Crumbled, pulled, paved] The whispers of tranquility [Replaced by nobility] A tale of all consumption [Adults, children, new corruption] The wild flowers bloom [Picked petals swing & swoon] Bring around a new age [With sacrifice at centre stage] You lied for genocide Sing to us, your everything I wish I ran [After your shadow] I wish for you, entombed I wish- You pressed on old grounds And marked our value You took these lives And plunged them down A thought of ill will Struggling, fighting, still The smile in your sleep Slipped down beneath The comfort of cold gazes The death of the blameless A middle class fascist Rots from within With spit, and pride A monster of genocide
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Rise 01:40
As we sat by the riverbed Made peace with affinity Lost tomes opened minds With rain from the oceans Be what you can't be! When you're drowning! Be what you can be! When you're climbing! Be who they want! But not who you are! Push it back! Become the new par! Heard songs of the water What they had deprived her The lamp rusted shut The wishes drowned soon enough Hanging your head! Why choke until dead? Throw a few bones Break them in rows! Lie in a heap For the gods of the deep We're dying tomorrow Where next shall we meet? Be what you can't be! When you're drowning! Be what you can be! When you're climbing! Be who they want! But not who you are! Push it back! Become the new par!
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Time slips out The scene backwards Veins are singing Off a chorus sheet Read and repeat I thought you said I've gone too far Lower yourself Read. repeat Trust what else In sound and script Time slips out The scene backwards It's dying Breathless, crying A minor key scene Locked inbetween So you said let's try Kept time Holding on for air You're there, there So you say today Hopeless, pray Wish for life in light Sleep tonight Lowered esteem will free It's free, we're free The missing steps The time that's left Are at the door Sweetened A rebours You swore it all With beckoned calls Arrivederci Before the fall Time is called for every soul It took such time For me to fall in line Hospital beds And home at last A doorstep of windows Locked and dressed The wind calls out Whispers of droughts The accents switched And purpose flinched I wished for you You played it cool It lost the will With years it froze Hier kommt herz Es ist gebrochen All blame in life Delivered in burns With expectation In times of need Let down again Read & repeat
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My first release after my massive, experimental, struggle of a fantastic album (SALINE) was Costs Of Surviving Today, a much more direct shoegaze EP focusing on clearer political beliefs, and how that impacts your personal life at points!

In terms of production, it's direct, it's loud, it's not subtle in the slightest. In terms of songwriting, that fits perfectly! I really love this EP for the confidence it shows in terms of the songwriting and melodies. After SALINE I needed a collection of songs I could imagine playing live without issue, and I succeeded in that. Great bass, easy fun riffs, light vocals.

For the most part I think this antifascist excuse for music is great, and the songs have a certain lyrical tightness.

Weirdly the song that loses itself somewhat in terms of "lyrics" is the opener, Lemmings, where the sampled Nye Bevan speech was meant to put across how much I, and most of my greater communities, hate Tories and what they've done to the world. But I included a sample which dismisses anarchism in a way which misrepresents anarchism as meaning nothing but chaos. Clearly I don't believe that, but how am I meant to expect listeners to recognize that I find dismissal of non-mainstream parties methods terrible without context? I mean, if you side with me over Tories maybe you'll follow me into appreciating what anarchists do, but it won't come as a result of the samples found within Lemmings. I know a few anarchist friends have rolled their eyes at the sample line included, so I know it was a failure, and it likely inspired zero people to look up the negatives to Aneurin Bevan due to this, but y'know...people can do good things and still also accommodate terrible beliefs and acts of others, especially when they have influence in legislation.

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released January 1, 2017

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/osirissaline
Bandcamp: osirissaline.bandcamp.com
Covers Bandcamp: osirissalinecovers.bandcamp.com
Rarely Used Blog: osirissaline.wordpress.com
Very Rarely Used Twitter: twitter.com/OsirisSaline

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Osiris Saline Brisbane, Australia

Check Between Infinities for more music: betweeninfinities.bandcamp.com

Me? A multi- instrumentalist, queer, insomniac vampire who composes and records.

I put the concert into disconcerting.

Check out osirissalinecovers.bandcamp.com for a few covers!

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