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Unknown Compelling Force

by The Amphibious Man

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1.
House on the hill in the candlelit bog She sings in the attic a ritual song The heat of the summer is dancing and dripping along Bugs are so loud and the nights are so long She knows it's ending Casting the shadows back to do her bidding Scratching her symbols on willow trees She knows it's ending As winters finger inches on through the meadows and pastures on it's way to you A funny feeling comes along that it's not gunna make it get it's thumb on you Cuz you know You're petting the bunyip starting something new As winters finger inches on and no it's not gunna make it get a hold of it You think you got it oh but no, no it's really not out there get control of it Cuz you know, you're petting the bunyip starting something new. Hung like a shroud over native lands Lupine sickness sweats your weathered skin Crack of the hip at the moonless grin Of your friends and anxious freezing kin But the woods dont care what your mind says You go deeper in there quite a distance By the time anyone looks you in the eyes again there's almost nothing there. They see you, swallowed in the gates Didnt need you anymore, thought it too late I swallow myself in the fallen leaves Did it inside of your head Asked you so bluntly the ones you loved Didnt know what you had said I didnt think twice about what I had Found it inside of your bed Asked you so bluntly the ones you loved Didnt know what you had said.
2.
Under the cabin The ship's stern down You're sitting heavy You're breathing loud Until you, you pray for whats a candles length "I didnt wanna have a face" Out of the seaweed Above old town The fog is rollin Your dreams burn proud Until you pray for what's a summers length "I didnt wanna have a face" Still you're feeling all the bad time summer vibes You see it in the drunken zombie eyes You're the kind of girl I want to recognize Oh You But with the sunlight The breeze blows round Your motivations, Your powers bound Until you, you see the grins the night ones chase "I didnt wanna have a face" And in September The streets calm down The waves are warming The Spirits out And so you You laugh at what you used to sayj "I didnt wanna have a face"
3.
Beldam of the winter glides in Kneels upon the stomach of him And he knows, What it is Ancient Weight has ripped her from good dreams Wicked fevered kaleidoscopic mind tease And she knows, what it is Still she cant seem to lose it all Living in the world to keep quiet and be alone It's him Can't win
4.
Slow is our thinking Stepping and abiding all the rules Going in to the pictures coming out with Goo Lame is my posture Crickin and a cracking as I drool Clever words dont mean nothing when they're spoke by fools I gotta say that I think you've all been dumb all along To do, everything they tell you that you need and stay in the room you built with love and a bong And watch everything they tell you that you need Swift is the survey Daddy wants his data it's his tool Save a boot for a lickin Get the lavish Ghoul Cover your ears kid No one likes a hero it aint you Take a dive trustin that the systems made for you Fantasize the things you didn't do You'll do them in your dreams while you, keep staying in And I, Wont think of you
5.
Double Goer 03:36
If you need to Defend your head If you need If you want to Expand your head If you need Stop keepin on giving in To all the freakish ones If you wanna look into the truth side Baby it's a think for me If you wanna look into the old lie Baby it's a 1,2,3
6.
Snuck out the window and Met down the river path In the nite Why do they come for you? We'll show them what they are Make it right In the deep moon Foetid cold nite When the trees move Gotta hold tight Wouldn't you please grant me your healing Please just reveal the signs I know the need to convey what you're feeling Show me the piece of mind Be what you came for Love one and only Learn from the evil Be what you came for
7.
Clue 03:08
Swell of the distant lonely Could you see? Merge of the big and only Is it me? Corpse in the masters chamber Could it be? Hair withered back so ugly Is it me? I thought you had a clue Murk in the mask so holy guaranteed Sweat beading up so slowly Is it me? It's not like you were my friend The moon shines while you're in bed The snakes bite could clear your head A dark night swift wind instead I thought you had a clue
8.
Creeping nearer, she steps on With your town clearer, the fear spawns The feeling in the air Becoming what you fear Smiles turn to dread Choir of the dead But if you show her meaning stay strong Cuz if the fog's not clearing She stays long So take care of what you can Fight her with your head Intention calms the dread Dancing of the dead In the place where the golden beat is Look around just to see what follows There's a chance they could plant the seed here Into the eyes of the corpse that swallows And if you need to know How to keep her from your head Look to days you've spent alone With your world inside again In the summers grips Where trees reflect the difference of the people In their words and all She'll come around And with the changing of the season Comes the feeling that the people fall She'll come around
9.
Bare feet across a midnight land I'd do it just to hold your hand Moon daughter with a mystic glance I'd do it for a kiss in terror tower again Lonely Lonely I'm looking for love Keep climbing the staircase The love is above Terrestrial maiden mother crone Sings me her elemental poems Sings to me when I'm all alone I'd do it cuz the thought of you is all that I know
10.
I listen anxious for your ring I know it's wrong to think that way But then the voice I hear it sings It doesnt sound like me you say You mentioned voice haunting screams I didnt know I'd be their prey If you'd wanna chat a little while What you'd do to make a mothers child If you'd wanna make it through to me What you'd do to make a mothers dreams Living is hard when you see it through Loving your people in a purple hue If obscurity calls and you're feeling bored Just twiddle your fingers around the phone cord And if you wanna chat a little while Then stay, cheat monotony and crack a smile You'll see if you wanna make it though to me Then break the empty glass and make a scene
11.
Didn't mean to light the wick But baby did you know about it? Lessons learned with just one drip And baby did you know about it? Under the candles whims Listen to the candles click as wax reveals the truth inside you Ceromantic Water trick Your left directions that will guide you Under the candles whims And you know you dont have to be anyone And with each drip, it's clearer that you're not alone And they see you, they're watching from the spirit home And you notice your candle dancing all around And it sooths you, you're moving to the spirit sound Magick, see it in the sunlight Be it in the dark night to be One of us til someone Finds you in your world and Pulls you in the moonlight sprinting baby

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Birthed in the cold evergreen bowels of the Colorado winter, this record is the greatest culmination of the band to date.

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released May 18, 2021

Songs and Lyrics written by Jason Principi
Music by The Amphibious Man:

Jason Principi- Vocals, Guitar
Mike Myrbeck- Guitar, Bell
Matt Donovan- Guitar
Julia Walters- Piano, Keys, Vocals
Jake Downey- Bass Guitar
Shaun Burns- Drums

Recorded and Mixed by Jason Principi @ TombTone in Boulder, Colorado
Mastered by Brent Somermeyer @ Catadawn Studios in Denver, Colorado

Album art by Melissa Brown
Album Photo by Jason Principi

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