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Drown, Yeah

by Liv Lapaz

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in oceans of despair we've drowned ourselves and stare paralyzed into headlights there's no one to address with voices muted in excess alive without a life why be an idealist when there's no right or wrong we'll choke on the world in paris and in rome they tell us would you please stay home well, pragmatism rules embracing what is left unable to revolt instead well, pragmatism rules but... why be an idealist when there's no right or wrong we'll choke on the world we'll smoke the ashes of our world inhale the ashes of our world and choke on the world
2.
Beirut 02:53
when we met on the rooftops the sun was falling into the sea and she said: it might never rise again let's take the chance and dance would you give your life for just one night would you give it a try would you dare, she said we had sex on the rooftops the fires were lighting her back and we left the world in an ever an everlasting kiss would you give your life for just one night would you give it a try would you dare would you dare would you dare, she said would you give your life for just one night would you give it a try would you give your life for just one night kissing all fears away would you dare would you dare would you dare would you dare
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Melancholia 03:32
if you're true to yourself it will last it will last file away your vague voodoo it will last for you, yeah and there's company on all your ways listen up don't stray away i can not bear to see you there in melancholia you hit the roads and leave me once again you love the undertows but i can't see that this will lead anywhere you make me come and go if you're lost in yourself it won't last it won't last the fear and gloom your love affairs i will not blame on you you hit the roads and leave me once again butm we'll make it happen someday then i will let you in forever the end of every(thing) i wish i could let you lick and moan and vanish tease and please and follow churn and burn your lipstick bleed and feed and swallow rip and use abuse and shake and break the truth and be with me
4.
poor fool now you're sleeping all alone in your palace of wire and of gold you don't know why your people admire you no more and you spit on your floor do you still think that you were always meant to be the chosen one the chosen one run off run off run off run off do you hear a million voices shout your name what was once your rise will be your fall yeah, you fear the revolution you once led will come back and turn against you do you still think that you were always meant to be the chosen one the chosen one run off run off run off run off
5.
I'm Unborn 01:34
white horses on the run in pain and fright will carry me away on black beaches they are shying at the light i'm unborn i can not see i'm unborn i wish i'd be but i'm unborn i can not breath i'm unborn i have no fear for i am, i'm unborn and i won't be
6.
Mermaid 03:15
i see you far away the whiteness of your sail ripped and torn and i don't know why i've been waiting here so long but now's the time and i i wanna be your mermaid i wanna be your mermaid i wanna be your mermaid i wanna be your mermaid of love i wanna be your mermaid i wanna be your mermaid i wanna be your mermaid i wanna be your mermaid of... ...love and we'll be forever down in the sea is it love that i feel when i'm calling you into my realm shattered on the pale rocks here i sing my terrible tale stay here with me my friend with me my friend stay here with me my friend with me my friend stay here stay here with me my friend with me my friend stay here i will hold you and dive
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tell me now where should i go and where do i belong tell me now this is the only life i have listen to my fears i gotta know if what i do is right or wrong tell me now is there another way to go tell me now where is my mind i feel like dying tell me now this is the only chance i have listen to my fears i gotta know if what i do is right or wrong tell me now i'm feeling tired and all alone
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lemonade my hope and my self-betrayal i love your dance in the rain live on my lady lemonade with fake balloons we played a wasp got lost on your lips my lady lemonade lemonade with fake balloons we played a wasp got lost on your lips my lady lemonade you put trust in a razor blade and wrote "We'll soon reunite" you put trust in a razor blade wrote in pink "we'll soon reunite" and there you go alone 25 years 10 months 7 days 5 hours 3 minutes 2 seconds lemonade my hope and my self-betrayal i love your dance in the rain i hope we'll meet again i hope we'll meet again
10.
seas are symphonies in times when life can't figure out itself sinking and rising again you hold your breath until you drown, yeah and drown, yeah lift you up, push you down tender and forgiving turn you around hold your breath and drown, yeah lift you up, push you down and nothing else will cheer you up hold your breath and drown, yeah and drown, yeah es war einmal ein kind das sich ertränken wollte nahm reißaus von zuhaus' verlor sich dann ins holz der see lag glitzernd und verführerisch im licht endlich kam das kind an erhitzt und aufgeregt und wer könnt' widerstehen wer könnt' jetzt zurück für immer hier sich kühl'n für immer sich verlier'n da sah es den eig'nen fuss im wasser untergeh'n das kühlte und so nahm es das wasser in sich auf
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The Deep 02:50
it's just the rising sun it won't warm me up, my friend all the rays up there will touch the surface but won't reach the deep take me up, take me up take me up, take me up from the deep take me up, take me up take me up, take me up from the deep cold sea my hands are rising up but i should stop fighting it makes no sense do you hear the whale's requiem it makes me fall asleep and there’s no waking up oh please, take me up, take me up take me up, take me up from the deep take me up, take me up take me up, take me up from the deep cold sea

about

You can hear on first listen that “Drown, Yeah” is not a usual album. Written and recorded with only a cheap acoustic guitar, it is constantly fighting with its self-imposed restrictions, winning over them with wit and creativity, and sometimes also being defeated by them.

While living in Beijing from 2011 to 2012 I had no access to my musical equipment. The only instrument I had was “Li-Li”, a 50 dollar chinese brand acoustic guitar. When I started writing the first songs, I did not even own a laptop, so I just recorded them with an iPhone, adding layer upon layer of sound with Li-Li.

And somehow these iPhone-recordings sounded strangely enchanting! Totally indifferent to sound and surface, purely “song”. I decided to regard the restrictions as the conceptual framework for the album and from then on did not allow any other sound-source than whatever I could do with Li-Li: picking, plucking, strumming, bowing, scratching, hitting,... 5 months later, “Drown, Yeah” was finished, finally with a laptop, an old microphone, some freeware software... but still only with Li-Li.

While “Drown, Yeah” is calm, reduced and low-fi, it is obviously not a typical “one-man-and-his-guitar-folk-record”. I did not listen to any music during my whole 1-year stay in Beijing, so I can not really say, what my musical influences were. But people have stated they can hear Young Marble Giants, Mark Hollis’ solo work, Jeff Buckley, Sufjan Stevens and even Trent Reznor's calm moments. I still think "Drown, Yeah" somehow has a sound of its own.

Some people even called it a concept album. Not only because of the sonic concept. But also for the recurring lyrical theme of “Drowning”. The silent underwater-scream. Speechlessness? Final redemption? Hope? No hope? I leave that up to you...

credits

released June 15, 2012

All songs written and composed by Liv Lapaz
Production: Liv Lapaz
Mastering: Martin Rawlins
Recorded in May 2012 at Taiyue Hotel in Beijing, China

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Liv Lapaz Berlin, Germany

Liv Lapaz is a german singer-songwriter based in Berlin. He is a manic autodidact and ecclectic creative. Self-produced and independent, his work constantly shifts between pop and art, while in its best moments it is both. Liv uses any instrument he can get his hands on, although his 2012 album "Drown, Yeah" was composed and recorded with a cheap, chinese brand acoustic guitar only. ... more

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