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Dogged

by Slender Gems

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1.
procrastination is the sickness i suffer the itch to switch to the soul suckin silicon of cyber human race based communication breakdown clown town lies behind a veil of lies and smoke and inside jokes different strokes for different trolls and victims in a self created prison scarred for life cut you open with a digital knife you was hoping you could make a list of important names the resume that you claim and the games that you play gateway to fame patience comes and goes will you decipher the code do you wanna be extra ordinarily noteworthy and well received? i fell into a trap and i can't joke my way out everybody is laughing now well maybe baby i could try to play it off like i was in on it but all your eyes and ears are full of shame and fear and predatory instinct let's destroy the weakest link he's scarred for life cut him open with a digital knife he was scoping the scene challenging the machine the hardest thing is always shutting it down so much to do and to see nobody wanna miss out but the feelings in my words are encrypted now i'm stoned on technology waiting and creating an image that is extra ordinarily noteworthy and well received
2.
i'm dreaming of the seaming on the cloth the seamstress sews the emblem on my jacket of an arrow and a yoke the oracle foresees impatience is his mortal sin the riddle's answer lies inside the labyrinth within bury my bones where the grass don't grow i can't breathe since i let you go i've been waiting such a long long time wasting away in my clouded shrine old man winter wants to steal my crown for iniquitous reaping he will hunt me down with the frozen blade of the chevalier and the jack of spades is the heir to chariot is fastened to a dog with burning wings the heretic recants the devil's chorus that he sings the knot was not untied but cut the clock will strike thirteen phantoms fight to pull the strings of the pawns you lie between condemnation of a lonesome ghost the realm of shadow is his greatest foe moonlight journals of an ancient strife modern marvels of civilian life bury my bones where the grass don't grow i can't breathe since i let you go i've been waiting such a long long time wasting away in my clouded shrine ascending openly unto his throne from the heart of the pit where the thieves were stoned a serpent struggles to remain untied a king is crowned when the end is nigh condemnation of a lonesome ghost the realm of shadow is his greatest foe moonlight journals of an ancient strife modern marvels of civilian life bury my bones where the grass don't grow i can't breathe since i let you go i've been waiting such a long long time wasting away in my clouded shrine
3.
it was a dark and stormy night in walked the captain (hello captain) hello boys (tell us a story captain) okay boys it was a dark and stormy night in walked the captain (hello captain) hello boys (tell us a story captain) okay boys it was a dark and stormy night in walked the captain (hello captain) hello boys (tell us a story captain) okay boys tales of cities burned to the ground when the old salts pillage and plunder the crown if i come to your town i won't fuck around three sheets to the wind and i'll blow a man down i have no lover waiting for me i've given my life to the heart of the sea and the heart within me it will beat without fail for the boys on the deck and the wind in my sails it was a dark and stormy night in walked the captain (hello captain) hello boys (tell us a story captain) okay boys it was a dark and stormy night in walked the captain (hello captain) hello boys (tell us a story captain) okay boys it was a dark and stormy night in walked the captain (hello captain) hello boys (tell us a story captain) okay boys tales of cities burned to the ground when the old salts pillage and plunder the crown if i come to your town i won't fuck around three sheets to the wind and i'll blow the man down i have no lover waiting for me i've given my life to the heart of the sea and the heart within me it will beat without fail for the boys on the deck and the wind in my sails
4.
shots are fired at peter piper from a level fifty sniper on the roof of the hotel while eating at the taco hell the taste will linger as he fades he rolls onto a stray grenade which bursts into his failing heart he saves the children school will start tomorrow for these tiny tots great sacrifice will be forgotten legends dwindle over time i'm slowly sipping summer wine and i'm out of time my debit card has been declined within this paradigm and it's a long way home to that pretty little palace in the trees crustaceans lifted from the bay will surely make a great display the exoskeletal buffet it pairs so great with lemonade with ice within the mason jar i lifted from the devil's bar with GPS but when in rome don't get too drunk to drive back home where gnomes are waiting in my yard they're in the bushes smoking shards and boiling batches of the dew they package and they sell to you and i walk the line my fuckin debit cards been declined within this paradigm and it's a long way home to that pretty little palace in the trees
5.
Waxing 02:23
i long to be the one who breathes the spark into the seeds now sown into the barren floor but i can't be here anymore cuz i long to belong to somewhere be someone else it all falls down to the ground when the boy comes back around and the sickness i've been feigning its waxing and waning come sweet dream these waves of green they shall not lay my soul to rest oh sweet mistress heal my sickness idle hands at your behest mend my bones my skin re-sewn to cover empty space inside thoughts impure which you procured you siphoned from my bloodstained eyes i long to belong to somewhere else be someone else the purging i'm burning in this shell but i'm not in hell no it all falls down to the ground when the boy comes back around and all that's left is just a fraction of faces waning and waxing
6.
It's Only Me 05:33
what you take from me i can never tell lead my eyes to paradise or send me back to hell penetrate my mind with elation so remiss we both suppress exposure at it's best but it's always hit or miss ooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh it's only me but soon you will see how i came to be this way i brought this upon myself and only i can worry the shades that lie behind your eyes tell a different story i worry oh wow how you take me and you break me in some strange slice of time where you reign as queen i am just some specter of so many strange unspoken things there you lie asleep with that one eye open wide i gaze into that void and feel the shame you hold inside ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh it's only me but soon you will see how i came to be this way i brought this upon myself and only i can worry the shades that lie behind your eyes tell a different story i worry oh wow how you take me and you break me to a million fuckin pieces it's so hard to put myself together my inside it freezes your expression leaves me speechless and for no apparent reason only i'm so strange and our exchange of shame will it keep us even? if you still see me eye to eye there's still some candor in these lies enough to be just who we want to be and see what we're allowed to see but the lives we lived allowed no sacred space and i saw the marks upon your face from and expressive hand it made him feel like such a man you're making plans to see the world while you're a young and able girl the time will come you'll save the money and make your way across the country but i brought this upon myself and only i can worry the shades that lie behind your eyes tell a different story i worry oh wow how you take me and you break me
7.
Savage Eyes 03:27
dreams to up and roam into the wild unknown escape from social fear beyond the great frontier he never could respect the need for introspectiveness to recollect his stranded intellect no one ever cared for his hollow heart's despair the foxes birds and bears will fill the spaces where he once became estranged no longer could maintain the strength to still remain he seeks to live among the wilderness untamed always was a stranger now in exile self-imposed to dwell within the church of nature and an outsider unto himself the broken life he left behind reconciled within his mind through savage eyes will he find salvation or his own demise always was alone among the folks at home for he is incomplete the refuge that he seeks among the wild beasts it's there he hopes to find the severed parts within so compartmentalized unaccompanied confined and solitary now a guest within the devil's sanctuary lost and lonely soul the shelter that you chose is bloodthirsty and cold and evolution formed you in a different mold always was a stranger now in exile self imposed to dwell within the church of nature and an outsider unto himself the broken life he left behind reconciled within his mind through savage eyes will he find salvation or his own demise his isolation is a manifestation of all that's been subdued just a scared lonely child all alone in the wild what did you think the creature's love was true? perception of camaraderie in which you believed was the indifference of nature in the eyes of the beast the fellowship and unity with that which you seek has treacherously given you unto the deceased
8.
i was sixteen when i left the farm with a dirty suitcase packed under my arm i spent my life saving on a beat up ride no plan just get behind the wheel and drive to the first new town that i could find hit the reset button leave the past behind i'ma rise through the ranks with my bold finesse that's what i did and nonetheless i'm the kingpin saying everything i've been thinking eye on the prize ain't blinking calling out shots like a goddamn boss with the top notch sauce i'm a big noise smoking upstairs with the big boys never thought i'd make it up to this point getting so paid so laid so made but i gotta get away cause i came into this town in a car for a clown on the edge of breaking down again but i'm leaving in a black cadillac and i'm never coming back again catch me up here at the top of the pops won't stop won't flop i'm the cream of the crop everybody know the cream rises to the top clean house run shop gonna sweep gotta mop gotta stay pristine i'm crystal clean you can catch me on the scene tryna' keep this thing on the low key scheme if you know what i mean cuz living in a cream dream is harder than it seems for the kingpin saying everything i've been thinking eye on the prize ain't blinking calling out shots like a goddamn boss with the top notch sauce i'm a big noise smoking upstairs with the big boys never thought i'd make it up to this point getting so paid so laid so made but i gotta get away cause i came into this town in a car for a clown on the edge of breaking down again but i'm leaving in a black cadillac and i'm never coming back again i came into this town in a car for a clown on the edge of breaking down again but i'm leaving in a black cadillac and i'm never coming back again now that everybody wanna get to know that's my cue i've got to go my time in this town has been well spent but i gotta do the whole thing over again go to a new town just the same gonna find a new car and make a new name for myself and my health and my wealth and my plans ain't nobody understands why i'm washing my hands no cuz im the kingpin saying everything i've been thinking eye on the prize ain't blinking calling out shots like a goddamn boss with the top notch sauce i'm a big noise smoking upstairs with the big boys never thought i'd make it up to this point getting so paid so laid so made but i gotta get away cause i came into this town in a car for a clown on the edge of breaking down again but i'm leaving in a black cadillac and i'm never coming back again
9.
Slip Away 05:19
found you waiting when i first was led astray that's when you showed me to embrace the masquerade from the alley where i once was baptized in the shadows that corrode my insides i once believed that you would soon conceive some truth from inside you that would ease the spirit you subdue but i can't accomodate a shell so fragile makes me wonder if it all was worthwhile i can't be a sullen protege dodging bullets from the ricochet when they shoot you down i won't be around to mend your mangled ego i think that we know now we were never meant to co-inhabit the cloud that condemned you can't defend you in a state of disarray see me slip away motion sickness when i peer into the kaleidoscope of deprivation that seeps through you fanning flames that supply your rage from the chemicals contained within a self-made cage flimsy walls fall in the palace that you built beneath a canopy of guilt where you wither and you wilt you're alone on the throne with a broken smile and it resonates the imitation of your style i can't be a sullen protege dodging bullets from the ricochet when they shoot you down i won't be around to mend your mangled ego i think that we know now we were never meant to co-inhabit the cloud that condemned you can't defend you tangled up in disarray see me slip away can't pretend i never hoped for better days when you would realize the strength to alleviate but i can't make it here any longer biding my time only makes it stronger i can't be a sullen protege dodging bullets from the ricochet when they shoot you down i won't be around to mend your mangled ego i think that we know now we were never meant to co-inhabit the cloud that condemned you can't pretend to say i did not want to stay but see me slip away
10.
feeling particularly wavy what's the difference baby? wanna get subatomic physical with you and maybe i could open that box and find you so alive here with me reality unfolds before my very eyes observations made by me collapse unto my destiny could alternate realities on other worlds might come to be? see my baby is on the scale of a macroscopic system over time evolving into a superposition of classically distinct and separate quantum states entangled with the average of the setting i observe her fate observations made by me collapse unto my destiny could alternate realities on other worlds might come to be? right now ever possibility anything that could or could not be has a certain probability of becoming a reality for me this changes nothing i'm far too large this changes nothing if i could travel through the fabric through the new dimension to a timeline where i stayed in school and paid attention trade places with my other self and learn to be the CEO of some affluent company observations made by me collapse unto my destiny could alternate realities on other worlds might come to be? right now ever possibility anything that could or could not be has a certain probability of becoming a reality for me nothing this changes nothing

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released May 22, 2019

Mike Artinian - Drums, Background Vocals
Malcolm Gillooly - Bass, Background Vocals
Aaron Liu - Guitar, Piano, Background Vocals
Jordan LeVeque - Guitar, Piano, Vocals

Recorded in 2018 by Nick Vicario at Trash Treasury Studios
& mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, OR

Artwork by Jordan LeVeque

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