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Young & Dying in the Occident Supreme

by Mobley

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You see the nation’s gaping maw each time it yawns away the latest outrage Home is a sarlacc pit Brutes aping men making beasts out of men women, children caged by maps by debt by comfort by razor wire by ‘the way things are’ You can’t unsee it Your eyes are hot and you’re poured out burning for want of more than indignation But, always, you cool and the gleaming screens remind you how good it is to be young and dying in The Occident Supreme™. All ivory and brushed aluminum. Preening. Posing. Grinning. Denuding the earth. Still. Everywhere, Between Mammon’s temples and the shelter of the overpass. Between present and prelude. Between us and other. Between the last gang of souls and the next. Between my coursing blood and yours. There is no frontier.
2.
James Crow 02:54
I’ve been seeing the world through a dead man’s eyes And when I laid me down, laid me down I dared not rise But then I noticed that I’d been watching myself from the car outside And so to bring me round I took me down a long dark ride James Crow Come and tell me what you know James Crow You’re a devil in a daydream James Crow Can you walk it for me, slow? Singing “Take it all back now!” James Crow Come and tell me what you know James Crow You’re a devil in a daydream James Crow Will you break it to me slow? Singing “Take it all back now!” You’ve been selling the world on a dead man’s lies The kind that won’t decay or fade away Or pass in time I play the scientific I can’t be tamed You pray to a religion that can’t be named But all I really want is to crawl back in my body and be Free James Crow Come and tell me what you know James Crow You’re a devil in a daydream James Crow Can you walk it for me, slow? Singing “Take it all back now!” James Crow Come and tell me what you know James Crow You’re a devil in a daydream James Crow Will you break it to me slow? Singing “Take it all back now!” Is there a fever worse than faith? When you know what you’ve lost Cause it’s gone from the beginning And I can feel it in the way that you are when you’re on
3.
Come numb Come dumb Come young Come rain Come sun Come sunken-eyed and half-aware Just point the magnet at me, man Let’s get some money We can make it fair I could be the call to change your life Cause you’ve been on the run since ’95 You’re nobody’s favourite one You’re nobody’s favourite Say something cool Say something cool, but keep it Textual Well, that’s a mood. So, what’s the move? She’s standing next to you (Ok) Holy water Holy water or a shot of ginger ale I’ve been drinking from wishing wells Hoping it’ll change my lot (But it’s not) You’re nobody’s favourite one You’re nobody’s favourite I had a dream this was all lit up But the luster’s fading I had a dream this was all I want But the lust is waning I had a dream this was all there was You’re nobody’s favourite one You’re nobody’s favourite
4.
You’ve got a way of talking I’ve got a way of holding in Back to the start again Things I should say more often Get bottled up to pour like gin Back to the start again And when you see me Am I a shadow in your night? When I look into your eyes Why do they burn so big and bright? Oh, dreams of empire Up from the solid South and In from the wide Missouri plains Back to the start again Borne high on dusky backs and Laid low in everlasting shame Back to the start again And when you see me Am I the specter on your glass? Why do you turn your gaze away? Am I the visage of your past? Oh, dreams of empire
5.
Mate 04:23
I told a stranger everything about you I tried to stop it but I just can't hold it in It's like there's something lurking in my body I don't believe I'll ever get it out again I think I've fallen in love on you I think it's tearing me up, mon dieu She's my mate She's my lady She's my mate She's my baby I think I've fallen I think I've fallen on you So there's a party and I said I'd make it But I don't ever want to leave this room again When I could lay here with my best friend naked Why would I wander through a lonely world with them? Plant me like a seed or roll me in your river Hold me in your arms I long to be delivered Climb me like a tree or drown me like a lover Show me the terrain you want me to discover She's my mate She's my lady She's my mate She's my baby
6.
Something simple Trickles in through Data on demand Sacred texts and Jealous exes Throbbing in your hand A meditation on the vainest thought you know Fear and loathing Beer and clothing Shoot it up your veins Hallelujah What’s it to you? Give that man the reins A revelation from the palest god you know You think you’ve made it but you’re lost, boys You never run out of ways to take it from us That doesn’t scare me at all You’re just a number they call Wall or border Law and order In a kevlar vest Sound and picture How’d it miss you? Strapped across your chest A recitation of the darkest deeds you own Heavy mist and Revving pistons On your way back home Murder disco Monte Cristo We’re serving payback cold A visitation on the calmest street you know well You think you’ve made it but you’re lost, boys You never run out of ways to take it from us That doesn’t scare me at all You’re just a number they call You think you’ve made it but you’re lost, boys You never run out of ways to stay above us That doesn’t scare me at all Good dogs will run when they’re called / These are the nights when I’m a man outrun When I’m gnawing at my skin Things I would die if I could have undone Seem to start each day again Is there a song to set the captive free Or to dull her waking pain? Am I somebody that I should be? Can you make it plain? Please, it’s a long way out if you go it on your own Please, know you won’t get out if you’re going

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released February 19, 2021

All songs written, performed, recorded and produced by Mobley

Mastering Engineer: Dave Cooley

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