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by Chaoskeeper

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1.
Desaturated 05:06
Pills won't make this go But armwarmers and long sleeves might Oh the letters to myself are all Written on top of each other year after year I reckon there is still place I could use to tell more news And when the black covers the white And the paint hides the scars Will I stop defining who I am by where I had to start? Words won't make this right What are words if i don't feel like speaking? What are milestones if goals are unclear? And one foot in front of the other sounds like a plan Wherever it may take us can I fake wanting to stay? A bird would break its wing And heal and fly again How come that simple things Are the trickiest to learn
2.
Instead of cats and dogs may it rain scorpions and frogs Instead of raining water may it rain Blood and mud and pitch and fire Any nightmare would do I'm in love with bad dreams Let it rain Twinkle and twitch little star don't look down I'm afraid our eye contact will put your little light out And the night will prevail, every flower will wither On second thought let the world fall apart May sticks and stones break our bones May sticks and stones rain down and demolish our homes Roses are red and violets are blue How much damage would I do if wishes came true But then again what can a little of an eye for an eye do To a world that's long blind
3.
Hey where’s that sun I’ve once seen Hey where’s that bell I’ve once heard Hey where’s that feeling of being content That I once have felt and let go Hey where’s that word I’ve once known Hey where’s that choice I’ve once had Hey where are those many emergency exits When I have long stumbled past all Hey where’s that air I exhaled Hey where’s that liquid I bled Hey where’s that direction and where’s that thread I chose not to follow, my friend Hey where’s that train I watched leave Hey where’s that glass I watched fall Hey where’s that hand that I watched extend Towards me but chose to ignore Where's that leap of faith when I'm ready for it
4.
Mud 04:30
Here’s the morning with no light Here’s the day that looks like night And here’s the night when it feels nice to give the feeding hand a bite Here’s the name that’s worth a fight Here’s the heart that feels alright And here’s all wrongs that we feel justified to do within eyesight Where’s the murdering hand of god Trumping us back in the mud Where we came from and where we all shall go when our throats are cut Where’s the fire that we long for Where’s the funeral pyre we’re born for Can we speed this process up a bit, it’d be really nice to stop Within us A black plague grows And with us It spreads and flows
5.
If they put me into a spaceship nowhere bound Would a lullaby put me to sleep for a billion years If I woke up late for Earth to even still be somewhere Would I soon forget it and Would I find my home among the stars If I ended up on a distant world unknown and strange Would its weird creatures welcome me, could we be friends If I fell in love with a lizard or a walking tree Would it be afraid of me A remnant of a world long gone Would it be better if my ship malfunctioned and fell from the sky I would laugh on my way down Sparkling exploding and burning bright I’d cut the sky in half I would be the most beautiful fireworks this world has seen As I fall down Would some monster wish upon me I’d be happy to be a shooting star Scratching across the night sky As I touch down In one of the unnamed deserts I’d be happy if I scatter far enough For some other story to start
6.
Questions 04:56
If I keep going will I find the rhythm I used to keep If I keep walking will the ocean seem to be less deep If I keep asking questions will I outvoice the rain If I am shattered can I fix myself with a band aid My anger will pick me up I've given up my legs for a non-motorized wheelchair I've given up the blood I had, I've given up the air If I forget how I used to breathe, will I learn to hold out If I learn to breathe underwater, will resurfacing be hard Does this beating sound count for a heartbeat If the beating's self-inflicted If I keep moving forward as a self-mutilating freak Can I be called a stronger man?
7.
Spiral 07:55
Watch me stumble going in circles Watch me lose a part of myself with every turn Watch me sink with every loop of this spiral Watch me fade and die every time a little Watch me fall into the same patterns and think I am breaking them Watch me make the same little choices that make the same difference Again watch me excel at what cripples me every time Again watch me try to choose right and fail at that Point me where I have not been yet Some place I’ve never tried Point me where I might snap out of it And stop going counter-clockwise
8.
Where all monsters go to die I’ll go And lay my head among the flowers and the carcasses of things like me There among the lonely and the tired I’ll find my place and patiently I’ll wait until the end of time Where all monsters go to die I’ll go And where all winds are dead and every single flower blossoms white There I’ll find my peace in sitting still Until inch by inch year after year I finally turn to stone And my black armor turns to dust And falls in flakes under my feet Isn’t heart a muscle to be trained Or is it but a bullet to pray for And my unfinished story will Become a bitter fairytale Isn’t heart a muscle to be trained Or is it but a burning torch you pray won’t go out

about

We intended to explain this album or at least describe it but in the end it was hard to see the point in it.

If you asked someone who had an experience of almost drowning, how long it took, they would find it hard to say. A witness with a stopwatch would have a different answer anyway. It's arguable who should judge the length of one's journey, a traveler or a jury.

This album is dedicated to dark places, darker places and those regions where shade comparison stops making sense.

The darkest regions of them don't have a corresponding song on this album, because it was impossible to write.

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released November 14, 2018

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Chaoskeeper Saint Petersburg, Florida

This section is all about telling a short version of your story, a quick summary of the journey. But the shorter your story gets, the less impact it has.

True, 400 characters is more than a hundred, but well. We'd rather the journey kept its length.
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