1. |
blurry dimensions
04:01
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Cigarette butts and disposable masks
Streaming out of our garbage cans
A mountain range of containers and paper bags
Time sand slips through our sweaty hands
Is it a head rush or a dehydrated mind
Skating through blurry dimensions
with no oases of clarity to find
The answers to the statements i keep making
Tangled fingers, safety pins on sweater sleeves
Forgiving disappointed parents even though we know they’ll never see
We promised not to talk to cops
but we still flipped them off
We slept under constellations of cobwebs
We sat for hours by the hidden pond
and talked to the ducks
I think that they like us
You think that it was just
the tabs under our tongues
We told each other that we wanted to be
invisibly visible
So let’s be visibly invincible
But something immaterial
Imperceptible
To the Eurocentric cis gaze
Transcending your gaze
As I maintain my out of reach boundaries
I’m gulping down my anxieties
unplugging myself to disconnect
Leaving my signal messages on read
voicemails with my birth name unchecked
Torn apart by colonial borders and extractive projects
But I’m charging myself up to 100%
while making sure that I reflect
On what happened the past 4 seasons
Which feel like a million
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2. |
city secrets
03:34
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You hide city secrets from the tourists
that visit your body
You were an ant that I let crawl
all over me
We’ve got the same ankles, they like to kiss each other
In forests of unshaved grass
But your mind is always somewhere else
Somewhere I will never find, I’ll never find your mind
It was the fight for money
in a stale, gentrified, burning city
A labyrinth we struggle to find our way through
“I’m too tired to dream”, you say
As I dream hungry everyday
I hide inside my turtle neck
From all the sky train screeching
in pheromonal July sweat
Everyone is fighting, everyone is fighting
for a seat
I look out the window to see millionaires
Looking down on me
watering their own buildings
while burning down others to build more of their own
Making it harder and harder for us to live
But I wrote another song for you
I wrote it down
And sang it inside out
Replayed it through my earwax earbuds
I sang it so fucking loud
You said you were proud
I forgot that you’re always proud
Of my pain and the ways I survive
I’m trying so hard to exist
It’s so hard to exist
But I like to resist
And I want my friends to exist
So I guess I’ll also exist
So that we can all resist
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3. |
the war on life
02:06
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The coins lying around
the corners of the house
all added up to buy
you a pack of gum
From
the gas station
where we once made out
We then escaped the sounds of the war on life
The urge returned, spilling itself all over me
We’re not as delicate as they make us seem
We’re not as delicate as they make us feel
Sharpen your tools
Now you’ve got a weapon
And hold on, hold on
Hold on to it
Sharpen it
That supposed demon in my dream
Loved me
Unlike any state ever could, ever would
We fought against the war on life
as we gathered the coins lying around
the corners of the house
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4. |
couches are surfboards
01:41
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Shadows are a reflection,
like that parallel universe self
grinning back at me
in the mirrors of friends’ living room couches I’m surfing on
I felt patient for the first time in eons
When you grow up rootless like a spore
That wanders around shore to shore
You don’t look back,
you don’t look around
You just look forward
Anxious for your turn
But now I’m making waiting fun
Yeah, waiting gets pretty fun
When you get good at it
And now I’m pretty good at it
I think I’m pretty good at it
I think I’m pretty good at it
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5. |
stubborn
01:46
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I’m stubborn and I know it
It’s what I’ve been told my whole life
I’m stubborn so I own it
It’s what has kept me alive
We’re seeing
How much this body can handle
How much my spirit can take
As they both bathe in a silence
That was very much alive
You wanted to see
How high I could climb up that spruce tree
But please, let’s turn back
I think we chose the wrong timeline
I wish we were both still alive
Can we turn back?
Can we turn back?
Can we turn back?
Can we turn back?
I still bathe in your silence
Cause to me you’re still alive
I still bathe in your silence
Cause to me you’re still alive
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6. |
SoySauce
02:32
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Bowing to all of those that guerrilla gardened the dirt road
To help me hold myself at the barest of my vulnerabilities
Placing my diced guts in front of crowds of strangers
Honking cars and extractive industry
Earth, meet my tough skin again, a couple of old friends
It had been too many life cycles
They almost didn’t recognise one another
Crying out halmuni’s homemade SoySauce
They’re tears of joy, they’re tears of joy
I will return, this is my deepest promise
It’s a stellar ploy, it’s a stellar ploy
Crying out halmuni’s homemade SoySauce
They’re tears of joy, they’re tears of joy
I will return, this is my deepest promise
It’s a stellar ploy, it’s a stellar ploy
Crying out halmuni’s homemade SoySauce
They’re tears of joy, they’re tears of joy
I will return, this is my deepest promise
It’s a stellar ploy, it’s a stellar ploy
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7. |
gather around
01:44
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You only exist as a pill I let melt under my mouth
I only exist as a song in your waxfilled earbuds
I’m moving note by note
You’re melting grain by grain
Gather around, inner children
Gather around, children part of plural systems
We’re gonna play a game
During short breaks that became smoke breaks
We stumbled through the rocks
Soaking in the oily river
Iridescent stains swimming upstream
We can’t escape the omnipresent poison
Our cells have mutated
through this micro plastic hell
And who knows what else
But we’re all forgiven
Baby in the oven
I promise
We’ll figure it all out
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8. |
vividly
04:22
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We were dragging along the histories of eternities in our worn out bodies
Through these unfamiliarly familiar roads
I read you like an open book
With rabbit holes in our socks
leaking out our blistered toes
You said you were getting demovicted once more
And it’s probably not gonna be the last time
So come on out today and let’s cope with the instability collectively
I know we’re both pretty strapped and can’t ask our parents for favours anymore
But these honey suckles don’t ask for much
And neither does the shade of this lonely tree
With its flapping branches
With its deep, strong roots that will never set it free
We can keep each other company
I need you to keep me company
You said you were feeling so fucking hopeless once more
And it’s probably not gonna be the last time
So come on out today and let’s defeat the instability collectively
And even when you leave
I’ll feel your spirit following me
Caressing my cheek
Sitting across from me
on the empty sky train seat
And even when you’re away
I’ll feel your spirit everyday
And I’ll hear you say
All the things that you used to say
I’ll see you so vividly
I’ll see you so vividly
I see you so vividly
I see you
Let’s keep each other company
The universe needs your company
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juniper.lee Vancouver, British Columbia
(they/them)
email: juniper.lee.music@gmail.com
Music made on
the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) peoples
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