Paradise, by Mock Identity

Paradise

by Mock Identity

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1.	See Me 03:19	lyrics	buy track

2.	Glamour 02:44	lyrics	buy track

3.	Hymn 02:26	lyrics	buy track

4.	Nación de Opresión 01:26	lyrics	buy track

5.	No Means No 01:44	lyrics	buy track

6.	Not an Option 02:24	lyrics	buy track

7.	Buyers Remorse 02:16	lyrics	buy track

8.	Legacía 01:37	lyrics	buy track

9.	Free Hat 02:13	lyrics	buy track

10.	Paradise 02:36	lyrics	buy track

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released June 21, 2018

All songs by Mock Identity, copyright 2018
Recorded and mixed by Don Godwin at Tonal Park, Takoma Park, MD
Mastered by TJ Lipple
Art and design by David Russell Stempowski

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6/22-6/30: Midwest tour
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Thursday, July 5th @ Black Cat w/ Puff Pieces, Faunas, Born Dad

Friday, July 6th, PHILLY @ Everybody Hits w/ Control Top, more

Saturday, July 7th, NYC @ Secret Project Robot w/ Future Punx, Buck Gooter, Reaches ... more

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Track Name: See Me: I’m not here to play any vain little games
I’m on my own now and deadly as nightshade
I try to stop caring about what other people say
I do things my own way, there was a time that I thought I would be

Broken, leering, no love’s beckoning

Why should I have to hold and bend when it’s got nothing to do with love
When it’s just insecurity, when it’s not about love, cause I want a love

That’s fulfilling, opening, stretching forth
I hope you see

I hope you see me one day, doing my own damn thing
I hope you see me even if you don’t need me
One day I hope you see me
Track Name: Glamour: Oil slick on my lid, razor slick
I beat this face for me
Feral red, messy bedhead, your lusty cred
Cause I hold my whip and my key
And now the climax of my purchasing

Can’t catch me
This Glamour is not for the man, its for me
Can’t catch me
This Glamour is not for the man
This Glamour is not for the man

Can’t catch me
This Glamour is not for the man, this swagger is not for the man
Its for me
Can’t catch me
This Glamour, this swagger
Is not for the man, it’s for me

I paint these wings high for me
And I wear any damn thing I want
For me

Can’t catch me
This Glamour is not for man
Track Name: Hymn: Let’s sing ourselves a hymn to find comfort in
When the world eats you away say ‘You won’t erase me today’
Find someway to laugh, it’s okay to cry
Find your trusted company, now all say these words with me
‘Oh, no, you won’t knock me down this time’
‘Oh, no, I will learn from this pain now and get better’
‘I will learn from this pain now and get better’
‘I will learn from this pain now and be better’

Let’s sing ourselves a hymn to find comfort in
When the world has gone astray say ‘You won’t erase me today’
Track Name: Nación de Opresión: La misma vaina, diferente día
Obsesión en la nación de opresión
Por mas que luchamos, nos comprometen con sus mentiras
Concentración en maldición

¿Que vale el progreso unido del mundo?
¿Que vale la paz unido del mundo?
¿Vale menos?

La verdad esta hecho en un nido
Convertido en mierda
Muérdelo vampiro, muerde la lengua
De desquiciarte con la gente
Con su sangre de su sangre, desquitándote
Haciéndote arma de guerra para los que tienen
Poder y odio

Vale menos el honor, pero vale mas el dinero
Vale menos la justicia, y vale mas el dinero
Vale menos la verdad pero vale mas el dineral
Que vale mas el billete, que vale mas el dinero
Track Name: No Means No: You want to find out about me? All you have to do is ask me
I mean it when I say ‘No means no’, man
You want to talk about it? You should know all about it
I mean it when I say ‘No means no’, man

He’d like to try and rip me
From the inside
Try me
Don’t try
No means

I don’t want to talk about it, you should know all about it
I mean it when I say ‘No means no’, man
He’d like to wrestle it from me, he thinks he can make me cum?
See, I mean it when I say ‘No means no’, man

Flying high on that crap delusion
You’ll still come to the same conclusion
No!
No means no, man
No means
No means no
Track Name: Not an Option: Maker and Marker
You place the imprint of fine expectant loving
Relieved at counting on it
Now count on it stay and count on it, on love
Counting on

Maybe I’m jealous
But I want you to myself, feeling lost and mad
Wanting, hoping, praying that you’ll be…

Time flew you by while I let love decide
Track Name: Buyers Remorse: It should have been you and me
In that rickety house, ready to burn
I had to make out that it couldn’t be
You were so angry and I was ready to learn

Oh, how the truth ashes like paper
How pleasant is the fragrance?
And my love, for you,
Gets weaker every time
Not that you asked, but I’m doing just fine

Singing my song, screaming out to you
In the depth of my soul from blood
And too many times you screamed out at me
Saying things that I couldn’t believe

Oh, how the truth ashes like paper
How pleasant is the fragrance?
And my love, for you,
Gets weaker every time
Not that you asked, no, not that you asked but I’m doing..
Don’t call me, don’t write I’m doing just fine
And you know what? I’m doing just fine
Track Name: Legacía: La juventud aprendemos las exageraciones y compromisos
De una historia, del pasado, nuestro futuro no es legacía
Es evolución, que somos todos

Todos tenemos responsabilidades importantes para hacer el cambio
Que queremos en el mundo, nuestro futuro no es legacía
Es revolución

Y todos somos partes de este mundo, que tenemos que cambiar
Track Name: Free Hat: I had a fantasy of marital bliss and sweet independence
But I found myself corrupted cause I don’t want to give anything up
And I don’t wanna give anything away

And in that fantasy I found myself in the same old, damned predicament
Of being told what I want and what I need, I know what I want
And I know what I need

I don’t want to give anything away
I don’t want to give it all away
I don’t have to give it all away
Track Name: Paradise: I miss the place where earth slaps gasoline
Sun-kissed equatorial heat
Naked and whipped up in a fever dream
Sunspots on eyelids, invisible palm trees

Oh how I’d like to go, even though

What is paradise? A trite delusion?
And obsessive lie? Give it up child

Even though we are sinking
Paradise is still a place where I’ll bleed
Even though we are sinking
Paradise is still a place where I’ll bleed

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