Pocket Universe, by Jonah Daneshmand

Pocket Universe

by Jonah Daneshmand

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1.	Tapestry 04:13	lyrics	buy track
For I am born For I am reborn So many stories Lived and unlived It's so hard to remember them all Won't you take me By the hand Keep me close and we'll make so much more Precious memories In my head I'm afraid I'm losing my grip Say my name Look me in the eye Please don't let me Stare off into the sky I'll be your tapestry In the dying light I need your healing hands To keep me alive I'll be your tapestry In the dying light I need your healing hands To keep me alive And I wonder How much time Have I wasted stuck in my own mind Staring blankly At the ceiling Trying to sort out what it means to be alive Then you came here Into my life I want to be there when we touch for the last time Let our fire burn Let our waves crash Times keeps moving but at least I get to move with you I'll be your tapestry In the dying light I need your healing hands To keep me alive I'll be your tapestry In the dying light I need your healing hands To keep me alive Say you won't go Please say you won't go away I won't go I won't go away I'll be your tapestry In the dying light I need your healing hands To keep me alive I'll be your tapestry In the dying light I need your healing hands To keep me alive For I am born For I am reborn
2.	Lexiprofessional 03:29	lyrics	buy track
I’m a Lexiprofessional There’s no home for me now They trapped me in this fucked up life Take my hope and take my soul I’m a lexiprofessional Give me my pills and go I must get back to my 9 to 5 life Got no time for what’s right What’s the deal with you? Who are you anyway? What’s the deal with you? Who are you anyway? You are not alone You are not alone You are not alone You are not alone I’m a law screwing parasite I eat my paycheck and go home and fall in coma where I Dream of running away I am the antichrist Get me out of here You’re a lexiprofessional too Let’s get the fuck out of here What’s the deal with you? Who are you anyway? What’s the deal with you? Who are you anyway? You are not alone You are not alone You are not alone You are not alone
3.	September '16 04:37	lyrics	buy track
Hold me dear I just want to bring what’s inside me out If I knew how to cling To the ghost who I thought I was before I’d be another fling hold me til the point where I let go I hope there’s another way This pain in my head will let me go I’m always on the attack I’m always fighting back There’s no way they will see me here again I’m always on the attack I’m always fighting back There’s no way they will see me here again Forgive me dear I don’t know how to keep you in time If I could give you life I’d suck all my blood and give you all of mine I am on the run from the past and from the future me and now we’re in the scene What did you know? What did I know? I’m always on the attack I’m always fighting back There’s no way they will see me here again I’m always on the attack I’m always fighting back There’s no way they will see me here again We’re holding on.. We’re holding on.. We’re holding on.. We’re holding on.. I’m always on the attack I’m always fighting back There’s no way they will see me here again I’m always on the attack I’m always fighting back There’s no way they will see me here again
4.	Third Person 04:53	lyrics	buy track
Fuck the way people see each other It’s not okay that I can’t talk to my mother Fuck the way It’s so hard for me to be content Its not okay That I’m convinced I’m doing wrong fuck the way that I am stuck between the worlds its not okay to let the kids take you away fuck the way We’ve cried ourselves to sleep at night and its not okay to feel so invalid I know its better off this way I know you’re better off this way I know its better off this way They say you’re better off this way So I say I love you more than I (x4) will ever know ever see ever feel the end of (x2) fuck the way that fiction is fiction its not okay those stories just aren’t real Fuck the way I’m neurotic to the bone Its not okay I’m lost in the universe Fuck the way I’m losing my sense of self Its not okay I watch myself in third person Fuck the way They think that we’ll all burn It’s not okay They make you feel like nothing I know its better off this way I know you’re better off this way I know its better off this way They say you’re better off this way So I say I love you more than I (x4) will ever know ever see ever feel the end of (x2)
5.	No Order 05:13	lyrics	buy track
I walk outside to greet you with no shoes on my feet and I tear holes in my socks I feel the grass beneath me then asphalt and sticky tar I meet you by your car and this moment happens fast faster than I ever though it could darling now I’m thinking again Will you come inside? Will you stay the night Its happened before but I’m new every time And I know this world is not to last and I know we’re not too fast and I can see the doubter inside of me But I know that he is wrong What the hour? What’s the time? I can feel the seconds tick by There’s no order in our life There’s disorder in our life Who’s to blame and who’s the one We can pin the target on There’s no one to spit or shame It’s just the way its just the way Its just the way its just the way its just the way its just the way We’re not to blame we’re not to blame We’re not to blame we’re not to blame I drive my car to see you turn the music loud my place is there beyond this crowd Hear the thoughts in my head If you could only see them I’m yelling at myself to be myself But that’s the thing you see Its no easy property Being so inside my own head I want to be with you I want to make my life anew I want to be more than I was yesterday And I know this world is not to last and I know we’re not too fast and I can see the doubter inside of me But I know that he is wrong What the hour? What’s the time? I can feel the seconds tick by There’s no order in our life There’s disorder in our life Who’s to blame and who’s the one We can pin the target on There’s no one to spit or shame It’s just the way its just the way Its just the way its just the way its just the way its just the way We’re not to blame we’re not to blame We’re not to blame we’re not to blame and this moment happens fast faster than I ever though it would darling now I’m yours again Yeah I’m gonna be alright now Yeah I’m gonna be okay. Yeah we’re gonna be alright now Yeah we’re gonna be okay.
6.	Pocket Universe 03:53	lyrics	buy track
You are my pocket universe I stumble in your sway you are my tiny universe I hear you when you say “hold me dear, just don’t let go, pull me from undertow, When you leave, please leave on the light” “If you knew me, when I was young, you’d know that I’m a careful one, but you see, I’m getting better now” You are my pocket universe I’m lost in your embrace You are my tiny universe wrapped in black lace Goddess of you Orchid of line Color me with your place in time Mother and father Thank you for all you’ve done Where I go next will be with you Love burns more than true My sun and my moon My day and my night
7.	Let Go (Dying Light) 05:27	lyrics	buy track
There will be no place left for Me when I get home from the war From the war If they knew what I have seen They’d crumble into shapes and forms Shapes and forms Oh holy mother of me Clear my mind until I’m free I am free Give me space yet hold me close Give me time yet be here now Be here now I will be on the other side I know there’s light in your eyes Lay me in your arms where I will die Lay me in your arms where I will die I know there is another way Please tell me how so I’ll be okay I’ll be okay So what’s it mean to be alone Let me know so I can go On the road I am not a burning bush I am not some prophet’s push Some Prophet’s push But I am so ego filled Clear me out and make me new Make me new I will be on the other side I know there’s light in your eyes Lay me in your arms where I will die Lay me in your arms where I will die I know there’s nothing left And I cannot see your face But pain is temporary Just like our time in this place Let go of what you know Let go of who I am Let go of who we are And we will be on the mend I will be on the other side I know there’s light in your eyes Lay me in your arms where I will die Lay me in your arms where I will die (I’ll be your tapestry In the dying light I need your healing hands to keep me alive)

about

It feels like I've been working on this album for years, and I have. It's been a momentous, stressful, and beautiful couple years since I finished my degree in 2016. These 7 songs are a document of that time period in my life, captured to the best of my musical and artistic ability.

Influences while writing this album include but are not limited to David Bowie, Gram Parsons, Jason Molina, New Order, Brian Eno, Twin Limb, Preoccupations, the entire Synthwave genre, Husker Du, REM, Guided by Voices, Waxahatchee, Courtney Barnett, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, David Lynch, St. Vincent, Dan Deacon, Alex G, and the entire Louisville, KY Scene. Additionally, a shit load of black metal (that will come to fruition in my next releases, definitely)

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"Tapestry" features my good friend Natalie Minton, thanks so much to her for contributing her beautiful voice.
All instruments and production by me.
All synths are analog, except for a lead on "Pocket Universe".

Will consider a run of CD's or tapes if there is interest. Thanks so much for listening.

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released May 7, 2018

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