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Phantosmia Act I: Into the Darkness

by Alice In Space

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Instrumental
2.
"I've been robbed!" "You! Thief!" Call the firemen, not the police I don't need anymore taken from me I've been shot! Oh, please... Call the firemen, not the police I don't need anymore guns around me They haunt me every time I breathe the wrong way When I'm trapped in my house by threats from a meth-head They just stand there And the longer they stay, the more I am wasting their time When my car spins and flips into the highway They could not care less They just want me to pay for my crime When they wear that robot costume There's a change in their brains They become a pest, a monster But even their lingering presence Is nothing to the ineffable terror of their minions Those evil, blinding lights Red and blue on black and white Brings horrors to my mind Chills down my spine A stone in my gut at the briefest sight Fear at the very thought Tremors I've been robbed! Catch those thieves! But call the firemen, not the police I don't need anymore taken from me If I'm shot, will you please Call the firemen, not the police I don't need anymore guns around me
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Mermaid 04:11
I could swim in your voice for hours and not get tired You are the child I lost somewhere along the way All my secrets surfacing, what I've always desired You are the wild girl forever out to play So I'll drown out here in the Pelagic Zone I long to go further into the magical unknown You are calling to me Calling, calling And I'm falling, falling Into the sea You are the witch from my nightmares You are the fairy from my dreams Is this an answer to my prayers Or is the world tired of my screams? All I can think of is that you've done it first Is this an inspiration or a curse? Do I follow you into the blue Knowing I could never be as good as you? Keep calling to me Calling, calling And I'm falling, falling... You are calling to me Calling, calling, calling I'll be falling, falling Until you set me free
4.
White 05:36
Forgotten winds that chime so sweetly like a velvet sky in evening Lit by stars and heaven's singing A lonely cross that sits ahead upon a hill Where children fight and whisper helping secrets in the twilight Oh, how gently the crown of thorns is piercing into hearts that can't stop beating Oh, how little we know about the promises we keep from lies repeating Lessons learned in years ahead depicted by a scrapbook long decayed Within a box you dare not open Forced by every fiber in your being to look so beautiful for him It's what the guardians are hopin' Oh, how innocent the child that takes her clothes off after wearing white on Sunday Oh, how helpless and exposed until temptation kills the wall set up there, one day And one day you'll fall asleep in the arms of an angel Wait here until that one day comes For someone so beautiful, it's hard to believe that you are still not loved Let your heart give into what you thought was by the perfect scorned Let your words reveal the truth beyond any recognition torn Let your thoughts lift you higher that even those who were adorned Listen to the words the Devil spoke the moment you were born And sleep, fly, breathe in your lovely dream One day you'll fall asleep in the arms of an angel Wait here until that one day comes For someone so beautiful, it's hard to believe that you are still not loved
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Glass 03:46
Give me my eyes Or I'll hurt you Give me my eyes Or I'll hurt you Lay down on grass with painful blades Until you're called upon to rise But if the sunlight never fades Its claws will reach beneath your eyes Give me my eyes Or I'll drown you Give me my eyes Or I'll drown you They're mine When you came into my room Did you see or just assume? Feel enough to know that there was more than enough to consume You could have taken my car You could have taken my mother's jewelry Wanna trade for my guitar? Quit all this fucking foolery Give my my eyes Or I'll kill you Give me my eyes Or I'll kill you They're mine! I once went down into a rabbit's hole To retrieve the treasure that he stole When I caught him, he let out a scream Reminding me that it was all a dream But this is no dream! Give me my eyes! Why did you take my eyes? All the money and the memories All those functional accessories But you took my eyes A visual organ on either side Now I am blind Give me my eyes... THEY'RE MINE
6.
Burning Up 06:08
Look, there's a little love It'll expire in there if you're not careful Stop where the little dove sings There's a fire in there, and you're not prepared To go where the stones are down Where the flames are 'round And the waters drown you I'm burning up Burning up, burning up I'm burning up Burning up, burning up That lovely volcano is awfully still These wild waves may spark until the ocean sets the mountain on fire Then you can say, my love, there's no one else to speak of Watch me burning up See the smoke on the surface Still, you only look up oblivious Here I silently write about you Here I am growing wise without you But I will not stop burning up until I know you've fallen And the ground will be gone The fire dissolved And where there's a little love There'll be no one else to speak of I'm burning up Burning up, burning up I'm burning up Burning up, burning up That lovely volcano is awfully still These wild waves will spark until the ocean sets the mountain on fire Then you can say, my love, there's no one else to speak of
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Air Loom 04:01
It's like an old woman's mixture of clay and oil It's like a gallon of milk that is about to spoil Maybe a tire screeching against the pavement A pool of sweet blood on wet cement It's like a brand new car that has already rust As if the metal is rotten, the wood turned to dust Could be tobacco dipped in gasoline about to combust I can't see it But I can smell it I don't know where it comes from I don't know what it is But I know that it makes me sick It's like a bowl of cream that has sat for hours It's like a pile of waste that is growing flowers It is in between bitter, sweet, and sour I cannot taste it, or hear it, or feel it And I can't see it But I can smell it I don't know where it comes from I don't know what it is But I know that it makes me sick It's like a house they abandoned in the pouring rain It's like a beautiful carpet with a red wine stain I don't know how to say it, I just can't explain Don't ask me what it looks like, I've told you time and time again That I can see it! But I can smell it I don't know where it comes from I don't know what it is But I know that it makes me sick I can't see it But I can sense it... I don't know why it's come I don't know when it goes But this horrible feeling inside of me grows From the back of my brain to the tip of my nose... Oh... And the worst thing Is that I'm the only one towards whom it blows
8.
Abracadabra 04:40
Write it out immediately Or else you may forget what came to you That one in your mind Hiding like a shadow escaped from a dream You are not crazy You're only learning how to crawl (fly) on your own I begin to think aloud when I'm alone I will show you how it's done (Abracadabra) Curtains dressed up a pretty girl A minute later she had disappeared Into a hole of crystal tears But have no fear I see a creature from another world A bowl of of paintbrushes and a plate of wood Speaking words often misunderstood Ridding you of the bad for the good Illusionist, please set me free Release this disease inside of me Disasters gave me a souvenir Now show it how to disappear Abracadabra Abracadabra (Abracadabra, abracadabra, abracadabra) I begin to dream alive when I'm alone
9.
Grey 03:47
I live inside a fairy tale and I'm the one who's cursed I dress up as a mirage and manipulate their thirst So when the White Queen came to me and said "Recite this verse" I replied "Please give me mercy" Sister Harmony, Sweet Discordia I'm still fastened to The Crack of Dawn Please help guide me to the almost-nightly hue Where I turn back into a black swan Is it more brave to keep holding on forever? Or is it more brave to say "I will never, never never!"? I can't escape the wonders that my ear have taken in The sirens sang me lullabies and taught me how to sin Now I'm in love with mortals, still I can't escape the din Violins and the prince singing: "I will win! I will win!" Sister Harmony, Sweet Discordia The truth is I am still so afraid I'm somewhere in between with all those shades of grey The only way to freedom is to fade away Is it more brave to keep holding on forever Even though the light may take away the ones I love? Or is it more brave to let go and be one with the darkness?
10.
Black 06:57
Try to imagine a sound so alluring If you start to resist it, it tears into your brain A gravity so haunting and pure A scent that threatens your cerebral vein I want to sing to you this sweet serenade I want to lie beneath you, but I'm so afraid In my mind, I am so intoxicating In my dream, I fascinate So why am I still unworthy of the one I desperately love? Trying to tell the difference between a sign and temptation Is wasting my time I no longer care if they say it's obscene In my eyes it could just as well be sublime What if we sink into darkness -- our masquerade? Passions kept invisible so no one feels betrayed! I'm in love with my distress Darling, please follow me into the blackness Magnetism's not a sin for the visually impaired Horrors, hold me I love being scared and confused I am a painting of these black and blues Like the night sky, I love being bruised When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose To feel the light of being blessed I must be cursed To feel the relief of being healed of my distress I must be diseased first A curtain draping over me, above me, right there I don't want to escape the feeling of this nightmare In my mind, I am so intoxicating In my dreams, I fascinate Why can't I reach the stars above? Where there is light and there is love Maybe if I dress in black All the darkness will fall back into the sea And I can breathe You'll love me and I'll be free

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Act I of my musical electro-rock oerpa

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released March 20, 2016

Written and composed by Alicia Marguerite
Produced by Clint Manning

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