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medicine

by Sub Lights

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1.
Close your eyes, say goodnight Go dark and deep My circuit dreams and wiring Will keep you safe from me By the way, I didn’t take my pills today These padded walls and medicine A cage for your machine And while you sleep, I won’t leave, This feather needs a wing By the way, my mind just flew away Open eyed, and doll-eyed blind But I know you’re near My screams become a battle cry That I know you’ll hear By the way, by the way Fly away, fly away
2.
I wanna start a riot come kicking in your door I’m a vast machine I’m a guillotine Yeah, heads will roll. I wanna start a riot I wanna tear it down I wanna put you all Up against the wall I wanna trash this town. I wanna start a riot And get you by the neck You’re a dog to me On a Prada leash I wanna make you beg When we come for you in the dark of night. And your empty prayers won’t make it right. Feel it now, your throat is tight. I wanna start a riot, I wanna tear it down I wanna turn the screws I wanna bury you In the cold dark ground.
3.
Was I asleep? I dreamed I woke The knife went deep, the words she spoke And back at the Hotel Paris I sang a fond farewell I drank a dozen more and jumped into the wishing well I burned the note she sent me, breathed in the swaggering air With all good taste and breeding hidden in my style she didn’t care So I put a bullet in a letter Turned by back and sealed my fate Lit a match and threw it on the fire With a suicide smile Am I a man of flesh and bone Resigned in silent spite reborn? I stood there crushed and fallen, revolted and confused And I believe I smiled and quietly bid her adieu Drowning in saloony-bins, then, careening down the stairs I lay there cut and bleeding, throwing empty punches in the air
4.
No Alarm 04:19
Behind your back, the back room deals Behind your back the world reels But you don't turn around- turn around No you don't turn around- turn around Eyes on the ground, everyone’s Eyes on me, everyone alarm no alarm no alarm alarm no alarm no alarm The bullets will be poured, the bullets will be poured In the ground in the ground, in the ground Now Make your grave, make us proud Anything, but make a sound No you don’t make a sound Make a sound You don’t make a sound Eyes on the ground, everyone’s Eyes on me, everyone Alarm, no alarm, no alarm Alarm, no alarm, no alarm The bullets will be poured, The bullets will be poured And we don’t need a prophet If we can make the profit And you don’t know me If you don’t think I’ll fight You’re wrong So wrong Behind your back, the back room deals Behind your back the world reels But you don't turn around turn around No you don't turn around turn around The bullets will be poured The bullets will be poured The bullets will be poured [I lie Why would I lie?]
5.
Come gather round all you good girls and boys For stories and candy and fun For ponies and rainbows and rooms full of toys All of the things that you love All of the animals in two-by-two Every worm, every dove What more could you hope for A big floating zoo, with all of the things that you love? Oh God loves his children He’ll give you rainy days, raincoats to wear Dark cloudy skies up above He’ll give you hurricanes and earthquakes to spare All of the things that you love Pestilence, brimstone, and hellfire rain Ashes to ash, dust to dust You got what you asked for, so bow down and pray For all of the things that you love Is this what you wanted, a world full of pain? The end of the things that you love
6.
Faces lose focus slowly at first She’s going round the world in reverse He plays in odd ways Candy for one Shadows Under the sun One moves One’s still One’s fake One’s real Worn down revelation A revolution closer to how she feels Faces lose focus darkness and dirt She’s going round the world in reverse Magdalene in torn jeans Makeup and mud Lose touch and Buttons undone Over and over, over and over….
7.
Sympathetic 04:12
When you go to sleep do you dream of me? Laying with you, sympathetic Shaking like a tree, dig your roots in deep All around you sympathetic Maybe we can reach each other Till then we all have to question why These things, so hard to discover, Is every look a lie? Strangers on the street, when our glances meet And I see you, sympathetic Never know your name, but I know we’re the same Standing with you, sympathetic Someday maybe we’ll talk it over And say that I suffer with you, friend We can’t become another Hold me and pretend that the world won’t end Forget my name, it’s all the same Lonely melody, soon it starts to creep Down inside you, sympathetic Love your enemy, bitter irony Can’t deny it, sympathetic
8.
Wake up in a stranger's bed Tangled in sheets and flashes of red Someone, lying beside me What’s their name, was I inside? Did I do things I want to forget? Was it another beautiful mess? The bleeding dawn, is feeding on The rest of me Oh, this is a night to remember Red is the color of surrender I will drink you in Let the requiem begin You’ve got the look of losing your way Everything perfect, but in the wrong place Let me in, let’s erase the sun, every ray We’ll be here for years and years Bury the days and disappear I’ll drain you, the pain will Will fade away Oh, this is a night to remember Red is the color of surrender I will drink you in Let the requiem begin
9.
Voices in the hall A punch and then a fall I always thought she was untouchable In a whiskey glass A scream and then a crash The smoke, the ash: untouchable And through the wall I hear them yell But in my head is “2112” Trying to find a way to get out Voices in the hall Echo sirens call And now she was untouchable You found the key and opened the door You found me there, alone on the floor You found me out You found me
10.
Part I The whisper machine Inside your head Is telling you it’s time Memories beat a slow retreat But you still hold the line The picture machine Behind your eyes Flickers and lies Are they stars in a dark sky? Are you outside, hidden, under fire? And the bleeding machine carries on Like soldiers marching into the dawn The bleeding machine carries on You’re in front of me But you're already gone The whisper machine Beside your bed Is a jet stream, takes you high A voice in the night, you’re back in flight Soaring through the wild And the bleeding machine carries on Like soldiers marching into the dawn The bleeding machine carries on You’re in front of me But you're already gone Sometimes it’s hard to recall your face All I can see is a random array Like photos torn and suspended in air I miss you come back to me I miss you come back to me Part II A tire swings, a tractor brays A gift of grass, thanks I’m okay These are things that I will keep Inside the cage of memory So don’t feel blue A tangled mess of Christmas lights A lousy swing, a winning smile It makes sense to you and me A secret code in history So don’t feel blue St John finds some cash In a holy mess of leaves A sled on a terror And the spaceman fights a bee The queen of hearts leaves early A cake melts in the sun A ranger found her way Following no one Part III So don’t feel blue We’re only gone for years and years and then We’re shoving right off for home Shoving right off for home, again.

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released November 1, 2021

Written, performed, and produced by Sub Lights

"I Wanna Start a Riot" mixed by Jake Aron

Tracks 1-4 mastered at The Ranch Mastering by Matthew Agoglia

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Sub Lights New York, New York

The New York City duo Sub Lights launched their indie electronic psych-pop project out of the bedroom and onto the stage in the fall of 2021. After a lot of late nights, early mornings, variously enhanced psychic explorations, along with heavy doses of political consciousness, “Medicine,” emerged as a definitive musical statement—equal parts song-driven and sonically expansive. ... more

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