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death is not a curse

by aaron ross

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kinkycat Aaron's music is like a fine cut diamond, multi faceted, genuine, unique, beautiful and always a joy to listen to. I have watched Aaron's music develop into it's own experience. This music grounds me when the world has shaken everything loose. I am honored to have it in my playlist, to turn on when I need to listen to his songs. very few artists do that for me. Aaron, is there way or place I can find your lyrical genius so I can capture every word.??
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1.
i was bathed in a light so warm forgot all the seams where my clothes they were torn it was more a brother than the sun i had been born as we gazed down the halls of our minds so well we knew the sadness that it beckoned us sometimes as darkness clouded everything we reveled in the night we had been born we used to talk about we used to talk about the thorns it makes no difference all of our matter has been reformed now I'm heading towards the light shielded with no will to fight it life it makes no sense to me once i scratched the surface but i never tapped the bottom of the sea seems the things that no one wants are somehow the things to be to be born we were slaves to the powers we gave watched the giants in their towers sprinkle manna on our graves we cut the flesh of barren earth that is what we made and we were born we used to talk about we used to talk about the thorns it makes no difference all of our matter has been reformed now I'm heading towards the light shielded with no will to fight it we left off where the story begins never had the chance though chances they were slim we watched the picture fading into a light so dim when we were born
2.
the fallout has faded all the stones overturned no time left to practice the things that we've learned a call out to warfare if you are tired of the news soldier of the great unknown keep your eyes on where you're from like you were walking through a minefield outside the gates the void is strong so you fall victim to it's throngs weave the web of destruction I'm counting on you kids to write a better story or else it's us forever remembered as those who gave up the glory we're due for a revolution time to tell your tales just ignore the institutions the placebo wore off you know it's not going to be the same old song what once was sunk has come ashore open your door it appears to be a beast though so much more what were we before the darkness cast it's shadow on our minds outside of time nothing is related even life is imitated we're due for a revolution time to tell your tales just ignore the institutions the placebo wore off you know it's not going to be the same old song they castrate your memory with the click of a mouse getting closer to space there's a highway to there now so it's a call out to warfare if you are not going down soldier of the great unknown in the past the hints are sewn giving way to the meaning they're selling fear but are you sold to make your mark do what you're told though home is still where your heart is I'm counting on you kids to start a better future clean the slate rewrite the story just don't give up the glory
3.
Ghost town 04:02
i didn't know what day it was i didn't know how far i could go from your love on life support my hearts a wreck I'm counting on the morning glory to resurrect me the same old story does not affect me look out or everything will make you blind you'll be the mayor of this ghost town bound to what you left behind innocence is lost at sea remember when we felt so young so free and now we're just a bloody mess we're counting on the instant feeling to tide us over so we forget that we're getting older look out or you're gonna have to pay the price you'll be the mayor of this ghost town you will become you're own device every second goes i know can't keep chasing those i am told it's only love that counts baby and we can work it out maybe
4.
new tomorrow 05:15
I'm living someone else's dream my eyes are fixed on the pulse of the screen my free bird is on the wire everywhere they're making pawns into kings the mighty hands of the wind gonna sweep away the sorrow keep on looking for a new tomorrow just another day to borrow and let it go today is a taste of your own medicine don't know what to say don't know where to begin i get a feeling I'm in place that i once knew takes me back to times i wish i could renew I'm living someone else's dream portrayed by an actor who fled from the scene fire walking with a crutch i open up the doors to the calling there's stipulation's ghost and an endless sea of voices they're looking for a new tomorrow just another day to borrow and let it go today is a taste of your own medicine don't know what to say don't know where to begin i get a feeling I'm in place that i once knew takes me back to times i wish i could renew is something really happening or am i standing still like the traffic moments fly by still I'm not quite fulfilled used to feel like a poet son but now i feel like a thief robbing myself of the open road float down the escalator street
5.
Ouroboros 06:28
our steps are going sideways we're slipping on the tirades of a dying youth it's a candles doom things are changing for the better or the worse let's just forget it come prepared to lose all the grips you choose to wear i want this dream to end we can begin again like we're immortal we can learn to live they ring the division bell it's getting heard to tell if you are sick and what will make you well oh well i don't want to be bound to fail got the feeling i am leaving my head is in the ceiling watch the ring of fire burn my hearts desires and no one holds the answers they frolic like a dancer on the sea of madness where nothing ever happens too soon i want the dam to break we can be wide awake third eye of the needle it's just the chance you take come let us sit for a spell going the distance you fell you come and go like the wind beneath your sail and me i don't want to be bound to fail look over your shoulder the pursuits are getting older the midnight oil's peaked nights of restless sleep a lifetime of decisions lay buried in your visions only in your pipe dreams where nothing's as it seems to be i want the chance to return seeking my soul's sojourn these chains around your neck when you were born they painted your portrait pale built with these coffin nails the secret of life now just a joke to tell on no i don't want to be bound to fail like a snake who is eating it's own tail and i don't really want to fall i don't really want to fall into the void you know I'd give it all I'd give it all to wash way the noise but I'm hanging by a thread just a sliver left of my inner voice they say it's all inside my head I'd like to let it go but i have no choice i just don't want to be running backwards
6.
me and my fate will duel tonight someone will win the bottle will fill up my eyes I'll take it to the end I've lost all the loves of my life made enemies out of friends the gold made me lose my sight blind leading blind I've been searching the world to find my troubled mind and the footsteps of my troubled mind mother nature's been so kind but i just have to go or else I'll never know the reasons I've been left behind should i stay should i wine and dine i just have to go or else I'll never know where i have gone vindictive to all in my sight though it's so real I'll stick to this cannibal diet till i can't feel they say I'm a slave to this fire i always yield wish i could calm down and quiet my troubled mind and the footsteps of my troubled mind mother nature's been so kind but i just have to go or else I'll never know the reasons I've been left behind should i stay should i wine and dine i just have to go or else I'll never know where i have gone the strangest dream occurred to me i was awake though fast asleep i saw the end and we were at peace it all came down we were lost and found this town was our sacred ground we looked out saw all the ashes from the burning bridges swallow it all like a pill the heaviness now light as the feather on my quill i release these words back to the void whence they came from different worlds dimensions are one and the same in my troubled mind and the footsteps of my troubled mind mother nature's been so kind but i just have to go or else I'll never know the reasons I've been left behind should i stay should i wine and dine i just have to go or else I'll never know where i have gone
7.
it's so easy 02:58
i turned my back on all of my friends just to journey to this height power comes with a price tag my love and the hunger will not subside it's so easy to lose your focus it's so easy to play the fool it's so easy and yet you stumble your tower will never reach the sky harnessing these elements like lassoing the moon building life with wooden blocks the vacuum will consume it's so easy but full of glitches it's so easy but still arcane it's so easy like a band aid your seventh wonder is just a wall mansions full of empty rooms as homesick line the streets an antidote but only a dose you can be free in your dreams it's so easy to be the rubble it's easy to get lost it's so easy yet you tremble empires crumble beneath the blow and now you crumble beneath the blow
8.
the planets are revolving and I'm staring at a strip mall see dimensions keep unfolding seeing beings in the hall and these nations like a dragon spitting fire in our rain the smog becomes the atmosphere as we wrestle day by day we're living in a palindrome trying to stay safe at home examining the restless soul looking for that gaping hole the floodgates have been opened there is a grid that reads your mind feel akin to disposition like it could get you from behind we're all in each other's dreams now sharing portals to the un-dead having thoughts you've never spoken running circles in your head we're living in a kaleidoscope still trying to grab the rope sleep with only one eye closed hiding from the life we chose it seems we're all connected are DNA just dotted lines go about your business undetected but they can read your thoughts inside now we all got the fever and they're mass producing lies the world is a vortex and you're asking your self why we're living in a half way home trying to un-tap the phones breathing in the black hole feel like you sold your soul
9.
life's another cycle you got to pedal your way down the endless highway of an hopeless race no need to get excited keep your heart on your sleeve there's no way to enter you can only leave and do you wonder what nothings made of there's no need to wear your makeup cause time is made of sand you're golden like your summer tan the world could be ending for all i know but i don't really give a damn cause time is made of sand you know it's gonna slip right through your hands it could be all there ever was but i don't really give a damn count the mathmorticians it's like your seeing grids got no pot to piss in you keep flipping your lid been pranked by this process grinding your pelton wheel these vast constraints your Achilles heel and you don't have to live in misery just walk away and you can be free cause time is made of sand so burn that list of your demands the gift of lifetime is waiting there for you but you don't really give a damn cause time is made of sand someday you'll have to take a stand there's a million ways to look at one thing but you don't really give a damn and i don't really give a damn are we inter dimensional or just stuck in an hourglass somehow the moon will know it helps these days to pass drowning these tears in your pillow it's just spilt milk on the battlefield of life and don't you know what nothings made of don't try to dress it up with makeup cause time is made of sand you know it's gonna slip right through your hands it could be all there ever was but i don't really give a damn cause time is made of sand you're golden like your summer tan the world could be ending for all i know but i don't really give a damn
10.
Aftermath 04:32
everything that keeps me together is getting tangled up in knots everybody needs a scapegoat honey and I'm the only they've got though nobody knows why we journey down this road you know i don't believe in falsehood try to keep my idols at bay watch the ground below me crumble see the light just fade away and nobody knows why we journey down this road i am never looking back to think how far I've come to miss the higher path looks like I'll finish last i cannot swim the great divide still someone flipped the switch the day i died inside just trying to enjoy the ride everyone knows a band aid won't fix the pain everywhere the signs are pointing telling you you are insane what we've been told couldn't be further from the truth things we've been sold like a broke down fountain of youth i am never going back wouldn't want to relive all the aftermath even if it goes too fast i can't turn these feelings off they say we're in the red but we can't make it stop i didn't know i was a child in the undertow now i have grown up lost at sea it wasn't me i was brought up on the ways to be or not to be
11.
we finished the game now winners and losers we all pay the penalty I'm going my way down golden highways fall with the crashing sea i can't figure out what to be cause everything is just a joke to me I'm gonna find myself and leave this juxtapose enchained to comfort gonna break this coil cause I'm so chemical our childhoods distant I'm afraid love we've missed it we're stuck on this broken record buried alive in popular opinion whatever will help you rest and quiet the voice in your head restoring all the blues you bled you're gonna find yourself and leave this carriage ride maybe you thought you died but there's still a spark inside you're just so chemical you better find a home inside your soul you're gonna be there for the rest of your life floating on these clouds will take it's toll but you're gonna be there for the rest of your life the rest of your life is just a lifetime way you got to be who you are so you don't live in vain fall to the earth like a star
12.
your tongue is not a sword the battle's got the best of you my love you can't afford to wrestle with the bitter truth you wear this painted veil to hide the skin we all must wear a freedom from this jail the whole wide world waits for you the blood will make you new again like a rifle to the heart all your machines will turn to rust there's no pattern to your flame there's poison in the well so seal your lips like sacred tombs an open book will tell the secrets that we hold so dear the ways we loved and lost and how we filled those vacant seas with dreams that we had tossed to chase the wind with broken wings I'd love to hold you close again feel a glow inside the dark living moments that will never end the continuum is lost at the gate of isotopes it's amazing that we stay afloat with licenses revoked been catapulted of the cliff i collapse inside your face to wipe my tears on tattered lace the dead will have their day but you and i won't fade way our minds are just two wanderers the oasis mends the soul with these ramparts now eclipsing us changing face we're never known
13.
I'm a leavin don't even know where i came from guess I'm cheatin starting on the highest rung i lived this fable California on my mind was young and able and set apart to walk these lines I'm not getting older like the smoke watch me as i smolder in axis floating like these ashes slave to nothing always wanting more thus ends the golden age each day's a setting stage there's nothing left to say dreaming my life away i told my story you know i etched it in my bones spellbound for glory outside the box these catacombs sprawling wastelands but only one that I'll call home this shattered Graceland a piece of time that I've been shown though I'm not getting any wiser my mind it spindles like a spider this misery you know she loves my company but I'll no longer lay down beside her thus ends the golden age each day's a turning page there's nothing left to say dreaming my life away i can't make up mind I'm seeing stars in the signs of the times i might sink with the sun no more tears what is done is done i am trying to get back to all the pieces that i left scattered across this land like the driftwood in the sand I'm not getting any power all my attachments they leave me like the hours I'm going to where the mountains sleep atop the ocean I'm going to find my freedom as i lay upon those shores thus ends the golden age each day these anthems fade there's nothing left to say dreaming my life away it's sometimes cryptic the way our weathered hands are worn our paths they twisted and led us back into the storm permanent vacation freedom from the ties that bind lost in translation California on my mind
14.
pandemonium i long for harmonious thoughts for a change gonna burn down the bridge that bridges the gap till we all breathe the same I'm tired of living in a world that buries it's own if we can't get together than we're all gonna die alone when the sleeping world is wide awake like the broken switch has been moved into place head in the clouds but I'm down on the ground drifting in motion gonna fade like my grin we've had it with saviors our manic behaviors instilled in us now it takes one to know one and no one knows anyone anyhow and i wouldn't really mind if they seized the throne but if we don't get together i suppose i will die on my own and the walls between us they won't hold us back if we band together leave their iron grasps head in the clouds but I'm down on the ground drifting in motion gonna fade like my grin it's been way too long since i felt this calm no more pistols be loaded no more shades be drawn every eye be opened every mouth proclaim the emancipation from these earthly chains turn those fists of rage into outstretched hands open the door for the common man when we lose it all we'll be standing proud got our eyes on the stars and our heads in the clouds our faith embalmed our hope lies in an urn but the moon still hovers and the planets they turn you're a grain of sand on a forgotten coast keep on living for the end to the absence we toast
15.
the thought of you hope my fate will allow me to cross your beaten path the things we built so high come crashing down all our marrow in plain view am i talking to myself is there anybody listening like our bodies in the dark seems our thoughts are only whispering there's all this death in life one chance to live so don't think twice you have to earn your stripes before you reach the other side we've come so far on the wings of compromise still indebted to regret at the end of the day do you really know who you are I'm a stranger in my own heart am i talking to myself is there anybody listening it's just a distant cry for help like a lighthouse in a perfect storm there's all this death in life one chance to live so don't think twice you have to lose your mind before you reach the other side

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