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The Sun Is Gone & The Moon's Off Too

by Manic Carbon

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essuedove2 Most obviously influenced by Animal Collective and Why? but most listeners won't notice touches of Porcelain Raft (listen to their song "Is It Too Deep For You?" inspired by the internet meme), The Comas (who sound like they were published by Warner Bros, but they weren't), David Bryne's solo work, and Yo La Tengo. Best listened to on headphone. This is net culture but not the controversial sites or anything Favorite track: Greater One.
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1.
Reset, reset, reset A sunny glow in our paradise Brings us back to better days That funny way you levitate Makes me feel like something strange Dream of our self We are all one That feeling of unreal The image, sound are none Reset, reset, reset We say the sun will stay Summer songs shake out the glow (and find you) Breathing downward without dark below (instills that) We are the truth you imitate (and when the) The dream has you, yet again (then we should) Dream of our self We are all one That feeling of unreal The image, sound are none Reset, reset, reset We say the sun is gone (We say the sun will stay) We drink the fallen stars (We save the golden one) We save the sun, we save the sun, we save the sun, we save the sun
2.
I’ve fallen prey to the deceptively named Now i’m sprawled across the pavement all decrepit and maimed With the words scrawled upon my face in every pimple and stain This that pain’s quinceanera, it’s a king shrinking era It’s imperative that you sift through me like a sieve You ain’t never gave a fuck who I am, just what I did It’s the monetary end of wisdom, pocket your change Voluntary embolism, keyed and locked in the same Way of feeling, stave the healing, play an impossible game Pray to ceilings, days concealing away the thoughts in my brain If I caught every one passed I’d have the Biletnikoff If I drop what’s incoming, i’ll probably be written off Killing beats around the world, an international assassin I’m turning a class act back into an actual fashion I can’t function, so be my Y-combinator What’s the point of gaining peace by bombing on haters? I’d rather convert them than hurt them Blather my lines, design and rehearse them If I sound laughably fun, I could be living off capital funds One hundred to one odds, I managed to see it with my eyes The adage is lies but the damage is done They think I be reaching my limit I don’t sink, I don’t preach, I just pivot Life be cutting me down to my size What they don’t realize is i’m bound to be buzzin and stunning the crowd til I've won every first prize Joining the worst guys, none saw it come Once i’m a knight call me surprise Don’t fight it, it’s already begun The shot heard around the world wasn’t fired from guns I’m hotter than suns, I should be hired for puns I mean my wordplay is righteous So gold I’m Midas, so cold I’m lifeless I’d rather convert them than hurt them Heard all my verses, they opening purses If persons be having some fun, I could be happy with what i have done One hundred to one odds, I managed to see it with my eyes The bandage belies that the damage is done
3.
You Died 04:15
You’re in a dream, you’re seventeen You’re walking down your memories Your mind expands to flying now You try to wake and can’t escape The dream calls for you It’ll eat you inside, you’ve melted and died Riders in the sky You’ll see them when you die Rainbow man, collects his hand Reaches down, towards river sand Thinking blue, you mean monsoon Your shoe’s untied, and the moon’s off too What does this image mean? It’s branded color screens You’ve painted nothing, just meaningless The sky’s asleep, turquoise unity Dreamwater’s done, last cloud, last cloud Riders in the sky You’ll see them when you die
4.
Talker 04:34
Promised child, I was born blonde and skittish I’m bound to renege on sounding ominous Popeye no raw spinach, I’ve found a new image but when I open my mouth, y’all are finished I distort the words I wrote on investigative reports Death don’t know the weight of his pale horse But his horse knows the weight of death, and every protest takes the place of breaths Can’t cauterize, I spoke last, I caught flak Apologize for what? Huh? That I fought back? Thoughts rack my brain, that’s all that remains Hold them back, restrain, it’s uncharted terrain Still distraught from the war, I sought facts so I don’t talk anymore, I’m all rap Tight lipped til my reckoning comes But is it better the weight of the world than the weight of the one? I’m speaking tongues watch your step if you are going down a sharp incline or if there are snakes or if you are a virgin I wanna answer the phone, but I know better Sever tether to mind, I’m choking on letters Misarticulate the pain, stick to all the same refrains, man what am I saying? Mend the mechanics and lose the message, stumbled and stuttered through my confessions And it’s a miracle I can even speak with my tongue so firmly wedged in cheek
5.
Driver 03:34
We are the dreamers…. Animated thing, you could make our trouble blink away What do you say? All this dust still in our way We’ve been awake all day, driving It gets too comforting I think we’re breaking down And taking all we tried to be along on our final crash Little road delay, you could part our bodies from their weight It’s not as hard as making it out of this trajectory Give us this velocity we need And hope that we don’t fall asleep I think we’re breaking down And taking all we tried to be along on our final crash I feel us coming up I know they’ll notice us If we can stay awake If you’re all in on a lifestyle, before you even got your feet wet If you rely on a mindset, what you find you will forget If you adhere to a guideline, your god won’t hear a thing You betray you every time
6.
All You Need 04:47
All you need is the one part of me All you see is the one side of me Cowboys of nine, let ‘em ride, let ‘em ride Eyes shining dark out of that bright night Signs, signs, signs, you saw it coming from miles away I flooded the house, took atypical routes Now there’s firestorms in the south And I’ve got the ugliest mouth that you’ve ever seen Ever been privy to, I just keeping doing as the red letters do Wouldn’t be here if there were any other way You wanna see me act, but where’s my part to play? All you need is the one part of me All you see is the one side of me All you need is the warm part of me to tear you down easy If all you need is all you seek, you’ve lost me in reverie Shoot at the stars, buckle the belt of Orion I let them fire me, I didn’t say bye now I might annihilate All that I love is lemonade Teach me how to dance and I will dance until my dying day Smirk’s got me flirting and whiskey’s got me laughing Forehead on the counter I keep tap tap tap tapping And from a little yawn grew a long letter A Still play in rain, rebel yell, yelling “hey” and hearing “hey hey hey” Now I’ll stick it to your science, now that my pelvis is swinging It’s an alright time for dying And that’ll get me out of your way When all the fervor of your favor is spent, end of the day
7.
Greater One 03:53
Lately I feel like a satellite that went to bed Rocket down and hit the ground, in this debris tuck myself in Find a new dream in my crown and rip it out and wonder why Told me twice to live I have to visualize I get the feeling that the dream is all you do I keep appealing until mine become the truth Crack up the ceiling and the light might touch you too But don’t expect to be the type I see right through I would like to ride a flightless bird over the plain Maybe if I got the speed I could get away from everything Find a secret in my mouth and spit it out and start again Perfect terms, alluring words, I’m starving I get the feeling that the dream is all you do I keep appealing until mine become the truth Crack up the ceiling and the light might touch you too But don’t expect to be the type I see right through Kick off the covers and be what you love to do Keep up the seeming and you might become that too Crack up the ceiling and the light might touch you too But don’t expect to be the type I see right through
8.
Keep a beat I need to tear up I am flaring up and I conceive no error I feel like a dream team cup bearer And they’re literally sleeping on me No setup I’d like to reset this era Keep it on the green, keep it on my serum I cannot connect when I scare them With the middle of the night tent tear Born terror I look like a demonologist Necronomic and beyond I keep reading all of this So convenient is the drop that I can talk a lot of shit It’s a slice of my mind Lobotomous I’d like to live my life like a python Oh I think I might be asleep to the night sun They should not disturb me when my hide’s on Just another reason we should never turn the lights on I’m so far gone that I can’t go back to sleep (This home I loathe) My head is clouded and my will keeps getting weak (Where I feel like the backwards message on a window pane) I can’t go back and I can’t get through to you (This home I loathe) I need my life back and I’ll be who I want to be (Where I feel like the backwards message on a window pane)
9.
Palindrome 07:32
Once you say the room’s heavy, say it again in another way Into the heart, entangle a mammoth flower eclipse Slithering the window, becoming blinds After tying a knot in my hair, like anyone would Once you say you were happy, you think you already know You already know how to do it Kinda cash in hand, kinda how should I start? Tender rows of zeros Every spectacle contains the immanence of catastrophe We kill everyone who loves us Once you say the room’s heavy, say it again in another way Once you say you were happy, you think you already know Don’t you think that you never win Can’t you tell I need you to not let me tell you I just wanna be alone? The passion of destruction is a creative joy We kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them And the fears we ceaselessly cause The hypomania set in, another cycle of threats and Pair of satanical shut-ins, I hit the panic button I close the shutters, I shudder to think of what her thoughts found in gutters Muttered under breaths, I questioned my best intentions Taste of the tension, a bitter bullet i can’t rescind I better pull this sin from its beginning I’m obstinate, probably carcinogenic But I don’t own a place in no hearts, i’m just a tenant If i stand by my tenets, i’ll be alone with the remnants of failed relationships The feeling relayed is repentance I just gave her a word, she turned it into a sentence With no pretense of anything but never-ending vengeance I just wish i was forewarned I'd always be forlorn She was the apple of my eye, now she’s the eye of the storm But it’s I who feel scorned Fuck your warm words, nothing helps, I’m done And i’m still giving in Riding razors down my skin, writing musings in fissures Deepen nicks, wish to bruise and blister I’m the bloodletter, to feel better’s a fool’s fetter Won’t be resisting intent to injure Limp fist between two blocks of cinder With a wu-tang BLAOW, like I don't need these fingers Fuck it, stone to bone, I don’t need these digits I’mma roll up on the bank and make a final withdrawal All y’all see is the oddest of odysseys The curtain falls and I'm out of the scene This that salt the earth mentality They’ll drain the salt of the sea from my bloated lungs With trace of base agents on my tongue Disfigure my face so you remember me wrong And I killed off my name because I'm an only son It’s only aching from now on I’m taking every line that you said, breaking it down, shaking my head Be it the knife or the bottle, bet we’re both better off dead I’m a big flop, I'm pissed off, I should make the rhythm in my wrist stop Used to think I could do something worthy of a legend Now i’m ingloriously a victim of alleged Crimes, I'm resigned, so dead inside, I fell off the vine I’m not a sinner but don’t tempt me, my life is just empty Wish you had killed me, maybe I'll do it myself, Why is it I gotta die for you to get help? The last lesson learned, still touched the stove knowing it burned Worst of all, I don’t deserve this, no this is what I earned. What happened to that kid holding the bass? Wide eyed in fisheye lens, why’d I let that feeling pass? You’re right, it’s no surprise it’s my fault I wanted the assault, cause I know I'm not worth it I’m the judge and that’s the verdict

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released October 25, 2019

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