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Ghosts Of The Forest
01:16
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A story for those by the wayside
A dream left to chase for the lost
The edge of the woods is the border
From where none come back, once they've crossed
The ghosts of the forest in summertime
The spirits that wait by the wall
The voiceless that long since ran out of time
They wait for the whole world to fall
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Knotholes
03:26
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Instrumental
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Trouble Bringer
03:43
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Waking, sleeping
Faking, sneaking
Campfire stories make the night last longer
Words so heavy
Arbitrary
Travel with me through my younger days
Time is over
Getting older
But ghosts still travel back from time to time
See them linger
Trouble bringer
Give to me what they cannot take back
Rising, falling
Heart is beating
Mysteries I learn to understand
Mind set, changing
Rearranging
Years go by, now poised to be a man
Time is over
Now I'm older
But ghosts still travel back from time to time
See their faces
Hear their voices
Take from me what I cannot get back
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Introvert
03:51
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These days it's normal to stay inside
While the calls of nature taunt you
Through the open window
Everything that used to be so much fun on its own
Has been crammed in a little black box,
Now it's antisocial
I think back to childhood
And simpler times with fondness
I miss talkin' on the phone,
And hearin' your voice
I miss playin' 'round with friends,
Out in the sunshine
These days I'd be too afraid to try
And I'm isolated from you
I'm an introvert, it seems
I just need to be alone
Is that okay?
Is that okay? (x3)
I miss when the mailman
Didn't just bring garbage and bills
Remember taking our bikes down the block,
And racing in a loop?
I'm poor now
'Cause they know how to market nostalgia
But when it comes to these modern times,
I'm out of the loop
When I think about the future,
All I wanna do is fall asleep
I'm afraid for the future
All I wanna do now is sleep`
Is that okay?
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Enter The Dream
01:59
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Instrumental
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Rapid Eye Movement
02:06
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"Rapid eye movement is the stage of sleep characterized by rapid saccadic movements of the eyes. During this stage, the activity of the brain's neurons is quite similar to that during waking hours. Most of the vividly recalled dreams occur during R.E.M. sleep."
Let me dream away
Let me dream away
I find that lately I ain't got a reason in me
I ain't got no motivation
To get out of fucking bed no more
No more
I find that in my dreams
I stray into another world
Spirits of the past can see me,
And I'm not alone no more
No more
No more
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I never thought that that sleep could ever mean that much to me
I slept in late when I grew up because my dreams were my safety
Now that I am older I find that I'm torn between two worlds
When I'm asleep it's confidence, but when I'm awake it is
Paranoia
Paranoia
Paranoia eating all my dreams
How could I do wrong?
I had it in me to do so much right
But it's all behind me now
I've hurt for so long
I've emptied my capacity
To forgive you for what you're gonna do
How could I do wrong? / Paranoia (x2)
I see it now, my dreams encumber mediocrity
As it becomes the thread that envelopes my choices day to day
Where did I go wrong? I look over my shoulder
Every time I get this feeling, I expect to see you there
Paranoia
Paranoia
Paranoia eating all my dreams
How could I do wrong?
I had it in me to do so much right
But it's all behind me now
I've hurt for so long
I've emptied my capacity
To forgive you for what you're gonna do
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Over The Edge
01:04
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A story for those by the wayside
A dream left to chase for the lost
The edge of the woods is the border
From where none come back, once they've crossed
The ghosts of the forest in summertime
The spirits that wait by the wall
The voiceless that long since ran out of time
They wait for the whole world to fall
That story stuck with me through my younger days
Now the dream has escaped from the lost
I see soon we all will run out of time
And none will come back once they've crossed.
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Sagging raw emotions
Carved a hole embedded in my cerebellum
Guilt of all the wrongs I've done
Is gnawing at me as I close my eyes
Slowly I've observed the world
Implode on itself, oh so deplorably
My confidence has dissolved
From corrosive paranoia through my lies
Paranoia
Paranoia
Paranoia
Paranoia eating all my dreams
Walking through the streets alone
I find it hard to crush the doubts that linger
How could I do so much wrong?
I can't forgive myself for what comes next...
Society has shapen all the obstacles
I haven't overcome yet
And a voice inside my head seems to be screaming unto me::
Why do I try?'
Paranoia
Paranoia
Paranoia
Paranoia eating all my dreams
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Artificial Death
06:24
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We've got artificial life
And artificial death
Under the hateful eye
There won't be nothin' left
A shred of nature here or there
Our social ignorance
Mass marketed propaganda
To keep us all content
Everybody's got a cell phone,
Everybody's got balls
When they're all anonymous
Everybody is their own man,
Everybody likes to play
Pretend psychologist
Everybody's on the same fucking medication
Killing who the government
Decides they don't need taxes from
Everybody's in the shitter
While the rich are getting richer
And our ideologies are truly worlds apart
Wake up! (x4)
We've got artificial hearts
And glassy artificial eyes
They haven't figured out the brain yet
So they just watered down our minds,
Over generations
It's hard to say where I begin
And where my paranoia ends
And part of me is sure
That we could open up the door
If we could only reach the deadbolt at the top
Maybe I'm just high
But I've never felt so low
The air is poisonous,
The water's fucking salted,
And the green grass has been replaced with astro turf
The food is full of fucking chemicals
And pesticides that half the world has banned,
But still, we all play ignorant
They fucking got us
So we're always armed and paranoid,
So angry little kids can take some lives on top of theirs
And everybody's still on Ritalin and pot
Because there's nothing left as human beings
We can conjure pleasure from
Wake up! (x2)
Someone tell me what it takes
To measure up against the men in black?
Someone tell me how to stand out from the crowd
If I refuse to be the man in white?
I never thought I'd see the day
When we became the things we hate under their influence
They're gonna watch us from above,
They're gonna watch us from inside,
And I just wanna find a way for me-to-be down and out
Wake up! (x2)
We've got artificial life
And artificial death
Under the watchful eye
There won't be nothin' left
It's hard to say if I'm awake
Or if my body is asleep
And neither world is preferable,
They each come with a semblance of security
That's wholly falsified
It's hard to say where I begin
And where my paranoia ends (x2)
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Instrumental
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Take Me Back
05:46
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Take me back
To the days of my youth
To the days of my blissful ignorance
The sounds were clearer
And the sights were still unseen
And there weren't all of these shades of gray between
Between the black and white
I wish I'd never seen the light,
'Cause then I wouldn't know
That I'm in the dark now
Getting by on borrowed memories
Of days that long since became a blur
Of moments never spent with her
Of shit irrelevant
In it's entirety
It's hard to tell
What's really worth the time
My motivation
Fleeting moments
In the timeline of events
That give me meaning,
Give me reason just to shine
Take me back to yesterday!
Take me back to days that feel a million miles away!
Just for a little while!
I don't wanna buy nostalgia,
I just wanna feel like me again!
Take me back to the days that I sang
Or better yet the days I didn't, so I could do it all again
Moving forward, I will be the man I wanna be
Simplicity epitomizes me ,'cause happy is easy
Turn on the radio,
And let the memories play, yeah, oh
A song that takes me back,
A song that takes me back
Take me back to yesterday!
Take me back to days that feel a million miles away!
Just for a little while!
Just for a little while...
Just take me back.
Take me back!
Just take me back, yeah, oh...
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Chasing A Fleeting Dream
04:25
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Chasing the dream
As it disappears into the eastern sun on the horizon,
Running as fast as I can
To catch up with my dying hope and young ambition,
Never say never,,
'Cos never can hear you
And never is coming to punish your feelings,
Running in place
I've been chasing a fleeting dream
Over the hills and beyond comprehension,
I'm coming down! (x4)
Climbing the walls, I am seeking the spirits
That haunted my childhood , and shoved all this fear down my throat,
Spiraling down from the high I'm familiar with,
Boarding the catapult, ready to confront my ghosts
Fury and anger directed mistakenly,
Only now finding a method to channel this rage
All of this time I have hurt, and hurt others,
Now nothing but words occupying this folded old page
I'm coming down! (x8)
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Isoflurane
02:04
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A story for those by the wayside
A dream left to chase for the lost
The edge of the woods is the border
From where none come back, once they've crossed
The ghosts of the forest in summertime
The spirits that wait by the wall
The voiceless that long since ran out of time
They wait for the whole world to fall
The world fades to black as my eyes close
For now paranoia will rest
The ghosts of the forest in summertime
Have come now to end my regrets
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Long Gone
04:03
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Looking over everything, from high up on the wall
The treeline spans the distance I can hardly see beyond
The world threw me it's problems, and I threw 'em all right back
Got tired of living vicariously through my pen and pad
The shotgun 'gainst my sternum said the game was finally through
Well I watched it go and spread my wings to come on home to you!
A circle in the distance crowns the faded ebony sky
The shot rang out for miles, heard the sirens start to cry
As I laid back in that cool October soil, then I thought
That I might have had the answer, but that information's lost
And far below down in the city, cars are screeching through the night
While the gunner laid his life down on that rusted army knife
And I felt the river flowing, all returning to the land
And I spat my bitter loathing out, releasing it all at last
But just as I began to know the first moments of peace
A blue clad angel grabbed my neck and he chose to say his piece
They asked who pulled the trigger, and I swore it wasn't me...
... Then I laughed and said I lied!
I lied down by the wall, to hear the voices call!
The ghosts of the forest, in summertime,
Are all long gone!
Well they threw me in a big white box and took me somewhere safe
I didn't care where we were going, my soul had left that tepid place
And they re-filled that empty basin with all the contents of their bags
With a needle they resurfaced all the fissures, cracks, and crags
So they filled me up with dopamine, and isoflurane too
And they sent me off to summer camp, with pills red, white, and blue
From there I watched the sunset, watched the warm hues fade away
Til it left me with the coldest skies of dark blue, black, and gray
And I sat in silent wonder of the stories that I knew
And I found myself debating if a word of them was true
So herein lies the ending, the summit of my fears
The spirits that I chased so long, won after all these years
They died!
I lied down by the wall, to hear the voices call!
The ghosts of the forest, in summertime,
Are all long gone!
I cried!
I lied down by the wall, to hear the voices call!
The ghosts of the forest, in summertime,
Are all long gone.
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Psiren Nova Scotia
Psiren (he/him) is a queer, independent singer, rapper, & producer blending indie pop with alternative hip-hop and jazz.
Imagine if Damon Albarn (Gorillaz), Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park), and Tame Impala produced a Michael Bublé record.
Photo by Catherine Grady.
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