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Tawny Maker
03:09
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Tawny Maker
All that she gave was all she had
she said life began with us
she said love began with us
mama draws on a hope I will be fine
I’ve got troubles can’t be seen
she’s got love that can redeem
all my minutes come twisted up
one day she’ll drink a final cup
tawny maker make or breaker
all my lows come out swinging for my highs
I’ll find space amongst the woes
I’ll give shape to ugly notes
all my minutes come twisted up
one day she’ll drink a final cup
she’s placed rubies deep in here
there’s no safety left in fear
tawny maker make or breaker
I’ve got troubles can’t be seen
she’s got love that can redeem
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Scattershot
03:40
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Scattershot
Every hair in place subdued
I’ll no longer wear tailored moods
a giant ebb and flow I’m swooping high and low
youth was a pencil sketch this feels indelible
I’d trade every gift I’ve received
for one day off the noble trapeze
I give myself to work I give myself to you
I am more than you can diagnose I’m spinning gold
climbing my way up from down below I’ll eat drink then go
grief is just love with nowhere to go grief is just love
y’know for some defeat is actually a victory
a long drawn-out war of attrition
I ideate and I flirt mostly it’s harmless inert
I author my own ghost I calculate the dose
I find relief in this pencil sketch thoughts aren’t indelible
I’d trade every gift I’ve received
for one day off the noble trapeze
can’t give myself to work can’t give myself to you
I am dislocated half-and-half created
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Anemone
05:13
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Anemone
I am an anemone flung open day and night
my calyx will not close down I absorb both dark and light
while I am raw from the latest bite chaos takes up arms
this was buried in my bloodstream enkindled by alarm
we are our own enemy we’re all open day and night
circadian oppression we absorb electric light
while we are raw from the latest bite chaos takes up arms
can you feel it turning in the bloodstream enkindling alarm?
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Safety First
03:15
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Safety First
I’ll absorb your fury sir
I’ll even take the blame
you rage on and I will
purr we’re colonising shame
I will accommodate buckle and tolerate
never emasculate to survive
heartbeat thumping I defer
it’s better for my health
you’re the weather I’m demure
and become distanced from myself
i’m so tired of being kind to angry men
safety first I’ve rehearsed like a maniac
i’m so tired of locking rooms up in me once again
safety first safety first safety first safety first safety first
movements come and movements go
walking on eggshells and tightropes
I will soothe myself myself
it’s not despair that hurts it’s hope
I’m so tired of being kind to angry men
safety first I’ve rehearsed like a maniac
I’m so tired of locking rooms up in me once again
safety first there’s no worse aphrodisiac
I will accommodate buckle and tolerate then I’ll self-medicate
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In Through The Walls
03:39
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In Through The Walls
I no longer trust my hunger
I’m feeling everything and nothing at all
I have clung to many pedestals
and every time I fall
I lose some skin in the game
it comes in through the walls
swallows me from the ground below
‘til I am no-one, and I am nowhere I have no control
it comes in through the walls
swallows me from the ground below
‘til I am no-one and I am nowhere
I have no resistance left in me
I’ve been something unbecoming
a siren on her knees who eats her feelings away
I have clung to many pedestals
and every time I fall I lose some skin in the game
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Ceridwen Speaks
06:14
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I’ll admit to spying if you’ll admit to knowing it
you’re in that mood where a drink won’t help but I know what will
come and take a big gulp of oxygen
remember be like water
y’gonna take big gulps of oxygen and let go
you’re not afraid of dying
it’s the living that scares the shit out of you
you cling on to your pendulum
sometimes you have to let the storm come
come and take a big gulp of oxygen
remember General you are mortal
y’gonna take big gulps of oxygen and let go
Back here night time
and you are in the deepest part of the ocean
resisting the pre-storm swell
a long vibration of the senses has loosened your peninsulas
lashed at your reefs
until you are a cork bobbing listless
a pale elated piece of flotsam lost in a foliage of caves
then thrown by the storm into the birdless air
you land and when you land you land hard and you land messy
green waters will breach your hull
scattering rudder and grappling hook
your waves rolling off their shutters
let seahorses escort you
let drowned men sink backwards as you tread and tremble though
delirious skies and bottomless nights
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Imago
04:47
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The Secret Of Joy
04:12
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The Secret Of Joy
I know I have a tendency to push you away
I’m trying to stay inside my skin and climb out at the same time
I never learn the names of birds
so I can discover their song on my own when I feel alone
I know I have dependencies on all the wrong things
I’m trying get out of my head and stay sane at the same time
but I perceive catastrophe in every moment in every day
that’s why I push you away
what will I fixate upon today?
I know I have a tendency to push you away
I’m trying to stay inside my day and climb out at the same time
nothing ever seems too extreme if it numbs me but that’s not the same as serene
i’ve learned that the hard way
what will I fixate upon today?
I know I have a tendency to push you away
I’m trying to stay inside my skin and climb out at the same time
I never learn the names of birds
so I can discover their song on my own when I feel alone
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