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Hoax Soul

by Pleasance House

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1.
And Going 04:57
I woke up today On earth, once again Working and breathing and eating and sleeping but rarely now speaking I ask why I’m still here Hemming and hawing Hoping for happiness, sinking back down to the madness, my silhouette, fear Ah, ah, ah Waves of emotion Falling down on me Back and forth endlessly Ah, ah, ah It creeps up on me Positive and negativity A pendulum ever swinging Oh life keeps moving All carillons and horns from the towers of men have not stopped So I’ll keep floating Around and around on this rock where the days keep on going and going and going and going and going around Or maybe I won’t I’m really not sure Is there a heaven, a hell, a beyond, or a place without scorn Oh I know I’m still here Walking and breathing Able to see all the beauty, the grieving, the wonder, the scheming of now Ah, ah, ah Bound by the cycle Up and down it seems The seasons keep on turning Ah, ah, ah Seismographic thinking Mind of April growing like the leaves But soon October’s calling Oh so soon the earthquake's coming And the waves will swallow us all up In two places I always seem to be But neither seems quite right to me But life keeps going And the bells of the towers, the sand in the glass will not stop So I'll keep floating Around and around on this rock where the days keep on going, the sun keeps on rising, the flowers keep blooming, the leaves keep on growing, the moon keeps on glowing And this is an incredible existence Just because it is an existence
2.
Primal Haze 03:37
Shimmering sequin dress Cherry red lipstick Eye shadow that lights your eyes like roman candle sticks Stunning look tonight You’re on fire babe Nothing can compare to your complete enthralling vicious gaze Oh I just want I just want I just want you in my primal haze I don’t want to think of the days that I can call my own I want a her so I could be half to a whole I don’t want to think of the way that I’ll sit alone On a desk chair throne till the sun dies out (I will take you to outer space Up to the moon I will take you to see the stars Out to infinity) You have to know the game But you have to know the truth: No one is so scary as the mind that makes the move Glowing radiant hair And your sunlit skin Parading around the room with that infectious grin Parlay paradise If I ever ask Will you walk beyond the curtain in togetherness at last Oh I just want Oh I just want You in my arms I know There’re still places we can go I don’t want to be alone again Again I don’t want to think of the days that I can call my own I want a her so I could be half to a whole I don’t want to think of the way that I’ll sit alone On a desk chair throne till the sun dies out (I will take you to outer space Up to the moon I will take you to see the stars Out to infinity) You have to know the game But you have to know the truth: No one is so scary as the mind that makes the move
3.
One hundred years from now A mecca of chromatic sights and sounds An automatic state of being Organic souls confound The brain of silicon controls the cloud No time or space, no limitation But I won’t be here for it No I can never know it I was born a 20th century child The past is laid to die The present not so far behind All cannot stop progressing forward Why must I see the world pass me by Once so young and amazed, that wondrous dream Now a fake of the smile, I stare to space with nothing to see No way to grow but older, weaker still In a window of wonder, laughter, pain Of a magical journey, cut too short, the bodies faint Your everything is a raindrop A dot of blue from afar A modicum in the madrigal of shooting stars One million years from now An ocean of emphatic acid towns Abandoned origin, decaying But we are everything The flesh is gone, the metal is the mean We are the cosmos, but can we sing Well I won’t be here for it And I can never know it I am just a 20th century child But I know that there’s still time to live it up And I know that I’m as young as I’ll ever be But my head is so far from the grounded place Can’t stop the need to escape the mortal face And I know that it’s still so damn early All these dreams are still so possible surely But my head is so far from a grounded truth All I want is to follow the sound of youth
4.
Recluse 03:50
Falling like an icicle in rain Towards the ground My dear I fear All I have is misery to give Anymore My dear It scares me I scare me when I’m lonely In the middle of my sinner’s machinations I don’t need you But the middle of the inner validation Cored, hollow through The heart Torn up and shattered to shards Gem state’s abated recluse I just want to go back home Spiral down like helicopter seeds Plant myself In weeds I feed Every single apathetic thought Make them true My dear It scares me I scare me when I’m lonely Creeping in the corner is a terrifying thought Displaying openly unspoken ways of seeing what we’ve got Nothing on this planet will be here when we’re lost Just ignore the end pretend your life will never be forgot In this beautiful dream we’re having In the middle of distracted entertainments I don’t need you But the symbols of my lonely trepidation Can’t stop their worming ways Becoming my thoughts today Ada’s perturbed recluse I just want to go back home
5.
Be This Way 06:12
Your mind can’t hold this weight She won’t come ‘round for you anymore You’ve made yourself a prisoner To another one, you’ve become enslaved But you must know she doesn’t matter You must know she doesn’t care anymore You don’t have to feel this way You don’t have to feel this way All the people, walking around, passing by you They’re not talking to you, no they’ll never get to know you, they’re just Part of your peripheral vision - just a figure Wonder who they are but know you’ll never know for sure All it takes is one, so they say, but who are they They’ll never be stuck in your shoes, they’ll never walk the road alone with you In a freefall one day; next day, high as heaven Get me off this see-saw, I don’t need to be a happy hellspawn Or angry angel No it’s okay, I’m right as rain Hyper-detached Never come back Suffocated by Everything and everyone, these sensory overloading times I just want to be normal for once I just want my head not to explode I can’t stop the overstimulation So I can’t help but watch my distance grow And yes, It’s hard Being on your own But I love to be alone This feeling, oil and water Of needing love with space Some room between embrace A balancing act, the plates would fall so hard I know it It’s all a circus, a whisper in my ear, ‘don’t blow it’ So why now even try, I say I hate my fucking mind, I say I hate my fucking mind, I say Your mind can’t bear this weight This world won’t stop for you anymore Don’t make yourself a prisoner You don’t have to play, by these modern rules Oh you must know it doesn’t matter You must know you’ll never be anyone So you don’t have to feel this way You don’t have to feel this way You don’t have to feel this way You don’t have to be this way You don’t have to be this way
6.
Animal 05:55
Can’t stay in place Now that it’s all changed again I don’t have to have a home Nomad, wanderer, made to roam Lately lying down with torment cluttering my head, I’ve found I can’t sleep at all, this recall casts a nagging doubt: A soul, Only in this lonely human body, material Tongue-tied, flawed and cast aside, yet so real and all I know All I know Am I just an animal Chemical reactions, DNA, synapses, are they the human soul Here to there Then there to gone Please don’t act like I belong Run away I’m still the same Somewhere is there more Is there more Rain is falling down, this flood is covering my head, right now Trapped within the physical, within the sensory I’m fed Take it all away, just let it go, all material Spirit, if you are at all, take me somewhere, where I’ll know Where I’ll know I am not an animal Beautifully distracted, pointless and erratic, only flesh and bone Am I not a spirit soul Infinite in purpose, somewhere weightless where all joy befalls Just keep moving Get closer Keep moving
7.
Holy Ghost 04:17
Holy ghost above the periphery Sewn by saltless people, in misery In a foreign land I feel the fire in my eyes From the way love was portrayed so wicked and cruel in mine In a future scene Where good people burn In a worthless life Of unending hurt In the foreign throes of fabled minds, just a little while It’s impossible to understand where the truth survives I just want to know what’s real I want us to be alright Your face under moonlight’s sheen Seeing the glow and wondering why You have to be lost to time A wrinkled then vanished light The ghost in the moonlight fades A wraith in the void is made Holy ghost, we’re just a little while Say a prayer tonight just to reconcile All the love I thought I had is near for a little while All my reverence for real love is clear for a little while
8.
Nought 07:06
I don’t want to break But I’ve never felt so fractured In my head There’s nothing to say I don’t want to think about this Bitter end I don’t want to think about what I don’t know Everything to chance, just let the darkest feelings go Something’s the matter with me at night I can’t quite see past the final light All things, the matter of which I know Should I stay to see what may grow I know I can’t take All these earthly tribulations Beating me dead I don’t mean to say I don’t see this world creating Some goodness But the voice inside surmises it’s all vain Contradicting thoughts abounding, goodness-contra-pain All things will go with the passing time Though so understanding, I ask why Somehow I have to overcome All these deathly thoughts of ends and dones I can’t stop now, stop now I can’t stop now, stop now Feeling the pressure The grip in which I’m caught Pulling me under The great infinite nought I’ll be a wanderer A lost and loveless cloud I’ll be your boredom Your gray impassive thought I DON’T WANT TO DIE (I CAN’T STOP NOW) Oh you know that sooner now the light is out I cannot breathe, I cannot cope, I can’t believe, I can’t make sense of this A mind, so real, is gone, there’s nothing left for me to say But maybe angels sing above, and maybe demons creep I don’t want to think about what I don’t know Everything to chance, just let the darkest feelings go I can’t help but think about what I can’t know Everything to chance, just let the moments ebb and flow But I don’t want to die I DON’T WANT TO DIE (I CAN’T STOP NOW)

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"Hoax Soul" is the fifth full-length album by Pleasance House. Recorded during a year of relative isolation in a Pacific Northwest enclave, the album is a streamlined artistic outpouring of some of the invasive, dark, and occasionally philosophical thoughts which transgress the human mind on a personal as well as on a universal level. The work stares head-on into the unknown, both musically and thematically, interweaving questions of human reality with a pressure cooker of sonic detail.

Culling hyper-dense, borderline-claustrophobic soundscapes, the sound on "Hoax Soul" feels almost akin to a big bang scenario - copious amounts of complex and densely packed energy, thoughts, feelings - finally being released, perhaps wildly and unpredictably, into the space it was always meant to inhabit. The result is an experimental art pop experience that feels both tightly wound, and also like it's about to go off the rails, ultimately encapsulating the listener with beautiful melodies, instrumentation, and of course, vocal harmonies.

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released August 21, 2020

Written, performed, recorded and produced between May 2018 and April 2019, at an apartment in Boise, Idaho, by Connor Burnett. The album cover was taken by Connor in Tokyo, Japan, in December 2018.

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