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Without The World

by Birds Of Passage

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1.
You 00:56
2.
scarlet monkeys and a scarlet letter, but no one wants to hear. but no one wants to hear. winter again. the doors are open, the rain falling. and all the music brings me down. alone again. my room is frozen, the world falling, and they don't miss me, i am bound to watch and wait, the scarlet letter let me leave with nothing. where'd they all go? no one wants me. gone and i am nothing. the scarlet letter and scarlet monkeys, all who want me; flies and junkies. flies and junkies. flies and junkies.
3.
it's all crazy, it's all crazy. stand in the middle, wane with them all. and don't bring me down, Fantastic Frown, hold me in a smile; expressions of a clown, directions from an empty space on the ground. don't try bring me down, Fantastic Frown, find me distorted, find me forsaken. fade from the callen, climb from the fallen, you won't bring me down, Fantastic Frown.
4.
let it in and let it out, it is not the end. don't forget the breeze today, don't forget the letter you promised to send. gone too deep cannot cry it all away. maybe it will be better in the morning, pray for a sunny day. what have i done? innocence gone. and you forgot the letter. and you forgot the letter. what have i done? innocence gone. this sleepless night tells me tomorrow it all won't be alright. gone too deep, can't even cry it all away. maybe it will be better in the morning, pray for a sunny day.
5.
Skeletons 03:53
candles and cigarettes and darkness paint sunsets, and the living shadows flicker through your bones. all that i knew then was good wine and smoking. while all your skeletons slept inside your bones. Red Thread and Morphine, if i couldn't find you again, should i trust me now or you? incense and silhouettes and starlight paint sunsets while your living shadows creep into my bones. Red Thread and Morphine, if you couldn't find me again, would you want her now or me? all that i knew then was summer and you friend, but now all your skeletons creep into my bones. Red Thread and Morphine, if i ever find you again, the skeletons are waiting for me.
6.
no worries and my bones are feeling fine, you tell me to find forgiven lines of time in the patterns on your face, for they're mine. what did i do wrong? for while you sing a pretty song it's just so insensitive to mine. climb this hill, something is not right with me. but i'm hopeful that while you're breathing deep your sensitivity's just asleep, not gone. what have i done wrong? you say you love me, but that tone is so unknown. no worries, are you really feeling fine? breathe deeply, because your rhythm is a rhyme and the patterns on your face, a sign.
7.
All My Lines 02:49
all my lines are nothing, why do i try again? your proportions are perfect, and when i'm drunk the mirror says i look ok all my lines are nothing, why do i try again? your proportions are perfect, and when i'm drunk i hear your blood lips say, "all your lines are everything. sing for me again. sing for me again." sing for me again.
8.
Heal 04:30
without me you say you get down so easily. but i don't want to be your opium, a dream in your delarium. why can't you just love me? it's too much now and i'm exhausted, but i can't dissolve this love i feel, so find in me your opium and heal. i love you so i'll live this tiring haze for you. and maybe when you wake you'll look at me, a dream in your reality, and simply love me. it's too much now and i'm exhausted, but i can't dissolve this love i feel. so find in me your opium and heal.
9.
whisper a word nobody else has heard, breathe me a breath, oh breathe me a breath of love that watched as i fell for you, to catch me as i catch you. i'll whisper a word nobody's ever heard and breathe you a breath, oh breathe you a breath of love to catch you as you catch me too, to hold me and never let go. never let go. never let go.
10.
My Own Mind 03:26
i don't need your lessons to tell me i'm broken and lost at the enemy's line. just leave it completely alone now; i make up my own mind. i will never be leather-bound. and i'll always make my own sound. so watch me forget your conclusions. my question is love and the answer is mine. just love me or leave me alone now. i make up my own mind. i will never be leather-bound. and i'll always make my own sound. i make up my own mind. i make up my own mind.
11.
those blackest winter nights, the cold fed all our feeling, hazes of our smoking made companions for the gin. those blackest winter nights, your lovely eyes despairing, you'd given up on hoping and the shadows you lived in. and creeping through the dark, looking for my heart, you were crippled by the cold, but you warmed my bones, darling. but you warmed my bones, darling. those blackest winter nights, the essence of you fading, but that deathly winter was the dawning of our spring. for creeping through the dark, holding out your heart, you were eaten by the cold, but you warmed my bones, darling. but you warmed my bones, darling.
12.
sweetheart, hold me like when we were lovers and careless, alone and raw. i walked always with you on my mind, warm in the breath of my sweet valentine. all i hoped for here by my side. lying in sunshine, fallen in love. choose me gently, undo the skin; this is my favourite way to spend the day. sweetheart, hold me like when we were lovers and careless, alone and raw.

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"LO-FI MINIMALISTIC SHOEGAZE / EXPERIMENTAL POP WITH DRONE INFLUENCES

I hear the cry
Of their voices high
Falling dreamily through the sky,
But their forms I cannot see.

For someone who thinks it’s difficult to describe music in general it’s even more difficult to describe the soundscapes of BIRDS OF PASSAGE. The influences of Alicia Merz – the girl behind BIRDS OF PASSAGE – are her memories, breathless-inspiring cold winds, the smell and atmosphere of a spring day, smoking cigarettes, sunshine and shadows. As a mixture of all these elements and a minimalistic experimental instrumentation you could describe her music as follows: sometimes shy, sometimes more energetic (“Fantastic Frown”) but always intensely and extremly private. Listening to her debut record WITHOUT THE WORLD is like sharing one long day with Alicia and her thoughts in the diverse landscapes of her home country New Zealand.

Alicia doesn’t need the bombastic spectacle of a band to evoke emotions – with the help of different instruments, used in a minimalsitic way and combined with field recordings she doesn’t create specific songs – she builds up a mood. You maybe can describe BIRDS OF PASSAGE as a singer songwriter for people who don’t like singer songwriter music. There’s no typical song structure, there’s no melody to chase after – but there’s a development which absorbs you and which makes you start to think about elements you block out in your everyday life.

From their distant flight
Through realms of light
It falls into our world of night,
With the murmuring sound of rhyme.

If you like SLOWDIVE, COCTEAU TWINS, SIGUR RÓS you’re maybe enjoying Alicia..."

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released March 18, 2011

written, produced and recorded by Alicia Merz.

"...a singer songwriter for people who don’t like singer songwriter music." - Denovali

"...It is an album that would equally please fans of Aidan Baker or thisquietarmy as those of Sigur Ros..." - Fluid Radio

"without the world combines synthetic and natural drones with delicately lush vocals to create an eerie and absorbing atmosphere. The tone is simultaneously calming and unsettling, like the nervous experience of sailing a quiet river in dense fog." - The Silent Ballet

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lo-fi, minimalist, ambient artist in voluntary exile since 1985

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