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The Digital Creature Sunset Amnesia Test

by Yimwu and the Dirty Eyelens

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godofspacetime A perfect record, up there with Dark Side of the Moon or In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and, much like OK Computer, hearing it for the first time changes the way you think about music. It is wholly original, but also instantly familiar. It has this sort of terrifying beauty to it that makes you feel more deeply than most music you’ll ever hear, and that will always draw you back to it, growing with you throughout your life. It’s a very special thing and I am grateful for it. Favorite track: Like a Tree.
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Afterbirth 06:17
There's some nights I hardly sleep I feel the light go out from me I hate to watch it slip right through my fingers But what's the use of holding back Something I obviously lack If it can't hold onto me Long after the sun has dried the earth We are still wet with afterbirth Our pride it breaks under the work We are not paid to have self-worth Sorry to spill all these words Upon your pretty little dress You swear your mind would never utter such Oh come on, don't make me laugh Everyone I know is cut in half Yes there's two in each and every one There's a good and there's a bad A dirty thought I know you've had Ma'am, there is an ugly side to life Slice down the belly, pick for meat There's enough for the world to eat This carcass covers life like a warm blanket You poke your holes, you let in light But my skin's just too thick tonight And I hate to lie Long after the sun has dried the earth We are still wet with afterbirth Our pride it breaks under the work We are not paid to have self-worth Keep the light on me and everyone so we'll agree That you never meant to hurt anyone
3.
They've got us wired to their living machines It keeps us from making a scene You're all glass eyed and unhealthy like me And I feel like I'm gonna scream Just a brain colored mess in my head In my head A brain colored mess in my head Like a dark mildewed nest Where the eggs are all dead A brain colored mess in my head Cables all underground where I step And satellites fill up the sky So many antennas all broken and bent Turn around and get poked in the eye Just a brain...
4.
Turtlebones 02:34
I can see it all from the hilltop The fire goddess wreaking all her havoc on the town Slowly working her way up to my land The fire and smoke inhabit all the places I have been Run on down to the edge of the river Swim so far I start to lose my strength and my control The fish are always there when you need them I grab a hold, they take me to their burrow in the sand I gather up the sticks and stones Along with all the turtle bones and I use them I look across and see a face Then rocks and gravel take it's place And I lose it all before the fire hits the ground
5.
As I draw this breath in vain And pour the filth from out of my brain You soak it up like little sponges Eager for the coming rain And you know not that it's there You're completely unaware You hoped for something more Like a piece to your mildewed and forgotten puzzle So let's just wallow in the mud We all wallow in the mud Come on you little pigs Let's wallow in the mud When the rain falls from the sky I wipe the scum from off my eyes And I crawl out into the open Among foreign speaking mice And I ask them why I'm here But they know no more than the deer Who run away each time Like they are any better A tisket a tasket We're locked inside this paper casket We'd cut out if we had knives Something to redeem these boring lives
6.
We squeeze a book into the point of a pen And all life's labors in our hands A billion words into my mouth Eternity inside a doubt And a God into our heads Everybody's doing without These are the things that I think about Have a problem work it out These are the things that I think about When everyone else screams and shouts You sit on back and figure it out now Oh can you tell me how to squeeze The book into the point of a pen A billion words into my mouth Eternity inside a doubt And a God into our heads The space in which I call my mind That passes through this piece of time Is circling and circling for a sign But the only thing that I can find Is the fact that we are the sign And that sign's just to big to fit in my mind So let's try our mind Yeah I am still talking about Things you've already figured out But I take my time I sort it out These are the things that I think about When everyone is freaking out You sit on back and figure it out now
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This is a lullaby for those who are in Hell I'll pray for you until the day I die This is a song I wrote, not written very well A long finger sticking down our prideful throats You hear the screams, you plug your ears They fill your lungs, your boiling tears Your body quaking with the sound If I could offer you relief By trading all my beliefs I'd gladly suffer when I speak This is a lullaby for those who are in Hell I'll pray for you until the day I die This is a song I wrote, not written very well A bullet to blow out our Christian minds Let's take a dip, what do we see? Three fourths of our family tree Was thrown into the angry void Now open up and swallow this They'd kill themselves for your holy piss They'd tear their skin for just one drop One drop to cool their tongue This is a lullaby for those who are in Hell I'll pray for you until the day I die This is a song I wrote, not written very well A knife for gouging out our sinful eyes Oh my God I beg of thee, please let Hell just be forgery Please let it just be man's worst lie Don't turn the key, don't lock the door Don't turn our mothers into whores I swear that they have died enough This is a lullaby for those who are in Hell I'll pray for you until the day I die This is a song I wrote, not written very well To show the crushing burdens of belief
9.
Put your clothes on It's time to wake up before the morning comes And I can't recall the last time we did this And woke up with the dawn Every day we're getting closer to the end So see the sun and smear your makeup And believe in our eternal youth I'll take you there tonight I want you to keep holding on to life Eternal youth, I know it's just a lie But honey we just don't have time to die Because when they come for me, they come for me I'll have this in my mind When they come for me, they come for me I'll be so alive When they come for me, they come for me I'll stare them in the eye Oh when they come for me, they come for me I want you by my side Let's lose these clothes Swim in the moonlight and wash away the death Because it clings too tight around my neck sometimes And I often forget that no one knows The truth like we do, what's written on our hearts So if we leave before the morning comes We'll find our place in eternal youth You took me there tonight You want me to keep holding onto life Eternal youth, I know it's just a lie But my friends it is the very best kind Eternal youth, I know it's worth a try To break this mold and try and live a life Because when they come for me, they come for me I'll have this in my mind When they come for me, they come for me I'll be so alive When they come for me, they come for me I'll stare them in the eye Oh when they come for me, they come for me I want you all by my side
10.
Oh Darlin 04:46
Oh darlin, darlin please Please help my mind Inside's an awful brew I mistakened for wine When hard times last this long Any question's fine Toss that rock right through The stained glass window of my mind Oh darlin, please darlin I'd better wait for you I've seen a lot of things But I have never seen the truth I felt God in the woods And I felt him in the lake I thought I felt in church But that could've been my mistake Love's a pretty payment Love's a pretty one Love's a pretty payment Some food for thinning ones Pass around and come on down Let's see what work needs done Oh lordy can you help I think I'm blind I know I've been no good It's no one's problem but mine They go to church on sunday I think that's fine Me I'd rather start my own Of mystery and rhyme Oh darlin, please darlin I'd better wait for you I've seen some awful things I think they qualify for truth The blind faith of our forefathers Just ain't good enough for me If knowledge is like fruit I pluck my pears right from the tree
11.
Like a Tree 04:31
Out of the sky you made your way to me As you descend upon the water And I've been waiting for hours Just to see what's really out there Because you're like a tree out on the cliff And I would climb out on you if My weight just wasn't far too much for you to bear So I'll send my words out on the breeze To flow between those withered leaves That cling to you despite the fact that winter came and left But words are just a compromise Of everything I want to find And sacred things I'm trying to keep close to me So I'll tell you that you're beautiful But ears can only hear a stagnant portion Of what my body offers you Praise be the lord is really just the same As the warm air on my neck when you're breathing out my name Suffer once with sin, suffer twice without But I can't seem to get that far without my doubt I was like a bird out on the sea An awful breeze kept pulling me Back out to the middle where I was before And then you came to rescue me You bore my weight on weathered wings And took me to the place where all life began You're beauty cut me like a knife That drains my body of it's life My blood becomes a river Rushing eager for the sea And there your blood will mix with mine And we'll discover all in time The mysteries of God and Love And lose our grip on death
12.
J'nana 07:20
Feel God open up my head Feel the light pour in on everything that's dead Feel the cool air blow right through Feel the wind dry up and blow away mildew And I don't need help from anyone When we're all blinded by the same sun I don't need help from anyone but me Because we don't need to die To wipe our dirty eyes There is a river in my mind And I dammed it up for a long time I dammed it up so I could see The stagnant lake of ideology
13.
I took a walk upon the morn Before the sun was high I traced the paths that I once knew The ones among the pines A vulture's song accompanied As trails began to fork And so I took the narrow path the dark and crooked sort Can you feel the sinking of our boat Lose our dead weight so we can stay afloat I climbed a hill before I quit And there a wooden cross did sit It hid among the dry dead grass And on it my name was writ' I shudder at the memory Of a day so black and cold The day I saw a strong boy die His life I was to hold But for freedom he was sold Can you feel the sinking of our boat Lose our dead weight so we can stay afloat He drove his stake into the ground And claimed to own my land So with sinister eyes I struck a deal As we shook bloody hands Tread lightly now as I walk the ground The ground where he now lays That was the day that I would trade A foothold for a face So hear my words and write them down You may not hear them again Discontent is the first step In the progress of a man

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Yimwu and the Dirty Eyelens' third release, their first and only full length album The Digital Creature Sunset Amnesia Test was recorded in 2005, but never officially released. To celebrate its ten year anniversary, the album is now being released for free.

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released February 21, 2015

Jamie McLane - guitar, vocals, drums (tracks 2 & 13)
Seth Luzier - keyboards, programming, samples, bgv's
Dan Wax - bass, bgv's
Carla Simpson - guitar, bgv's
Paul Dossey - drums
Doug Krafchik - bgv's

Recorded and engineered by Doug Krafchik
Mastered by Steve Austin

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