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spaced out
03:17
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how can i try to strike a balance with myself and everything around?
weather's sunny, but i'm empty, at least when i can't see what i've found
i am on another planet, sometimes i miss home but Earth is nice
simply sitting, meditating on this beauty is without a price
mmhmmmm
gonna have some fun today
we'll see something new today
i'm in love with you
love is lovely, but consuming, sometimes i feel i'm without a voice
just a hint of hesitation, but i love her, so i have no choice
a life of quiet desperation is for those who are afraid to live
but i prefer to risk everything that i own and lose all i can give
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sweetwater
03:16
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sweet sweet water running
over solid rock
you know i was made to love you
if only for today
and if i could i'd reach the sun
and stop the fucking clock
but for now forget tomorrow
before the present fades away
listen to what i have to say
you're all i think about today
the sun rises in my chest when you touch me
and i can't help but laugh
if i could, i'd give you
all you'd ever need
never knew this love existed
or could happen to me
i surely must have done some good thing
to earn this kind of luck
that you could look at me and love me
and you would give a fuck
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state good intentions!
04:30
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give me time to refresh my mind
alone i have found that i’m not hard to find
conditioned to believe my thoughts are unsafe
and should safely securely be all locked away
soon i’ll discover i’ve got so much to give
but it all disappeared with my fear to live
am i crazy for letting this fuck up my brain?
i would say that my father was just as insane
and he raised me to become the wreck i am now and he
set up the stage for me and i took the bow
and they laughed and they laughed at me, i was the joke
then we all became roses
and vanished with smoke
is it all a dream?
make it clear to me
state your intentions
is this only chemical or
divine intervention?
whatever you call it i’m
breathless and weak, give me
all your attention
and don’t let me speak
for our looks are a language
all on their own
and love isn’t silent, even
when i’m alone
i can feel you, your presence is
under my skin and it
warms me, i’m shivering, burnt from within
and if life has no meaning then why do you try
always to please me? someone tell me why
a lover like Bel could love someone like me
if the universe didn’t know good energy?
Is it all a dream?
isn't this a dream?
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everybody loses
03:57
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why don't you stop your crying
you know those tears don't belong to me
are you afraid of dying
you always seemed so strong to me
i know the future's hazy
but it don't take much to see
that girl you drive me crazy
and question who i thought i would be
ooo, close your eyes
i'll be waiting there, in the back of your mind
i can't pretend i'm grinning
whenever you talk to me this way
nobody here is winning
we're both left with nothing else to say
ooo, close your eyes,
i'll be waiting there, in the back of your mind
pick up the phone, don't leave me here
pick up the phone, don't leave me here, come on
life in this house is lonely
i can hardly get up out of bed
i know that you don't owe me
but can't we just be in love instead?
ooo, close your eyes,
i'll be waiting there, in the back of your mind
...everybody loses!
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Polimana Upland, California
Polimana (a Hopi name, meaning "Butterfly Maiden") is an independent pseudo-psych-folk-soul-singer-songwriter based in SoCal and currently mowing your lawn.
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