Beautiful and Tragic, by Adam Neely and Ben Levin

Beautiful and Tragic

by Adam Neely and Ben Levin

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dharmalogos Most of this album is a collection of clever and catchy musical ideas from the realms of jazz, electronic, and experimental music; but the title track is something else entirely. It's a beautiful work of art with danceable drums and synths establishing a floor for Justice Cow to tell a story about her perspective with her beautiful voice. This is artpop if I have ever heard music that could be described as such. Favorite track: Beautiful and Tragic (feat. Justice Cow).

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1.	Truck 03:42	buy track
2.	OWO 02:41	buy track
3.	Beautiful and Tragic (feat. Justice Cow) 03:47	buy track
4.	Fire Jewels (feat. Fire-Toolz) 03:35	buy track
5.	Horse 03:08	buy track
6.	Goodbye 03:12	buy track
7.	New Song! 02:24	buy track
8.	Vitamins 01:57	buy track

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Adam and I wrote and recorded this album in 24 hours live on Twitch on February, 9th 2021

Lyrics:

TRUCK

Sunless
Waking in a wall
Fumble around so the fingers can thaw
Dreamless
Just moving out loud
Meat in a market sold or thrown out
Corpses
Still beating is all
Running in shit with my head on a quarter
Symbol
Slot machine made
Ringing and riotous I’m getting paid

And now you can say did it
And you can say did it good
And you can pat yourself on the back like a big boy
Like a big boy should
I’m gonna beef it up
Get all my buddies off
When they get checks in the mail like the CFO of Microsoft

Tipsy truck outline
Through the dust we drive
Now behind
That’s life
People roam people die
Sour Patch
Gas stop
Filling up
Getting lost
Scary pump
Lost some
Still we ride
Still we run

That’s life
People roam people die
Sour Patch
Gas stop
Filling up
Getting lost

Casted
White tape on the lines
Can’t drive safe when the driver is blind
Forcing our way cause collected minds force fate for a pile of dimes
Now pass this
Always stretching the vine
Hording the grapes and chugging the wine
Resigned to the life of the kiss of the climb
The gem in the mine
The cave collapsed the breaks did grind
And we danced our way to ancient times
To fight or flight to no divine
Though we find
We live a crime
A cold collective lie
Collected by
Art collectors buying
The spine of a sharp decline into the grime
But we eat it
Motherfucker when we eat it we eat it we eat it

Tipsy truck outline
Through the dust we drive
Now behind
That’s life
People roam people die
Sour Patch
Gas stop
Filling up
Getting lost
Scary pump
Lost some
Still we ride
Still we run

That’s life
People roam people die
Sour Patch
Gas stop
Filling up
Getting lost

OWO

Painter put me in a police play
A police play with good and naughty doubling
Pain would plant me in blouse like a movie guy
With a good idea
With a good idea a good eye

Lately it’s a tapeworm telling me OWO
Well you’re the best place I could ever really hope to be
You know
Well space is full of lousy destiny
Lonely
My bug’s got my back incredibly

Data makers we are we are
We are good ideas
Taken from the ether
Mating for our data living out our years
I’m tasty

Lately it’s a tapeworm telling me OWO
Well you’re the best place I could ever really hope to be
You know
Well space is full of lousy destiny
Lonely
My bug’s got my back incredibly

BEAUTIFUL AND TRAGIC

Tasting your breath on the wind
Grinding your salt in my seams
I cannot bleed free
With metal shavings

Send me a prayer send me a hug
I am now wrapped in hair and curdling

I use my outdoor
I use my big girl voice
I bite my way through
I use my vice grip and I don't stop tightening it

It's beautiful and tragic
It's beautiful

I am a wall
I am a twig
I am a hole
I am a mannequin
And I would trade anything
Letting my eyes fade off
Letting my face go oily and twisted
Sticking my fists through it

I use my outdoor
I use my big girl voice
I bite my way through
I use my vice grip and I don't stop tightening it

It's beautiful and tragic
It's beautiful

Don't like the sound
Don't like the fever
I'm not around to force you in deeper
We both are spotted and speckled with evil
Only enough to get deleted

It's beautiful

It's beautiful and tragic
It's beautiful

FIRE JEWELS

Careless
Bleating sheep
Pawing at my door
Selling me sweets
Selling me sweets

Before these clouded streets
We’re clouded in the sink
Oops, you’re no longer syncing
Please check your connection
One cloud
to rule them all
We’re sinking into the cloud
We’re sinking into the cloud

Reset the locks
I can’t go home anymore
I’m somewhere far far far far far far
Far far far far far far far far far

Before these clouded streets
We’re clouded in the sink
Oops, you’re no longer syncing
Please check your connection
One cloud
to rule them all
We’re sinking into the cloud
We’re sinking into the cloud

HORSE

Giving someone a chance to give it up
The wagon chasing the horse along
Road dying
In the distance, it’s a tunnel
It’s a manhole
I thought I was walking through it
My feet getting wet
But I was falling through a cloud of sweat
From the horse’s tongue
To the wagon chasing it

Chasing it

GOODBYE

No gas in the tank
No lights and I ain’t stopping
No gas in the tank
No lights and I ain’t pulling out of this
Downward sink
You grabbed my arm and pulled me through
Oh I cursed you for being real
Just like me
And doing nothing
And doing nothing

We met in the diner
I never saw you without your crown before
We didn’t talk and we didn’t know what we were missing in each other
We count high
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye...

NEW SONG!

We’ve been getting put on the cracks
We’ve been getting put in the cracks so much

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They won’t let me live I’m hungrier than ever

VITAMINS

Combing my dog’s hair in the sunroom
Making doggy feel like a rug
Curly critter just liker her mama
Walking my dog feels really good

In the summer I am taking my vitamins
In the winter I am actively hiding

Touching my face up with a ruler
Measuring the damage I’ve done
What’s to stop me from drifting over
Freezing like it’s pointing a gun

In the summer I am taking my vitamins
In the winter I am actively hiding
In the summer I’m blazing like lighting
And in the summer I know that winter’s already coming
Somehow I invite it.

credits

released March 22, 2021

Songs by Adam Neely and Ben Levin
Lyrics and vocal performance on the track called Beautiful and Tragic by Justice Cow
Lyrics and vocal performance on Fire Jewels by Fire-Toolz
Drums by Josh Bailey
Winds by Josh Plotner

Mixed by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio
Mastered by Randy Roos at Squam Sound

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