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On Nature

by Mortal Thing

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1.
Habitat 03:26
It’s feeling likely that I couldn’t be anything No I shouldn’t be everything And its like that in this fucked up world That gives me a melody So take the fight right to the hate I keep on writing but I must be really trying And like a summer solace I’m only capable of crying You must think i’m the tired kind And that’s okay One act, even that Makes me feel that I’m off track Im lingering long in the moment And I’m lying on my back It’s a fact, I’m only half But that’s okay, I’m still intact I'm pulling the sea to my ankles Hoping for a habitat One act, even that Makes me feel that I’m off track Im lingering long in the moment And I’m lying on my back It’s a fact, I’m only half But that’s okay, I’m still intact I'm pulling the sea to my ankles Hoping for a habitat I’m a collection of moments I think i’m losing my focus I’m not a keeper of omens I think I’ve chosen neurosis I can be better My ears no longer linger The earth is drawing me deeper In thousands of pounds of pressure I’ll probably stay together I hate this weather One act, even that Makes me feel that I’m off track Im lingering long in the moment And I’m lying on my back It’s a fact, I’m only half But that’s okay, I’m still intact I'm pulling the sea to my ankles Hoping for a habitat One act, even that Makes me feel that I’m off track Im lingering long in the moment And I’m lying on my back It’s a fact, I’m only half But that’s okay, I’m still intact I'm pulling the sea to my ankles Hoping for a habitat I can see Under the trees I am free Like the fallen leaves One act, even that Makes me feel that I’m off track Im lingering long in the moment And I’m lying on my back It’s a fact, I’m only half But that’s okay, I’m still intact I'm pulling the sea to my ankles Hoping for a habitat
2.
The pendulum arrives Just as it tries To grasp onto destination In finding inner reformation A wavering whisk goodbye There is a cry When it leaves as it arrived Bound for endless repetition The burden high And I’ve lost it again A pass in the wind And it takes all my sins The concept flat But the world taken in The lesson lost And the destiny thin The solemn sigh Can be heard once again Ceremoniously marking A pass in the wind Objections unfound The course on rebound Takes pride in the life And the strife of indecision The burden high And I’ve lost it again A pass in the wind And it takes all my sins The concept flat But the world taken in The lesson lost And the destiny thin I never thought to wake My brain is a dangerous place I used to wish that I could take All the lights and blind myself And my car was filled with snakes I tried to go but they swallowed my keys It’s hard to know if I’ll go straight In the night I learn to see The burden high And I’ve lost it again A pass in the wind And it takes all my sins The concept flat But the world taken in The lesson lost And the destiny thin
3.
Multitudes 03:17
Heartache is The smell of freshly picked tomatoes Still on the vine And the taste of mint leaves grinding between my teeth While the morning forgets the dew It placed there in the night And heartache is so quiet that The rustle of the earthworm becomes Louder than the cry of a bluebird Still apologetic Heartache feels like canvas sheets Laid out on a bed of raindrops and straw And lastly, I think Heartache looks like nothing Like a funhouse mirror in a Room cloaked in black All it was, was all I had I thought myself the strongest man This honeycomb, I find my home And my love is so alive I am a skeleton I’ve been so out of my element I’m no pessimist This shit is evident It’s my development, obviously I’m not yet relevant, honest I see I’m leaving you hesitant, coming from me I thought that meant a bit I’m a perfectionist and recently that’s been my main impediment I wish that we had known each other both when we were ten In the fall, I grew my craft And all my want a love repast To fill and gloat, I know I won’t For all the time is on my side
4.
Mortal Thing 03:05
And she was flawless in her gaze And just like me she left her ways Sometimes a lover knows your face But a stranger might know just the same She left me wishing I was staying In that city ever changing And I’d never sleep Yeah, that's just like me So is it typical to see The living life that couldn't be And get too close to getting free Of all the pain that follows me And is it critical to think I'm just a ghost inside machine A mortal thing stuck in the ring And something else right in between She asked me what it was I wanted From this life I've only started Cause all my efforts leave me haunted Am I a shell if that's my calling? And when I told her there was music She smiled and said she heard it too But it was world's away we left it So then began another tune So is it typical to see The living life that couldn't be And get too close to getting free Of all the pain that follows me And is it critical to think I'm just a ghost inside machine A mortal thing stuck in the ring And something else right in between When she kissed me I let go Of all the things I'd never know Cause living life right in the present Means I'd never have resentment Thinking in my head I thought I knew the way to love myself I wish upon a revelation Where we could be parallel I’m barely in the moment And I know it always shows I know I’m carrying this focus Like its all I ever feel, I’m asking So is it typical to see The living life that couldn't be And get too close to getting free Of all the pain that follows me And is it critical to think I'm just a ghost inside machine A mortal thing stuck in the ring And something else right in between
5.
Wild 02:43
The docile wild Sleeping without wont Swells the visage Of lucid answer As kindled fire A moth like desire Does arise deep In the heart of man As he looks on Expecting nothing From the licking flames
6.
Looking to the shadow in the well To find out how far I can really walk I wanted to tell someone but I fell And now the water makes it hard to talk Strike a match to light up all these walls Telling me those words I thought I knew Like the sun I fell into the jaws Of that ever unrelentless blue Am I here oh am I here to lay Myself into this ocean whence I came Will the lonely people know my name Or will it only rest upon my grave Waking up the mountain from its sleep Asking it for wisdom of the sky But the rocky slopes were much too steep And now I'm left with words I'll never write Far into the earth I know I've gone Tell me is it strife inside my head If the fire clears it won't be long So tell me is it love that I have bred Am I here oh am I here to lay Myself into this ocean whence I came Will the lonely people know my name Or will it only rest upon my grave
7.
Taking it back, I know I’m something Even though I’m on my own Looking up facts to keep me stable Tell me I can go alone Picking a story, it’s a fable Weeping through the telephone Ima relax, am I not able When will I be going home Oh I’m, I’m just a ghost Whose tattered heart can’t seem to show Tell me you know Where I’m supposed to want to go I’ve been alone For so long I’m missing all my bones I swear I’ve tried To wake up like I’m still alive But my fucking pride Has wound up callous to my mind It’s just a lie That it gets easier with time Cause I never died But death keeps telling me its fine I can make a dollar but I’m belly up in water And I’m thinking that I’ll never be a meaningful marauder But then I can make a monster and then send it to the slaughter Cause I’m frankenstein, I’m feeling fine, I kept all of my fodder I can be a leaver but I’ve got myself a fever And it’s keeping me from wishing that I were a better dreamer Cause I’m holding back my leisure, I’m a perilous achiever And the feeling in my heart is that I’m only getting deeper I’m passively dissonant I’m just balancing on my skin And the rate at which I’m growing Has me thinking so crystalline And I’m feeling like a bother You know I’d rather be a scholar There’s a moment so eminent When I’ll finally be intimate With the hollow in my heart And all my art will be articulate I’m feeling like a bother You know I’d rather be a scholar Yo I got these demons baby And they navigate the way I’m thinking lately I get haunted by em, yeah they seem to chase me I know yes and no, I’ve never seen a maybe Cause I innovate, within a cage Begin to hate, my inner rage My thoughts alone, can penetrate This heart of stone, locked in a case Everything I thought I kinda knew Wasn't really what I thought it was Now whenever we make minor moves Haters hating on the thought of us Pick up the paper though Watch me I find a way Itching to break the mode Even if i’m delayed Things that I hate to know Making my mind a case So when I chase, I go get it like andele Andele, feeling some kind of way This is what I’m up on This is what I’ma say what They get afraid so they nominate us Living vicarious, I’m who they trust Look, I got a patient mind But it's paper thin, yet I take my time While I make amends So I bake up rhymes You can take it in, take it in You can take it or leave it or break it to pieces Lean on religion and pray to your jesus If you see kindness don’t take it for weakness Learn this in time and I pray that you heed this And I’m feelin unstable Living in a world where everyone hates you But they love to see you be the one fable That they talk about like they were once faithful Done, I think i’m done Chasing acceptance holding my tongue I’m just an artist loading my gun I took a shot and I know what I’ve done I’m just really tryina grow, giving everything I know Put it all up on the line Watching everything unfold I’m passively dissonant I’m just balancing on my skin And the rate at which I’m growing Has me thinking so crystalline And I’m feeling like a bother You know I’d rather be a scholar There’s a moment so eminent When I’ll finally be intimate With the hollow in my heart And all my art will be articulate I’m feeling like a bother You know I’d rather be a scholar
8.
Brevity 01:55
Model universe A champion of Perishable importance Standing motionless In the thickened sky On your rusted swivel Denying the wind And letting the rain soak Into your grains Silence you sought Their condolences brought As a vase of flowers Your eyes as soft tipped darts Aimed for the prize Unattainable Saw under the petals An inscription of time Of Wilt and Ruin When mourners departed You went to the stove To strike out that match But that future had passed And then became present And left you to languish in fear The eternal brevity Of passing years
9.
Ancient loss has left it dancing, in the fire Careful cost has filled the ether, with desire So kept close In the burl And the hush It speaks jest To a friend While the brush Dancing lithe In its clutch Can't pretend That it wants To grow old In the shade Of the painter's Palm But it does anyways But it does anyways So left light From the crop And the vale It made time Wallow still While the quail Wanders on To avail Of the thrill Of the sky Just to fall Unlike Icarus Too close To the sea And it’s under the waves And It’s under the waves Ancient loss has left it dancing, in the fire Careful cost has filled the ether, with desire So made marred By the fault Of a seer It was quick To the track While the deer Blew away Like a fear Looking back To escape From itself As it never had done So it grew To the sun And it's up in the haze And it's up in the haze So felt fast As the sea Drew ashore It was gone When I woke While the lore Of the land I had bore Was afloat And you left On that ship Though you never were here Just the quail And the deer I just hope that they stay I just hope that they stay Ancient loss has left it dancing, in the fire Careful cost has filled the ether, with desire Ancient loss has left it dancing, in the fire Careful cost has filled the ether, with desire
10.
I've been too late With a heart of stone I've lost my age In the metronome I'm just lost I'm just lost I've been too strong Is that even a thing I guess I was wrong About loving good dreams I thought I threw myself Like the wind has a gust I thought I loved a girl It turned out to be lust I'm not gone I'm not gone And I let it atrophy My delicate alibi But I haven't been out to sea So I couldn't be just tired I'm just lost I'm not gone And I haven't quite given up But I'm also not sure I haven't grown too tough To forget I'm insecure I'm just lost Am I gone But maybe I'll never go To the edge of the wild And maybe I'll never know If I can really love dying
11.
In my sleep I’m awake And the night has turned into the dawn
12.
I Am Young 02:50
Waking up fast Feeling too gone Will it ever last Cause I'm only young I am young I am young Ascend till I clear my heart Live in the unknown The evil will cover this even when I resist Looking for love and I’m losing intelligence Maybe it’s crazy to just call it lazy But thinking about you has everything hazy I’m getting too spiritual, lost in the lyrical Moments away from a fall and a miracle Keeping the call to a life so satirical Has me in walls, as I try to stay visible Fighting a fighter with burnt up desire And freeing a prisoner full of a fire The demons don't wonder if anyone's watching When hired and tired they all just keep working And further from fallacy, meaningful honesty Wraps up my prophecy covered in modesty Barely a prodigy, no I’m no prodigy I’m just a mortal thing sending apologies Dissent and reclaim art Live till your tombstone Waking up fast Feeling too gone Will it ever last Cause I'm only young I am young I am young

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released March 20, 2018

Cover art painting by: Alex Miller
Cover Design/Layout by: Nevan Doyle

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Mortal Thing Corvallis, Oregon

Mortal Thing is the indie pop project of Brian Blythe. Based out of Corvallis, Oregon, Blythe is a 22 year old producer, songwriter, and composer. Approaching his sound with the emotional candor of a singer songwriter and the rhythmic pulse of an alternative hip-hop artist, Mortal Thing crafts a kind of indie pop that doesn’t easily find itself a single definition. ... more

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