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Dragonheart

by Jason Awaken

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jaykfortyseven Nothing short of musical genius. Favorite track: Cornerstone (Gregarious).
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This Dream (of Consciousness) ------------------------------------------------------------ This dream runs deep and wide traversing diverse landscapes of timeless mind Nourishing roots, springing shoots, bringing forth life force from the sand sublime. Carving out cracks in the moon-lit meadows. Tracing out shapes not seen in the ghettos. Keeping that water running clean gotta get us a jug with a cap and fill it up while they let us. This dream of consciousness is taking me away This dream of consciousness gets me through the day The blood of the earth runs red in this dry riverbed making the most of deathless excrement. Settling sediment is evident. Self-immolation imminent. Solo cremation: main event. Heaven-sent. Gasoline streams between my eyebrows. Seeks the path least resistant straight down. Pooling up in puddles at my feet, highly combustible. Mixing with the mud in the street, swirling and colorful. This dream of consciousness is keeping me awake This dream of consciousness. Destiny awaits... Light a spark. Feel the heat. Test of will. Make a speech. Shut my mouth. Close your eyes. Be the change. Eulogize. Flames rise quick and pain changes perspective. Life lessons reflect a new directive Wait! Put me out! I changed my mind, savor life. Pain and strife don't circumscribe the full scope of activism. Find a crack in the stack of megalithic boulders and shoulder the burden of a life worth living. This dream of consciousness is wandering aimlessly This dream of consciousness is washing me out to sea Oh this dream
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Dragonheart 04:02
Dragonheart ----------------------------------------- Little lizards scatter like shadows in the flickering firelight. Big spider weaves her web wider. No one's going hungry tonight. The king fishers sit in the banyan trees and the ocean laughs with a casual breeze. In the jungle it's time to be humble. Move slow and watch where you step. Mountain mamma gives the gift of Mana. Drink deep and pay your respects. The ancestors rest in the banyan trees and they may let you join them if you say please. At home in the heart of the island. She knows my mind and I find my way. I know I was brought here for a reason. Maybe I'll figure it out someday. Blue water. Sun's getting hotter. Take a dip and sit in the shade. Open up some coconuts and take a sip. You got to stay hydrated. Maybe write a song in the afternoon You can sing along if you know the tune and it goes... At home in the heart of the island. She knows my mind and I find my way. I know I was brought here for a reason. I hope I can figure it out someday. Maybe when my time has come and gone the truth will be revealed Maybe if I close my eyes and ask my guides the scrolls will be unsealed Maybe life is just a random chance of circumstance A fractal dance of holograms expanding until the end of time Maybe I should stop wondering why and just enjoy the ride. Sun is setting. What am I forgetting? Doesn't matter it's a beautiful scene. Keep your eyes on the horizon If you're lucky see a flash of green This island gives me all I need. The sun and the rain. The fruit and the seed. At home in the heart of the island. She knows my mind and I find my way. I know I was brought here for a reason. Maybe I'll figure it out someday. I hope I can figure it out someday. But if I never do, I guess that's okay.
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Tire Fire 06:03
Tire Fire --------------------------------------- Black smoke. It's scratching at my throat. Black smoke I taste it when I choke on your Black smoke It's burning in my eyes. It's carving up my insides. I see it in the air. It seems that you don't care. But I'm talking to you 'cause I want you to think about what you're doing. I'm talking to you 'cause I'm sick of the poison that you're spewing. We all share the air we breathe. Think about your family. 'Cause we don't need no more black smoke. Black smoke. It's coming out your tail pipe Black smoke and I know you know it ain't right Black smoke It's coming from the factory. Offending my olfactory. It smells like hell on earth. Don't you know what life is worth? I'm talking to you 'cause I want you to think about how you're acting. I'm talking to you 'cause there's other people you're impacting. Take some responsibility and have a little sympathy. 'Cause we don't want no more black smoke Black smoke You think this is a joke? Black smoke No matter how you vote you get Black smoke It's clouding up my vision. You made the wrong decision. It's filling up my lungs. The damage has been done. But I'm talking to you 'cause it's not to late to change our direction. I'm talking to you while I still have a voice to raise my objection. We've got to stop burning all those tires and start putting out the fires 'cause we can't take no more Yeah I'm talking to you but it feels like I'm getting no reaction. I'm talking to you but it might be time for some direct action. We've got to make the polluters pay if we want to see a brighter day. It's time to take a stand. The future's in our hands. Stop buying what they sell. Don't believe the lies they tell. It's just a bunch of black smoke.
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Square The Circle ------------------------------------------- Square yourself with the moon Stare into the glowing eye of the goddess who watches over you while you sleep Observe the balance inherent in nature The light and dark divinity There is solace in shedding your anger So light the spark and sin at ease Shout your stark obscenities and square yourself with the moon The moon is rising The tide is turning It's time to meet the real you It's time to see what you can do Just square your self with the moon Paying homage to those who came before I am honored to be standing on your shoulders The future is a book I haven't read But if I could I'd skip right to the end Square yourself with the moon
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Cornerstone ------------------------------------------------------------ Sifting through a lifetime's worth of memories From the day we met to the last words that you said to me Trying to make sense of a senseless tragedy Your life story was incomplete You were always there for me when I needed you The definition of a best friend; loyal and true Now you're gone and I don't know what else I can do but write a song and carry on We started off as friends. Now I'm proud to call you brother You're my chosen family. There will never be another one like you. Your personality lights up the room. Gregarious Thank you for the live and love you shared with us You taught me not to take myself too serious I learned your lessons well I hope that you can tell You are the foundation of everything I am You taught me to see like a child and be a better man Without your support I don't know how I'm gonna stand up on my own You're my cornerstone But I'm still here standing defying all the odds With this gaping hole inside defining what I've lost The only explanation is that you are still a part of me and always will be We started off as friends. Now I'm proud to call you brother You're my chosen family. There will never be another one like you. Your personality lights up the room Gregarious The balance of our lives is so precarious We love you and we'll always keep you near to us Forever in our hearts We'll never be apart Gregarious The power of your voice will surely carry us Through the darkest nights when life is at it's scariest It's ringing like a bell In our hearts it always will
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Sailing in Saline ---------------------------- Sailing in Saline The sea is a part of me My blood is salty Like the ocean My heart pumps tidal waves Beating heavy With emotion Against these rocky caves Sailing in Saline The sea is a part of me I dive deep into the blue Return to the sacred womb I rise to the surface to breathe Experience rebirth as I breach Sailing in Saline
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Below The Brine -------------------------------------- It all goes by so fast... You can't try to hold on too tight or the friction burns leave psychic scars like road maps leading back to origin story-telling. More medicine evolution from my own inner mystery. Music savors open ears Our destinies are inextricably entwined. We may bind our souls to this planet only to find out more about the Sameness of all things before becoming necessarily re-sequestered. A wall(nut) falls from a mountain top. Hulls break down into medicinal poison topical sporicide Who's the true parasite? Worms of the senses or faculties of the skull? Normalize relations with your imagination. Ours is a sacred sojourn across a dessert landscape Sliced banana sand dunes and whipped cream clouds. Cherry Red sun stone in my eye. Dodecahedonism Triangulation Subliminated turf wars span archipelagos Marinating deep in the wake of the Earth Solipsism Cataclysm Equidistant entanglements permeate space time reducing like fine wine in a saucepan of stainless vision. Rosicrucian mummies resurrect timeless recipes involving garlic-heart liquor-ish intoxicants imbibed at high noon Sun creeps down and all I can do is learn to see without sound. Find what matters and push it down below the brine Drown produce back to LIFE. Give rise to new empires of mind against multi-moon backdrops like CGI reality Aspire to inspire and respire in spite of the weight of the evidence against you. We co-navigate this matrix life eternally drifting seamlessly transitioning between complexity and brevity. Wasting time is all we do until time comes back to haunt the rusted-out wasteland barracks overgrown in long-forgotten hillsides People of the Sun perish decisively with no questioning of moral deceptions by lineage or dynasty. Life becomes most precious Above all else as the source-fire-center-of-being is illuminated. This giving tree completes me. Single-handedly sweeping leaves and needles of needless suffering away from her moist brow Furrowed Fields fallow as holy ground. Lay down your stones. Let the dry riverbed reclaim what's owned. Deep wellsprings of clarity exist in sub-dermal caverns. Labor intensive Labor of love Open wide the doors. Honor becomes Vice. Tables turn and we're taught to think thrice simultaneously holding co-existing worlds of various improbability within psycho-celestial marble swirls of“might-be?” What questions can be posed, facts undisclosed? Provisions made for impending departure: Fully-clothed. Pockets filled. Watches wound. Spring-loaded baked potato underground Watch me grow... Exploring exploding quantum quandaries keeps the mind's eye wandering, watering, wondering “What's next?” Destiny manifests in various flesh-vests complete with sword arms and word swarms Disarming vacuous malcontents with vested self interests in hegemonic displacement. Ritual debasement as a matter of faith went unseen by the god-like-I above all else. NoMansLand becomes encrusted with wealth. Tax exempt statues of satanic entitlement Behemoths engorged on uterine blood and vitamins. Snack religious. Eat the fruit you've been provided cuz The black and white is all integrated deep down inside of us. I spiral out on a luminous gray-scale cloud shrouded in halos like moonbows inventing new hues between the shades on my way to Pluto Sacred geometry planes and spheres form drum membranes formed rememberings resonating deep pockets of life loose from the many-fold manifold (multiverse postulate) Prognosis: Probable epigenetic genesis. Last request: Filter out the meaningless. Upload the polished product to the Trollolosphere. Find the others. Unify in defense of all that's dear. Hold down the fort until I can come back fortunate with support and we can unseat the crown jewel thief's twelve ton megachurch Gargantuan Pivot point fulcrum Power point presentation Elimination of impassable obstacles When a tree falls wordless across a precipice, Who hears the (h)owls?
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This album was recorded between 2015 and 2018 at my home studio. I wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, made many of the samples, and did all the recording and mixing myself. Final mastering and post-production was done by Chip Butters at Buttersound Studio in Everett, WA. I learned a lot in the process of making this record I and am grateful for the opportunity to share it with you.

Thus I present: Dragonheart - A musical snapshot of my life over the last 2 and a half years. Thank you for checking it out. I hope you enjoy listening to this music as much as I enjoyed making it. ~ j

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released April 20, 2018

All music and lyrics written and performed by: J.J.W.
Guitar, bass, percussion, ukulele, vocals: J.J.W.
Recording and mixing: J.J.W.
Mastering: Chip Butters at Buttersound Studio
Cover Design: E.M.D.
Special thanks to my friends and family for all the love and support!

This record is dedicated in loving memory of Greg "Chaos" Gibson and Brady "Stallion" Olds. Rest in peace my brothers.

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Greetings! I am a singer/songwriter from the Seattle area where I played in punkrock bands including Mind Candy, Highlight Bomb and Anticulture (avl. on Bandcmp). My recent music has become more acoustic/reggae oriented.
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