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Bad Odds & Dead Ends volume 2: vocal music

by The Lance Daily Project

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Mary Jane’s Big Muff 05:11
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Sapphic rites in the woods at night Cabin with a generator Venerate Her We won’t skip the volume worship orange amps are holy altars Never falter Russian fuzz warming this cold night Two familiar one a stranger Coven Lover Her friend’s got a cute black pussy cat that don’t bite back she strokes her Heavy Petter In a haze of purple I see Mary Wetter than the bong In a daze of confusion I see Mary Playing her song High voltage, Really high 1000 watts penetrate the sky Pounding drums as Mary Jane strums SG with a fat humbucker Riffing Stoners Sludgy bass at a swamp rock pace Power trio of three lovers Sonic sisters From womb to tomb they play the doom Smoke filled room and strips of paper Acid eaters Tripping Witches with peyote Aphrodite’s holy water Sacred Sinners In gardens of sweet leaves I see Mary Wetter than the bong In comfortable numbness I see Mary Playing her song High voltage, Really high 1000 watts penetrate the sky
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Aroma 03:38
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Find a kind girl the color of the moon With an autumnal soul Find a wise girl with hair as black as night Who gives greens on the bowl Aroma of sage smoke and pumpkin spice Her plaid skirt on the floor Meet a sweet girl with eyes the deepest brown, who on her own is whole Treat this sweet girl with empathy and love Support her with her goals Aroma of wine and rum and vodka As she falls on the floor Help a hurt girl with her father’s disease Which she cannot escape Help a hurt girl destroyed before your eyes As you see her change shape Aroma of vomit the hundredth time You close the bathroom door Stand powerless as drink steals her away You did all that you could She’ll get you dirty before you get her clean So staying isn’t good Aroma of rain as you pack and go Addictions closed the door You wrote her poems under the trees As she drew you doing so Sad it was so long ago You think of this as falling leaves Rustle around her tombstone Sad it was so long ago
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Keep it hidden 03:00
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Obsessed by thoughts of what came before Lose this strange longing to hurt no more Within what time we have left to dwell Why climb the tower for a view of hell Still waters, Violent beneath Keep it hidden to remain free Stolen sword in shadow sheath Keep it hidden and you will see Loud visions Brighten the night Flow through my eyes Leave the real world behind Unto thy lover's feet leave flowers Thorns lined the path to other towers A bloody soul gasps for blooming breath Kill wilted wishes to escape death Still waters, Violent beneath Keep it hidden to remain free Stolen sword in shadow sheath Keep it hidden and you will see Loud visions Occult insight Flow through blind eyes Lose the last of your mind
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Brain Roaches 03:12
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Roach Brain From S.O.S to S.O.L. From the heights of heaven to the depths of hell If the sky is blue I ain’t calling it green Just to make you feel better I don’t care what you want I don’t need to be seen Just to make you feel better Cockroaches Crawling in my brain Feeding off my emotional pain From S.O.S to S.O.L. From the heights of heaven to the depths of hell If the sky’s pitch black I ain’t saying there’s sun Just to make you feel better I won’t be gaslit for your own fun Just to make you feel better Cockroaches Crawling in my brain Feeding off my emotional pain FUCK YOU!
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Best Fiends Forever 02:10
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Manipulated by the devil in you Everything you said and everything you do Rings untrue Someday this pain will fade deep into the past But I won’t be the same from the huge shadow you cast It won’t last Best Fiends (forever) Nothing to be gleaned (never) No one intervened (ever) Wasn’t what it seemed (clever) It’s quite a shame that you were wired this way Programmed by trauma or just born to betray Games you play I’ll find a way to make my hate melt away We both know it shouldn’t have to be this way I can’t stay Best Fiends (forever) Train wreck careened (however) From lies I’m weaned (sever) You can’t be redeemed (aggressor) There’s No justice in this There’s No justice in this There’s No justice in this There’s No justice in this Just us in the abyss Just us in the abyss Just you in the abyss Just me in the abyss Unrepentant you have no want to atone My pain runs so deep I feel it in my bones Die alone How many more will drown in your chaotic wake Whoever you befriend won’t know what’s at stake Big mistake Best Fiends (forever) Nothing to be gleaned (never) No one intervened (ever) Wasn’t what it seemed (clever) Best Fiends (forever) Train wreck careened (however) From lies I’m weaned (sever) You can’t be redeemed (aggressor)
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Hug the Cactus 04:58
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Wandering deserts Looking for promised land Expecting helping hands Trusting you’ll power through Yes we get to choose To walk the path of blame Or feel we’re not the same But I’ve got news for you Some get more chances When they work on the pain To face hard times and gain You decide what to do Hug the Cactus Hug the Cactus Hug the Cactus Then let go and move on Used by Svengalis Or we’re our own worst foe Humility to show It’s time to face the truth We win and we lose Bad luck and bad choices Listen to all the voices Forgive the sins of youth Find an oasis We’ll ignore the relics here Hope to mitigate fear End eye for eye/tooth for tooth Hug the Cactus Hug the Cactus Hug the Cactus Then let go and move on
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Ruderal Love 01:40
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I am an abandoned barren wasteland Your love grew through the cracks to bloom and My mind’s been colonized by new plants Perfumed with calming hopeful fragrance Ruderal Love X 5 Erode the person crumbling into nothing Hold me together tell me that I’m something New roots keep me grounded I’m returning Pointless into purpose life’s new meaning Ruderal Love X5 This won’t become the garden of Eden It don’t have to be close to that even Disturbed land went from decay to growing Alone no more now a new path showing Ruderal Love X 5 (guitar solo) Ruderal Love
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Human Curry 04:14
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Clawing My Way Towards Beauty 01:53
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Don’t wanna be a grim-dark antihero But softness and optimism are suspect Each path is confusing and all are trade offs Skeptical of hoping but I want to change I’ll fashion an option where choices aren’t chains & I’ll keep awareness it could end the same Justice and the Devil don’t see eye to eye When I think about her I just want to die I don’t know why I still haven’t given up Constantly clawing My Way Towards Beauty I do not understand this uncanny land Show thyself and know thyself before the end I don’t think I’ll ever know when it’s the end No wisdom to know when it’s the time to e—
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Purple Tulips 01:49
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If I could weave a world From all your hopes and dreams I’d be bursting at the seams To have your life unfurled Gracefully as a tapestry Today we’ll watch tv I’ll make you breakfast You do the laundry I Mow the lawn You Feed the cat We Weed that garden planted out back Crack some jokes Make the bed Put out the fires in Your head Offer words of affirmation Carry groceries through the door Pay the bills Sweep the floor Take out the trash And listen more If I could share my strength To give when you are weak We’d climb every high peak No matter height or length To take in all the scenery Tonight we’ll watch movies I’ll make us dinner You do the dishes I lock the doors You feed the cat We see the flowers coming back Crack more jokes Go to bed Put out the fires in Your head Offer words of consolation For what the world has in store Good or bad Rich or poor Better or worse I love you more
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Thank You 03:02
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Like a lot of things This is off the cuff I have no idea how to articulate this To all the people in my life That stuck around That were good friends when I felt like I had none To help me grow To help me not feel so alone Thank You I know I complain a lot Most of the stuff I say is pretty negative I gotta take a second And stop dwelling on the past or the present that doesn’t feel much like a gift I know most of the time it doesn’t feel like anything is good at all and that it’ll never get better but there are some people in my life that act like lifesblood They’ve given me moments of joy and support and I am so grateful So I wanna stop my whiny bullcrap for a second just to say Thank You Truly, thank you.
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Qualms 02:56
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Let’s go out like Hemingway And get a Joe Rogan afterworld Where we can hunt elk eternally I hope you die surrounded by irritating chatty extroverts Fuck authorities Fuck ideals Fuck me Fuck you Fuck that attitude Fuck this incomplete picture I have some apprehension One day I will forgive And one day I’ll say I’m sorry Not Today! The last one standing Is the first who deserves to fall What you do to survive makes you the worst of us all Must I find Christ? Or Muhammad? Or Buddha or satan or Marx? I haven’t even found myself yet Not ready for a commitment I can’t believe what it seems like I have to become to stay alive I can’t believe what it seems like I have to become to stay alive I’m turning into my own inversion I can’t be a healer I’ll never be a healer I can’t even heal myself How can I heal anybody else? I’m sick and tired of getting rewired Just to shove my square peg through the round hole of life The big, slippery, gaping, diseased hole of life! How much of myself to I have to erase? do I have to transform? do I have to replace? I have some apprehension My mind is a diode creating interference The signal of my soul comes out distorted Amplify my qualms Send me into overdrive (rant sampled and overlapped) Let’s go out like Hemingway.
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Tick Sandwich 02:00
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Running through the woods I’m a tick sandwich Engorge yourself on my life force Hey Mr. Tick you took my blood please don’t give me Lyme disease
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Abstract Hummingbird 03:10
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Air Wings of speed A fluttering heart’s dynamo Endless flight Small And searching To only do and never know Feed and fight A Honeysuckle greasy smear Unholy wine below the vine Nectar guzzled now and here Nowhere pollen shuttle line Lured sweetly to survive Goodbye to wrong and right Garland of veils Hear nature eat itself Grave Mother Earth A fatherly shard sacrificed Spooky light Soft Obliquely To coax from stone the blood of Christ Out of sight A Honeysuckle greasy smear Unholy wine below the vine Nectar guzzled now and here Nowhere pollen shuttle line Lured sweetly to survive Goodbye to wrong and right Garland of veils Hear nature eat itself (Humming)

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These are very rough unmastered demos and it’ll take some imagination to see the potential in some of these (if there is any).

A collection of half baked and quarter baked ideas (many conceived while I was fully baked 🌿🔥😀).
I was messing around with these during my work on Lance Daily & Voodoo Lily. Bad Odds & Dead Ends is a mosaic of an artist at play during a steep mental and physical decline.

In a perfect world I’d present these demos to a band or a producer and we’d narrow down the best 10 songs, then perfect arrangements and performance before finally recording in a professional studio.

This ain’t a perfect world.

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released November 3, 2021

Lance Daily: vocals, lyrics, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, sitar, drums, drum machines, piano, synths, percussion, plunderphonics, various sounds & sonic textures, recording, production, album art.

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The Lance Daily Project Rochester, New York

I'm a musician who has collaborated with many better musicians over the years, but due to struggles with mental illness I have devolved & decided to not release anything else to the public. This page is a document of what I created before and during my decline.

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