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Inversions

by Pacificaä

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1.
Airlift Sparkling cider on New Years Feeds it oh so well But I know the feeling That brings you to your knees Where is it you go When you’re next to me? But I know the feeling That shatters both my knees And I don’t want to Be wrong, so I will never sleep again And I don’t want to Be wrong, I can’t bear to watch Foundation All the emptiness I feel Gets worse when you are gone You eat me like a parasite Dissolving me inside You eat me like a parasite But still you’re there inside Now liar, turn all you know You’ll find them, what is there inside. Now liar, turn all you will find I’ll eat you, you will stay inside I think I Just might have Lost all of My friends.
2.
Awake to the Dark The corridor Water rushing in through the hole A blow to the head The siren Water rushing in All the things when you were young Well you don’t see them no more They buried them along With the pets you had And now I see the screen And focus on the point Of entry, Into a foreign vessel I want the same I did before I want the same Can you hear the static? Well I can’t hear a thing. Deep in concentration Blacking out Waves crashing, lungs caving in Blood cooling, eyes only seeing You holding me under Heart stopping It’s the same and Now crashing lungs needing air Blood rupture, eyes only seeing You holding me under Heart breaking Traitorous You found a way I don’t know the origin But I will find the cure To this new thing Inside your body And can you hear the static? I can’t feel a thing Imposter I call you Failure The tide is changing Like hope, Like holding on You know, you know so well Like home, Where will you go? I know, I know so well I want the same I did before I want the same Can you hear the static? Well I don’t feel a thing. Deep in concentration Falling down Waves crashing, lungs caving in Blood cooling, eyes only seeing You holding me under Heart stopping It’s the same and Now crashing lungs needing air Blood rupture, eyes only seeing You holding me under Heart breaking Traitorous
3.
in waves 03:52
A trail of string to help me find my way home Held in your hands while the wind pulled me west And I don’t give a thought to my new destination You seem in motion more than you’re comfortable And pushing forward, the train has derailed up ahead Boilermaker I need to behold you Dig through the mountains and we can go home You seem in motion more than you’re comfortable And pushing forward the train has derailed up ahead There will be snow coming There will be snow coming You will be taken by surprise In the mountains.
4.
When the admiral arrived He dug through your arteries Pulled out the plaque With its plasma defenses Made haste through your ventricles Veered through the chambers And searched for a cure to What makes you seem dead. And the boy in the center I asked him to leave While I rented the studio Apartment upstairs There is so much confusion Tell me what is happening Something has poisoned The water supply Radiation is leaking out All of your beautiful Complex discretions That only I hear And the boy in the center Transmits 24/7 White noise erupting And consuming Breaking down Falling out Giving up You can’t fight the things that Are coming so easy Like you’re not The night time makes it so much worse. You took off the wheels To start going places But somehow cement blocks Don’t let you go far I ran to the building Where you went to school And lay on the track Til the season would start And the boy in the center Does interval repeats And hurdles the barriers Inside my head I am slow but am so tired Of six minute miles And I sprint to your bedroom And turn the lights off I can’t sleep normal I don’t see how Something so beautiful Makes me feel like this Again. . . Why don’t you stop? Why don’t you end this? Why don’t you end everything?
5.
I sit in this prison cell With you as my guard Watching over me Day and night And though you have the key You will keep me inside I think that you want me around All for the company you’re seeking If you find your own Then I’ll put this hole in my head Dear my lover Rush me to the emergency room I will meet you in the new day coming Soaking wet with your new home in my bed And though you’re distant I am finally starting to cope I think it’s all out It’s all ash It’s all ash I will take you to the city Shining with lights all around You will feel at home There in the stars come now kiss me on the head and give me a smile in the dark I think that I am in a better place But… Back in the north They are starting a war They are all who you trusted When you were so young Dear my lover Rush me to the emergency room I will meet you in the new day coming Soaking wet with your new home in my bed And though you’re distant I am finally starting to cope I think it’s all out It’s all ash If you find your own Then I’ll put this hole in my head What a waste.
6.
Take the pictures From the walls They only feed the Pressure in my chest. Hide the evidence And burn the manuscripts Til we cannot remember Where we came from. Now follow My hands and eyes are tired I just long to be released Now follow I will give you all I am If just to be released. Swiftly flowing Through the channel The water rushes To the sea. The river swells up The river hides itself In someone’s arms Where it will not be seen . Now follow My hands and eyes are tired I just long to be released Now follow I will give you all I am If just to be released. But still But still It will eat me But still But still It will eat everything Don’t come near me I will destroy you Everything is over Fold the pages Take notes in the Margins you can still Feel what you’re missing. For just one time I will attain it Finally everything I want Is everything I need to breathe. Now follow My hands and eyes are tired I just long to be released Now follow I will give you all I am If just to be released. But still But still It will eat everything Don’t come near me I will destroy you Everything is over
7.
The coast is clear. It is dissolving You are the acid called the sea That makes the shore retreat. I am your organs You are the body that I serve I will not fail you You will be supported Trim the sails Fire up the rockets Push the pedal to the Floorboard of the automobile I will drive you Until the liquids start to move And then I’ll clear up All the stormclouds in the system We’re going to drown if We don’t pick another one. . . No, Don’t pick another one This is upside down Pressure Up Supply dwindling We will have to take some Desperate measures to survive We’re going to drown if We don’t pick another one. . . No, Don’t pick another one This is upside down He is the vessel You are the artifact Let him inside you Soon you will feel empty like the sea.
8.
Do you mean to state You were hardly noticing The motions of your body As a tool for the night? But you captivate your prey With a self-defacing smile Pushing venom into veins Of the countless helpless boys While waiting for someone to take you away Your knight won’t have any shining armor. I think He will drink himself and you into the center of the earth And keep you at bay every night with god upon his fists and I burn up I come back down We want you here with us Until we fall apart. You lived out of town And the city it refused To inhabit your body For a single instant And you still dream at night Of a love so childish And hang your halo on the bedpost Like your grandmother Just because you feel safe in your bedroom Does not mean no one wants inside I burn up I come back down We want you here with us Until we fall apart. The trade winds carry forth From your home to the Atlantic You still wear it in the title That your parents gave you You can hear the wind at night We will name it for your lover And a cyclone loses strength Beyond the confines of the sea.
9.
tundra 04:14
The lid, it bottled me up I was waiting in the corridor so long And you didn’t even see me I know what you did last night And you greet me with the door held halfway shut No I don’t want to see it You know you’re faster than i You’re never losing strength on all the hard parts And so I limp along And all this scouting ahead But if I see you next time on the other side It will be forgiven Do I close doors? Do I offer more than all the others, Or am I only kidding myself? And when you get back Can we be friends? I know it’s been a long time I know it’s been I’ve tried to make water wine But I can’t give the miracle I want More than any other I tore it out in a blink Tore open a white envelope that bore The place of your origin You know I will be your friend I will lay here in your brother’s room While you nap next to me, we are the same But not a moment too soon I know you better than you know the one you are becoming Do I close doors? Do I offer more than all the others, Or am I only kidding myself? And if you make it back, Can we be friends? I know it’s been a long time I know it’s been the same What is it you are wanting? I will give you everything I have
10.
Now, the sea Still beckons me in It calls me at night I can hear it. . . … It’s not so bad It’s different than you think It’s not so bad It’s different than you think I walk through the door I turn all the lights off You will never see the look on my face I park by the road And stare at the freeway exit I don’t think I can drive anymore I walk through the door I turn all the lights off Lover, can’t you please just go back to sleep. . . I know I can’t win You’re far away from here And lately he is all you want And I am not.

about

Today is an exciting day, because the final post-production of the album I recorded over break is being completed, meaning it is finally done. I am both excited and nervous, and have been unable to think of much else today (and am still waiting for the phone call from the studio, which means there is still the chance a freak fire could burn it down and I would lose my work). The last week I have been without a single audio copy of the album, so I am excited to hear it with fresh ears and decide if I made something worthwhile or something that completely sucks.

At any rate, the title of the album is "Inversions" and the name I choose to record under is "Pacificaä." I choose this recording name because it fit with the theme under which the music itself was recorded. Firstly, the Pacific Ocean obviously is representative, to some degree, of my new home, and my experience swimming in the ocean earlier this semester was fairly spiritual/revelatory and I have had many vivid dreams about it. Secondly, there is water in the ocean, and there are many water references on this cd, lyrically and musically. Finally, Pacific does in the end mean peaceful, which has absolutely nothing to do with the cd, but I decided to add a level of pretentiousness by giving Pacifica (already a band name, according to Myspace) the extra "ä," thereby demanding people take the music really really seriously (something of a joke, I suppose, although I am a very pretentious person).

I will, at a later point, write a lengthy note regarding the process by which one records an album in one's basement. Until then, here is the track-listing, which would be exciting if the album were being released following live performances of (any of) the songs, but is actually meaningless instead.

Pacificaä- "Inversions"

1. Airlift-Foundation
2. Render (Section 5)
3. In Waves
4. Chernobyl, Part 1
5. Viper (Section 18)
6. The River and the Sea
7. Navigator
8. The Leviathans (Connect Revision)
9. Tundra
10. Chernobyl, Part 2

Here is what we can decipher from this tracklisting:

1. I have ripped off Neutral Milk Hotel and named two songs the same thing, with one being part 1 and the other part 2.

2. I have ripped off Radiohead and placed pretentious and seemingly meaningless additional song titles in parentheses.

3. I have a hyphenated first track, which is actually two songs on one track, but they blend together into one song.

4. I have followed through on my promise to name a song "The River and the Sea," which I have been promising myself I should do since spring 2007.

5. I have mysteriously given two songs "Section" numbers. There is a reason for this. When writing portions of those two songs, I was in need of some sort of heavy guitar riff. I recorded myself playing guitar for an extended period of time (like 15 minutes) while I fiddled around with heavy guitar riffs. The most important parts of each song (the bridge of Render and the coda of Viper) came from this session, with the 5th guitar part played being incorporated into Render and the 18th (there were 21 total "sections") being used in Viper.

6. Track 8, The Leviathans, is not the same song as a 2008 song I wrote called The Leviathan, which was performed by Inverness (www.myspace.com/invernessmusica) and was 10 minutes long. This new version of the track, however, is made up entirely of parts from other songs I have written, all the way back to freshmen year of high school. These other songs include The Cathedral, Connect, and a few tracks I made demos of during Freshmen-Sophomore summer.

7. The oldest song on the album is Tundra, which was written in the fall of 2005.

8. The song Navigator originally was titled Navigator-Locomotive, but the portion of the song known as Locomotive was dropped, and along with it the references to trains. Since track 3 mentions trains in depth, this was eliminated to avoid confusion.

I'll post the lyrics because I'm bored.

I don't know when I'll be able to give copies to people, but it should be in the next 2 weeks at the most.

Take care.
Dan

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released January 28, 2009

Recorded and Mixed by Dan Evans
Mastered by Habilis Record in Missoula, MT

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