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Pandemic Demos

by Alex Berkley

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1.
Tell me it's begun But I can't hear a sound You tell me you are serious Through the makeup of a clown But I see a silver line And I see it flicker out And lose its mind Tell me where to run It's the only thing to do Tell me your experience Without a sliver of the truth And I see a silver line And I see it flicker out And pay respects to the end of someone's momentary peace Of mind
2.
Moat 01:23
When I die I will float along a moat With questions That I had when I was old Will you hear them From my aching throbbing throat? Will they carry Through the lifetime I rewrote? And I know That I started Flickin thoughts from a bridge And I know Black waters Deep enough to begin To bury the answers I want And all the wounds you forgot In the living rooms and grocery stores I haunt You forgot you forgot you forgot You forgot you forgot you forgot
3.
Blue Eyes 01:12
Blue eyes come from your family Blue eyes see so much more than me Stare down into a memory Of the hour you're waking up To the echoes hanging above You are everyone I love
4.
Hysterical 01:44
Never any doubt We took our time and found we'd never figure it out Slowed down to a crawl It's a miracle we made it out at all Stumble to a fall And we say, "Oh, My lies melt like icycles" In the middle of the story, We say "Oh, Your logic is hysterical" And you'll never change my mind So don't you try Don't you try
5.
Summer's like a hawk lurking around the bend Keeping tabs on you like bunnies hopping through the rock garden And you take me backwards To when I used to dream Of my notebook in the barlight And a liquid self-esteem And you make up memories Of lives I lived alone But you can't make up A home Loneliness is shaking hands with his brand new friends He is bloodthirsty and tired of the nights that never end And you take me backwards To the smokey living rooms Watching hockey on a weeknight When we'd wake up much too soon And you make up memories Of the fair and friendly fights And it makes me feel Alright Dawn is just some esoteric piece of advice From some billionaire American undead parasite And you take me backwards To when I used to dream Of my notebook in the barlight And a liquid self-esteem And you make up memories Of lives I lived alone But you can't make up A home No you can't make up Your home
6.
K-Gun Cafe 01:26
Spilled coffee stained our sleeves While we were sitting there Waiting for scrambled eggs Served with a side of despair Inhaled the old perfume Scented like cigarettes We shot the shit like Jim Kelly Threw long bombs of regrets And we knew Time Was like a freshman dorm poster It defines us till we grow up or die in some great disaster And we knew Truth Was just some rumor in Wisconsin Seen in Brett Favre's tiny legs and last minute throws that still come to haunt him And we knew Love Was in the bars on Sundays The dream of Tom Brady's retirement some day And we knew Love Was the old men who stayed And used their ruined voices in those steel town cafes Spilled coffee stained our sleeves While we were sitting there Waiting for scrambled eggs Served with a side of despair Inhaled the old perfume Scented like cigarettes We shot the shit like Jim Kelly Threw long bombs of regrets We shot the shit like Jim Kelly Threw long bombs of regrets We shot the shit like Jim Kelly Threw long bombs of regrets
7.
Remarkable 01:55
When the sky sheds its amorous gray And the wind blows our fence in the lake Where will we go? Where will we go? We'll drink up today And we'll smile and we'll stay When the crows caw and fill up the sky And our coffee mugs fill the fourth time How will we know? How will we know? When the world disappears We will still be right here And I'll remember the driftwood Your hand in my hand Our city in silence Your remarkable laugh Where will we go? How will we know? You're forever my only home You're forever my only home
8.
Why should I believe you When you pepper in your lies You wear your pestilent past behavior Like a bulletproof disguise And I have fallen off my axis I am old and out of practice And it's hard to believe I'm waiting patiently In this virgin guillotine Don't you ever wonder Why your mind it seems to wander To some awkward lapse of reason Little cognizant shit to ponder To feel wise as Nostradamus Or as crazy as a caucus But your wisdom couldn't save us From the silver sheen Of a virgin guillotine Why do you follow all the rules? They were written up by hypocrites and fools You can win and still find a way to lose You can win but it won't be you Why should I continue Seeking truth within the static When my day to day reactions Are so cold and automatic Like a preprogrammed assassin I've assessed my lack of passion And it's hard, but I concede I'm waiting patiently In this virgin guillotine Waiting patiently In this virgin guillotine
9.
I don't know why I'm stuck in circles I always feel so sorry for my friends I loop around and I feel so certain This time around I'll be coming up to the end But then I can't pretend And so I do it again I can't believe my rosey red vision It never seems to show me what's up ahead The turning points and the moot revisions The flying saucers synchronized to your head In a burning red And then it happens again And we run round round round Like a bolder in the snow And it sounds sounds sounds Just like we know which way to go When the walls fall down And you're too lost to stumble home Tomorrow knows the same's in store Through the next door I done my time with some bad decisions I don't remember half of what I said tonight I loop around with a sweet new wisdom This time around I can spread around my new insight But then they dim the light I guess I'll call it a night I don't know why I'm stepping forward Get nowhere fast but I'm happy nowhere with you I don't believe in sad sappy endings It's time to take a pen to my life review Take a minute or two Just to circle the truth But you're still gone gone gone Like a leaf in a windy fall And you're song song song Sounds like you've learned nothing at all When the walls fall down And you're too lost to stumble home Tomorrow knows the same's in store Through the next door And we may run run run From the love that we need the most But we're done done done Taking blame for a lonely ghost When the walls fall down And you're too lost to stumble home Tomorrow knows the same's in store And I can't take it anymore Tomorrow knows the same's in store I don't know why I'm stuck in circles... Through the next door
10.
I feel fine with where I've been Dancing on the outskirts looking in I feel like a lonely ghost Looking all around for a place to go I feel fine but out of place Looking all around for a friendly face You don't know but I look strange I was never here I was far away And love It whispers then it rusts And opens up to one Illusion we discussed In empty talk You set it up and said good luck You knew it would come In your blood But it sat there sinking Poignant and untouched I step out to watch the snow Peer through the glowing window This feels right A look inside I won't remember If I'd just stayed home But I had to go And love It whispers then it rusts And opens up to one Illusion we discussed In empty talk You set it up and said good luck You knew it would come In your blood But it sat there sinking Poignant and untouched Like the driftwood sitting in the ripples of a flood And you sat there sinking.

about

Demos written and recorded during one week in April 2020*.

Are they finished? Not quite.
Are there mistakes? Oh yeah!
Is it worth putting out there anyway? You be the judge.

If you give me money for this album, I will give 100% of the profits to Pioneer Corps, an organization that helps students in need.

*Tracks 8-10 recorded February 2020.

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released May 5, 2020

All songs written & recorded by Alex Berkley
Album art by Alex Berkley*

*Kayleigh Small touched up a little something with her fancy shmancy iPhone

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Alex Berkley Buffalo, New York

Alex Berkley is a singer/songwriter rooted in Buffalo, NY who has been writing and performing for 13 years or so. Berkley's songs feature melodic poetic lyrics with a pinch of whimsy and wit. His debut album, Lists & Listlessness, has been called, "Awesome," by many of his close friends. Most recently, Berkley completed his third volume of fun-a-day songs in February 2015. ... more

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