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So Far From Home
06:32
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Such a feeling, just a blink, a dervish jolt
Which spun me so far away (so far from home)
The things I’ve seen, oh god how I’ve grown
But I’ve grown weary now, I just want to be back home
Another day on the lonely road
I am only trying to find my way back home
Another year another tear
The road is so long I can’t find my way back home
It looked like home - I could have sworn
The square, the chapel, the garden my house
She smiled like mum – he laughed like dad
But their smiles and laughs were wrong some how
Their eyes their faces rang hollow, dull white
Oh never fall for the phantom call
So I carry on into the night
And the people you knew will pass away
And the home where you grew will rust and fade
But the spirit wanders on and on
Nostalgic, forever, down the lonely road
And the flowers of spring that winter greyed
And the gardens you grew till weeds decay
But the only ghost does wonder on
Nostalgic, so lonely, forever
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Safe Room
03:12
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Shit’s hit the fan now
Crunch time has come now
It’s come to the doorstop
Masses banging at the gate oh they wants in oh they needs in
Entropy’s come now
Can’t hold it back now
It’s come to the doorstop
Government can’t save us now we bought them off we made them soft
Get back – Retreat!
Take my hand run!
Let’s get inside – the safe room.
Fall back – Regroup!
Family comes first!
Wait it out in –the safe room.
It’s safe, in here, sleep tight, doll eyes
We tried to divert it
We tried to transfer it
We held up the dam walls
And we grew fat on the spoils buying time just biding time
They broke through the front door
They’re smashing down our halls
I’m watching from the monitor
The strength in man when desperate when food run out when land run dry
Door sealed – air tight!
We’ll be alright!
If we don’t move – from the safe room
Fall back…
It’s banging at the door
It’s dripping down the wall
It’s soaking through the floor
It’s safe in here sleep tight doll eyes
IT’S NOT SAFE HERE
NOWHERE SAFE NOW
SAFE ROOM UNSAFE
SAFE ROOM UNSAFE
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Beyond the sprawl
Beyond the blight the neon lights
Beyond the sea
Under the trees
Our secret garden
We have to go a little further
That they’ll never find us here
Can you hear the chainsaws near
You and me
We need the dirt beneath our feet
Need the green within our reach
To think we’re another race
Darwin drawls
Your darling days are drawing near
Pull the hearse beyond the green
Disillusionment falls here
And when it’s gone
We’ll go up high
And when it’s gone
I hear your cry
And when you’re gone
A kiss goodbye divine
There is nowhere to run
Like a deer…caught…in the headlights a
Deer…caught…in the headlights a
DEER! CAUGHT! IN THE HEADLIGHTS A
DEER! CAUGHT! IN THE HEADLIGHTS!!
Boom time make me wanna holler
Boom time drawn me down to pallor
Boring new holes through my wood
Boom time make we wanna holler
Boom time drawn me down to pallor
Boring new hole through my wood
They’ve found all the holes to your womb
Losing, I’m losing it
Losing, I’m losing you
Losing, I’m losing it
Losing, I’m losing you
(Burn black for him baby
Big black, she burns for him
Burn black for him baby
Big black she burns for him)
Termite people make me holler
Termite people drawn to pallor
They ate all the holes in my wood
Termite people make me holler
Termite people drawn to pallor
They ate all the holes in my wood
Ate through my holes to your womb
Losing, I’m losing it…
(Burn black for him baby..)
My dear, caught in the headlights my
Dear, caught, in the headlights she
Plays, dead, in the floodlights we
Play dead in the floodlights
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Sitting On A Ledge
02:36
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Goddamn!
Thought I saw
The shoes you wear
Two days in a row
But I wasn't scared
Then I breathed again
I don't feel like a phone booth in your way
I don't feel like there's something I should say
Shazaam!
Got pins and needles in the same leg
Last week and today oh
I remembered them while sitting on a ledge
...while sitting on a ledge...
Yeah while sitting on that ledge.
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Frustrated Crustacean
07:37
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There's a creeping thought
That I held and fought
But it's came to naught
In a dark abyss
With a single word
And a minor third
Could a song be heard
In a world like this?
But I've held the fire
I've torched the infidels
But I never realised something was amiss
Breakdown
Turn back
If you want to save the world
What's that?
Love me
If you want to save the world and your own face
Please don't be cruel
It was only a rule
It wasn't meant to fuel my rage
But I've come too far now
These forces are driving me over
What is there to say
I've changed I've changed I've changed
Breakdown
Turn back
If you want to save the world
What's that?
Love me
If you want to save the world and your own face.
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In A Box
04:20
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I live in a small white box
It is in a larger box
I live here with other people
They all live in boxes too
Our little box has no garden
Just a thyme plant in a pot
It seems boxed in (just like me)
So hard these days to find some space
We work all week for our enclave
With a box above my head
With a box below my bed
And it goes on right down the street
Box and box
Box after box
I find it hard
So hard to breathe
With the whole world closing in
This house I live in
It has so many rooms
It would take many years
To wander through every hall
And nobody else
Lives with me in this house
It’s just me on my own
To get lost in my thoughts
I feel boxed in
I leave my box to go to work
And travel in a small white box
And share a lane with other boxes
The radio blares from a box
My work is in a tall white box
I travel up a small grey box
I feel boxed in!
My office space, compartment box
I stare all day at a box
An Excel’s full of little boxes
Lunch time I go back down a box
Lunch today is bento box
Tea tonight in front of box
My minds not here
My mind has flown
To dream of bigger better things
This house I live in
It opens to a yard
It’s so large and so lush
And it goes on beyond horizon
And nobody else can find me way out here
It’s just me in the garden
To get lost in my thoughts
And I could walk all corners of my mind
And reach the edge and I know
That here too I’m confined
I lost my home I lost my box
I don't live in a smaller box
I lost my job I lost my box
I don't work in a smaller box
Closing in closing in
My whole damn world is closing in
I feel boxed in
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The Noviciate
05:23
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Siren
03:39
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Siren calls to me through the ocean spray
Siren sings to me though the wind holds sway
Sail on a wiser man, he knows the silence is a friend
To you I turn port stead, a lesser man sail to his end
And she sings:
Come to me
Stay with me
Endlessly
How could I ever tell her no
How could I ever let her go
Siren lures me in, to her rocky shores
Siren reels me in, to her funeral port
Sound a shattering a mast so high could crash so low
Now to drown in love, to sleep her meadows far below
And she sings:
Drown for me
Down with me
Endlessly
And I knew from start her song
It always it always it always ends in…
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Fantasia
03:55
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Fly in the water
Swim in the sky
Live in your death
Laugh in your cry
Enter the exit
Come as you go
Drown in the air
Forget what you know
To reach nirvana
You had to fall
So far below
Wander in circles
Through endless strange roads
To find your way back home
Hate your lover
Hold onto the fall
Join your dividers
Your nothing is your all
Enter the exit come as you go
Drown in the air
Forget what you know
To reach nirvana
You had to fall
So far below
Wander in circles
Through endless strange roads
To find your way back home
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Just Not There
03:55
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turn the telescope round if you can take it
point it back on yourself
let the solar system
wait in a hell that you've designed very well
confuse and confound the condition
of interacting with all
of your societal norms
it's not normal at all
i'm just not there
i'll keep you on the line
wake and dress to the sounds of the city
commute into the void of lies
advertise a perception defiled
and realise
i'm just not there
i'll keep you on the line
it's so hard to get things right
when the balance is wrong
and life isn't fixable anywhere at all
heading off towards
the distant shore
working for an outcome
that's just not there any more
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Die Well
04:51
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carry a torch
ritualise
the most important day
just a body
on the turn
turn the mind
to remind
it's the only part
left to remain
push the envelope
into the big smoke of death,
too morbid,
concerned with death
three days sure is dead
bury the past
in the cemetery, mortuary, obituary
line the coffins with burning ghats
did you fall in love
with the person or the dead stuff?
the problem's not outside
we want to live
but not to die
who are you anyway?
the problem's not outside
we want to live but not to die
who are you anyway?
whose turn is it today?
what is real?
where is truth?
what is necessary?
how do I spend my time?
where is the emphasis?
at any moment I could die
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No Easy Way Down
03:34
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Top of the world
My world is shrinking
King of the ice
My crown is falling
Homeless in homeland
Early too late
Man sends his tendrils
Man seals my fate
Can you feel
Can you feel
Can you feel it falling all around here?
Can you hear
Can you hear
Can you hear ice cracking underneath?
Do you think
Do you think that there is a whole world under here?
I can only hope I can only ever find out
My whole damn world
is slipping
sliding
to the sea
And you know there is no
No easy way down
But a thousand leagues till end of sea
It's unto here I drown
And you know there is no
No easy way down
But under the northern lights I stay
If I - I fell - fell right - right through
Would I land back
On top of the world?
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Life On A Pier
04:39
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Life on a pier – life on the edge
Life on the brink – stepped to the edge
And I know and I know that the perfect storm
(Will sweep in from the sea)
And I know and I know that the perfect wave
(Will sweep us out to sea)
Flow my tears, flow my tears
(Surrender let go)
Love on the pier – love on the edge
Love on the brink – stepped to the edge
Would you lie for me? Would you die for me? If I asked you to?
Or is that you – shoreline receding
If I needed you? Could you see this through? With all hands on deck?
Or is that you - fading horizon
Flow my tears, flow my tears
(surrender let go)
The pier is creaking, the waterline creeping
Our past lives are catching, our future lives waning
All the things, oh all the things, that I wanted to do
(Oh scattered to the sea)
Possibly, possibilities now collapse into
(A singularity)
Those who know better must shoulder the burden
Whilst those heads stuck in sand with the shoreline receding
We’ll cry
Flow my tears, flow my tears
(The voice of hope sighed)
Flow my tears, flow my tears
(Surrender let go and)
But burn these years, burn these years
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Woke up feeling shit today, I really didn’t want to wake
Work commitments through the roof, there is no room to breathe or move
Can’t keep up with Mr Jones, just want another fucking cone
But I must toil another day, to find I’ve done things all their way
Chained up to our desks like dogs, we hail the monitors like god
The gold shine glitter in our eyes, its why we traded in our lives
Feel my life force enervate, the workload exponentiate
I think I’ve lost humanity but fuck me got a great CV
Oh mein maker, my mother, my father
My bearer, mon bella
Oh your slaver, your ruler, your fuhrer
Your first born, your blood spawn
Raus, raus, raus
Can’t remember what my family looks like, eons since I fucked my wife
But gotta do more overtime, oh god I’m running out of time
Can’t move can’t scream too late to try, I’m bound to serve before I die
The growing monster that we feed, we hail the Lucifer we freed
Like a greyhound at a race, keep me muzzled keep the pace
God I’m running out of breath, left foot step away from death
Ashen embers slowly pale, pilot light has gone to fail
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I found truth in the windowpane
I found hope it slid down the drain
I found heaven in the corner of the room
Underneath the dust
I found purpose small and rounded
I lost you I found you in the
Cracks of the wall the tiniest cracks
Where the roaches crawl
Stay in here, we must stay down here
It’s so hard out there
They’ll turn you in, inside out
If they found us out
I keep God, under board
I keep Gaia under the hall
I keep faith where the sun don’t shine
And the winds won’t blow
Stay down low, we’ll stay down here
It’s so high up there
They’ll trip you up, under wing
It’s hell up there
Under the ground, he lives under the ground, he lives under the ground…
I feel dirt, it feels like heaven
I smell mould, it smells like heaven
I see darkness the brightest light can’t touch us there
I found god – underground
I found truth – underground
I found god – underground
I found truth in the underworld
Under the ground we live under the ground we live under the…
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Shock Octopus Perth, Australia
Contemplative, Existential, Art Rock.
A collective stream of consciousness and social commentary by Michael Bayliss, David Blair and Scott Andrews.
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