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obligatory quarantine album

by Darth Nater

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1.
twenty something 04:14
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i’m a twenty something in 2020 i make mistakes instead of money charlie work ain’t always sunny but someone’s gotta do it ahhh, screw it i’m persona non grata rocking red henna stigmata i’m hanging by a thread a belladonna pinata yada yada yada ya see i’m chaste in the streets and debased in the sheets beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat i’m a sweetheart, i’ll give you diabetes is that ulcer? chew me out, rot your teeth swing your sticks, split my ribs to the beat, beat, beat, beat, beat it’s hit or miss but the cringe is consistent what these kids lack in accuracy they make up in persistence my brain goes fuzzy as my insides splatter the concrete i fall asleep to the screams beat, beat, beat, beat i’m a twenty something in 2020 i make mistakes instead of money charlie work ain’t always sunny but someone’s gotta do it ahhh, screw it this isn't 2016 anymore sore winners make for sore losers who knew? are you protecting your abusers? me too don’t delete the receipts your inner kid is olly twist begging to eat i want some more, sir, please give to the poor, or we’ll seize the means we got a sliver the pharaoh's got the whole cake we got a quiver of arrows they got a sherman tank herman cain died in vain i’m not one to preach but we only have a country cause somebody spilled the tea my secrets turned to regrets when i never set them free flip a red state hang the gop by their feet pog! i’m a twenty something in 2020 i make mistakes instead of money charlie work ain’t always sunny but someone’s gotta do it ahhh, screw it i’m a twenty something in 2020 i make mistakes instead of money i made a mistake
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quarantined... 03:25
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quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone no one visit me at home everything has been postponed quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone no one visit me at home everything has been postponed quarantine me lock the door and leave me quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone my calendar looks like a game of tic-tac-toe x’s infecting every row and i'm the o’s i've got nowhere to go so i stay home and watch my fists become hourglasses two gavels dripping thick molasses slam ‘em down but no time passes disorder, disorder the coroner is calling my name disorder, disorder they’re coming to clean the disorder, disorder from this corridor where every room’s the same disorder, disorder has anyone seen me? quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone no one visit me at home everything has been postponed quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone no one visit me at home everything has been postponed quarantined... quarantine me lock the door and leave me quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone my unanswered texts balloon to double digits i blow up along with it a smidgen bigger every minute won't stop till i hit my limit when it pops the cops will find me stuck to the stucco ceiling like a bed of nails as i fall they call heads or tails i'm cornered, i'm quartered the coroner is calling my name i'm cornered, i'm quartered they’re coming to clean me i'm cornered, i'm quartered in this corridor where every room’s the same i'm cornered, i'm quartered has anyone seen me? quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone no one visit me at home everything has been postponed quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone no one visit me at home everything has been postponed quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone quarantine me lock the door and leave me alone
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millennial falcon 03:53
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there’s a round table in my head with nine chairs and eight plates cause i never invite jesus, but he shows up anyway and i’m there too the mutt begging for food chewing crude scraps from my idols spitting out something new shining shoes with my saliva trying to revive the dirt they died on hurt my pride, convert my wrath just guide me through this narrow path i see my messiah t posing eyes glowing why's this sly pariah freeloading? isn't his dad like all-powerful and all-knowing? isn't his pad like a tall tower full of gold flowing down the walls like waterfalls gaudier than valhalla's halls i saw the haughty prince swan dive from the spire's tip aspiring to larp in burlap tarp and live like a hipster were you gonna slum it from the summit or strip first? when i die leave me out in a field where i'll lie till the vast pastures have healed an outsider in my own land an e.t. on their own planet scanning for any lifeform anything to keep my nights warm when i die leave me out in a field where i'll lie till the vast pastures have healed if you get lonely you can call me when you get lonely you can call me the millennial falcon if you get lonely you can call me when you’re lonely, you can always call you can call me the millennial falcon if you get lonely you can call me when you get lonely you can call me the millennial falcon you can call me the millennial falcon you can call me the millennial falcon you can call me the millennial falcon you can call me the millennial falcon
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hell year 04:07
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it’s been a hell of a... it’s been a hell of a year (x6) i hear orwellian cheers see lil militias of toddlers goose skipping cross the prome- nodding off to the battle chant hail hydra, hail hydra i thought we were over that i thought i saw the serpent's head roll down the steps of monticello heaven is goodbye hell is hello two grow from the open wound spewing zyklon and baby formula wearing denim jackets with ivory buttons feeding the irony gluttons like the seventh layer of dante’s parfait you’re nuts! a parroting parody of gutless pundits i one-hit wonder where’s my a-ha moment? eureka! i’m a stolen kiss beneath varsity bleachers uncle sam’s a running back (america peaked in high school) it’s been a hell of a year (x5) (it’s been hell) i hear the rallying cries of my country's demise it sounds like cicadas so loud, so easy to drown out i wash myself in the static double fisting two way radios going mono a mono the heir of the stereo era fell away forgive me, it's just been a hell of a year it’s been a hell of a year (x8) (it’s been hell)
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zoom therapy 02:34
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sweeter than a georgia peach clean like ammonia and bleach you know where i'll be week by week, hour by hour chipping away at your power in zoom therapy i need warp speed or a shortcut i am more free with the door shut but the poor bleed like butchered war mutts while the lords feed on your guts i don’t want therapy through zoom i wanna zoom through therapy i don’t want therapy through zoom i wanna zoom through therapy sweeter than a georgia peach clean like ammonia and bleach you know where i'll be week by week, hour by hour chipping away at your power in zoom therapy i need doc brown and a tardis cause i'm knocked down and hardly scarless this chalk town could use a harlet but now we’re locked down and turning scarlett sweeter than a georgia peach clean like ammonia and bleach you know where i'll be week by week, hour by hour chipping away at your power in zoom therapy
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only you 04:25
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i want you here in my arms i want you all the time stay home, lay here in my arms it would be a crime if we set any alarms we have nothing but time stay home, lay here in my arms i hope you know that i’m enchanted by your charms we have nothing but time we have nothing but time we have nothing but time we have nothing but time only you can catch the crescent moon only you can make the edges smooth only you can melt my inner clock like river rock only you can recycle this stifled room only you it’s only only you it’s always you only you it’s only you only you it’s always ever only been you only you if every day is the same let’s make the best of it cause it would be such a shame to waste the rest of it you’re homemade pink lemonade you’re a perfect rhyme everything else starts to fade we have nothing but time we have nothing but time we have nothing but time we have nothing but time only you can catch the crescent moon only you can make the edges smooth only you can melt my inner clock like river rock only you can recycle this stifled room only you it’s only only you it’s always you only you it’s only you only you it’s always ever only been you only you
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shadow 04:41
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i can feel your shadow lurkin’ but i don’t wanna put the work in i can feel your shadow smirkin’ but i’m afraid to put the work in i can feel your shadow i can feel your shadow i can feel your shadow i don’t think you think about me i don’t think you think about me when we met i was a silhouette so you filled in all my blanks what you give ain't always what you get that’s why i never said thanks now a cyclops with a monocle asks if i'm okay nobody stuffed my mouth full of wool i just don’t know what to say i can feel your shadow lurkin’ but i don’t wanna put the work in i can feel your shadow smirkin’ but i’m afraid to put the work in i can feel your shadow i can feel your shadow i can feel your shadow i don’t think you think about me i don’t think you think about me when we met i was just fourteen and you were twenty-three you treated me like your queen until i bent the knee i've been carrying your secret you’re a map and im atlas you left such a wreck when we split i’m still cleaning up that mess i can feel your shadow lurkin’ but i don’t wanna put the work in i can feel your shadow smirkin’ but i’m afraid to put the work in i can feel your shadow i can feel your shadow i can feel your shadow i don’t think you think about me i don’t think you think about me i can feel your shadow oh, i can feel your shadow oh, i can feel your shadow woah, i can feel your shadow your shadow your shadow i can feel your shadow lurkin’ but i don’t wanna put the work in i can feel your shadow smirkin’ but i’m afraid to put the work in i can feel your shadow (i don’t think you think about me) i can feel your shadow (i don’t think you think about me) i can feel your shadow (i don’t think you think about me) i can feel your shadow
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cirque du so what 06:30
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(right now everything is) shut in, shut up cirque du so what? shut in, shut up cirque du so what? shut in, shut up cirque du so what? right now goes on forever right now is a chariot with wheels of mayan calendars right now is dragging me by the ankles round and round the molten core of monday morning as the spectre of hector looks down and laughs seasons pass i lose count of the laps past and future collapse into a single moment right now (right now everything is) shut in, shut up cirque du so what? shut in, shut up cirque du so what? shut in, shut up cirque du so what? give in, give up cirque du so what cirque du so what give in, give up cirque du so what cirque du so what give in, give up cirque du so what cirque du so what (right now everything is wrong!) right now is a slinky on an escalator right now is stretch armstrong disrupted by four horses right now is being pulled apart each arm bound to an equinox each leg to a solstice hold this so you know which pole is which prick your finger on the pin of a compass and watch the blood drip like hot lava i'm a bank clerk in a balaclava begging for my life held at gunpoint by right now (right now everything is) shut in, shut up cirque du so what? give in, give up cirque du so what cirque du so what give in, give up cirque du so what cirque du so what (right now everything is wrong) right now is all there ever was right now is all there ever will be right now is a vampire in a house of mirrors right now is audrey hepburn smashing incandescent lanterns right now is a zodiac chimera paralyzed by palindromes horrorscopes spoken in whispers live evil now i won live evil borrow or rob live evil now i won live evil shut in, shut up cirque du so what?
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new year 03:05
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if i'm spring, you're autumn you froze my woes and i thawed em here they come here they come all at once like new buds i run to you and i know you, love and i know you love and i know you, love and i know you love if i'm autumn, you’re spring i chop things down, you count the rings like diamonds when i sing the four winds will bring us home at midnight on december 31st will the worst be over? will the curse be reversed? cause it’s been a hell year hope next one’s a swell year my finally get well year our hear the wedding bells year do you hear the wedding bells? maybe you and i could be married one day maybe you and i could be married one day (do you hear the wedding bells?) maybe you and i could be married one day maybe you and i could be married one day (do you hear the wedding bells?) maybe you and i could be married someday

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it's been a hell of a year.

this album only exists through the unconditional love and support from my fiance megan morano and my patrons: andrew oak, blue toad, chris ayers, landon straub, milo duhn, and rachel margraf.

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released December 29, 2020

all songs written and produced by nate noworyta
backup vocals by megan morano

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Darth Nater Buffalo, New York

Funny songs. Sad songs. Funny, sad songs.

Darth Nater is the solo project of Buffalo-based musician Nate Noworyta.

Lyrically dense story-songs filled with detailed imagery and characters. Musically rooted in folk and indie rock. ... more

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