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Psychedelic Syd and the Recklessly Abandoned

by All Sensory Void

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1.
Calling out to fate I get a feeling of helplessness Though the pattern was in myself to change the path Showing up so late I get the feeling I haven't started yet A decade of sure bets and debts all left up aid Oh lord help the sin Of getting up and trying to start again I can't help but grin I seem to start where others end And I guess I'm not The pessimist I thought myself to be The world is nothing more Than what I choose to see Isn't that so great? I guess, I can't help but feel jealous I bust my ass but not much comes to pass Passing out the virtue of lies Oh what a time to be alive A decade half made can burn bright before it fades Oh lord help the sin Of getting up and trying to start again I can't help but grin I seem to start where others end And I guess I'm not The pessimist I thought myself to be The world is nothing more Than what I choose to see What I see, yea yea yea If I had my say I'd say what I want anyway Had my way I'd say I'd say what I want anyway Had my way I'd say I'd say what I want anyway
2.
Syd was just a kid When he left his home for a new unknown Born for a trip to roam And his eyes weren't shone Cause his hair had grown As he stumbled in to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco Syd went to a party down the street Found enlightenment a few hits And then he moved in with a few friends Looking for a brand new hope They could all elope Guided by the words of the man on TV named Timothy Leary Cause the revolution's here And I don't want to miss out Yea the revolution's here And I don't want to miss out Consciously joining conscious expansion At least amongst all my friends I’m in tune with our new revolution Whatever meaning it lends Conveying love with a new generation Toward whatever future it lends Culture creeps towards its next evolution At least amongst all my friends Cause the revolution's here And I don't want to miss out Cause the revolution's here And I don't want to miss out
3.
The world is more than what it seems You give your life its own meaning Your grow and build 'til atrophy ensues The day is what you make of it A universe inside your head I paint the cracks and make myself look new Turning on incessantly To bring out a new normalcy If happiness is a guarantee pursuit Philosophy I grow to wed To make some sense of what's been said The meaning is still waiting to be found
4.
Eudaimonia 05:54
I try to keep my secrets kept Even though they're coming on and on and on Following through to my voice Where they claim that they belong, belong but I know they're wrong I could be good, I could be fine I could be yours, I could be mine I could be golden in the sun When you are old I'll still be young Offenders are offending me And sending everything they think they can sell to me But I'm not picking plastic flowers Inside your false garden rosary cause you know that aint for me I could be good, I could be fine I could be yours, I could be mine I could be golden in the sun When you are old I'll still be young Don't you think those people are sad Even though they don't seem to know the difference I could be good, I could be fine I could be yours, I could be mine I could be golden in the sun When you are old I'll still be young When you are old I'll still be young
5.
A morning for mourning that I won’t subdue Never a whole in pieces of you If you are the sense Then I am the contradiction Talking a tongue so void of meaning A part of the picture that I've been screaming Although I was caught a sweet submission If you are the sense Then I am the contradiction You're only diction's addiction Bottles in beauty do my healing A taste for attention so appealing Further the tension I’ve been feeling If you are the sense than I am the contradiction You're feeding the falsities in my facts Your crucifix is stabbing my back You're leaving for every reason I lack Because if you are the sense than I am the contradiction Your only diction’s addiction
6.
Village Song 03:40
Hey did you know? I was slow to let her go I was slow to let her find a quicker way Did you go against the grain And have all your demons slain Until only fair tales would remain? Hey did you know? Hey did you know? Hey are you out? Did you take all take all you're allowed? Did you find your soul in a moment of self doubt And hey don't ignore There's an angel at your door Showing things you never thought you'd think before And hey just for show I gave you more than you should know Gave you more than you ever could have owned
7.
The Trade 05:57
I traded my hand for some cards I couldn't use I sold all my art for a corporation's muse I traded my beliefs for a politician's views And I've been finding false everything you said was true The ignorant will never learn They'll always remain fools And evil men come now and then But in the end they will die too And I said how I'll move on and on and on and on and on I said now I'll move on and on and on and on and on I traded sure bets for a gamble I would lose I sold dull choices for a right to still refuse I took for granted everyone I ever knew And I've been finding false everything you said was true The ignorant will never learn They'll always remain fools And evil men come now and then But in the end they will die too And I said how I'll move on and on and on and on and on I said now I'll move on and on and on and on and on They caught you in sweet november They wrapped you in their clothes They took all you could remember After they stole what you loved most And they kept on passing you over Until you passed away
8.
Black Window 04:40
Don't think I knew Their silent faces hold the wall Of a time when I met you Our heart beats skipping like a stone And now I see it in my future And I feel it on my throat And I know what's coming after And I know I'm not alone But I feel so alone You teach with your body With flushed cheeks I could learn what turned you on The world stared back at me But I could only notice what was wrong The closer that I stood The more I saw the less of you I’d know And time had changed the mood Shade the landscapes of my black window And now I see it in my future And I feel it on my throat And I know what's coming after And I know I'm not alone But I feel so alone The lights are on all night long I’m singing through my right lung The words are tips on my tongue I do want more sometimes though and I guess it shows right through I saw your face the first time Now you’re a frame in my mind The picture’s working just fine I do want more sometimes though and I guess it shows right through
9.
Molly Sunday 02:46
Good morning Molly drama queen You're gonna make a mess of me You're gonna take the rest from me And as you smile and laugh quaintly You talk back faintly And hide behind a gap toothed grin A loneliness within I thought you saw through the matter When the former was latter I thought you could see right through to the cause I thought you saw through the pattern When you said it didn't matter I thought you could see right through the applause That it was just another phase A define yourself craze And hide behind all that you've been A loneliness within I thought you saw through the mess But you wouldn't protest All those who've over extended their reach I thought you would've noticed All the detail they missed But you were mesmerized my a speech Like it was just another phase A define yourself craze And hide behind all that you've been A loneliness within Good morning Molly sunday scene You're gonna give the best of me to you
10.
How could this happen to me? I never thought I’d get old The come down always kills those perceptions of truth That idealism won’t hold So desperately So recklessly Disassembled in youth Couldn’t hang on to it To find pieces of love within peace and in truth For three dollars a hit So recklessly Abandon me

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This is a loose concept album about the birth and death of the 1960s hippie movement in a way that relates to my own personal experiences. I'm only 26 so I wasn't there. It was inspired by the below quote:

“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled the ‘60s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.” – Hunter S. Thompson

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released September 1, 2013

Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Percussion - Eric Goldberg

Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Skylar Adler

Cover photo by Ilysa Mitofsky

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