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Something True

by Jimmy Sky

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1.
The Last Song 03:05
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You light up a smoke I know what it means When you pull it like that You tell me it's better Than doing heroin or crack So maybe I'm crazy But I swear you're amazing And my only religion Is to die with a smile In your arms Cause I don't want to live here Anymore If it isn't with you You didn't like the joke You somehow included My soul in that You promised me Hell and purgatory And back I know I'm a child I'm fragile and I'm wild If I hear another word About that other boy I'll shatter in two Cause I don't want to live here Anymore If it isn't with you No I don't want to lie here Anymore If it isn't with you Said I don't want to be here Anymore If it isn't with you No I don't want to cry here Anymore If it isn't with you Like a full moon Like a full moon I'm unfair Hiding my green-eyed stare Honey I want to be here But it's out of my hands My heart just loves you My heart's just ripping Right out of my chest It can't be helped You said it yourself The universe made Two beautiful people In incompatible trade And I say it every time It's the last song I'll devise But another one's bleeding Like ink from my eyes Cause I don't want to feel love Anymore If it isn't for you And I don't want to feel pain Anymore If it isn't from you No I don't want to breathe No not at all If it isn't with you No I don't want to live here Anymore If it isn't with you
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Down In Old St Kilda 03:58
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So we sing Hava Nagila, sing Amazing Grace Scream Mohammad Allah, pray to Buddha in the rain For a teenage girl was singing in St Kilda for the pain And though I was just a baby boy I can't erase her Long long ago before the world began to warm I knew the things that we would be There was hope for all to see My father and his brother on the street they knew no harm Sat a busker down with me And we preached with her for free We sang Hava Nagila, we sang Amazing Grace We screamed Mohammad Allah, prayed to Buddha in the rain For a teenage girl was singing in St Kilda for the pain And though I was just a baby boy I can't erase her face In time we gathered up a crowd for her to join To hear this little boy Some angel full of joy Gimmicks always come with money raining down with coin But we gave it all to her We had nothing left to learn So we sang Hava Nagila, I sang Amazing Grace Screamed Mohammad Allah, prayed to Buddha in the rain For a teenage girl was singing in St Kilda for the pain And though I was just a baby boy I couldn't erase her face Upon the arms and hands her tracks were burned like they were branded People walking by were scowling violence open-handed Nobody but we could see the need inside her bloodshot teenage eyes And oh the best that we could do was hope she wouldn't die So we sang Hava Nagila, we sang Amazing Grace Screamed Mohammad Allah, prayed to Buddha in the rain For that teenage girl was bleeding in St Kilda for the pain And though I was just a baby boy I can't erase her Sing Hava Nagila, sing Amazing Grace Scream to Buddha Allah, pray to Krishna in the rain For that teenage girl was singing in St Kilda for the pain And though I was just a baby boy I can't erase her face Though I was just a little boy I couldn't erase her face Though I am just a man in the world I'll never erase her from that place
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12 and 37 04:39
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I was 12 and he was 37 I was 12 and he was 37 11 and 26 How did I get in the mix I was 12 and he was 37 I was 12 and he was 37 11 and 26 How did I get in the mix The worst part was The worst was because It hurt so much more He broke me before It hurt so much more He broke it off before I could tell him I loved him To even the score He killed me some more My heart hit the floor It hurt so much more He hurt so much more Than the first time he forced it in I was 12 and he was 37 I was 12 and he was 37 11 and 26 Is this how you get your kicks I was 12 and he was 37 I was 12 and he was 37 11 and 26 How are you getting your kicks The worst part was The worst was because It hurt so much more He broke me before It hurt so much more He broke it off before I could tell him I loved him To even the score He killed me some more My heart hit the floor It hurt so much more He hurt so much more Than the first time he forced it in I was 12 and he was 37 I was 12 and he was 37 11 and 26 Can only imagine you're sick Wanted to feel protected A mother's child rejected When the other guy tried To smash the bathroom door He was denied From opening the foreigner sin I was 12 and he was 37 I was 12 and he was 37 11 and 26 How are you getting your kicks The worst part was The worst was because It hurt so much more He broke me before It hurt so much more He broke it off before I could tell him I loved him I was 12 and he was 37 I was 12 and he was 37
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Sara, imagination, self-love, self-hate, love songs, unrequited love, lo-fi - For Sara 05:05
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I don't if she was born from a Dylan song All I recall is I loved her when she came along Blinding and cloudless like flowers in the springtime A future made-up madness, like memory but more sublime Sure I could be anywhere but here I just want to go down She gave me my children in the spheres Took me to love town Sara, you were all imagination But I loved you like salvation 'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl Sara, you were all imagination With a love like adoration 'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl Like a dinosaur she showed me how she made it all Her goddess inborn I'd never need to leave at all So full of gladness like heaven in the sunshine Still she was madness like memory but more sublime Sara, you were all imagination But I loved you like salvation 'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl Sara, you were all imagination With a love like adoration 'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl Sure I could be anywhere but here I just want to go down She gave me my children in the spheres Took me to love town Sara, you were all imagination But I loved you like salvation 'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl Sara, you were all imagination With a love like adoration 'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl Sara, you were my imagination And I loved you like salvation 'Cause you took away my pain better than a real girl
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Girls in Violence 06:23
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In a beatific scene, a Mother washes her baby boy-child He's big blue eyes, he's platinum like endless blue skies Her hand is a vice, his airways are drowning in silence She loses her nerve, he screams until Daddy breaks the door down So his colours will always be blue and violet Oh he smothers a beast in the back of his eyelids She's a gossamer girl, he's in love from the moment he sees her So bossy and proud, she builds him a home out of water She tells him to trust, she closes his eyes with her free hand Shoving him down, there's fire in his face and he's shrieking So his lovers will always be girls in violence Oh his lovers will always be girls in violence Almost a man, a glitter-girl pays him attention Lying alone, she begs him to be her detention Faeries and chains, and bleeding do not go together Maybe one day, but now just aborted emotion So these covers will always be dyed in scarlet And these angels were loudest in the mouth of a harlot All his lovers will always be girls in violence Oh his lovers will always be girls in violence Men do not report Men do not report Men do not report Men do not report And the best retort is when they laugh you out of the station When the pain distorts like tears into elation Tried some taboo, and now they can strapon like lovers She calls him a bitch, like maybe one day he'll become her Dresses in drag, for a moment he's graceful and grateful She beats him on back, with poison and bottles of bourbon So his lovers will always be girls in violence So his lovers will always be girls in violence So his lovers will always be girls in violence So his lovers will always be girls in violence
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I Hated Myself 03:43
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Well we both know the tale of eighteen love Met at a party and fell like stardust It was beautiful like midnight in moonlight Fate brought us together but we ruined it forever Showed myself out into the sunshine I drained my health just below the flatline I hated myself for leaving you I hated myself for cheating on you I hated myself for choosing you And I hated myself for saying I couldn't forgive you People like to tell you how it's gonna go A crack or a fracture and they swarm Like blood on snow Ethically and morally you were always too powerful So faith brought us together but we ruined it forever Showed myself out into the sunshine I traded my health just to have the bloodline I hated myself for leaving you I hated myself for cheating on you I hated myself for choosing you And I hated myself for saying I couldn't forgive you Showed myself out into the sunshine I drained my health just below the flatline I hated myself for loving you I hated you more when you cheated on me it's true You were first in line to stab me in the spine Still I hated myself when I took her hand in mine I hated myself God how I hated myself I hated myself for leaving you I hated myself for cheating on you too I hated myself cause I said I couldn't forgive you I hated myself cause I'll always be in love with you Oh how I hated myself
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Standing Up 03:46
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Granny always always told me No one's ever worth it Took me twenty years of pain Six suicide attempts Three train wrecks for relationships And losing all my friends Just to hear the mirror say Listen to what she said Mother I'm okay now and it's no thanks to you Lover I'm okay now and it's no thanks to you It's just a promise It's just a promise I still believe in love I still believe in love People like to love you When someone says it's cool Keep your faith kill bitterness But never be that fool That shit they never cared about When everybody talked And when you needed mouth to mouth Well everybody walked Daddy I'm okay now and it's no thanks to you Honey I'm okay now and it's no thanks to you It's just a promise It's just a promise I still believe in love I still believe in love Broken and dumb Still there's a home I can call my own Helpless and numb Still I can feel My brain can get up and run I'm not okay now and I give thanks to you I'm fucking strange now and I give thanks to you But I keep my promises I'll never give it up I keep my promises I will believe in love I will believe in love I still believe in love I still believe in love
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Suddenly Something 05:04
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I wake up and it's night time Fireflies bug my imagination Look around and read another pointless piece For self-help to motivate my aggravation My life was like some kind of Indian curse Where I was hoping for some kind of self-worth But I got better Said I got better Cause I'm something to someone I'm something to someone I could have been anything But I'm suddenly something I'm suddenly something Something to someone She's the breakfast of champions She's a win-win She's another place I want to go She's peaceful and she's beautiful And she ain't for me But I got better But I'm something to someone I'm something to someone I could have been anything I'm something to someone Yeah that's really something Yeah that's really something It could have been nothing Now it's suddenly something Said I'm suddenly something Something to someone I've been in love with my inner disdain Like a rotten thorny poisonous familiar refrain I could fall from the sky Cause I want to be a martyr But I hear someone Baby I hear someone Say you're suddenly something You're suddenly something Something to someone You're something to someone You could have been nothing Now you're suddenly something That's really something Yeah that's really something Yeah that's really something
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Jewels on a Distant Past Horizon 05:30
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You held my hand in the darkness Made me feel like Jesus and Mary Would be here to guide us home Maybe we'd be something better Maybe we'd grow our skin Baby would be the name that you gave me In the twilight of our sin When their lips are on your lips They might taste alright You know how diamond rare that is When the pheromones feel fine But it's never gonna be the same It's never gonna culminate In that one night So everything is lost forever Most of all a memory treasure And every day is a run of the same Another little stutter And a goodbye You and I know this maze now Like a billion souls before Daylight dreams with butterfly streamers Delusions we paint on our doors When you've kissed the light of your life When you've loved like tomorrow you'll die Nothing and no-one can move you like mourning For a photograph burned in a fire When their lips are on your lips They might taste alright You know how diamond rare that is When the pheromones feel fine But it's never gonna compensate It's never be the same It's never gonna be that one night So everything is lost forever Most of all a memory treasure And every day is a run of the same Another little stutter And a goodbye When their lips are on your lips They might taste alright You know how diamond rare that is When the pheromones feel fine But it's never gonna be the same It's never gonna culminate In that one night So everything is lost forever Most of all a memory treasure And every day is a run of the same Another little stutter And a goodbye
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Knives 03:50
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When the curtain breaks and everyone cheers Don't blink or you might suddenly become alone No one wants to see your disease Nor strip you down to blood and skin and bone I always tried to say you wanted someone else And I was always on the other side When you lied to yourself tried to be that one I knew what it meant to finally become alive So here I am alone again Waiting for the night to end And it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives What it feels to be alive It's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives What it feels to be alive It's alright, it's alright I wanted to be doused in love My feet were never made to fit right You can always go back to just being yourself But love is never in the company of the blind Hate is just a strong word for loving on someone That's what you've got to convince your mind Baby wake up the blood is all your own You realise your love is becoming a bit unkind So here I am alone again Waiting for the night to end And it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives What it feels to be alive It's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives What it feels to be alive It's alright, it's alright So here I am alone again Waiting for the night to end And it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives What it feels to be alive It's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives What it feels to be alive It's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives, it's knives What it feels to be alive It's knives, it's alright, it's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright, it's gonna be alright
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Friendzone 03:42
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I hear they're ringing like ghosts Standing outside like by old lamp post I left you off with some other man He can give you all the things that I can't Stumbling forth under confetti and rice You stop and you grip my hands like ice The three of us now embrace Congratulations show on my face I couldn't open up inside There's too much that I've got to hide Unless I want it to end Unless I want to be Unless I want to be Ending up with you as a friend I'm smiling too much and you know me too well You've seen it before 'cause I'm living in hell You demand that I don't say I'm fine I love you so I'll tell you why Quietly claim that I'm lonely again Make my excuse that it's all for the best But I see the look in your eye We all know the reason I lie I couldn't open up inside There's too much that I got to hide Unless I want it to end Unless I want to be Unless I want to be Unless I want to be friends It's always the same there's more fish in the sea The right one is there just a'waiting for me You and I know this, you and I lived this There's something about me that screams I just can't do this I couldn't open up inside There's too much that I got to hide Unless I want it to end Unless I want to be Unless I want to be Unless I want to Never open up inside There's too much that I got to hide I don't want it to end But here I gotta be Here I got to be Here I got to be Here I gotta Here I gotta be friends
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Bonus - What It's All About (Tough Love Live Mix) 05:11
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Like a city all a'glow How it feels, to humbly know The lover of your soul Some you gain and some you lose A million trinkets, more for fools Time will tell, and break the spell When the lights go down and they see your golden crown is in tatters When there's fire in the trees and the kingdom of your dreams has been shattered It doesn't matter, if you love her It doesn't matter, if you love her People turn away from you Yellow-bellied, hands are blue Loneliness might serve you best Swim the ocean of the sky Growing aching wings, to fly Along the ground, where love is found When the lights go down and they see your golden crown is in tatters When there's fire in the trees and the kingdom of your dreams has been shattered It didn't matter, 'cause you love her It doesn't matter, if you love her One day when we're all done Got to ask yourself the question What did I truly desire It's higher When the lights go down and they see your golden crown is in tatters When there's fire in the trees and they bring it on the breeze that you're shattered Does it matter, if you lover Does it matter When the lights go down and they see your golden crown is in tatters When there's fire on the breeze and the kingdom of your dreams has been shattered It doesn't matter, if you love her It doesn't matter, if you love her

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Something True’ is the tenth online-only, ‘digital-vinyl’ release from eclectic Australian art-musician Jimmy Sky.

The album features 11 hand-recorded tales told through the medium of song. Each track was crafted in a bedroom studio using Jimmy’s unique ‘C-Side’ recording style, purposefully mixing a single microphone, simple digital interface and old software. The result is a lo-fi, demo-esque sound bursting with a sense of live realism.

Previous record ‘Something Old’ was characterised by rock, metal, distortion and the unearthing of lost material, but ‘Something True’ speaks a different sonic language. Sustained mostly by acoustic guitar and piano, each composition swings between lush and minimalist musical themes. Songs such as ’12 and 37′ were written in free-flow, recorded immediately after, and the entire collection comprises newly created material.

Jimmy describes the record as ‘folk-punk’ in reference to the recording method as well as musical style. With influences reaching from Cohen to Bowie to Elton John and splashes of dub, punk and pop, ‘Something True’ draws on real events, using poetic devices to transform autobiographical anecdotes into emotional aural experiences. Each song is a journey, whether it’s pop-rock single ‘For Sara’ – a tale of imagined childhood romance – or the downbeat, piano driven melancholia of ‘Knives’.

‘Something True’ was released through the usual online retailers and streaming services in December 2017, but only now is it available to download and own, with high-quality standalone files, cover art and single cover art.. To celebrate the release and in true lo-fi style, Jimmy performed on New Year’s Eve in Brisbane as part of Ear Candy #15, a local festival in Brisbane, Australia, hosted by the New Globe Theatre. Music from Jimmy’s latest record, as well as previous releases, also featured heavily in the soundtrack to ‘Tough Love - Director's Cut’, an Australian arthouse drama presented by The Big Movie Company.

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released February 12, 2017

All performances, instrumentation, samples, recording and mixing by Jimmy Sky.
Mastered by LANDR

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