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Tripped over myself and fell

Into a hole that never seemed to end

And when it finely did

I flew out of the other end

And found myself stuck in a cloud

I could not tell my up from down

I made amends with never being found

I made my home in the cloud

Calling, calling everything

Everything to celebrate

Falling, falling endlessly

Celebrate with revelry

Stuck in the clouds expecting

Babies shooting arrows at planes

But there was only fog so thick

Couldn't see an inch from my face

Days and nights the nihilist kissed

The rings of kings of nothingness

In time so still and preordained

It found me out, I finally reigned

Falling back into motion

Crawling back into place

Falling back into motion

Crawling back into place

Out of the fog, a place you'll only find

Between all space and all time

That fell into me out of hell

Infinitely I fell

Falling, falling endlessly

Everything for reverie

Solemn, solemn memories

Memories that torture me

Calling, calling everything

Everything to celebrate

Falling, falling endlessly

Celebrate with revelry

Falling back into motion

Crawling back into place

Falling back into motion

Crawling back into place

Hardest part of falling without feathers

Is not knowing when

Or whether this will ever end

And never is forever if

The moment lives out motionless

And home is worse than homelessness

You hope that's as bas as it gets

Until you find true hopelessness

Falling, falling endlessly

Everything for reverie

Solemn, solemn memories

Memories that torture me

Calling, calling everything

Everything to celebrate

Falling, falling endlessly

Celebrate with revelry

Falling back into motion

Crawling back into place

Falling back into motion

Crawling back into place

Landed in the water

Swam four thousand miles towards

The Spanish Decco, orange blossoms

Virgil guided me to shore

He gave me rum inside a coconut

Spoke of a place that opened up

A mountain by the ocean

I was finely back in motion

Falling back into motion

Crawling back into place

Falling back into motion

Crawling back into place

February 17, 2021

Robert LaSalle

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February 17, 2021

Robert LaSalle

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Excerpt from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake:

The Voice of the Devil

All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors:

1. That Man has two real existing principles: Viz: a Body & a Soul.

2. That Energy, call'd Evil, is alone from the Body; & that Reason, call'd Good, is alone from the Soul.

3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.

But the following Contraries to these are True:

1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

2. Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

3. Energy is Eternal Delight.

Music is intention

Hear my intention

Through darkness

try

Affirm that

which faces

its shadow

is light

Through lullabies

& lucid dreams

I AM THAT

which awakens

In love

with no end

I AM THAT

which falls

from both sides

of a fractured past

I AM PRESENT

I AM WHOLE

One with Earth

but not of it

Here now

I AM ALWAYS HOME

Stardust in the hand

of space & time

Guided & the guide

Healer & the healed

From those same wheels

on that same Ride

I AM THAT

which has

always been

inside

I AM ALL LIFE

I AM AWAKE

I AM THE LIGHT

All songs written, arranged, recorded & performed by Robert LaSalle

Executive producer: Robert Margouleff

Strings performed by Stevie Blacke
Woodwinds performed by Rubén Salinas
Vibraphone performed by Alexander Burke
Organ on “Earth” by Alexander Burke
Organ & Synth on “Fall for Something Beautiful” by Anthony Fossaluzza

Mixed by Robert Margouleff, Alexander Burke, Bobby Holland & Robert LaSalle

Second Engineer: Gio Bertuccelli
Mastered by Aaron Zeus Zepeda & Robert Margouleff

Sanctuary West Records

Robert LaSalle Explores Bhagavad Gita @ Lands End Labyrinth 2019 — Bhagavad Gita @ Lands End Labyrinth 2019

The Canon: RIDE>Lullaby>Night>Awaken

The moment yet still to be found, the depths of silence from which Awaken Light screams were entirely lost in the deafening noise of an inept and deluded culture of monotonous mainstream mediocrity mainlined into the veins of a sick, sad society succumbed to a hotbed of apathy from which a people born of loss could no longer distinguish art from artificial, meaning from repeating, authenticity from the scrapings of a meat grinder, depth from daft, melodies of the eternal moment from automated, quality-free, plastic-wrapped tortured animal transfats with corn syrup-filled fatass fakeass autopilot industry drones stuck in repeat mode stumbling down the red carpet runaway train where every man for himself drinks his own hemlock in the dog eat dogma shellshocked hail mary punting corporate headless artifice’s artificial states of american dreamless sleepless beauty-less superficiality where mother earth’s breasts are pumped full of silicone & covered in fools golden glitter jiggling beneath lavalier microphones hiding monotone bronchial yodelbabble with autotune substacks dancing stilted heels in limelit strobelight over rumbling stages for crumbling crowds of bumbling idiots cheering for whom they affectionately refer to as “artists” while art slithers away with a sardonic shiteating grin into the ocean of nothingness where the mystic no longer needs them. It was the perfect ending to a career of perfect misunderstandings.

Art is not content. Art cannot be subscribed to, tagged, liked, friended or followed. Goodbye, good riddance, God bless, farewell & thanks for all the fish.

At the end of 2020, Robert LaSalle was eaten by wolves. Awaken Light survives by its silver slippers.

try

“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.”

— William Shakespeare

TRY

“I Am the light try

Open your eyes try

What did you find inside?”

I tried nobody noticed

I tried nobody came

I already know it

I tried and it's all the same

“If you know it so well

Why are you talking to yourself, why?”

I'll try you know I won't mean it

I'll try it's a waste of my time

I'll try just to appease it

I'll give it one more try

Why I already know it

I tried but nobody noticed

I'll try but no one will notice

“Light is in the moment

Inside you it is growing”

I’m trying just to let go of

My mind in who controls it

“Time will never notice you

Find me in the moment”

I’ll try!

I Am the light I’ll try

I’ll open my eyes I’ll try

What will I find inside?

LOVE, PT 4

Love, Pt 2

Love, Pt 3

LOVE, PT 4

Love, save the best for last

Love, no questions left to ask

Love, lay both feet upon the gas

Love, save the best for last

Enough is enough to know it's meant to be

Enough is enough to say it's meant to be

Love, you wrote my destiny

Love, don't you know

Who you're supposed to be?

Story of a broken heart

Tale with no arc

Love with no start

Strangers making love in the dark

Flames without sparks

Love with no end

Love with no start

Don't run

Let's jump a train to eternity

Love, your broken arrow cut me deep

I'm done with orchestrated fallacies

Love, you became a goddam tragedy

Love, I'm here for reverie

Love, I owe you everything

Enough is the air you couldn't breathe

Oh, my love, you bring out the best of me

Story of a broken heart

Tale with no arc

Love with no start

Strangers making love in the dark

Flames without sparks

Love with no end

Story of a broken heart

Tale with no arc

Love with no start

Strangers making love in the dark

Flames without sparks

Love with no end

Love with no start

Love

Start

Love

Start

Love

Start

Love

Start

Love

Start

Love

Start

Love

Start

HELPING HAND

“Some light, of course, is allowed them, namely from a fire that casts its glow toward them from behind their backs. Between the fire and the prisoners there runs a walkway at a certain height. Imagine a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show their puppets.”

— Socrates in 'Allegory of the cave' by Plato

“If we affirm one single moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event—and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

“It happened once. Four men were walking in the forest. The first was a gnana yogi (intelligence), the second was a bhakti yogi (emotion), the third was a karma yogi (action), and the fourth was a kriya yogi (energy). Usually, these four people can never be together... But today they happened to be walking together in the forest and a storm broke out...

They started running, looking for shelter ...They came to an ancient temple ...There was a deity in the center ...There was no other place to go, so they moved closer and closer. Finally, there was no alternative. They just hugged the deity and sat down.

The moment these four people hugged the idol, there was a huge fifth presence. Suddenly, God appeared. In all their four minds the same question arose: Why now? They wondered, “We expounded so many philosophies, did so many poojas, served so many people, did so much body-breaking sadhana, but you didn’t come. Now when we’re just escaping the rain, you turn up. Why?”

God said, “At last you four idiots got together!””

— Sadhguru

HELPING HAND

I want to show you as you are

A true reflection in life of art

A light beyond mishaps of words

To bridge the gaps between our worlds

The fire, the sun, the source of all

Behind the shadows on cave walls

Where nature and nurture come face to face

In vice and virtue, time and space

Be my helping hand, my guiding light

At the ring of a bell, at the roll of a die

Until I understand, be my helping hand

Scholar’s faltered worlds she denies

All’s lost on her, she thinks she’s her mind

Poet’s emotion guides his hand

Eternity’s his moment, his world’s a grain of sand

Mystic’s in it, of energy

The body’s a temptress in time’s feigned creeds

Myths I’ve lifted, attempts to shine

Monsters and marionettes, lambs and lions

I’ll be your helping hand, your guiding light

Of the union in emotion, body, energy and mind

Push the boulder up the hill

To watch it roll back down again

Find the source of all that wants

And wonders what and why and when

Until you understand

I’ll be your helping hand

Every creature in the world

Child of stardust by the shore

Science finds it in itself

Nihilists deny it, affirming it in themselves

Light

Vagrants pass in caravans

Blinded by the underhand

Nobles pass in limousines

Convinced each other’s hands are clean

We’re walking hand in hand

There is no face to face

We’re all on the same side in the same race

We’re all in this to shine

Beyond the shadow of desire

No accidents, no flaws, no wrong and no right

It’s a work of art, a masterpiece of fate

Stardust in the hands

Of the hand of time and space

Until we understand

We hold infinity in the palm of our helping hand

FALL FOR SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in”

— Leonard Cohen

“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”

— Albert Camus

“The way of love is not a subtle argument;
the door there is devastation;
birds make great sky circles of their freedom,
how do they learn that?
They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.”

— Rumi

FALL FOR SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

The sky falls on another setting sun

Since I found out why I don’t mind so much

So much pain and so many ruts

The world is heavy but I’m holding up

When I fall in trouble and out of luck

I count my blessings in a half full cup

In every moment there’s a glimpse of love

I fall in and out and that’s enough

Wheels keep rolling down the one-way track

My feet are heavy but I won’t roll back

Chasing silhouettes on the setting sun

I want to fall for something beautiful

If I keep falling down I’ll keep getting back up

I’ll keep fighting through the fire and rain!

If I can’t have it all

I want to fall for something beautiful

When the sky falls down and the walls cave in

I can still find beauty in the little things

I don’t know much but I know this

Darkness shows me the light I might‘ve missed

Where one day ends another begins

When I can’t forget I choose to forgive

I gather up all the broken limbs

Forge a path over every burnt down bridge

Wheels keep rolling down the one-way track

When your eyes get heavy you can never look back

Chasing silhouettes on the setting sun

Don’t you wanna fall for something beautiful?

If you fall down you better keep getting back up

Keep fighting through the fire and rain!

You can choose it all

When you do it all

For something beautiful

I can fall out of love without a heart attack

I can fall down hard and I can jump right back

I can fall for lies over cold hard facts

But I won’t fall through the cracks

Well I’ve done wrong

I always meant well

I’ve seen heaven, and I’ve seen hell

I forgive you all

Hope you can tell

Hope you forgive me

I’ve forgiven myself

Wheels keep rolling down the one-way track

Our minds are heavy but we can’t go back

We’re the silhouettes on the setting sun

Everyone will fall for something beautiful

We all fall down then we get back up

Keep fighting through the fire and rain!

If we all have to fall

I want us all to fall for something beautiful

You want to know why the sky falls on us?

Why we fall on hard times and fall out of luck?

Why we’re falling in and out of love

Why darkness falls on the best of us

Light falls down at every dusk

So we see the sun when it comes back up

We have to fall to get back up

The sky falls down so we can hold it up

When the sky falls down

You can make the rain sound musical

You can make the mundane unusual

You can do it all

Forever you can fall for something beautiful

Everyone falls, everything falls

Everyone falls, everything falls for something beautiful

Everyone falls, everything falls

Everyone falls, everything falls for something beautiful

Falling for something beautiful

Everyone falls for something beautiful

We’re all falling for something beautiful

We all fall for something beautiful

Fall for something beautiful

FALSE LIGHT

“You asked me how I get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don’t use logic when I do it. Logic’s the first thing you have to get rid of.”

— J.D. Salinger

FRACTURED LIGHT

“Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I Am)
-Descartes

Carpe nihil (seize nothingness)
-Satire of Horace

Magister dixit (the teacher has said it)
-Aristotle

Que sais-je (what do I know?)
-Montaigne”

“The enlargement of the light side of consciousness has the necessary consequence that the part of the psyche which is less light and less capable of consciousness is thrown into darkness to such an extent that sooner or later a rift occurs in the psychic system. At first, this is not recognized as such and is therefore projected – i.e. it appears as a religious projection, in the form of a split between the powers of Light and Darkness.”

— Carl Jung

FRACTURED LIGHT

Two sides of emotion

This soft fractured light

Lost in the moment

Affirming life (all life)

Eons reflect from fractured glass

All in a split second

Present, future and past

Assuring this presence

Is more than fractured light

Delusions of heaven

Only tricks of the mind, an absent mind

On backdrops of hell

Masquerading as dreams

Visions withheld for eternity

Eternity

I don’t, I don’t want to stay

Had it in for me, I had enough

I’ll go, why won’t you let me leave?

If this is a dream I just want to wake up

I don’t, I don’t want to stay

In this place and in this time

I know, I know there’s another side

I Am, I exist

This shift to no aim (cogito ergo sum)

No want and no will

No purpose in this pain (go ego way, carpe nihil)

No lesson can teach

No words can describe (magister dixit)

No sermon can preach

From this fractured light (que sais-je, que sais-je)

Fractured light, fractured light

THE OTHER SIDE

“Of all the definitions of God, none is so well put as the biblical statement ‘I AM THAT I AM’”

— Ramana Maharshi

“Soham
(I AM THAT)”

— Hindu Mantra

“God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM. Say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.”

— Exodus 3:14

“Before Abraham Was, I AM”

— Jesus of Nazareth

““What are you? Are you a celestial being or a God?”
“No,” said the Buddha.
“Well, then, are you some sort of magician or wizard?”
“No.”
“Are you a man?”
“No.”
“Well what are you then?”
“I AM AWAKE.””

— Siddhartha Gautama

THE OTHER SIDE

I don’t, I don’t want to go

Back alone into time and space

I don’t, I don’t want to leave

If this is a dream, I don’t want to wake

The prism ascends

If words could explain

I Am That I Am

I Am awake (soham)

A world apart

Sharing space and time

The soul controls the heart

Perceives with the mind

All Light

I don’t, I don’t want to go

Yet I know I can’t stay

I don’t, I don’t want to leave

This isn’t a dream, I Am Awake

I don’t, I don’t want to go

Back alone into space and time

I know, I know the other side

INCANDESCENT WHOLE

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”

— William Blake

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour”

— William Blake

INCANDESCENT WHOLE

You made it to the other side

Fallen for beauty

Fall to rise, fall to feel so alive

You want the wisdom

Don’t want the pain

Yin without the yang, it’s nothing at all

Like sunbeams searching for the sun

Trying to find what makes you One

It’s been with you all along

Stars be the light that guide till sun up

Darkness reveals who shine among us

Wearing the seal of light that brands the soul

Love is not afraid to find you

Sun it was made to shine through you

One incandescent whole

Like a labyrinth

You’re back where you began

Told you, you hold the world in the palm of your hand

Without contraries no progression

Evil is hell and good is heaven

The oldest Poet showed us eternal delight

Good is only passive (try)

Evil’s only active (try)

Repulsion and attraction, still screaming lullabies!

Stars be the light that guide till sun up

Darkness reveals who shine among us

Wearing the seal of light that brands the soul

Love is not afraid to find you

Sun it was made to shine through you

One incandescent whole

Love! Love! Love!

Find a reason within yourself

Love is not afraid to find you

Sun it was made to shine through you

One incandescent whole

HOME, PT 4

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”

— Maya Angelou

Home, Pt 1, 2 & 3

HOME, PT 4

Home was a place I had never known

A place I thought I’d never go

Till I was lost, alone

I finally found my home

For so long home was backseat in the cold

A Ride spinning out of control

Moving back and forth

Down a never ending road

One day home came and found me

It’s a place where I can be

Just as I Am

There is no us or them

The Ride taught me

How to fly with broken wings

How to land gracefully

And let the bygones go

I finally found my home

Home is the hardest thing to find

All one can do is

Try to make the most of life

There’s no place like home

Home

Home was a monster in my dreams

A place where I got beat and nearly buried

Before I found my Sanctuary

There was no love in between my sheets

Bugs sucked the life from me

Until I came undone

Before I finally found my home

Home is a dream that’s coming true

Everything I do

I do to find Truth in life

Home is my beautiful retreat

A place where I can breathe

With the aspen trees

Trade fate for destiny

And I’ll trade youth

For a truth not soon forgotten

The smell of smog

For cherry blossoms and a clear night sky

Trade bedbugs for butterflies

Home!

Home is on the earth I love

I caught the setting sun

Now the heart is One

EARTH

“I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

— Thomas Paine

Runaway train poem

“BELOW: ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photo of Earth taken by Voyager 1 space probe 2/14/90”

— Carl Sagan

EARTH

Runaway train on a one-way track

Fade to black

Curtains of shame in the third act

When the gun fires back

In the story of us, from past malaise

To the present stage

Either step up and save the days

Or we fade away

I'm on my knees facing the heavens

The moonlit seas hear my confession

I hear melodies as I'm counting my blessings

Begin to sing, for the world heeds my affection

Singing, home is the earth I love

Home is the earth I love

The earth I love

Through the rear-view from future's past

What's life's forecast?

What do we choose when they look back?

Do we choose to last?

Mother Earth grieves for all we lost

On the pale blue dot

Will we believe before we're gone?

Still, life lives on

The tide recedes, lured by her waning crescent

The evergreens, faintly silhouetted

By our galaxy, providence's reflection

For her I sing, for the world heeds my affection

Singing, home is the earth I love

All I know under the skies above

The greatest show under the sun

Singing, home is the earth I love

The earth I love

Children of paradise

Can't agree on anything

Though red and blue sides have to meet

On the side of green

Sullen breeze whispers a mixed message

Air I breathe leaves fate second-guessing

As I leave I feel prudence evanescing

Still I sing as long as she heeds my affection

Count my blessings

My country is earth and my faith is good

Just do good

So I sing for her

For the earth I love

And the good in us

One lonesome rock with a heart of gold

On a black backdrop

In an ocean dark and cold

The pale blue dot enlightened by her sun

She's all we got

The earth I love

GOODBYE

“May your dreams NOT come true. May things that you could never dream of happen to you.”

— Sadhguru

“Let it be.”

— Paul McCartney

GOODBYE

It’s time

For us to turn another page

For us to go our separate ways

In the story of our lives

I wouldn’t trade a single word

I wouldn’t change a single line

It’s always hard to say

Goodbye, goodbye

So long

We’ve only learned to let it be

If we could go back into time

Would we skip a single beat

Relive the shadows to find the light

I wouldn’t change a single thing

At long last this is goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

Farewell

If we should ever meet again

Here’s to us now until then

Last words are the hardest ones to find

Now it’s time to say goodbye, goodbye

The linguist survives on mourning tithes

Now it’s time to say goodbye

One Last Lullaby

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

“Riding south into the misty morning, I’m soaring, now I’m soaring”

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October 23, 2020

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Greater Dogs - Never Coming Back

October 23, 2020

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I'm riding on a new wave, follow me

I'm not answering the slack tide calling me

I'm never coming back

No, I'm never coming back

I'm taking me the high road, follow me

I'm gonna live like the pharaohs and the Solomon’s

I'm never coming back

No, I'm never coming back

I'm never coming back

No, I'm never coming back

Do you really want a medieval America

Witch for a daughter, and a scribe for a grandson

Preaching the gospel, and cutting education funds

The earth's getting hotter

And the world’s getting slaughtered by the rats

Oh, I’m never coming back

I’m never, never coming back

I'm taking me the high road

Don't you love it

Hats off to the old wave's new republic

I don't have a hat that's suitable for that

'Cause I'm never coming back

No, I'm never coming back

I gave all I had to give

I had enough of it

I'm not jumping off a bridge 'cause everyone does it

Can't you smell the rat

Can't you smell the fucking rat

No, I'm never coming back

Follow me, Judas

I'm not falling for the Empire Republica

I'm not falling for the prophet over Pagan blood

We're not following her footsteps, America

I'm not falling for the hypochristian merit

‘Cause we're never, never, never, never, never, never

Never turning back

No, we’re never turning back

Follow me, Solomon

I'm headed out the high road, follow me

I ain't going like the Cicero's and Socrates

I'm never coming back

No, I'm never coming back

I said I'm never coming back

No, I'm never coming back

I'm not diving head first into shallow water

I'm not Sallee selling sea shells like my father's father

Falling through the cracks

No, I won't turn into that

‘Cause I'm never coming back

No, I'm never, never, never

Never coming back

Follow me, Solomon

Follow me, Judas

I'm headed out the back door now, follow me

I'm not falling for your A-team, Constantine

I'm not falling for the biblical prophecy

And when the empire strikes down Mrs. Liberty

Well… I’m never turning back

I’m never turning back

Never, never

We’ll never turn into that

Oh, one more

No! Hell no!

I'm taking me the high road, follow me

Don't need a Judas, Brutus, fuck Mark Antony

I'm never coming back

No, I'm never coming back

I'm never coming back

No, I'm never coming back

Melting in mescaline and molly, meth and marijuana

I’ll meet the hunchback Razorback in Tijuana

“¿Por qué necesita un grande Cadillac?”

‘Cause I’m never, ever coming back!

Hell no!

No, I’m never coming back

Hell no!

Amen, mother fuckers

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Lone Masses - Dream

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Dream

Across time and space

Forgotten place

World awaits

Dream

Beyond desire

Endless time

Of present mind

Past memory

May all who think

Learn to dream

May all who dream

Learn to believe

Between

Space and time

Dream what’s inside

Dream

Outside the lines

Dream

Destiny’s face

Forever’s fate

With modern taste

The ancient way

Awaken grace

In reverie

Forever dream

The moment’s now

May all who think

Forever dream

May all who feel

Make them real

Dream a dreamer’s anthem

A limelit lantern

In the dark of space

A world awaits

(Dream, dream, dream)

Awaken grace

The ancient way

Fall into the moment

(Dream, dream, dream)

All who believe it

(Dream, dream, dream)

Dream

And all who feel it

(Dream, dream, dream)

Make it real

Dream, dream, dream, dream

Dream of paradise

Make it real

More than Lullabies

Make it real

Not another Ride

Dream never dies

The Dream

Dream never dies

Dream

Make it real

Dream, dream

Make it real

Dream, dream, dream, dream

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Greater Dogs - Magic Hat

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Every time you say

You love me

You do, from a magic hat

Tricks you pull from your sleeve never last

I don’t think I’d ever be sure about that

Blame the bad habits

Say you ain’t like that

Never mind falling out laughing

Off the bat (hahaha, hahaha)

I ain’t no rabbit

Say you ain’t like that

Never mind pulling out magic

From your hat (hahaha, hahaha)

Castles of card towers

Like bricks in a wall

That were made to fall

The last trick you’ll pull on me is called

Disappear and don’t ever think you’ll come back

I don’t think I’d ever be sure about that

Blame the bad habits

Say you ain’t like that

Never mind falling out laughing

Off the bat (hahaha, hahaha)

I ain’t no rabbit

Say you ain’t like that

Never mind pulling out magic

From your hat (hahaha, hahaha)

Do your tricks on your own time

Close my eyes

Out of sight and out of mind

Reappear on your own time

Open my eyes

Out of sight and out of mind

Now that you’re wearing

Your heart on your sleeve

What’s in it for me?

Pull all your tricks out

When you leave

I don’t think you’ll ever be through with your schemes

I’m sure that you’ll never pull them back on me

Blame the bad habits

Say you ain’t like that

Never mind falling out laughing

Off the bat (hahaha, hahaha)

I ain’t no rabbit

Say you ain’t like that

Never mind pulling out magic

From your hat!

Live and you learn, honey

Hahaha

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Impaster - Love Is Not as Blind as Me

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

“I just found a new way to swim
But nobody found me
I’m not afraid of drowning
I’m afraid of regret
And never really getting wet
Not afraid of the water
I’m gonna pick up a bottle
And I’m going to sing
A troubled musician’s theme
It just seems so fitting
To watch the sun go down over music city”

All “***Impaster***” albums were recorded on a portable Korg 1600 MKII in random basements & garages 2003-2008 & finally released in 2020

All songs written, performed and produced by Robert LaSalle

Album art by Megan Kelley

During the 2020 lockdown, the artist released these 2003-2008 teenage mixes as Impaster:

OCEAN FLOOR

All been done before

It’s all been done before

Not listening any more

I’m not listening any more

And I’m drowning (drowning)

You breathe easy (easy)

You can't hear me (hear me)

It’s all for the sake of drowning

(all for the sake of drowning)

Why aren't you listening anymore?

(why don’t you listen, why on the ocean floor)

It’s all for the sake of a mystery

I will be listening from the ocean floor

Last place I want to be

Halfway in the water

Half on the beach

I’ve been beaten at my own game

What will I find?

It’s all for the sake of drowning

(all for the sake of drowning)

Why aren't you listening anymore?

(why don’t you listen, why on the ocean floor)

It’s all for the sake of a mystery

I will be listening from the ocean floor

Never see the sunrise (sunrise, sunset)

Never see the sunset anymore (daylight's far away)

Never see anything except dead weight on the ocean floor

(real life's dead weight on the ocean floor)

There’s a martyr in my bones

A ripple skipping stones

Sinking slowly home

And I’m drowning

You can't see me

You breathe easy

It’s all for the sake of drowning

(all for the sake of drowning)

Why aren't you listening anymore?

(why don’t you listen, why on the ocean floor)

All for the sake of a mystery

Why aren’t you listening?

Why aren’t you listening anymore?

It’s all for the sake of drowning

(all for the sake of drowning)

Why aren't you listening anymore?

(why don’t you listen, why on the ocean floor)

It’s all for the sake of a mystery

I will be listening from the ocean

From the ocean floor

What will I find if I’m not searching?

If I’m not searching anymore

It’s all for the sake of drowning

What will I find if I’m not searching?

If I’m not searching

CANVAS

I woke beneath the morning bells

In the shadows where I painted myself

On a canvas far from home

In a place only you and I know

With picture perfect hindsight

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

Why aren't you here with me now?

There’s a garden full of comely faces

And an ocean for your warm embraces

Where there was love, now there is solid ground

And a frame for all your love's lost and founds

With picture perfect hindsight

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

Why aren't you here with me now?

With picture perfect hindsight

(I see what I see and still see through)

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

('cause I love you)

Why aren't you here with me now?

Would you tell me that I got it wrong?

Would you throw my paintbrush away?

If you were to hear this song

Would you see my canvas mostly blank?

With picture perfect hindsight

(I see what I saw and still see through)

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

('cause I love you)

Why aren't you here with me now?

With picture perfect hindsight

(I see what I saw and still see through)

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

('cause I love you)

Why aren't you here with me now?

(Oh, and I still see through)

With picture perfect hindsight

(I see what I see and still see through)

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

('cause I love you)

Why aren't you here with me now?

(Oh, and I still see through)

With picture perfect hindsight

(I see what I see and still see through)

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

('cause I love you)

Why aren't you here with me now?

(It’s just a canvas without you, and I still see through)

With picture perfect hindsight

(I see what I see and still see through)

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

('cause I love you)

Why aren't you here with me now?

(It’s just a canvas without you, and I still see through)

With picture perfect hindsight

(I see what I see and still see through)

I’ve painted under still light

A beautiful love

('cause I love you)

Why aren't you here with me now?

It’s just a canvas without you

NOT AFRAID OF THE WATER

Not afraid of the water

It’s just my reflection

Stares back at me

Stares back instead of forwards

I was forewarned

By everyone who's

Ever done anything

Don’t mind getting my feet wet

I’ll stay afloat and I won't let

The future I see

Weigh down on me

There’s water all around me

I’m not afraid of drowning

I’m afraid of regret

And never really getting wet

But I can find resolution in what I’m doing

Without, without doubt

That’s what I’m doing

Not afraid of the water

I’m becoming my father

Find a steady job somewhere

Settle down somewhere

Find brand new dreams

Before I fulfill them

Make a life with children

Live a stable life

Leave my angst behind

I just figure I’ll lay low

'Cause it's too shallow

To dive in head first

Maybe someday I’ll learn

I’ve got my eyes wide open

And I’m just hoping

Someone will hear me first

I’m just hoping something works

But I can find resolution in what I’m doing

Without, without doubt

That’s what I’m doing

Not afraid of the water

Wasn’t scared of the water

Because I tip toed in

I just found a new way to swim

But nobody found me

I’m not afraid of drowning

I’m afraid of regret

And never really getting wet

Not afraid of the water

I’m gonna pick up a bottle

And I’m going to sing

A troubled musician's theme

It just seems so fitting

To watch the sun go down over music city

HOME, PT 1

No place like home

Home, I’ll go, I’ll go anywhere but home

Fix my lonely heart with deception

How’s angst as a listener?

How's life as a lesson?

And it’s not teaching me anything

At home where my heart is

Splattered all over the floor

Won’t you take me anywhere but home?

I’ll go, I’ll go anywhere but home

Change is a way to remove the scent of evil

Oh God, I’ll bite my words

If I could ever truly see you there

It's where I got to be lost to find the moment

Won’t you show me where?

Take me now

Won’t you show me anywhere but home?

I’ll go, I’ll go anywhere but home

No place like home

Home, I’ll go, I’ll go anywhere but home

Goodnight, tonight I’ll sleep on the red carpet

Sell my life for a pretty penny on the black market

Goodnight

Please take me where my headstone reads:

"I was, but am not any longer. I’m finally home"

Home

No place like home

FOR SOMEONE OR SOMETHING

You come from a place like me

Where twilight is still enough light to see

We’re both as blind as blind can be

But we still can see

Wouldn’t you rather live?

Wouldn’t you rather die for someone or something?

Why paint your own grave?

So that your life may not be in vain?

Rather be a hero than a saint

In my own lifetime

Wouldn’t you rather live?

Wouldn’t you rather die for someone or something?

Maintain your legend?

Or preserve your legacy?

Don’t you want to live?

No, no Lord, I’d rather die for it

Isn’t that what you do

When you have nothing else to lose?

Wouldn’t you rather live?

Wouldn’t you rather die for someone or something?

Maintain your legend?

Or preserve your legacy?

These aren't the questions you should be pondering

Life is for reason

I, I truly believe

I truly believe

Wouldn’t you rather live?

Wouldn’t you rather die for someone or something?

Maintain your legend?

Or preserve your legacy?

LETTERS FROM DEATH

Dear Mustn't Impose,

Whether your luck is run dry or frozen

You have been chosen

Glory Enclosed

Dear Whom Proclaim To Know,

Whether your faith is blind or broken

You have been chosen

Glory Enclosed

Dear Purest Of All Souls,

Whether your eyes have ever opened

You have been chosen

Glory Enclosed

Dear Dejected One,

Whether you did this on your own

You have been chosen

Glory Enclosed

Dear Evil Self-Imposed,

Whether justice is just as cold

You have been chosen

Glory Enclosed

DREAMING

Somewhere far away

A boy wanted to go outside and play

He was stuck indoors all day

Playing all of his own games

He was dreaming

Day after day

In the little place where he stayed

He hoped and dreamed

His dreams would come true someday

He was dreaming

He saw all the world

Through the little cracks in the boards

All the other kids

Were playing right outside his door

He was dreaming

He was dreaming, dreaming, dreaming

He was dreaming

One day the boy awoke

He’d given up hope

And to his astonishment

The door was wide open

The boy had awoken

Day after day

He'd dreamed of this day

The day finally came

And he walked outside to play

He tried to introduce himself

But he didn't know what to say

He’d given up on his dreams

And he didn't know how to play

The boy had awoken

Where there's a will, there's a way

I guess that's the name of the game

And keep dreaming

It’ll be worth the wait

FINELY LIT TEAL

Run away

Until there's nowhere else to run

ANGEL IN MY BEDROOM

There’s an angel in my bedroom

She keeps me awake

Her wings are the memories

That won't fly away

I can’t see anything

All I can do is wait

I’ll wait for forever

To see the smile on her face

Why should I feel

When all I feel is pain?

Can’t live with the memories

That I can’t escape

And God weren't you listening

When I said I could change

Did you send me an angel

And then take her away?

There’s an angel in my bedroom

That I can’t even see

If love is blind, it’s not as blind as me

Every corner I turn

Every path that I cross

I don't need to see to know I that I’m lost

I find my way up this old staircase

And dusk is a decision I’ve already made

I’ll still hold her close when she's so far away

I don’t want to wake up anymore screaming her name

There’s an angel in my bedroom

She’s just the pain in my chest

Every second without her is another regret

I’ll wake up in heaven through my misery

I count the seconds til I fall asleep

I’m walking the staircase to the old pearly gates

I’m waiting for her voice at the end of my days

I want to sleep with the shadows and never wake up

I want to be ashes to ashes and dust to dust

There’s an angel in my bedroom

And she's carrying me away

Her light casts a shadow that I can't replace

I live for the moment

And the moment is gone

Tonight I’ll see the light of every other dawn

And why should I feel

When all I feel is pain?

Can’t live with the memories

That I can’t escape

God weren't you listening

When I said I could change

Did you send me an angel

Then take her away?

I'M FALLING

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

I’m a grown man crawling

I’m falling

Lord, I’m falling

I’m alone

I’m wasting my time

Pacing back and forth

In phases

Hellish places

I’m alone

I’m falling

Lord, I’m gone

My front, my cover

My smile is a cardboard cutout

I’m an empty lover

Please defend me

It’s so flimsy

There’s a demon in me

That I’m brawling

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

I’m a grown man crawling

I’m falling

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

Lord, I’m falling

Make peace within me

Don’t keep me where

I’m burned and buried

I’m so wary

Set me up high

I’m still fucked

I’m torn on the inside

I can’t find

Love before me

Can’t define

Myself any longer

Make me stronger

Burn those bridges

Tear down walls

I’m scared

I’m stalling

Lord, I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

I’m a grown man crawling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

I’m a grown man crawling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

I’m a grown man crawling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

I’m a grown man crawling

Lord, I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

I’m a grown man crawling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

(Lord, I beg of you)

I’m a grown man crawling

Lord, I’m falling

I’m falling

WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE

Everything you do is a bittersweet thorn

Sticks in your side from the day that you're born

Guilt and acclaim are a double-edged sword

A knife in my back is my knife in yours

Somewhere there's a file cabinet of dirt and dust

Somewhere, someone knows everything you've done

You can dust off your record, you can try it again

Water under the bridge is just piss in the wind

You got to go around living with all that guilt on your chest

With that burden on your back and those lies on your breath

You got to smile to your neighbors, and heed your own sin

Water under the bridge is just piss in the wind

No one truly forgets and forgives

For troubled waters there isn't any bridge

That’s not water you're swimming in

Savage beast is full, full of resent

With good aspirations, good will and intent

It’s every man for himself when good instincts kicks in

Water under the bridge is just piss in the wind

You can live a lie until your dead

You can make it all work, you can hang your head

You can't ever disguise the way you live

Water under the bridge is just piss in the wind

You pile it all up until it's a quote on your grave

And even then, you get to pick what you say

You can't ward off the blame with your good intent

“Water under the bridge is just piss in the wind”

No one truly forgets and forgives

For troubled waters there isn't any bridge

That’s not water you're swimming in

Ask God for forgiveness, and sing him this song

You can write me a letter, and you can tell me I’m wrong

I assure you, by God, this isn’t sacrilege

Water under the bridge is just piss in the wind

GOING GOING GONE

She wants it now because

She cannot ever have it again

She says she needs me now

She never needed me then

She said she’d leave me, maybe

Well I’ve stayed too long

She’ll never see me, baby

I’m going, going, gone

There was a fire in that feign-hearted blonde

She raised her whip like it was a wand

She cast a spell on my aversive heart

And she had me from the very start

I stayed for so long, God only knows why

I fretted after all of her lies

She seemed content the moment that I left

As I walked out I whispered under my breath

Going, going, gone

She wants it now because

She cannot ever have it again

She says she needs me now

She never needed me then

She said she’d leave me, maybe

Well I’ve stayed too long

She’ll never see me, baby

I’m going, going, gone

Gone, gone, gone, gone

Psychology really comes into play

When I have to play these twisted games

Her mind only craves what it can’t ever have

Her heart only breaks when love’s denied, at last

I favor never loved

Over loved and lost, any day

She’s begging me to love her now

Now I’m not listening

I have to remind her that

She put me through a living hell

Don’t have to tell her now

I have to tell myself I’m

Going, going, gone

She wants it now because

She cannot ever have it again

She says she needs me now

She never needed me then

She said she’d leave me, maybe

Well I’ve stayed too long

She’ll never see me, baby

I’m going, going, gone

When she had me

Well she never seemed to care

She never seemed to care that much

Maybe I’ll find someone

She won’t be such a mess, uh-huh

She wants it now because

She cannot ever have it again (Already gone)

She says she needs me now

She never needed me then (Already gone)

She said she’d leave me, maybe

Well I’ve stayed too long (Already gone)

She’ll never see me, baby

I’m going, go-

DAMN YOU GIRL

Damn you girl

You left me dead

I’m gonna ride this train

Gonna ride it west

I’ll get off

When I’m damn well

Find a little job

In a little town

I’ll ride down

To the mountains high

I’ll find the best damn thing

And I’ll make it mine

Catch me now

If you can

You can see me fly

You won't see me land

Listen for a minute

You can hear the world collapse

You can see the humor

You can never seem to laugh

A few good hours

I’ll really be someone

Won’t see me flying down the

Westbound into the setting sun

Damn you girl

You know me best

Gonna jump this train

I’m gonna ride it west

I’m gonna stuff it all

Down a cigarette

Gonna hop this train

I’m gonna ride it west

I dropped the bottle back

I spun it first

I threw a half full glass

Into your hearse

Floating on wild bulls

Through canyons in a nest

I threw the half full moon

At your nice leather vest

I found a horse shoe

And I named it you

In God's country

And I knew you would want to see me

But I don’t have any lyrics left

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Impaster - Roots of Paradise II

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

“I like to start at the roots of a tree that I grew
I like to pulse through the veins of forgotten youth
I like to see the whole world caving in on me
I want to cut my way through the cages of freedom”

All songs written, performed and produced by Robert LaSalle, except "Golden Days" engineered by Doug Jansen Smith w/ Dave Anderson playing bass

Album art by Megan Kelley

During the 2020 lockdown, the artist released these 2003-2008 teenage mixes as Impaster:

HOPE TO MEET YOU THERE

Some say

We followed the motions

You and I

Laying in the sand

We buried the past

We buried the oceans

Together you and I

We fought the laws of man

And you stole my heart

Shot me off my guard

On the other side of paradise

There’s a place for us to care

For heaven or hell

Destiny is progress, love

Love

I hope to meet you there

ROOTS, PT 1

I like to start at the roots of a tree that I grew

I like to pulse through the veins of forgotten youth

I like to see the whole world caving in on me

I want to cut my way through the cages of freedom

There’s no stopping it

I can't stop, I can't stop, but in my defense

There’s no stopping it

I got lost in the years where I began at the end

There’s no stopping it

I can't help myself, but I can't stop, I am who I am

There’s no stopping it

I can't stop, I won't stop ever again

There’s an edge to the youth that I never lost

There’s a war in my head that I never fought

This is my God, this is my art, this is my love and my friend

This is my world of destruction now, but in my defense

There’s no stopping it

I can't stop, never again

There’s no stopping it

I can't stop, I can't stop

There’s no stopping it

Never content, I can't stop

There’s no stopping it

I got caught up in the typical, bruising my face

I found love in the last place I’d ever find faith

I found faith in the back of my mind

But I lost my mind when my love was taken away

I live for it, no expression, no sorrowful tears

I stand proudly by the flags of a million years

My country is the world, my religion is good

I got a feeling, it's a feeling, and I knew I would

There’s no stopping it

There’s a hole in the city where I found grace

There’s a God among us, and he's paving my way

There’s a fortress in the middle of the tunnel

And there's a torchlight flickering my way

There’s no stopping it

CEMETARY

Cemetery's nice

When there's a full moon

And the scenery is right

There’s someone at your feet

Every step you climb

And you can just imagine

What the moment was like

You can walk amongst the living

The moment stands perfectly still

You can read through

Every stone on every grave

The flowers from the loved ones

See the wilted ones

The wilted ones that no one's thrown away

In just a few more hours

A service will be held here

For another one past away

Laid to rest

Families and friends will all wear black

Gathered together on the fresh grass

The sun will shine where there’s no trees

They'll all be so damn hot

That they, they can't wait to leave

They’ll argue together

Who pays the funeral costs

Deciphering the will

Becomes a reason for their loss

Gravedigger, dig another grave

Landscaper, lay more sod

An order will be placed

For more stone to be engraved

The afternoon limelight

Soaks up flaunted tears

But in the early morning

There’s nobody here

On a still, forsaken night

Moonlight casts all else aside

When the wind blows just right

Shadows open up before your eyes

In this pale light

Cemetery's nice

In this pale light

You can watch it all come to life

In this pale light

You can watch it all come to life

POOR BOY

Why? It’s all I wanted

If I was you, and you were me

You wouldn't need to be reminded

You’re a human being

You wouldn't kick all the beg-a-bonds off the streets

You’ve met all the greatest world police

Now I know, now I know what it's like to be free

Now I know what it's like to be free

Yes, you have just about everything I need

You’re shaking hands with the man

While I’m spitting in his drink

Tracers on a white lie will grow

Grow, they will grow (it's all I wanted)

No, I don't like your grimacing smile

No, now I know, now I know why

Every hour provoking me

(Every step I beg and plead

Why? It’s all I need)

Running laps around your feet

No, now I know what it's like to be free

No, now I know what it's like

Why? It’s all I wanted

Painted white roses

You walked down red carpet

I captured the moment

And you just lost it

Tracers on a white lie will grow

Grow, they will grow (It’s all I wanted)

Grow, they will grow (It’s all I needed)

Grow, they will grow (It’s all I wanted)

Grow, they will grow (It’s in, I want to)

No, I don't like your grimacing smile

No, now I know, now I know why

Sat on the barstool frozen solid

I followed misery until I was lost

And did I tell you the story of the poor the boy

With the weight on his shoulders

He took on the world

No I don't like your grimacing smile

No, now I know, now I know just why

Nobody likes you, nobody minds

No, now I know, now I know just why

You bought your sorrow

You bought your sorrow (away)

You bought your sorrow (never go, never go away)

I’ll find a way

You bought your sorrow (never go, never go away)

I’ll find a way

You bought your sorrow (never go, never go away)

I’ll find a way

You bought your sorrow (never go, never go away)

I’ll find a way

NEW WATERS

I wrote them off

I drove straight into the river

And everyone’s gone

'Cause of something I couldn't give 'em

The waters too deep

I can't lay low

I can't touch the bottom

'Cause they won't see me as I go

I want it my way

I see it their way

We can't settle our indifferences

The same old way

I know I’m not what they wanted me to be

Everyone wants me to be something I can't be

I’m at the bottom and I can't see

Digging a hole, and I can't live that deep

I can bleed like tomorrow

When I can't see today

I can't see anything

In this old place

A perfect smile

In their perfect world

It’s all getting too thick

I don't want to be there because I know

I’m not what they want me to be

Everyone wants me to be something I can't be

I’m at the bottom and I can't see

Digging a hole, and I can't live that deep

They dropped the anchor

It’s heavier than them

The current is taking us

To new waters

Drown out the sensations

That I once had

I know I’m never goanna see the end like I wanted

ANOTHER LULLABY

Another day is done

I’m counting to one

Goodnight to the sun

And the moon up above

Getting over you

It’s a hard thing to do

I’m counting to two

And all the while

I never smile

I said everything

I have to say

I’m counting the sheep

I’m counting to three

I’m writing a song

To sing me to sleep

I’m closing the door

I’m no longer yours

I’m counting to four

Be lonely no more

Lullaby

Close my eyes

All the lonely stars

Shine tonight

Missing you every night

I’m closing my eyes

Turn out the light

I’m counting to five

And all the while

I never smile

Lullaby

Close my eyes

And all the while

I never smile

Lullaby (smile)

Close my eyes

Lullaby (lullaby)

Close my eyes (goodnight)

ANY OTHER NIGHT I'D SAY GOODBYE

Possibilities are never through and through

The lights are always on when I can't see you

When I dream, I dream of love

There’s no one there for me

And there never was

Tension breathes between our souls

Love, you got to get some sleep, I know

It felt so right to be so far from love

The closer I come to you

The more I fall apart

Tonight I need you more and more

And I’d leave here tonight

But you'd wake me up

For every night I’m gone

I thought I’d never love a soul

But now I really need someone

And if I left, I’d never see through

Without you, I’d never leave you

You came along

And I knew you would

I never thought I could feel so good

I can't understand, and I never show

If you left now, I’d never know

Hopes and dreams leave me in the dark

I hold my hopes so high

I never see them when I fall

I fall down tonight with the sky

Any other night

Any other night I’d say goodbye

COULD YOU EVER LOVE AGAIN

If one love comes tumbling down

Could you ever love again

If love can last forever

If one could never end

Could you ever love again

You can see the end

You can see again

It’s only one and one and one

And one and one and one and one

One love

It’s set in stone

If stone could break or bend

Could you ever love again

Set out to dry

In the pouring rain

If clouds were just pretend

Could you ever love again

You can see the end

You can see again

It’s only one and one and one

And one and one and one and one

And one and one

One love

If love lasts

If love lasts forever

It’s forever

Could you ever love again (no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no)

Could you ever love again (no, no, no, no, no, no)

If this is how

The story goes

If the story never ends

Could you ever love again

GOLDEN DAYS

Together we found love

And we can find our golden days

I’ll meet you at a brand new dawn

Where you can see the way

You can see the way I really love

I love you

Let’s live a fortune together

That hasn't yet been told

Let’s grow old

Let’s get to the days

Where we give away all our gold

And I may not have much

But I promise you'll never be alone

Our love is all I know

Every time we push apart

I pull you back to me

Sometimes I still believe

We're following destiny

Back to the start

Where you stole my heart

And if I hold you

And tell you everything's alright

It’s all right

We can break

Break all the spells that we’ve made

Together in a blink

We can find our golden days

It’s a love no one can replace

LOVE, PT 1

Forever’s what I meant

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Impaster - Roots of Paradise I

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

“I wrote these words with the setting sun
The water’s turning
This is what I’ve done”

All songs written, performed and produced by Robert LaSalle, except "The Key" & "Think Twice" with Aaron/8 playing drums

Album art by Megan Kelley

During the 2020 lockdown, the artist released these 2003-2008 teenage mixes as Impaster:

WATERWAYS

I found the beach off the beaten trail

I blew the wind through my own sails

I wrote these words with the setting sun

The water’s turning, and this is what I’ve done

The water moves from day to day

It never stops, it never stays the same

I tried to build my own waterway

I built my own waterway

I tried to walk out on my own game

I pried the lock, I could not escape

I kept an eye on my yesterdays

I fought the heartache, and I fought the pain

The water’s turning to carry me along (life me away)

The sun has set, I’ve come and gone

This is what I’ve done (waterways, waterways)

I talked to God, and he gave me praise

I sailed through the horizon to see another day

He told me something, sometime, somewhere, someway

Somehow I always knew that I’d recognize his face someday

And I found love as she found me

(Love, love, love, love, love, love, love)

It was as real to me as anything I’ve felt or seen

Every word that I could ever try to say

Wouldn’t come close to me truthfully explaining love

All my love, and all my life

All who lived, and all who died

Kept me on the water, kept me off the wake

I built my own waterway

The water’s turning to carry me along (life me away)

The sun has set, I’ve come and gone

This is what I’ve done (waterways, waterways)

I am a naked sail at sea

I was what I could never be

But every water has a way to be won

And every day has its setting sun

I learned my colors, and I learned my trade

I earned my honor, and I met my fate

And this is what I’ve done

This is what I’ve done

UNTIL IT'S OVER

I’m true love and I’m wilting

I keep my heart tied in a knot on my sleeve

Hope you forgive but don't forget me

If I get what I give, than it's meant to be

I think I’ll fall apart with history

Until it's over it's not real to me

Mask over defeat

You make it hard for me to live

This is as good as it will ever be

Won't know what

I won't know when

Until it's over

Never be this good again

Until it's over

It's not real to me

And it never will be

Until it's over, whoa whoa whoa

Until it's over

I’m an hourglass and I’m tilting

While I’m alive, I control my destiny

The sky is in between infinities

I am the only one who knows it's falling

(the sky is falling)

This is the only heaven I’ll ever see

Until it's over it's not real to me

All the tears will make it hard for me to burn

Live for defeat in a finite world

Lost the future that once saved me

But really I can't be saved until it's over

Won't know what

I won't know when

Until it's over

Never be this good again

Until it's over

I can't be lost

But I can't win until it's over

And I’m gonna live

Until it's over

LOVE, PT 3

Take me down easy

Take me down slow

Leave me for a lifetime

Where I never knew what you’d done

Too soft for an empty bottle

That’s what I’ve been swimming in

And I said forever

Forever’s what I meant!

All my love

Forever’s what I meant

All my love

You took it all away

All my love

Hid behind your guilty eyes

Stripped you of your own devices

Brought your cold hard heart to life

All my love

All the love I held on to

All the hell you put me through

Take me back where I never knew

Walking backwards through a hotbed of misery

Take me back to when I’m dancing with eternity

Take me back to the innocence that hides behind you

Take me back to a love I never knew

The veil fell in vein

It’s still falling the same way

Love is gone but still love remains

The veil fell in vein

It’s still falling the same way

Love is gone but still love remains

Forever’s what I meant

All my love

Forever’s what I meant

All my love

Forever’s what I meant

All my love

All my life I waited for you

Now I’m hiding from the truth

Now I’m back where I met you

All my love

All my love I gave to you

All my dreams are coming true

I must be a fucking fool

Float away float away love

I’ll see you again someday love

Swimming in a bottle babe

There’s a message that I sent

Forever’s what I meant

Love is relentless

Walking forward through a veil I’ll never see

Sleeping in a hotbed of apathy

Dreaming of a love I never even knew

There is no time or place where I won’t find you

The veil fell in vein

It’s still falling the same way

Love is gone but still love remains

The veil fell in vein

It’s still falling the same way

Love is gone but still love remains

THE KEY

True love

It’s hard to find

So hard to find

It’s hard to find, but I found you

Sunshine

It’s hard to give

So hard to give

You can't give in 'cause I gave it all to you

Love

The sun will rise

Look between the lines

And hope it all comes back to you

All the love that lies

In the complacent life

All that hides inside

The songs I write for you

True love

It’s hard to find

So hard to find

It’s hard to find, but I found you

True love

It’s hard to find

So hard to find

It’s hard to find, but I found you

Think twice

Read between the lines

The sun will rise

Think twice

Read between the lines

The sun will rise

Find true meaning in true love (show me how)

it's the chorus where you open up (show me how)

Find true meaning in true love (show me how)

it's the chorus where you open up (show me how)

Be, be the key, be the key, be the

THINK TWICE

Show me how

Touched in politics on the surface

It was short and sweet

She convinced me I was wrong

But so was she

She lost me that night

I held her close inside

I lost her at my expense

And to my demise

Love I hold inside

I won't misplace it

I won't ask why

Love could be forever mine

Open up and show me how

Show me how

I’m just someone else

Lost but never found

If she’s always on my mind

She’ll never show me how

My old companion rose

Wilted fast and will never grow

I lost my love

Won’t misplace it ‘cause I’ll never know

I’ll never know

Love I hold Inside

I woN’t misplacE it

I won't aSk why

Love Could be foRever mine

Open up and Show me how

Show me how

You know I love you more than anything

You know I wish I wasn’t the way I am

You know I love you more than anything

You know I loved you more than anything

You know I loved you more

VIRGIN MARMALADE DYE

Hey Marmalade

Call off the wedding

It will never be

You're in me

Or so it seems

A color you and I can only see

Hey Marmalade

You took me where

I never wanted to be

What was a perfect shade of pain

This love affair will always

Haunt me in my dreams

Innocence is so sweet, yeah

Until you take it away from me

A color only you and I can see

A color you and I can only see

Innocence is so sweet, yeah

Until you take it all away from me

A color only you and I can see

A color you and I can only see

Hey Marmalade

I’ll never be the same

But I’ll be better off

TIMEWALL

Did you see it

Caught in a whim

Timewall

Is time well spent

Did you see it

Caught in a whim

Timewall

Is time well spent

Timewall

Is time well spent

Did you see it?

MY HEART SAYS

I’ve left so many times

My mind says I’m right

When I’m wrong

And I know I’m wrong

Come but you go

But you come but you go

And my heart says I’m wrong

In my lethargic cynicism

I can find you in this song

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says you’re mine

Redeeming factors lead me to believe

That we're something better than me

But you come but you go

And you come and you go

And my heart says no

My heart tells me tales

In details in details of love

I fall for them every time

Sure as gone, sure as gone

When I tell you never listen to my mind

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

I never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

Never listen to my mind

My heart says, my heart says

You find love when you, you find love

Touch love when you're on your own

Find your heart

Come but you go

You find love when you, you find love

My heart says, my heart says

BLANKET OF FAITH

Faith, save me

Some shallow desires

Are tearing through my dreams

Life caught in between

My destiny and me

A levelheaded liar

Living among men

Whispering through my soul

But I must abandon him

Faith, faith, please don't abandon me

Wait, wait, wait

Wait for my desperate plea

I’m buried between my vices

And you're the only one that can

Save, save, save me

Save me where I stand

Running down the stairs

Eyes completely blind

Bodies completely bare

Trapped inside minds

Please don't abandon me

I’m no longer self-absorbed

It’s some kind of distant dream

Won’t ever close its door

Faith, faith, please don't abandon me

Wait, wait, wait

Wait for my desperate plea

I’m buried between my vices

And you're the only one that can

Save, save, save me

Save me where I stand

Beg at the feet of your beds

Give all I have to sacrifice

I’ll find comfort in my mind

I won't sleep in between my vices

Solitude in mind

With the conscience to change

All it needs is time

And a blanket of faith

Faith, faith, please don't abandon me

Wait, wait, wait

Wait for my desperate plea

I’m buried between my vices

And you're the only one that can

Save, save, save me

Save me where I stand

Oh faith, faith

Please don't abandon me

Oh wait, wait

Wait for my desperate plea

I’m buried between my vices

And you're the only one that can

Save, save, save me

Save me where I stand

I DO

Yes, now I know

Know you're sorry for what you've done

Done to me

And my darling I can't breathe

Days Saturdays

Saturdays are lonely

Without you

Late, tell me that

Tell me that

You love me, my love

Those aren't my clothes that you're wearing

That’s not my house you're living in

That’s not me

That’s not me in your bed

My love, I’m right here in your head

Did I tell you I love you so much?

Couldn't wait to tell you

I love you, I love you, love you I do

You’re the message that I sent myself too late

I had to tell me

I love you, I love you, love you I do

You’re the secret that I keep between my minds

I want to break it down and build it back up

I have to kill you first and then I’ll break your heart

I want to stop you now before you can start

Somewhere there's still love in my heart

Yeah, yeah

Love, another song

Another for my insulated head, head, head, head, head

Couldn’t wait to tell you

I love you, I love you, I do

You’re the message I sent myself too late

I had to tell me I

I love you, I love you

I love you, I love you, I love you, I do

I love you, I love you, I do

WHY

Keeping my distance

Taking my time

It’s not stopping me from wondering

From wondering why

What were we doing?

How do you sleep at night?

Where were we going?

And when will I know why?

Don’t want your pity

Don’t want your sympathy

You could just

Give me an explanation

Don’t want your love

Or too much of your time

To keep me pacing

Back and forth through your mind

Don’t want your words

Don’t want your advice

Don’t need you taking another piece of my life

Just tell me why

Devil’s in the details

Love is on the line

Awaiting an answer

Tell me why

Through footsteps and fingerprints

Living fairy tail lies

Sifting through your livelihood

To find out why, to find out why

Don’t want your pity

Don’t want your sympathy

You could just

Give me an explanation

Don’t want your love

Or too much of your time

To keep me pacing

Back and forth through your mind

Don’t want your words

Don’t want your advice

Don’t need you taking another piece of my life

Just tell me why

Fortunes framed in fool's gold

Dreams aren't closing my eyes

Sleeping with a pipe dream

I'm just asking why

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Impaster - Cynic & the Sunrise II

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

“The Cynic rides west
He prays for salt to turn to seas
The Cynic breathes his own disease
The Sun won’t set if I keep riding east”

All songs written, performed and produced by Robert LaSalle except "Half Mile Away" with Luke Freeman playing drums

Album art by Megan Kelley

During the 2020 lockdown, the artist released these 2003-2008 teenage mixes as Impaster:

CALM DOWN OLD MAN

Growing up in fury every day

Telling what you can and cannot say

Being told you can and cannot do

I know you know we know they want us to

It’s too late, it’s too late

What’s this got to do with age?

It’s too late, it’s too late

What’s this got to do with age?

Conquer all the world and then they’ll know

You have the power, not the time to grow

When’s the best time to believe?

When you peak, you’re just a memory

It’s too late, it’s too late

What’s this got to do with age?

Calm down, calm down

Make your mark on me and me to you

If you race you might get there too soon

Slow down you might be all alone

You’re too angry, man, you might be getting old

It’s too late, it’s too late

What’s this got to do with age?

Calm down, calm down

IT'LL ALL COME BACK (ACOUSTIC)

You’s the law man

You says what's is true

But your morals still stuffed

Deep inside of you

You’ve covered them up

With your bloodstained hands

And stomped out the ashes

In every other man

I could wash your brain too

It needs the cleanse

But I choose not to fuck you

To make amends

Take your hand off the book

And lift it to your head

You were born with integrity

Now you're better off dead

Take it all away

It’ll all come back someday

If what you say is true

It’ll all come back on you

Civilized now

No more savages in cages

Only oppressed desires

And fat middle ages

Steel-toe battles

With guns and knives

All the good folks are whore lawyers

With fat housewives

Think twice

Before you really know what's good

And if you think you're better

You probably shouldn't

Who’s the judge? Who’s the jury?

And who's here to endorse them?

Where’s the baby blue peasants

You pay to enforce them?

Take it all away

It’ll all come back someday

If what you say is true

It’ll all come back on you

All of the good I plan to do

The only one in my way is you

Take it all away

It’ll all come back someday

If what you say is true

It’ll all come back on you

HALF MILE AWAY

Too late today

You’re a half a mile away

There’s nothing left to say

No, there's nothing left to say

I tied us up in twos

I gave everything for you

Now there's nothing left to do

Give myself to you

But you long to see me dead

I guess what's left is in my head

Our love’s a perfect knot

But your heart I strung’s now lost

Once love's now love that's gone

Too late today

You’re half a mile away

But I’m walking anyways

No, I’m walking anyways

I tied us up in twos

I gave everything for you

Now there's nothing left to do

I wander to your place

For a last glimpse of your face

But I find myself alone

Now and longing for a gun

I tied us up in twos

Now I’ll tighten up the noose

‘Cause what’s left I leave for you

What’s left I leave for you

SETTLE FOR LESS (ACOUSTIC)

Heaven is a mountain

If hell is just a hill

I’m here for answers

I’m here to kill or be killed

What’s this you say?

I’m in a valley?

What good is this to me?

I’m climbing, getting tired

I’ve stopped to rest beneath a tree

So, yes might settle for less

And build a castle on this hill

If it doesn't make me stronger

Then it's bound to make me ill

Settle for less

I’ll never ask for more

And I’ll never be the best

I’ll settle for less

Incompetent excuses

Call me lazy if you wish

The Cynic and The Sunrise

The product of someone else’s eyes

I’m free to do whatever I want and so are you

So are you

Revisions and sadists and crud in your head

I’ve come clean, I’m Godspeed, and I’d rather be dead

Don’t surrender, don't decay, don't be shun from the day

Can you feel it? It’s real

It can blow you away

Fuck your dreams

Fuck your fortune

Fuck the sparkle in her eye

Fuck your "feelings inside”

Fuck all four stable lives

Do I pray for this sentiment?

Is this not what won’t hit me?

My prayers do have answers and they're all 50/50

I’ll settle for less

I’ll never ask for more

And I’ll never be the best

I’ll settle for less

Incompetent excuses

Call me crazy if you wish

The Cynic and The Sunrise

The product of someone else’s eyes

The Cynic rides west

He prays for salt to turn to seas

The Cynic breathes his own disease

The Sun won't set if I keep riding east

The Sun won't set if I keep riding east, eh?

Wouldn’t it be great if we all died and God said…

A NEW LIGHT

On the second floor in bars and chains

Is there nothing here I can change?

The good fight for a bitter life in vein

Is there nothing here I can change?

Tomorrow’s light will be the same

It’s a burden breathing down my neck

Is there nothing good

Is there nothing good to come?

I can't believe what I have done

Is there nothing good

Is there nothing good to come?

I can't believe what I have done

Hopelessly the last of me has built a castle in The Sun

Is there nothing good, nothing good, nothing

Nothing good to come?

NO TIME OR PLACE

Simple words with a simple voice

From a simple life in a simple world

Complete my life with those simple eyes

And show them what they've seen

Watch as they fly astray

Has no time or place

Honestly, there's a lot to see

There’s no clouds, and there's no rain

Luckily, there's a breeze today

And hopefully I’ll blow away

And when I land I’ll find that face

Has no time or place

When I land I’ll find that face

Has no time or place

If you've heard those simple words

Watch them as they fly astray

Enjoy the sounds in the senses dawned

And try to find that place

When I land I’ll find that face

Has no time or place

When I land I’ll find that face

Has no time or place

When I land

JONAB

(No Lyrics)

WITNESS TO THE STORM

The Sun’s at the shoreline

The cloud’s everywhere

I see the storm coming

I feel it in the air

Here as I’m witness

To Spring as it's sprung

Here’s the last lone cry

Of the Winter's dusk

The hills disappear

Through the rain as it falls

The water splashes

From its shallow walls

The Winter fights

To survive another day

As I fight

To keep my mind awake

Trees fall

The wind is high

Thunder sounds

In a flash of lights

Spring calls

Storm cries

The storm sings

Lullabies

Goodnight

Walked for miles

Just to witness this

I built a fire

On the edge of cliff

I feel the storm

As it opens up

I’m so tired now

My eyes are shut

Trees fall

The wind is high

Thunder sounds

In a flash of lights

Spring calls

The storm cries

Storm sings

Lullabies

Goodnight

Awoke into The Sun

And the coals are dead

It’s a long walk home

I’m cold and wet

I slept through the forecast

As I could predict

Spring has begun

And I’m a witness to this

DISTORT THE REST OF ME

Welcome back

We will, we will welcome you

Hope the worst won’t

Tear through the best of you

We’ve picked through the change

We’ve promised you

We’ve forgotten all the good things

Understood?

Meaning, must there be?

Distort the rest of me

When you die, remember nothing

Hope the worst won’t tear through you

Bring me the answers to my questions

Still you think you're worthy?

Hope the worst won’t tear through you

Conquer their sadness, nothing matters

Nothing brings you further

Missed the message

Completely dead inside

You think that something comes next

You’re wrong

Lived a good one?

Think you deserve it?

Here’s the answer to all your problems

All eternity

These are things you’ll never compre-

Hope the worst won’t tear through you

Bring me the answers to my questions

Still you think you're worthy?

Hope the worst won’t tear through you

Conquer their sadness, nothing matters

Nothing brings you further

Hope the worst won’t tear through you

Bring me the answers to my questions

Still you think you're worthy?

Hope the worst won’t tear through you

Conquer their sadness, nothing matters

Nothing brings you further

NUDE BLUES

Nude blues

Dancing with the savage in your bed

Long ties, long time coming

Practice makes perfection turn to sin

Love is best

To touch her heart, first touch her skin

Practice lovers

You’re bound forever now instead

Here and now

The last place you'd expect to see new life

You borrowed her future

Don’t have to take her home tonight

Love is best

To touch her heart, first touch her skin

Practice lovers

You’re bound forever now instead

Nude blues, nude blues

Lust begins and ends in twos

NO REGRETS

Water falls against the earth

I gave up, I dove in headfirst

Water pounds against the shore

All is calm on the ocean floor

No regrets

On the ocean floor

Peace at last

Beneath the storm

Up above the wind is high

Never touch the surface now

Up above the lightning strikes

All is calm beneath the tide

No regrets

On the ocean floor

Peace at last

Beneath the storm

Not to see, not to breathe

Life rises out of me

Water pounds into the shore

All is calm on the ocean floor

No regrets

On the ocean floor

Peace at last

Beneath the storm

No regrets

On the ocean floor

Peace at last

Beneath the storm

NEVERMORE

A flawless kingdom

Touches your senses

Provokes your every nerve

The king writes in bold print

Messenger won't receive it

Nevermore is his last word

He built you a castle

And pushed you off your throne

Never ask for nevermore

The fine lines are inside

Forever etched in stone

Never ask for nevermore

The king never asked him

Was forewarned in bold print

Take you for the last word you send

The fine lines are not on this earth

Send this word to the messenger

Let him know the walls are caving in

He built you a castle

And pushed you off your throne

Never ask for nevermore

The fine lines are inside

Forever etched in stone

Never ask for nevermore

If you see him coming, don't look back

Until the walls around you drop

He set out on white horses

To give the king his fair warning

From coast to coast the clock towers bend

Prepare yourself for the last dance

He said, send word to the messenger

When it ends it never ends again

He built you a castle

And pushed you off your throne

Never ask for nevermore

The fine lines are inside

Forever etched in stone

Never ask for nevermore

Up, it's the only way I’ll ever reach you

'Cause you can't reach me

Why? If I go down, I’ll never see you

You see my contradictions a battleground

I got to hold on tight

Life, a stupid game

Pay attention, you'll agree

When the world's not listening

Listen closely, then you'll know

It’s the only place I want to go

(I got to hold on tight)

Pay attention, you'll agree

When the world's not listening

(Life, it's a stupid game to play)

Listen closely, then you'll know

It’s the only place I want to go

I want to go home

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Impaster - Cynic & the Sunrise I

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

“History defeats us all”

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All songs written, performed and produced by Robert LaSalle except "Allegories" with Luke Freeman playing drums

Album art by Megan Kelley

During the 2020 lockdown, the artist released these 2003-2008 teenage mixes as Impaster:

BITTERSWEET AND BABY BLUE

There's a bridge over water in a town on a hill

It fits us all without a splash or a spill

There's much too many lives to fill

Too modest and stable for a town on a hill

So when a man decides to jump

He sacrificed a swim

His humble beginnings

His bittersweet end

The bittersweet, we welcome you

And it's the last breath of mankind

It's the price you pay for protection

It’s reprimanded and re-elected

It's natural selection

It's finalized

Nothing more and nothing less

Who's the trendsetter?

Who cares

The end and what's left?

Who's the worst at what they do?

It doesn't matter who's best

It’s the last one standing

Is the last one standing, I guess

It's a game without objective

It's war in seven sections

Don't give us the answers between the lines

We live to ask the questions

If I’m the last one standing

I’m the last one standing, I might

If I’m the last one standing

Then I won't come home tonight

If I’m the last one standing

I’m the last one standing, I might

If I’m the last one standing

Then I won't come home tonight

Sleeping through the battles

And concealing all the weapons

And I never could imagine

Watching hell inside of heaven

It's the good times

Waking up and fleeing far from anything

And everything you’ve ever known

And anything you’d ever known

It's a game without objective

It's war in seven sections

Don't give us the answers between the lines

We live to ask the questions

If I’m the last one standing

I’m the last one standing, I might

If I’m the last one standing

Then I won't come home tonight

If I’m the last one standing

I’m the last one standing, I might

If I’m the last one standing

Then I won't come home

I won't come home

No I won’t come

No I won’t be home

Tonight

Who’s who, baby blue?

The last one standing

Is the last one standing is you

YUR HIS LUST, SEE LOVING IN GOD

Competing with the best of them

Admiring all that once was

There's no way to stop the rest

Or maybe there is, but no one does

The past is on a plaque

We watched the cities fall

Knowledge is an artifact

History defeats us all

Us all

Fend for you

I'll fend for myself

The smoke will only burn your eyes

Free yourself into my hell

You've only begun to touch the fire

Fend for you

I'll fend for myself

The smoke will only burn your eyes

Free yourself into my hell

You've only begun to touch the fire

Fend for yourself

I'll fend for myself

The smoke will only burn your eyes

Free yourself into my hell

You've just begun to touch the fire

SETTLE FOR LESS

Heaven is a mountain

If hell is just a hill

I’m here for answers

I’m here to kill or be killed

What’s this you say?

I’m in a valley

What good is this to me?

I’m climbing, getting tired

I’ve stopped to rest beneath a tree

So, yes might settle for less

And build a castle on this hill

If it doesn't make me stronger

Then it's bound to make me ill

And it's bound to make me ill

I’ll settle for less

I’ll never ask for more

And I’ll never be the best

I’ll settle for less

Incompetent excuses

Call me lazy if you wish

The Cynic and The Sunrise

The product of someone else’s eyes

I’m free to do whatever I want and so are you

And so are you

Revisions and sadists and crud in your head

I’ve come clean, I’m Godspeed, and I’d rather be dead

Don’t surrender, don't decay, don't be shun from the day

Can you feel it? It’s real

It can blow you away

Fuck your dreams

Fuck your fortune and that sparkle in her eye

Fuck your "feelings inside”

Fuck all four stable lives

Do I pray for this sentiment?

Is this not what won’t hit me?

My prayers do have answers and they're all 50/50

I’ll settle for less

I’ll never ask for more

And I’ll never be the best

I’ll settle for less

Incompetent excuses

Call me lazy if you wish

The Cynic and The Sunrise

The product of someone else’s eyes

The Cynic rides west

The grains of salt have turned to seas

The Cynic breathes his own disease

And The Sun won't set if I keep riding east

The Sun won't set if I keep riding east, eh?

Wouldn’t it be great if we all died and God said

"Haha life's a game

And now you're all dead

You’ll all rot in the ground with

Men, women and kids

You’ll decay for days and days and then

I’ll turn you into sin”

“What’s sin, you ask?

Why haven't you begun to read the book?

I gave it to dear Constantine

And never had a second look

Yes, your purpose for being here on earth

Is for our amusement

I didn't want the game to end

The devil couldn't use it”

I’ll settle for less

I’ll never ask for more

And I’ll never be the best

I’ll settle for less

Competent excuse:

I said I’d never be the best

I said I’d settle for less

No, no, no, no

Settle for less

I’ll never be free to be

THE DISTANCE

When the day's at end

Fortune is your future

Do you have the aim?

Time is a wasting away

Day's at end

Your fortune is your future

Do you have the aim?

Time is wasting away

You got the distance

Do have the aim?

Count the hours

Til the days at end

Got the distance

Do have the aim?

Count the hours

Til the days at end

Got the distance

Do have the aim?

Count the hours

Til the days at end

Got the distance

Do have the aim?

Count the hours

Til the days at end

LOVE THE NIGHT

Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq

When the world is in a day

I’ll be in a dream

When the world is wide awake

I’ll be fast asleep

If two blue moons are twice a year

Then something's bound to keep us here

Love the night with me

If you're angry on an afternoon

My love stands before you

Love the night with me

When the moon has stepped above

Love the night with me

Breach into The Sun

It beats the life from me

I can't live forever, babe

I need your light on sunny days

Love the night with me

Wait until forever's done

We’ll never need to see The Sun

Love the night with me

MIDNIGHT ACCUMULATION

Midnight is the hour

Words won't be devoured

Actions won't speak at all

Which leaves him to his thoughts

Free of thought, opinionated

Precision, religion, and education

Science, art, and the law of man

Free of thought, free at hand

Fruitful is the human race

Savage or a blank slate

The present without the past is lame

But fruitful is the human race

The center of imagination

Is midnight accumulation

Midnight is the hour

Words won't be devoured

Actions won't speak at all

Which leaves him to his thoughts

The center of his imagination

Is midnight accumulation

The suspicion of God and his realization

If he didn't exist, well we’d have to make him

Democracy and liberation

Liberty and immaculation

The lesser power is the lesser nation

Democracy and liberation!

The center of imagination’s

Midnight accumulation

Midnight is the hour

Words won't be devoured

Actions won't speak at all

Which leaves him to his thoughts

The political animal lives and dies

His thoughts of political and religious lies

He who's taught what he believes

Is no more than what he seems to be

Midnight is the hour

Words won't be devoured

Actions won't speak at all

Which leaves him to his thoughts

Midnight is the hour

When words won't be devoured

Midnight is the hour

BAD APPLES

(No lyrics)

IT'LL ALL COME BACK

You’s the law man

You says what's is true

But your morals still stuffed

Deep inside of you

You’ve covered them up

With your bloodstained hands

And stomped out the ashes

In every other man

I could wash your brain too

It needs the cleanse

But I choose not to fuck you

To make amends

Take your hand off the book

And lift it to your head

You were born with integrity

Now you're better off dead

Take it all away

It’ll all come back someday

If what you say is true

It’ll all come back on you

Civilized now

No more savages in cages

Only oppressed desires

And fat middle ages

Steel-toe battles

With guns and knives

All the good folks are lawyers

With fat housewives

Think twice

Before you really know what's good

And if you think you're better

You probably shouldn't

Who’s the judge? Who’s the jury?

And who's here to endorse them?

Where’s the baby blue peasants

You pay to enforce them?

Take it all away

It’ll all come back someday

If what you say is true

It’ll all come back on you

All of those things I plan to do

The only one in my way is you

Take it all away

It’ll all come back someday

If what you say is true

It’ll all come back on you

LIE

Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie

Lie

Secrets always fall apart

I feel it, but I know it’s gone

Is it me or is it someone else?

I need you, but you’ll never know

I need to make you understand

Without you I’ll be better off

Be better off in my head

Without you I’ll take on the world

Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie

I’ll take the long way out

And I’ll be lonely one

Forever now

Lie

Rest of my, my life

I met the weirder side

Sunrise, The Sunrise, The Sunrise

You met The Sunrise

Born from the wind of a warm summer sky

It rained all day, and it poured all night

ALLEGORIES

In seas of free

We can't release

Allegories change the proof

And murder's coming through the roof

You might find a wholesome surprise through

Our lives our sealed

In harmony

Allegories change the proof

And murder's coming through the roof

And you might find a wholesome surprise

Murder’s coming through the roof

Can I get mine?

Murder’s coming through the roof

WASH IT AWAY

It never comes, it never goes

Living in a glass, can't make it alone

Second class citizens sucking his toes

Plastic laughs can't hold your own

I’m here to show you how

Throw it away, can't say it aloud

Got to keep it a secret in a season's scorn

Pick it up astray in a thunderstorm

Never dies it never grows

Living in a glass can't make it alone

Make it intense it never goes

Plastic laughs on a telephone, on a telephone

I’m here to show you how

Throw it away, can't say it aloud

Got to keep it a secret in its scorn

Have to wash it away in a thunderstorm

Wash it away, wash it away

Hold up secrets, spills, and thrills

Got sixty more years to be killed or be killed

It never comes it never goes

Living in a glass and all alone

I’m here to show you how

now now now

I’m here to show you how

Wash it away, wash it away

There it goes

There goes your home

ENCEPHALON

Can’t think if I’m not thinking about anything

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

Impaster - Fridge Buzzing

August 11, 2020

Robert LaSalle

“A teenage musician records a beautiful and haunting album in his bedroom. Two local producers hear the album and are blown away…”

— Huntsville Times

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Multi-tracking on cassettes from an early age, in 2003 the 17 year old saved up money delivering pizzas to buy a portable digital multitrack recorder. Recorded in garages, basements, bathrooms and sneaking into college campuses to record piano and drums, this album was recorded using only one microphone.

It’s about damn time. This album is about time.

““There’s a line in ‘Karma Police’ about ‘he buzzes like a fridge’ and when you’re driving around, and you have the alternative stations on in the background, or in your hotel room, it’s just a fridge buzzing. That’s all I’m hearing. I’m just hearing the buzz. It’s really odd. It’s kind of funny, though, really. You have to laugh.” ”

— Thom Yorke, Meeting People is Easy, 1998

Released August 1, 2004

Written, performed, recorded & mixed by Robert LaSalle

Mastered at Sound Cell Studios, Huntsville, AL

Robert LaSalle: vocals/keys/guitars/bass/drums/banjo/programming

Luke Freeman: Drums on "Not That Bad," "Salty Sunburn" & "Scheduled Spontaneity”

Several songs from Fridge Buzzing were later recorded for Robert LaSalle’s Sound Cell Sessions & Live 2005

During the 2020 lockdown, the artist released these 2003-2008 teenage mixes as Impaster: