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The Never​-​Ending Struggle

by Trading Atoms

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1.
Population: about to blow into tiny particles It’s such a shame... or maybe not Who really knows? In a bunker underground A computer will record the whole event It might be useful knowledge someday For someone As the sky explodes and walls collapse around us Nothing’s wrong, it’s just a reset Cause I want to combine our minds and bodies Float away, melt away A chromosome is being slain It fucked us all up too many times And it was on the way out anyway Population about to blow We’ve got some sweet technology So let’s create all the people we want to know Let’s become the Gods we knew we could And build dystopia into this soil. ‘Cause I want to combine our minds and bodies Float away, melt away
2.
As fate rushes at your blinking face All those thoughts you never thought to think Inevitability to erase Donation. Replacement. Clouded sky’s a very lonely place And there’s real estate beneath the earth It’s true it’s hot but but neutral embrace But what an embrace, such an embrace Double technicolour snakes of life Timeless lovers ever being untwined Hydra is a friend that springs to mind Winding out the longest race in time Farewell the angels hunted on this Earth Who flee from Titans, traitors, hide in dirt No gratitude, no love, no return Then nothing, nothing more There was a Cat named Ana, and we Met Trained me secretly in distant caves Whispered to me the secret of life So finally my sparkling eyes could set Farewell the angels hunted on this Earth Who flee from Titans, traitors, hide in dirt No gratitude, no love, no return Then nothing, nothing more
3.
A knot inside my soul, and my shell And now you whisper love to a tube of cells A gift of lechery, what a joke What was a human being has now been revoked They charred my skin to black, they want to help Fused metal with my flesh to no avail Lord it just feels like this blackness Is spreading Lord I just feel this blackness In zero gravity, I’ll guard the world Wonder why melanin matters at all In stainless steel vats the war will end A life is a small price for an epidemic A seed in unmarked soil calls rebirth A thousand tonnes of flesh I’ll wrap around this Earth Lord it just feels like this blackness Is spreading Lord I just feel this blackness Lord it just feels like this blackness Is spreading Lord this blackness It is spreading all inside me
4.
This disorder is a double blade And we’re missing the sage Building temples, neon and cement The crew’s gone insane From a watchtower the view should be great But there’s skin in the way Lost in building these mountains so high The valleys will die Drawing inwards, our nature’s astray Why make a clade? From a blue star, they’ll think it is strange We’ll break down this cage Someday she will heal the world Someday she will heal the world She will heal the world Someday she will heal the world
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Timefreed 02:51
Clocks are countdowns Batteries expire When ions don’t flow any more You see when Clock died Hearts beat life drum If you trained your mind To read hearts like electricity You’d see when you’ll die Clocks are countdowns but If you trained your mind To break free of this human cage You’d see through all of time See the day you’re born See volcanoes erupt See the Earth taking form See when your heart stops See life evolve See the cosmos begin See nothing in a black hole See when entropy wins
6.
The Master 03:21
Tumbling through the sky, way too fast It’s hard to see with the sting of the smoke in my eyes Got to act or it’s going to crash These axiom engines are bursting with flames Looking back, it’s a shame but we must Define and quantify everything Even values don’t deserve trust The reasons are unknown to me Pull myself out from the twisted wreck No idea where the hell I’ve ended up Giant mushrooms loom overhead Gotta go and find my way back I see gnomes that are stealing from nests Salamanders in lecherous embrace Cannot feel the sylph overhead The nymphs will not touch my face Finally I will climb back up To a cliff top, wind whistling through my hair And I see I might never find my way home But maybe that isn’t so bad Finally I see that the land around me It is beautiful And though I may never fly like before, I can make new engines with this I can make new engines with this I can make new engines with this I can make new engines with this Gonna fly away with all this
7.
Who We Are 03:58
A flash of recollection A spark from dusty old cells I sometimes fall out of time Out on the street today I thought I saw your face Of course it couldn't have been All of our drunken talks Warm evenings walking the streets Our clever turns of phrase I miss our shitty jobs You smoking by the window This was our only place And now I know just what it means It’s the places that we live And the people that we see And the time in our life All these things combine And that is who we are You said: life’s a continuum We stay the same, we just change I’m not sure that I agree I’ve had so many lives And though my face is the same I’m not sure much else is Through all our petty squabbles Riding the train home at night Curled up watching TV I know we can’t go back Time drags us down like a stone It sticks like gravity And now I know just what it means It’s the places that we live And the people that we see And the time in our life All these things combine And that is who we are
8.
In rusty cells in a grid We are plugged in All made from junkyard parts My dirty heart Oh! Blood in the sky And oil inside Oh, life in your eyes It’s a disguise It’s hard to breath with this tiny latex heart We ride through acid rain In pH-buffered streetcars Your piston grip in mine My clockwork mind Oh! The grand design It all unwinds Oh, hope in your eyes It’s our last time If plants and toys recoil, devote themselves to maths The scratchy patched-up guards will never see what hit their plans A kingdom wondering what’s waiting in the bathwater I’ll tell you, it is not a thing to leave to chance A candle in the night And things will be alright A candle in the night And things will be alright It’s hard to breath with this tiny latex heart
9.
Dark of night I’m drifting home like a moonstruck moth drifting out to sea It’s a lot to take And I see everything so clearly with my weary eyes We do not get wise I’ve stayed here too long, and now these coupons for chances are all expired But I’ve got one thought I used to have more, but I don’t know, I guess they fade away Turn right at the store The same graffiti, the same broken glass... what was I saying? Pour me out and I’ll blow apart like a cloud of dust spreading in the breeze Yeah I’ve often felt The story never was quite as good as it could’ve been And I think I must be missing out ‘Cause all my heart’s doing is pumping blood And all these leaves Raining down around me Born from soil, there I’ll return Trailing disgrace with my mess You wonder how it came to this Trapped in skin, seduced by age Spirals yearning to unwind We will always be upstaged Good things grow to slightly worse I love you all I’m sorry that it ended up like this
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11.
Lost in pages I’m a sabre Purpose in my hands In a dreamscape Steeped in heathens Flaming stone in the sky Come my brothers, the puppet is blowing west Time to cut the strings In the desert the tiger waits for us Down with the Shah On a dead wind In a clay house I prostrate myself Cultivating Holy keratin Don’t you trust this face? Come my brothers, the puppet is blowing west Time to cut the strings In the desert the tiger waits for us Down with the Shah I can see that your treatment has been most revealing Barring certain symptoms, it’s doing you hell Eating your dreams with your semen and your beliefs Where’s your God now? I can see that your sutures will be coming out soon You know that it suits you, that collagen brand Spreading disease for the good of society Broken teeth and a smile spreads in me Perfect poetry In the desert revival waits for us Down with the Shah
12.
What a bitch reflection is It makes me see how randomly we’re built It’s just arbitrary choices and Environmental forces that shape us If I was blown into this world again Maybe I would land facing north not west And in this swirl of different outcomes, I probably didn’t pick the best It gets a bit depressing, So maybe just don’t think about all this What a bitch perspective is It lets me see how pointless life can be How many helpless people must’ve realised The same damn thing? But for that matter what’s the point in Worrying about the pointlessness? Yeah I guess this is how Quietly, happiness creeps in And though I’m always searching, I do not have an answer for all this This will be nothing when it’s through This will be everything when it’s through This will be nothing when it’s through This will be everything

about

Greetings and welcome to my humble bedroom album. A bit of back-story:

For the last few years I've been accumulating song ideas and always had the dream of turning them into an album, but I never had the time or energy until now.
I've spent the past couple of months devoting almost all my free time to recording and mixing these tracks and finally it's finished! It should be noted that my recording skills are completely self-taught, so please don't judge too harshly.

I've always felt really uneasy asking for money when it comes to music, so I'm stoked that Bandcamp gives me 500 free downloads. If you wanted to pay something for the album though I'd be extremely grateful and it and will be going to a good cause. I'm about to move to Cambodia for a year to volunteer at a primary school. This is something I'm really excited about, but it also means a whole year that I'll have no source of income. So if you do decide to make a contribution, you are wonderful and I seriously appreciate it.

Good luck with the struggle,
Noosh

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released April 8, 2013

All tracks recorded at HappyTown Studios.

Thanks to Jfo and Hugo for their generous loans of instruments, and to any neighbours/family/friends who put up with my racket while making this album.

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