Zero: Exile II
by Zru Vogue
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Amnesiac's Poem
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The Okay Talk
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Informal Paranormal
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Penetrating Octavia
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Come Back to the One
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Second Chances
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Realize (Real Eyes)
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No Occupancy
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Zero One Two Three
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Beyond Mind
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A Better Place
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The Re-awakening
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I Am Zero
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Vogue Town
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about
“You know how sometimes you try to fit in, but you stand out like a man in a rabbit costume on fire?”
Zero: Exile II sets out to answer the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What is real?
Most songs on Exile II are written from the perspective of Zero, whose life-changing near-death experience has pushed him from ordinary mind to Beyond Mind.
“Most people run through life without really thinking about it. They’re just getting by. I’ve tried that. I was a drone in their machine, ‘till one day, I broke free.”
Exile II continues of the story of Zero, a nothing guy living an ordinary life until he finds himself in an alternate, surreal dimension of reality where he starts to question fundamental notions of his own existence.
(Note: Zru Vogue released The Exile, part I, in 2006.)
Zero: Exile II sets out to answer the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What is real?
Most songs on Exile II are written from the perspective of Zero, whose life-changing near-death experience has pushed him from ordinary mind to Beyond Mind.
“Most people run through life without really thinking about it. They’re just getting by. I’ve tried that. I was a drone in their machine, ‘till one day, I broke free.”
Exile II continues of the story of Zero, a nothing guy living an ordinary life until he finds himself in an alternate, surreal dimension of reality where he starts to question fundamental notions of his own existence.
(Note: Zru Vogue released The Exile, part I, in 2006.)
credits
released October 11, 2011
Zero: Exile II was conceived, written, produced, and mixed by Andrew Lawrence Jackson and Rick Cuevas. Performed by Jackson, Cuevas, and Patrick Coyne (drums and percussion).
Zero: Exile II was conceived, written, produced, and mixed by Andrew Lawrence Jackson and Rick Cuevas. Performed by Jackson, Cuevas, and Patrick Coyne (drums and percussion).
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Zru Vogue San Francisco, California
Avant-Pop, Art-Funk, Surrealist Indie Rock from the San Francisco Bay Area. Zru Vogue's first single "Nakweda Dream" (1981) is an early post-punk classic. Band members Andrew Lawrence Jackson, Rick Cuevas, and Patrick Coyne continue to create inspired new music for postmoderns. ... more
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- Track Name: Amnesiac's Poem
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Lyrics:
Capturing flies like a
Pedigreed troubadour
Salty in fashions that
Speak the unspoken
Dreaming of Barbies
Twisted and broken
Under earth
This simple lie
Reveals your secret
Blinds your eye
Not for the shy
Not for the tame
Lose your mind
To find your name
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Lyrics copyright 2011 Andrew L. Jackson - Track Name: The Okay Talk
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Lyrics:
Zero here.
I’m not sure you remember me.
Truth is, I’m not sure I remember me.
You know, most people run through life without really thinking about it.
They’re just getting by.
I’ve tried that.
I was a drone in their machine.
‘till one day, I broke free.
And it was weird there, but I learned to like it, in this other place.
Then one day again, bam! I’m back!
Or am I?
I kinda freaked out.
And then I realized.
Hey, I’m here.
I am who I am, you know?
I’m only Zero, but I’m okay... I’m okay.
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew L. Jackspn - Track Name: Informal Paranormal
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Lyrics:
Back when this life
Was so sweet and easy
Was it all a dream?
Why am I so queasy?
Losing touch
Has left bitter traces
It’s fully funereal
In another time
Insect wings
Teach me things
With the paranormal
We need to reach back - Track Name: Penetrating Octavia
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Lyrics:
She is my companion
She is my best friend
Octavia is my better half
With me till the end
Found her wandering on the docks
No shoes on her knee-high socks
Enchanted by her perfect diction
Love at first sight – fact, not fiction
Something like a forgotten dream
Where nothing’s really as it seems
Eternity, we might just find
Is beaming on my spotless mind
She is my reminder / she is my dark night
Someday I may find her / mysterious and white
Laying on a bed of nails / or walking on some broken glass
She is my Octavia / with no memory of her past
Last night in the Met
She went into a trance
In the tribal statues wing
Murmuring some chants
Distant memory calls to her
Darts of pain penetrate
Dancing at the edge of reason
Purring, peeling back her lesion
She is my reminder / she is my dark night
Someday I may find her / mysterious and white
Laying on a bed of nails / or walking on some glass
She is my Octavia / no memory of her past
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew Lawrence Jackson - Track Name: Come Back to the One
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Lyrics:
Come back to the one
Come back to the one
Who found you, who fed you
Come back to the one
She drives your hunger
She steers your desires
Your fate is in her hands
As she stokes the fires
The Goddess you melt before
The Queen that you waited for
Why were you away so long?
Where have you gone?
Come back to the one
Come back to the one
Who found you, who made you
Come back to the one
There is only one direction
There is only one connection
There is only one reflection
There is only one
There is only one intention
There is only one perfection
There is only one
There is only one
Back when this life
Was so sweet and easy
Was it all a dream?
Why am I so queasy?
The Goddess I melt before
The Queen that I waited for
Why was I away so long?
Where have I gone?
Come back to the one
Come back to the one
Who found you, who fed you
Come back to the one
Who found you, who made you
Come back to the one
There is only one direction
There is only one connection
There is only one reflection
There is only one
There is only one intention
There is only one perfection
There is only one
There is only one
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Lyrics by Andrew L. Jackson - Track Name: Second Chances
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Lyrics:
Stabbing the future
To regenerate the past
None of it is serious
None of it will last
Involuntary closing eyes
Shutting down, forgetting lies
Sleep is calling, memory dances
Dreams in need of second chances
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew Lawrence Jackson - Track Name: Realize (Real Eyes)
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Lyrics:
You know how sometimes you try to fit in,
But you stand out like a man in a rabbit costume on fire?
You know how sometimes you want to blend in,
But you smell like a monkey’s uncle drenched in after-shave?
Well, I do. And that’s when I realize…
When your life is winking
But your eyes aren’t blinking, but your eyes aren’t blinking
When your ship is sinking
And your bathtub’s leaking, and your bathtub’s leaking
When your cell is syncing
And your mind is shrinking, and your mind is shrinking
When they pull the plug
And your reds are pinking, and your reds are pinking
Realize : Real Eyes
Foreign objects on the fly!
Lovely robots objectified!
Pop, pop, pop - pop go the creases!
Crack, crack, crack – crack up in pieces!
It’s instrumental to your vision
It’s the key to your next indecision
Where will they make your next incision?
Where will they make your next incision?
Now it’s all going according to plan
But this plan, it’s not your plan
And when some unknown chaotic dandy
Sells your soul for cotton candy
When they pull the plug and your bathtub’s leaking
When your ship is sinking and your eyes aren’t blinking
Well that’s when I…
Realize : Real Eyes
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Lyrics Copyright 2011 by Andrew Lawrence Jackson - Track Name: No Occupancy
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Lyrics:
We haven’t found us
We don’t seem to be
Despite all appearance
The instruments say
This space is unoccupied
And they’re never wrong
We do not exist
The instruments agree
We are the unreturning
We’ve left a vacant space
No longer on the GPS
Vanished with no trace
And yet we haven’t moved
No perceptible change
Occupants of Nowhere
Residing in No Place
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Lyrics ©2012 Andrew L. Jackson - Track Name: Zero One Two Three
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Lyrics:
Zero-1-2-3, Zero-1-2-3
You can’t find me
I can’t find “me”
Zero-1-2-3, Zero-1-2-3
There is no “me”
There is no “me”
Stripes, dots, ragged thoughts
Dots, stripes, it’s a life
Battles fought, battles lost
Words won, lines crossed
A life reflected, paused & played
Stop the world, I want to get paid
I came to you immersed in need
Now these needy thoughts are freed
Zero-1-2-3, Zero-1-2-3
This is not me
I am not “me”
We’re learning as we go along
When you’re right you can’t go wrong
A dotted line direct report
To someone new you’ve never met
Pull the rug out underfoot
Speak the words you’ll soon forget
You are not me, I am not me
In this lost moment, this day between days
In this lost moment, this hour between hours
I read between the lines
I write between the lies
Another version of me
Is standing by
Waiting to be
In its due time
Just let go – to make it so
Zero-1-2-3, I am not me
Zero-1-2-3, Pleased to be free
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew Lawrence Jackson - Track Name: Beyond Mind
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Lyrics:
Sala mah no neeya
Sono mahla no du
Yama ma!
Yama ma!
Yama ma!
Yama ma!
Now you gonna hurt
Now you gotta work
Now you gone gone
Now you gone home
No one will know
What you have done
You will have moved on
To the beyond
You will be undone
By your own mind
Now you gonna hurt
Now you gotta work
Now you gone gone
Now you gone home
Give up your try
Give up your mind
Give up your lies
Wake up your eyes
Ma lawn me a mar
Ma lawn me ah babar
Me Yama nah mah mah
So fa-fa fa du low
Yama ma! Yama ma!
Yama ma! Yama ma!
Yah fa lo Yah du lo
Yah fa lo Yah du lo
Mine be gone
Mine be gone
Your be gone
No one will know
What you have done
You will have moved on
To the beyond
You will be undone
By your own mind
Now you gotta work
Now you gonna hurt
Now you gone gone
Yah fa lo fa fa lo
Yah du lo Yah du lo
Mine be gone
Mine be gone
Your be gone
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew L. Jackson - Track Name: A Better Place
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Lyrics:
I was away
Now I’m back
I was off course
Now I’m on track
Been to the source
Cut me some slack
Into the white
Inside of the black
Follow the dream
Back to its source
Let go of the fear
Let go of remorse
Then wind your way home
Home to your own bed
Out of your mind
To a better place instead
Now I’m not quite here
Yet no longer there
I’m still a big mess
But I no longer care
Been to the deep place
Where I was scrubbed and fed
In the better place
Out of my head
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew L. Jackson - Track Name: The Re-awakening
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Lyrics:
I came back around, awake to the sound
She came back around, awake to the sound
Awake in my eyes, awake in my mind
Awake to what’s false, awake to the grind
Woke up to your eyes, woke up to your lies
Woke up from a dream, woke up with a scream
I came back around, awake to the sound
I came back around, to find what I found
I came back around, Awoke to the sound
She came back around, awoke to the sound
Awake in my eyes, awake in my mind
Awake to what’s false, awake to the grind
Woke up to your eyes, woke up to your lies
Woke up from a dream, woke up with a scream
I came back around, woke up to the sound
I came back around, to find what I found
I came back around, awoke to the sound
I came back around, awoke to the sound
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew L. Jackson - Track Name: I Am Zero
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Lyrics:
If there’s one thing I’ve learned
Through all rivers crossed
And all bridges burned
It’s that nothing means anything
And everything
Means everything
Don’t wanna be your guru
Don’t wanna be your hero
I’m not your Caligula
I’ll never be your Nero
I’m only Zero, only Zero
I’m only Zero
If there’s a voice in my head
And if I paid attention
To anything it said
I wouldn’t bother to mention
Not anything
Not anything
Don’t wanna be your guru
Don’t wanna be your hero
I’m not your Caligula
I’ll never be your Nero
I’m only Zero, only Zero
I’m only Zero
I’m only Zero (4x)
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew Lawrence Jackson - Track Name: Vogue Town
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Lyrics:
My tears run down the streets
Of Vogue Town
My tears run down the streets
Of Vogue Town
Are they tears of laughter?
Or tears of joy?
Are they tears of relief?
Listen girls and boys,
We’re all in this together
Some of us more than others
So run out in the streets
Or hide out under the covers
Cause nothing is what it seems…
In Vogue Town
No nothing’s as it seems…
In Vogue Town
My home town, my home town, my home town, my home town
Come back home, to where you’ve always been
Now throw off your frown, and give us a grin
There’s nothing lose when no one can win
And every little girl gives it her own spin
Paper play money lines the streets
Of Vogue Town
Put your money down (put your money down)
Let your honey down (let it all run down)
Throw some poetry down (throw it down, down, down)
Show your happy face (put on your prettiest dress)
Leave without a trace (leave no forwarding address)
Ain’t no federal case (just get it off of your chest)
My hometown — All torn down
My hometown — all burned — down
There’s no turning back
From Vogue Town
All fall through the cracks
In Vogue Town
Tears run down the streets
In Vogue Town
On infinite repeat
In Vogue Town, In Vogue Town, In Vogue Town
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Lyrics ©2011 Andrew Lawrence Jackson