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Dizzy Arrows EP

by James Nisky

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You were completing some righteous quest On behalf of the vice-royalty Before you made some midsummer wish Over a pool in a wood For some knight to take you away On an arduous journey Across deserts, mountains, and canyons There you'll find men looting caves Their foreign ways are strange As well as the potions they spray Your adventures end so soon Yet the tales are too fine to forget Brilliant colored armor of mages flashing forward fast And the brilliance cast Upon the prodigy in the past The darling of this realm He's too charming to fail You were unleashing some righteous rogue As you peered over the walls of your fortress on a hill by the sea Retreating into passages A tunnel descends through chambers with robes and devices of various kinds Costuming in weathered boots A cloak conceals your eyes as you trespass through the lairs of spies The relics recovered by the order of the silver spies were kept safe in the fight You had to organize your friends to prepare for uncertain times As your travels conclude Jewels remain that elude you Resting in regions far and away The prize illuminates your face Will you ever find the orange armoire? Where you lost your regalia Your searching shall go on and on
2.
Sleeping forever inverted in charming chairs Animation paused and mind impaired Feeling illness in your chest Into your place of rest You're lulled into a slumber Trust the distant voice requesting you to cross Into its backwards mirror and be lost Pillows gathered in a chest On a tall tower to rest Do you see my signals? Too many times you've held the gun Face against the wall To find nowhere left to run Too many times you've held the gun Face against the wall Too often nothing there at all Breaching the fences that surround the vast expanse Reaching for my shield and lance Patrol the empty range A knight's life is strange And signed into service Inviting sounds inside a maze That you can't enter in Entice you toward its edge Good keepers unlock ways Far off watchers favor you And bequeath devices For your efforts to exhume
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I'm peaceful when I sleep And I always keep My favored wayward coat Nearby for when I creep Down stone stairs and descend Throughout seas over shallow sands Passing nearby wincing wanderers With scrolls in hand Perusing parts unknown by name With enamourment Pursuing routes I've never traveled to reinvent Posing porters beseech Far reaching farers at boundaries Where outward ways converge To discard their diaries When I tread beyond the end of wells On Ponce De Leon's quest I tumble in a nest Rare rewards are fleeting blissfully Not coming back to me Two times I've had to rest Watching through telescopes With bedazzlement At fountains of far traveled architects Brooding gateways impose Barriers over leagues of men As they look onward And declare this the end
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Dizzy Arrows 05:08
At the lion's head I leap Dizzy arrows fall asleep Into strange nations after dark Upon some unknown mark Write your book of perjury And detail the lies you seize Regarding your misplaced crusade And some new personal campaign Will you clean the dirt off of your hands? Before you write of foreign lands Lay some ointment on your brands Finding treasure in the sand While you soak your blistered skin Acned with puncture wounds from pins And nine abrasions from the wind Around your lacerated chin From your podium you preach To every dirty dog you reach Not hearing the sleaze you bark And always fearing my remark Although I died from leprosy Shifty shadows follow me Revealing power in your arc Upon some unknown mark

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released September 7, 2016

Engineered and mixed by Jake Valentine
Drums by Tom McGeoch
Piano by Joey Vitas
Vocals, guitar, and bass by James Nisky
Produced by James Nisky
Recorded and mixed at The Village Recorder - Santa Monica, CA
Mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering - Ventura, CA
Artwork by Cecilia Clementi

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James Nisky quietly curates a small collection of adventurously inspired songs. With an overt focus on non-cliche, imaginative lyrical content, his words-and-music format is consistently lauded for its sense of poetry and inventive whimsical lyricism.

A veteran of the super-hip indie club scenes of San Francisco and Los Angeles, he spurns constant promotion in favor of unpredictability.
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