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Voynich

by Alex Abrahams

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1.
Frank was born one bright summer night His mother was a banker his father took flight When Frank was young they said he wasn’t bright So he pulled a gun on them out of pure spite Frank walked away from his home that day He walked to the town over by the bay That boy walked into the bar and said hey He challenged them to cards and he sat down to play Frank played cards until the sun rose He took his winnings and slept in his clothes For the next two weeks he kept playing those Cards, and his winning never slowed Frank left town a millionaire He carried his money through the cold fall air Back in town the losers gathered in the square And they hatched a plan to get their Money back Now Frank is on the run From a mob on the hunt He had his fun And now they want retribution All his newfound wealth Won’t save him from himself Any atonement will be too late Will he be able to escape his fate?
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Voynich 03:25
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Eye of destruction Eye of the storm Seems like everything Is outside the norm Eye of destruction Eye of despair Maybe there’s something That’s waiting out there Eye of destruction Come in, come out The call was coming From inside the house Eye of destruction Put your eyeballs back in See all around you See what there has been Eye of destruction Baby you can drive my hearse I think what’s coming Might just be much worse Eye of destruction Eye of the storm Nothing has changed here Just took a new form
5.
Tall Jake 02:44
Look a little closer In the corner of your eye He’s everywhere at once Don’t even ask me why He lurks there in the shadows Down in the alleyway He’ll always come and find you he’s Tall, Tall Jake He’s always watching you He gets into your head At night when you’re asleep He watches by your bed And then he disappears He’s gone when you’re awake You’ll never get a glimpse of Tall, Tall Jake You can fly to a foreign country Take a boat or take a train He’ll be right there waiting And with you he’ll remain He can be anywhere in the world That’s what they all say You can never run from Tall, Tall Jake Yes, he’ll keep on watching Until the day you die Maybe he’ll still be there In your new home in the sky Watching for eternity You should know you can’t escape You’ll never know the aims of Tall, Tall Jake Look a little closer In the corner of your eye He’s everywhere at once Don’t even ask me why He lurks there in the shadows Down in the alleyway He’ll always come and find you he’s Tall, Tall Jake
6.
Got fed up with his life so he left to Start his life anew Grabbed his dog and ditched his family job and house Headed west and out of view With just the clothes and fur on their backs Down the highway they flew Stopped at a convenience store Grabbed some dog food for two Oh… Johnny and Rex They ran out of cash so they started to Plan their spree of crime Have Rex attack and Johnny get the goods They’d escape just in time Across the land they hit place after place Got all the stuff they could But they got bad luck, got cornered by the cops So they fled into the woods Oh… Johnny and Rex Running through the trees, then they found a Pack of wild dogs Had nowhere else to go, so they decided With the dogs they’d go along Now they run with the dogs, through the woods Through the winter, spring and fall Look from dogs to Rex to Johnny, and you can’t Tell the difference at all Oh… Johnny and Rex
7.
Well Frank fled the angry mob all across the land. They would never let up. So Frank got an idea. He decided to fly to a distant land, far away from his past and his problems, and start a new life there, leaving everything behind. What happens next? Well, we’ll see.
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Bullet Blues 03:49
Well I woke up this morning, with a bullet in my head I said I woke up this morning, with a bullet in my head I don’t know who put it there but it sure did make my face red Well last night I dreamed I was an action movie star I said last night I dreamed I was an action movie star My acting skills were lifelike and I’m sure my career will go far Well my eyes are shot and my limbs are starting to feel numb I said my eyes are shot and my limbs are starting to feel numb I’m feeling kind of woozy and I’m pretty sure I’m losing lots of blood Well I turned on the news and I couldn’t believe my eyes I said I turned on the news and I couldn’t believe my eyes The world is on fire but nothing’s ever gonna make me try Well I went to see the doctor about curing my disease I went to the doctor but he said there’s no disease I’m sure I’ll get another one but for now I’m going off to sleep Well I woke up this morning, with a bullet in my head I said I woke up this morning, with a bullet in my head I don’t know who put it there but it sure did make my face red
9.
Wishing Well 02:16
I walked through the woods, I took all my cash I took everything, I emptied out my stash Yes I’m going to the wishing well Gonna throw in my coins, can’t wait to hear the splash Gonna make all my dreams come true, can’t you tell When I throw my coin into the wishing well I throw a coin I throw in another I throw in all my money one after another I need more cash, why can’t you see Why do all my wishes get away from me I throw in a coin, close my eyes, make a wish I wish for a car and a house and a kiss Nothing’s come true yet, but I’m patient I know that I can’t rush things like this All my dreams are gonna come true, I yell As I throw my coin into the wishing well I throw a coin I throw in another I throw in all my money one after another I need more cash, why can’t you see Why do all my wishes get away from me I wish for a sports car, the fastest one in the world, so I can look so cool everywhere I go And I wish for True Love, it doesn’t matter who it is, I don’t care about that And I wish for a private jet, and my own personal servant, and – oh no I’m falling in! I threw in myself I threw in all I’m worth Now my body is lying down deep under the earth I lost all I had, now there’s nothing more to see Why did all my wishes get away from me
10.
I woke up this morning and everything felt... off, somehow. Like waking up in a new place, although as far as I could tell I was still in my own room. I looked at my clock and the numbers couldn’t seem to register in my mind, but something told me I was going to be late. I quickly got dressed and dashed outside. Waiting for the bus, people passing by would glance at me then quickly look away and pick up their pace; I think they figured I wouldn’t notice. While on the bus, the route seemed unfamiliar, as if it was taking a detour through the same streets as always. I waited for my stop but it was never called as the bus just sped past. I resigned myself to my seat and turned up my music. The lyrics felt like a foreign language rendered entirely in English. I closed my eyes and visions of a strange world flashed through my mind as the bus continued forward, empty, no longer stopping. Has something about the world around me changed? Or has something about me changed? Or was it always like this and I just never noticed until now?
11.
Frank settled down in a distant land He met a nice girl and he took her by the hand His brand new life went just like he planned But as the years went on it started to get bland In his life of crime he bid the law adieu He hit banks and malls and cars and zoos He went to jail for a while, and when he got out he knew He decided then what he must do And so Frank went back, across the sea, to the town over by the bay, finally ready to meet his fate And as he arrived, there they were, waiting for him. The angry mob, looking just as they had so many years ago And as the torches and pitchforks descended on him, he looked up at the sky It was a bright summer night.
12.
He wakes up every day and goes to work He can’t see his thoughts through all the murk When he gets home he goes straight to bed You’ll never see anything out of his head When he sleeps He dreams of blue and red and green He dreams of everything he’s left unseen He dreams but he is woken up suddenly He dreams that in the next life he’ll be free

about

the world of voynich is a world that looks like it could be our own, but cannot be truly understood - many have tried and failed. those who inhabit the world of voynich live a life of paranoia and isolation, of never really knowing what is real and what is not. maybe you yourself are a resident of this world.
if not... let's take a visit, shall we?

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released December 21, 2019

all tracks written by Alex Abrahams, except track 3, which is traditional
guitar solos on tracks 9 and 11 by Isaac Riley

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