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Quit the Neighbourhood!

by kappa

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1.
Performance of a Lifetime 01:46
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Act one’s conclusion reads, “exit persona” Out, the part’s thrown out by its own owner Curtains drawn but then, with no rehearsin’ Totally off-script, enter the person Between the precious seconds is the character replaced The safety of drama beckons, but the mask is off the face The actor states his exit from the theatre, Lines to slave over, and scripts to adhere to Act two is introduced with a stunned silence Dramaturgy now grants no asylum The band still strike in spite of the discov’ry The overture begins with, “I wanna be…” “You won’t be missing us!”, the scared old crowd seem to say And with voice like Sisyphus I laugh and vanish from the play My acting now de trop, I leave the stage forevermore The performance of a lifetime concludes here, with no encore
2.
Never Mind the Abyss 02:40
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Again I’m at the mirror Is it just me or am I getting thinner? Should I be seeing my ribs? Again I yell into the void It does not yell back, it just gets annoyed I won’t bother the abyss… I’m in the endless matinee I do not want to leave the stage The performance never really ends The lover's called for a quick change Into oblivion, and then it starts again Again I’m sorting through this mess And channeling my own patheticness So I can say I made a thing Again I’m sick of this routine If I throw up again I’m gonna scream My throat is too full up to sing A storm brews in the weather house Mister Sunshine opens his mouth Walk round and cower from the rain The pressure gauge pings up and down But Mister Raincloud always frowns; The temperature just reads the same Oh, once more from the top Oh, once more from below Oh, once more unto the verse and chorus Tell yourself that it's just once more Here we go Again I’m at the mirror I wish this guy would quit calling me “quitter” Oh, I wish this day would end Somewhere in deepest hypospace I've had my memory erased Outside of time without a friend Deep in a temporal bend I try and I try and I’ll try until the day it ends
3.
What's the Damage? 04:02
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A nervous laugh with nervous energy A bubbled gut, an invasive memory Troubled but not doing terribly, “Everything is fine, Be much better if you were mine” A check-in at the worry clinic, Apprehensive and my heart's not in it A word of affirmation - “you’re alright, honey, you’re alright, Should we expect you tomorrow night?" Oh what's the damage, what's the use? Never not Un-invincible Unbroken, but never un-bruised Damaged good But not unfixable A few months gone, a friendly reunion A bite to eat, a missing communion A mental block that's separating him from me An inner mini-soliloquy Oh god damn it, I got damaged, straddling two grieving stages "What’s his damage? Will he manage? He’s been cooped up there for ages" What are my feet on the ground for when the world has turned away? Where's that disembodied presence that said everything's okay? When will I just get over things and stop acting so dumb? Does that day ever really come? Oh what's the damage, what's the use? Never not Un-invincible Unbroken, but never un-bruised Damaged good But not unfixable I think I’m gonna throw up but I don’t know what the motive is But I can do it and be back before anyone notices Just give me a minute at the sink and I will fall forever Back into your arms I think I’m gonna spit up but I don’t wanna get off The coaster's still in motion but it doesn’t ever set off So just give me a minute in the drink and I will fall forever Back into your arms A limp farewell, a missed opportunity An open mouth, a sensory mutiny A thought: "he's fallen out of tune with me"; another thought, obscene, Of the not and never-could-have-been An aching arm, gash on the opposite A bruise on each, a bandage covers it Back home in Heaven Cloudy Valley, things all turn out fine These blisters fix up in no time I think I’m gonna throw up but I don’t know what the motive is But I can do it and be back before anyone notices Just give me a minute at the sink and I will fall forever Back into your arms I think I’m gonna spit up but I don’t wanna get off The coaster's still in motion but it doesn’t ever set off So just give me a minute in the drink and I will fall forever Back into your arms I think I’m gonna throw up but I don’t know what the motive is But I can do it and be back before anyone notices Just give me a minute at the sink and I will fall forever Back into your arms I think I’m gonna spit up but I don’t wanna get off The coaster's still in motion but it doesn’t ever set off So just give me a minute in the drink and I will fall forever Back into your arms
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Angel-Terror-Ghost-Beast 03:23
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Oh, terror-phantom You scare me out of my skin Oh, lover-angel Your wings are powdery and thin Oh, little green man On course you can't correct At crooked angles Our planes might intersect In and out, of existence again I walk outside every night with my Spiricom Noises in the static sound like my name I sleep with microphones, my head hooked up to gizmos You're sending signals in my dreams Does that mean you think of me? Wild-eyed romantic You make my hair stand on end Cute little cryptid My mind cannot comprehend And when I see lights In the corner of my eyes I know you're somewhere Flashing, passing by In and out, of existence again The nervous young Andromedans and greedy Sabaloms They just want human hearts for tea It's a dangerous cosmos out there for me I'd walk the universe to get you If I could make it out this bedroom Oh, angel-terror A voice like I’ve never heard Oh, ghostly beastie Who flickers into my world Invisible boy Whose presence I know I feel I don’t understand you I just know that you’re real You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive!
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Me, Inside Out 02:33
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My psyche speaks to no-one My prosthetic Broca implant is gone And I cannot speak I write all my feelings down in notes My tulpa'd better keep up the act My aneurysm had better stay intact And learn its place Along with the lump squatting in my throat Upset by my own pretences, Perpetual idempotence is Eating me inside Eating me inside Eating me inside out If I could speak my mind I would... and so on I'd tie my tongue in knots and just go on Spilling and spewing my secret shames To anyone who knows my name If some sweet angels would sit me down and plead me To tell them how I feel, as if it were all that easy You know I'd find it all too hard And all through the days and years, my Ambitions regrets and fears are Burning the inside Burning the inside Burning the inside out My psyche speaks to no-one My prosthetic frontal lobe's up and gone And I cannot think I can't for the life of me recall She cannot look after herself Her severed head is on the mad scientist's shelf The brain wouldn't die They say she was conscious through it all Alone at my own house party Nobody is there to fine me Spaced out in my best friend’s kitchen I’m not upset, I’m just silently itchin’ To bring the inside To bring the inside To bring the inside out
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Surprise Attack (Dramamine) 04:40
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The present lasts too long, but The future is always too near, Soaking my relationships in Clouds of all-consuming fear Give me fifteen minutes’ notice Before you try anything nice Mark down make outs in the diary I don’t like to be surprised A party’s being planned for me Outside my periphery My friends are all behind my back Planning their surprise attack You ask “can I ask you something?” What, “why can’t I just grow up”? Saying you need to tell me something Enough to make me wanna throw up You allude to the smallest secret A chill runs up my spine like ice No presence/presents in my love language I don’t like to be surprised Something’s being planned for me Outside my periphery My friends are all behind my back Planning their surprise attack Planning their surprise attack I get nervous, I feel strange I promise, love, it isn’t you I’m sorry, I’ve wrecked the moment And made myself look the fool Oh don’t hold me so tight Can’t we do this another night? I get scared, I get sick I feel weak, I cannot eat I’m sorry, I think I’m special But I’d be normal in a heartbeat I’ve gone quick, I’ll be back They won’t notice me have my own attack Something’s being planned for me Outside my periphery My friends are all behind my back Planning their surprise attack Planning their surprise attack
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Agnosiac Heart 03:05
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People are saying confusing things They expect me to make sense of What do you mean by "hello"? Is that some coded declaration of love? Why d'you wait til I'm out the room Til you tell the guests it's getting late? I wish I was a born rule-breaker, I could ask you to elaborate Let's orbit each other's shaky worlds, Watching awesome shows in your room Make like members of impossible bands, Play the same song to different tunes Above the sheets, two feet apart And you say you like your time with me Torch songs I can't tell apart From basic human decency I said I fancied something to eat And you said you had a good idea I can't pick up on your social clues Could you make it a little more clear? Let's orbit each other's shaky worlds, Watching awesome shows in your room Make like members of impossible bands, Play the same song to different tunes You can talk about your childhood friends I can talk my Mort Garson LPs You can play your Korean records, I can play my Half Japanese I try to talk but my tongue gets tied By the threads of mixed messages The heart wants what is best summed up In run-on sentences and triple double negatives Nothing is uncomplicated Everything negates everything else And all my words just disintegrate And the thought doubles back on itself Let's orbit each other's shaky worlds, Watching Bedtime Stories in your room Make like members of magical bands, Play the same song to different tunes Who will fall forever in circles Til the twin planets fall apart? Who can fill up the aching arms of My little big agnosiac heart?
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Get Bent 03:38
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Love, how can we live like this, Checking no-one’s around to see lovers kiss? Baby, how long can we be this way, Piss in our drawers, and deathly scared of PDA? Shaking, I took the hand, I felt the touch Someone turned the corner, that was too much Silent, we fell apart; it’s possible That if they saw us, we’d end up in the hospital “Son, I love you, but I can’t begin to understand Would you leave him for a woman or another man?” “Tell me you’re just gay, you’d make it easier for me Do bisexuals go to hell or just purgatory?” Love, wrapped round my torso, and I’m Combing through the hair of a man Skeleton’s out of the wardrobe, for so Long he’s been waiting for a guy to come and take him by the hand Smiling, I touched his skin, I died the death Meditated to his chest moving with his every breath When I could feel my heart in endless torrents of Beating, I kissed his lips, I felt his love Some, some get mad For no reason At my dissent Some get odd Some get even I just get bent Some, some get over Some get better I don’t get them Some get one Others the other I just get bent An old friend told me they're concerned with my identity I'm all mixed up inside but they just want what's best for me They told me I should be so proud of my endeavours But they hate my pride, and everything it stands for, so whatever, goodbye Oh, oh my god I’m just a heathen Heaven sent Some get odd Others get even I just get bent Some, some go straight Some get happy I just get by Some get strong Some get strange I just get shy
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I'll Vaporise You, Babe 02:52
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She lands in my garden I just call out "pardon?" when she says "Take one step and I'll vaporise you, babe" One foot in the crater Not ten seconds later, it's all "I'll vaporise you, babe" I've got eyes a-looking all round the place, and She's got eyes all over her face, and I’ve got lips that quiver for no reason She’s got lips like complex polyhedrons A voice like a demon I can't understand her words but they Seem to suggest "I'll vaporise you, babe" There's sweat on her mottled green skin There's looks in her three eyes that shoot beams right through my face I've got a heart that beats with love within it She's got four that beat three times a minute I've only got two arms that long to hold her She's got tendrils growing out her shoulders Ain't that the way? You meet the one and it turns out she lives a Light year away And it's just my luck that she doesn't give a flying... She sees my expression She's dropping her weapon to the ground A look of confused recognition she shares She glowered like I was crazy Does she see that my face betrays me as smitten or just scared? I look at her like we’re on the same wave I breathe “wow!”, she translates my brain waves And when I say "wow!" you'd best believe I’m in 6-E-Q-U-J-5-L-U-V! Ain't that the way? There's love at first sight, the sky at last light But not today She returns to the ship and to my great surprise She’s up, away A glint in the sky and my heart is just vaporised Light years away, oh she's away
10.
Summer Is Over Again 05:32
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The summer is over now The star has hidden, the world has turned away Equinox put one foot in the grave My friends are good and kind, But their shelter’s no respite from the storm The world is cold and only he was warm Harvest moon, linger There’s a rise and fall looping, forever on repeat The sun tries to rise And it tries to fall, looping continuously Once everything was mine, a king was never cold All the rain glowed, and every stranger looked like a friend And everything is fine in heaven, I am told But in the world of men nothing will be the same again Autumn is here again Migrating bird calls echo around the plate They disperse into the air but they remain The sounds bounce up and down The consonants stretch into hisses and vowels Then absorb into the walls and in the ground The tabs are all broken Now nothing left that can ever be rewound No-one will circulate the tapes Nothing can be ever erased again Once everything was mine, but down here I am cold Like a cat in hell, a snowball melting with no end And everything is fine in heaven, I am told But in the world of men nothing will be the same again And I might forget the clothes that I wore But I can't forget all the things we saw And I might forget the way my stomach felt But I can't forget the way his perfume smelt And I might forget the sound of his voice But I can't forget that he was my boy And I might choose to forget his name But I can never forget We were one and the same One day the sun will shine, and night will turn to gold Happy couple in a spaceless where and timeless when And everything is fine in heaven, I am told But in the world of men nothing can be the same again

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the new album by kappa

songs about theatre, sisyphus, mirrors, ribs, angels, cryptids, sabalom glitz, clinics, rollercoasters, aneurysms, brains, love languages, vomit, mort garson, double negatives, pda, bisexuality, aliens, the shangri-las, summers, the moon, and you.

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released January 27, 2023

Sam Waters - vocals, songwriting, production, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, piano, keys, trombone

recorded February - October 2022, except for some guitars on Get Bent recorded August 2020, some piano on Performance... recorded March 2021, and some guitars on Surprise Attack recorded April 2021

cover painting by Aaron Jolley
original photo by Tyler Noon
additional art by Sam Waters

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Aaron, Alex, Amanda, Amy, Ashli, Astrid, Chase, Claire, Emily, Evan, Eve, Jacob, Jake, Jess, Joe, Kenzie, Liv, Lizzy, Luke, Morgan, Neo, Renee, Rob, Sof, Tim, Tina, Tyler, Will, Zane, Ze, and more

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