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Which Way Is Jupiter?

by Nikki n' The Pathos

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1.
Train 04:04
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What does fate mean to you? Are you standing in place or moving in space What does fate mean to you, or me? Am I standing in place, are you moving in space Are our hearts shrinking down to the size Of a family or beating time with the drum of humanity What has time done to you or me Have you changed your face or were you always this way? I think my thoughts are slipping, slipping down To the ground but it’s shifting, life that I knew swept away Away and gone, wheels turn on, gone I was on a train Running down the tracks I laid You were on the altar staying out of the rain Guess I’ll take this boxcar of memories on another ride Everybody’s taking cover from the pain Was I your sister or was I your mother Who’s to say the story’s done it’s written in our DNA Did we craft these circumstances or is there an undercover Sieve that sorts our souls Were these stars painted across the sky? Or are they the strings of the marionette in her dance? Left and right, hold on tight, hold… I was on a train…. Where this track goes no one knows Keep riding on a train
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Cocoon 04:44
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I’m building a cocoon A place where I can hide away And while I’m there the night will turn to day I’m building a cocoon To take leave of this world for awhile The rains will stop and my tears will run dry And I will wake in another world Where fate has forgotten my name We will shed our earthly despairs in metamorphosis I’m building a cocoon I’m making it with clay and with twine Estranged from all thought there, eternal and sublime And I will wake in another world…. The past it has dissolved It’s turned to mist there’s nothing wrong My betrayers are there in the fog Their causes laid to rest those lifeless things I’ve left mine behind as well I’ve left mine behind as well Might as well, might as well….
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Inferno 03:51
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Raise my voice to speak but there’s no one here Seems I’ve been in exile for a hundred years It’s a purgatory for the infidels whose minds are never made up Thoughts turn to dust and let me be If you don’t go now we’ll be stuck right here In the quicksand of memories that don’t add up Rather they pull me down I said forever that was yesterday come what may Our failed endeavor turned my sky to gray, obscured the day This is no temporary convalescence, no ordinary acquiescence I’m on a mission this is my condition: resistance Judgments of mine, when will you rest The sun outside shines the path ahead Or must you always lead me to resist and straighten my spine again Don’t say forever what was yesterday is gone today This failed endeavor turned my sky to gray, obscured the day This is no temporary…. Now I know what you’re thinking you were laughing as I went the other way You best think twice, you rolled the dice for me Best pay attention to the karmic balance, there’s a statement outstanding and a bill to pay You best think twice, you rolled the dice for me Am I who I was raised to be Are you who you were meant to be Will we meet again in the inferno’s ninth circle In the inferno’s ninth circle
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Avalanche 04:07
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I will be queen of the mountain on high Oh how I’ve climbed, how I’ve climbed There’s nothing that can come between you and I For this frozen kingdom is mine But then, avalanche Is that why you worried so Avalanche: just one slip and now watch it go Avalanche: under each rock is a precipice Under each rock I was once queen of the mountain on high But I’ve lost my place in the sky Someone else sits and admires the view While I tremble to think it was mine But then, avalanche….. We fall we fall we fall, but we are still breathing, what for? We fall we fall we fall, yet we are still breathing, what for? What for? When the avalanche comes to take it away When the avalanche will come to take you away from me We fall we fall we fall A new snow was falling when I raised my head The old wounds had melted away I’ll find a green valley where I’ll make my home A refuge away from the avalanche
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Farsighted 03:53
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Farsighted, wouldn’t know how else to be Farsighted, standing at the edge of the sea Those I love are castaways, they’re ships that broke their moorings to go free I can see horizons far and near but there is no one standing here with me There is no one here right now with me I’ve been walking in my tunnel with the blinders on The truth, it lies ahead Or maybe I was really in the jungle yeah Reaching for fruit like everybody else Got stung by the honeybee of hypocrisy Started swimming with the sticklebacks the sycophants Vipers are coming for me, you and I baby sharing our humanity Been dancing in the dungeon with my high heels on The darkness doesn’t hide the path ahead Or maybe we were only in the boardroom where We suck up the souls and spit the bones out through our teeth Got stung….. Now wait a minute, wait, we are not like that, no Farsighted, wouldn’t know how else to be
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Your Eyes 03:53
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If I could see, with your eyes as I do with my own I would forgive your faults And forget all your lies I would wrap Up your wounds In bandages of gauze I would be there beside you All the night long, all the night long If I could love, with your heart as I do with my own I would see your intent So clear to me now I would take Your tired hands And put them in my own I would be there beside you All the night long, all the night long But this cannot be We are islands at sea Didn’t know all of you Nor did you know all of me, all of you, all of me If I could see, with your eyes as I do with my own I would answer these questions And I would come to understand why I’d break through the wall That divides us in two I would never desert you Never again, never again But this cannot be We are islands at sea Couldn’t take all of you Nor could you take all of me, all of you, all of me All the islands at sea All the things that can’t be ‘Cause we can’t stop the sifting of time The currents are shifting Apart we are drifting We can’t stop the sifting of time They say time heals all And I’ve got time
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Lullabies 03:45
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I hear voices sometimes in the night But when it’s light I can go to sleep the sun is singing lullabies to me You said wait the time’s not right But winter’s bite was too cold for me Left the keys hanging by the door And what we’ll do and where we’ll go is yet unknown Think I dreamt of butterflies swooping by I tried but could not speak rendered breathless by their beauty I flew south with flocks of geese, their flapping wings beat the time in threes I wake up enchanted but alone And who we’ve been and what we’ve known I think I’ll fly alone And in the night sometimes, and in the night, I hear your voice You say, “you have to bear the world’s weight” But I am floating out to space And should this fail, I’ll find another way To be as light as light can be So what if I fly alone, what if I fly alone? I’ve never done things for show, so what if I fly alone? And what we’ll do and where we’ll go And who we’ve been and what we’ve known And in the night sometimes You say…..
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Пазл (Puzzle) 03:37
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Пазл моей жизни я так долго собираю сидя дома у окна, я мечтаю Но фрагментов не хватает и картина ждет тебя Завершить ее не могу одна Одна, решила не бежать вперёд, все наладится Развалилась в сон, долго спящая Стараюсь не тревожиться судьба меня ведет Судьба меня ведет Собрав попавшие частицы оживаю вновь солнце светит ярче снова вижу цель Взяв последний пазл замерла предвидя чудо но вокруг осколки и опять одна Одна, решила не бежать вперёд, все наладится Развалилась в сон, вечно дремлющая Стараюсь не тревожиться судьба меня найдет Судьба меня У каждого в жизни свой пазл У всех он не повторим решай сама Мы стремимся к тому, собрать все фрагменты в один Все стремимся к тому, собрать все фрагменты в один А если не сложится, сломаемся ли мы? А если не сложится, не ломай меня
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Jupiter 04:15
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Set course so many years ago, without asking why A one-way ticket to the great beyond There's no way back from the path that you're on No way home So we sail on, into oblivion we travel two by two Into infinity we fly, nothing can stop me now Not the planets in their orbits we're passing them by But Saturn blazes changes she came around and knocked me upside down Now that I've wiped the dust away I'll come back and set the story straight Can you tell me? Which way is Jupiter? Can you tell me the way, to go in? But Saturn blazes changes she came around and knocked me upside down Now that I've wiped the dust away I'll come back and set the story straight Can you tell me? Oh, knocking me upside down Turning me, turning me, turning me around Which way is Jupiter? Can you tell me the way, to go in?
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Fill It With Sound 03:53
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When your head stops spinning 'round Walls burned down The wind takes the ashes away Thoughts come to rest, their silhouettes Are watching as I shrug my shoulders at the rain Life in arrest, without suspense Except that of reality Does closure's cavern have an exit You don't know and rightly so Fighting doubt in sense of my perception The emptiness is real Can I be my own compass? You say that you don't know Try to keep on going in the same direction The emptiness that you feel is real And the bonds you make forge them from steel The devil in your heart, set him free The emptiness Fill it with sound From the unknown don't you hide face the mirror Fill it with sound You may lose truth, but don't you lie And you'll make your way with our without The devil in your heart let him out The emptiness Fill it with sound… You say you'll go away and you say you can't stay But what about the songs that you sing that you sing Fill the world with sorrow, fill the world with light Clouds may come tomorrow, sun could shine tonight Is anyone listening?

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Nikki n' The Pathos, an indie-folk-rock group based in Oregon, explores the topic of grief and recovery from loss in its first release, "Which Way is Jupiter?" Introspective lyrics combine with orchestral arrangements and folk and Latin inflections to bring Nikki's inner world to life.

www.facebook.com/nikkiandthepathos
www.nicoleportleymusic.com

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released January 10, 2014

Nicole Portley – vocals & piano
Eddie Bond – guitar
Mason Kline – drums
Adam Carlson – drums
Sean Peterson – bass
Della Davies – violin
Andrew Stiefel – viola
Kelly Quesada – cello
Jacob Walls – trumpet
Sarah Pyle – flute
Margarite Waddell – horn
Sarah Morrow – horn
Leila Hawana – percussion
Aaron Jester – percussion

All songs, lyrics, and arrangements by Nicole Portley
Igor Medvedev – co-author of lyrics to "Puzzle"
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Lance Miller
Artwork and design by Ben Friedle

© ℗ 2014, Nicole Portley, ASCAP

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Independent rock and classical music written by Nicole Portley in Portland, Oregon

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