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Hot Tropics

by Charity Cult

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1.
It started in the summer And it lasted all through the fall A yearning like no other A fire burning deep in my soul Thought I could hold it there forever Swore I’d never let it go I tried to keep it under cover It just spilled all out of control But in my mind It’s frozen in time It was a winter like no other A darkness deeper than cold I could still hear all the whispers Of beautiful lies that we told They didn’t last until the sunup When springtime started to bloom Now it’s all gone away forever And only the shadows loom But in my mind It’s frozen in time
2.
Jagged rhythm of a stuttering core on catastrophe’s edge Rapid pounding as the temperature spikes from emotional dredge Terminal flickering flickering flickering phosphor and black Pull the plug flip the breaker or there’s no coming back Tun me on Turn me off and then Turn me on And turn me off again Tun me on Turn me off and then Turn me on And never turn me off again Cursor flashes while this system crashes and starts to reboot Hacking slashes and strokes to screen flashes to get to the root An error later from a careless operator it grinds to a halt Rip the board out reformat and restore to default Indicator indication contemplation inside of my head Analysis paralysis initiated from factual dread Processes deviated relegated terminated fated to give up the ghost Melting down all around sirens sound as the trace leaves the host
3.
Standing in the afterglow of the city She used to glisten every night But living through collapse of it all can be pretty unrefined Our bodies dance by the dying light My neon heart still blinks for you A beacon in the darkness shining through My neon heart still blinks for you The pulse is quickening As the night is thickening Around you Wading through the aftermath of decisions erased by waves of a crashing mind Washing over moonless streets casting visions never breached darkness is the dialect of the blind My neon heart still blinks for you A beacon in the darkness shining through My neon heart still blinks for you The pulse is quickening As the night is thickening Around you
4.
Stepping out in the dark Your name on my tongue These streets glow softly But the night is still young It gets to you The ever grinding metro It can happen so fast When you’re moving too slow With all our might We’re chasing the night Stepping under the lights The weekend swan song Your drink is fresh But the mix is so strong When it gets to you The never ending spiral What will you do When you face your rival With all our might We’re chasing the night
5.
It’s hard to imagine Another day here in hell So I’ll lay it all out there I’m not doing so well I need an injection I’m lookin to score cause I lost my connection and I’m beggin for more Give me heart that burns like a fire Give me drive that bangs like a drum Give me truth as deep as an ocean Give me strength that rains from above Give me aim that locks on a target Give me faith that smokes like a gun Give me hope that holds on forever Give me love that hits like a drug It’s so alienating Out here on the skids life in agony welcomes What heaven forbids I need an infusion to steady the soul I can’t take the delusion and I’m losing control Give me heart that burns like a fire Give me drive that bangs like a drum Give me truth as deep as an ocean Give me strength that rains from above Give me aim that locks on a target Give me faith that smokes like a gun Give me hope that holds on forever Give me love that hits like a drug
6.
Another Life 03:51
Maybe in another life Carved from the blade of another knife We could intertwine like vines of a kind And time would unwind As it faded behind Maybe in another life On another timeline In some other fine time I could always shine I could find the right line I could give the right sign Maybe in another life Maybe in another life Maybe in another life In some other found truth with some other fresh youth And nothing to prove I could find the right grooves I could make the right moves Maybe in another life Where the seas weren’t as rough and the rains weren’t as tough And with nothing to bluff I could be the right stuff It could all be enough Maybe in another life Maybe in another life
7.
Fever Dream 03:37
If I could look into your gray eyes Like a day of gray skies over me If you can't say what you wanna say You could tell it to me visually All this time is passing by We're losing days and losing sleep Fragile eyes all open wide While we lie awake under raining sheets We could slide down a moon beam And fall into a fever dream Wash away all of the things that seemed like they didn't mean anything I wake to find myself all black and blue all alone in an empty room flooded with the absence of you If I could seek out and clutch you like a hand on a heart that beats violently If I could reach out and touch you my fingertips could say everything If I could look into your gray eyes We could slide down a moon beam And fall into a fever dream Wash away all of the things that seemed like they didn't mean anything
8.
Although it’s been some time since the big fallout It’s still all ripped to shreds and scattered about Reconstruction can take a while And face further delays from aimless guile Decompiling the heart Is a complex art Every bug that you’ll find class remains undefined If it’s no trouble to shoot better then to execute until no other functions remain stripped down to the core and only programmed to feel pain Soon the scraps will be up off the floor and built back better than ever before With some fresh new modifications like pulse overclocking and nerve integration Decompiling the heart Is a complex art Every bug that you’ll find class remains undefined If it’s no trouble to shoot better then to execute until no other functions remain stripped down to the core and only programmed to feel pain
9.
Have you been slipping and showing cracks Hyperventilations and panic attacks Can’t you just relax Frequent intimations of looming dread Shocking contemplations inside of your head Do you just see red No one’s gonna catch you when you fall No one’s gonna hear you when you call No one’s gonna help you when you crawl No one’s gonna think of you at all So don’t knock it if you can’t relate to a broken down mind in a crisis state Cuz if you've never tried it or ever had to hide it then just you wait You can’t stop it or ever try and drop it or even keep it comin at a moderate rate A real hot wire a five alarm fire to satiate Are you just drifting and biding time Trapped inside a never shifting soul paradigm Isn’t life sublime Taking deep breaths to stay in disguise As you try to hide the terrified look in your eyes Don’t you vaporize No ones gonna keep you on the ball No ones gonna read the words you scrawl No ones gonna scrape you off the wall No ones gonna look at you at all So don’t knock it if you can’t relate to a broken down mind in a crisis state Cuz if you've never tried it or ever had to hide it then just you wait You can’t stop it or ever try and drop it or even keep it comin at a moderate rate A real hot wire a five alarm fire to satiate So don’t knock it if you can’t relate to a broken down mind in a crisis state Cuz if you've never tried it or ever had to hide it then just you wait You can’t stop it or ever try and drop it or even keep it comin at a moderate rate A real hot wire a five alarm fire to satiate An Emergency state An Emergency state An Emergency state An Emergency state
10.
It must’ve been something you said in the night in the wake of forever in the shock of the bite Maybe I’m clueless or lost in a dream but this seems like a moment we need not redeem It’s time to know if there’s enough time to go we’ve been waiting some time you know and this time there’s still some ways to go counting down hours like days at a time on the highway of endless clocks that won’t chime it’s probably useless to mark every mile when the skyline horizon won’t be for a while

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Hot Tropics is the first full length album from Charity Cult. It’s kind of a psychedelic bionic meltdown party.

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released July 2, 2021

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered @ Earth Exit Monasteries
All sounds by Mario Viele

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