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Dissociative
05:02
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I was fleeing but couldn't run
Woke up staring at the sun
Deaf, blind, and dumb
A blank inside a gun
The heroine come undone
Kerosine queen
Scorch the earth of a dream
The consciousness to redeem
The self caught in between
A woman or a machine?
I am learning to sink before I swim
I let the wolf come in
I am turning into this pseudonym
I ask where I've been
How many lives do I give
To die and live again?
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Estrangement
04:45
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Who was I with you?
A closed door you could see through?
My abandoned house was broken into
I threw a stone beneath a glass roof
Unhappy and trying to burn the proof
"I love you" was not the truth
State line, turned around
Still mad at you somehow
Still crying in the car seat
Declaring defeat
Heading back home now
Who was I in our youth?
Did you want me for the forbidden fruit?
I hung up because it was better than mute
A placeholder you got used to
A cathedral burned; I admired the view
Dropped the gun against my head but not for you
State line, turned around
Still mad at you somehow
Still crying in the car seat
Declaring defeat
Heading back home now
Who was I when we made do?
Who was I when I missed you?
You're learning to live without me, too
I found forever when you came through
At a distance, it no longer feels true
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Medusa
03:21
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Word is there's a bounty on my head
You're not the only one who wants me dead
I cried wolf so many times that I turned red
Yet I never mislead
I'm not fragile like the narrator said
I say off with your head instead
Behead me then hold it high
I'm not going out without a fight
I dare you to look in my eyes
I've been raped and vilified Set on fire with a gas light
I took it into my stride
I brought myself back to life
Reached over to the snake to let it bite
I am out of words and made of ink
I stare at you so I won't blink
I shed my skin and am on the brink
I am not the villain like they think
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Idol
02:35
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Love is the match you hold against the dark
Love, the circling moth embarks
Love, the hope that falls apart
Love is the knife you hold in my heart
Love, impatient, unkind regard
Love, is everything you aren't
Love is the gun that goes off at the start
In the china shop, screaming about missed sleep
In the ravaged church mourning defeat
Scorch the earth and then retreat
The virgin inside, calling to me
I am the god you could not be
I am the demon that you freed
Love, unforgiving and unclean
Love, the gun against your teeth
Love, get down on your knees
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Zero
03:05
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I have everything I need
A one way ticket, and a heart on my sleeve
Which way do you go to run from me?
Which way do I go to do the same thing?
I have everything I need
Broken legs and godspeed
A strong-willed amount of broken dreams
Of whatever it was I was supposed to be
I'm telling you it's what I need
I am on my way to the surface to breathe
Is there a right way to grieve?
A right way to concede?
So emptied out that I couldn't bleed
Follow the poem into reprieve
Follow the poem past where you can see
Before I survived they called me naive
Here's the catch you wouldn't believe:
I was captured before I was free
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Last Call
03:16
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The smoke filling up the crowded room;
I drag in the rain.
I hear strangers talking but they have nothing to say.
Outside I waited and she never came.
All at once when it was finally warm,
I followed her home like a summer storm.
Then watched her drift away.
I picked up where the words left off,
And got lost in what she wouldn’t say.
In the end it was,
“I don’t know if I feel the same.”
I remember it like the first night she stayed.
I pull myself out into the hard, starlit street.
Where everyone laughs and lies through their teeth;
I pick myself off of the ground at her feet.
And walk home; the empty bedroom, the smothering heat.
The smell of her still from this week.
I gouge out; I hollow myself to sleep,
Shaking out the abandoned dreams.
“I won’t be staying for a while,”
She says, then leaves.
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Cycles
02:56
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They look at me and say the same:
"Something is off that we can't quite name"
Without the pain
A moth without her flame
Lost and unrestrained
I am a fire waiting to catch
Standing red handed with the match
Like carbon resurrects
Living and breathing in all its effects
Tp already know what's next
The autumn comes and expects
The springtime to neglect
I am a fire waiting to catch
Standing red handed with the match
Close the door when you come in
A wolf in sheep's clothing again
A gust of self loathing
They hope that I'm joking
When I say I relate to him
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Dislocation
03:03
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June roots -- tree grows away
Wandering in the summertime shade
In the light, I can see it in your face
Where do we go when we're still out of place?
I moved because I couldn't stay
I moved because it was getting late
Can't make love to her with spite
Clothes came off that night
The wrong that made it right
You can't have her now; she's mine
I can't fix her when she's fine
I'll never look behind
The apology depreciates in time
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Fever
03:39
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Dog days never seemed to end
The summer swelter, the metal's bend
My feet melted to the ground again
It's 100 degrees, let me in
I'm just a wolf that's shed her skin
Let me inside, I might die of the risk
Of fading out far too quick
I walked here with a bag full of bricks
I don't turn away, I turn against
And try to use something besides my fist
When the suns burs out, it won't be missed
Icarus in the midst
As harsh as the past I dismiss
The story never ends without a twist
All along, I was the villain in this
The girl dehisced
From a fever too high to persist
I guess I am it
I guess that I quit
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Eternal
03:57
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Time is turning us and we are late
Eternity doesn't last, but present holds its place
They beg sometimes for some saving grace
Where do you hide when you're running out of space?
The distance grows and lays waste
The metamorphosis in haste
The light can only be chased
Time is killing us and we are late
Irrelevant at an alarming rate
I am rebelling against my fate
What's your legacy if you don't create?
A life lived in a stalemate
Why kneel when you can be great?
Time has forced us into this state
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Atone
04:41
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Told her I've been down lately
This job has made me lazy
I'm just bored and going crazy
I still love you, but only vaguely
Keep in touch was seeming hasty
I am sick of thinking maybe
Today I took off my ring
What does the stranger bring?
I'm beautiful; let's have a fling
Fuck me like I'm worth something
Your voice sounds dead on the phone
Tonight I'd rather feel alone
I was the first to throw the stone
I am an accident prone
If my cover gets blown
I'm not one to atone
Today I took off my ring
What does the stranger bring?
I'm beautiful; let's have a fling
Fuck me like I'm worth something
Don't bring me flowers 'cause I'll throw them away
I don't want any of what you have to say
Don't see you coming through my door every day
These games are for 2, and I know how to play
You're no longer the girl I'm asking to stay
Today I took off my ring
What does the stranger bring?
I'm beautiful; let's have a fling
Fuck me like I'm worth something
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Farewell
03:36
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Leaving home wasn't so hard after all
How to say goodbye when we haven't talked?
I outgrew you
You made me small
It's why I haven't called
Burned everything I saw
The town-folk stood in awe
I am emptying out; I've been boxed in
To think outside, I had to think again
Now it isn't like it was before;
I don't think about you anymore
Home alone, one key to my door
There's no one else, just like I swore
I am tired and I'm bored
I am tired and I'm bored
I don't love you anymore
I don't love you anymore
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Vixen
04:12
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The wires all all mixed up in my head
Hit me harder is what I said
Work harder, not smarter
Sell your soul instead
Be a martyr
Lay down and play dead
In the night she came like a thief
She had a smirk cut in front of her teeth
She had eyes that says she needs
She had what it takes for me to believe
Dirty mouth and blood on your hands
Tell me something i don't understand
Why i am the way I am
Won't answer demands
The tell of the damned
In the night she came like a thief
She had a smirk cut in front of her teeth
She had eyes that says she needs
She had what it takes for me to believe
Was her body worth going to hell?
May the power of a woman compel
An angel cries when you break the spell
She said I wasn't a hard sell
Forgive me, for I will never tell
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Homesick
03:12
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I am calling home
I know you're there
Be mad if you want
I know it's not fair
I am calling in sick
Like I had somewhere
Dial 9 to get out
Was there ever a doubt
I am living without
I am living in fear
That one day I'll disappear
Why aren't you here?
I am living without in an empty bathtub in a drought
Sobbing until I can no longer shout
Do you even know what this is about?
There was always a doubt
Dial 9 to get out
Dial 9 to get out
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