Synthesis
by Captain Of The Lost Waves
Jan Govey
Jan Govey
I recommend Synthesis if you need an introduction to the Captain. Featuring tracks from Hidden Gems Chapters 1 & 2, plus two Morricone inspired instrumental tracks and two remixes of Uniforms unavailable elsewhere - those last four are so worth your money even if you have the other albums.
Favorite track: Transient.
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Get all 9 Captain Of The Lost Waves releases available on Bandcamp and save 10%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Not Your Average Love Song, Hidden Gems Chapter 3, Synthesis, Hidden Gems Chapter 2, Hidden Gems Chapter 1, Still Talking Scribble, Thinnest Hopes Magnified, The Great Departure, and 1 more.
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Transient
04:09
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Uniforms
05:25
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I try so hard to be different
To a new bright allegiance I'm sworn
But it seems in our need to be different
We all wear the same uniforms
This ones saying I fit in
This one is saying I don't
This ones saying you know that I will
And this ones demanding I won't
This ones saying I'm mighty
This one says I don't care
But when you're carefully playing at not fitting in
With that anarchic rebellious stare
We try so hard to stand out
Whilst maintaining the need to fit in
It's a game just a game don't you know it's a game
A game that nobody wins
Some uniforms are better than others
Oh Annalise in your paprika dress
A sartorial elegance and a Dickensian gentility
With such a fiery prowess
This one says I'm a player
Clever and oh so precise
Should I care to digress and shall confess
That clothing is my greatest vice
Put em on put em on put em on
What is it you're trying to say
Manicured and polite so politically right
To neutral colours I sway hey hey hey
It's just another still from a movie
Just another page from a book
What worked for you then
Don't work for you now
You're ashamed and you say you won't look
Put em on put em on put em on
What is it you're trying to say
Manicured and polite so politically right
To unimagined colours I stray hey hey hey hey
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Danger
05:11
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Danger Danger here on planet earth
There's a singer songwriter epidemic and they claim it's getting worse
We cannot move for heartfelt lyrics soft and sweet indulgent gimmicks the song would be over but there's not enough of me yet in it
And so he picked up the phone and haggled lady if it's true then 555 vinkloore and no less I might just do the work that no one else would dare to contemplate I will create a serum that I know shall break their need to sing to where others be gathered in a room and recite a set of bloated impending doom
They shall no more preach messages from a sense of lack for misery loves company as they back slap each other back
For we need more shepherds and not more sheep more sheep more sheep more sheep more sheep we need more shepherds not sheep
As the sheep start to bleat
Baa Baaaaa
For it seems that human beings are addicted to their pain
Suffering seen from an outside source
How shall I call it? INSANE
It's true they are not conscious of acting consciously
For the main trade on your planet is to indulge in the woe is me
For many have so much but nothing fills them up
The void they're trying to fill it can't be filled up with that stuff
I'll hunt down all the leaders
Switch off their moaning genes
And in time Planet Earth can radiate with joy and new found dreams
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January
05:40
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May I introduce myself
I'm the month that they say they most fear
They call me January
I'm the Monday it seems of the year
I'm announced with disdain
For unlike the weekend
Monday holds nothing but dread
So many just do the only way through it is through
More than simply implied it is said
My siblings are wild and gregarious
July and August just constantly sneer
Well they cackle in droves
And December's all show
I'm the short straw that always appears
It's like following Elvis The Beatles
Why would anyone do such a thing?
At the height of their fame everyone's screaming their name
And no one here wants you to sing
No one here wants you no one here wants you
No one here wants you to sing
Yes I confess that I'm January
Not the month that you want me to be
I'm uninteresting and bare
And would anyone care
If the year started with February?
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Another Planet
05:50
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the tallest man with the skinniest features crazy preachers eyes that say hello how low
why don't you tell me where the kids all go
peculiar strange or peculiar funny I’m just a vine from the crooked tree that grows
how low why don't you tell me where the kids all go
hello how low it’s underneath your vest but I can hear yours fluttering beating that stubborn little muscle inside your chest
I found it I tasted life on another planet
you speak a strange kind of butterfly language when all I hear are the caterpillars groan how low why don't you tell me where the kids all go
Ba Da Da Da Da Da
restless hands in the pockets of chaos shiny faces with mile wide grins that grow hello why don't you tell me where the kids all go
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Mr Many Men
06:49
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I'm Mr Tentative and shy in large and crowded places to Mr mmm I like it most in those wide and open spaces say it like you mean it
I'm Mr Small and the world is getting larger Mr Dizzy on the black run I swear that they are harder say it like you mean it
I'm sometimes Mr Clumsy and I'm often Mr Wrong and when I'm Mr Muddle I think I'm him for far too long say it like you mean it
I'm mischief nonsense grumble fussy worry slow I'm all the Mr Men at once and some I guess you've yet to know?
I'm Mr ‘work in progress’ to Mr 'yes I'm done' to Mr 'I am all those things' to Mr 'no I think I'm none'
I'm Mr funky dancer tis James Brown in my hips to Mr Marx 'I wasn't kissing her I was just whispering in her lips'
I'm Mr beach boy music yes I’ve been happy sad and I'm so good no good so good no good at being bad
I'm Mr happy clappy they say I'm way too gregarious I smile in places they deem precarious
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Out West
03:59
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instrumental track
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Uniforms (Choral)
00:57
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credits
released March 15, 2022
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Captain Of The Lost Waves UK
The Captain is a troubadour, storyteller and free thinking renegade. His musical offerings are inspired by the great songwriters and philosophers of yesteryear. This is visceral music for the mind and body, full of dreamy verses, life affirming choruses and sheer audacity. Where melodic invention meets alternative folk, progressive, world and ambient sounds. ... more
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