Released a year ago on my 28th birthday for one day only, This is Oxnard, CA producer Wise1 and my second publicly released collaboration for his beat-tape. I wrote some of the these lines and lyrics (specifically the third verse/bridge part) while on tour with Alexa Dexa in 2013. This song is a testament to my love of creating and creation as a way to improve your relationships with others. Art has always been a safe haven for me and I hope that through my work either what I create or me specifically can feel like a sanctuary to all of you who have improved my life by supporting me and acknowledging my efforts and applauding them. The track was recorded, mixed and mastered with Paul Fakatselis in our old apartment in Coram on Long Island.
lyrics
Sanctuary Tour Guide
If life is spiraling...
make it golden, Fibonacci sequences,
Liberace eccentric, syllables get selected,
Ring alarm resurrection, sing the body electric,
Eclectic stitched quickened language like
Frankenstein to mainline a sanguine sign
to angered languid types they've resigned
pained, deciding this is a thankless ride,
so I'll be Hank Pym right;
devise a formula for a change in size
of your antonymic anchors, lighten
the load of anguished times
whenever a plague arises
with an Occam's Razor slice
plagiarized from plain advice
your brain would write
on your dream boat's mainsail's
Loose leaf paper lines!
If fate supplies cold shoulders and lemons? take some ice,
make a lemonade and spice your favorite entree and dine,
crush and age the vines of sour grapes to wine,
pressure made your diamonds,
in other words assess the meal you've been given with meliorism
mother of pearl! the world's your oyster,
get a taste of life, you may just find the flavor's fine!
I'm here to take you in
If life is trying to take you out
I'm here to fix you up
When life is trying to break you down
I'm here to take you in
If life is trying to take you out
I'm here to be your fix
When life is trying to break you down
Forget a "starving artist"!
has anyone any one thought for the audience?
they're malnourished, parched and spent
from an empty market's rotten trends!
This is all for them,
to calm my head before performances
don't think of them naked at all instead
my way is I weigh in my naked honest text
as long awaited oasis songs that quench!
Interested in the legend of stuff
restless 'til I'm the stuff of legend
Is that obsessive and dumb, desperate or what?
I'm friendly enough though I tend towards gruff
when others disrespect the subjects of my love
Ironically I'd probably break ten connects of those who take offense
With the perverted/crass circus act I think it takes to make new friends.
Acknowledging the folly in fact I've had to be sorry for that
so I'm recording these tracks performing, extorting them
affording atonement in hopes to pay off what's amassed!
Put the wind in your sails, Propel all of your masts,
To follow your paths leave a Mark like Vonnegut had,
dissolve horrible masks, discard commoner acts
Awaken all of you back to a state you're intact,
conscious and glad just as doctor Oliver Sacks!
I'm here to take you in
when life is trying to take you out
I'm here to fix you up
when life is trying to break you down.
I'm here to take you in
If life is trying to take you out
I'm here to be your fix
When life is trying to break you down
In a sea of doubts, no shoreline?
A safe haven sight for sore eyes,
If you're ever feeling lost I...
I'm gonna try to be your tour guide.
When you're an etch a sketch museum built precariously on a fault line,
Or a vessel with arrested potential docked in a bottle of port wine,
Pieced patiently, perfect, impressive but imprisoned by a cork tight,
And the turning of the corkscrew is forcing you lose your mind....
I'll try to be your tour guide
When the aging in the looking-hour-glass leaves you mortified,
When that worldly wretched sediment monkey wrench compresses your spine,
in the clouds but that former 9 transmogrifies to the storm kind,
And the sanctuary of the safety net parachute parasol dies
I'll try to be your tour guide!
I'm here to take you in
when life is trying to take you out
I'm here to fix you up
when life is trying to break you down.
I'm here to take you in
when life is trying to take you out
I'm here to be your fix
when life is trying to break you down.
credits
from Stone Soup For The Soul,
released March 26, 2017
Written by Bruce "AllOne" Pandolfo
Produced by Wise 1
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul Fakatselis
Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.
Deeply vivid/introspective lyrics populate this ambitious folk rock project. The arrangements span from mellow/minimal to rocking and grandiose. Consistently emotive, unique and sincere. Brilliance. AllOne
Progressive yet punk, aggro yet emotional. One of my favorite bands from Long Island and doing everything they can to live up to their name, raising money for causes and making badass music, AllOne
