Silhouettes, by Taylor Ngiri Seaberg

Silhouettes

by Taylor Ngiri Seaberg

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1.	Clarity 03:46	lyrics	buy track
Clarity Don’t let the world control you Clarity Keep on moving past those slums I’ve got a wooden pain in my heart now And I’m feeling so damn numb You take good You take good care of you Burn them to the ground, suga suga You burn them to the ground Yeah, you take good, Yeah you, take good, Care of you Clarity Don’t let the world control you Don’t let the world control you Don’t let the world Clarity Oh Cut off the ones you love If you have to Bite the hand that feeds you Do all of the above Clarity may bring you to your knees But don’t let the world control you Let it be Let it be You take good You take good care of you Burn them to the ground, you burn them to the ground You take good care of You take good care of you
2.	Time 03:34	lyrics	buy track
We're all chasing time Coal in my lungs and eyes on fire Beautiful garden I make in a ghetto City engulfing silver meadow Wind in the trees One more kiss putting me at ease, ease Bodies cold and laid to rest That's a broken nebulous I confess Daylight, sunlight, moonlight, glow Holding unto things that should go We're mystical And we're magical Elusive Tangled up Inside Inside my head Head All in my head It's all in my... Daylight, sunlight, moonlight, glow Holding unto things that should go
3.	Currency 02:48	lyrics	buy track
I wear boys slacks With a lit match With a women's wit Give a heart attack With them boom baps And that slow slap I be lickin on her like a Kitty Cat Attitude like a slick snake Nigga still call me an ingrate And I'm an ingrate for you sure But be one that you still adored Or fetished Dark skin With some teeth That's a menace And the darkness in my mind With a mortal combat finish Fatality When I'm still fucking dead to me And when the world turns it's back What happened to loving your inner me (enemy)? (Carlos's Verse) Gone, gone, gone You gone, gone, gone You gone, gone, gone, gone Gone, gone, gone You gone, gone, gone You gone, gone, gone, gone
4.	Fallin' 04:23	lyrics	buy track
I'm falling Down, do, da-down da-down Why you always be looking so lonely When you coming around? I'm falling Down, do, da-down do-down Why you always be looking so lonely When you coming around? Is this life a jack and jill? Lost my head fell up a well Feel no pain just take the pill Red, purple, blue feels And I'm defeatist Losing sleep over the family That will leave us Shot dead in the street They still tax the fucking (parking) meter Like... When I'm falling down Oh how much money you making? I see you feeding your babies Oh now your tongue on vacation? I think I'm getting impatient I'm falling Down, do, da-down da-down Why you always be looking so lonely When you coming around? I don't wanna fall I'm fallin I don't wanna fall I'm fallin Round me up Round me up Round me up I don't wanna fall I'm fallin I don't wanna fall I'm fallin Cherry, cherry Glass of wine Broken, fat lip With a chick divine Fire in a brain Feeling so alive And a rumble in a heat stroke Still I Try I don't need no handouts Nah, nah, nah I've been with and without When I'm feeling myself Bitch, I got wealth, yeah When I'm feeling myself Bitch, I got wealth, yeah When you feeling yourself Yeah, you got wealth, eh When you feeling yourself Yeah, you got wealth You can just go the lane and I You can just go the lane and I'm falling Falling You can just go the lane and I You can just go the lane and I'm falling Falling Falling Falling
5.	IntheMood 01:43	info	buy track
6.	Candy 04:14	lyrics	buy track
Tell me what you said Those words in your sleep (Know you thinkin’ bout it) (Why you can’t stop thinkin bout it?) All of what you feel has crept underneath (I’ve seen your faces, Straight laced, teeth like alligators) Get me out my head When I’m trying to breathe And all of what’s been done, yeah I need some relief I get so high High I get so high High I get so I get so I get so I get so High When I'm running away from you When I'm running away from me Feel the rush when I'm fiendin' When I'm feeling low Please just get me out my mind Wanna lose control Don't you know when I get this way It just takes me to paradise I get so I get so I get so high I get so high High I get so high High I get so I get so I get so I get so High When I'm running away from you I'm just running away From I'm just running in circles What's on your mind? Don't be shy Don't you know it's on the horizon On the horizon? What's on your mind Don't be shy Don't you know it's on the horizon? You don't know You don't know You don't know You don't You don't And I get so Get so Get so Get so High Well I get so high I get so high High I get so high High I get so I get so I get so I get so High When I'm running away from you When I'm running away from me Me Me
7.	Medusa 04:02	lyrics	buy track
Had a little bit of a moment Where in you I thought I’d trust You came in with a devil’s tongue Hoping I would call you on your bluff Had a throat caught up with anger Weigh the mind down with lead Now I put to bed all my demons Now darling I You just can't ever get enough You just can't ever get enough You nah, nah, nah, nah, You nah, nah, nah, nah You nah, nah, nah, nah Can't get enough of You nah, nah, nah, nah You nah, nah, nah, nah You nah, nah, nah, nah Can't get enough of you Way down in the middle of an old, dark tunnel In the creek where I don't get sleep, nah Had too much of a bottle And now I'm riding narrow And I've seen Pharaoh I know you don't even know me But darling I One, two, three, four! You just can't ever get enough You just can't ever get enough You nah, nah, nah, nah You nah, nah, nah, nah You nah, nah, nah, nah Can't get enough of You nah, nah, nah, nah You nah, nah, nah, nah You nah, nah, nah, nah Can't get enough of you Can't get enough of you I had a long way home Walking out the door Ahh Really? Well go on and leave Go on and leave Well go on and leave Well go on and leave I Well I lose and you lose and I lose I lose and you lose Well I lose and you lose and I lose So go on and leave Go on and leave Go on and leave
8.	Tricksy 04:20	lyrics	buy track
Feeling far removed from you and I cannot believe All the times you needed me I gave you my energy If we were drowning In a storm, you wouldn't save so easily First your heart beats Now you won’t even speak To me Why won't you speak? You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak to me All in my All in my All in my All in my head In my genetic tree Painted in my life as a family With a stable Mom and Dad who made life easily But really that ain’t true Not what I see Had a brother buy loads of dope Sniffing sugar off of his coat and a mirror too In a face that reflects in his attitude Drug addiction for a while was just what I knew And I’m tired of your subtweets Wanna kiss me undercover in the dark Where do you sneak? But when I get under your bed sheets Wanna tell me that you love me But only when our lips meet Where is the lie tho? Where is the lie tho? Where is the lie? You tripping on ego Reflecting on biblical good versus evil That’s murder that she rewrote And why won't you speak? Why won't you speak? You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak to me All in my All in my head Lately I've grown colder in old age Now that you've gone away I'm just holding unto old feelings Won't speaaaak (You won't speak) You won't speak You won't speak You won't speak Aaaaaaaaaaah! You won't even speak to me

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Seaberg and the Velvet Punks is a band that encompasses the lyrical and musical arrangements of Black genderqueer guitarist, Taylor Seaberg. Featured collaborators on the album are Carlos Kelley (drums) and Joshua Maxwell (bass). The name “Velvet Punks” stands for any players that join with the soulful brainchild to emphasize the kick and splatter of punk with a tapestry of neo-soul charm and smoothness.

The album name, "Silhouettes" details the dark shape or outline of a person. So many of the songs are built around loss, distance, depression, mania, break ups, addiction, and failure. "Tricksy" is about ghosting after an intense break up and the relationships that spiral out of control until you are nothing more than wayward strangers, a silhouette of a friendship or a romantic encounter. “Clarity” is about clawing your way back up so you “Don’t Let The World Control You.” When relationship permanence seems impossible as a nomad how do you navigate through sustainable personhood and community?

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released January 3, 2019

Drums and vocals on "Currency": Carlos Kelley
Bass: Joshua Maxwell
Lyrics, guitar, and musical arrangement: Taylor Seaberg
Recording and mixing: Sean Chaucer Levine
Mastering: Max Altmark, Cloverleaf Audio

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Taylor Ngiri Seaberg Chicago, Illinois

Taylor Ngiri Seaberg is a genderqueer, multi-instrumentalist in the Twin Cities, MN alt jazz, hip hop, and punk band, Seaberg & the Black Velvet Punks and the Chicago jazz fusion group, BLK FM.

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