Animal Soul, by Thomas Nöla & the Black Hole

Animal Soul

by Thomas Nöla & the Black Hole

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1.	That Zebra Zeal 05:35	lyrics	buy track
A hard night rain fell Hard enough to wake us up And dripping wet, I gazed up at the stars And then out at the fire Like any ape, my dreams had become full Of fight or flight Vipers in trees, dense jungle leaves All through the Congo night We heard something snap Then everything fell And obscene screech Panic and cries Something standing ghoulishly tall Against the moonlit sky Show me that zebra zeal from someplace unreal Show me something inside I can no longer feel And we retreated through the night Uprooted trees and fallen vines I think I lost the pack I couldn't see them when I looked behind Where is my animal soul? Where did it go? And if it does come back, will it still be my soul?
2.	Violet Renard 04:16	lyrics	buy track
Just coming down from the trees with sand in our beards Chasing a purple fox All through the day From the city comes a perverted tribe To force us up mountaintops All through the night Wild is the corn that grows all around Giving it all to the poor All through the day Who grows sunflowers behind walls? Restless and unwise All through the night Then I caught the flash of a tail Violet by moonlight But unseen under the sun Change the size, change the skin The color of the pupils, the origin Change the height, change the name Into a new species with a custom way Change my home and blood type My zip code... zodiac sign Farmer John will chase us away His wife will cut off our tails All through the day In town we ignore the useful men A useful man can't be a fox... No All through the night I can see your pets are lonely And your children are so bored All through the day If a man hates the sparrows filling the air Calling them all thieves of grain Is he a man, or is he a Maos? All through the day All through the night Change the size, change the skin The color of the pupils, the origin Change the height, change the name Into a new species with a custom way Change my home, my blood type My zip code and zodiac sign
3.	Scarecrow 03:46	lyrics	buy track
Out in the rice swamp Under the rising sun The morning's orange And it rains on everyone Where did you go for the scarecrow? Tending the date palm Being turned into bones One day the foreigners Will all go home Where did you go for the scarecrow? No green ever now Your river is gone And no quiet place for our race To pounce upon Where did you go for the scarecrow?
4.	Brasilite 03:57	lyrics	buy track
Lost, somewhere we don't belong I think it's Brasilite But I could be wrong And the laughing dove is bored to tears Left to die on the vine In our greenest years And your new faux skin... Yeah, well, we can hate that too Barely awake in the vacuum tank Maybe your house is too big I can't see you no more You're not in the kitchen And you're far from the boudoir And your bourgeois toys Have got to go Your vegetables all have got a neon glow And your failed feng shui is truly dead There's a black mamba in your flower bed Maybe your house is too big I can't see you no more You're not in the kitchen And you're far from the boudoir Your house is too goddamn big And you don't come when I call The ballroom is still And there's no one in the hall Maybe your house is too big I can't see you no more You're not in the kitchen And you're far from the boudoir Your house is too fucking big And you don't come when I call The bathroom's on fire And there's no one in the hall
5.	Dome 03:03	lyrics	buy track
Black mushrooms popping up On the healthy growth A peacock wanders by in the green and purple night Me? Maybe I'm the monkey-man Looking out at the town on the horizon See, it's beauty to their eyes When an animal dies In its prime It's no big thing So degrade from within And eat all that remains Start with the heart And then finish off the brains The cancer grows and builds itself a dome The cancer knows nothing but how to grow
6.	Secret Magic 02:47	lyrics	buy track
When that secret magic comes around I won't be found No, I won't be found Secret magic
7.	Tipi 03:05	lyrics	buy track
No literature No written word at all No foreign law For our ancient world Nothing to own No infrastructure Nothing obscene in our agriculture Maybe heathen wants Nothing too linear Nothing but moons To fill the years In here No shelter here For the manufactured man His modern twitch Self-loathing plan When he sells his kids And dreams for gold And offers not a thing But some shiny stones Not here Watch them eat themselves When no one else remains Trying to scorch the earth Of our holy plains My tipi sees Maybe my tí dubh And the residents of this blackhouse Are not amused No way
8.	Irrelevant Shapes 02:18	lyrics	buy track
It was in a dream or should I say I just left my mind open that day? Protected by masks I slipped away Holed up inside of pastel enclaves Living with doves between the waves I spent all my life on irrelevant shapes With animal language and animal tools Maybe not to win, but never to lose We chase not a thing so nothing we'll find Sleeping away these indigo times No thought of the time, no care for the ways Of people who cut you into these useless shapes This medicine wheel I stand upon Will not mutate into a heptagon Sinking with the rocks and obeying stones But no phoenix rises here, no In my Tiger's Nest I dedicate All of my time to irrelevant shapes
9.	Dray Horse 03:47	lyrics	buy track
Come in from the farmland What a tearful trail Fed roses and oak leaves Now live on just thin air So you've got this need I know how to grease Dragged in from prehistory Let your children go Lay down your pitchfork and Tell your nature “no” You are the dray horse I've been waiting for We make deserts come Deep within your Dreamtime Just sleeping on But makers of dead land Watch over heather moors The smell of mold as it slowly grows Brings it all back home Some thirteen fields not merry Six green glens gone by Sewing sand and discontent Across your eyes Gasping and wriggling From the creel And you'll be the dray horse I'll make it all real With all the will of dead gods You'll dig your heels in there The forge to make your last stand The spiraling quicksand And if you can see that Then we've got a deal And all your fertile hours Where your magic breeds Given to this thistle That eats its own seeds But you'll be the dray horse I've been dreaming of We'll turn it all to steel
10.	Animals As Children 04:03	lyrics	buy track
Deeply we hated them all So we ran up the mountain's face We planted our corn And waited for things to change Somewhere deep inside a dream Our childhood home Was free of all the bear traps This was long before All these fantasies of collapse Yeah, it was an Aftonland Or maybe an Autumn without end Something like: One day we'll hide away On a foreign beach In a secret cove Living on mangoes And all the creatures will be there Growing younger over time But there was fear On the other side of the wire And when the harvest came Piglet and the fox both died Young Christopher Robin No he didn't shed a tear I think he disappeared Sometime when my heart ran free When? I don't know But our jungle book was not yet closed We treated animals as children That's what they are We treated animals as children You know that's what they are We treated animals as children Cause that's what they are We treated animals as children I know you know that's what they are
11.	Yellow River 07:20	lyrics	buy track
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released July 17, 2015

Recorded at Lapin Manor, Salem, MA U.S.A. in 2014
Written, produced and performed by Nöla

“Animal Soul” and “Animal Clouds” were made possible by the generosity of many, including these patrons:

GERARD POWERS
BRETT ROBINSON
ERIKA & BILLY SENESE
MICHAEL FÖRSTER
S.P.

2015 – DISQUES DE LAPIN
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