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Ex Nihilo

by The Danner Party

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Hey there how you doing I'm just waiting for the world to end Oh me too ain't life so cruel it all feels like a bad trip Well I'm full of passion And I feel I must be crashing down [Incoherent rambling] Hey I feel it getting thick Yeah It's heavy in the trip Tensions running higher than my last honey's expectations Bring yourself together and tune to a new speed Hey I feel it getting thick Yeah It's heavy in the trip We're all young ya know Hey I feel it getting thick Yeah It's heavy in the trip
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Well I heard you when you whispered when you said but didn't say Everything that lies clandestine when you look into my face And I might be paranoid but I'm never sleeping safely From the possibility you're just playing pal to break me Cause you're the one I never really could trust Apathy exposed in friendship's fiery rust It's like you're trying to steal A piece of what I feel But don't wait up You can scratch my greasy skin but you'll never scratch my surface You can find something to die for but you'll never find a purpose And I'm sorry I'm so empty but you'd still be full of shit If the nothingness within me even could help you forget That there will come a time you'll finally realize No one can adjust the hue in rosy eyes It's like you're trying to steal A piece of what I feel But don't wait up You just wanna suck me dry and chew me up Spit me out and put me in the tablecloth It's like you're trying to steal A piece of what I feel
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Goddess 09:19
And I kissed her leg Tasted her dignity I followed up and down her body I prayed to my goddess: Send me home I've been made so unctuous by this world Clean me baby, scrub my soul And she pinned my arms And told me look inside She sparked the sun inside of me I already knew what I'd find She uses pain to keep me awake She calls me by ineffable names of only thousands we know And she poured over me The oils and water She told me there's no need for shame Told me half of pleasure is pain She spat in my face And wiped it away with her knuckles She told me we're all Just fucking chimps with religions That we invent to make a home Out of such a chaotic world She told me that there's truth in desire And never to stare too long at the sun And I woke to find her gone Dissipated in the light She left in me She set me free I could sleep for a thousand years But I've got such a long way to go
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Mystery behind you lies Gold and Stone in your heavy eyes I think you're made of night Cause in you I see stars You tell me you like to touch yourself Love your body like you're someone else You tell me you don't need no one You tell me to give it a try What're we supposed to do except die? And I said baby how can you begin to tell me that know my mind? You told me honey you can kill a good trip with a vibe And all I wanna know is will you break my heart or will you blow my mind? And when the feeling kicks in Our egos lost in the wind I'll show you I Could be your friend I'll be your pen when you're writing 'Bout how you love to be free So when I'm dirt in the ground Will you rain on me? The bar is cold and your house is warm Hands are free and our minds are full
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Nothing in the way All these words I could say All these things I should do Just because I fit the role, not cause I want to If it wasn't for you I could say it was me But you're such a good excuse Without you I'd be free- so terrifying And face the cold wind Living for and in my self You said you'd call me but our phones were dead How our expectations fall short I got mean and mad and threw a fit Because you're just an object in my head I've heard that Hell is other people I've heard the Truth will set you free But what's the difference between the Truth and a Lie? It's all just negation to me What doesn't kill you might not make you stronger But it will open hidden doors You ought to open up your mind babe You ought to open yourself up wide And kill that empty rock n' roll illusion Making roots in the hot spotlight Don't tear yourself from the day Cause come the night There's nothing anyway
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Pictures in frames with eyes that move Watching everything you do You know you made it that much is true A testament to your attempt at truth You're talking to yourself again Trying to find yourself a friend in nothing The picture with the eyes that move he's watching everything you do He's watching like the Sun in the sky Serious Delirium What do your circumambulations reveal? Around the Sun again year after year Living in paranoia, guilt, and fear What do your circumambulations reveal? One of these days when the Sun goes down You'll sober up and look around And if you listen closely you'll hear the sound Of everything you believe coming crashing down Everything you hold divine is a pattern that your brain assigned a meaning You think the world is a simple place your life is simple it correlates You're dreaming that the stars will fall Serious Delirium
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Well I love you baby wanna love you while I still have time I wanna love you baby wanna love you while I'm still alive I'm in a metaphysical/phorical prison of cells And all I think about is sex and killing myself Wanna stick it in you baby want it stuck in me Stab each other so sweet and tenderly You're screaming in my ear I'm screaming in my mind I'm screaming inside all the time Most days I wish someone would cut me down Or take me home and fuck me when the Sun goes down But most of life is getting fucked and pushed around And if you wanna see my smile I'll show you half of my fraction But I'm incomplete and improper no satisfaction Well I love you baby wanna love you while I still have time I wanna love you baby wanna love you while I'm still alive I'm in a metaphysical/phorical prison of cells And all I think about is sex and killing myself Screw my brains out Bash my brains out Suck my brains out Blow my brains out Spray myself all over you Well I love you baby wanna love you while I still have time I wanna love you baby wanna love you while I'm still alive I'm in a metaphysical/phorical prison of cells And all I think about is sex and fucking killing myself
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First person singular I'm axiomatic, ostensible I'm radioactive babe Decay to break from my nuclear mold I'm breaking down but I'm breaking free Evolution through atrophy Persona segunda coloquial Y'all getting stoned? Y'all getting high? Jenseits von Gut und Böse Y'all breakin' through to the other side? It's all so clear at the apogee Devenir mort pour voir la vie Third person objective he's Circumventing the circumspect Objectively circumambulating Every concept but himself Tinnitus sonar in the emptiness Ego Death Rattle speaks of self
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Particles, waves yeah Both a way you can jive But where can you go, but to and fro Beneath someone else's eyes You think you're you, but you know it's not true You're only fantasizing It's all just the sum of hatred and love Produced by social conditioning You know your soul is just a lie Because you don't wanna die But where can you go, but to and fro Beneath the Sun for a while That might sound bleak, but listen to me You don't know what you're missing It's all just the sum of what you are And all that you believe
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I've seen the light And not gone blind Knowledge doesn't bring fear It just takes time To process your prejudice Realize the meaningless Purpose that we find in being alive Take your time Don't take shit Figure out what purpose is Understand Meaninglessness And nothingness are oceans to swim
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Lines on the arms of Krishna Big lines beneath my chest It's evidence Of what I'll do to escape Through Shiva's eye And Kali's blade We act as our own change A crown of thorns Pitiful throne For one who seeks a soul to sire See your body, lithe and soft Ride that bottle home to hope And hope that you'll wake up alive Just to wake again to cope Take some speed, kill some pain You look so emaciated Sleep like shit, wake again Cap that dirty hair and hate it Through Shiva's eye And Kali's blade We act as our own change A crown of thorns Pitiful throne For one who seeks a soul to sire See your body, what it costs Ribs and scars and rotting teeth Condensation turns to frost As of surface, so beneath Eat like shit, drink your weight Paroxysmal portents sing Take your time getting straight Was the honey worth the sting?
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Nihil Fit 10:14
It's whispering to your mind In frequencies you can't hear Two-way mirror vicarious eyes The hate that comes from fear Piss down the ladder cause it's what you deserve You work so hard for your pain Stuff your face until you cum or cry Live to kill another day A wire hanger suppuku Cut off my face just to spite you Self-love self-harm vicarious foe Destroy myself in effigy The hand that needs you feeds you like a bird Poor people in your pies Give what you get, you get fucked and paid Dish the pain to mitigate the shame Take what I want Hold against you what I don't So often sung Its meaning lost on us all Optimism sold like liquor to plebs Souls smoked by hucksters in a pipe made of bones Tell me lost hearts still bleed magnanimity Deny what equidistant epochs have shown Your world is made inside a slaughterhouse Look in the mirror at the killer cow
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Here's the album we began four years ago. So many challenges and a few tragedies have held it back from reaching you, but here it is. 15 songs with plenty to say, an hour and a half of music we pulled from our darkest depths, and a thesis we could only have reached with the experience we've had living it:

Ex nihilo, nihil fit.

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released July 17, 2020

Pete Hess- Rhythm and lead guitar, vocals, synth, percussion, bass on Don't Wait Up
Zakk Foster- Rhythm and lead guitar
Ben McCulloch- Bass, guitar on Don't Wait Up, guitar solo on Nihil Fit
Charlie Williams- Drums, percussion, guitar solo on Nihil Fit
Matt Magerkurth- Cello on Serious Delirium and Y'Unnerstann?
Dru Gid- Harmonica on Paradox Perspective, harmonica and synth on When The Face Sees Itself
Payton Goodner- Guitar noises on Cold Rainy Bitch
Brian Yeargain- Guitar solo on Nihil Fit
Alec Hill- Backing vocals on All I Think About Is Sex and Killing Myself

Recorded by Ryan Meredith and Pete Hess
Mixed and Mastered by Pete Hess

Album art by Jason McCaleb

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The Danner Party Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Danner Party is a psychedelic rock band from Tulsa, OK. Formed in 2011 making garage blues, the band shifted it's sound toward progressive rock, solidifying the shift with 2020's Ex Nihilo. Their new album, Camel Lion Child, explores the inverse of many of the concepts found in Ex Nihilo, through a differing but broad progressive lense, and will be out soon. ... more

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