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Return of the Ulysses

by Simon Mas

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Home 00:57
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This track is instrumental.
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Return to Night Life 03:38
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It ain’t been easy, but I’m here once again hitting the outside world with the fools and the girls that alleviate my pain today a placebo gone astray… It ain’t been easy, but I’m trying hard again crawling out in vain just to feel cold and restrained my smiles, my lies, my carelessness. Yes, I’m bleeding from my mouth and my head is a big mess I claim that I’m alright but my words are meaningless. I have lost my faith I have lost my place in here there’s no sign on my face of the life I’ve thrown away of the chances that I had. Yes, I’m bleeding from my mouth and my head is a big mess well, I claim I am alright but my words are meaningless. I fake it like I’m used with everything to convince myself it’s all good: these unfulfilled desires, this emptiness, perhaps they will go away… It ain’t been easy, but I’m here once again hitting the outside world with the fools and the girls that alleviate my pain today a placebo gone astray… ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.
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Tend to Me 03:18
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I feel I’m losing strength my body couldn’t stand without a helping hand I’m stuck half conscious where I lay. I’m losing faith these days reality seems strained and lost into a dream that seems so very far away. Stop your worrying voice from striking me with poison darts! Can we talk about it later? Now I need you to come rushing back… I’m losing touch with myself my body feels like slipping into a distance whence there’s no coming back. Stop your whispering voice from lecturing me about my idleness! can’t you see I’m not myself? I really need you to come rushing back and Tend to me no matter what the hell you think I’ve done. Tend to me I might look safe but I’m not whole nor in control. Tend to me I’m missing any reason not to let things go. Tend to me I need your healing cares Now! ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.
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Pills 03:51
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They look so good they must feel well I’m not so sure I can say the same: a bit too fat, not enough hair… they look so good I am a mess! The gods are here they just look swell they’re never old they don’t even sweat I’m not as cool, I was born old: what can I do to be like them? I try to smoke to lose some weight buy some new clothes to look like them I try to think to find some way: my mind just aches, my mind is dead. Not hip enough I just feel shame it doesn’t work: the pain’s still here. I cannot live and feel this way I cannot live! Oh, what a waste! Hey, doctor, listen here I don’t seem to be able to face my own life Come on now, I need some pills to help me keep my breath and stop my sighs. They are looking at me from magazine covers and TV screens… doc, I really need some pills to overcome confusion and be free! Now I feel new I smile again feeling complete at day break I have my pills I couldn’t care less I have my pills my pills are sex! I am a god! I am the best! Now I feel goo, don’t feel regret… Here I stand tall, here I attest: my pills are life my pills are great! ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.
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One Short Commercial 04:25
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Well the working day is getting closer and you, you’re still unsatisfied you turn around still feeling nothing still craving for that something you don’t have. It seems your unconfessed desires conspire to poison your icy blood up now you still lack a formal identity and have no commercial sex appeal! Just before your new ambitions could engulf you in pain and lies so many answers will be heard no need to conjure your brains up so close to heaven so close to eternal life just another short commercial before giving up. ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.
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Life in Buildings 03:04
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I hear what’s happening when I’m home alone I don’t talk too much the city moves around running around in circles spinning away from me. It’s time for new visions new plans populate my mind I live by the windows no one by my side all alone all evening alone when it starts. My life in buildings everything is clear revealing itself now new shades and new lights same hues of night it’s my life in buildings all mine. The cold chill of winter laid out in shades of green my old reinforced thoughts have just become concrete nothing is worth believing when nothing is worth my trust. ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.
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Stimulation 03:08
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Stimulation heaven’s knocking at your door just in time to knock you out. Stimulation you can say it’s too late today just to mask your own decay. I’m your servant, I’m your worker empty and still dreaming… Stimulation silent eyes light up again new desires infuse our brain. Stimulation wheeling and dealing again cutting up against the grain. No one owns me, no one sells me stimulation pulls me… ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.
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No Clouds on the Horizon 04:53
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Memories forgotten and the echoes of the changing times opening like flowers hidden shapes along my path. The landscape stays the same with every building I’m passing by stuck in shapes now lost in time almost like a game… The weariness of my nerves the alluring sound of my goodbye I’m lost in my remembrance within my dreams and my past. I move across the darkness my feet they barely touch the ground I’m the Herod of my silence now I know at last… No clouds on the horizon so far only peace before my eyes I must go on and keep on trying to make some sense of these strange times. Clouds and cherry blossons the songs of rivers full of life these memories are fading they’re left behind where they won’t last. I look beyond today and I still find traces of my past I am coming down my mountain the spring will come at last… No clouds on the horizon I must leave this desert far behind I must go on try to follow the geometries of nature’s mind. No clouds on the horizon my hope is blooming in my eyes I’m sure it will all pass I’m sure one day the rain will come… ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.
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I Went to See the Gypsy 05:45
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I went to see the gypsy when darkness fell outside her tent I went to see the gypsy about the troubled nights I had. I gave her my money every penny I had left I sat down beside her my future in her hands. I went to see the gypsy when candles lit up in her tent I went to see the gypsy to tell her of my nightmares. I was weary of my visions sleeping was a concern I couldn’t even close my eyes I thought I was going mad. She took her head looking at my hand she took her cards and slowly went through them “My dear young man, you’ve been cursed” she said “I’m your only hope, trust in me, I’m your friend.” “Take off your shoes, take off your clothes stand on your feet, shake up and dance lift up your soul with no regrets live for the day, wake up and sing!” ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.
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His Face All Red 07:55
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He came out from the woods last night the man now drinking at the pub they say he’s my brother who has returned but that’s not me, that can’t be right. He has the keys to my brother’s house he’s wearing my brother’s fine blue coat he told everyone he got lost lost in the woods like a little mouse. But I left him there in silence I left him there his face all red I left him there in the dark I walked away and didn’t look back. He looked like him even to his wife who cried for him well into her nights he talks the same fooling everyone but no, not me, I don’t trust my eyes. ‘Cause I left him there in silence deep in the woods his face all red I left him there like sleeping his face all red – I simply walked away. Oh, how they laughed, they all laughed at me when I proposed I could hunt the beast that came from the woods where monsters sleep to plague our land and to taint our dreams. Oh, how they laughed until he stood tall “I will join my brother if you all allow” then all the sneers turned into cheers my brother, the hero, they could really trust him. We entered the woods and there we got lost we stepped across a stream, the hours passed then we found a glare, a deep hole in the ground and the beast jumped out, bloodthirsty, ferocious. I ran and hid to save my life my brother shot, the beast fell down once again, he had saved the day once again, I felt ashamed and even though he couldn’t tell deep inside I felt a strange rage. I left the corpse in the hole in the ground I cleaned his blood off my old clothes then I left and found my way back I told them the beast had killed my brother. But he came out from the woods last night I will be damned, that can’t be right they say my brother was saved somehow that’s not true, I can’t believe my eyes. I don’t feel safe when the sun goes down that man is roaming our streets at night his face taints my dreams somehow I must escape or I’ll lose my mind. ‘Cause I left him there in silence his bloody dead, his face all red his lifeless corpse like sleeping into that hole I left it before I fled. Yes, I left him there in silence laying underground his face all red! Yes, I left him there as I fled I left him dead his face was all red! ©2011 Simon Mas. All rights reserved.

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Recorded in Newcastle upon Tyne in September 2011.

This album has been completely (and proudly!) self-financed. There's a suggested price, but if you feel like paying a bit more... you will help me producing more music!

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released December 6, 2011

Matthew Roberts: drums, percussions, vocals
Peter Morris: bass, guitar (on "Home"), keyboard, vocals
Simon Mas: vocals, guitars, keyboards.

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Composer, arranger, musician... Simon is a tongue in cheek fellow living in Italy, that finds that 400 characters are too little to write a bio. Maybe he can interest you in visiting his website should you be intersted to discover more? Only the future will tell! (Thank you for listening, by the way! :) ) ... more

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