jemo discography:
_ 1 _ _ _ "JEMO" released January 2001
_ 2 _ _ _ "THE SIX-FINGERED SALMAGUNDI" released March 2005
_ 3 _ _ _ "OAKS WITH RUSHES" released June 2006
jemo lyrics are written by Jeff Dantowitz
the following jemo lyrics are printed below: antiseptic, audience, be by me, elephants, farewell pharoah, garden botanical, grace, hamsterboy, innocent liar, irreplaceable me, machine gun, misbelief, northern lights, over, peasant, quiet lightning, rest of us, settlement, snakes in the ground, sweet suicide
>>> ANTISEPTIC
one seventh closer to you
and i'm getting ready for the action
leaning in straining to hear the called plays
it's fourth and goal and i'm going for it
and that scares me two sevenths three sevenths closer
to you i'm just about finished
will i be able to handle it
the fumes are making me dizzy
and i can't stand the noise
the constant noise
and i need you to bring me out of here
but i'm afraid what if you're in one of your moods
what if the lies are back again
they're contagious you know
a strategy for my effigy i'm lapsing into lethargy
and i'm four sevenths closer to what i've been denying
five six seven sevenths and i'm talking to you now
and i'm never sure quite how you manage
to feed on my expression
create one of your own
i'm a skeptic antiseptic
like the broken window staring at me from over there
shards of oily puddles
dwindling effervescently ubiquitously
in all rooms as your mood
swings play the game and i forget my name
i've been through that i know all about it
just let me check this bible here
i'm sure i brought it with me just hold on old chap
yes this is a formula i've seen before
just close your eyes and open the door
you see you're caught up in a light downpour
yet you want more and now you're a whore
but don't worry we all are
>>> AUDIENCE
why do we endure bad company
for the sake of some unknown dignity
why can't i be who i want to be
and be it all with you
writing in my favourite philosophy
i'm a slave to circumstance
where are all the chances
we were promised in the past
it's alright
it's all good
looking through broken glass
it's alright
it's all good
when you've got nothing to do
let's not talk about today
let's not call upon it anyway
please don't say the things you have to say
let's get drunk and tip the moon
i'm a beggar but i won't get on my knees
when you see wood do you think of dead trees
if utility is what you need
then i haven't got a thing for you
>>> BE BY ME
i look out the window and what's worth discussin’
i'm trying to be thoughtful in this mystery
i'm gaining some insight i know that's worth nothing
it doesn't mean much to me
i don't want too much trouble
i don't want to be free
i'm satisfied with this type of slavery
i tell you i know you could never be pleased
but be by me
i'm lost in this castle
i'm found in your room
i've given my life but one isn't two
i'll give you my conscience my sanctified truth
but be by me
how can i love you when you go around town
when you're outward bound when you fool around
i'm losing my head but i'll always gain ground
if you're right by me
i'm trying to make sense of all this kafuffle
commotion in common with knowledge and rubble
i'm useless i'm clumsy i can't get it right
so just be by me
you don’t have to be perfect
you don’t have to be make sense
a loving mosquito is alright with me
if you're devious spiraling roundabout winding
be by me
so be by me
talk by me
laugh by me
drink by me
sleep by me
smile by me
pass by me
raise hell by me
dance by me
i'm losing my head but i'll always gain ground
if you're right by me
>>> ELEPHANTS
he doesn't come out anymore
the elephants are coming after me
just turn your head and see
the elephants are coming after me
hold on hold on
that's what they said to me
hold on can't you see
the elephants are coming after me
nothing to prove anymore
no jury for consistency
no kings to carry on
they flourish in my privacy
who would believe
the elephants are coming after me
the walls too thin their horde too strong
not your regular catastrophe
procession of relics
join the mammoth and the mastodon
nothing comes for your ivory
the elephants are coming after me
who put me in charge
deny responsibility
cater to the ones below
utterly forgetful
lay out this tapestry
so everyone can see
this violent recipe
the elephants are coming after me
>>> FAREWELL PHAROAH
if you spend your entire life serving
you'll have less time for rationale
this is the space we need to compromise
and if we had a glimpse of meaning
maybe we wouldn't have to live like this
where every drop is private property
and every door shut closed
you say you're fighting for some freedom
you say you're fighting for a home
but how much blood is spilled for slavery
and why is everyone alone
if we gave half of all this energy
think of the comfort we could sew
so you want to be a pharaoh
they didn't do it on their own
exasperated by your confidence
terrified to give up any of my own
you say you're fighting for some freedom
you say you're fighting for a home
but how much blood is spilled for slavery
and why are we just left alone
if you gave half of all this energy
think of the comfort we could sew
so you want to be a pharaoh
they didn't do it on their own
farewell pharaoh
farewell pharaoh
>>> GARDEN BOTANICAL
am i gently jaded
is there more to this life than you and i
is this deception
is there more to this life than what you can buy
i'm leaving this friendship
i've heard you get more when you leave things behind
just like auto pilot
i've been told with the right tools we can fly
i tangled with satan
and it turned out he wasn't such a bad guy
when was the last time
you really thought it mattered if we live or if we die
if they're insatiable
do you really think you can pacify
and it's contagious
how we forget before we realize
did you get tired
of safety of waiting of paradise
in this garden botanical
whose standards must i live by
she looks like an orchid
but there's worry behind those clear eyes
and it's outrageous
did you really think you could learn to fly
the serpent's
already inside us
in side
the timeline
>>> GRACE
drawing faces in the dirt
blood stains sticking to your shirt
i don't believe you
maybe i'm no better
but i can't believe you
glad to be a disappointment
what can i say i'm not the same
so say you want to be alone
i don't believe you
embarrassed to admit i can be this way
i don't have anything to claim
what can i say i'm not the same
i don't get the joke
i don't want this anymore
i don't want today to be today
feeling regret for all the things i haven't done yet
nothing no one what's left but remnants and embers
i don't believe you
embarrassed to admit i can be this way
i don't have anything to claim
what can i say i'm not the same
i don't get the joke
i don't want this anymore
i don't want today to be today
>>> HAMSTERBOY
i've become numb to the pleasures i've overdosed on
a dead stimuli head running forever
what were you thinking
when you looked through that window
what was it like on the other side
you looked so interested
it made you look interesting
and now it's been awhile
and together we can't smile
we're a mile apart between these walls
but i'll keep running
i'll always keep running
waiting searching for that fine reward
when the wheel stops we'll feast forever
faster and stronger i'm the hamsterboy and i'm just fine with that
feed me kiss me my legs are tired but i know
there's something good around the bend
and i won't ever know the end
i can see you through the cage
and it seems we'll never age
and i'm wondering what you have to grin about today
stop teasing me with your prize
i'm letting out my stiffened eyes
i don't want the wheel to go anymore
faster and stronger i'm the hamsterboy and i'm just fine with that
feed me kiss me my legs are tired but i know
there's something good around the bend
and i won't ever know the end
>>> INNOCENT LIAR
so used to despair so drained of any care
so flawed i can't express i long for that caress
the brush against my cheek
the strong meeting the meek
afraid i'll be too weak to do anything about it
innocent liar travelling salesman
used to believe in santa claus
now you believe in me
why did you go there what did you bring back with you
nobody wants to pay for life
last breath leaving me
nothing more to say
miss this strangely fulfilling world
it won't miss me
innocent liar travelling salesman
used to believe in santa claus
now you believe in me
why did you go there what did you bring back with you
nobody wants to pay for life
i thought i told you not to run away
>>> IRREPLACEABLE ME
back at the book again
must be something wrong
do you know what she said
think of the poetry you'll write
and i'm laughing at myself
and all that i thought i could be
known for the arrogant worst in the absence of light
did you follow when instead
i think i can't drive this anything anymore
i'm not fit to steer
and we're laughing at ourselves
and all that we care to stand for
you've damaged me irreplaceable me
and i can still see you
decadent turn with the stinting attempt
worried and lost i forgot to rest
i swallowed incompetence
thinking the outer one would be the best
can't you imagine
it's not fair to laugh when it's all that can cure you
>>> MACHINE GUN
all you do is get in my head
now i'm trying to reconceive you
i get nervous just thinking about
how i could reach you
i just can't face your total grace
was it ever true enough to be honest
with you alone is ecstasy
but i ruin it all by being me
wrong time
wrong place
i look at you and you just keep looking away
wrong words
wrong face
i'd give it all but you don't want to give it away
she's a
machine gun
always ready to always fire away
to fool me
to rule me
i'd give it all but you just won't give it away
when i really think it out what's the whole thing about
just another one who can't be with you
and if we did then what would we do
what if we what if we what if we
i'd probably have to let it go
a flake in the snow
i don't know why any anyone
would ever want to meet you
wrong time
wrong place
i look at you and you just keep looking away
wrong words
wrong face
i'd give it all but you don't want to give it away
she's a
machine gun
always ready to always fire away
to fool me
to rule me
i'd give it all but you just won't give it away
>>> MISBELIEF
and the sky looked like god
rendering the impossible find
that we took in the exigency
believing one had the right
but if time could have been the same
we would have never felt quite right
to become like a wounded minor
nothing would have had to prove us right
what is this you give me jim crow in the dark ethyl light
face inside the gentry wasting softened your delight
boasting revelations vitrified and watered dry
you could have told me
that all this would end up empty
and it's outside of me
ridding time of therapy
guilty in spite of me
threatened if you misbelieve
high priestess lie to me
it can't be what i thought it was
but nothing ever returns back to the place of serpentine
unused to hosanna they enjoyed the daiquiris and grass
frustration four walled box i'm stuck in now and then
and it's inside of me
ridding time of therapy
guilty in spite of me
instructed not to misbelieve
>>> NORTHERN LIGHTS
a thousand times worse
vindicated first
couldn't make it falling and twisting but still
northern lights
an outstanding life
we've been in this shape since that frost covered night
couldn't have made me feel
couldn't have made it real
your good sense came second to good sacrifice
don’t ever ever try
no more disguise
you'll never ever make it out of here alive
a million times worse
then i toyed and cursed
arrows and tallow a new bachelry
the terrorising way
you always used my name
i followed the reasons you gave and it all ended up at a lie
couldn't have made me feel
couldn't have made it real
your good sense came second to good sacrifice
don’t ever ever try
no more disguise
you'll never ever make it out of here alive
helpless i guess
i'm ready for your best
the fact that you knew it would end up this way
the scars on our pride
not a surprise
the guilt we assembled and broke down last night
>>> OVER
your failures and broken dreams
flash before your eyes
untold stories of servitude
nailing your hands to the line
the angels will fight over you tonight
and never the light will hold thee in
untying threads that keep you wanting more
realise you'll never dance again
dry up those tears of empathy
no one will sing that song for you
no consequence no reaction you'll find out it all meets at zero
the angels will fight over you tonight
and never the light will hold thee in
untying threads that keep you wanting more
realise you'll never dance again
are you over it
time to get over it
time to release the old chain
>>> PEASANT
if only we had more time
to talk together these last few hours
i never knew
that we had to match
what we remember
with what we forget
she'll never know
she'll never call upon us
she won't awake
she can't rehabilitate
we gave it all
we gave everything we had
if only there were more magic
it might make us live again
live through this night
they come in every so often
just to hyponotise
just to relax us
she'll never know
she'll never call upon us and
she won't awake
she can't rehabilitate
we gave it all
we gave everything we had
we'll never know
we'll never come around to face
our lives are so
sewn up from the very day
we stumble in
we face the whole thing alone
alone
>>> QUIET LIGHTNING
the intense satisfaction school kids receive
from scribbling their names down on doorway bricks
a slash on the red and white flag
it looks like it wants to be free
the acoustics here are marvelous
i can't imagine - why you'd want to break down at all
i can't understand - why you don't like life at all
isn't it easy - weren't we having a ball
quiet lightning - silent behind the rainfall
you don’t know her
>>> REST OF US
the we
the few
nothing an ordinary man couldn't do
the last
the few
the fallen dandelion crew
hollowed out the rotting dust
i gathered up the rest of us
imagine if a handful of us
had risen
we were
we choose
will it take another one of you
in time
we choose
we choose
hollowed out the rotting dust
i gathered up the rest of us
imagine if a handful of us
had risen
>>> SETTLEMENT
don't patronise my crime
grasp a taste of time
we settle for the lifetimes that didn't pass us by
i've never known this place
i've never been this face
it'd be just the same
if you never knew my name
i'd rather be falling down
than be kept up by you
i'd rather you rubbed my face in the ground
than have myself perfected by the likes of you
your feet stay on the line
you whistle all the time
don't make me
do it all over again
i've given many nights
i'm climbing many flights
but all you've got to say is what i'm not doing right
i'd rather be falling down
than be kept up by you
i'd rather you rubbed my face in the ground
than have myself perfected by the likes of you
untie me from the fence
i suffer from bad intents
i will not surrender to your disrespect
a religion lies
unfair logic's demise
we can never forget our senses as circumstances fight
i'd rather be falling down
than be kept up by you
i'd rather you rubbed my face in the ground
than have myself perfected by the likes of you
>>> SNAKES IN THE GROUND
bug on the window
snakes in the ground
wait for tomorrow
wait for his crown
realize this city's
not the only place to be
falling into ecstasy
my head's in front of me
if i step back now i'll never know
the demons that i lost
i believe it's your right
at the expense of sense
if you were my enemy
we'd terrify the elderly
squeeze one last laugh
trapped in these stories
insane majority
unhealthy priorities
straight out of robbery
no sense of decency
we've earned this monopoly
it's never a victory
it's never a victory
is the desire in me?
is there anything inside?
when you spend so long holding it in
is it suicide?
balancing poetry
we're swept away by bigotry
in tandem with philosophies
that never turn into reality
in time we'll come around
swallow the last of our wine
with tears in our eyes - battle them down - head turned back - screaming - dreaming - dreaming - dreaming
bug on the window
snakes in the ground
wait for tomorrow
wait for his crown
balancing poetry
we're swept away by bigotry
in tandem with philosophies
that never turn into reality
in time we'll come around
swallow the last of our wine
with tears in our eyes - battle them down - head turned back - screaming - dreaming - dreaming - dreaming
>>> SWEET SUICIDE
another run through
about a boy and a girl
both die inside by looking into each other's eyes
they commit suicide without each other
they are sorry they are happy they are fools
then the boy wakes up and moves on to the next performance
if we could have all the right lines
maybe we'd have a piece of it
what do you do when you need legitimate to go along with intimate
you are my suicide my bride my pride my everything
with this inside i cannot hide
i tried i died and now we forget
i remember faintly what it was like
when it didn't matter what you did or what you said
when everything rolled off
we irrigated we decimated but never hesitated
put simply manifest where's the rest
you are my suicide my bride my pride my everything
with this inside i cannot hide
we cry we tried and then we forget
waiting for you all last night i tore myself apart
why can't we just leave out the chrono fly it solo
give me so much more time with you
at least pretend that you care
do you care
you are my suicide my bride my pride my everything
with this inside i cannot hide
we cry we die
you are my suicide my bride my pride my everything
with this inside i cannot hide
we cry we die and then we forget
back ~