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VVS

by Departure

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From Dawn Til Dusk
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1.
Vanessa's Lipstick 02:54
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Back on the road again, feeling kinda lonely and Looking for the right guy who'd be mine Friends say I'm crazy 'cause easily I fall in love "You gotta do it different J, this time" Maybe we'll meet at a bar He'll drive a funky car Maybe we'll meet at a club And fall so deeply in love He'll tell me I'm the one And we'll have so much fun I'll be the girl of his dreams, maybe Alright, maybe gonna find him today I gotta get someone to call my lover Yeah, baby, come on Alright, baby, come and pass my way I gotta get someone to call my lover Yeah, baby, come on Ah-yeah, ah-yeah Ah-yeah, ah Ah-yeah, ah-yeah Ah-yeah, ah-yeah-yeah-yeah Ah-yeah, ah-yeah Ah-yeah, ah-yeah Ah-yeah, ah-yeah Ah-yeah, ah-yeah-yeah-yeah I spoil them when I'm in love Givin' them what they dream of Sometimes it's not a good thing but I'm blind I love hard with everything Giving my all more than they I'll take my friends' advice this time I'll do it differently Maybe we'll meet at a bar He'll drive a funky car Maybe we'll meet at a club And fall so deeply in love He'll tell me I'm the one And we'll have so much fun I'll be the girl of his dreams, maybe Alright, maybe gonna find him today I gotta get someone to call my lover Yeah, baby, come on Alright, baby, come and pass my way I gotta get someone to call my lover Yeah, baby, come on
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Who's a Shade of a Genius? 03:21
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The back of my mind is Blank obsidian [unintelligible] ...let the song get out of hand, nobody likes a genius child, can you love an eagle, tame or wild? Wild or tame, can you love a monster of frightening name? Nobody loves a genius child, free him and let his soul run wild.
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Surrender 03:26
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We'll all surrender to your love, oh ho, evol ruoy ot rednrrus lla ll'eW We'll all surrender to your love, oh ho, evol ruoy ot rednrrus lla ll'eW We'll all surrender to your love, oh ho, evol ruoy ot rednrrus lla ll'eW
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I'm Not Good With My Hands 04:12
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[unintelligible] … I hate when things don't work, I hate it when people don't do their jobs, I hate it when things don't work. It just baffles me and it, it basically annoys me. So, when, yesterday when I bought a bunch of equipment for my livestream, I plugged it all up and it just didn't work, and it drove me insane for like 2 hours while I was livestreaming, so I was talking to people on the livestream, to figure out, haha, how, why on Earth is this not working? It just drove me insane, and that's usually the case with, I mean anything technical, cause I'm, I'm a technical guy, I like making things work... [unintelligible] Glow worms show the path we have to tread Dreamers, we should be asleep in bed Moving slowly through the springtime air Holding moments in the depth of care Holding moments in the depth of care
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The Irrational Fear of Mirrors 05:18
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[instrumental]
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Kiss Me 04:39
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Kiss me, out of the bearded barley Nightly, beside the green, green grass Swing, swing, swing the spinning step You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress, oh Kiss me, beneath the milky twilight Lead me out on the moonlit floor Lift your open hand Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance Silver moon's sparkling So kiss me I thought that I was dreaming when you said you loved me The start of nothing, I had no chance to prepare, I couldn't see you coming The start of nothing, ooh, I could hate you now It's quite alright to hate me now But we both know that deep down, the feelings still deep down is good If I could see through walls, I could see you're faking If you could read my mind, you would see our face Safe in my rental like an armored truck back then, we didn't give a fuck back then I ain't a kid no more, we'll never be those kids again I'm... I feel like I'm wasting people's time by being alive Like I'm eating food that someone else could eat or, taking up someone else's space... [unintelligible]
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The Unworthy Vessel 03:32
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This piece is called "The Unworthy Vessel" Daddy Long Legs looked like Uncle Sam on stilts and he ran this osteopath clinic outside East St. Louis and took in a few junkie patients. For two nights a week they stay out at night in green long chairs and look at the oaks and grass stretching down to a little lake in the sun. The nurse moves around the lawn with her silver tray, feeding the junkie. And we called her 'Mother'. Wouldn't you? Doc Benway and me was holed up there after a rumble in Dallas... Beautiful! Just beautiful!
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Remember the Little People 08:00
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Is it better standing up, isn't it? It's really hard to sing this, you know? (Well, it's a hard song, John) Maybe I should strum it first The patterns we make Recreating mistakes Sometimes it's hard to know When it's time to go Something's engraved deep in your pains History has got a good hold on me History has got a damn good hold on me The sunrise has come Headin' down south to the land of the pines I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline Starin' up the road and pray to God I see headlights I made it down the coast in seventeen hours Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight So, rock me Mama like a wagon wheel Rock me mama any way you feel Hey, Mama rock me Oh, rock me Mama like the wind and the rain Rock me Mama, like a southbound train Hey, Mama rock me Runnin' from the cold up in New England I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now Oh, north country winters keep a-gettin' me down Lost my money playin' poker, so I had to leave town But I ain't a-turnin' back to livin' that old life no more So, rock me Mama like a wagon wheel Rock me mama any way you feel Hey, Mama rock me Oh, rock me Mama like the wind and the rain Rock me Mama, like a southbound train Hey, Mama rock me Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke But he's a-headin' west from the Cumberland Gap To Johnson City, Tennessee And I gotta get a move on before the sun I hear my baby callin' my name and I know that she's the only one And if I die in Raleigh, at least I will die free So, rock me Mama like a wagon wheel Rock me mama any way you feel Hey, Mama rock me Oh, rock me Mama like the wind and the rain Rock me Mama, like a southbound train Hey, Mama rock me So, rock me Mama, like a wagon wheel Rock me Mama, any way you feel (oh, I wanna feel) Hey, Mama rock me Rock me Mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me Mama, like a southbound train Hey, Mama rock me

about

When I was 13 years old I identified as a transgender female.

VVS is an album about my experience with identifying as transgender and the way it has affected my being and states as a person. It drastically affected the way I saw myself, my mental & emotional state and my relationships with the people in my life.

While in my personal view, this project does not necessarily have an overarching concept, it touches on multiple different aspects of my life when I was transgender that I think are important as a whole, from my experience with online dating and feeling the need to develop a romantic relationship in Vanessa's Lipstick and Kiss Me, to the dysphoria I developed in The Irrational Fear of Mirrors and The Unworthy Vessel and my relationships with people who knew me before and after in Who's a Shade of a Genius?, I'm Not Good With My Hands and the ultimate track, Remember the Little People, which is a song for and about my father and my relationship with him.

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released January 25, 2024

Producer, Mixed and Mastered by Departure

October 7 2023 - December 28 2023

Cover art by Myko

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Departure is a plunderphonics, hip-hop, & sound collage artist based in Austin, TX.

He has had experience in music since he was 3 years old, and as a 16 year-old producer, he has amassed an impressive catalogue of works in music manipulation & composition. ... more

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