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A Less than Perfect Peach

by Blue Genes

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1.
lost, we're lost in the rounds been floating around like astronauts ever since our dreams shattered like stained-glass window pains but we'll hang around here for a bit there's so much to be found including you including you including you and i was lost too n when you're westward bound you're bound to hear the resound of the gold coast so let's have toast for all our lost souls
2.
my father once said son take care yourself, yet have fun a gem forged from our timeless bond, a drop on a pond a lesson hard learned in between all the twists n turns cuz we've all got holes to hide, no one wants to show their true soul n in a less than perfect peach i learned that perfection is forever out of reach yet there are perfect moments that glisten in the seafoam between all we see and the sandy beach so take what's within your grasp and clasp it in your hand for to each his own, n for me, i lack love, that golden treasure trove n i been digging for all those X's n O's cuz growing old is the oldest story ever told n i hope i'm not to bold to try and teach that in a less than perfect peach i learned that perfection is forever out of reach yet there are perfect moments that glimmer in the seafoam between all we see and the sandy beach o n i know now where i hurt, deep down in the depths of my heart cuz it shattered into a millions little parts n i'm searchin for them in the dark cuz i've been so alone it's just me n my bones and their groans o but i made a home in my head by hollowing out all that dead space yet in a less that perfect peach i learned that perfection is forever out of reach yet there are perfect moments that shimmer in the seafoam between all we see and the sandy beach n i keep wishfully thinking that maybe one day i'm gunna find that keepsake face cuz i run n run in this rat race from place to place o n i've just about lost faith in it all, in it all but call my bluff i really don't care at all, at all cuz in a less than perfect peach i learned that perfection is forever out of reach yet there are perfect moments that simmer in the seafoam between all we see and the sandy beach so i wanton away my days cuz i'm fishin in a wishing well n like rope i cast down my hopes, they're just another noose to hang my time by o and i try and try to sort out all these lies these lies that leeched the life from my once perfect peach o but i gotcha yeah i caughtcha that perfect moment in the seafoam yeah i caughtcha yeah i gotcha n i'm not gunna let this one rot cuz i finally yeah i finally gotcha
3.
(What) Am I? 03:56
am i fateful with a life i never asked for am i shameful for wanting more am i faithful or more like a whore or am i spiteful cuz of what i choose to ignore o and these are the thoughts that run wild through my head as i'm laying it down for bed and they'll keep me up all night if i let them and make me forget what my conscience said am i on fire cuz i burn the truth am i a liar when the liquor's too high proof am i crier under the full moon am i full of desire or crazy as a loon o and these are the thoughts that run wild through my head as i'm laying it down for bed and they'll keep me up all night if i let them and make me forget what my conscience said am i so lonely, because i'm stony am i as bony as that skeleton that holds me am i only when you want to hold me or am i solely something sold to me o and these are the thoughts that run wild through my head as i'm laying it down for bed and they'll keep me up all night if i let them and make me forget what my conscience said am i goin to make it am i goin to take it or am i goin to have to fake it and in the end forsake it
4.
i can smell the contraindiction even before it leaves her mouth floatin off the tongue of my thin gypsy queen and i asked her about the things that she's seen n she just answered me so serenely and she spoke of a honey sweeter than the summer sun and i said hey now baby when can i get some and i saw her standin there lookin so remote in a black leather coat as if she was a princess in a castle and needed a moat to keep away all the liars and thieves, well that was once me well i'm glad i escaped and headed out to sea o but she showed me a honey sweeter than the summer sun so thanks i say now baby for lendin me some ah but these drops of sunshine, they now tangle my mind ah but at least i know now what i'm tryin to find well my eastern lady, she brings me oranges and oriental tea o and kindly lent a hand and rescued me but like a cat in heat she was sooo insistent but once agreed with me that i was a failure of existence o but she showed me honey sweeter than the summer sun so thanks i say now baby for sharin some o and my desert woman, well she deserted me but i don't blame her for fleein to the land of sand after all it was her that made me dancin man and thoughts of her will always be close at hand o cuz she showed me a honey sweeter than the summer sun so thank you mama, for sharin some o but these drops of sunshine, they now take up my time o and they make me feel as if i've committed a crime
5.
well you'll never be heard if you don't make some noise and you'll never take shape if you don't pick a poise [and you'll never get any place if you don't use your choice] *^* the bracketed line didn't make the recording *^* but you'll always as long as you breath have a voice n i haven't worried about the things i can't see cuz destiny i know you'll dissolve me cuz we're just shiftin sand, waitin for the fates to play their hand n you're where you are cuz you couldn't be anywhere else n you're doing whatchu are cuz you can't do two things at once and you're so self assured, you've got a way with words n so you're singing, yes you are, until your voice gets heard n i haven't worried about the things i can't see o and destiny you're dissolvin me cuz we're just animate sand, waitin for the fates to play their hand you were once young, but you grew old n you were once so bold, but now you do as your told n you were once made of gold, but then you blew your load n you were so good in your prime, but now that's a pastime o and i don't worry about the things i can't see o and destiny you've been good to me cuz we're just shiftin sand, watin for the fates to play their hand
6.
well the city it sits, like tiger in a cage just waitin' for the day it can unleash its rage well the circus came to town and down came the gate n now there's so many clowns around everyone just loves to hate n california was found on gold o but that stories gettin old and all these bleeding hearts just plead like harps and you're doin your best out here in the west you went to school, you're no fool, you took your test but the lies out here lay deeper than the rest even the fautlines can feel the unrest but california was found on gold and that stories gettin old yet these western sunsets really are the best o it's no use tryin to understand this mess so i told you to let it all pass i mean eventually our cars gotta run ought-a gas but until then everything just happens so fast o and california was found on gold but that stories getting old n now it's a car pileup of twisted metal, blood n broken glass n i can see you got your new england lens farm lady with your hens and it makes things sorta-kinda bend o and ya just wanted somewhere else to stand o so ya left the eastern shore cuz you were so desirous of more but your hearts still bound to your farmland o but go ahead and use your time to try and crack the code it's in a dead language, something old o and that mother load, well, it eludes us now it's a gold mine been gutted and the water fouled so we're gunna rape the earth until it's one big fiery hearth and right now the jungles howl so loud and the laws gunna hem it down til one size fits all but you know this empire is bound to fall yet laughter still echoes down the hall bouncin off these cheap excuses for walls o and i'm sick of all this sprawl it makes my skin crawl so i'm out cuz i can hear the east givin me a call o and farm lady you sold my soul to an eastward bound goal n my mother land has taken a toll o and i hope two halves really do make a whole so i'm headin home now out the door cuz it feels like i've been there befo' n those all night city lights must come from burnin coal n soon i'll be headin east to show all of us out here who may never go how the wind the out there blows n by winter i'll probably be buried in snow so i'm headin' home now out the door cuz it feels like i've been there befo' n there's no use talkin' about whatchu don't know so i'm headin to the city of dream n that's all i do anyway it seems n they're comin out now in reams so i'm gunna go meet some kings n queens yeah i'm headin' home now out the door cuz it feels like i've been there befo' so i'll be whistle'n on the beat between those steel beams in the city of dreams
7.
it's gotten cold in here my heats been bleeding out for 22 years n i saw the future through my morning tears n so i've seen there's so much more so much more for me to see can you see it there through the window n so i just thought i'd letchu know and i'm told our kind will float on so i'm lettin hold of my gold/goal n i've been stayin warm by burnin the boards over the doors because i've seen there so much more so much more for me to be see it there through the crack in the door n so i wonder what for n what really is there to fear everything pales when death draws near n your face my dear is lookin like the moon but you know there's so much more so much more for you to do can you see it there through the open door so honey, what are you waitin for o n where should i turn my thoughts were will they lead my walk or talk all i can hope for is fewer hopeless question marks o and so i've seen there's more so much more for me to see can you see it there through the window n i just tought i'd let you know n i got a hummin head and hissin head with so many false fears n i been doin my best to make them all disappear because i've seen there's so much more so much more for me to be see it there through the crack in the door so i wonder what for it's gotten crowded inside i got no where left now to hide o but maybe there's something i haven't tried o but you know there's so much more so much more for you to do see it there through the open door so honey, what are you waitin for
8.
there's a black cat outside starin' at me with its eyes two yellow spheres with black slits in between n i can feel her considerin me as i fall in between n there's a plastic bag outside n i can see it through the window n the winds blowin it around n then a thought came through that there's no difference between it and me we were both equally alive and that's what movin seems to be and i never realized that my bed was a dead end never saw the sign hangin over my downturned head and you inside my head that's something i never intended to embed n then the dam broke and the water flowed forth to a predictable place the ocean's edge and her and i talked about what was and what will become and i asked for a little more time n she said hey that's fine
9.
san francisco lays ahead of us, growing up through the sandy soil like a forest and the password we spoke swung open a door to silvered ceiling and a wall of books and inside awaitin was a coloful collage of drinks waitin to warm us up and the vibratin vessel contain enchantin rhythms that captured our movements but we knew it then that soon you'd be returnin to the land of sand but always hold in your hand the thought that you'll always remain in our minds just like you were that night like a diamond shinin so bright ooooOOOoooOoooo n berkeley's back now like the familiar face of a friend or foe that we used to know n we payed our homage to the godess of the sea, n look, you can see her there beneath the golden gate n we danced the night away, and after all it was you that taught me how n at two in the mornin the streets received us and you wet eyes but we knew it then that soon you'd be returnin to the land of sand but always hold in your hand the thought that you'll always remain in our minds just like you were that night like a diamond shinin so bright ooooOOOoooOoooo
10.
a flower towered as our love grew of a red rosy hue and it died once its time was due n i've sifted the petals through and through o and i shoulda known that all their color would bleed out they ran away with sunset but i learned something true in their overwhelmin hues that there are so many more to focus on than the blues i was lost in a desert of dreams reflections off oases my mind would wander from withered faces to horrible places but at least those memories faded at the edges ah but spring painted such a beautiful scene and the risin sun brought the colors back to me and i learned something true in their overwhelmin hues that there are so many more to focus on than the blues
11.
i woke up in a daze in this ancient place with a face i didn't choose first a seed of thought n then i wrought n pushed out the door o well that day was grey but was colored in once the fogbank burned off and now my world's opening like a dialating pupil n i've seen how much there is to hold behind my eyes and within my mind but i didn't stay too long wrapped up in that fog blanket because it was too cold and gray now i'm wide awake and sometimes can't believe how long days can take each fades away like the last, some white some black, in that sepia'd past and the summers golden tone turns naturally green according to a code and those flowers unfold in a mockery of the rainbow but their petals fall off eventually and fade to grey just like memories n i've tasted how bittersweet it all can be n so i clean my tongue in order to start over now my eyelids are gettin heavy as what the night lacks begins its descent and all that've sensed will fill up my dreams like an unwinding reel and they'll twist n twirl as if ribbons of pearly smoke and i can see em now comin off of that blood orange sunset n it's turnin the blue sky all into rust n you know one day the summers just gunna be a bunch of dust but for now i'm goin to sleep so that i can see what tomorrow will give me
12.
walkin bare foot under the bar, o i never thought i could get so far away in a day that i decided to stay n bad news floats down the avenue, and it creeps in like the blues, standin still while the world moves and day time toilin in the sunshine, o i'm diggin a hole, to bury a deceased story and message lay waitin in that soil and they packaged bought and sold just as frantically as oil shhhhh frosty breath seeps out chalk another one to the count and time is closin in i can hear it now tick tock and reality seems to be the mean of our memories, they're collected irrelevant the filter and disputed still and a reputable source in a headline for the dead says souls for sale, hallelujah, it's a rollback and the broken heart cures that i found foreshadow the disease that's probably gunna take me but please make meanin out of a tree that's carefully leanin', yet to the soil clingin and still greenin in the spring
13.
i hope i wake up when this dream is over and once i was afraid of growin older and i believed all those stories and they made me a bit bo(u)lder but somethings been heavin on me over n over i went for a ride on a giants shoulders and i defined all the seashells i found in my own terms but now i'm on my back watching my own thoughts hopin they won't betray me i better slow down now if i want grey hair and i've decided to that misfortune which path i prefer but at least i'll skip that snake or the poisoned apple and betrayal derailed us just east of eden i wanna stand on the western ledge the dividing line, the ocean's edge somewhere close to the center from where i can reenter
14.
you'd think if i grew anymore roots i'd turn into a tree but tell me how else there is to be near the sea i am and remain amazed at the scene change in a sacred place, a red-wooded space, an owl turned it face beneath a branch the first kiss as the tower tolled and then she lent me her limbs to burn in turn as the night churned and it was a hard fire to start and harder to snuff out but i kept a spark to light my way through the dark parts i watched as you walked away, that sacred sway an my heartbeat now matches the way your hips waved good-day n it's hard to explain what i lost, did it have a cost but through the pain i can see that a callus has been gained

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this album was recorded and mixed by Alex Cory in El Sobrante over the summer of 2012. it was finally mastered in the summer of 2013... so that's a long time for it to come around. of course certain things could have been done a little better. but that's life and at least i know that now

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released July 31, 2012

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