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Ouroboros

by decker.

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    "Ouroboros" the 8th Studio Album from Sedona, AZ band decker.
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My heart is open and I’ve begun I can see the light I can see the sun I see inside your heart I know your truth I hold these parts of you I hold your wounds See once there were two lands from there emerged from out of the darkness the silence, the dirt You shine your light and I shine my light Reflections of mirrors make movement’s moonlight But remember when the light moved in you? and the holy dove was moving too and every brand new breath we drew Was awakening and reborn into The Sun. It’s burned into my eyes despite The broken night and your lion heart and the futile fight and the skin we shed Now new hope arise and just like a child, Find we’re sanctified And we hold this prize and awaken now Oh my precious child How you soften now And disrobe disguise On your hallowed ground Just holding now Were emboldened now But remember when the light moved in you and the holy dove was moving too and every final breath we drew Was awakening and reborn into The Sun. Remembering the sun Remembering the sun Surrendering the sun Surrendering the one Remember in the moonlight Remember in the twilight Remember in the soft light Remembering the endless light Remembering the one Remembering the sun Remembering the one Remembering the sun
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Are you a beggar? Or are you here all alone? How long have you been hungry? While sitting there on your throne Some will say we’ve been plundered Or that the flood’s gonna come Whatever spell we was under Well there’s no reason to run I was looking for freedom What’s it mean to be free? I was searching for you Were you searching for me? In the distance is thunder But then the promise of sun In your heart once was wonder In our hearts only love You found strength in surrender ‘til there was nothing to fight I always tried to remember We’ve got to live ‘til we die I was looking for freedom What’s it mean to be free? I was searching for you Were you searching for me? Sometimes it’s all so obtuse Just keep me company I was dreaming of you Were you dreaming of me? We knew love Will you love? You say that everything’s beautiful And that nothing hurt But we could travel the universe If we knew just what we were You say that life’s like a funeral I think it’s more like a birth But we were talking about true love When we were walking on earth
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Supernovae 03:58
If you’re alive for a moment you’re alive for a lifetime too And when we die in this body still the light of the spirit shines thru I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive I’m a real life too I’m alright, I’m alright, I’m alright I’m the real light too If I give you all the love that I can give then all my love is you If my sins are forgiven then my forgiveness is my gift to you I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive I’m a real life too I’m alright, I’m alright, I’m alright I’m the real light too Secondhand shot adorned with the fires of love No starbeams burst on the shores above It doesn’t mean that I’m sleepwalkin to ya I wasn’t trying to see right through ya Why walk with the ghosts when what’s done is done From the past to the present to the veil of a vision pursued To ‘the never-ending litany of what we seek and what try to consume I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive I’m a real life too I’m alright, I’m alright, I’m alright I’m the real light too What we think that we thought when we knew we never really had a clue Such a surprise when we find its lie that we could choose and could lose I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive I’m a real life too I’m alright, I’m alright, I’m alright I’m the real light too Secondhand shot adorned with the fires of love No starbeams burst on the shores above It doesn’t mean that I’m sleepwalkin to ya I wasn’t trying to see right through ya Why walk with the ghosts when what’s done is done
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Limbs 06:04
From the first to the last to the screams of the past Did I bleed to my last breath? Need to outlast this lust and did I learn to trust? With a fire in my eyes and death as my bride Lay down your pride Seek what’s inside You’ll see That nothing’s ever really lost With wild eyes like a child There’s life left inside here Forget what the mind says Listen to the silence Listen to the witness Your body is your mistress Spirit is your strength Not a myth Not a weakness Dream, oh dream dream ‘til you believe Dream oh dream dream ‘til you can see Marked here in matter I race to outlast this Grave understanding Locked in the fabric of gray It’s really more than I can say Yeah, tossed here and blasted but made everlasting The shadow I’m casting the sounds they could shatter our faith Make us think that we should stay With wild eyes like a child There’s life left inside here Forget what the mind says Listen to the silence Listen to the witness Your body is your mistress Spirit is your strength Not a myth Not a weakness Dream, oh dream dream ‘til you believe Dream oh dream dream ‘til you can see
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Mojave 04:21
Flowers on a grave with a daisy and rose for you Watered by wild eyes Surrendering the pride to truth and I hope a rattlesnake don’t get bit by you and I was hoping you could stay and come and bite me too The sun was drowned out by the rain While we prayed that dead flowers could bloom and it’s more than thunder clouds when the silence is so loud it’s a tomb I carved your name into my heart you dissect with this blunt little tool You turn the tables turn the page but this won’t conclude so soon Oh, see me now See my like you did back then Just see it through somehow Oh, guess I’ll see you when You see me as your truest love Just see me as your friend They put a lock upon my cage and I think they put a window too Salvation stitches on my heart where’s the nurse I need to dress this wound and I hope the novocaine will help to numb my tooth Now I can’t even feel my face but I still feel this bruise Oh, see me now See my like you did back then Just see it through somehow Oh, guess I’ll see you when You see me as your truest love Just see me as your friend Oh, see me now See my like you did back then Just see it through somehow Oh, when the ghosts come out See the shadows fall down You leave without a sound Oh, guess I’ll see you when You see me as your truest love Just see me as your friend I hope a rattlesnake don’t get bit by you I hope a rattlesnake don’t get bit by you I hope a rattlesnake don’t get bit by you I hope a rattlesnake don’t get bit by you
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Sea Change 05:20
In silence we stay In stillness we wait Our lives rearranged By the price paid with pain Do you remember twilight? You see the whites in my eyes It’s safe to fire Well, say what you want and say what you will But remember the cost For failure to forgive If the weight of the loss Is the weight of the guilt I surrender the blame For the space we can heal For the space we still live But stay Won’t you wait For this moment to rise Safe. Are you safe? Are you safe now to fire? I see the whites of your eyes Who was that walkin in the dark? Who was that singing to the stars? Time is now, not forward or behind What was that voice inside your mind? Always telling you lies Because I remember the flames I remember the chill You will remember your light When you surrender to feel Will you measure your heart? Will you measure your will? Because the voices will come and the voices will kill Because the choices we’ve made From first breath to the grave Are the same as the sum of consequences we face When the past comes to haunt and the soil’s still not tilled It’s the ghosts of the past Like statues standing still And the time standing still But stay Won’t you wait For this moment to rise Safe. Are you safe? Are you safe now to fire? I’m still with you Here with you Let’s put down the knives Safe. Are you safe? Are you safe now to fire ? You see the whites of my eyes
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Can you see? Can you see me? Can you see in the dark? Can you see in my heart? Can’t you see? Can’t you see me? Can you see when we die? How it all turns to light? Oh my sweet dove, my sweet lamb Held it so tight It slipped right through our hands Cross my heart Hope I die right here in your arms tonight My sweet dove, my sweet lamb Can you see? Sunbursts in the twilight Conjure the ghosts or your wild eyes Or fade out like a firefly I was dreaming I could feel you breathing on me As you whispered a prayer in my ear And you told me that it all disappears Oh my sweet dove, my sweet lamb Held it so tight It slipped right through our hands Cross my heart Hope I die right here in your arms tonight My sweet dove, my sweet lamb Can you still? Can you feel? Can you tell me there’s somewhere we live on? Even after these bodies are all gone So I scream into the void With no words with no sound with my ego destroyed And the angels sing their prayers to the crowds Oh precious doves, precious lambs Surrender your sweet hearts to these tender hands and all of your life is Remembering how to return to the light My sweet dove, my sweet lamb My sweet dove, my sweet lamb My sweet dove, my sweet lamb
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My Gift 03:43
Well this is my gift My gift to you However so humble However so true Said straight from my lips To the rest of the room May you never go hungry May you never feel blue And even when I saw you cryin’ Saw you cryin’ in the dark And even if I caught you lying Caught you lying straight to my heart From out of the darkness Out of the dirt Out of the depths of the cracks of the crust Of the crests of the earth There’s no need to feel angry No need to feel spurned I swallowed my pride and I bided my time And I buried the hurt And even when I thought I was dying Thought I was dying alone in the dark Then you touched your lips to mine and you breathed your sweet love into my heart Well this is my gift my gift to you You have my forgiveness and witness to riches so pure and so true From out of the darkness We howl at the moon Through the passing of time, ‘til I bow down and die Until dead flowers bloom Yes I’m a slave a slave to your love You know I’m a slave a slave to your love Yes I’m a slave a slave to your love First breath to the grave I’m never afraid I’m a slave to your love The passing of time ‘til I bow down and die I’m a slave to your love
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credits

released June 9, 2023

All songs written by Brandon C. Parks-Decker

Musicians
Brandon: Vocals, Guitar
Amber Johnson: Piano, Organ
Dan Allmond: Guitar
Meliza Jackson: Guitar
Joel Knight: Drums
Ivan Leibowitz: Bass
Holly Pyle: Choir Arrangements, Choir
Ellie Fern: Choir
Alex Mullins: Choir
Aldy Montufar: Brass Arrangements, Trumpet
Jayson Davis: Trumpet
Benjie Messer: Trombone
Megyn Neff: Violin
Jennifer Mayer: Violin
David Moroney: Cello
Bob Hoag: String Arrangements, Tambourine
Dylan Ludwig: Percussion

Ouroboros was recorded live with no overdubs in Studio One of EastWest Studios, Los Angeles, CA.

Produced by Brandon C. Parks-Decker and Sam Cohen
Mixed by Sam Cohen
Mastered by D. James Goodwin @ The Isokon, Kingston, NY

Additional Pre and Post Production at Flying Blanket Recording (Mesa, AZ), Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (Mesa, AZ), Lava Lake Studio (Phoenix, AZ), Raven Sound Studio (Prescott, AZ).

Additional Engineering by Jeff Lusby-Breault

Cover Photo: Matty Steinkamp/Mango Skies Productions
Studio Photos: Brandon Epperson and Mike Logan
Album Layout: Quinn Murphy/Hamster Labs

Special Thanks: Anne Decker, Cohen Parks-Decker, Leah and Nate Russell, Zirque and Lulu Bonner, Matty Steinkamp and Tracy Perkins, Gerald Schoenherr and the Team at CRAS, Ari Leopold @ Lava Lake, Dylan Ludwig @ Raven Sound, Bob Hoag @ Flying Blanket Recording, Brandon Epperson, Mike Logan, Jeff Lusby-Breault, Dante LoPresti, David Campbell, Dani Cutler and KWSS Radio, KVNA Radio, Kevin Calabro, Dave Sanford, Dan Coutant, Quinn Murphy, Ed Masley, Seth Smades, Nick Jaina.

The biggest gratitude to all of the beautiful musicians and personnel who worked to make this vision a reality.

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