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Negative Plus

by Alien Skin

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1.
Negative 04:12
every face i see will die and every memory through my eyes will end with me every bridge comes to an end and every lover foe or friend will end with me i will go away don't fret and i'll no longer pose a threat to your plus mind sometimes a weight's an overload a rupture tears apart the road ahead of me tired and tired and tired i feel i no longer care if i reveal how void i am it's so hard to maintain a front i now feel free to lose the brunt that's weighed on me i will go away don't fret and i'll no longer pose a threat to your plus mind sometimes a weight's an overload a rupture tears apart the road ahead of me
2.
I without you an equation that is less than minus zero i don't like to shut my eyes too long there are dreams i don't ever want to relive please come home i don't wish to keep you forever just please come home i don't wish to wait here forever i don't care to wait until tomorrow tomorrow's promise often lies the sky is clear i can see for miles and miles around me the sky feels blue i prefer to feel you beside me an open wound keeps us from healing broken skin and poison cells within please come home i don't wish to own you forever just please come home please come home just please please come home just please please come home please please please come home please please please come home
3.
in the year of 1327 i curse my eyes when i see dead heaven the black death eats away at bodies life squeezed out of breath blood squeezed out of stone sickly decay it's Charlotte i bury today in the year of 1327 from the North York moors to Jurassic Devon all along the watch tower the reaper whispers name by name a dust storm blows my way and wind brings decay it's Charlotte i bury today
4.
I keep a photo i keep a photo of you a frozen moment a frozen moment of you these memories are bitter sweet to me these memories are bitter sweet to me i look at your face i look at your face with me a distant visage a fading visage with me these memories are bitter sweet to me these memories are bitter sweet to me i keep a photo i keep a photo of you
5.
love is you love is me and if it ends let it be i just can't think like this i won't forget your death kiss i can't even compromise just to feel good oyster grey alice blue flat colours in my room doleful shapes on the wall this game doesn't interest me at all i can't even compromise just to feel good love is you love is me and if it ends let it be i just can't think like this i won't forget your death kiss i can't even compromise just to feel good
6.
the sedative is wearing off and clarity feels sharp a stranger's voice speaks in my head i recognize as mine talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk to me do it now talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk to me do it now the sedative is wearing off it's ugly when there's light a drop of blood upon an eyelid a love a stain a blot a ruin talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk to me do it now talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk to me do it now
7.
Now Or Never 03:02
It's now it's now or never to lose this weight and tether to free my hands to free my head to forgive the mess i've said regrets are useless time ill spent i'd rather end up nowhere with you than to be somewhere without you and i'd rather tell out loud the things i've done which i'm not proud than to think that you don't love me i don't care if I'm nowhere with you i'm in pain to be somewhere with out you and each morning is the same everything seems drab and plain and i bore you to go on and on it's now it's now or never to let go of this weight and tether now or never now or never it's now it's now or never
8.
Without You 04:03
i walk up to your eyelids and lift your torpid head i look upon your white face i want to make you care the streets are full of petrol you can smell it in the air like incense in a church nave this is the world in which we stand this is the world in which we stand without you without you without you without you without you without you without you without you your walk is crestfallen and gravity sucks your eyes in a belladonna tee shirt i want to make you care the street continues humming past an alcove of despair we walk up to a cross road this is the world in which we stand this the world in which we stand without you without you without you without you without you without you without you without you
9.
why would there be love when there is nothing here but greyness? i have no faith in hope and i don't hope for faith some of us are like this cross the great divide the affirmation of acceptance i don't hope for faith and i have no faith in hope some of us are like this why should there be love when i don't care for its fulfillment? i'm alright come what may i'm in my place of cold warmth some of us are like this
10.
i do not believe in death i won't be around to know i'm gone everything has beauty but not everyone can see perfection's false let me see you when you're near you are something i can't kill let me see you when you're near you are something i can't kill such a sense of emptiness an absence of something crucial missing from still life to a jumper's death it's now all streamed and boring me to death let me see you when you're near you are something i can't kill let me see you when you're near you are something i can't kill
11.
seriously Myriam take off your amulet if you love me and die for me i'm already gone seriously Myriam your hemlock mouth is moist and earthy your body's warm i'm waiting for you on a fine mediterranean marble i want to see you see you laid out for me i'm already gone my love i want to see you see you now seriously Myriam give to me everything you have to give i want it all and we'll both be gone on a fine mediterranean marble i want to see you see you laid out for me i'm already gone my love i want to see you see you now
12.
why don't you come, stay i'll promise you anything why don't you please stay i'm desperate for anything it's got to be tonight it's got to be tonight tomorrow may not rise under pandemic skies time wears a poker face it will promise you anything let's meet in the same place for now it means everything it's got to be tonight it's got to be tonight tomorrow may not rise under pandemic skies take away my love what do i have? take away your love what i have?
13.
Rachel's coming home and i'll make the room for her Rachel's coming home i'll fix the room for her the way she likes it black as the sky the way she likes it black as the sky Rachel's coming home i'll strip down all the walls Rachel's coming home i'll prepare all the walls and i'll paint them black for her to match her eyes yes i'll paint them black for her black as the sky Rachel's coming home Rachel's coming home tonight
14.
do you remember the first time? yes i remember the first time do you remember the first time do? and now my brain gets tired the machine inside breaks down and now my brain gets tired the machine inside breaks down remembering you and the moon is red blood drops on my head and everyone who dies cut up by the stars in the sky in the sky and the moon is red blood drops on my head and everyone who dies cut up by the stars in the sky in the sky do you remember the first time? yes i remember the first time do you remember the first time?

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Buy the final Alien Skin CD from POPoNAUT, Germany: www.poponaut.de/alien-skin-negative-plus-p-22112.html

Dedicated to Irene, everything for always...

LINER NOTES:
As a maker of electronic pop music this is Year 40 Plus for me. The post punk eyeliner 80s were my vainglorious years of subculture youth, of Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, New Order. I also lived these years with the Australian synth/new wave band Real Life, the past 15 as Alien Skin.

Little propels me forward as much as creating new music of the genre I love. Now inspiration is more and more drawn from sources akin to the state of mind the years have etched. Increasing age, loss of nearest and dearest, nothing being new under the sun; all this can be a powerful director of one's focus.

"I do not believe in death I won't be around to know I'm gone" is an Andy Warhol quote I adapted for one of the album's songs. My own existential unraveling over the recent past is responsible for, "every face I see will die and every memory through my eyes will end with me" for another song.

The psyche present in these thoughts helped frame the concept of 'NEGATIVE PLUS' during months of Australian antarctic winter. Simultaneously though, I've always had a keen want to inject enduring pop melodies to balance the melancholic drama. If you can't remember the vocal tune of a song then I have failed.

Dropping another name, Lebanon Hanover's subversive lyric "sadness is rebellion" is one I've considered for some time. I realized this contemporary, pro 80s, darkwave/post-punk duo's epithet aligns with my own resistance to toxic positivity. And this considered attitude has resulted in the pathos drenched yet electro-humanoid Alien Skin album, 'NEGATIVE PLUS'. ~George

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released March 10, 2023

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Alien Skin Melbourne, Australia

I've been making darkwave electropop from elements of 80s post-punk subculture for over 40 years. Including years in the Australian band 'Real Life' which topped world charts in the 80s with 'Send Me An Angel'.

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