COME AND BUILD MY GARDEN, by Grass Future Society

COME AND BUILD MY GARDEN

by Grass Future Society

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1.	SAFE WITH ME 04:31	lyrics	buy track
I sit looking backwards to the sun And it looking back to what I’ve done The pale blue creeping in from the window Inhales you as you’re sitting there in limbo The petals fall onto the bed The leaves are turning over ready To conceal the secrets that the moon will never tell The faces of the evergreens The twisted branches in between The answers to the ticking toll of ringing bells The secret is safe with me, your secret is safe with me The secret is safe with me, the sacred is safe with me Take me where I am, I’m holding my hand out But it won’t pan out if you ran out at the first sign of light Hold me to the trees so I can breathe now And I can see how you can rebound to the first one to bite The secret is safe with me, the sacred is safe with me
2.	COME AND BUILD MY GARDEN 05:05	lyrics	buy track
Come and build my garden, it’s built with love and daffodil Come and build my garden, it’s half a mile up the hill We’ll walk together sow and pick and to the garden we shall stick So stay awhile the time slows down to match the manna in the ground mmm It’s been a year since seedling sprou-t-ed from the conscientious doubt So tell me now if you could see the garden wasn’t built for me mmm Up on the hill there sits a clock, it plays the follies as we talk The hands they stick with sap and dew to tell the time that’s left with you mmm Come and build my garden, it’s built with tender sycamore Come and build my garden, it’s halfway buried beneath the floor We’ll walk together bow and scythe, the flowers bloom for us to sniff So stay awhile there’s time to spare to save the garden’s wild air mmm
3.	ALIENS OF PRECIPICE (FEAT FRIPP) 04:37	lyrics	buy track
In the blissful morning at the sunset hour Come the tiptoe motion of the leaning tower From the silent sermons and the missing limbs Come recovered persons to the whispered hymns And the ancient whispers tell of the aging king Who was sipping poison from a hornet’s sting But the poison held to the king’s heart of stone And the kingdom fell into the people’s throne I wonder how much wonder I can muster in a world that’s left a feigning sort of thunder in a cluster forming shapes of summer artifice It takes a serious occurrence to deliberate disturbances of terrible totalitaric aliens of precipice Die die die die… Billionaire space club, you’re wasting your time to get off of the grind Until you can make up another quarter or dime to pay off the deserts I’m waiting for my turn to play captain kirk instead of Doing the work down here If only your concern was more than your purse Then you couldn’t do worse all year Die die die die ...
4.	STRAWBERRY (FEAT DRIED SPIDER) 03:28	lyrics	buy track
Strawberry pockets Your silk and rockets You could blow the top off if You could show up to stop it I have a hard time sitting in the same position for more than five minutes I have to stretch out, move around my legs, I can’t imagine how I did it Well you told me I could run out, make it to the turnstile, jump over the bridge and fill it With the inside of your overalls, empty how it turned out, nothing left to do but kill it Strawberry pockets Your silk and rockets You could blow the top off if You could show up to stop it Please be kind to me
5.	WHISPERS INTO WAVES (FEAT NATHAN NAKADEGAWA-LEE, LORENZO TAMBOR) 04:52	lyrics	buy track
Whispers into waves Solitary caves Loneliness can’t save me If your hunger strike Isn’t what you like Feed your symptom psyche And the sun will come up again And the birds will sing to their friends na na na na na na Sometimes it’s necessary to get kicked out the window To see the rest of everything that’s down below Sometimes the wind is blowing faster than it seems To see if fictionally asking will receive And the sun will come up again And the birds will sing to their friends na na na na na na
6.	VIOLENCE INSTEAD (FEAT OD) 05:55	lyrics	buy track
The grass is always green green The past is always clean clean I see you driving down the street they say you’re mean mean I take your call in bed You take violence instead Take your time you can grow into your leaves Flowers sticking out from all your pocket sleeves If you wanna grow you’ll have to take some grief For the backwards water waving from the dying coral reef Stick your finger in the outlet silver screen If you linger in the drought you’ll cause a scene You can walk on water, wind up your machine Take a picture of your collar bone and tell them it’s obscene The grass is always green green The past is always clean clean I see you driving down the street they say you’re mean mean I take your call in bed You take violence instead Take your moments in your morning routine Look out your window like it’s 2019 Feed your ego rice and tofu protein Read your Emerson it’s not so serene Collect your junk mail for the bills in between Dylan Thomas never jumped over a string bean Crispus Attucks never bowed to the queen Count your blessings Intifada Falastin Letters home from Mississippi just some teens Eat your veggies get your muscles nice and lean Fill your dictionary with some gasoline We are the dinosaurs of anthropocene Tangled up in sticky when you trick me with the prickly pear mosquito fairy bottomless burrito dairy incognito wearing foxy hedonistic frida socks with pita pockets on em call em whatchu wanna i could grow a garden on em
7.	SHRLYTMPL (FEAT DJ HANS) 02:37	lyrics	buy track
You are listening to the Grass Future Society Here on Garden FM Giving your ears a jiggle And your booty a wiggle Shirley Temple lets down her curls Mother holds on clutching her pearls Now she’s just a regular girl And no one can tell who’s in control Shirley Temple falls off the balcony Floats in mid air some kind of alchemy The room is filling with measured cacophony Don’t you waste your breath it’s filling your mouth for free Shirley Shirley Shirley Shirley It’s all in your mind a catastrophe Surely Surely Surely Surely You take the poison out from what you can see Surely you have to be cool enough to be in the Grass Future Society But the thing about the Grass Future Society Is we're all part of the Grass Future You have to be honey Or you'll be snuffed out Hahaha Shirley Temple wasn’t in school today Flew out bankrupt had to get far away Picked up Mother left her on holiday Field trip to the hospital is what made them stay Shirley Shirley Shirley Shirley It’s all in your mind a catastrophe Surely Surely Surely Surely You take the poison out from what you can see
8.	DOSIDO 03:47	lyrics	buy track
I have some questions for you, if you have time to kill I don’t expect the answers to pour out of you until You take your blazer off And underneath you’re finding something To fill your days with stuff It doesn’t mollify the sting Inch by inch and row by row The birds and the bees and the mistletoe Take your partner dosido Come and help my garden grow If you said I had to go into the icy melting snow It wouldn’t be so far below the garden we both came to know Ooda da ooda aaa I have lingering thoughts of what would happen now If we were at our best, should we still grow somehow To reach the tallest sprouts Release your holding doubts If I still call your phone Then what do I still own Inch by inch and row by row The birds and the bees and the mistletoe Take your partner dosido Come and help my garden grow If you said I had to go into the icy melting snow It wouldn’t be so far below the garden we both came to know Ooda da ooda aaa
9.	PRETEND (FEAT SOFIE ZAMCHICK) 04:55	lyrics	buy track
(death scene from Yojimbo) I can pretend if you can pretend the best is still in front of us We can pretend that we didn’t send our spaceships for something superfluous If we pretend that it’s not the end and our lives are living interfluously We all pretend forgiveness is pending but we’re as fickle and merciless La la la la If the fates allow me Walking down the Bowery In the lighting district halfway to the bridge On the roof it found me Take the proof as bounty It was nothing short of privilege Spotted cappuccino on the fragrant wild bed Flip the cap that we know if you twist it on your head I can pretend if you can pretend the best is still in front of us We can pretend that we didn’t send our spaceships for something superfluous If we pretend that it’s not the end and our lives are living interfluously We all pretend forgiveness is pending but we’re as fickle and merciless La la la la (snow song from Ikiriu)
10.	RIVER TREE 03:01	lyrics	buy track
If you sit with me by the river tree In the dwindling light of the cathedral Pressing your fingertips against the palm sugar sweet Soaking up all the warmth like an oil drill You sip on ginger anise in the fever silence You tell me all of your secrets like a sequel The smell of freshly cut grass drifting over the fence Revelatory deceptions up the steep hill The swirling narcotic teacups bring you back to me Sliding into a romantic dispensary If the sea level shifts into your sensory We’ll take the quietest path down to the river tree La la la la

credits

released August 24, 2023

written, composed, produced by nikolai hariton mishler. engineered, mixed, mastered by aidan elias at corpus family studios in queens, ny. additional engineering by nikolai mishler at fast grouper records in brooklyn, ny. performed by nikolai mishler [vocals, electric guitar, mellotron, wurlitzer, portasound300, percussion] juan bayon [electric bass] emanuel lorenzo [drum kit, solo on 5, listed as lorenzo tambor] nathan nakadegawa-lee [flute, tenor saxophone, clarinet] tyaela nieves [background vocals on 1,2] e.b. hinnant iii [vocals on 3, listed as fripp] matty witney (vox on 4, listed as dried spider) oli demers [vocals on 6 listed as od, background vocals on 2] sofie zamchick [vocals on 9] and introducing patrick sweeney as “dj hans”

cover art by nikolai mishler. original photo by ayesha t jordan. samples in track 9 taken from the films yojimbo and ikiru by akira kurosawa. additional samples provided from splice, and atmospheres recorded by nikolai mishler. special thanks to show me the body, little pond farm, casa de las piedras, anyone who lent ears eyes thoughts inspiration, the trees, the dirt, the water, the lenape and the current custodians of the land this project was created on and about.

copyright nikolai hariton mishler + fast grouper records 2023
xoxo grass future society