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Black Minerals

by The Universe Project

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1.
Intro 01:10
2.
Black Cat 02:52
Stare down at a black cat, you do not control me Ping pong at Fat Cat, PBR OG I got a trophy that is made out of bullshit Smart kid, never put my nose to a glue stick Who wins? Not you, definitely not the bar stool Hard fools throwing harpoons at cartoons Who knew you could be a femme fatale? Digging out those holes so we can dive down If you wanna, let me get your number I think we hit it off Feels like summer The way you talking soft Makes a brother wonder What kind of secrets do you hide under covers? If you got another I think he better know Black cat's gotta keep a man on his toes Seems you got woes and it shows so I gotta go Holding out hope for some poetry in prose Our movements matched and your mind went blank your fortress fell down and i didn't lose you The black cat's on Throwing color on my brick wall Guess I earned the right to lose it all Mad, I could never see. The shades might fall The shades might fall Give another pop drop if you can't stop Rocks fall into puddles of blood... There's no clots, not here Dripping on kittens Having nightmares about these visions We were just children But we still made our choices Took a long time to ignore these voices Got a void I'm filling with women Hidden in a modern cave I'm chillin Who's winning? Not me, not you, not us Just trust We must confess to those games we messed up Cutting lines to stay up Doing overtime can't afford a pay cut We don't have make up to cover those scars All we got is drugs All we got is bars Can't drive a car so I'm trapped in a tunnel But I won't go back to the muzzle Let's nuzzle, let's heal Let's deal...with the fact that we don't know real Let's steal...like thieves in the night Alright Alright Alright
3.
Animal 04:05
Kept running and limping back Lying there like a wounded animal Burn three Sheets from your journal, animal Wounded animal To light up the faces Hold on to a wrong turn Take three sheets from your book and let it burn Nerve endings transformed pigeons to eagles Cold sweat from a dream that feels so evil Knievel. Tweedle dee, tweedle dunnit There's no parachute, when we plummet from the summit Love it, touch it, use it, hush, don't abuse it Much too much to do with love and other bruises Deuces And I'm out. Chuck robbed the tongue that was in my mouth But see I had a back up, in the event that I cracked up Some bad luck, had us wondering how we'd stack up Good Practice. Kept running and limping back Lying there like a wounded animal Burn three Sheets from your journal, animal Wounded animal To light up the faces To light up the faces To light up the faces To light up the faces I can stall my account and run away From the chair that awaits me I can solve my problems.
4.
Trainterlude 00:43
5.
Play the game close Low hopes Minimalist masochistic quotes Flow's dope Hold notes in the background We are not that proud Everybody back down Millennial dickhead Skin made of wool Tits full of the thick thread Gotta big head Always did Over analytical impulses always win Go big or go back to the crib This is how I live Shit We got all the time in the world It seems Taking power naps having unamerican dreams So here I go Walking down the road Never doing things that I'm told Playing with the things that you sold Gotta let em go Goodwill plowing through the snow Whoa Bring me back from the landfill your sterile eyes look like an orange pill I see you there, in my sleep and you're waitin' for me everywhere i go your face upon a mantlepiece footprints in the scottville snow Scaffolding collapsing Nicotine relapse Plugging in the mic Yup too much feedback Allergy to absentee ballots 24 karat songs playing But the hooks are wrong Lets get it on Make a little spare change Gotta brew that black stuff Ease the head pains We always play strange Carnival of the bromantic hermits Which way would you turn it? Left, right I promise I won't burn it in the next life We made it just right And it feels nice Yeah My warning lights Weren't bright enough You must have thought that I was pretty tough But at the end of the day It all feels the same Where did you go? I had the fireplace on in the fort life In fact we had it all put up and together in a fortnight Straddlin' our frozen feet and straight jacket memories but i still cant help but believe one significant motion will sweep the feet sweep the feet
6.
Abused by a muse concentrated cannibal this is my cameo and you're drivin by Can't write with the look you gave No lights in this dusty cave Gotta leave but I don't wanna go Should I stay? I don't know Time flies right under my nose Get's stuck in my mustache A lot of questions come into my mind but I know I shouldn't ask Show me your will through the light through the light show me your face when your dancin' between the lines flashlight burning in time the flickin' sound it makes comes through the light through the light stream There's a riff in the balance Slack lines aren't safe anymore Bad habits Could have sworn that you had it But I forgot that I don't believe in magic Got a crash kit And a mattress Laughing Bad kids Throwing rocks at a window above my head Got locked in a dream and now I'm dead In bed with a piece of my past Looking up as the ceiling cracks Caught up in the plans we had Shed skin in a quick comeback But I'm not in the light And I know what a fight looks like It's like falling off a bike Get hurt and you learn how to do it right Yikes, all bite no bark Made a big mess and called it art Didn't have to be this hard Didn't have to act that smart Pretend that I don't even notice Those ghosts don't make me nervous My skin is thick on the surface My voice is perfect
7.
8.
Black Widow 04:09
Save me the energy I need to get my steam ship pumpin' without a borough on my mind has me remembering This town is like a solvent And i wanna dissolve it With the revolving holograms with our eyes closed so we can solve, so we can solve so we can solve it. All I wanna say is watch your six You don't really need another failed quick fix, now So now I'll just sit, talk to myself My internal sunshine makes great health bought into the cards that i wasn't dealt now i'm a victim of the strobe light victim of your stealth Flash rave turned into a funeral That guest list became too full Theres a creature and a shadow comin' in through my window lookin' around for black minerals Planning an escape What a weird first date Got a stomach ache from the stars that I ate She could take ten years to appear in the doorway Time that it takes to wait is like foreplay Your way is too complex... Might as well flip a coin to figure out what comes next So ch-ch-ch-ch-check what sounds musical You sing about death and it sounds so beautiful Whoa are we to shuffle the deck? I made a mess of necks and spines And you're next in line So we pass the time Trying to stay alive Making up our minds And yet we redefine Everything that it meant to invent innocence In a sense we are meant to regress No regrets I'm obsessed with the breasts and the heart in her chest What a mess, I'm a mess, gotta keep this in check but, Never had a set plan before And there's a lot of things between me and the door Glimpse into the future shows prints on the floor So I sit on the chords that I heard at the morgue Here we go again So confused that I don't think that I would know a friend If they looked me in the eye and slapped me in the face My peripheral vision of the woman wouldn't erase All i wanna say is watch your six you dont really need another failed quick fix, now.
9.
Zombie 04:23
When the bass line stops All the dead bodies in the room just drop So, dance Make some rips in your pants Make a little mess with the drink in your hands Man, it feels good to be a zombie Wobbly, stumbling, mumbling through my mouthpiece Shout please if you will not breathe We murdering nazis Metaphorical war steez Standing on that cliff by the water I'm counting factions Shuffle them cards Take a break from looking at stars I fight fate with a fist And it goes like this I always win, I never miss Patriots sing in the way they imagine Triumph happens No beauty pageant actress ever made a mattress Ashamed to engage in the static magic Got a flattering tone When the vixen sits in my home Let alone when I'm tryna convicne She had one beer, I had like six But I ignore those patterns Everybody throwing knives I'm throwing daggers Guess that's my swagger Act on an impulse Find out what matters But instead of letting go I can only hold onto the things I know I don't do what I'm told I get off that board I do not pass go See I've never choked And I've never broken any bones Never lost my home If it's a bed or a couch I can still catch a doze And I can't seem to get around When I'm feeling locked out Dropping out, tuning out, turning on To a different station Feeling close We screaming things like peace is not an option All we wanna do is break the rules and get it poppin Lockin, droppin We ain't never stoppin The garden of our youth has brew spouting out a fountain I move to the rhythm of a liberal elitist At the party hardly not feeling like a fetus Doing shows, spitting flows Must be make believing Barely alive but still breathing Flannel on my back T-Shirt is sleeveless I do believe in facts so I don't believe in jesus Hopefully my mama doesn't read this... So keep an eye on this generation Last time we smoked we didn't get high and that's a complication I'm just saying, I think I speak for you and you smoke for me When I say that we both need something new to get us by Like a steeple chaser, with an eraser Don't need a savior You could be a savior It's all relative when you've got neighbors On the road to the King of Claver Zombie What can I see? Everybody in the club staring at me Well Okay I'm doing just fine Bitches looking at me must be out they mind Well
10.
I'm gone, come find me you and yours sat down sifting through my crooked rhythms I've never really been a fan of regrets I never gave a shit about a hickey on my neck All I cared about is what came next Maybe a little merit Maybe some respect But it's a slippery slope When you don't wanna be naive, but you also don't want to let go of hope I'm trying not to choke But I took a big hit of love Now I got it stuck in my throat See, I've known a couple drifters I've known a lot of thrifters I've had a lot of lovers And a lot of sisters Told a lot of lies And I've loved a lot of sinners Seems to be magnified this winter My liver may hold a grudge in a couple of years But I let go of the fear I let go of the fear I've walked away from a lot of women in tears I tend to disappear I tend to disappear I think that right now my thoughts are too clear I need another beer ... I think it's time for me to get out of here Take me to the pier Take me to the pier Help me break down It's that small town livin' in my head tellin' me to come home what i'd give for comfort in my home away from home Sunshine drew a line now I'm high and true-eyed but too many days have gone by so many times So break, break, break Break, break down Take, take, take Take, take the sound We could make, make, make Make all the rounds And I will chase, chase, chase Chase you down
11.
Outro 02:37

about

We have a lot of thanks to give. Many people lent a hand, or at least a finger, to the creation of this album and/or the existence of this band. We are eternally grateful, and want nothing more than to shower you in hugs and money. However, since we have a shortage of money, hugs will have to do. The list is as follows:

Itai Gruss
Travis Milford
Zoe Travis
Gabriel Gomez
Elena Scott
Caleb Eberhardt
Mark Stewart
Karen Curlee
Lili Voskidis
Danielle Orlowski
Moza Al-Khater
Patrick Johnson
Jafe Paulino
Chazz Giovanni
Le'Asha Julius
Mike Forst
Ross Meneses
Julieta Varela
Carly Sorensen
Brett
Mark Langbord
Sophia Archibald
Charlie Shelton
Patrice Roth
Nola Smith
The Flying Farmer
Chuck
Oliver
Our Mothers

We love you all.

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released May 4, 2013

Lyrics & Vocals by Kahiem Rivera & Levi Capper
Instrumentation by Julien Melendez
Additional Lyrics & Vocals by Itai Gruss & Julien Melendez
Album Artwork by Elena Scott
Spritual & Sonic Guidance by Gabriel Gomez
All tracks written and performed by The Universe Project
All tracks mixed by The Universe Project
All tracks except 8, 9, & 10 mastered by The Universe Project
Tracks 8, 9, & 10 mastered by Travis Milford
Tracks 2, 5, 9 & 10 recorded by Travis Milford at SAE
Tracks 3, 6, & 8 recorded by The Universe Project at the Claver Cave
Tracks 1, 7, & 11 recorded by The Universe Project at the Pratt Chapel
Tracks 1 & 4 recorded by The Universe Project in the MTA subway system.

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