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So Long Mr. Fear

by Imaad Wasif

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1.
Elemental 03:33
all desire will flood the stream of pain all despair i give to you in the morning of a new phase lay your powers at her feet awaken the elemental need all my obsessions repeat i’ve braced the coldest dawn to make the devil see though i’ve torn your heart away i cannot stay too long i offer you a rose so black to pledge my love upon the song of doom’s caress that i play is calling in the golden age
2.
Come Around 03:47
who took the sunlight from your eyes? if i believed in you tonight would my heart be wrong? and if i found you here again without a trace i’d let you in though your heart is changing you’re so far away so far away from me you’re just a dream that’s fading come around now baby don’t you want to see what becomes of the life you share with me they say what rises will converge but i don’t know if you’ve heard you’re still flying down, down you’re so far away so far away from me you’re just a dream i’m chasing come around now baby don’t you want to see what becomes of the life you share with me come around now baby don’t you want to feel if the love i have for you is real you can save me
3.
I Am Free 03:03
i’ve got the feeling in my blood that i was born to win i’ve got the warmth of your love to make my world spin i’ve got a heart of solid gold that melts away the cold and if the darkness sets in i won’t let it take hold i am free in the fall of babylon set a new course for the sun you can give your heart to the only one sometimes i feel so lost that i’m just not there but i don’t ever turn back from going nowhere i am free
4.
Fader 04:24
come see my dropout piece can i tempt you with scenes you can’t ignore? i don’t feel peace as i’m waiting for the beast to transform oh and this curse could be broken like a shadow in the night i won’t look back but maybe i don’t want to forget it’s been trippin’ me up inside since i came here and i wont be satisfied til i lose hanging on to life as a fader too wasted to realize the absolute i’m incomplete i wander the back streets though i’m closer now than ever before and if i die next to you there would be no defeat only glory that would shine down on me oh but our time is borrowed in the quicksilver sand there for a flash but we could not pass through undetected it’s been trippin’ me up inside since i came here and i wont be satisfied til i lose hanging on to life as a fader too wasted to realize the absolute
5.
it all seems stranger now in our infected town with the veins tapped and the vials drained it’s been a long way down i cannot explain why i broke the chain of command or how i came to be the poet of the damned i’ve walked the floor searching for a common thread and the axis we share is not enough to spin my web i caught you crawling out of a newfound wasteland to see my downfall as the poet of the damned disintegration is a crime let’s come together in our minds before end times i’ve held the key to the doomsday machine i’ve raised my rifle high to bend the sunlight’s gleam and in the slaughter we’re all helpless to his plan but here on the infinite plane i am the poet of the damned
6.
Painted On 03:59
all this happened by chance given a love that’s ageless i know you can’t bury the water our lives forever entwined only things that you do can make me this sad the dream is high and low take it from me wherever you go a star hangs the light in the sky where you are painted on some of the people we know hide in plain sight i am at least one of those will you find me hiding in dreams still to come in my imagined life i could take you beyond the dream was left on and i saw you staring off into space but your eyes couldn’t hide anything painted on
7.
if you find your mind’s gone and tomorrow’s dream is over the sweetest little thing that i could ever do would be to keep your place in the dark hold your head in my hands let your tears wash away the lines and the lies all the years we’ve seen our love fade don’t tell me the truth i don’t want to hear they say that’s what the silence is for into the shadows you disappear the starlight scatters were you ever here? these images are taking me in too deep where it’s darker now than it’s ever been i’ve been waiting for such a long time for love to come home living in a fantasy and the memories grow i’ve forced it and broke it seen it all through your lens but i don’t know i ever knew what i was up against so if you find your mind’s gone and tomorrow’s dream is over the sweetest little thing that you could ever do would be to keep my place in the dark
8.
Regeneration 03:39
then came the night i could not see you you had grown clouded and obscure i became the ghostly imagist trying my hands at various kinds of abuse that you so graciously endured don’t let it break your heart my friend it’s the way the river bends it took a million years to find you and when i did you had not lost the allure the cosmic egg was broken the yolk it just kept dripping chained to the wind and chasing dragons for the cure let me create my world my friend it’s the way i pretend now the time, the time is nearing and i know that you are weary through sunlit doorways i am travelling i left the temple and the corpus for the road i sacrificed my conscience shed my clothes at the entrance stumbling naked, eyes cast inward to the unknown regenerate your tail my friend it’s the way of existence it’s the way
9.
it’s been so long, mr. fear we’ve been together since i was just a little boy but you’re so bold to take back the years the wind is cold, without you here i’m going haywire you’re on my mind, out of time tell me do you love another more? have you been walking after midnight in between the rain i’ve watched it all disappear out in the storm i said so long, so long mr. fear i’m terrified, i don’t deny i want to fly out of your shadow i want to make it on my own do you realize? that i don’t know the way back home in disbelief of the new disease now that the veil is lifted, and i’m all twisted up i step on through to your dimension somewhere underneath the indian moon i’m lost i got the jab to keep you near how can anything be the same now that i’ve been tossed to the wolves in disguise i want to fly out of your shadow i want to make it on my own do you realize? that i don’t know the way back home so long, so long, so long mr. fear
10.
Jealous Kind 03:58
hold on to this alchemy embers in the burning breeze its just so hard to let the lovers go when a jealous mind is the only mind you know something in your memory keeps your island in the stream if you walk alone you’ll never know who you are from the seeds you’ve sown the harvest will be ours we collide in a world where our passion is doomed you and I, we could never be one or be true we’re the jealous kind the kind that lights the fuse but the tide is rising up to carry you we collide in a world where our passion is doomed you and I, we could never be one or be true we’re the jealous kind the demons that feed the muse but the tide is rising up to carry you to a sweet surrender
11.
There’s a candle that lights the darkened way There’s a shelter that keeps me dry in the rain There’s a freedom I get when I feel the pain Like I’m floating and one with everything Open your eyes See what I will be I may be unwise but I know that life is a dream Limitations of my vessel form To go back, to go back before I was born In between all realities I am still torn If I ignite the fuse will I be scorned? Open your heart Let your love light shine These words have been spoken before but they are now mine Baby once when you came into my room And we spoke of the things that we could not do It was then that I truly belonged to you I stayed frozen in love I could not move Fire and ice I am a primitive man Made from desires I feel but I don’t understand Open your life C’mon and change the view The mist is now clearing and deathlike I’m dancing with you Oh the serpent is now shown

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released August 9, 2022

produced and recorded by bobb bruno and imaad wasif,
los angeles 2021

mixed by lewis pesacov at ahata sound
mastered by mark chalecki at little red book
punk rock warlord: jed weitzman
cover photo by sharon lockhart and alex slade
album design by mathias poledna

the musicians:
bobb bruno - bass, guitar, drums, percussion, synths
greg burns – pedal steel on ‘fader’
evan haros – sitar on ‘elemental' and ‘regeneration'
karen o – backing vocals on ‘poet of the damned’
imaad wasif – voice, guitar, piano, nosferatu organ
jen wood – backing vocals on ‘fader'

all songs written by imaad wasif
2021 dead set music (bmi) administered by rough trade publishing
under exclusive license to sonic ritual recordings,
an eternal music group llc company

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Imaad Wasif Los Angeles, California

Imaad Wasif is an LA based musician. He has released six solo albums as well as numerous collaborations. Credits include The Folk Implosion, lowercase, alaska!, Grim Tower and ACID. He is also a touring and recording member of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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