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John Vieira IV: An Orange Haze of Dawn

by John Vieira

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Five Years Late 04:17
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You came five years late, You had nothing to contribute, nothing on your plate, But still, You took the one thing I had. Does it make you feel you've won? Shining down like God's favorite son. You say I'm partly to blame, indignation on her half like a lover's flame, And still, You have the nerve to say. She wouldn't want it any other way, On your arm day after day. You look me straight in eye, Bragging about all the times that you've made her cry, And still, How she misses you so. Does it warm you that she doesn't feel? The same for me and the friendship you steal. Where were you when she needed you? Out to the boonies she ran to precious friendship new, And still, You can't come to her aide. Can you blame her for the choice she's made? You're nowhere near, you're MIA!
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Split Ways 03:35
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I can't say that lately I've been impressed by you, the things you call my love are bastards of the truth, The idea of you looking down from your ivory tower, has left me disgusted and feeling awfully sour. I respected you, I trusted you. Happily I've found someone that appreciates my stand, Comprehends the subtlety that my love commands, Enough of your pretentious talk it gets old so fast, it's hardly my fault that this friendship didn't last. I worshipped you, I looked to you. Don't say I'm wrong, You can't even apologize. Don't call it infantile, the bullshit's in your condescending style. Don't say I'm wrong, You can't even apologize. Don't call it infantile! the bullshit's in your condescending style. I guess it's safe to say we've gone our split ways, I'll let you live out the rest of your close-minded days, I've found someone else that I'll call an idol, someone much worthier of that esteemed title. I respected you, not anymore, I trusted you, what a big mistake.
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Life Be Cruel 03:11
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Got on a carpet, said, "take me where you will," the lady of the table scoffed and perched on a window sill. Couldn't handle her beauty, I only wanted her respect, with a laugh out the window she said I wasn't the best that she's rejected. Following her footsteps home I cut my mouth wide open, So few a word had been said, so much had been left unspoken, numb to the karma that had plagued my life of late, the idea so foreign that a man with dignity could walk up straight. Life be cruel, life be mean, life could be beautiful, I've waited too long. Life be cruel, life be mean, life could be beautiful, I've waited too long. Now that you've said the worst, leave me alone, let me successfully desert this wretched home, couldn't handle your beauty, I only wanted your respect, with a laugh out the window, you said I wasn't the best that you've rejected. Life be cruel, life be mean, life could be beautiful, I've waited too long.
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Silent Summer 05:00
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Silent summer goes by like a wounded crawl, Imagination running wild through an empty hall, Paranoia the only guest to take your weary cloak, Insecurity laughing at what it sees, like an inside joke. Then one day you break free, The sounds greet you like a return to normalcy. Silent treatment burns inside, like a poison sting, Feelings fester for so long, you forget the life of spring, Gaseous memories are all you have, escaping space, Like a coward who runs to hide his guilty face. Then one glorious day you say no, To all of the faces who said I told you so! Silent seven haunt your dreams, Like an evil ghost, Causing your joy to depart like a blood rite toast, Happiness will arrive, you know not when. Your weakness is you're blind, you need to defend. Then one day you open your mind, You finally see the sea of people you stand behind. Protecting you.
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The Temptress 05:35
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Every waking hour, you haunt my dreams, when I sleep to no avail, I wake to a chorus of screams. In your fields of gold, euphoria's on your side, when you cast your gaze upon me, my ego shrivels up and dies How does it feel to be the temptress? How does it feel to have control? You're a siren to all the night, singing your haunted theme, turning stone to heart and heart to bright, shadows of artistic scheme, men who have won the battle, no longer have a fighting chance, to refuse the chains that rattle, their souls consumed with a golden glance How does it feel to be the temptress? How does it feel to have control? How does it feel to be the temptress? How does it feel to have control?
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Medley: Nostalgia/ Nagem/ The Bridge/ Torture 10:20
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Nostalgia: I've looked into my past and caught myself smiling, the days I fooled myself implying that things could better before the present but that point in time is a thin crescent, that moves faster than the wisps of cloud o'er the moon, softly looking down before being whisked away. Nagem: To insult you it appears impossible, but I see some chinks in inscrutable armor. Beauty masked with aloof recalcitrance of intelligence adored. Lying to yourself, I see that you're wrestling with the circles of time. The Bridge: The bridge that I'm obsessed to implore after has struck the future in the head, with its rafters, creaking in loyalty, coughing numbered breaths the good exits before the bad, the consistency of this cannot be refuted. Cannot be refuted. Torture: Torture takes its form in seven ways. One sitting in a patch of sun-killed grass, with its crooked back bent Snarling at the years it wasted on a two-faced fool The second walks the walk of a man drunk on power. Elitism taking yet another victim from the weak clutches of decency. The third threatened to kill my family, and by doing killed our history, and now he looks quite simply into my eyes. He asks me how I would like it to happen to me. Happen to me. Happen to me. Rewind the tape, say everything you wanna say for real. Give me a piece of your mind. Then the fourth one said to me, this is what she said: "I don't want anything to do with you, this story is over, it has meant nothing to me." False hope is a real bitch. You can think her most kindly for me and my ways. The fifth one said "you come on too strong. Leave me in peace." The utter rejection of a human being. There's nothing quite like it. "I have nothing to offer you. Why do you look to me for answers I can't give you? I do not want to see you. Do not follow me." Then the sixth.... After years of seeking a trophy, I said no. She said fine with a smile, and she never spoke to me again. Where is the sense in all of this? Now we have number seven. When rival turns friend it is a gorgeous thing. But when one pushes the other to his limits, it is cause to cut them out of their life for good. Excuse me for trying to help him be better. But that's just life. You move on. You take the good whenever it comes your way.
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Slipping Away 02:18
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I'm so damn desperate, I can't make my mind up, Bollo. You were in the forest, will you be there tomorrow? I'll be there, I'll be there. I'm so heartbroken, I can't wake up early, Bollo, you were there for me yesterday, will you be there tomorrow? I'll need you, I'll need you. Because I feel you slipping away, slipping away. I'm so damn jealous, I can't think straight, Bollo, You saw me yesterday, Will you see me tomorrow? I'll see you, I'll see you. Because I feel you slipping away, slipping away.
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Pastiche 03:40
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My brain is breaking, but that's okay. My skin is flaking, on this warm day. My interests lock in with unstructured fear, losing my perspective is a sure way to lose, sure way to lose, sure way to lose. When I arrive at the only possibility, it's so wrong, I've sat there, wasting my dawn! But that's what you get from minimalist expression, answers that have no practical use, no practical use, no practical use. I'm not sad, or angry, or hurt, I'm just a confused soul. I'm sorry, excuse me, my answers are curt, it's the result of feeling vulnerable. I'm not sad, or angry, or hurt, I'm just a confused soul. I'm sorry, excuse me, my answers are curt, it's the result of feeling vulnerable. My brain is breaking, but that's okay. My skin is flaking, on this warm day. My interests lock in with unstructured fear, losing my perspective is a sure way to lose, sure way to lose, sure way to lose.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 03:42
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I've been called a creep so many times since my youth, I shrugged it off but I squirm knowing it's so close to the truth. Is this prophecy fulfilled? Against my own free will? I can't deny it's changed the way I see the world, I can't look her in the eye and respect that she is a girl. If she could read my mind how would she react? I'm a creep and that's a fact! It started off as some kind of joke, laughing and killing with what they spoke and telling me that if you can't take it, you become it. Where is the sense in that? Burdened by guilt and self-digust I softly implode, The shame has become too much since my life was cruelly exposed. What'd you expect from one so odd? His kind nature was a facade! He tried his best to hold onto normalcy, but the jokes kept on screaming in his head mercilessly! Brain breaking, losing his will, he said, "they were right all along. How could I have been so blind?"
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Acrid Dream 07:34
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I was in an Acrid dream, Things seemed to be moving awfully slow, You've nothing to the redhead father, Dependence where it should not have been, Dependence where it should not have been. The ill performance, The ill performance. Waking up from your groggy slumber, Writing letters of confused fantasy, You've nothing to the secrecy of Cain child, Romance where it should not have been, Romance where it should not have been. The ill journey, The ill journey. I wake up to the sound of marching feet, I wake up to the sound, Of marching, charging feet. Interlude The ill conception, The ill conception. The sun's light pouring through your mind's eye, Catching glimpses of the one who brought you pain. You've nothing to the hatred of the moustach'd man; The one who must surely die again. Surely die. The ill illusion, The ill illusion.
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Prelude/Interlude 01:24
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An Orange Haze of Dawn 06:47
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Walls and windows promptly open before my eyes, the cloud is an aura to take to the brain, A subconscious appeal to a higher deity. The sun is that god and all seek to earn the glowing glint, Of Dawn's amber approval. When the day just begins, orange is in our midst, so that be the natural cycle of our star. Away from the human's anecdote of destruction, I sit with the day and not the night. West is not set in tradition! Why approach a fight? For the day can begin there, if given the fate dealt right, All point to reverie in the winter-filled summer, The part closest to morning, bird noise as acting drummer. But in the shallow center of their brains, they look to the East before the West. The confusion of what is occurring seems to rattle impertinent chains, ported from the sequester of twelve moons preceding. Unfocused. Unemotional. Unabashed. The sun breaks protocol and rises in the West. The morning casts an orange glow, people meandering confusedly, through their routines recently regular. Schemes are hatched, battles are won, for the fate of our red, yellow-fringed sun. An orange haze of dawn is upon us! Accept its intrinsic value. unlike those who blithely run they are now captured in prisons, nowhere to turn from the harsh, admonishing glow. Mourning like a '67 refugee, so far from the place where he was born, so far, in fact, that infinity could reoccur and he would still be left in space. Where the thugs of future peace freely roam, burly and sour, crimsoned cheek in rage, coursing through black veins under skin of orange sage. Left is a shrunken figure, stapled with chrome, pining for a place, 2000 light years from home.
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2000 Light Years From Home 04:24
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Sun turnin' 'round with graceful motion We're setting off with soft explosion Bound for a star with fiery oceans It's so very lonely, you're a hundred light years from home Freezing red deserts turn to dark, Energy here in every part. It's so very lonely, you're six hundred light years from home It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home Bell flight fourteen you now can land Seen you on Aldebaran, safe on the green desert sand It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home
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Strange Days 03:04
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Strange days have found us Strange days have tracked us down They're going to destroy Our casual joys We shall go on playing Or find a new town Yeah! Strange eyes fill strange rooms Voices will signal their tired end The hostess is grinning Her guests sleep from sinning Hear me talk of sin And you know this is it Yeah! Strange days have found us And through their strange hours We linger alone Bodies confused Memories misused As we run from the day To a strange night of stone

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First solo album since 2009. The fourth and last of the "John Vieira" albums. This album is dedicated to Ray Manzarek, late keyboardist of the Doors. He passed on May 20, 2013 from cancer. The album was supposed to be released on May 20, 2014 to honor the anniversary of his passing, but due to schedule conflicts and other issues, the album's release was delayed six months. It is *STILL* dedicated to Ray and will always be a tribute to the man who influenced me to stay with the piano when I was so close to giving it up. Thank you, Ray.

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released November 25, 2014

All instruments and vocals by John Vieira except where stated otherwise.
Mixed & Produced by Lianna Gekker, Pablo Salazar, and John Vieira

Album cover: Rachel Ellis

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John Vieira Damascus, Maryland

I am a solo artist that currently lives in Damascus, Maryland. I graduated from the University of Maryland in December 2013 with a degree with in Jazz Piano Performance. I have recorded 4 solo albums--one of them is a double album--two albums with a band named J&M Blues Co, and I am currently in a band called Sonic Circus. ... more

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