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Mouth Full Of Bees: A Collection Of Acoustic And Live Recordings from 2006​​​-​​​2010

by Mortimer Nova (2011)

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To Collapse 03:50
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drop d low e -10-10- -5-8- ------- --------- ----- -11-10- -6-8- ------- --------- -1--- -12-11- -7-9- ------- --------- ---5- ------- ----- -5-6-7- --------- -2-7- ------- ----- -5-6-7- -------3- -3-7- ------- ----- -5-6-7- -0-2-3--- ----- different relationships, convenient that they fall apart open wounds are festering, another culprit is at large ambiance is blistering, a splinter in your arm and what began as a tilted top, confuses everyone terrorize, terrorize, classic raised victim alarm terrified, terrified, sterilize your moving parts you're a cantankerous old witch your sick shoots from your hips your tentacles are full of poison oh no if you've got it you haven't shared it, if you've shared it you haven't got it the best things in life aren't free, they're not free street lines fade, you face a rail until your face melts off and what began as a simple walk, turns out to be a fall terrorize, terrorize, classic raised victim alarm terrified, terrified, sterilize your moving parts your spike yourself like you're sick you're cold, you're callous, you are twisted your tentacles are full of poison oh no you collapse, you collapse, you collapse terrorize, terrorize, classic raised victim alarm terrified, terrified, sterilize your moving parts you collapse
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Autumn Is On Fire 04:55
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CAPO: 2 DROP D LOW E ---------------- ------------- -----------7-7- -------------7-9- ---9----- ---------------- -------5-4--- ---------9-7-9- -----------9-7-7- -5---7-7- ---------------- ---------4-6- ---6-------7-7- -------------7-7- --------- -------11-14-13- -4----------- -6---4-9-9-9-9- ---------9-9-9-9- -----7-6- -12-14---------- -4-4-4-4-4-4- -4-4-4-7-7-7-7- -9-11-12-7-7-7-7- -4-9----- ---------------- ---4-5------- -----------7-7- -------------7-7- --------- part 1 part2 part3a part 3b part 4 save your breath, bite your tongue clutch your chest, drop the gun stay possessed, fly so high i can't be who you want me to be, can't believe what you want me to be can't you see what you're asking of me, can't believe what you're asking of me can't complete what you've fastened for me, can't believe you're so passive to me i can't be what you want me to be, i can't be who you want me to be take a step, don't look back, and leap away stop your heart, take a gasp, and push away save your breath, bite your tongue, and fly away take a step, don't look back, and leap away
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Overshadowed By Towers 04:09
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----- --------- ------------- ----- ----- -1-0- -1-1---1- -1-----3----- ----- ----- -2-0- ---2-1-2- -2-2-1-5----- -5--- ----- -2-0- -2-3-2-2- -3-2-2-5-3-2- -7-5- -7-5- ----- -3---2--- ---------2-2- -7-7- -5-3- ----- --------- ------------- ---7- -7-5- allegory falls apart indemnity is not my mark miscalculation from the start and your misery, is all i need, to take to heart kerouac lends me all i need burroughs leaves me miserably hunter s helps me breathe but none of, these will, form to me it's the hand, it's the eyes it's a lie, a disguise it's the gun, it's the knife it's a notion not to feel inside oh no, there's no martyr oh, there's no martyr no, there's no martyr no no no pair of threes was a misery last time you'll say; it's repartee just like water? i'm no martyr and none of, these will, form to me it's the hand, it's the eyes it's a lie, a disguise it's the gun, it's the knife it's a notion not to feel inside not to feel, not to breathe not to hope, not to read not to know, not to write not to strangle out the light not to strangle out the light but we strangle out the light and we strangle out the life it's the hand, it's the eyes it's a lie, a disguise it's the gun, it's the knife it's a notion not to feel inside it's an ocean not the beat besides it's the motion not to seem alive it's my notion not to seem alive it's my notion not to feel inside
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To Connect 04:55
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drop d both e capo 2 -13-14---- ----- ------------- -9-9-11-9-- -12-12-10- -3-5- -10---------- -9-7-9--10- -13-13-11- ---6- -8--8-9------ -9-9-9--9-- -------12- -4-7- -9--7-11-7-7- ----------- ---------- -5-7- ----9-11-7-7- ----------- ---------- ----- ---------7-6- ----------- so peculiar the way she dances and she makes me follow to, follow to follow her feet, follow her feet she breathes atony i blame no one but myself your pain is irresistible there's no such thing as panic when you can see in the future you know if you ring your bell your servants will come running i never learned the universal language there's no such thing as panic when you can see in the future you know if you ring your bell your servants will come running i blame no one but myself your pain is so becoming there's no such thing as panic when you can see in the future throw a penny feed the fountain
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A Faucet In The Wind Pipe 04:32
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CAPO: 3 ------------------------ ---------------- --------6-6-6- --------- ------------------------ ---------------- -------------- -11-13-6- ------------------------ ----12----14-13- -10-8-7------- -12-12-5- ----12-14-12-14-12-8-10- -14----14------- -8--7-7-----5- -13-13-6- -15----------------6-12- ---------------- -10-8-8-6-5--- --------- ---------------------12- ---------------- -------------- --------- your eyes shut tight, a fire in your soul fluorescent light, the phantom bends and bursts and the trust is mild, we isolate the stem we steal the time, and scream out through the folds it's dawn, dawn, dawn, all along at dawn, dawn, dawn, you're gone it's dawn, dawn, dawn, all along at dawn, dawn, dawn, you're gone hallucinate, fantods, chained and swollen help me change, i'm subtle and i'm whole mama, mama, look out to the west mama, mama, watch me disconnect it's dawn, dawn, dawn, all along at dawn, dawn, dawn, you're gone it's dawn, dawn, dawn, all along at dawn, dawn, dawn, you're gone drawn a lark, to follow home a fragile mark, a face so solemn in rotten dark, the truth is known it's razor sharp, we walk alone dawn, dawn, help me to move on dawn, dawn, dragging me along gone, gone, i can't be alone dawn, dawn, help me to move on we're all singers, we're all sinners and i've seen, how i've seen, now i've seen how obscene dawn, dawn, help me to move on dawn, dawn, dragging me along gone, gone, i can't be alone dawn, dawn, help me to move on help me to move on
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His Colossal Eyes 04:08
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-2-2-2-------2------- ---4---2- -2-3-5-7-7-9-- -9-12-12-12-12- -3-3-3-2>3-1-1---3>2- -5-4---2- -2-3-5-7-8-10- -7-9--10>12>14- -2-2-2-3-3-----1-1-1- -6-4-6-2- -4-4-6-7-7-9-- -9-11-12-12-12- -4>2>4-4-4-2-2------- -6-6-7-4- -------------- --------------- -2-2-2-4-4-----2-2-2- -4-6-7-4- -------------- --------------- -2-2-2--------------- ---4-5-2- -------------- --------------- how do you feel lost inside with magellan by your side hanging chads like a hole through time a black soul, a lost and helpless child we are born and we saturate reviled and personify the trial, oh how's it feel, to die to be held accountable for your crimes how's it feel, to die to look into his colossal eyes can you solidify his voice can you justify your choice can you live with what you've done can you live with what you've done it's not a beat, it's a murmur you're a speck on something bigger something so much bigger it isn't heat, it's a fever and we become instant believers in something so much bigger
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To Impact 05:48
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----- ------------------- --------------------- -5--- ------------------- --------------------- -4--- -----4-5----------- --------------------- -5-5- ---4-----10-9--7-5- -9-----7---9-----7--- -3-7- -5-5-5-5-12-10-9-7- -10-10-9-7-10-10-9-9- ---7- -3-3-3-3----------- ----8----5----8----7- light the bed on fire if you want it clean you've made more love on it with everyone but me i don't have much of an appetite but don't you get up from the table i'm not done talking to you pack your bags and leave time to kill the children are they even mine what were you thinking what were you thinking what were you thinking you common whore i gave you everything you've shattered my reality and the family time to start again you're not going anywhere not when i hold the knife say goodbye and think again what you love those children now watch them die that's what you deserve say goodbye
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Temple Of Artemis 05:37
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-------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- -5---5-7---7-9----9-7---7-5---5-7---7-------------9-9-7- ---7-----9-----10-----9-----7-----9---9----9----9------- ----------------------------------------10---10--------- -------------------------------------------------------- ----8-----8----8---7- -------------------- -10-10-8--8--6-6-5-5- -------------------- -9--9--9--9--7-7-7-7- -5-7-9--7-5-7----9-- -10-10-10-10--------- -7-9-10-9-7-9-9----- --------------------- --------------10-10- --------------------- -------------------- -------------- ------------- -------------- ------------- -------------- -5-7-9-12-10- -7-9-10-14-12- ------------- -------------- ------------- -------------- ------------- help me i cant breathe help me our strangled souls will intertwine congruent and disengage we'll wash upon the clouded nile defiled and be restrained the hands that once were locked in lust beloved are burned with rage you part your lips, your crooked smile revealing your unbound hate tell my wife that the devil made me do it tell my kids that i had it but i blew it tell my friends that i've got it and i'll use it tell my folks that i'll never go through it gravity, gravity, gravity gravity is holding me back holding me back
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This Pen Bleeds Lily 06:08
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capo 2 ---------- --------- -------9- ----------7- -10-10-10- -10-10--- -3-3-8-8- -10-10-10-7- -11------- -------7- -4---7-9- -11-------7- -12-11---- -11----6- -4-4----- -12-11----7- ----12-11- -12-11-5- ---5----- ----12-11-9- -------12- ----12-7- --------- -------12-7- you look possessed, like a dark coal hearted girl cramps in the neck, as the snake retracts and coils fireflies are swimming in your head and the splinter is... my twin is dead ohhhh, oh no ohhhh, oh no this bed of spikes, for a self-destructive gem a crystal ball, sunburst radiance stems she's purring a mouth full of bees rips her stitches out and is welcomed home and welcome home the wolf descends, we're calling miracles the flock remains, and gets ripped all apart shadows stretch a haze across your eyes as ruby's fall, the princess fades away gods a mess of color and uncertainty time to accept, his flawed reasoning but you can taste the sound of crisis you've remained soul bound to strife you're walking on the river like a ghost you're sealed bubble keeps you afloat keep your rudder straight tonight caught red fire in both my eyes the wolf descends, we're calling miracles the flock remains, and gets ripped all apart shadows stretch a haze across your eyes as ruby's fall, the princess fades away away
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To Complicate 06:26
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PART 1 TUNING: Low [ D A D Bb B D ] High ------- --------- ------- -7-5---7- -3-3-5- -7-8-6-6- ------- -6-6-6-8- -4-5-7- -6-6-5-7- ------- -7-7-7-9- -4-5-7- -7-7-6-6- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ------- --------- -0-2-3- --------- PART 2 TUNING: Standard ---------- ---------- -------------------- --------- ---------- ---------- -------------------- --------- ---------- ---------- ---------9-11-12-11- --------- -12-14-15- ---------- -9-11-12------------ --------- ---------- -12-14-15- -------------------- -9-11-12- ---------- ---------- -------------------- --------- --------- ---------- -------10-12- --------- ---------- -10-12------- --------- ---------- ------------- --------- ---------- ------------- --------- ---------- ------------- -9-11-12- -12-14-15- -------------
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To Internalize 03:49
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------- ------------- ------- ------------- -7----- ------------- -5-7-7- -5-4-2------- -7-5-7- -7-5-3-2-3-5- ---7-8- -------3-5-7- i can't wait a thousand years just to be with you find your way but don't get lost coming back and i can't be who i wanna be when you're around jennifer, you mean everything to me jennifer, deliberation you don't have that much to give you haven't gave away at some time in your life to someone else and it's not me, and it's not you, but it's weighing hard jennifer, you mean everything to me jennifer, deliberation i'll just lie here and fall asleep, i can't stand myself i hope you find your way while the candle's burning bright it's what you do to me and i can't catch my breath when i think of you oh jennifer jennifer, you mean everything to me jennifer, deliberation
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That Nightmare Where My Teeth Fall Out And Turn Into Spiders 04:16
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---------------------------2-2-2- -----------5- -7-------------------------2-2-2- ---8-7---5-5- -8-9-----2-3-4-3>4>3>2-----2-2-3- -7-7-9-6-6-6- -9-7-5-4-4-4-6-4-4-4-4-5-4-2-4-4- -9-9-9-7-7-7- -9-9-7-5-4-4-6-4-4-4-4-3-5-4-4-4- -9-9-9-7-7-7- -----7-5---------------5-5-4-2-2- -----------5- --------- -9-7--------- -9-12-10- -7-5-5-7-8-7- -7-9--9-- -9-7-5-5-5-5- -9-11-11- -----7-7-7-7- --------- ------------- --------- ------------- you're not as venomous as you pretend to be
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Skinned Knees 04:11
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capo 2 --------- --------- ---3-3----- -----5--- -5-5----- -3-5------- ---7----- -7---4--- -4-4-4-4--- -7-9-6-4- -7-6-5-4- -4---5-5-4- -9-9-7-4- ---7-5-4- -------5-4- -9------- --------- ----------- a little song before you go to sleep this fire you've sparked in me will burn me alive a vertigo, the milquetoast, digress looks like i'll be drowning alone i'm all alone in my cell while you go trapped in a flood, sink alive, pray to die attention, please be still, say no more attention, there's no love, anymore i'll wait for tomorrow to shave my head and start over hold my breath and fall backwards, will you catch me float over belly up and take me home i can't forgive you until the day we are flawless just the way you speak drops me to my knees, skinned knees
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To Struggle 02:59
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capo 4 ------------------ -------- ------- -9--------7-9-7--- ---5---- ------- ----9------------- -------- ------- -------9--8-8-8-8- -6-6-13- -14-13- -11-11-11-9-9-9-9- -6---12- -14-14- ------------------ -----11- ------- anyone can fly incognito if you want them to it's a stellar continuation, at this interview who can you trust, to follow you, when you can't even trust your instincts but it's all about you and that's your fault so don't look at me that way i forewarned you something's tragic so insinuate away imbalanced everyone is an astrochemist or so it seems they will have you repeating everything that they believe who can you trust, to quiet you, when you can't even trust your instincts and finalize you later than i thought but this breeze is just so right hearts watch stopped hours ago, mind is lost to flight ambulance
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Immodest Coercion 03:01
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capo 3 ----- ----- ------------------ -6--- -4--- ------------------ ----- ----- ------------------ -7-5- -5-5- -7-8--7-5-5-----5- -6-5- ---6- -8-10-8-6-5-5-5-6- ----- ----- --------------5--- natters always, the dirtiest part but it's objective, to the courteous heart attacks against, the mawkish and smart irrelevant, ignore the chagrin we fought to be released atrocity of ferocity we're taught to be so clean philosophy of ferocity you dragooned me, i was so unaware my attention, just wasn't there i'm unobservant, when i feel so beloved then it's too late, and the damage is done we fought to be released atrocity of ferocity we're taught to be so clean philosophy of ferocity you ought to be so pleased you ought to be, you ought to be yes you ought to be so pleased immodesty, immodesty
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The 2nd in a series of one-take recordings from the indie band with heavy psychedelic overtones both in and between songs, this is 70 non-stop minutes of acoustic and full band intensity with no breaks between tracks to keep you listening.

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released November 11, 2011

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Mortimer Nova is an experimental indie / anti-folk / indietronic group fronted by Michael Vilches based out of the Tampa Bay area in Florida. Mortimer Nova was ranked #14 on Non-Hollywood's "25 Indie Music Artists Worth Paying For" poll in 2014.

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