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Solaris

by Joe Diliberto

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Overture 04:12
Since before the big bang went boom There existed a feud that ignited mortality It was a duel between good and evil Between light and shadow Between right and wrong Between love and being consumed by love This is the story of infinity On the side of light stood God and the angels These beings existed in electricity and were driven by energy It was their purpose to light up and they did so by creating music They used their electrical powers to crank their amps and make their guitars scream Together, the legions of angels made an almighty army, but they knew no quarrels The angels didn't understand the mysteries of the realm they were in God didn't tell and they didn't ask The angels were perfectly content It was perfect suspense Until one of the angels began to burn brighter than all the others His name was Lucifer He was the greatest angel of them all, studying his power and truly understanding it He had potential and God saw that But God knew what he did not There was more to this universe than him and the angels Then one day, a dark figure rode into town His name was Time He was a bad guy, but remember the angels didn't know that bad even existed He took out his golden pocket watch, held it above his head, Looked out on the angels and said: “I will give this to whomever of you can burn brightest” And so TIME did just as he promised, he gave the watch to the worthy angel, Lucifer And from it, the angel glowed brighter than ever before He burned so bright he began to develop his own gravity, A force even God didn't understand But unlike the other angels, his light was hot like fire and it burned He was destroying the angels because he made them forget about their music He pushed them and made them fall to the Earth, while he rose higher in the sky The angel knew what no other angel knew: Light is just the medium of time And that was why he became known as Lucifer, the sun It was an uncanny partnership, between devil and time And it is in the midst of this chaos that we enter chapter one, with God sending his prophet as the next great offensive to save this broken universe "We interrupt this regularly scheduled broadcast for an emergency news update... it appears a meteor has just crashed into the surface of the earth" A star has fallen from the sky Some unadulterated son sent to speak immaculate word All it takes is an immaculate spirit But such spirits run a risk of raising hell And inciting such worldly demons that define the lines of rhyme and reason Soon he will know what it means to be bleeding
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At the right young age of eighteen I left the city to find my own Young and naive I became accustomed to electricity It lit up my blood, showed me the sun Gave me a place to put my faith Before I even met the girl of the same name I was sing ‘bout, I was singing ‘bout Electric thunder Gone live forever Least not forget Helter Skelter Moving on Getting gone Analog avalon Just like you were predestined To invest the best in cash not credit Built to forget But God is moving on, because God sent me God is with me and I am the prophet Mr. Supersonic they call me Summon tsunamis you won't forget me But be not mistaken my children This is a temple I'm building Not to be forsaken For you are only as lost as your best intention And I am the voice of rock n' roll I am the voice of the aching soul Please listen and seek salvation “This is your captain speaking. We’re about to begin descent into New Orleans. Uh… Buckle up. It’s looking a little rough out there.”
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Faythe 04:22
Porcelain celebrity, integral integer premature insanity I love it when she's close to me Certainly I don't believe in certainty But the blood she pumps in my philosophy An antisocial ranked in sociology She's right next to me, yet an interstellar apostrophe Celestial goddess of an apology, sensitive to my apathy She's the bass clef in my sixteen-beat heart march I know we just started, but don't stutter Just slumber before we turn under and over It all goes, Faythe Faythe, I need you girl It's all about Faythe Come save what's left of my Heart and soul She sees a castle but debates the conquer If there's one thing that scares her, it's structure Peaks my curiosity, bound by mediocrity Holds me close binds the holes in the smoke I'm spinning If she bleeds she don't tell you, if she bruises she shrugs it off, and if she feels she plays numb But I'm not deaf, dumb, or blind enough to accept a mindset with no hesitation Faythe, I need you girl It's all about Faythe Come save what's left of my Heart and soul She breaks my will, fills my spirits, drops my sword Some god bore witness to the miracle she performs Like a storm she's unstable, walking around with the form of an angel More sound than a subwoofer, more solid than ice She mends my spine, presses my lips, lifts my spirits Spiritual she may be a best expression at the church of never forgetting I long for what she sees and what she may have mistaken She's the ghost in my smile, the dust in my asylum, the word in my temple And through her I find Faythe Furthermore maybe if I could take the blame Be someone else, shake the pain while your plane's running away She always runs; she always moves She cuts to deuces faster than a junkie running out of the juice But I guess she was never really mine to lose, i guess she was never really mine to lose But that don't help explain the things she do Backing out of the one thing she could really use 7793, I can feel you drifting further away from me And turning slowly into to the ghost sleeping inside my dreams If never seeing is believing, I'm a dumbfound disciple Love-drunk stumbler, thunder heart-thumping disaster If you run from me, you'll never get faster And heed my words, take my advice You'll never know if you never even try I love it when we fall apart, I love it when you break my heart Faythe, I need you girl It's all about Faythe Come save what's left of my Heart and soul
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The day he met her He watched it all fall beneath her feet He watched it roll on the floor Made him feel like he never felt before Familiar unfamiliarity Familiar uncertainty Beautiful (Faythe) Beautiful (Faythe) Beautiful "Here we have the modern prophet with us answering some questions for us... To start with we were wondering what you had to say for yourself about all these fallen angels?" They can’t look up or they’ll be blinded They can’t fly or they’ll burn They’re all just fallen Fallen down
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I once met a man who showed promise But life to him was just an excuse to piss He shouldered all the light he could lift With a bottle in his hand and a dagger at society's belt He knew it was a weight he had never felt Fallen angels, oh How far down did you go now? Was it too late for all those demons to overflow into a world all your own? Bright like fire, a name she escaped Raising hell forever young She bruises easily, but don't need no sympathy since Mama didn't raise no, mama didn't raise no Fallen angels, oh How far down did you go now? Was it too late for all those demons to overflow into a world all your own? The man met her on a gloomy day Passing rains made for hesitation A sentiment, left unfamiliar to the void No father left to help them But a son left to abandon Holy as they come, it must not be there spirit Fallen angels, oh How far down did you go now? Was it too late for all those demons to overflow into a world all your own?
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Lord, I have never been so disgruntled Discomfort running under the surface I've got phantom pains in my migraine state I've been dreaming of while I'm sleeping love She pumps so much drugs in my air Dopamine breathing Insomnia dreaming In this nightmare, I don't know when I'll wake Strange place Over my head and under my heart Steep grave Keeping together whatever remains Deep pain I can't handle so much confusion Strange place When she's in my bed these places are strange Strange Place When she's in my bed these places are strange She say she temporary But hari kari ain’t the mindset for her to marry But she ain’t the one who’s left to be buried, Blood-leech poison, my state dehydrating Constantly vibing on my asylum My pain becomes spinal And I’m about to rap tap tap just like those old vinyls Just keep me afloat in this doped up river boat Leaning on dopamine Meaning to mean that I’m a pleaser Jesus, I ain’t ever seen her so much sweeter than this I’ve never known addiction sweeter She pumps so much drugs in my air Dopamine breathing Insomnia dreaming In this nightmare, I don't know when I'll wake And like that the prophet had fallen into a trap He was being poisoned Voices started to fade His head became faint Light refracted Time bent And he slipped into a slow-motion kaleidoscope A strange place unknown to the world above Lower and lower he sank until he found himself face to face with THE DEVIL and TIME And he was at their mercy “Welcome to the Hotel Of Glass, Mr. Deadman. Would you like to check in?” “Oh, pardon. You must not have heard… We’re all gone down here.”
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Stuck in the mirror left reflecting on our dedication Stupendous isolation constant contemplation Keeping your distance don’t mean I don’t miss it But it’s easy to waste time chasing a former state of mind, Love, and life Your face just gets so faded when its been separated And it’s a great loss But keep strong Don’t ever show your face since you lost your way And it’s a great loss But keep strong I never knew what you could do to me Joseph’s colors sold to slavery Is that silver treating you kind? Judas to Jesus Christ Kiss my cheek, condemn me kindly To the Hotel of Glass What was it that you said to me that night? “I’m so alone. Will you stay with me this time?” You’re sleeping ‘round ain’t fighting but flying Try and remind me what you were I’m dying for you baby Your face just gets so faded when its been separated And it’s a great loss But keep strong Don’t ever show your face since you lost your way And it’s a great loss But keep strong I never knew what you could do to me Joseph’s colors sold to slavery Is that silver treating you kind? Judas to Jesus Christ Kiss my cheek, condemn me kindly To the Hotel of Glass
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Parallax, crescendo, and the atom bomb Keep me at bay Take a prism and shine in my prism Tie the light straight brush dry envision it Imagine all the places we could go There’s not a way we can make this you know Fake me out, don’t shake me down I’ve spent too long in this shadow of a world Look at all the tragedy I’ve never seen anything like it before Maybe it’s a dream, maybe it’s reality Who really knows but I can’t believe my eyes And the sound of cries Parallax, crescendo, and the atom bomb Keep me at bay Parallax, crescendo, and the atom bomb Keep me at bay
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Heartbeat pumping I can’t catch my breath It’s been a long while running down this aisle And I’m falling with you and I can’t see Oh, you’ll pay what’s not due by you I didn’t know if it would be this easy But surely there’s another way out of here You’ve got me running You’ve got me chasing behind I just can’t keep up with you Running I just can’t keep up with you Running
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Talk to me Breathe the air around you Speak to me Let me feel at least a little peace Let me be Oh, let me be Free Where’s your simplest signal? Show me you’re awake Show me somebody’s out there It’s a cold world so small inside Burn me, burn me away I wanna be nothing but a licking flame I’ll smoke you out, burn your clothes Keep it beating yeah I wanna be burned away Fill up my lungs Give me your love Give me a reason to breathe She had feelings, but she killed them Sex don’t mean nothing to her Oh, Jesus Christ let me transcend This love of mine Burn me, burn me away I wanna be nothing but a licking flame I’ll smoke you out, burn your clothes Keep it beating yeah I wanna be burned away
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Monster 02:34
Monster I’m scared It’s been so long since I stared evil in the face Monster All I want is you I’ve never been more confused Yes it’s true I’ve got a monster Living under my bed she squeaks and she cries And she horrifies everything I’ve ever been She takes away and doesn’t let me go She doesn’t let me go, don’t you know it’s terrible Monster let me go There’s a world outside that I have yet to find You of all know that I must be selfish You of all know that I must be selfish She’s a monster Watch her roar Her fangs they bleed and gnash She’s a terrifying, electrifying monster And I don’t wanna be here alone with her She’s gonna eat me alive And I know what it’s like to die because of you And you’re just a monster Yes, you’re just a monster You’re just a monster
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My mind starts racing my body Since I ain’t got nobody Body up against my mind Who would’ve thought you were mine? Running the distance blind So hang up the telephone line You turn just like the tide Running the distance blind I burn just like the time Where’s my vital signs? I burn just like the time Running the distance blind You turn just like the tide Body up against my mind So hang up the telephone line Look at this wasted life Running the distance blind Body up against my mind So hang up the telephone line I’m breaking out before the dawn ahead becomes another storm Breaking out before the dawn ahead becomes another storm Breaking out, getting down Yeah Oh! I don’t know where I’m going now, love But I gotta
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I’m starving for your love I wanna drown myself in your love, yeah I can’t breathe without loving you, yeah-he I can’t look without seeing you Got me broken like a mirror I can’t see it clearer no No. No. No no no NO! Echoes and reflections Whispers and vibrations My love in pure concentration!
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Time 02:25
Time, Perfect antidote ultimate criminal So hard to find the sky The clocks only twenty paces behind Fate Fading graces, changing places in this race Strike the colors from it all Time don't make me beg of you beg of you To leave me alone let my heartbeat freely Go bother someone who cares Gravity ceases to challenge me
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Black Swan 03:23
Where did you go When I turned the lights out babe Where did you go, oh oh And did you it was never the end for me? Oh, black swan Run away from me Run away from me Where did you go When the lights were down low You gotta live a little, give a little It's gonna come back down down Hold me close Valley girl Living on top of that mountain of yours Abandon everything No one can hear you scream Oh it's way gone You know Oh it's always another game And another way to go Another grave My love was brave to know You got no shame That's no way to show
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Falls Apart 01:56
I remember when we were strangers Sober affection fades to drunken love And drunken love don't last Except for these long nights stuck in the past I ain't electric no more I can't get over this girl You've got me running I can't help thinking One for the books and one for the memories We're all just crooks Making pretend that we're living like we're dying When it all falls apart When it all falls apart Sometimes I wonder if all this anger Can keep me more broken than my fears Never shed no happy tears My head's been begging for novacaine But no one came I ain't electric no more I can't get over this girl You've got me running I can't help thinking One for the books and one for the memories We're all just crooks Making pretend that we're living like we're dying When it all falls apart When it all falls apart
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Son, listen Wake the fuck up! This is a message from the beyond Telling you that life goes on So pick up your bag of bones And become a lightning rod in a cyclone And conduct like a mother fucker who missed his train Because a storm is gonna rain no matter what you do So wake the fuck up Carpe diem Seize the day Welcome to the underside, the underside of soul Forever is the only time, the only time I know I ain't no sinner for some senator's crime Don't feed the beast with your peace of mind You got your head held high Neck too skinny Spine to weak, killed too many, to read the signs and decide Nothing about this comedy is divine You're too blind, too dumb, or just too high I must've made a mistake You should be medicated boy Name's lucifer, dots uncrossed and t's not forgotten I'm not the angel I was Sure as shit ain't no prodigal son The sun's been blinding me all my life The sun's been blinding me down Welcome to the underside of soul Living in the land with no sunshine No appetite Jesus Christ never minded if he wasn't proven right They say you're taking too many pills for your emptiness Just pop, pop, pop... Well... I'm truly envious Understand me the only thing that's reel is where the tape spins It's the beat of the heart, not the smoke and mirrors Hollywood hot pink, hot shit, don't make a fucking difference Smoking cigarettes or counting silhouettes in an X-ray Since life is just an ashtray Might as well kiss it, might as well miss it, since you're pissing it all away The comeback kid can't get his fix of heartache Hell-bent on dying fire and brimstone in the age of no ozone Only lord knows I ain't scared of no holy ghost Name's lucifer The original lyricist (Name's Lucifer) Son of a bitch still wrestling with nixon's spirit (Name's Lucifer) Son of a cokehead, crackhead black epidemic, incarcerated imprisoned As part of a bad trip It's just acid rain wrapped up in flip cup trap party rabbit hat haberdashery America (Name's Lucifer) And I'm here to drop some real knowledge bombs These souls ain't been free in ages! I don't know what kind of reality you've been living in this is where souls go to die But you ain't dying You got some fight in you He took your lightning so use your thunder Now that the beat's been properly restored You best be taking me back to like it was before I shalt not want for nothing more I know all that this glass can do is hurt Let me be the first to welcome you to planet earth Just a bunch of ocean and a couple handfuls of dirt The only way to resuscitate is to reverberate Aluminum hydroxide polyester dicarbonate I reiterate Things aren’t necessarily a mystery unless you let em' be If you're needing electricity why don't you take a listen to all these souls in misery Don't let her pull on your heartstrings I'm sure you had other dreams before you met her But love is just a broken thing in America Just another tie you get to sever Just another line you think is clever Or whatever If she doesn't call it'd probably be for the better Or whatever the weather You gotta learn to live and live to learn That's the only way you ain't gone get burned You best not be getting burned And get to it Show em' your soul Mama I'm crying Mama I'm trying But the real world don't offer me no guidance Mama Where did daddy run off to? Mama ‘Cause the bank keeps ringing for him to pay his dues I know I don't have a penny to my name But at least I own my name Don't run don't stray I just tell it like they tell it on the television You give no grief you won't get it You cut your strings you ain't livin I could spend my whole life trying to reach you But I could never connect with the void I just don't get down with your choices But you do you and I'll do me That's what it means to be family It means anything, everything, debauchery, ecstasy Last thing I heard you was out cold in the hospital Tried drowning your demons but you broke your bottle She broke your throne she cut your hair These broken bones can't go nowhere While I get lifted These days I get high off anything my mind can take But I guess that's more than you could say While you're getting low, burning I'll be ascending Consider your sentence ended.
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Blend my colors make me new Cause I’m just about to sing the blues But that black beating cruel world Starts to turn around beneath my feet, yeah Tape up my cuts Turn up this treasure trove chest Dig out my heart Shake out its pockets Tape up my cuts Turn up this
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Mr. Deadman 03:11
Excuse me forgetting to introduce myself They call me Mr. Deadman around these parts All because some beauty came into my life and Shattered my heart So if you see me walking ‘round these streets Say hello Mr. Deadman, how do you do? Well, I’m a dead man and she’s a gone girl
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Back from the dead Rhythm and blues in sweeping resurgence Along with it, the prophet has returned! Twelve months ago he disappeared without a trace Not so much as a whisper Many presumed him to be dead Gone from the Earth but not from our hearts and minds But now he is back and eager to prove us wrong He seems to have crawled his way up from the depths of hell Today the man you have known only as the prophet is restored under the new moniker Mr. Deadman That's right. You heard it here first folks. Here now to deliver us, the prophet himself You're on air Mr. Deadman
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Craving 03:18
Hey there, lady I want to talk to you and make it We could be something If you want to Darling I’m craving you Craving Craving you Craving Craving you Maybe I’m crazy Since I’m in love with you already But I know we can make it child As soon as you don’t run away from craving Craving Craving you Craving Craving you
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It’s just a morning in the aftermath And the light of day just seems to shake its way Through my bones It keeps coming on Growing stronger and stronger and stronger but I don’t wanna fight no more I don’t wanna let this feeling go away From all those days I am older now and you somehow were here for it all Here for it all Here for it all, all For it all, all All, all For it all, all Here for it all Here for it all, yeah! Watch him round the corner The heat is growing nearer But you somehow just can’t seem to hear it And I I know I don’t try as much as I could But that’s the curse of this generation We don’t know how to write good songs We think it’s a lost cause But we were here for it all, here for it all Here for it all All, all For it all, all All Wooh, ooh Wooh, ooh Woooooh Don’t let go Cause I know what’s gotten into you You’ve taken too many of those second chances in advance of romances And now they’ve run out and you’re falling back to the ground
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Superman 04:21
Too bad I can’t be superman When these walls won’t hold me in Say my prayers go straight to bed Hopefully God is listening It’s been a long day Hope that we all come out okay Oh, what did I do? What did I do? I got all these spirits around me now I didn’t deserve all these angels lined up here to save my poor soul If youth has got me restless, then my love has got me reckless Who’s gonna save me tonight? Too bad I can’t be superman Standing here with my heart in my hands Spend my days pushing daisies Counting fortunes laid to waste Skipping stones Skin and bones always are aching It’s been a long day Hope that we all come out okay Oh, what did I do? What did I do? I got all these spirits around me now I didn’t deserve all these angels lined up here to save my poor soul If youth has got me restless, then my love has got me reckless Who’s gonna save me tonight?
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Start the car there's no school today Found another reason to live another day There's no giving back just getting up, getting off, and moving on I know it's a grind But it's all gonna come down to you Running away Yes it's all gonna come down to you Running away At the end of the day We're a little bit weaker At the end of the day We just wanna hold on At the end of the day We just wanna keep what we've got and pay no mind to nothing but mine
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Finale 06:51
Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooh Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooh Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooh A long and lonesome time ago I was talking to some old ghosts They lay me down softly With a lullabye so deep and sweet It crept deep in midnight dreams So beautiful with moonlight soft upon your face (Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooh) (Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooh) Take me higher I’ve seen so many suns come and go Since I’ve been away from home As I walk among the castles I tear them down to sand There’s one thing to be a rebel Another to be a man If I were to die today How long would my body stay Before turning in my grave And who will take my mortal soul If Jesus Christ says heavens full Or my heart is heavy as a stone (Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooh) (Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooh) I’ve seen so many suns come and go Since I’ve been away from home As I walk among the castles I tear them down to sand There’s one thing to be a rebel Another to be a man I’ve got an encore performance at the show And a whole lot of weight on my shoulders You know I got some soul But I ain’t no fucking soldier I’m a son of a gun loaded to the brim Lightning bolts is my original sin I’m spitting fire in the hearts of men I’m gonna oh, oh, oh Young boy trying to get wise Trying to see the world through open eyes But you’ve been searching for the wrong signs You have yet to see the light Light of the sun, oh Requiem for the night Too many stars in the sky Soon an angel will rise Oh, no Some worlds want to be saved Some don't This one is a special case Gods among us never fit in This place simply can't sustain the infinite A prophet's verse is given to transcend Time was once a force to be reckoned with But even he could not hold back a heart's content Of the sun, of the stars Of the body, of the heart Solaris

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A massive alternative rock/pop concept album that spans twenty-six tracks and measures an hour and a half in duration. Joe Diliberto spent over a year conceptualizing, writing, recording, producing, mixing, and mastering this entirely continuous debut LP, Solaris.

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released May 22, 2018

All songs written by Joe Diliberto
Produced, Mixed, and Recorded by Joe Diliberto

Additional Talent:
Narration - Cody Keech
Trumpet - Daniel Johnson, Brian Maassen
Saxophone - Josh Constantine
Keyboard/Organ/Synth - Justin "JTown" Chestang
Drums - Cruel Mule, Kevin Stockel
Lobby Attendant - Sabelo Jupiter

Artwork © 2018 Joe Diliberto
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Joe Diliberto is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer from Birmingham, Alabama. Joe's music has roots in the acoustic singer-songwriter genre, however he has moved on to produce works and arrangements that incorporate his fascination with electric guitar. Because of his eclectic taste in music, Joe finds inspiration from a variety of sources such as R&B, Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Pop. ... more

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