A Pleasant Deception

by Zot the Bot

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This is a pretty RAW and Low-Fi recording made with a handheld digital recorder and multi-tracked/mixed using Audacity. The lyrics were originally written in a notebook from 1986 (!). The complete melody was improvised and memorized at that time. This song's lyrics grew out of various dialogues (with my co-worker, Frank) on perception, belief systems, and non-anthropocentric cosmologies. If you wish to re-record (or remix) this song, please contact the artist here and we can discuss it.
WATCH the MUSIC VIDEO (!) here: youtu.be/okhs2GakXL4

lyrics

A Pleasant Deception [lyrics by Zot the Bot / M.A.R.]

It's a house of sand
the ring on your hand
it's a god we say will understand
it's the will and a promise of salvation
it's a pleasant deception
it's a pleasant deception

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh ohhh...
Oh, no-no-no, no, noo...

and it all goes up
and it all comes down
and it all goes away
and it all comes around

It's a pot of gold
that's bought and sold
it's the thought that thinks you'll never get old
it's the pill and a promise of sedation
it's a pleasant deception
it's a pleasant deception

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh ohhh...
Oh, no-no-no, no, no...

and it all goes up
and it all comes down
and it all goes away
and it all comes around

It was meant to be
just you and me
a better friend to you than you are to me
It's the thrill and a promise of connection
it's a pleasant deception
it's a pleasant deception

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh ohhh...
Oh, no-no-no, no, no...

and it all goes up
and it all comes down
and it all goes away
and it all comes around

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh ohhh...
Oh, no-no-no, no, no...

and it all goes up
and it all comes down
and it all goes away
and it all comes around

It's a pleasant deception.

credits

released April 16, 2023
Guitar, vocal, music and lyrics, and audio mixing by ZTB / M.A.R.
Audio samples from the audio book 'Brain Bugs' by Dean Buonomano via archive.org (used with permission from the author).

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Zot the Bot Seattle, Washington

ZtB is unreal. M.A.R. is real...and a multi-media artist, poet, and designer- inventor living in the Pac NW (USA) and sometimes on other imaginary planes of existence.

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