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Karmaland

by Caffeine Sunday

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1.
Something Good 04:41
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I’ve been looking for another friend to find the floor We’ve been killing time and doing fine Step on up to the human touch I could change your life forever Kiss me and we’ll leave it all behind We’re forever young and so undone Why can’t we have this one We have no desire to settle Holding out for better weather Look into your heart I’ll help you find The time is now or never Kiss me and we’ll never hit rewind do do do do do do find your way to something good gotta hold an angel in my hand and fly away We’ve lost our way without belief Is love the cure for this disease It’s up to you to listen Heaven knows just what you’re missing I wanna bring you to your knees I wanna set your spirit free I’ll give you something good do do do do do do find your way to something good gotta hold an angel in my hand and fly away
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Final 05:10
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A coffee and a sofa I study in public and watch your life unfold everything’s a buzz around us a career or so I’m told he doesn’t care, shows his distaste in public I never would go there everything is cold around you and I do is stare This time of year can be so cruel for me and you A coffee and a notebook I’m educated Mr Cool and so suave I try to seem to distant but I hear every word you say it seems to easy to convince myself I’d just be in your way and as the tears grow in your eyes you’re gone This time of year can be so cruel for me and you Your eyes covered in love’s disguise but I still recognize a wounded girl The hours have passed by another chapter is read and left behind these useless facts control me but they’re the last thing on my mind I don’t look forward to my walk home I walk the cold alone you’re left to his warm car and all those broken bones Your eyes covered in love’s disguise but I still recognize a wounded girl this time of year can be so cruel…
3.
No One 04:11
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what happened to me could happen to you let this be a warning and a liberation too i know how you feel your searching is through we’ll always be together but together turns to never far too soon you can believe if you want that this was meant to be no one is the one i know what i’ve seen no one is the onei know what i feel no one has just one shot at love no one is the one including you no one is the one you know it’s true no one could ever be the one forget what you’ve heard or trust what you read or seen in movies let them go instead ‘cos this is your life true reality don’t think it couldn’t happen or another shining knight will ride away it’s tough to face the facts that nothing ever stays no one is the one i know what i’ve seen no one is the one i know what i feel no one has just one shot at love no one is the one including you no one is the one you know it’s true no one could ever be the one
4.
Rottenberry 03:34
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complaint box in a shitty cafeteria the note she wrote removed all doubt i should have known if i ate the rottenberries i’d be up all night puking my guts out oh oh oh she does it ‘cos she can intoxicating me oh yeah oh oh oh she takes me by the hand the sweetest waste of time believe me rottenberry makes the world go round another trip to the body shop pick up another case to knock me out money clothes cigarettes and alcohol my little pi phi girl can never do without oh oh oh she does it ‘cos she can intoxicating me oh yeah oh oh oh she takes me by the hand the sweetest waste of time believe me rottenberry makes the world go round uptight shop right head down to the gap tonight just like everybody said she would cold outside and i have died just like everybody said i would oh oh oh she does it ‘cos she can intoxicating me oh yeah oh oh oh she takes me by the hand the sweetest waste of time believe me rottenberry makes the world go round oh oh oh she does it ‘cos she can intoxicating me oh yeah oh oh oh she takes me by the hand the sweetest waste of time believe me rottenberry makes the world go round
5.
Outside View 04:24
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this was out town once this was our home we dreamed of getting out now time has left you going nowhere we knew our future too big for here now you’ve dug an open pit and thrown your future in this was our town once so long ago we wanted to leave this place now it’s all yours please don’t come crying I don’t care anymore you used to preach the big ideals now it seems the talk was bigger after all nahhh... don’t know if it was planned but I guess it was deserved it’s not like you’ve been damned just forgotten from the world you should know better but you’re still here you can’t change the world anymore you can’t even change your faith you can try and fool yourself and say that you’ve done well happy glad to be here maybe it’s better that way but you cannot hide from me what you’re trying to hide from you from the view outside your window wasted talent’s all I see
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Left Side Brain 07:38
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well all those times you warned me so i never thought you’d do it though while every waking hour you cut the ties that bind i never tried to pretend you were mine from a younger time another chance comes by and it ends the same bittersweet romantic nostalgic but nothing ever stays the same you’re out of time i’m out of my mind bittersweet romantic nostalgic i stand here in the pouring rain and wait for the sun to come out again well all those times you opened your mouth and you tried to care but nothing came out you didn’t have to lie i expected nothing and from half a world away you’re still making promises did you think i wouldn’t see you haven’t changed? bittersweet romantic nostalgic but nothing ever stays the same you’re out of time i’m out of my mind bittersweet romantic nostalgic i stand here in the pouring rain and wait for the sun to come out again well all those times you smiled that lie and i bought it lived it and sold it who ever thought it would end that way? i couldn’t let it happen again with the screaming and tearing and babies and wondering why i gave you my name bittersweet romantic nostalgic but nothing ever stays the same you’re out of time i’m out of my mind bittersweet romantic nostalgic i stand here in the pouring rain and wait for the sun to come out again
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Newport Beach 04:50
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running on down our private beach gazing through smoky eyes any one mistake's too much to take so tonight we live a lie another time i’d love to make you mine you could make my every dream come true oh yeah in newport beach the sun shines down on everyone but we can’t stop tide and time everything's moving on automatic watch my fingers run through her hair getting caught up in this movie magic something dangerous but i don’t care wanting to tame the ocean and promising another time inside and out with you is so divine another time i’d love to make you mine you could make my every dream come true oh yeah in newport beach the sun shines down on everyone but we can’t stop tide and time strumming so soft a whisper secrets in the night sky holding close in eternal moments feel the sting of a naked sigh another time i’d love to make you mine you could make my every dream come true oh yeah in newport beach the sun shines down on everyone but we can’t stop time and tide forget about the past does something this good ever last? and i just can’t seem to take this off fast enough i just can’t seem to get close enough
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Sleeping Pill 06:05
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the way you danced made me feel alive your eyes stared into mine something beautiful arrived the way you talk the way you move the twinkle in your eye a pause a look and a smile an impulse denied taste without the C pass the test so easily hold me soft and tenderly fate is gone it seems when I dream of you and me I wanna sleep all day I'll call in sick I'll pray for rain anything at all to make you stay when I dream of you and me I wanna sleep all day cos when I lie in bed and dream you're laying there with me for one more day I don't care if we look like fools or what tomorrow brings I don't believe you're real but here you are with me for many nights I'll spend alone have melted away when I walked into your life today and you stole me away taste without the C pass the test so easily hold me soft and tenderly fate is gone it seems when I dream of you and me I wanna sleep all day I'll call in sick I'll pray for rain anything at all to make you stay when I dream of you and me I wanna sleep all day cos when I lie in bed and dream you're laying there with me for one more day dissolves so sweet upon your tongue close your eyes and drift away this hit's not long enough my backbone gives so much support when I'm lying in my bed late at night in a spinning room and I inhale much too soon the way you danced made me feel alive your eyes stared into mine something beautiful arrived taste without the C pass the test so easily hold me soft and tenderly wait - what's that you say? when I dream of you and me I wanna sleep all day I'll call in sick I'll pray for rain anything at all to make you stay when I dream of you and me I wanna sleep all day cos when I lie in bed and dream you're laying there with me for one more day
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I'm Still Here 05:33
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when you say goodbye and you leave there's nothing left but the moon in my eyes still young enough to believe but man enough to know what this means I miss you here with me now nothing to do but not be where you are now far from the passion we once had I will always love you disconnect me from the past I will always love you far from your home and wherever you go I'll still be here wishing you were near when you say goodbye that's all you know I laid in bed awake all night 'cos who can sleep when the bed's on fire and my arms are wrapped around my head and I'll never forget what they wanted to hold last night far from the passion we once had I will always love you disconnect me from the past I will always love you far from your home and wherever you go I'll still be here wishing you were near ten years from now won't seem so long ago when we're 30 will you remember who is home when the phone rings on some dirty night alone and will I be the name would I be the name would I be the name and would it be the same but for tonight hold my hand grip it tight and watch me fall far from the passion we once had I will always love you disconnect me from the past I will always love you far from your home and wherever you go I'll still be here wishing you were near
10.
Open Letter 03:18
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this is an open letter it closes up the past and I wrote it to myself to say how lucky I feel today I need to thank you very much I need to thank you very much for being such a bitch to me you were so proud of how rude you were when you ran but it was the best day of my life by far gone without a trace less time gone to waste I'm watching the sunrise on my room and I have to say I like the way I get to watch it on my own not tell you all about it on the phone there may not be roses for me now but I say at least the vase isn't leaking anymore on my floor the pleasure of the past is knowing that it's gone although time is no cure but I'm feeling better and I know just how I feel I feel like living again gone without a trace less time gone to waste and I don't care anymore I don't care anymore I don't care anymore I don't care anymore I don't care anymore I don't care anymore I don't care anymore I don't care anymore I don't care anymore I don't care anymore
11.
Don't Cry 04:32
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it never meant to be this way we were the perfect ones but I’m dead today and when I turn around and see your smiling face I can feel another broken heart again please don’t cry maybe you’ll be mine again everyone can see but you but they just watch in silence there’s nothing they can do and when you close yourself and take away your hand you leave behind a broken hearted man please don’t cry maybe you’ll be mine again baby don’t leave me I can’t live without you you can’t live without me no matter what you do what will I do now? you built me up for so long just to rip it all away just when I was so strong years together promises swore are gone in one whisper just like that you don’t love me anymore I don’t have anything now don’t have anyone now don’t know anything at all don’t understand how don’t understand why don’t believe it don't know will break my fall except three words I’m longing to hear and I know you want to say to me I know you don’t believe me now but I can read it in your eyes, it’s plain to see please don’t ask me how I know 'cos I can’t say I just feel inside you’ll be back again someday please don’t cry maybe you’ll be mine again we’ve come so far our love shouldn’t have to be so hard please don’t cry 'cos with a little time and with a little luck maybe you'll be mine or maybe I just like to think that way
12.
Love Me If She Dance - Performance Mix 06:05
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many years long ago it seems we knew each other well and even though we’ve been apart so long to look it’d be hard to tell day by day, year by year I have to know - where did it go? first you then me, then the rest of the world you’d think we’d have nowhere else to go babe I need to know does it show? when we’re dancing toe to toe together it’s just me and you until tomorrow something always kept us close together life kept us apart even after all these years on our own there’s still something here inside our hearts I can see them staring at us talking about us tonight it feels like we’re in a big glass cage and baby you’re centre stage tonight babe I need to know does it show? to the outside world we know we're old friends so let's play along until tomorrow tonight you stood there smiling and silent looking deep into my eyes so hard I blushed you told me I was dangerous then you gave me a dangerous touch babe I can’t let go tonight I want more but when apart we understand in this life we’ll never know what we had in store but do you let it show that you love me so? when we’re dancing all alone there’s no one else that means more until tomorrow babe I need to know does it show? when we’re dancing toe to toe together it’s just me and you until tomorrow babe I need to know does it show? to the outside world we know we're old friends so let's play along until tomorrow
13.
Waiting For A Whisper - Rehab Remix 06:20
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everything green has gone away when I had so much more to say and I think back to yesterday no time to turn away let me hear you whisper you live me now I know who you are now I know just what you mean to me I walk alone with you we've got nothing left to do I'll never fall for you until I hear those words so true let me hear you whisper you love me now I know who you are now I know just what you mean to me we'll always wonder if we can but will you ever understand hold your heart out to this man I'll fall for it again let me hear you whisper you love me

about

The recording of Karmaland began, unbelievably it seems, back in the summer of 1999. There was a vague concept of recording a new album after the release of 1998's Detox, but no real plan or target.

A project studio was set up in Christopher's bedroom inside the small, old house he and Ryan lived in just off Whyte Avenue in Edmonton. The idea was just to see what the new setup would sound like, compared to the tiny home studio used for Detox. But the idea instantly became clear when one evening, while playing around with a friend's synthesizer, Christopher came up with the music for a new song, a dark sounding ballad that would later become Outside View. The song was the first exercise in learning the art of computer hard disc recording. From there on, the possibilities took shape.

Other songs Caffeine Sunday had written but not recorded to that point became further experiments in recording. By Christmas, they had recorded a CD maxi-single of Final, a track originally recorded for Detox.

The recording process carried into spring 2000. One improvement led to the need for another. Software required more memory. More memory led to more storage needs. Storage led to backup requirements. New keyboards were bought. A new ribbon vocal mic followed.

Little by little, a full-fledged studio was taking shape. But that summer, while recording Rottenberry, the hard disc used for recording, called an Orb drive, crashed and burned. Five songs were lost and unrecoverable. A sixth was a garbled mess.

The event set back the recording of karmaland by months, and subsequent crashes kept progress going on a two steps ahead-one step behind basis. But bit by bit synth lines were recorded, lyrics rewritten, tracks mixed and arranged. By the end of 2000 recording was wrapping up.

And in November, Ryan announced he was leaving for Taiwan in six weeks. Recording of songs with his vocals were quickly finished, and with the inclusion of a couple remixes, the project was shipped to Candisc CD duplicators in March 2001.

The final result - an album of 11 original tracks and two remixes of detox songs.

May the Orb rest in peace.

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released April 28, 2001

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