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.​.​.​To Love and Be Loved

by Tiffani Travesty

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1.
In my heart I'm such a fuss Permissive and promiscuous I was made with so much love to give In the past I collected dust Watching the world with wanderlust Now I shall love you as long as I shall live We share the treasures of our secret abyss The untarnished oasis of our forbidden wilderness We can free our fears like ghosts to a better place Tears of hope even on our darkest days When I was a little girl hiding in plain sight I viewed the world in black and white Before I knew it things were simple no more There wasn't much of which I could be sure But as we spend our days together In this feeling that will last forever You fill me with emotions of all that I adore At your cataclysmic love my heavens scream The insatiable flames purr and hiss I'm filled with the divine feminine whatever that means I'll even love myself if you insist We share the treasures of our secret abyss The untarnished oasis of our forbidden wilderness We can free our fears like ghosts to a better place Tears of hope even on our darkest days
2.
You're playing it cool and smart but inside you're raging You're a sycophant a worthless hypocrite not even worth engaging It's the concept not the label that makes you unstable You really thought you brought something to the table You can go away no one's asking you to stay You never evolved a day past Being someone who belittles others just for laughs Like your mediocre ancestors before you You let other noncontributing social parasites do your thinking for you You don't know my bones or my chromosomes You're naive to percieve what you see You must feel so alone in your misery Well that's fine, that's fine by me The world is changing and you're scared I hope your life is a fucking nightmare You say I'm mentally ill, well you're not wrong That's blatantly apparent to anyone who listens to my songs You're mistaking the cure for the cause You'd have your ignorance legislated into laws It's not just transphobia in which you're swimmin' Your attitude reflects disdain for all women Your stupidity supersedes your use I pray to God that you don't reproduce You don't know my bones or my chromosomes You're naive to percieve what you see You must feel so alone in your misery Well that's fine, that's fine by me The world is changing and you're scared I hope your life is a fucking nightmare Stomp the fascists out, tread on them! No safe space for hate Stomp the fascists out, tread on them! Before it's too late Stomp the fascists out, tread on them! With a high heeled kick to the ass Smash their hierarchal society into pieces of broken glass!
3.
Caressed by moonlight your raven hair shines blue like the snow on a winter's night as the autumn hibernates Enwreathed in your darkness, in your warm embrace I glow A moment eternal where time disintegrates In the dread of life's flow I'm a carried by your gentle river A sedimentary soul under curse self-imposed Your lonely eyes upon me mean I am forgiven. You are so lonely, I want to fix you You are so lovely, I want to feel you You look so lost, I want to find you You are so sweet, I want to keep you A benevolent chemical tempest rages in me The door is open and everything changes that you see Your eyes and heart forget the past Damage fades away from my and I'm under a spell From my most spacebound fantasies for you I fell Into your garden of demons I was cast You are so lonely, I want to fix you You are so lovely, I want to feel you You look so lost, I want to find you You are so cute, I want to keep you I can be your dark angel, baby and you can be my vampire We'll let the flames burn into the night with desire I know it's a little cliché but baby that's okay I want somebody to love me that I won't scare away
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Another amaranthine rain cascades into my bottomless well Cold unrelenting pain, a dampened day in Hell A wound in this garden of my life, I've carved for myself Eviscerate, deflorate this paradise Dig darkly deeper into the wicked ways of this world Tomorrow's forests uprooted of glorious potential At which time seemed inconsequential, it's transcendental As this world blackened I sought escape within Digging a well to drown myself in Nature, reclaim me! buried by shadows and time Nature, reclaim me! I die Nature, reclaim me! I meet my demise Nature, reclaim me! I hold myself afloat til I ascend to the top The rain lasts forever never gonna stop Will I die alone? Like an anchor I descend Is the light I see my rescue or my end? Survival began when life became lethal A free for all of good versus evil Human nature spawned corruption and contagion I'm drowning in the sorrow of my own creation I gave up and died years like cobwebs unwound The Earth covered the well where I had drowned The Cacophony never made a sound Light never left that dying land For my taste of life was bitter Summer was a quest to love again I was the grim frostbitten Winter Nature, reclaim me! buried by shadows and time Nature, reclaim me! I die Nature, reclaim me! Can you dig it? Nature, reclaim me! I die
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Jamie was sitting in her room playing Minecraft She hadn't been to school in weeks because it wasn't safe The cops came and took her away from her family They said "You don't belong any place." She tried to use the bathroom and wanted to play a sport Bullying your children is what your elected representatives support They say that we're just pretending They say the world must be ending You're zombies of the media you eat what they feed ya We have always been, you are just a trend Molly was living on the street On a diet of week-old food and sleep Like 40% of unhoused youth She carried too inconvenient a truth Now she'd rather live alone with no money in her pocket Than go back to living in a closet They say that we're just pretending They say the world must be ending You're zombies of the media you eat what they feed ya We have always been, you are just a trend Ronnie came back from the war She said she didn't know what she fought and bled for She said the only thing she knew was killing She spiraled into addiction When her wife died she fell into deep depression But that didn't stop her transition Islan was a young professional Daughter to her loving mother Her asshole boyfriend murdered her when his friends laughed at him He said he was fooled by his lover After a 12 year sentence he will be free To see his fucking family They say that we're just pretending They say the world must be ending You're zombies of the media you eat what they feed ya We have always been, you are just a trend They want you to hide They want you to hold it all inside They want to deride Progress that took decades to arrive We will survive Outlive them all and thrive
6.
I'm hopping on the last train to nowhere I've been riding this train all my days And too my surprise the train to nowhere hasn't taken me anyplace I'm not really sure where I'm headed I just kindof wind up there But I can give a description of the bridges I have burned That have led me to this thoroughfare I'm hopping on the last train to nowhere I've been on the road for so long Soaking up all the fun from all the somewheres that I can Cause nowhere is where I belong Every now and then I meet a friendly face Someone to share my company They always get off at one stop or the next No one wants to go nowhere with me I've been sleeping in this boxcar for sometime My head's all trapped in a daze This track is a rollercoaster And the map to myself is a maze All I got's my purse and mirror But I hate to look at my face I want to jump into the moonlit river and disappear without a trace I meet the porter at the station He says who or whatever you are, you have to pay But I don't have any money I drank and smoked it all away He disappeared before my very eyes The conductor drove the train without a head The engine was on fire and all the passengers were dead Now the eyes of the law are on me But I didn't kill nobody I swear I just stare out the window Riding on the train to nowhere Riding on the train to nowhere and I don't even care Riding on the train to nowhere, I don't even feel despair
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For the brief time stardust becomes us A trial period of reality exists In this time between two great nothings We experience the extremes of love and death And everything in between It's all great well I mean When I can be euphoric with you When you see the beauty in all but yourself Your eyes are prisms that showed me the colors Every day can be an adventure When you are loved by someone special When you change and evolve together Like we're supposed to do I feel like I am glowing I see you changing too, your own gift to this life Our paths are our own yet entwining Your smile is worth the tears of angels You take me to strange and beautiful places When we're together I can see Beauty in this reality When you see the beauty in others but not yourself Your eyes are prisms that showed me the colors Every day can be an adventure When you are loved by someone special
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Fallen angels dance the night away Shambling zombies shuffle with craze Tortured hums spew from burning guitars Tears evaporate like dying stars A tortured soul drenched in kerosene burns to beyond A spectral semblance returns from oblivion In the glow of the moon I burn down to my bones Such sweet agony my final dying moans Don't cry it's all so phantasmagorical From the embers of creation, I'm almost corporeal You are all that is beautiful to me For the world and all that live here it's too late Nothing we do , we can placate ourselves But to what unjust fate? All we can do is pass the time and hold it all in And break it down so it begins again In the glow of the moon I burn down to my bones Such sweet agony my final dying moans Don't cry it's all so phantasmagorical From the embers of creation, I'm almost corporeal My soul dwells in the spirit world, in a castle of bone In fantasies that kept me company Bask in the funeral pyre, you're never alone The infernal passion sets you free

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There is much to say about this album. Over the last three years I have overcome a lot, and have learned to be at my most creative, and to live life like I am experiencing it for the first time. This album is about self-love, romantic love, and taking a stand against hate.
The title is derived from a quote by anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman.
"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”

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released July 20, 2023

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Tiffani Travesty Hammondsport, New York

One woman band who lives in the woods.
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