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SOPRA

by Big Caesar

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1.
On these ancient cobble streets - traces of a home I carry forward to this day, the distant evermore Evening is a resting stage, an empire in the sky Draped across the mountains to the corners of my eyes It’s a dark “hallelujah” For I know you once were too I retrace every step and storied move Shadows all down the street Cracked and sacred urns A thousand histories I’ve yet to learn In the Old Meridian I am as you were My solemn own trajectory ambles to the fold Bridging raging rivers which divide the new and old Even streams and tributaries parched by callous sun Never cease to spread the poetry from whence we come A rose in the ashes still pricks the naked hand A never ending homage to this land Shadows all down the street Show me where and when I never thought I’d see you here again Infinite histories fade into the earth And leave behind a single, fateful word That in the Old Meridian I am as you were Oh, I welcome you to see why In the South they sing of coastal seas Whose redolence still comforts me Shadows walk down the street Show me where and when I never thought I’d see you once again Infinite histories bleed into the earth And merge into a single truth interred If you watch down on me, I’m doing all I can I really hope to be a better man That in the Old Meridian you were as I am
2.
In the only town I know Laced with hills up to its folds Down the peninsula a grave and final blitz Save the partisans resist So we found a cave to stay And Father locked the girls away I cased the mountaintops for all that I could hear But just one time I saw not fear Please - hide me from the war I’ll keep you from the darkness I’ll save you from the storm In a city far true north Anna screamed in silence, Swore And every breath she risks reverberates the shelves Of the empty volumes around As the evil occupies And iron gates of hate arise She dreams a cunning boy and a stony edifice And for once a beat of existence Please - hide me from the war I’ll keep you from the darkness I’ll save you from the storm She spoke a quiet note into the winds of the storm It slowly grows from words on a page to the force of our pulse I know every sign of sleep Since they have all forsaken me But when I dream it’s filled with visions of a girl Who brings hope to this dying world
3.
Tell it to me girl, have you something more to say? Why don’t you stick around, at least another day? Like every glance or late-night call Was just an afterthought A means to end it all Don’t you see the signs - I could be your right of way Take you by the hand and leave you well Astray Fear you not for we’re in two Could you leave it all behind I think I could for you And I wonder how much more that I can take By my bedside Handing you my heart to break Take me to the land where you Hide a thousand miles away and out of touch You, my deathless muse Fare thee well until we meet a second time Every little world shuffled on repeat Like a lullaby, caressing me to sleep I'm a-goin' away for a while I couldn't find the voice to speak I left you with a smile Lest you forget bled in ink I've jotted down Every promise leaving me beyond all doubt Take me to the land where you Hide a thousand miles away and out of touch You, my deathless muse Fare thee well until we meet a second time Take me to the land where you Hide a thousand miles away and out of touch You, undying muse Fare thee well until we meet a second time
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Bangarang! 04:44
Oh you let me be so bad Be the vice you never had Dance away into the night with me Help me now to sing this song You only ever hum along Scream the highs Moan the lows And shake Tell me all those lovely lies Hesitate and improvise Your damsel in disguise drunk with delight Don’t you know it’s all pretend? I’ll play along until the end And come around if you should call again Joanna, you said it all and more tonight Won’t you wipe away your teary eyes I threw everything on the line I’ll be fine You really got a hold on me, yeah You really got a hold on me, yeah It’s not my M.O. to let you go That doesn’t feel right All that i want is you on top To stay and sit tight Oh! You really got a hold on me, yeah You really got a hold on me, yeah Open and close i don’t suppose You care to stay awake So lay down and dream up gifts to bring Or things to rob and take I won’t, I won’t wallow in my doubts Or rest upon, rest upon my dreams Come on, come on, tell me all about The things we could, the things we could achieve I won’t, I won’t wallow in my doubts Or rest upon, rest upon my dreams Come on, come on, tell me all about What we could, what we’ll never be
5.
If I had a way to find Where it is you call home I wouldn't lose my voice Shouting in the wind Praying somehow you'll hear Lost in time So dark so divine For all the love I control For all your beauty So extolled Dance with grace Fight in bold We grow old A pair of heavy eyes in the summer hue of a city avenue You finally met your match In this endless game While the rest, they pray for rain Staring right into the suns of your eyes I tried to find a way around The distance to your soul Where you burn Where you're cold I suppose
6.
It's going on two weeks Yeah we've lost the will to speak In a game of give or take that's closely fought But before this ship does sink can I have just one more drink? So not to think all that which could have been Now has come to naught Well it's going on a month That I've longed for your sweet touch and I'm drawing certain blanks in the between Like was it ever good? Or have I misunderstood? Reconstructed fragments faded into silvery daydreams Oh For every trip and tumble Well I've fumbled fifty words that I meant to say a different way But nothing would have worked It's a shame to come to terms It's going on a year And it's yet to disappear The doubt that lingers languidly about And it burdens me to have to say That I thought we'd end up okay But clearly victim to some things You never can rebound Oh For every slip and stumble Well I fumbled forty-five Shitty scripted lines At least I tried to outrun my demise "At least I tried" is more than you could say What could I say to fill this blank that separates? I'd ramble on to your heart's content What could I do to bring this feeling back to you? I'm so sorry, this wasn't what I meant Oh For every trip and tumble Well I've fumbled forty verbs The most egregious being "love" And yeah, you saw me at my worst Well that must count for something after all What could I say to fill this blank that separates? I'd ramble on to your heart's content What could I do to bring this feeling back to you? I'm so sorry, this wasn't what I meant
7.
Oh, Emma! 02:33
If I should yield to one desire And it weren't you I'd be a liar Oh, Emma! Even if you've never known a thought of me Our fates are sown Don't question Your prima facie flash of glee Is killing all my joie de vivre Oh, Emma! She's so green, a furtive state I need caffeine, I can't relate I never thought about The way you bring me down When I turn my back for good I know you'll come around Do you dare concede to me The fires of your fleeting dreams? Oh, Emma! I'd hang upon each syllable Intoxicating audible enchantments Pontificate, digress, and slur Build me up with every word Oh, Emma! Comfort me, I'm gone insane Let me be to pomp and play I can't stop thinking about The way you bring me down When I turn my back for good I know you'll come around
8.
Rising 03:51
If you want me, you know where I am My name is Lazarus for I am back and I’m damned I can’t sleep, try as I might Do you really want me like you said last night? A moment in love is worth a lifetime of pain At least that’s what I thought when you first spoke my name The storm has passed and I guess we’re fine Will you really miss me like you said that time? We are as strong as we fight But I’ll never be quite as strong as I would like I’m leaving tomorrow But I don’t think I’ll get as far as I’d like to go When in March arrived the Ides My Emperor breathed his last goodbye I choked back the tears but they stung my eyes Did you really love me like you said that time? We face our demons with vitriol Well fuck the feelings that come back in full But answer me this so I can find some respite Do you really want me like you said last night? There have been times when I love And time when I hate And time I think would have been better off saved But darling I see you like a beacon of hope Now lead me ashore so I may follow you home
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It’s not like the night to saunter on quiet and still As I struggled to fight the urge just to get up until She cried, yes she cried, a feverous wave of dolor But it died, yes it died, with a whimper I fell to the porch, traces of dawn crease the sky The floodlights just mock the whites of her moony eyes But I’m not all I seem, like the flaws in the code of our past Revised in a dream - How I bleed! It’s been months since I’ve heard a mere whisper And now weeks since I set out from home Not a day passes by without you on my mind Not a day passes by without you Your heartbeat ascends, a face full of feline intrigue A ghost on the ledge, defying l’appel du vide And he reads tragedies with parlor tricks thrown in for scale While the lady in green turns her head Cut me down now, baby, undress my belief Siphon my spirit; give my bones some relief Renounce your sight, we’ll take on the night I asked for a name She wrinkled the lines on her face And surrendered a smile, eloquent in its disdain Like a brief elegy on a tombstone adorned in his place There she lay, interweaved, nigh to scream It’s been months since I’ve heard a mere whisper And now weeks since I set out from home Not a day passes by without you on my mind Not a day, not a day, not a day
10.
There's darkness - I better stay away And tell myself this love is but a game These all add up but who keeps count? I can count on you to bring me down Did you take me for a fool? I look around and I face a sea Trying to see your face among monotony Beauty's a mask - is there evil underneath? Maybe I'm blind or can only see skin deep But I could never be so cruel to you No no no This dance, our last Inertia in your tracks Only a retreat from routine misery And I know I want more Well all the lonely people smother all their doubts And criticize the ones Whom they couldn't live without If you ask me it's silly to ignore That fire in our bellies It's what we're fighting for Does it seem a bit too far to grasp? Let's steal it back This dance, our last Inertia in your tracks Only a retreat from routine misery And I know I want more
11.
If I couldn’t bleed I would split myself in three And follow you around without a heart And what my eyes would see overlooks the irony Of the sorrow that we breed but can’t impart Should time flicker out We never got the chance to speak about Shut down quickly and stretched too far I’m wasting as I wait for a restart My burned out body branded with your mark Blessed beneath this curse So sweet and scarred In my phantom arms I would hold you ‘til the dawn Your loaded head like a weight on me Without legs I’d compensate With my voice equivocate And spin a web so thick and frail and free Though I’m far away I’ll muse about every move you make
12.
Hey, passerby Who caught my eye Do you think of me at all? Tonight, in this light Where i’ll never shine With time tempestuous So let repress my frozen breath The fog upon your house of glass I see those stones you cast Speeding for the end Do you think we’re alone? Do you know we’re on our own? In short, do you fear That i may disappear? So we sit, deliberate The frailty of a fate That’s not per se the one that is to be But perhaps the one we need Or will you waltz back in my life To a melody so grand? To my ears straight from the siren’s lungs Well i know that i fucked up Do you think we’re alone? Do you know we’re on our own? In short, are you afraid Of the things we dare not say? If you wanted we could both erase Every story scribbled on this page My sonnet cannot transform love to rage As another day’s born from this dying sky Let us go now, you and I
13.
I know the darkness Felt the fright And watched as innocence Insidiously tries To wield its heavy hand We fill our lungs Just to suffocate And live a better life by dying every day In fury we became As lighting we’ll remain I’m not breaking I’m smiling And i climb up the mountain on the foot trails of death And i can still hear your voice And i still taste your breath And though all things will change I know that you’ll stay the same Quit breaking me down Lay me down And initiate The steady arrhythmia That pulses through my veins In silent symphonies And pray for strength to Diminish not As we labor on Despite the heavy thoughts Of which we do not speak For silence brings reprieve I’m not wading I’m sinking Morals will drown In resentiment Lossless for love But reductive dissent And a torrent of hate To measure the mark of a man Quit breaking me down Don’t break me down
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Woe is Me/U 03:50
Up on trial, this conversation will betray denial, ​ Incipient but gaining Come to prey on those who cannot speak the truth Between the lines, all the words that I can’t seem to write - My secret masterpiece Cuz I can’t make you love me how I want you to The more I drift, the resounding din of loneliness desecrates my spirit I can’t face all this any more than you A veil sits, draped across the face of happiness I swear it could be ours But I can’t make you love me how I want you You came to me an aura in the gloom Fluttered through me, footprints in my room Backdated sentiments suddenly manifest in droves The roaming silhouettes Retreat and acquiesce to hope The more i try to say, the less I seem to prove Falling short of substance from this conquest I recuse You’ll never be what I wanted you Was it worth it? Are you certain? I’ll never find another you Are you hurting Like i’m hurting? You’ll never be what I wanted you
15.
Hey there where did your love go? Did you chew it up and spit it out at me? Was it washed away by the riptide? Sucked in and dragged on out to sea Baby, where did your love go? Is it locked inside the dungeons of your soul And you hid the key under the doormat Out of sight until it beckons once more Well the night grew so dim But we found as way to see And what a sight to behold We are free and uncontrolled I can't go on - how could this be? I found the one who found a way To set me free Hey there, where did your love go? I think it's lying dormant in the sand Are you too afraid to dig it out or do the winds of logic sway your fickle hand? Well she cried out, "did your love die?" "Try to see beyonds the notions misconceived" Shall we beat on until we flatline? Even at the last I will believe We may be young, sort of dumb But our story's getting old My rhythmic blues of solitude Is a sorry substitute I can't go on - how could this be? I found the one who found a way To set me free I'll carry on in spite of me And in rejoice I will destroy my sorrows clean I'll carry on Hopelessly I found the one who found a way To set me free
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“Be brave, son, be brave Everything will be okay” A clever line i can’t afford to lose “For tomorrow you’ll seed The roots of victory And battle hymns for centuries of use” “Bullshit” I say all with one foot in the grave As they scoff and crown their failings as an art With a glowing grin that gleams And a tongue built to demean Their offered words Are nothing but a farce There’s murder in the trees And wonder in the eaves I’m sat sending out messages on keys Cuz my sister went insane My brother died in vain And me, i lost my faith Be sane men be sane Let them writhe now in their pain While the merchants post their flyers on your door It’s wonderful, you’ll see As they gargle with their greed The infallible fathers we adore Their profession is their sin Going all out for the win And they poison us With all that they espouse And keep us fat and fed On circuses and bread While their bullets spray Inside the slaughterhouse The vested virgins weep Mars drifts off to sleep At the heels of Lady Liberty While my sisters go insane My brothers die in vain And me, losing all my faith Be brave, son, be brave Disregard what they may say The disillusioned fascist’s run amok He’s painting pictures on the walls In his denim coveralls While the shepherd’s tending blindly To her flock Awake, son, awake And now see the dream we’ve made Another Sodom toppled like a brick ‘Neath the ramparts we have honed Temples that we droned Human Gods too sacrosanct to kick The taxman is your king The mayor runs a ring While i’m sat inside in search of some meaning Cuz my sister went insane My brother died in vain And me, i lost my faith
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Angels 05:21

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