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Joy Compass

by LVRS

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1.
Pause for a moment I don’t want to saved from What I don’t see in myself I just need to Find some space so I can breathe Again & process what I’m feeling it’s all amazing Let the vastness excite A plan is a start Need to get away for a night Keep the light on for you When you get home To move on through It’s all strange because It’s a paradox either way Stroll the park Now you don’t feel the same way It feels good to know Nothing ever stays the same Found a stride that we rode here on In motion What I’m feeling it’s all amazing We can be without thought A plan is a start Need to get away for a night Keep the light on for you When you get home To move on through It’s all strange because It’s a paradox either way
2.
Safe Word 03:34
Soothing some sores I always was alone Never had anybody Take me as I am Walk you to the bed My playful lover On my feet Hold my heart and don’t let go But don’t squeeze too hard What is the safe word? I don’t know Switch the light, switch the light off I can see you here My eyes have adjusted Matchmake the pain Don’t have to keep score Trading affections through a window Asphyxiation let’s play along Until we stop Hold my heart and don’t let go But don’t squeeze too hard What is the safe word? I don’t know Switch the light, switch the light off I can see you here My eyes have adjusted Tell me your kink Mine is being alone Because I’ve been hurt By the ones I’ve loved Treat me good and I’ll choke you The way you like Hold my heart and don’t let go But don’t squeeze too hard
3.
Steady Luv 04:37
I’m not very good at steady love But I want to give that to you Come into this a lot of change I’ve it for me I did it mostly for you Follow what is felt to the edge Of that cliff I jump If it meant you got the life you were meant To be living Call it silly call it anything you want Even could call it off I swear it’s good but that’s only half Of the matter Making the most Of what we got You say I don’t know I don’t know what I want When we get stuck on the sticky parts Thinking of what to say You have it all Figured out That must be nice I just know that I want you You’re not very good at steady love You’re sure as hell trying To see all that I am with all that You have left It’s not a easy feat We throw the cards up tonight We freak out at sunrise when we Realize it’s not a dream We have to work on our shit If we want it to work I swear it’s good but that’s only Half of the matter Making the most of it Making the most Of what we got You say I don’t know I don’t know what I want When we get stuck on the sticky parts Thinking of what to say You have it all Figured out That must be nice I just know that I want you It’s just another day Of it being not enough To stay It’s just another day Of it being not enough To stay
4.
It becomes magnified When I’m home in myself And I find that I just want to Make something real Before it ends Days go on without us When we lose track of time Wasn’t made to make sense I gave that up back then It was tried now we can understand Who we are Days go on without me When we lose track of time I’m choosing to believe A flower outlined by the dark When we don’t turn away from the pain It moves through us (It turns into something else) It was tried now we can understand Who we are (We turn into someone else) And we find that we just want to Make something real Before it ends Days go on without us When we lose track of time Dissociating with passion, I know that is where I can find me In the dark we hold the light In the dark we hold the light
5.
So Can You 03:30
Everything that you want Is coming around Do you have the patience? To believe in what you can’t see It’s all around us and in the Choices we make Faith doesn’t come easily now But I found it in you All that we think we need Is within reach Let’s just imagine Floating on a golden sea With gold fish and everyone we love Faith doesn’t come easily now But I found it in you There are many ways to show Gratitude, I think I came here to have fun So can you So can you So can you So can you Here is the crystal ball The messages are clear If we are looking There is harmony not seen It’s all around us and in the Choices we make Everything that you want Is coming around Do you want me? This way or that way I can be anything So can you So can you So can you So can you Faith doesn’t come easily now But I found it in you
6.
Wait go slower You want to lean on me But don’t know what it means To be, everything from nothing That’s why I had to leave Fell into a trap and there’s everything Down here I need to thrive I am glad to know that You are alive Some people don’t want to Hear the laughter Well equipped because You’re a natural disaster Went to hell and back Dark night of the soul Painted with contrast From out of the smoke stack Was a faint flicker Got an action from the reaction inside Had to lose my pride In the mirror I tell her Some people hide away In a storm stellar When they are a natural disaster Some people hide away In a storm stellar Well equipped because You’re a natural disaster (Get out, get out) You’re a natural disaster uh huh (Get out, get out) You’re a natural disaster uh huh (Get out, get out, get out) You’re a natural disaster uh huh
7.
She is here so I will be Loyal to a fault Free to be & to sink into our life I thought I was ready It was just fear of encountering Ourselves in another Now I’m not afraid So I see the beauty as it is A truth that I kind of miss you Haven’t let myself think Of those memories No one else will know Its hard to let go A burned impression Somehow makes who we are Honesty it bleeds Into this life Shapeshifting together So we feel the beauty as it is My truth can unsettle And I’ve been here waiting For what aligns It’s not anyone’s fault And it’s yours to keep Here to teach us to appreciate Everything we have is what we had If you’ll have me It’ll be okay Waited for this Waited for this
8.
Lost in You 02:39
How long will you search until You can’t find it? He has so much power over you still How long will you try to be heard With no one there? You have to give credit where credit is due I wanted to be what you needed But I failed to see it’s not what you wanted Had another ugly cry again this week Tried to explain all I hear are excuses How I have to change well maybe I’m just not right Maybe I’m not right for you I wanted to be what you needed But I failed to see it’s not what you wanted I wanted to be what you needed But I failed to see it’s not what you wanted Lost in you I end up resenting The type of company I crave
9.
I want you To notice me Like you did Back when it didn’t hurt To let somebody in To that world To be what the day needs I think I’m getting closer To my truth Guided by a warmth That is safe to rely on In this world I let you into Hold me with care as we fall I know you’re not the same But it gets replayed like some sort of Evidence against me it’s against us too Feels like there’s not much else to do My mind gets filled With thoughts that are not mine It’s not fair To feel this much
10.
Allow 03:08
Different ways to come to the same conclusion This atmosphere has got to change Could of saved some trouble and tears If it wasn’t left unsaid Everyone needs a helping hand My body rejected you Liked a transplanted organ Gave in anyways Parts of your brain lights up When the nicotine touches your lips Got this far without your help Who’s thoughts are these that we Keep up repeating? Learning how to reconcile all the while Taking myself as I am right now It’s easier to exist when allowing The subtleties to heal It was the present I was leaving So I will lead myself blindly Trusting that a cycle won’t repeat Waited up all night she said Wait up for me From out of the dark into the day Hanging on a line, this time Taken by the wind From out of the dark into the day Waited up all night she said Wait up for me From out of the dark into the day Crawl back inside my lightness Here to stay
11.
Altered View 05:38
Woke up this morning Now I have nothing to say Other than I don’t want to be awake Not today Barely got any sleep Cus we chose to fight Now I don’t wanna be alive Not today If I don’t scream Will you still hear me? Got that bullet between your teeth Is it enough? Obsession is the new health I am just a starving dog We’re just praying on some love For today Cracks are how the light gets through Ive been here before A piece of the mosaic Are thoughts intertwined to form a new entity Born out of nature to nurture I know it won’t be this way forever We will laugh about it later If we chose to continue What is next? A wild guess Bit off more than we can chew For what its worth, I’m still here Despite how we alter the view If I don’t scream will you still hear me? Got that bullet between my teeth Is it enough? Obsession is the new hell Now I have nothing to say We’re just praying for some love To stay Woke up this morning Now I have nothing to say (Gotta break the haze) Other than I don’t want to be awake (Don’t want to be awake) Not today Barely got any sleep Cus we chose to fight (No one else to blame) But I still want to be alive With you

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released November 17, 2023

Song/lyrics - Liv DeJonghe
Guitar - Liv
Bass - K Morehouse / Nuri Tett / Liv / Jed Thompson
Vocals - Liv / K Morehouse / Nick Chard
Synth/keys - K Morehouse / Liv / Nick Chard
Drums - Lorelei D'Andriole / Nick Chard
Drum programming - Liv / Logic Pro X
Produced / Mixed / Mastered - Liv at Pixel Dream Studios
Track 3 mixed by Jake Rye at Social Recording Company*

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