BLUE VIOLENT MYSTERY

INTO THE GROUND (2:52)

I think I’ve had enough
I think I’m really tired
My mind is dead
But my heart is wired 

I’m the one you ran away from
I’m the one who could freeze in the sun
Your eyes claw at me
Ripping me fixing me 

Find me blind me you can’t define me
Face me trace me into your mind
Knock down drag around nothing that can be found
Into the ground 

In the spotlight you look so different
In my hands you crumble to dust
In the ocean there is a reason
In a grain of sand there is the world
In a grain of sand there is the world 

Find me blind me you can’t define me
Face me trace me into your mind
Knock down drag around nothing that can be found
Into the ground 

Kick off your shoes knock down your blues
You can know me for a while
Just don’t imagine that I’ll be some angel
From a fairy tale or a picture book
I’m not that cool to look at after a while
Not that cool to look at after a while 

Find me blind me you can’t define me
Face me trace me into your mind
Knock down drag around nothing that can be found
Into the ground

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Music and Lyrics by Lisa Barca 

Lisa Barca: vocals, guitar 

Kolby Peoples: guitar, bass

JB Kocis & Jason Wiedman: drums

Recorded and produced by Kolby Peoples at Full Well Recording Studio, Phoenix, AZ

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FORGET ME NOT (3:09)

Here's a story I've been dying to tell you
Keep your guard down while I lay out the plot
Believe me, you're gonna hear me out now
Because it's my turn to finally shine 

I know this girl
She needs a place to hide out
Because your web got too close to her skin
You might see her on a say-goodbye Tuesday
You shunned her; now she's getting a lot
She's getting a lot
Not from you 

Forget me not
Little blue flowers
Tied up in knots 

At midnight you better write me a letter
Include the date of our wedding vows
We can leave out the “love you until death” part
Because inside you're already dead
Already dead
To me 

Forget me not
Little blue flowers
Tied up in knots 

Forget me not
Little blue flowers
Tied up in knots
For you

---Lyrics and music by Lisa Barca (2025)

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SOMEBODY WANTS ME (2:20)

Somebody wants me
They’re ringing my bell
What do they want from me
There’s no way to tell
'Till they make themselves known
Is it something I can’t give?
I don’t have the answers
I just know how I want to live 

Somebody wants me
What are they trying to sell?
Who can this be down there ringing my bell?
Have they heard the story of how I fell
From love
Into despair 

Sometimes I feel like nobody cares
Sometimes I feel like taking off somewhere
Would they even notice if I wasn’t there? 

Somebody wants me
I might want him to
Once I had him
What would I do? 

He calls for me
Says it would be nice to see me
Sure has been a while
He misses my smile
But the smile is broken
And a woman has replaced a child 

What do you want from me?

---Lyrics and music by Lisa Barca (2025)

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PARTY DAY (3:41)

In your beautifully furnished asylum
In that dollhouse
We were happy as could be 

In your white-picket room of emergencies
We were shrouded
We were dying to live finally
Crying to be free 

Party day
Party day
Party day
Please don’t throw my gift away 

Now I’m left here to pick up the pieces
Of ten puzzles
That don’t fit together 

Alone here to break up this cycle
To drive these training wheels
To a full recovery 

Mama’s ok now
She’s coming home 

Party day
Party day
Party day
Please don’t throw my gift away
Away 

Oooo yeah 

Pick up the pieces
On this party day
On this party day
Please don’t throw my gift away

---Lyrics and music by Lisa Barca (2025)

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BEAUTY AND BRAINS (3:20)

Beauty and brains
Can't complain when you got beauty and brains
But the beauty's going to fade
And the brain's gonna rot someday 

Money and time
Trade one for the other
Money and time
Firsts and seconds
Nickels and rhymes 

This is how the story goes
This is how the reason flows
Waiting until the moral shows
And it never does 

This is how the beat goes on
From a place I've never gone
Don't look now but here's the dawn
And I ain't got my sunglasses on 

Wipe away the tears baby
Wipe away the tears my love 

Later or now later or now
What a hard choice
Later or now
I've got to get my shit together but I don't know how 

Midnight and noon the sun and the moon
I know the answer's coming soon
Weaving pain into a pretty tune 

This is how the story goes
This is how the reason flows
Waiting 'till the moral shows
And it never does 

This is how the beat goes on
From a place I've never gone
Don't look now but here's the dawn
And I ain't got my sunglasses on 

Wipe away the tears baby
Wipe away the tears my love 

Glowing signs and passing phases
Locked up drawers and open-ended mazes 

Wipe away the tears baby
Wipe away the tears my love

---Lyrics and music by Lisa Barca (2025)

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OUT ON A DARE (2:03)

Cause I’m out on a dare 

Soar away from here 

Always shy and afraid 

Feeling brave today 

Hey yeah!

I wanna fall in love with me through you so I will sneak right up and steal 

Your camera lens your x-ray held by me for ransom make a deal 

Cause I’m out on a dare 

Soar away from here 

Always shy and afraid 

Feeling brave today 

(This part is insane….)

Cause I’m out on a dare 

Soar away from here 

Always shy and afraid 

Feeling brave today 

Hey yeah!

Hey yeah!

---Lyrics and music by Lisa Barca (2025)

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CLEAN AND CLEAR (3:58)

I am stepping into the light
It′s been a long, long hard cold night
I am stepping into the sun
I'm an angel on the run
I am the devil′s rebel daughter
Elusive and supple like water
Take it to your lips, drink it down
I'm flowing to your side of town

Chorus
And I am clean and I am clear
And there is nothing that I fear
And I can bring us all the stars
I can travel so far, so good
And I'm not asking too many questions, without the answers in my mind
Take it now or leave it behind

Verse
Have you ever had someone you wanted so much to communicate with
That if it was your last breath, you′d sing an aria?
And have you ever loved the wind, like it was your own soul?
And have you ever come apart so much, it made you whole?
And have you ever gotten high
By learning how then you can get before you die?
Before you die!

The map draws lines that lead me back to an alien place
Where I couldn′t' find a mirror in which I recognized the face
And the water comes crashing down again
I think I finally found myself a friend, yeah

Chorus
And I am clean and I am clear
And there is nothing that I fear
And I can bring us all the stars
I can travel so far, so good
And I′m not asking too many questions, without the answer in my mind
Take it now or leave it behind

---Lyrics and music by Lisa Barca (2025 remix)

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SHADOW IN THE SKY (4:34)

Living in a dream 

Never seems to come to me 

Never seems to break me through the haze 

Mandarin sunrise 

Burning in my eyes 

Burning through the lies you let me take 

Ooo oo 

Ooo yeah 

Ooo oo oo 

Chorus

Can this be real 

So hard to feel 

When my hands are 

Tied behind my back 

Can I call out 

Let it fall out? 

Let it sink into my mind 

Let it make me hard to find 

Let it make me into a shadow in the sky 

Verse 

Maybe it’s not as serious as I’ve drawn it out to be

It just never comes to my front door 

Maybe I’m too free 

Maybe I’m not free enough 

I just want yo get across the bay

Ooo oo 

Ooo yeah 

Ooo oo oo 

Chorus

Can this be real 

So hard to feel 

When my hands are 

Tied behind my back 

Can I call out 

Let it fall out? 

Let it sink into my mind 

Let it make me hard to find 

Let it make me into a shadow in the sky 

---Lyrics and music by Lisa Barca (2025 remix)

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WINGS OF JULY (3:02)

Far off on a jade beach
Far away from my reach
Maybe pain will teach me this time
I know I was searching
For something to get lost in
I′m lost altogether now

But all of my dreams can fly
Borne on the wings of July
And everything comes down hard
When it hits the ground
I try
I cry
I fell
I'll rise

I just keep on dying
You just keep on lying
I′ve got to stop relying on it
It really is a joke
I really need a smoke
Let's invoke the goddesses now
Maybe they'll know how
I can overcome this
All of my fears can fly
Borne on the wings of July
And everything comes down hard
When it hits the ground
I try
I cry
I fell
I′ll rise

All of my dreams can fly
Borne on the wings of July
And everything comes crashing down
Crashing into the ground
All of my dreams can fly
Borne on the wings of July

Everything is crashing down
And I′m letting it hit the ground

---Lyrics and music by Lisa Barca (2025 remix)

MusicMatch: “The song 'Clean and Clear' by Lisa Barca portrays a sense of renewal and self-discovery after enduring hardships, symbolized by stepping into the light and being an angel on the run. The lyrics delve into the themes of inner strength, the desire for deep connections, and finding solace in unexpected places, encapsulating the journey of finding oneself amidst chaos and uncertainty.”

MusicMatch: “Wings of July by Mermaid Riot explores the cycle of personal struggle and resilience, using the metaphor of dreams flying on the 'wings of July' to symbolize hope and the inevitable fall to represent life's harsh realities.”

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