Cosmo Jarvis

Released: December 28, 2016

Songwriter: Cosmo Jarvis

Producer: Cosmo Jarvis

[Verse]
I'm so connected I know the wallpaper you’re hanging
Your news is my news who knew there'd ever be so much?
I know the blood dried long before the gun stopped banging
Identities were things we had not some just an endless crush
If we keep carving up minorities it's plain enough
What’s left will be individuals
The individual should just have been entrusted with majority
Cos hates residual
I was good enough, I haven't changed as fast
As stuff I see surrounds
I'm a sneeze inside a gust and the faces have their rhythm
But we give them such precision nouns for them to be seen by us

[Chorus]
These are the days that all my morals just a brand
And justice makes another hundred grand
These are the days that unity's belt's been getting slack
These are the days
Liberty gets sold for scrap
Liberty gets sold for scrap
Liberty gets sold for scrap

[Verse]
Gold information, silvered as it saw abundance
And I want your blood to stay and pump around your veins
Our blessed nations see we don't share our circumference
Races ain't won 'cause finish lines a closed off place
And the playhead shows me faces
Many traces still remain to be so invisible
And the perfect civilizations just a bust
Abomination anarchy with needless syllables
It shouldn't take criess of skinny and the slaughtered
And all their sordid glares to notice my excess
But a ship without a name will never stray
From those who moored it there
In the storm of your context

[Chorus]
These are the days that all my morals just a brand
And justice makes another hundred grand
These are the days that unity's belt's been getting slack
These are the days
Liberty gets sold for scrap
Liberty gets sold for scrap
Liberty gets sold for scrap

[Bridge]
We can say this and say that but I can't say nothing
They say that most folks love their brand despite the smell of shit
Sealing my lips is worse than even saying something
Our roots they grew me but I kept the same view I always did
And the jury get their dander
When their current can't meander bitter walls of a pleading dam
Our history left us nowhen and the somewhere that we're goin'
Can't be seen at all, too far to ever plan
To break our borders is to spit upon the orders
Of the ones we know that we've been led to be
Without a name without a master
Flakes of dandruff in a sea of snow
Harmonic entropy, yeah

[Chorus]
These are the days that all my morals just a brand
And justice makes another hundred grand
These are the days that unity's belt's been getting slack
These are the days
Liberty gets sold for scrap
Liberty gets sold for scrap
Liberty gets sold for scrap

Critic, journalist, sometime musician, onetime actor, and full-time Midwesterner Mark Deming provides a discographic-based biography for Cosmo Jarvis:

“Singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Cosmo Jarvis has earned a devoted following for his witty, often satiric tunes about the foibles of relationships and contemporary life, often rooted in personal experience, as well as his own self-produced videos and short subjects that have given his work a global online audience. Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis was born on September 1, 1989 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Jarvis' family relocated to the United Kingdom when he was young, and he grew up in Devon in Southwest England. Jarvis began writing songs when he was only 12 years old, around the same time he began making short films using a VHS video camera. While Jarvis' early videos were little more than documentation of pranks played with his friends, with time he began constructing more complex narratives, and similarly his songs began to evolve, ranging from folk-inspired acoustic guitar pieces and elaborate pop tunes to tongue-in-cheek hip-hop tracks.

At the age of 16, Jarvis quit school to focus on his creative work, and in 2009 he wrote and produced his debut album, an 18-song set called Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch, which was released by the British indie label Wall of Sound. The album combined Jarvis' observational tunes with a cycle of songs reflecting the emotional turmoil of his parents' stormy relationship. Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch received enthusiastic notices from the British music press, but it didn’t sell especially well, and Jarvis teamed with 25th Frame for his second release, Is the World Strange or Am I Strange? A track from the album, “Gay Pirates,” became an Internet sensation after Jarvis' low-budget video for the song was endorsed in a Twitter post by actor and author Stephen Fry, and subsequent airplay helped make the second album a commercial success. While continuing to tour, write songs, and record music, Jarvis has also been writing and directing a feature film, provisionally titled The Naughty Room. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi"

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