Get all 11 Devin Haas releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Paradise Planet, Raw Emerald Suite, Emerald Suite, Red Velvet Suite, Temple Cats, Renaissance Man, Shipwrecked Soul, Live At Molly Malone's, and 3 more.
1. |
Modern Machine
04:48
|
|||
|
Modern Machine
You got addicted to a girl who looks like betty page
running ’round with people half your age
about a time or three a week you step to the stage
it looks like something coming so get out of it’s way
You got lost somewhere in the fray
doesn’t matter they planned it all that way
Program the words until they stay
Making man into a modern machine
Making man into a modern machine
Making man into a modern machine
I compromised my future living modern ways
know nothing of my mother or my people’s ways
got a chance to be told that nothing’s gonna change
it looks like something’s coming so get out of it’s way
You got lost somewhere in the fray
doesn’t matter they planned it all that way
Program the words until they stay
Making man into a modern machine
Making man into a modern machine
Making man into a modern machine
Like a machine
|
||||
2. |
Dirty Secret
03:55
|
|||
|
Dirty Secret
She don’t tell her friends about me
she don’t say that she’s in love
she only wants me when there’s no one else around
as long as I don’t make a fuss
I’m just a dirty little secret
just a way to pass the time
I’m just her dirty little secret
she wouldn’t pay me any mind
she wouldn’t pay me any mind
She don’t waste the time to call me
unless I’m seeing her tonight
she don’t ask me how I’m doing
seems there is never the time
I’m just her dirty little secret
just a way to pass the time
I’m just her dirty little secret
she wouldn’t pay me any mind
she wouldn’t pay me any mind
We only touch when no one’s looking
we never see each others eyes
I only want you when you’re acting like yourself
which isn’t most of the time
I want to tell our dirty secret
let it out into the light
love wasn’t meant to be locked away
in the darkness deep inside
in the darkness deep inside
|
||||
3. |
Burning The Billboards
06:05
|
|||
|
Burning the Billboards
Where do you want to go, when it’s all over?
What do you want to do, when the shit comes down?
Well me I just hope were there together
We’ll be learning how to breathe
Darling come out with me tonight,
things may not stay this way long
Oh, and I know that we always have a good time,
Beneath the midnight sun
Oh when you say to me, democracy’s a short lived thing
I want to give you everything
Some day it’s gonna be, were really gonna need,
to do work to keep warm
And we’ll go
Burning the Billboards, from city to city, yeah we’ll go
Burning the Billboards, From town to town
Burning the Billboards, From City to City
Burning the Billboards, From town to town
The situation where the laws abuse instead of protect you
Where the civilization amuses and neglects you
With ten thousand pounds of manufactured lack
Living in fear, of the next attack
The impossible dream, In Neon and re-bar
This cosmic machine. running toward the ground
Everyone knows we can’t keep pretending
Our needs never ending will change someday
So we’ll go
Burning the Billboards, from city to city, yeah we’ll go
Burning the Billboards, From town to town
Burning the Billboards, From City to City
Burning the Billboards, From town to town
Don’t you want to go?
I know you want to go
Don’t you want to go?
Come on with me
When I was younger, the world was on fire
Now were running out of fuel
Yeah pretty soon it’ gonna be down to the wire
And what we gonna do?
Yeah we’ll go
Burning the Billboards, from city to city, yeah we’ll go
Burning the Billboards, From town to town
Burning the Billboards, From City to City
Burning the Billboards, From town to town
Don’t you want to go?
I know you want to go
Don’t you want to go?
Come on with me
|
||||
4. |
Binary Star
04:44
|
|||
|
Binary Star
There was nothing
and then there was your gravity
pulling me closer
things getting brighter
synergy caught me
as our orbits collided
locked into the spiral
‘round the merging of the dream
Binary Star
two become one
so close, So far
always never touching
Colors of your eyes
burn in bright tapestries
the infinite possibilities
ring in our harmony
Concentric circles
our dance is designed
closing the distance
blurring the line
Binary Star
two become one
so close, So far
always never touching
Binary star
two become one
so close so far
always never touching
|
||||
5. |
In Lak'ech
03:35
|
|||
|
I am another yourself, you are alive just like me
the lines we draw seem so small
I loose them in the phosphine sea
I am a part of something broken
That's coming to be whole again
a rip in time coming open
Were going back to what we've been
Can you feel it changing as time is speeding up
can you feel it changing like it will never stop
can you feel it changing as time is speeding up
can you feel it racing us toward eternal love
Give up your fear
it's all that keeps you here
whatever you hold dear
it's all that keeps you here
|
||||
6. |
Edison Fields
04:20
|
|||
|
Edison Fields
I remember when the only open space I could find
were the field of grass beneath the Edison lines
When the water moved too fast to swim under the pier
and a notch on the wall at the end of each year
How tall I have grown
so little has changed
But all my best guesses
have been re-arranged
Taught to expect the best out of life
I notice I’d settle for it to just be alright
Taught to expect the best out of life
I notice I’d settle for it to just be alright
I have dreams of becoming alive
where the sunlight pushes my hunger aside
In a place where my tribe doesn’t own any land
for we’d broken the cancer built over the sand
How far we have walked
through a landscape so strange
While all our assumptions
have fallen away
Taught to expect the best out of life
I notice I’d settle if it could just be alright
Taught to expect the best out of life
I notice I’d settle if it could just be alright
|
||||
7. |
Polarity
05:49
|
|||
8. |
Tell Me
05:10
|
|||
|
Tell Me
Join my band we’ll travel together
as long as we’re going the same way
our paths may cross again never
but we can help each other out just the same
Tell me your name, I really want to know
I can tell we’re the same, though we met a moment ago
I lost my friends on the road
now it seem like such a long time
sometimes I wonder if they know
they’re the ones I’m trying to find
Tell me your name, I really want to know
I can tell we’re the same, though we met a moment ago
I bring you a faith
that we lost a long time ago
let go of your face
and what we’ll find we’ve never known
Tell me your name, I really want to know
I can tell we’re the same, though we met a moment ago
Weave for me your story
recount me all your glory
weave for me your story
recount me all your glory
|
||||
9. |
Free Man In Paris
03:25
|
|||
|
Free Man In Paris by Joni Mitchell
"The way I see it," he said
"You just can't win it...
Everybody's in it for their own gain
You can't please 'em all
There's always somebody calling you down
I do my best
And I do good business
There's a lot of people asking for my time
They're trying to get ahead
They're trying to be a good friend of mine
I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive
There was nobody calling me up for favors
And no one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song
I deal in dreamers
And telephone screamers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If l had my way
I'd just walk through those doors
And wander
Down the Champs Elysees
Going cafe to cabaret
Thinking how I'll feel when I find
That very good friend of mine
I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive
Nobody was calling me up for favors
No one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song."
|
||||
10. |
Heavy Heart
03:02
|
|||
|
Heavy Heart
Some mistakes you make
some mistakes make you
when does it really matter?
Sometimes you can change
or must remain the same
like a fool on a platter
Lay down your heavy heart
lay down your heavy heart
Some things you take
some things take you
and are left over after
Nothing stays the same
no one is to blame
the only medicine is laughter
Lay down your heavy heart
lay down your heavy heart
|
||||
11. |
Absynthe Nightmare
10:02
|
|||
12. |
New Dimension
05:46
|
|||
|
New Dimension
Bring a new dimension home
memorize a song to sing
hearts filled with starlight
shine eternal magic
Purr among the misty flowers
burn a perfume jasmine sweet
relax into a lawn of aqua
a softly falling shadow flutter
Memorize maple leaf pools
patterns of fire water and glow
spermatic clouds devour the horizon
burning the retina of memory surreal
|
||||
13. |
Threes
03:00
|
|||
|
Threes
Loosing your people always seems to come in threes,
Weather their dying, hate you or leave across the sea
then you’re left with no one except relatives and pets
And random acquaintances you don’t really get
A letter some bills, a bottle and a pipe
the instruments of my destruction
Though I’m awake all through the night
I fear I’ve a accomplished nothing
Loosing yourself always seems to come with ease
Weather your heartbroken hungry or sick with disease
And then with your pieces you build from the ground
A temple to whatever truth you have found
A pen some paper a guitar and a dream
The instruments of my salvation
though I am falling apart at the seems
my soul is a radio station
Tune me in on your vacuum tube, let the music flow on through
Tune me in on your vacuum tube, let the music flow on through
Tune me in on your vacuum tube, let the music flow on through
Tune me in on your vacuum tube, let the music flow on through
|
||||
Devin Haas Los Angeles, California
Devin Haas has been playing sitar since 1997. He was trained in Sikh Indian classical music tradition. John Wash IV is a graduate of Cal Arts and is classically trained in Indian music and many other types of percussion. Shan Ahmadi is a Tanpura player and teacher from Tehran Iran. The performers are currently based in Long Beach California. ... more
Devin Haas recommends:
I make music because there is something more to everything in the world if you let there be.
go to albumIf you like Devin Haas, you may also like:
Terry Riley In C
by Brooklyn Raga Massive
featured on Bandcamp Radio May 23, 2022
go to album
Afro-jazz ensemble Jarabi Band explore the stories of contemporary African and Australian musical culture.
go to album
Deja Vu
by Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti
This album features five previously unreleased songs from Brazilian disco artists, Robson Jorge and Lincoln Olivetti.
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Aug 22, 2023
go to album
The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
by Širom
featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 11, 2023
go to album
