Songs

HLLLYH – URUBURU (2025)

URU BURU

We’ve been eating our own tail
For as long as I remember
We’ve been doing it wrong
right from the start

But one thing I know
One thing that’s sure
One light outshines
You have been here
You will be here again
This is your night

Hear the clang of the Klein jars
turn our bodies inside out
On the train from the terminus and back

One thing we learned
One thing we’ll learn again
After we’re wiped
We have been here
We will be here again
This is our night

There’s a phoenix
on the ceiling
Is it bleeding?
Is it feeding?
Is it cheating
Can you see this?
Please believe this
It’s an edict
I can see it
WATCH IT BREATHING,
HEAR THE SCREAMING
I get the feeling
It’s a jinx with
Things repeating
There go things repeating again

FLEX IT, TAGGER

It all began
Out on the balcony
An errant ember in the raw
Call it disaster or opportunity
We didn’t start it
but we’re ending it right now
Breathing’s hardly feeling
We need a reason, but not a plan
Foolish, we shouldn’t do this
Ask and you’ll hear we’re well aware
of what we’re going through
Flex the tags
Burn the messages
Let men in black try to control this feeling
Hug the cops
Text the president
Supercomputers
won’t decode our secret plans

And there we were
Out in the city square
A bunch of adams with a plan
While you were sleeping, we were beeping
X’ing out x’s
so it’s just B_R and _keyscore
Choosing is hardly doing
If there’s a wanting, then there’s a way
Closer to taking over
I feel my body slowly
ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changing
Hug the cops
Text the president
No special code to omment out these features
Steal the mail
Burn the messages
Carnivore can’t decode our secret plans

If you’re moving you’re not burning

EVOLVER

Chipped my tooth
Now it’s loose
From tumbling down the stairs again
It will be a few weeks
Before it grows back
Now I’m stranded on the roof
How I got here I haven’t a clue
My body faster than my brain is

Could it be that it’s me
Tracking footprints on the walls again
Bucket and mop,
That’s me cleaning up in a rush
Crimson pool
I’ll clean it up too
Don’t need the alarm
Don’t need the attention

I imagine the rockets coming
Panicked streets, all the townsfolk running
Cars stream like rats
to the edge of the skyline
I can hear jet engines humming
Shoot the flares, but I’m not coming
This town is their town, it’s never been mine
If there’s a blast
I’ll be safe at last

That’s you
Digging in the garbage can
Bone in one paw
While your claws
omb beneath you for more
Pale blue fur
Never seen this color before
IMO, it looks cool in the moonlight
Flashback
Meeting with the SRO
Tearing you up in his office
for falling asleep again
Report to room 105
Because you wouldn’t apologize
I heard they still haven’t found him
When the emergency alert takes over
Shouting calm, clear the streets, take shelter
What’s going to be the first thought through your mind?

At the moment when the crowd gets nervous
At the moment that your phone drops service
Are you going to take a breather from mankind?
If it’s DEFCON 2,
Are you staying too?

Wo-o, what a world it would be
Milo and Mae, the new face of humanity
Wo-o, what a world it would be
Milo and Mae will be taking your place
Wo-o, what a world it would be
Milo and Mae, the new face of humanity
Wo-o, what a world it would be
Milo and Mae will be taking your place
Wo-o, what a world it would be
Milo and Mae are the new
king and queen of the streets

(IN BETWEEN)
There is something going wrong
As you pass from here to there
In between, __ revealed
Q. Why is the car in the road?
A. [REDACTED]
Q. Why is the ghost blue and cold?
A. [REDACTED]
Q. Why is that child in chains?
A. [REDACTED]
Q. What will remain of your days?
A. [REDACTED]
Since the last call at the bar
I’ve heard bombs going off
on the far outer ring
And with landing gear jammed and re-entry not going as planned
I can see this is the adventure
I repeatedly said no to
And if anything is true anymore
It’s the fact that you and I, whoever we are,
We are definitely not where we’re supposed to be

YELLOW BRICK WALL
Let’s not go waste a crisis
Let’s not go waste this pain
Cast away, no escape, so let’s make it a home
Smokey eyes from the ash o
f those who’ve fallen
Crown of thorns for your head,
you’re the king now!
Let’s run, let’s crash
right through the brick wall

Yeah!
A brave little band
All bark and no plan
This wasteland is our rumpus room
Yeah!
A story that writes itself backwards
Yeah!
A sulfurous flow
A fork in the road
The thin white man is calling to us
Yeah!
There’s nowhere to go except forward
And so forward we go

The broken clock is right again
A path of razor blades and quicksand
Death and destruction, I’m down for it all
Hurdling forward through the yellow brick _

Let’s all go hide in silence
Hide here outside the frame
They have clubs, we have none,
So let’s not make a sound
Trigger traps from the friends who could decode the signals
Threat defended once more,
we can sing now!
Sun will rise, now it’s time for us to count up the bodies

MY, A dizzying sight
Eyes open so wide
The skeletons are choking on the BREAD
That they stole from the ghosts who still haunt them
HEY, the ghosts got away
They’d been haunting all day
The dead men all are jealous of their LIGHT
They couldn’t digest if they tried to
And they tried to!

The broken clock is right again
A line of razor wire rings this land
A chrome-colored landscape of NPCs
Dreaming of something better than

(GOODBYE, YELLOW BRICK WALL)
Charred ram skeleton
smolders on the shoulder
Broken glass for breakfast once again
As they climb in elevation,
the chilly air gets colder
Why aren’t they frozen yet to death?
They’re waking up to seeing
These might be the best days left
They’re writing down a message
I hope you make it to the end
01110100 01101000
01101001 01110011
00100000 01101001
01110011 00100000
01100110 01101001
01101110

TRAPPED IN THE SONG
We bent the hose
To slow the flow of time down to a trickle
Found a pad in the shade
to drink up those halcyon nights
Now the pressure is starting to build
Draw distance drawn to down to nil
Unplug and put away
The unused food and drink synthesizer

I know there are good times still coming
I know there are good times long gone
These aren’t the good times
We’re trapped in the song

Early May it was you on the field
with the whole team
Giggling out of your mind
about what you’d become
Jolly roger bottles i
n a comical mound beside you
Cartoon labels for cartoon minds
I once was a person, I know it
You once had a life of your own
Now we’re cooked in the magma,
We’re part of the stone

I know there are good parts still coming
I know there are good parts long gone
This isn’t the good part
We’re trapped in the song

S.O.S.O.S.O.S.
I’ve been saving all the awesome
high-trafficked gossip
I have an uncorrupted AVI from hell of hell
All the animals are laying on the ground calmly waiting for instructions
while we’re breaking down
the battleground
You could grow your own horn,
own your own life,
be your own kid,
but you say
SOSOSOSOSOSOSOSO
SOSOSOSOSOSOSOS
SOSOSOSOSOSOSOSO
SOSOSOSOSOSOSOS
From ground on to the earth
I can sing “intruder song”
If you hate this world
They can take you to another one
You can hope for the razorly rule
But they rule from the top
They can see you from the top say

Own your own clone,
Make your own throne,
Throw your own rave,
Dig your own grave,
Raise your own ghost,
Eat your own host,
Suffer the most indignity imaginable
Indefatigable failure
Fist-bumping,
Knuckle-dragging,
Forklifting freewheeling psychopathy
I’m a faded function,
A treacherous junction,
I’m a mouth breather
Ablation therapy
Mud sucking
Instant singular sickened in spates
KILLER ON THE EDGES
There’s a killer on the edges of the canvas
Bloodshed on the outside of the frame
Following the trail until the money’s gone
Nothing of distinction but a name
And if we make it off this work of art
I’ll have time to die again
See the trees swing
Hear the crow call
Make a friend
Nobody’s watching the checkpoint
Nobody’s minding the phone taps
Nobody’s paying attention
Time to run!

(GUESS WHO’S)
BACK FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD
Guess who’s back from the spirit world
With a head full of dreams?
I know the truth now,
There are two I’s in team
There’s a “thou” there too,
And there’s room for “you” as well!
We can chase the squirrel
We can levitate
We can take the world
As something great
The game plan is simple
You can have it all if you bought it all!

From the tip
Of the bow
To the end the sword
I am handed a drink
It is not a reward
I can see
What will come
And I know there is pain
Boomerang to a cold, dark space again

The world isn’t flat,
It’s a line
The heart beats out the time
The moon is much older than the sun
And its vibe controls everyone
The world isn’t flat,
It’s a line
The heart beats out the time
The moon is much older than the sun
And its vibe controls everyone

Move like a queen and they’ll cut you
Move like a pawn and they’ll think they’re above you
Be the ball, be the wave, be the drift
Catch the spirit, catch the myth

BLACK RAINBOWS
We’re not going to die tonight
We’re not going to die tonight

A grizzly scene
Essential horror
A blur of violence and gore
Replay for me your final moments from the good times
Tell me precisely what you wore
Now with that joyous anchor melody
Hold my hands and close our eyes
A third way out, escaping the skies

Pitch black
Pitch black rain
Pitch black rainbows calling our name
Pitch black
Pitch black rain
Pitch black rainbows spelling our names

Don’t pack a bag
Don’t need the things you have
No need for visa or a scan
Visit the empty bin
Put your mistakes right in
You can retrieve them at the end
Now if the spell that we cast is successful
If we rolled snake eyes straight through
Surprise, Surprise,
Your bleeding heart comes too!

Pitch black
Pitch black rain
Pitch black rainbows spelling our names
Pitch black
Pitch black rain
Pitch black rainbows spelling our names

ENDLESS HIGH FIVE
Too old to die
Too young to feel this hollow inside
Too cold to get any comfort from the sun
This time, I’m out of time
Evil’s a place
I’ve spent time as a pawn and a queen
I used to get mad, get mean
Nnow I’m not even numb
But I look to the sky and I see it
And when I do I can’t believe it

Endless high five
Up there, in the sky, it’s alive
It’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive
Endless high five
Ancient, neverending new lang syne
It’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive!

It seems impossible that it was always there
Floating high above the sick among the pure
But then I see it for a moment
A web,
A bond,
That keeps us all levitating
You can stop
You can think
Blink your eyes
It’s there!
You stopped the world from turning!

Endless high five
Up there, in the sky, it’s alive
It’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive
Endless high five
It’ll go ’til we’re dust, ’til we’re slime
It’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive

OOO So happy I came!
Now lather me up
I’m washing my brain
I’ll empty my heart and you do the same
I cried for my art and dissolved in the rain.
Can I scream? And dance and sing?
And all the entertainment that it brings?
And all of the guitars breaking strings
like yr dreams
I can see it yr eyes and that’s why
There’s monsters in the sky in eternal celebration
But I can’t see their situation.
So I ring the bells for the minds we melt.
OOO OOO OOO OOO Kiss and Tell!!

We should ask ourselves, where’s the sound?
Can’t see anyone looking at us now
Looking down, giving us a new resolve
Tell us who’s involved,
Where’s the clue to solve?
Was this mysterious power
inside us all along?
Giving us a love that will never die
We’ll be looking for it until our final call
Until our final call

Endless high five
Up there, in the sky, it’s alive
It’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive
Endless high five
It’ll go til we’re dust, til we’re slime
It’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive

DEAD CLADE
At the end
When the show got out
We spilled out onto the street
From the bridge
To the reservoir
They had no chance just to keep the peace
We’ll sleep when the sun comes up
Sleep when our bodies give up
Cause our time’s not unlimited
We’ve got a moment to make it count

We came, we saw, we we burned it down
Turned every single hydrant on
And every pane on every store
was broken by the dawn

We’re not special, we’re just what’s left
We’re not chosen, we’re a dead clade

Every time there’s a miracle
It’s something I can’t see
And the dreams that encourage me
They’re all happening in my sleep
Doomed from the starting line
Doomed when the pistol went off
Because the pace is galacial
We’ll need an epoch to make it out

We dip our beaks and pump the gas
Accelerate into the ground
Now every note we ever played
Is burned into the walls

We’re not special, we’re just what’s left
We’re not chosen, we’re a dead clade

Two cells alike
One follows all the signals
One grows beyond the game plan
and subdivides
One dies on time
The others mute the death call
A rush, a growing steamroll
Builds up inside
A cough, a crack, a wheezing
Cloudheads and red drums creeping
In many arrowed sadness
The worst is knowing
We’ll be soon untied

And I know when the oceans cool
They’ll lumber out of the green
To become the impossible
And learn a new way to think
In a mirror we will realize
That they’ve been we along
And with that, reunited
We’re going back to the very first song

Unburn the door
Unsinge the hairs
And chase the fire up the stairs
We trap it in a tiny jar
To light another night
We split the wheel
Undo the doubt
And pull the rattle out our mouth
We spit the poison on the floor
Let’s live another day
It’s not over,
It’s just begun
It’s not over,
Relax,
Wake up,
You won

I’M GLAD YOU’RE ALIVE
All the skeleton corps are in plain view
And you’re wearing the noose
that they gave you
And I’m terrified it’s more than decoration
Out on sea they all say it’s a rough one
All aboard for the sharp-toothed seraphim
Who swing their toxic megaphones
through the water
You can’t forget the darkness doubling
For me it’s bright as day
I can’t give
What they took
Can’t unshake
What was shook
But I’ll stand by your side
Ride or die,
I’m glad you’re alive

The resort is now closed for the season
And you still haven’t conjured a reason
To calm yourself and amble toward the exit
The medicine hat makes you queasy
Vison is blurred, gait uneasy
As you scrutinize the charges on your folio
An itemization of personal destruction
Breadcrumbs to a grave
I can’t read
What they wrote
Can’t just strip
What they coat
But I’ll hear what you say any day
and I’m glad you’re alive

I’m glad you’re alive

While it’s hard to forgive and keep moving
With all the damage they’re constantly doing
I need to hold the microphone for this one
You know who you are, Joan of Arc
The fire might crackle and spark
But there still is time to leave the stake behind you
I don’t know
What you see
I can’t see
Who you’ll be
But I’ll stand by your side,
Ride or die,
I’m glad you’re alive

I’m glad you’re alive.

URUBURU is an album by HLLLYH.
HLLLYH is Tim, Jeff, Ezra, Brad, and Corey.

Mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering.

This album was manufactured in Czech Republic.sque.