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Manifestations

by AJ Rosales

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stingrai2000 AJ Rosales is a dynamic performer whose latest album, Manifestations, does not fail to deliver. His beautiful melodies and thoughtful lyrics instantly weave their spell on us. Favorite track: Solero.
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1.
Summoner 03:37
(Instrumental)
2.
Anthym 00:39
(Instrumental)
3.
Disengage 02:53
I know that you You have no bounds As you're shakin' around To the ultra-sounds And you know that I Like to cut to the quick 'Cause you're making me doubt That we're living in bliss No, no, no... I ascertain what is at stake I disengage, we've been shortchanged It's all on you - there is no dispute We shake and bake and disengage You know me I'm on high alert So pitchy and terse While you're almost inert You never open your mouth But I’m still calling you out I ascertain what is at stake I disengage, we've been shortchanged It's all on you - you're long in the tooth We shake and bake and disengage It's all on you - there is no dispute And I'm resolute to disengage There is no proof, no super-sleuth So, ferme la bouche - I disengage It's all on you - you're long in the tooth We call on youth to disengage Does not compute - there is no excuse So, ferme la bouche - I disengage We ascertain what is at stake We disengage, we disengage It's all on you - the burden of proof We shake and bake and disengage Ferme la bouche!
4.
Waves 04:39
Alone You’re floating on the waves And it seems (let down) That you’ve got what it takes Until now You think you had it won It’s hard to ignore what you have forged Oh, you should take it as it comes And now, you’re floating on the waves Head down, floating on the waves Shut it out, if you’re floating on the waves But soon If you settle in your mind Your thoughts renew You glean the truth Oh, there’s another of your kind And dis-ease Is coming off a wane Your sense deferred The truth’s absurd Oh, but what does it mean? But now, you’ll be floating on the waves Ride it out, if you’re floating on the waves Oh, Disdain! Hey, Don’t go Oh, Don’t go...
5.
We scraped the flint and made the spark Then blazed our path without a chart But we fell short, our progress lost So, you dropped a ten ton bomb We started speaking out in psalms And when the truce is laid to rest It’s not myself who’ll acquiesce To hear you speak of just demands Such empty words from artless men Coming down off your lofty plinth But now you've pushed a bit too hard I strummed a chord on my guitar And drove a beat through our heartland Somehow, that you might understand If you stop on a dime You’ll break my heart If you fall out of line You’ll tear it apart The forces are prime To tear it apart When truth is locked in mediocrity It’s not my place to offer sympathies Truly shocked at what this used to be Here’s a thought - a takeaway Know that it will be ok With hands embedded in the clay Truth is, we'll still be ok Hey!
6.
Heaven 03:45
If you study the contrast Of a grey cloud in a blue, blue sky It's like my emotions In the darkness as the days go by What do you see If you look into the sun? Look into your eyes And your heart is vacant You're so impatient Oh, with heaven all around Days go by I still get the urge to cry With heaven all around You're crossing a divide And the days go by Your heart is vacant You're so impatient Oh, with heaven all around You don't need to chase it A love this faceless Oh, for someone who's so blind You're crossing a divide To reach the other side And I guess this is goodbye Now the days go by Your heart is vacant You're so impatient Oh, with heaven all around Days go by I still get the urge to cry With heaven all around
7.
Peak Nothing 03:31
This is how it begins An end without a start A needle in the skin Scars that leaves a mark Ask anyone who knows If anyone is there As you’re leaving your body Flowing upstream If you never saw yourself If you were never really there Would you know what to feel? Hardly self-aware Would you know what to think As you’re going off the rails? You’re drifting Unfolding Traveling Sleepwalking You wake up in an ice age Wandering on an astral plane Forget everything you know Forget anyone who cares As if you were in control As everybody stares It’s impossible to see If it isn’t really there Dark star yearning Perceptions keep fading It’s so strange Pink feelings Changing into something Heart racing Still sleeping Unconscious Peak nothing
8.
Solero 03:40
(Instrumental)
9.
Cameron 04:24
Cameron, come to me You soothe my soul In this misery So Cameron Would you come to me? And take your clothes off We’ll make the most of Whatever will be The microphone Will follow me So you can talk And we can speak So Cameron Would to come to me? You say the right things And in the morning I memorized your face We took the long way down But no-one ever said to turn around However long it takes to find this route It’s such a long wait... But heaven knows If you will stake your claims Or surrender what the boundary contains Excuse me but I need to make this plain That nothing in the world would bother me Oh, nothing in the world would bother me If Cameron would come to me Oh Cameron, would you to come to me?
10.
If Not Today 03:08
Indistinguished from the start Reckless with invectives Too devious to parse They want to cut and paste A new, different hate But without implicit trust They’ll separate us, one by one Your sensibilities collapse Streams of consciousness Dark as vantablack Within your outer space Without a sense of place As we breach the golden age Drawn into a fiery haze That keeps raging, day by day, It goes on and on and on… Still, our minds remain transfixed Open eyed, mesmerized By a monumental myth The ground will start to shift If not today, maybe someday… From the way it sounds I'd rather be left out From the weight, it feels like I'd rather do without In a way, it seems If we leave it up to fate Then the weight will lift And we could let it all escape, Let it all escape
11.
On The Cusp 05:48
Oh, I know It's unprovoked When the skies turn gray With just a touch of rain Now you say you want a little piece of me But oh, what you'll get is incomplete A fleeting phase - or so they say Now you bleat and brace under the driving rain And is wanderlust what you really need? Oh no, if what you get is unforseen We're on the cusp of a turn in luck We sing a new refrain As love runs amok and makes a case for change And you wait in vain for a sunny day But oh, the more you wait The more it rains
12.
Snowflakes 04:16
(Instrumental)

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Manifestations, AJ Rosales' fifth studio album, has now been released, along with the second single "Disengage". Pick up your copy now! The first single "If Not Today" was released In October 2020. Listen Now!

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released January 1, 2021

All songs written, produced, performed by AJ Rosales

Recorded and Mixed by Doug McBride at Gravity Studios, Chicago
Additional Engineering by Grey Taxon and David Lopez
Mastered by Oli Morgan at Abbey Road Studios
Bass arranged by AJ
String arrangements by AJ
Graphic Design / Artwork and layout by AJ

AJ Rosales - Guitars, Lyrics, Vocals, Keyboards, Toy Piano, Glockenspiel, Percussion

Featuring:
Scott Pazera- Bass
Jeremy Cunningham - Drum Kit, Shaker
Myra Hinrichs - Violin
Alex Giger - Viola
Audrey Snyder - Cello
Johnny Butten - Banjo

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AJ Rosales Chicago, Illinois

AJ Rosales is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer currently located in Chicago, IL.

'Progressive Acoustic' is a term that would loosely describe his sound, but ultimately, it is more than that, blending multiple genres into a cohesive and modern sensibility that sounds like "AJ".
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