Timi Tamminen

by Timi Tamminen

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1.
Big Boys Don't Cry 03:16
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Hello darkness you old whore I've come to sleep with you once more for I've been suppressing my real thoughts, they're quite messy Trying to keep up this veneer so classy It's the classic game to play Maintain the plastic smile each day in pain Never bother anyone briefly passing by Act it's alright 'til you can no longer cry Big boys don't cry Winter months never truly went by The stiff fetal pose, nearly out of supplies I've been staring at the ceiling for too long The fly on the wall now has a name - I call him John Let me state a cliché, music saved my life Cynical overdrive 'round this pill-popper pride Self-imposed solitude, contradicting whine "I'm bored and wanna see someone / I'm sorta busy right now" Happiness is a mindset, I'll show the fucking mindset sometime Can you ever die of boredom? Asking for a friend of mine Don't you worry 'bout me, I will be alright Honesty's everything I can offer right now Big boys don't cry
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Whatever, Brother 04:18
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I've arrived - step aside - nobody make a sound now Stay on the ground - just nod and smile - and gimme the crown Took such a long time slyly scheming this coup d'état hour I've been gaining size silently while you were preoccupied I come alive from hibernation, been vying to snatch back the power Pawns sit rattled in barracks - word's out, empire shatterer's 'round Alexa play the tiny violin, I'm what the game needs now And the rest of the world goes 'whatever, brother' Heed my words, the scepter's mine Veins of ice, dogged desire, the Nordic Bonaparte My brand of survival would make the Krays seem nice Disguised I strategise 'Live love laugh' gone all 'live and let die' Dribble bringer with riddles and zingers deep inside my mind My little finger is lingering 'round the trigger 365 Paradiddlin' just like in Ypres, puns XXL-size Surprise, you poked a hornet's nest, thought I was a flower fly And the rest of the world goes 'whatever, brother'
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Generation Zero (feat. HUMBLE) 03:11
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust Generation zero It's another night out with the chums Fuelled by the notion of nothing The BAC levels off the charts Pray you don't do anything stupid The sneaky silhouettes dance in the dark Outlaws in the heat of the summer Smashed glass, grass stains, slashed car tires, absent families made us housebroken - damn Ashes to ashes, dust to dust Generation zero Chained to a pillar named nine-to-six Wasting the wild weekends for kicks A generation of lonely souls, here's yet another line 'bout overdose I've heard enough songs 'bout California Now who's gonna mourn you? When one has to go from this place, I swear it will wipe away the smiles off our faces We're all open books with no pages Every day feels like a cadence Off-pitch, off-rhythm, this matrix we call life's organised chaos Too young to go, too old for the bullshit Saying the same things daily, admit this: The bottle dictates the rules of this game Never know when it's you who has to cease playing
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Fleeting 04:18
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At the end of the day all we've really got is ourselves I don't recall waking up below the melting spine of the magenta spine The time just flew by The last night was all Barefoot and gauze, Marlboro stains, long kisses in the haze The fleeting summer The change is in the air, goodbyes I'm leaving tonight for a brand new life There's so many doubts - doubts Things to talk 'bout - 'bout All these feelings of love I have to say before I walk out the door I have to go now, the world calls Every small thing will fall in its place slow just like spring time 'til we spring back for the fall time The fleeting summer The change is in the air, goodbyes I'm leaving tonight for a brand new life At the end of the day all we've really got it ourselves At the end of the day all we've really got is our- I'm leaving tonight for a brand new life
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All I Want 03:59
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I've been missing your picture perfect smile Since I suddenly saw you the last night (Out of the blue) Skimming through all of my favourite shots I just can’t get your visage off my mind Our own cardioid dreams caught on polaroid film Blind attraction - without traction - dark abstractions - fatal passion - satisfaction taking control All I want is to hold you All I want is to adore you I just want to be part of your life All I want is to feel you All I want is to show you Just how much I really desire All this restless sleep on the coal-black sheets It's oh so quiet in the garden outside - I wonder where you are (Out of the blue) I'm haunted by visions and memories - I have not had my mind off you for a while (I keep counting the time) You might not even remember me - I promise to help you remember this time All I want is to hold you All I want is to adore you I just want to be part of your life All I want is to feel you All I want is to show you Just how much I really desire All I want is to hold you All I want is to adore you All I want is to show you And I'm going to show you tonight
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Stay 04:31
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I wish it was easy to tell you how I feel The air doesn't feel like speaking today It just hums a melody somberly, quietly All that we've built just cracks like clay Will you stay for today? I'm trying to stay in the now but there's darkness on the horizon You told me nothing lasts forever And then you calmly said "don't you worry about me, some of us are only visiting remember?" Will you stay for today? My essence is ceaseless We're all walking pieces of mirror glass Our seams and cracks lie behind stripes of duct tapes and tucked lies We were too close to paradise to see it
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Toffee 03:08
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I've been waiting all alone Drum roll making sure the intro is unforgettable I'll be the demagogue with each and every syllable Six days and six nights of cannon fire in the barren land Leave the battlefield looking worse than Steve Bannon The facelessness still slowly building up to all the greatness All this damn time I've been building these bombs in my basement Promised myself I would make it long before 27, fly away from that shitty town and make it happen All the double life, sworn pacts 'round the artistry Outcast lifestyle all tattooed on the tapestry A place so small you just couldn't see yourself Kept the Aphex face, watched time devour the days Playing with phrases like Pelé - this is my type of melee - rhyming as nasty as the Pauls - surpass their passing heyday Mind vaults full of hit hauls My greatest goals remain yet to be scored so won't you please pass me the ball I've been waiting all alone Attention, please I've been PC for too long, call the DC for a swift oral drone Diplomacy's dead, nice guys don't make it to the throne I'm outside bombing adversaries, mobilising acetone It's a cold world, that's why I'm always shadowboxing Some friends still stuck in their realm sniffing all things toxic Never homesick in London, I'm better off solo Tyrannical anima cannibalising fast flow slow Perverting the musical curve, call me Herbert At this rate they're gonna tie my name to murder My music touching the heart of an unsuspecting child Like that creep Biden this part ends on D minor Shashing, I'm back in black on yet another high note like Adam Lambert through all of American Idol I ain't going to lie, the last year was a rollercoaster ride I moved from up north to the center of the city life In hopes of achieving any type of sense of closure Always was a loner, now I'm only getting older The bipolar beat poet beats inside like a drum Fuelled by cold coffee, the taste of toffee and breadcrumbs I've been waiting all along
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Goldrush 05:18
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Look at me What is my worth in here? Can't you see I'm just a normal man I need to carry on Blinded by the fool's gold The goldrush is over I need to carry on I just say I'm fine "I'm doing fine" Look at me What am I doing here? Can't you see I'm just an honest soul I need to carry on Blinded by the fool's gold It's all over I need to carry on I just say I'm fine "I'm doing fine" I keep running away from everyone I'm doing fine

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released October 23, 2018

All songs written, produced and performed by Timi Tamminen except where noted otherwise

Album cover by Mira Suvinen

Thanks to Gorran (info@gorranmusic.com) for vocal mixing help!

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