ALVUANA

by Riveira Bailey

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1.
Waves 03:47
Unpredictable Like waves She's unpredictable Like waves Unpredictable Like waves She's unpredictable Like waves She's unpredictable Like waves That is what she is to me Unpredictable like waves Is it any wonder She keeps coming back again Can I stay back Can I stay back I'm too far gone Got a path set for me Tides of fate Wash up my feet Unpredictable like waves Unpredictable Unpredictable Unpredictable Unpredictable Unpredictable Unpredictable Unpredictable Unpredictable Like Waves I can't go yet So much to do and say Do I really have to lay And say goodbye And drown it all out And think it all through Where I went wrong No time left to doubt Oh god Here she comes Don't sail me back home
2.
Indicators 03:19
News shows traffic built up due to new Unclear signs of what happens after Turn left or right you have to choose Don't sit still there'll be a car crash or two It's a busy world to slow down for a few Keep on working till your round and found dead Be yourself? You have no right to choose We tell you who to kiss, you must birth too Who are we? Shh better not ask Penalized if you dare be out of class Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way There's so many signs Pointing this way, go that way Buy this and do that and be this person The best signs are natural directions Without greed, benefit of power Your responsive protection Who cares if we regress back a few Drinks and parties are no big issue Blame it on the lame and accrue It's a busy world to slow down for a few Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way Reduce the time, reduce the effort Click away, give way Up and up and up we go It's always a moving world Indicate your way Indicate your way Indicate your way My brain is mush, my doctors tell me again Indicate your way Call me a hypochondriac, attribute for my sins Indicate your way I cannot speak, morality's in a den Indicate your way I'm past the crash, I've my reserved my place by then
3.
Drama 04:07
There's drama There's news There's drama And it's cooking up too There's beef Put in a stew There's drama And it's cooking up too Rumours spreads around Killing the married bonds Cough it some gossip Divide the family Pragmatic exilers To drown out for fixtures Life's a one way stream But keep splitting at those seams There's drama There's news There's drama And it's cooking up too There's beef Put it in a stew There's drama And it's fun fun fun They said this He said that She said she said I know what it's like to be dead Oi you! Stop that right there Verbal crossfire No sides claim victory Verbal crossfire Burns apart history Bash the knees Of unschooled enemies Petty squawks Distract your misery There's drama There's news There's drama And it's cooking up too There's drama
4.
Make me flinch Call me an embarrassment Pull my ear Force a constant losing battle I don't matter anyway Discipline ain't meant to teach It's just an easy way to your goodnight's sleep It was just an easy way Start my depression I'm sorry I'm having one of those days Start my depression Make me blame my teenage angst Cause you Start my depression Are you oblivious to my cries Critic everything but yourself Those verbal knives cut open anxieties Wish I could have a conversation But nobody can say a word back to you Time and time again Yelling behind my door But you weren't there No one's ever there It's things like these I wanted to be happier I want to be like everybody else Now you've raised a freakshow A walking ca-talking catastrophe Cause You Start my depression I'm sorry I'm having one of those days Start my depression I've bottled it up I've joked about it But all I wanna do Is scream and about it Start my depression Start my depression Start my depression Approving words make me feel unwanted Start my depression Take out your misery on close ones Start my depression We can't fake our smiles much longer Start my depression I just wanna talk to you Keep lying to fresh faces Keep pretending there's no bitter sides Our house is home to needed therapy And now we have to live the rest of our lives I know we all have our faults But sometimes, maybe, they're acceptable But I don't care And I think neither do you Cause at the end of the day They'll be at our funerals for the drinks
5.
I'm bleeding on a new moon I'm dying just to feel something I'm tempted for this last wound Alvuana dawns upon me I say to my mother The wolf draws closer Their whistle's howling stronger Mother turns the other eye She says don't worry about that boy You're far to young to think that way Just drink and it will be okay Just drink and it will be okay So I thought it would be ok If it's something adults have to worry about Then surely I could suffice But that lingering thought The wolf coming closer and closer The inevitability of it all When will it come What will it be I just I break and I break down The pieces that surround me I build it back to distract myself I build up an immunity I've lost the spares along the way Can you cry out all your tears Cause after all these years Don't think I've got any left in me Cause I'm bleeding on a new moon I'm dying just to feel something I'm tempted for this last wound Alvuana dawns upon me If my mother couldn't help Maybe my old man felt to try But was he happy I was born Or did he only want the sex for porn Did the thought of me scare you The thought of me Growing into someone you'd knew After all my unread messages I realize all these Problems start with you Heaven fell down on me, down on me. It was all at the age of decade, of a decade Every night I thought I'd decay, I'd rot away Never speak, I could never say, I'd never say Heaven fell down on me, down on me All my prayers never reached, never reached I asked could I run away, run away From my falling family, my family My family, family My family, family Cause I'm bleeding on a new moon I'm dying just to feel something I'm tempted by this last wound Alvuana dawns upon me I'm bleeding on a new moon I'm dying just to feel something I'm tempted by this last wound Alvuana dawns upon me Alvuana dawns upon me Alvuana dawns upon me
6.
Mindless 06:36
Mindless searching Awaiting something good Mindless scrolling Excusing what you could Mindless watching Observing flame burn wood Mindless fiction Change terrifies Me and you But what can you do It's happening It's burning We're drowning This future seems vacant Inconceivable But too near Mindless ticking The small print never read Mindless blocking Dying voices put to bed Mindless liking Written quotes not to be said Mindless façade Don't ever break the loop We're in for good We're locked inside the design We're scared to face The changes that are Calling you From the outside You never see people pick and choose But those highlights keep depressing you Keep scrolling, finding something to do But look these plastic bags of content are brand new For me, I use to distract myself The world is falling more off it's shelf Suffocating's bad for your health But I stopped breathing I think that helps Mindlessly awaiting Mindlessly awaiting Mindlessly awaiting Mindlessly awaiting for a cure to come Feel that daunting weight quietly slumber Whispers don't leave you'll be dead in thunder Stay online and be in touch for a few But look how connected we all grew Make sure you have yourself a side Behave a certain way and they'll decide Please forget thinking for yourself All for the cost to stay civilised What ever happened to peace and love What ever happened to helping strangers What ever happened to being one world What ever happened to no push for shove All these expectations cause tensions to rise Binary oppositions over time Human borders further synthesized There goes our private lives Where the hell did all the good times go I want to distract myself but I feel more woe Getting fixated on skewed stories though I can't believe any of it to be true I can't tell who's motivated Or those who are uneducated There's such a stark difference in-between But you're never going to see behind the screen Satire or truth The lines blend more and more It's just another short boost so I don't mourn anymore You see they want me to love this hyperreal world I'm in love with the hyperreal world I don't want to live in the real world I'll pay my time for the hyperreal world I'm in love with the hyperreal world I'm in love with the hyperreal world I'm in love with the hyperreal world I'm in love with the hyperreal world I'm in love with the hyperreal world Mindless searching Awaiting something good Mindless scrolling Excusing what you could Mindless watching Observing flame burn wood Mindless singing I think it's time for a new song
7.
An honest man lives in a broken dream Trapped inside a perfect reality Copy and paste a hopeful face Yet inside its an unspeakable tragedy It's hard to take the first step But once you're out, it's all out But my worries caught The words on my mouth Oh I wish I could be An honest man Oh I wish I could be An honest man An honest man lives in living lies The serpent of human politeness Wrapped between his thighs Say it, the honest man's a selfish one Wanting a life's worth of validity Being manly is to be a stranger to your truth But I'm too far gone, I'm singing this song You just lost the confidence game Now you're losing face, losing faith in your name Built comfort with building blocks Now the pressure's tumbling right in front of me I'm not trying to get your sympathy But Is this really what I want for me Is there a who I want to be Oh I wish I could be An honest man Oh I wish I could be An honest man Hit it An honest man An honest man Oh I wish I could be An honest man Oh I wish I could be An honest man
8.
Sirens are blazing The panic sets in People rush to loved ones Moments before life's end Balconies of families Painted with hellish skies It's out of their hands Fate controls our demise It's the end of the road It's the end of the world It's the end but What can you do about it It's the end of the road It's the end of the world It's the end but What can you do about it Take them back to mother's womb Kill them naked, why don't you They wanted to grow old and live the world But it's useless, it's useless, it's useless to dream Should theists rejoice In global succession Meeting their gods too soon Without question Should Earth close it's curtains No future for certain No memories left to be made All our decisions and thoughts All the wars that we have fought It all came to nothing today It's the end of the road It's the end of the world It's the end but What can you do about it? It's the end of the road It's the end of the world It's the end but What can you do about it? People are crying, and dying too soon Man-made asteroids, man we were our doom It all came to nothing today It's the end of the road It's the end of the world It's the end but What can you do about it? It's the end of the road It's the end of the world It's the end but What can you do about it? What can you do about it? What can you do about it? What can you do about it? What can you do about it? What can you do about it? What can you do about it? What can you do about it? What can you do about it? It's the end of the road It's the end of our world It's the end but What can you do about it?
9.
Lone Sailor 04:32
Seems like time's finally caught up The boat's left the dock I'm crossing the bar out To the deep blue abyss Born from sea, out on sand Set course to new land Headway lying a-hull Lies the fear for the unknown But before I leave be To the one's that loved me For you see I'm I'm a lonely sailor Sailing down my way Not a shore in sight Till I die It's a cold cold body No beacon of light To guide me home In this night No words left to write Just one promise I'll be alright Blow a kiss in the sky for me To keep my memory alive Visit me over the hill Where the hunter lies Home is the sailor Home from the sea Home is the sailor Home away from sea Home is the sailor Home away from sea Home is the sailor Home away from sea But before I leave be To the one's that loved me For you see I'm I'm a lonely sailor Sailing down my way Not a shore in sight Till I die It's a cold cold body No beacon of light To guide me home In this night No words left to write But I promise you I'll be alright I'm a lonely sailor Sailing down my way Not a shore in sight Till I die It's a cold cold body No beacon of light To guide me home In this night No words left to write Under this wide starry night The sea shines so bright No words left to write But I promise you I'll be alright
10.
Come down to the hill Where night light's Brentwood's trees Trail by the pond's Tranquil serene Nature's reserved seats Front view by the stars Pile up our logs The show will start So we learn their campfire songs We play their lullaby Play to keep fire Burning alive So we all singalong To their campfire songs Why we all gather for To their campfire songs The curtain call nears We cry out encore This night's moonlit stage Is all yours "Thank you for yourselves", the star says For paving my road But keep me in mind Forever in ode Waves may wash all Steps on sea floors With all their flaws Save what we saw We place Our stones In the sand So we all singalong To their campfire songs Why we all gather for To their campfire songs For those all who are gone To their campfire songs It's all we have left Pour this toast for them So we all singalong To our campfire songs Well we all gather from To their campfire songs To those all who are gone To our campfire songs So let's all singalong To our campfire songs So let the fire blaze all through the night So let the sailor row and say goodbye So let the cities burn but hold each other tight Don't forget to blow a kiss for the sky So we all singalong To our campfire songs Why we all gather for To their campfire songs To those all who are gone To our campfire songs So let's all singalong To our campfire songs Oh my Mnemosyne Oh my Phanes Bye-bye Bye-bye Bye-bye Bye-bye

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ALVUANA is the debut album by me, Riveira Bailey. The word itself means "the end of a significant or meaningful period of time".

MY NAME IS RIVEIRA, RIVEIRA BAILEY… the brainchild creation of Joshua Baptista, is a post-rock glam-renaissance conceptual character linked to the concept of ALVUANA – the end of a significant or meaningful period of time. Taking influences all from history, from Bowie to Black Midi, ALVUANA was completely written and recorded by Riveira Bailey entirely in their bedroom.

From poetry about the fragile masculinity and gender, the lone voyage we all must take, the intricacies of the hyperreal world – Riveira aims to challenge and evoke a more classic sense of song writing along with the most exuberant wardrobe you’ve ever seen. Just like their clothes, it all looks like a mismatch from afar, but put together – it all starts to makes sense.

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released March 8, 2024

All songs conceived, written and recorded by RIVEIRA BAILEY.

Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming, Synthesiser, Keyboard - Joshua Baptista
Additional Vocals for "Drama" - Louis Baptista

CREATIVE IDEA OF RIVEIRA BAILEY by Joshua Baptista and Amie Butcher
ALBUM ART by Val Baranova (@mossrat)

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Riveira Bailey London, UK

My name is Riveira, Riveira Bailey. I'm a poet, a sailor, an artist. I'm trying to find my place and the body.

ALVUANA /ælvu:ænə/ noun - The end of a significant or meaningful period of time.

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