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A Bigger Cave, A Smaller Circle

by NAIF

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1.
The Very Last Time You took your ring off months ago You said it was too tight I didn’t think to much of it I didn’t know what was happening You stopped taking photos of us We stopped leaving the house I didn’t even notice I didn’t know what was happening You said they were just a friend I had no reason not to trust you I was at work for us that day I didn’t know what was happening I still don’t know what happened here But you have crushed me for the very last time.
2.
An Idea Of Me I think you loved and image You loved an idea of me You had a picture in mind Me without my ugly Take out the parts you don’t like Erase me edit me from your life Take me down of the wall Plz put me back in the dirt You are my equal Standing on level ground, Look into me, I look into you Rearrange everything I want you to And I worshiped you to much We were both so messed up I need to unlearn everything See new beauty in everyday I looked up to you, And I always will I still have no idea, If I want to be with you or I want to be you.
3.
And I could love you If you’d let me But I do t think It’d do anything Because sometimes we Need much more than love Cuz sometimes life If a nightmare we walk through Cuz ppl always say How can you love someone if you don’t love yourself But I’ve been in love and I’ve been in longing for years and and that’s not how it works And If I could just Show myself the same kindness I extend to you and everyone around me If I could treat myself with that same love and patience? Would that be a step into some sort of direction?
4.
Our voices don’t sound similar Our faces & bodies are two very different things, I can’t recognize any of me when I look and talk to you, We look related to people just not each other The curves of my face have aged distorted over time chemically changed You can’t look me in the eyes when we talk, cuz there’s nothing to talk about anymore What does family mean Give me freedom to choose my own people in this life, What does isolation look like? Is it me living alone is an unanswerable phone call or just us not understanding one another? oh dear sibling we survived the big bad years but somethings is still missing will we always be a little broken?
5.
I’d talk to anyone Who’d talk back to me We’re all so lonely I just want to feel listened too I’ll hang with anybody Who will tolerate me We’re all so lonely I just want someone to sit next too How about you? How about you? In the perfect silence I hear your pulse Slow steady sound Taking me home Put me to sleep Don’t say a thing All I need is to know you’re there.
6.
Cut me in half Examine my bones Can you guess how old I am By the rings you find inside Let’s put us back together We age together at the same time But maybe I started dying before you We age together, parallel lines Hold me please I promise to hold you How old am I And dose it matter?
7.
outside of the cages we will let a hundred genders bloom the deconstruction of society will lead to our freedoms every sex every race every person free from the exploitation we must reshape rehabilitation and work towards healing you said you hate the game but you don’t want it to change we have to crack these eggs we must rattle the cage If we are to imagine an alternative future where we are all free.
8.
we fell out of the trees started demanding things when did all these wants trump or basic needs we wanted a bigger cave the root of all our problems the want for anything will never ever solve it there is no absence no lack of substance destroy your desires continue, flourish we suck the life from each other we only share our worst selves it’s compounds our misery we created our own hurts we go without nothing spoilt baby human beings we wish for new developments but we don’t the labor we all want to get better sea levels rise as we wait to be fixed
9.
A Smaller Circle Another year Another disappointment I want to climb back into the trees Another broken heart Another destroyed friendship Please return my body to the sea I can’t handle being me anymore You all gave up on me, Why can’t I?

about

This is a reflection on the route of greed and the start of selfishness (alternatively known as human existence).

These are poems turned songs, thoughts on what The End means.

Want creates greed, it only leads to pain, greed feeds narcissism, and our pointless never ending gluttonous lifestyles have ruined everything they touch.

As we die, life becomes simpler, things clearer, as we grow, often we shrink at the same time.

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released January 20, 2020

“A Bigger Cave, A Smaller Circle” was written and recorded by Naif-Jamie Martin in Jan 2020, using the Voice Memos app and then manipulated through effects pedals, casio drones and glitches and out of key harmonies added as a garnish.

I really wanted this record to sound like asmr emo, like passive singer songwriter music, best enjoyed at a mid to low volume with noise cancelling headphones on. i want ppl to use it as functional art not something you have to devote yourself to but can enjoy while existing. I wanted it to sound like sitting in the next room and hearing your friend pour their heart out all over your living room floor, like a rub on the head, like a warm drink, tell me everything is going to be ok.

This album was written and recorded on the stolen land of the Gadigal & Wangal people of the Eora nation, sovereignty was never ceded, as this always was and always will be aboriginal land. Give it back.

Thnku for listening xoxo NJM

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naïf
(nʌɪˈiːf,nɑːˈiːf)

adjective
1.
naive or ingenuous.

a transgender woman, a sad song generator.

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