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Angeles Mesa

by Rafael Bustamante

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ozmaofficial I should have recorded this whole album, but I still like it, though I have not listened to most of it, because Rafa won't listen to my band. Favorite track: Why Can't We Live Up to Love?.
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1.
Be that as it may you're own release Look at those kissing with sympathy Bye bye centuries unfold your arms High time we all agree we need to eat Before the sun will have its way with us and everything we've ever own Is cooked and left to go to waste No funeral just ashtray we wanted summer Leave out all the traces of the me Look at those kissing without the need That's my memory I'm holding on Bad time we all agree we need some peace before the guns will have their way with us and everyone who's never owned disputes that we aren't on the way and death is just a bedtime story we wanted summer I was born before you could ever know my pain I was born adorned with an existing name Breath Right On my window Write it with your finger To me
2.
If I have to face the music I won't let it go to waste I will plunge into the marrow and be put in my place ripping off the uncomfortable-ing Oh dodge ball for me All the cigarette burns stepping on your delicates there's no country for me in my 30's Where is this higher power I am ready for drinks from the ocean of doom and gloom there's no affable moby dick only tangible sorcery can kill the beast kill the beast inside me You believe the unheard's chasing your tail again that's the bully in me he's deciding If I have to face the music don't let me try to say things I'm conniving I take inches, make them miles I've been leeching with a turnstile leave them bruising no caress offering the outrageous loss of patience cross between a grin and a frown cross between us, grin and a frown nothing like that
3.
On awakening this morning I get the feeling something's missing from the earth not a dream but like a dream much is manginess until I awake and tell all my friends they've all been reading up on dreaming recently lucky me but when I reach for her I cannot seem to reach Gone away as given to me what a thought to even think let alone sing she isn't healing my hollow platitudes are only making things worse and worse and don't call me friend anymore no more of you sneaking off to my bed again you're worse than a bee hive stuck in my head Going off about something troth the seams of your words are overwrought the pulse in your rarely slow orate it turns into sleeping pills into pleasure coming to you in looking into what didn't work let alone it He isn't feeling my mellow attitude it's only making things worse My alarm goes off first yours is sleeping in s 
4.
he's taking on the form of muscles squeezing he's trying to bone up on regular sun burn he loves anointments the tip of her tongue was born so ever speechless that evil in angels is what she's afraid of remembering I'm better off avoiding altitudes I need it to cover my implant of butterfly wings We're waiting to undress skin covering up a mess rationing brittle steps I've yet to take oh these days Here's hoping to last at sea cursing at the water with clothes on my body that'd never had chosen me what really belongs to me is building up a hoard I'm lucky if trouble pushes a knife through my bubble if nobody reads from books they can't feel the pages in third grade I thought if I wanted to starve the artist While we're waiting to redress skin cover us less and less rationing a little shame to put to rest oh these days I'm taking you once more to see the doctors I'm lifting up your shirt to feel your pain I'm going back in time before pollution and driving fathers' fathers' car into the sun the naked right before you isn't wrapped in any foil what is left over when you are being born out of this world
5.
My dad's been doing the same thing for a long time my mom just broke out of her shell they both think the other has a problem they both think they're ill I've been changing a lot myself and I'm proud to answer when people ask me I'm doing well Back to my parents and their illness their symptoms are that of old weirdness they can't get along or agree on most things Im surprised that they're still together 28 years of pulling and pushing on each others levers
6.
I am the boy who wants to be around you You are the girl who will not be set free I enjoy the thought of us in rapture You must enjoy the thought of you kidding me Let's make noise to come up with band names Let's use toys that distort our reality Always a chore, predicting what you're after Now I am the boy, who will not be set free The cost is much higher to learn than to play dummy Even much higher is seeing through what you want from me Weekends come slowly then pass now it's Monday and I have to ask myself "how are you honestly?" Isn't it crazy that she wants to spend time with you 'cause she likes you and not 'cause she's got nothing better to do.... .....she's got a million things to do But never the less, you're wanting this too... you're taking the test, you've never had to, but never the less, never the less never the less
7.
I fear I'll never see you again but of course you will but what if something happens to you? hear this now I will always come for you But how can you be sure? This is true love you think this happens everyday? I will never love again You mock my pain Life is pain Anyone who says differently is selling something Please I need to live can you move at all move? You're alive if you want I can fly death cannot stop true love all it can do is delay it for a while
8.
Oh Al 02:27
Oh al you met me when I was on the ground oh al oh al see the pieces of me scattered all around, what now? Oh al oh al oh al oh al oh al Im in a dreary run around oh l oh al my legs have each other so their safe, their sound, is loud Oh al oh al Oh al oh al I dub you a deserving friend so lets start a friendship with a concious end Oh al oh al oh al oh al I just want a deserving friend I thought I could make one with you begin with you begin oh al oh al oh al oh al
9.
Rogue 03:17
Giving you the options to pay twelve dollars for ten minutes on a five minute break giving you the option to stay delve in as far as she could until they gave her a break giving you the option from options to take I think you could take it I think you could take it back I think you could make it but I don't think you could make it back This is not an option you fake retched pen is making me rewrite my my own fate and it's one thing to belong to it another to be rogue grow up on the spot or not Given you your options for goodness sake
10.
Why can't we live up to love Take time to judge me I'm not forgiven I lie so intentionally as I deliver All alone doesn't bother me I need the silence When I hear you callin' me it sounds violent It's a crying shame to need someone to blame We think hearts and candy these too are different one is sweet and one is handy but both a given Nothin' simple should break my heart the truth is not is not just a symbol I don't think of my family 'cause they're not just a though to me but I think of my enemies think of asking them why

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This album is dedicated to my mother Carmen Bustamante for supporting me in my music endeavors and for loving me unconditionally. All 7 of her children including me went to Angeles Mesa Elementary school. Everyone in the neighborhood knew her. She valued people and was loved by everyone in return. She left us what some people might say "too soon" but I feel in my heart that she wasn't afraid. She had taught us kids everything we needed to know and prepared us for the worst. Now years later we continue to miss her but find solace in the bonds we share with each other and the love she showed us that will never die.

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released February 18, 2015

All Songs written by Rafael Bustamante

Most songs recorded at Kens House of Metal by Etay Levy

We Wanted Summer recorded by Greg Foeller at Ocean Studios, Burbank CA

Guitars for Nothing Like That, Only Making Things Worse, Oh These Days recorded at York Recording Studios in Highland Park CA by Tim Moore

Vocals for Nothing Like That, Only Making Things Worse, Oh These Days recorded at Mario’s Liquor Store in Highland Park CA by Rafael Bustamante

Vocal Harmonies on Oh Al by Sara Kelly

Vocal Harmonies on Why Can’t We Live Up to Love by Sara and Kevin Kelly

Mixing by Rafael Bustamante

Mastering by Filip Nikolic at The Castle Studios

Thanks to Roberto, Carmen, Julio, Carlos, Diana, Benjamin, Josue, and Noel and my extended Bustamante and Frias families. Etay Levy, Greg Foeller, Tim Moore, Filip Nikolic, Kevin Kelly, Sara Kelly, Nisara Karnsomport, Brandy Nicole Mejia, Jackie Li, Ron Abrams, Julie Cain, Alexis Rivera, David Garcia, Future Music, Apple Store R034, Skate All Cities, Ariel Alter, Liz Eldrige, Marty Sataman, Gabriel V Martinez, Damon De La Paz, Dena De La Paz, Ch Ch Ch Ha Ha Ha, Sing The Body Electric, Matt Keesan, Josh Keesan, Adam Arcuragi, Cheese on Bread, Dan Fishback, Dibson T. Hoffweiler, Daoud Tyler-Ameen, Christine Gengaro, Cael Marcus Edwards, Daniel Orta, Michelle Wright, Luis Escareño, Art Paz, Ira Alfred Ingram, John King, Chandra Pok, Jon and Josh Lee, Ryen B E Slegr, Alex Marquise, Jordan Steele, Jeremy and Genise Castañeda, Vanessa Wheeler, Tyler Knowles, Robben Fenderson, Roni Levi, Jacob VanOrden, Joesph Aivazian, Joey Zager, Adam Sica, Christian Villa, Jen Miles, Deenah Vollmer, Jordan Steele, Ross Stephenson, Rachel Weinberg, LACC, Ariana Flores Magón, Angeles Mesa Elementary School, Fairfax Visual Arts Magnet High School, MorYork Gallery, The Market, Michael McCarthy, Echo Park Records, Jenny Loi

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Bunnies and Kitties Los Angeles, California

Rafael Bustamante is the heart of Bunnies and Kitties, a collaborative folk act. Formed in 2006, Bustamante's story-telling technique through song involves little and often silly anecdotes that somehow yield larger truths about friendships, love, and life itself. ... more

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