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Different Kind of Joy

by Vista Point

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1.
Clear your throat and conscience Shake the hand of fate Tomorrow may bring sunshine Tomorrow may bring rain Faded like old photos Worn by the roles we wear And though we're blessed with the breath of life We're left choking on the air Joy takes it's dive In brain wave high tides Youth gives in to age But the growth's benign Thoughts spread like plague My heart stabs like spades I'm ashes in a vase Burned by a warm embrace God took away Now I'm trying to make some headway with overwhelming odds against me I can't hear the voice within It just voiced a vacant anxious cadence, never one for conversation Well, I never listened in We could have climbed a mountain But we slept in catacombs You weren't awake at the reception So I got in tune with the dial tone Joy takes it's dive Backwards to find The soul lays bare Despite its' leathered hyde The grief begins My blood runs thin Doubt's glistening The world's still turning It's a cardinal sin That I hear my heart scream Tearing out its' own strings They say all things do pass But it's all of you that I have left Joy takes it's dive Angel flew too high See you in the mourn Or when I turn at night To dream your face To dream some grace I'd run to you But I'm wide awake Outside heaven's gates
2.
She's looking down from a carrier cloud Words in her mouth that won't reach the ground And in her mind she's opened her eyes She's only blind, disabled by light Because we've lost ourselves Lock the geniuses in cells Faith's covered up, ya it's got a mask on In God we trust but reading history books wrong This candle light, it widens my sight Says the girl with the bloodshot eyes "Where are we going? I don't know It seems we're stuck here in circles" She's like a sun dial put up on trial Hurtful and fake yet worth my physical while So come fire, burn down her empires Smash the serpents, lift your people higher Because we've lost ourselves Lock the geniuses in hell Sometimes I stay up at night Look out my window and ask myself why It can't be the way that it seems When I'm awake as it does when I'm asleep
3.
Drained Wallowing in Rain Falling from your brain Thoughts that lead your soul astray In this depth of feel I can see what's real Still, no comfort comes my way Like a blackout ball that's reached light of day Where everyone's leaving but I've stayed To toast my tequila to the dawn I don't get hungover I just hang on Down in our common ground Buried in ourselves Lies the sweetness That we sell For a crumbling will Some secrets that will spill Because it's the season For cheap thrills This pillow talk's screaming In my ear "She slept with a lie" Now, that's sincere But I swear She gives the sweetest head Been stuck in a year long Lost weekend Undress To impress Civil unrest If it's politically correct She swears I'm a leech But keeps me feeding And nourishment's not What I'm eating I drown in the sound Of her sunshine swoons Because I just find an excuse To howl at the moon Oh let's give up the ghost Drop dead, gorgeous I'll drink up that ice cold Damned soul in distress
4.
Exodus 06:14
I'm living here as a resident In the hold of a false palace Wondering if I'll ever be free If I'll see with open eyes But I close my ears as I hear them shout They laugh aloud as I bathe in doubt Tell me now do you feel clean? What does that mean? Well you tell me I'm on an exodus to the castle in the sky I don't know why they won't let me in I'm on an exodus to the castle in the sky I don't know why they won't let me in Upon your dirty knees you crawl So how is it you're ten feet tall? Don't feel protected by your walls Because some day they all will fall They once were sweet like porcelain Now she's cracked and broken That's okay because I am too, I'm just like you And you're just like me Oh sweet unity We're on an exodus to the castle in the sky I don't know why they won't let us in We're on an exodus to the castle in the sky I don't know why they won't let us in I saw a statue of the concubine I said "Precious friend of mine How you live is how you will die" She said "I'm a living suicide anyway But what have we learned today? Don't you dare trust snakes And though they may give you a fruit Only you can choose to eat it."
5.
Isaac 04:00
I'm a child sent on my way To that cruel coming of age Falling further from a fate Worth living in So I'm trying to understand Life's much more than mortal man And though time slips right through your hands It's still worth grasping Isaac eats breakfast for dinner, dinner for lunch And though he knows he ain't got much What he has does make him smile It keeps him happy for a little while Now there's not much I can afford I watch the sunset when my soul is poor Because if life does start right out that door Its' end is unexpected I've found life's a symphony Played out of time and out of key But it makes you cry when that sweet organ sings Its' good intentions He says "Boys think with their hearts, men think with their heads But you don't have to die to end up dead So when days ain't clear look in the mirror And hope that boy didn't disappear" The day's a gamble, the night's a fear Sometimes I wonder if tomorrow's further than near But I'll play the hand I'm dealt, I'll roll the dice Because if things are for certain, no yearning, I'm learning That just isn't life
6.
You, the sun, the sky Everything you hold Inside your eyes Could drown an ocean But the sun escapes the tide Every morning So you're hoping that this life Is more than suicide But what if it is? I mean, What if it is Something more? Under the streetlight Kiss and ignore The oncoming headlights You said it was alright Because the sun escapes the tide Every morning So you're hoping that this life Is more than suicide So what if it is? I mean, What if it is Something more
7.
(Interlude) 00:58
8.
Now come fertile flower, sour soul, sweet body I'm not your lover, though I lie in your sheets Our touch may not know honesty But it's a truth true enough to believe So turn with the motions for a cure or disease We adorate the poison to endure the poisoning You would stay if I would just leave The birds, the bees, they make each other weak For the weekend I know this fear defeats you So hold fast for godspeed Pray it don't mistreat you Love is not like sanity Some do see it's so cheap that it's free No ties, no strings, just an appetite A mutual understatement, but if you want that, well alright Until you or I fall out of line Arrives the night to justify demise So can I get a rise dear? There's freedom or there's shelter We can't have everything Love doesn't count the hour And there's a clock ticking Unveiling a masterpiece of absences Unveiling a masterpiece of bad timing I know this fear defeats you But hold fast for godspeed Pray it don't mistreat you Love is not like sanity Neither's its' grief, neither's its' relief, neither are we
9.
China Girl 05:58
I love your freckles, your sweet lips, your porcelain skin I miss your laughter, your soft hands, our love, and sin Though at times I seemed to have forgot these things Because I broke what I once held close My China Girl My China Girl Well, on top of a ferris wheel, I sat close to you You touched my face and you let me touch you And as the sun went down you pushed against my mouth With those innocent lips, you said you liked the way I kissed, you said it was different But then that fair left town And I laughed as you frowned Then those parties you went to, you danced with mannequins You started growing, but drowning in sweet sedatives Meanwhile I lost myself, I became someone else Someone ruthless and mean, someone you shouldn't have had to meet, someone you shouldn't have had to see But remember that letter I wrote you begging you back for your love? You read it, and smiled saying "I'm sorry, but I'm talking to someone" And oh like hell that hurt, but your's was probably worst So I will whisper an apology and I hope he's not like me You know you hope he's not like me But when my head starts spinning fast That's when I wish that fair would come back Just one more time Does he touch like me? Cuss like me? Kiss like me? Does he get pissed like me? Does he change like seasons For no reason? Or commit treason? I hope he's there when you need him
10.
Biko 03:04
An open mind and highway drives They coincide like railroad lines The somber in those lost weekends Love that's been, self image To the wind they are going With your fears they are blowing right away Now we plead the fifth to innocence And in winter we wear summer skin Live in grinning jaws and smokers coughs Morning talks, late night walks Hear the cops? They are coming Hurry now, let's outrun them my dear friend Because it's now or never Old road, please make it so much better I need it Now my soul's devout to sea and sound And last night we fell in whiskey wells Warm with delight, for freedom fights And I'm enticed, quite obliged To reside in the wonder Of the birds', breeze, and busker's blissfulness With the moonlight leading Into the heart of the evening That's freed it I watch the shoreline breathing As if the tide's a feeling Assures your mind and being What we are is a meaning To believe in
11.
Sunrise 03:38
Broken glass and arguments wrapped an anesthetic shroud Around my mind, but I feel it's time I colored in what's been blacked out Those years of fear and souvenirs left from a childhood home A boy with his dog on a green grass lawn watched the whole world fall foreclosed You know he'd sleep deep in sweet dreams But he awoke to become me Kid, I sincerely apologize But I've reserved a space in the back of my mind For you And as that child I walked a while along a desert song I lived and laughed, I sang and swam in shores of Babylon Now I go on a bus ride home to see a lake glow neon blue As the sunrise burns, a windmill turns, and life begins anew And the horrors of a pitch black night Are transformed by morning's sweet light The child smiles as he's no longer replaced I know we are one, we are one, and we share the same fate Always We share sweet laughter too
12.
If air is life and life is death Then hold it in a tantric breath and exhale slowly For when I'm buried deep within the ground The world, it still will spin around as I decompose a symphony For every thought I've had before has forehand been foreseen For all the oxygen that I inhale somebody else will breathe Life's mystery and tragedy, they flow through you and me Eternally But I don't want to live this life like a man who hides his head beneath the sand In fear of what he can't control His kind, do you know they walk for days on broken paths in this crooked maze? Wearing holes in their mortal souls Well I must toss these thoughts that haunt and rot and fry within my mind Because I dream too much and I think too much yet still can't say I'm wise Although my insight is that life ain't blind, though we spend it opening our eyes, that is alright Because we all just want to be alright Well when I die, lie by my side to hold my hand and say "Don't worry friend, nothing truly ends, there's a tomorrow for today" I don't know where heaven's placed, if it's a hymn or face But I hope it's somewhere safe where you'll be okay

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A list:

First, I'd like to thank everyone who made this album possible; from the musicians who played on the record, to the friends who drank beers and participated in the audio skits at Elder Tree Studios, this whole thing would literally not exist without you. Thank you so much.

Thank you to my grandma Alice McCain for always being my biggest supporter and also for showing me the Beatles (I love you lady).
Thank you to Alec Sherri at Seaward Studios for Mastering the record and for just being an overall awesome person.
Thank you to anyone who has ever come out to a show or told a friend about my music, I'll never be able to pay it back.
Thank you to the Antelope Valley for being the first place I cut my teeth (forever my favorite music scene and my hometown).
Thank you to Los Angeles for making me push myself and for having beaches.
Thank you to Art Zavala Jr. for engineering, recording, producing, and mixing this album; you put so much time and work into this record, I appreciate that more than words can describe.
Thank you to Trent Barboza for being such a great friend, and one of the most talented and driven people I've ever met.
Thank you to Nicolette Herrera for always being so positive and taking such breathtaking photographs. Thank you to Jaccob Rollice for showing me the albums that would influence me to write this one, and for just being one of my best buds. Thank you to John Karwoski for convincing me I was good enough at my craft to pursue it further, and for always being so incredibly supportive.
I'd like to give a huge thank you to my step dad Joseph Quirola (a musician himself) for showing me how incredible music is and for getting me into more records than I could ever count.
Thank you to Justin Brunelle for being one of my first childhood friends, listening to Green Day cds, and nerding out with me.
Thank you to my Papa Larry for being one of the greatest men I'll ever meet, and for giving me pointers on bass fishing, I'm still terrible, but maybe I'll get better some day!

And thank YOU for listening to this album and reading this long list of thank you's.

Until next time!
- Richard Rauda

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released October 18, 2018

The Players:

Richard Rauda: Lead Vocals, Guitars, Bells, and Harmonica

Jake Minter: Bass and Backing Vocals

Wil Splinter: Drums, Percussion, Didgeradoo, and Backing Vocals

Smiling Beth: Piano and Organ

Wyatt Garrett: Trombone

William Giaquinto: Trumpet


Horn Arrangements by William Giaquinto and Richard Rauda


Audio Skits & Gang Vocals: Jaccob Rollice, Katie Olson, Jeff Setto, David Jimenez, Diana Haley, Ryan Kline, Eric Martinez, Johnny Fowler

Audio Skits & Gang Vocals recorded by Ryan Kline at Elder Tree Studios


Engineered by Art Zavala Jr.


Produced and Mixed by Art Zavala Jr. and Richard Rauda


Mastered by Alec Sherri at Seaward Studios


All songs and lyrics written by Richard Rauda


Photography by Nicolette Herrera

Layout by Trent Barboza


Dedicated to Justin Brunelle and Larry McCain

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Vista Point Los Angeles, California

Vista Point is the songwriting project of Richard Rauda, featuring a rotating cast of talented musicians. With the release of their debut album, "Different Kind of Joy" in 2018, Vista Point's lyrical content is on the forefront and influenced by the great songwriters such as Stevie Nicks, Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, and Paul McCartney.

Born and Raised in Southern California.
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