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1.
Prince of Peace, Beloved God, we bless You for Your worth Your pure and virgin birth Your miracles here on Earth, O Baphomet, we bless You Baphomet, our Queen and King, we thank You for being ours the five points to Your star, the five points to our hearts O Baphomet, we thank You Love is Faith, and Faith is Sight, so let us see You, Lord Your cloven hoof and sword, Our righteous, just reward O Baphomet, we want to see You Baphomet, Stillborn God We love You for your word, the true path, once obscured is open, now we’ve heard - O Baphomet, we love You. i know where You are You’re deep in my heart i know where You are You’re here, in us we know where You are You’re deep in our hearts we know where You are You’re here, in us may Your unholy fire burn in me may Your unholy fire forever burn may Your lowly desire find rest with me may Your lowly desire forever yearn our hearts are on Your altar incarnadine and pure please Lord, keep us sure through all we must endure O Baphomet, make us - strong Baphomet, Lord our God, we thank You for Your gifts the wonder of Your kiss what is love but this? i know where You are You’re deep in my heart i know where You are You’re here, in us we know where You are You’re deep in our hearts we know where You are You’re here, in us
2.
Lifted 05:26
he will lift you up on eagle's wings he will lift you up on eagle's wings so tell me some more lies i breathe em in just fine i'm thirsty for his lies i taste him on my mind i only hear him when i sing the rest of the time he's kind of a quiet king why can't i hear him all the time? i swear i'll breathe him in just fine so tell me some more lies i taste you all the time i am lifted up on eagle's wings but to tell you the truth i don't feel a thing so tell me some more lies i feel you near me all the time your flavor is like wine i can breathe it in just fine your flavor tastes like wine i fucking taste you all the time come inside me it's all right i can take you in just fine he will lift you up on eagle's wings but honestly, you probably won't feel a thing
3.
life is disgusting people are trash you are revolting you are trash someday the earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas but for now we do as we please for now, it's as we like it but we're still trash cosmic trash the kind of crushingly intelligent and yet morally bankrupt galactic parasite that shows up once every billion years in an unfortunate solar system and then fucks themselves to death fuck us all to death life is disgusting and so are you i know all your ugliest thoughts cuz i have them too it's like all we ever do is ruin everything find the best and most beautiful lives and ruin everything we find that sliver of light in a cavern of dark and shit on the world til the sliver's a spark and roar our own names as we fuck all our friends and the only thing that matters is that we cum before the end life is disgusting people are trash you are trash we are garbage
4.
Afterlife 03:24
every place i leave it sure feels like i'm leavin but everywhere i go it's like i never arrive am i braindead? or just on time? sometimes i still think about you in the dead of night those hours in the mornin when i just can’t stand the cold is this the afterlife? or am i just old? there's a place inside me where your love can never leave i wonder, can you feel the hole where you keep mine? i’ll never touch you again i’ll never love you again i’ve lost my mind baby, i’m losin my mind the pus of man has overwhelmed the earth i feel like i’m the only one that hears her screaming dirt i feel like i’m the only one that hears her screaming dirt am i damaged? or just hurt put your fingers in my wounds feel and see i’ve risen again only this time it’s not me
5.
Blankets 02:46
she still sleeps with the blanket Mother made her, while naked she dreamt in the womb "jesus is lord," it sings from the sheets see it is empty, his tomb have i missed the key? has all that i ’ve lived been poisoned by the seeds of childhood ennui if i raised a man from the blood and the sand i would not give him back to the sea deep in the brook of the thicketed forest soft waters are calling her name father and mother, they sit ‘cross the stream, their toes in the fluvial flow if only i knew what they know here, a lacuna, a dark missing part i’m not sure i remember the rest only a mist that covers her eyes and eases her filial shame that frustrated, silky disdain have we missed the key? has all that we’ve lived been poisoned by the seeds of childhood ennui if i raised a man from the blood and the sand i would not give him back to the sea
6.
i’ve spent all my life
 on shit that i made up 
all these problems of mine 
just shit that i made up but isn’t trouble fun 
fun for everyone? if i could start again 
i would trust only one
 and spare all the rest
 their time in my burning sun but i had to run away 
 and i needed someone good 
and the shit that i had made 
 the space between us we experience life
 solely as ourselves
 our thoughts, just echoes in time 
in this cavern we call 'Hell'
 and for all my talk and rhyme 
i have never lived life well i know i have to die alone
 so i’d like to live with you 
we will make this home 
 the space between us
7.
Millennium 05:02
another mornin comes she sleeps straight through to the other side of daylight before she comes to it isn't that she's tired it’s not that she's sad she just gave up the fight when the fight went bad it’s all right if you don’t know your direction there's five empty coffee cups alongside her bed maybe it's all that caffeine what's messin with her head it’s coffee for the day and liquor for the dark it’s a walk in the shade on the wrong side of the park it's all right if you don't know your direction somethin better is comin down the line she’s left all her family left all her friends her troubles had rewarded her with only dead ends back home, they have buried her along with her name all but dead to them now and only herself to blame it’s all right if you don’t know your direction somethin better is comin down the line it’s all right if you don’t know your direction please just give it time for us there is no east or west there are only the houses where we live every day starts and ends the same wonderin’ where to go where to put the blame puts a bullet on her tongue rolls it round her mouth just to taste the lead and think of flyin’ south she wants to test her wings take the wind for a ride but what if that’s not what's on the other side? it’s all right if you don’t know your direction somethin better is comin down the line it’s all right if you don’t know your direction please just give it time none of us really know our direction i guess some of us fake it just fine it’s all right if you don’t know your direction please just give it time
8.
Somnambulist 04:34
wake me up before you kill yourself so that i can tell you no no you can't go no you can't go (i need you) wake me up before you kill yourself so that i can say goodbye to the love of my life you are the love of my life i won't sleep through us i promise i won't sleep through us i promise wake me up before you go to bed so i can watch you close your eyes and know it's not the last time no it's not the last time (it can't be) wake me up before you go to work so that i can take your hand and say i understand baby, i understand wake me up before you leave me so that i can cure my sin and you can let me back in please let me back in i won’t sleep through us i promise
9.
trapped in pennsylvania so far away from the woman who means everything to me trapped in pennsylvania though that’s not to say pennsylvania ain’t an all right place to be all right in the sense that some people spend their whole lives here but for me i don’t think it's workin out that way if i don’t go i’ve gone crazy can’t you see she’s everything to me the woods here, they glow at night that’s pretty cool sometimes i go outside and just stare the hills and trees and valleys well, they're greener than where i’m from but they’re missin that northern mean streak and every glowin night i dream of my woman her green eyes, her soft freckles, her hair if i don’t go i’ll go crazy can’t you see she’s everything to me it's the steel city but the people are soft soft in the good way, not the bad hell, every of em'd give you the shirt of their back that is, if you're a steelers fan if i don't go i'll go crazy can't you see really i'm just bidin my time makin a little money with my summer sweat and grime and when i'm done, i don't need no more guitars just gotta fix my car and i'll drive, drive, drive to wherever to are
10.
Dear John 02:49
dear john, i'm writing to tell you things haven't gone as planned it's gone all of our money, baby i hope you understand i can't just sit alone every day waiting for you to come and save me there's something in the air here it chokes me til i'm blue dear john i'm writing to tell you i've gone and spilled the wine he was just so handsome, baby you were finally off my mind and i felt, for the first time in years, the sadness lift from my shoulders in his arms, you melted away just for a moment one peaceful moment dear John please, i still love you i need you in my arms come home now, come home to me, quickly before there's nothing left of ours i'm so sorry i've done what i've done i had to fuck to feel forgiven i was selfish, i was wrong, but it was still all about you, John you, John you, baby
11.
A Poem 04:46
i know i can only write from my own perspective to say differently would be a pretense so here’s a poem about me my brain is a sieve with holes one size too large my brain is my childhood dog buried in a box in my backyard and if i’ve hurt your little life and live like i've forgot well, that's because i have yes. i have made mistakes mistakes that will come to light “tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?” but they all made a choice oh, and they all chose to stay and i can’t take the blame they put themselves in my fucked up way am i better now? have you noticed that on cereal boxes we always anthropomorphize the cereal itself wheaties with legs and eyes and catchphrases isn’t that funny that we humanize everything we plan to consume i was born thankfully, i will die and not one profound thing will i have said in the interim my words will dissolve into blood my yellow teeth in the sanguine flood still chipped and raw still dripping with the love the love of better men still sharpened down to points to better sink them in don’t trust a word i say it’s not that they’re lies they're just the kinds of truths that lead to a sadder life am i better now?
12.
it is with quiet strokes and tender kindling that i am jointly aware of nothing at all i will not reach hands with you i will not stick eyes to you i will not bandage your mouth or give you my tongue
13.
mona lisa, standin small stares a hole right through the wall into her neighbor's mirror, she sees her neighbor's fears of flying softly overhead with screeching birds and the risen dead shitting on the cars of drunks hiding in bars and she says "i guess that's how the world works now i guess that's how the world feels now" mona lisa, feelin strange eats a live bird from its cage before it can run, she's got it by the legs and it's still kicking down the door with a child's joy and a wild roar she blasts apart his heart his deepest, saddest part and she says "i guess that's how the world works now i guess that's how the world feels now" mona lisa, sittin tall pulls an ace and waterfalls until she sees no more and welcomes the hard floor into her brain as she slips off the globe and where she went nobody knows except for her and me except for her and she says "i guess i guess"
14.
oh Helen, Helen i'm sorry for the bad things i've done i saw your baby in the water and i watched her drown you never should've come back into town so goodnight, ladies goodnight, ladies goodnight, ladies i'm gonna leave you now oh Helen, Helen, Helen i'm sorry for the wrong things i've done i saw your daughter build a fire i saw her catch aflame she cried out for help that never came so goodnight, ladies goodnight, ladies goodnight, ladies i'm gonna leave you now Helen, Helen, Helen i'm sorry for the shit things i've done i saw you lying on our bed wrists empty and red it should've been me instead goodnight, ladies goodnight, ladies goodnight, ladies i'm gonna leave you now so goodnight, ladies goodnight, ladies goodnight, ladies i'm gonna leave you now
15.
forever and a day and a half is how long i will miss you when you finally figure me out and walk out the front door when you don't love me anymore so let's get physical - physical i wanna get physical - physical let me hear your body talk forever and day and a day and a half and about fifteen minutes is basically how long it will take me to stop freaking out there's so much wrong here in the world there's so much off here in my world so let's get physical - physical i wanna get physical - physical taste the words i make there is hair in my shower drain clogging up the water like you clog up my brain i think i'm sick i think i'm really sick passing the buck to that real good dick she calls into work and says "boss i think i'm sick, i think i'm sick, like really sick" so let's get physical - physical i wanna get physical - physical let me hear your body talk let me feel your blood flow on my body let me watch you work me over like a bad cop on the meanest streets i need you and i smell your sweet sensation forever and a day and a half is how long i will miss you
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The DELUXE edition of BAPHOMET is finally here! Included is the original album in its entirety, commentary from sound engineer Matt Haughton and musician Zachariah Baker, and 4 additional, unreleased tracks.

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released January 26, 2018

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Music / Lyrics / Performance / Recording - Zachariah Baker
Mixing / Mastering - Anatomy of the Mix (Matt Haughton)*
Drums - Robbie Frazer
*bass on 'Worship Song for Baphomet'

Deluxe Album and Commentary -
Music / Lyrics / Performance / Recording - Zachariah Baker
Mixing / Mastering / Commentary Recording - Anatomy of the Mix (Matt Haughton)

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