1. |
Performative
03:13
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Hands outstretched
now I don’t even know if it’s working better anymore
Hands outstretched
now I don’t even know if it’s worth bothering now anymore
Ticking boxes,
charging laptops,
separating causes from ourselves.
Signing petitions,
charging laptops,
separating causes from ourselves.
Fake activism,
Timid skeptics –
unable to connect mankind
Scared of middleman
walk off guilt-free
leave it for the next century
Hands outstretched
now I don't even know if I'm working, dying for who and what
hands outstretched
now I don't even know if I’m sleeping, living for who and what
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2. |
Circle
03:00
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Dead end again
you ditched me like before
Stumbling around
blindly reaching out
It’s just a circle
Stuck in this labyrinth
Dead end again
waiting for my number
Thousands before,
never inching closer
Always I find me
in my crafted hell
Tell me why can’t I
understand you
and the things
you make me do
They might be onto me
They’re reading my written thoughts
They might be onto me
I can't stand it
I know you’re right next to me!
They might be onto me
Tell me what I have to do
and I'll do it right now!
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3. |
Bug in Spring
03:24
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I’m taking in a stroll
I saw the wind push by
I caught your glance in mine
Embedded in my soul
a box of plastic toys
a place for you and I
I feel it though, now I’m hoping you do
I’m falling down, I’m going down heart first
Naive, some find me
it feels like i’m gonna hurl
I feel it though
I’m taking in your hug
I feel you lean on me
I caught this bug in spring
It’s captured in my palm
it’s beating helplessly
to the moving air around it
I feel it though, now I’m hoping you do
I’m falling down, I’m going down heart first
Naive, some find me
it feels like i’m gonna hurl
I feel it though
It takes some guts
to trust fall just like that
to lose control
and be okay with how it feels
It takes some guts
to trust it will grow back
to lose control
but lose your clarity
and you fall
I know it though
we’re running in tandem
It paid it off, I’ve heard
we’re growing the same time
the world keeps spinning, spinning
and we’re twirling, twirling
twirling in the light
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4. |
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I am tired of this
want my time, not waste it
I am pushing on
want my space, not share it
I can’t dedicate
all my efforts
to this lifestyle
Make it make sense,
does it make sense?
but I’m here
Sunny beaches
make me alright
Indulging in the simplest pleasures
we can’t deny
I’m so sick of this
tired right now, tired later
I am losing sleep
over careers, beep me later
You can dictate
what makes people
find their comfort and their joy
within it all, within it all
I can't decide what would make me
a better person
a better citizen
a better student
a better friend
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5. |
What I Meant
02:36
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That’s not what i said
please reel it in now
I can’t justify
That’s not what i meant
please try to understand
I’m not myself again
I’ve blurred my past again
I can’t even lie anymore
I’ve crosshatched with my past
I can’t even lie anymore
I’m not like this
I know how
but I’m clueless to everything
that led me here, brought me down
I know it, put away that mirror
I see the way
It comes around, around the year
Seasonal dejection
It’s causing me to doubt
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6. |
Pick Up The Phone
01:44
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Come home
and I wash my face
Feel dead but I feel awake
Lights out and the day is gone
Help me, what was I thinking all day?
Please reconnect me to your line
I’ve been put on hold again
Sometimes I forget to call you
maybe leave you voicemails
It’ll be nice to have you call me back
I need this - connection
with you
And I forget about this connection,
and I’m sorry because I swore to myself that
I’ll never forget this thing we have between us
and it’s the end of the day and i just remembered
I forgot to thank you for letting me be a part of this
this everything
thank you
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7. |
Tender
02:51
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First step, now second
I'm trying to pull it together
Am I dreaming?
Sky looks so big
and the birds are singing, they say
“Hello, how you doing?”
I think
she is breathing around me
alive, the colours are coming to me
I think
I am brought back to where I belong
alive, can’t wait to see what I have missed
Could this be my
very own rebirth
First breath, now second
got nothing in me
Am I crazy?
Must be on something
Everything around me is moving,
they’re greeting me, “Hello, whatcha doing?”
I have been away, mulling this over
I can always feel, I can always count on you
you can always feel me too
binding on this love, i know
I have been away, mulling this over
It’s something –
You’ve got to feel it
when it comes to you.
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8. |
Machine
02:44
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Just treading in this town
Blank face in this busy square
No cash in my account
Avril’s right, oh what the hell
I’m a machine
I clock in
riding my bike till the evening ends
just treading in this town
Frustrating
This iron
cage we’re all just been born in
Depending on my mood
I might be screwing on
The company’s own time
I don’t smoke but it’s not fair
Oh well that sounds so good
you’re doing so good
you’re doing yoga before you meditate
lemme tell you when I was overwhelmed
and I really felt like shit and just listen everytime I try to explain it
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I'm having a bad day
tell me look inward
its dark, I'm down
its dark, I'm down
I’m having a rough day
but I’m holding onto you
it’s warm and I know its okay
Dunk my head into waters
choked on the things we do
Dunk my head into waters
wake me up fully new now
Still yearning your embrace
feel it grow within me
take root, I’m learning
feels real renewing
I feel it move around me
don’t you feel it too?
She sings, dancing right with you
Join in,
I’m right there with you.
You woke me from my slumber
I fall down on my knees
basking in your warm light
It’s how I came to be.
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10. |
Everything
03:55
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The sunrise
I sit still
gotta watch it move along now
I blink twice
I sit still
gotta watch it move along now
and all I have
I confess - it’s you
The sun rise
I watch still
watching the gold bathe the birds
bringing song into cities
bringing luxury in our souls
all i wish for
is this sustaining of this peace
All im asking is
Is everything yours or is everything mine?
Have we labelled every being?
Have we called it for our own?
Diversity appreciated only when called for
Within confined gardens, with a fee at the gantry
It is no longer spontaneous, people travel to see what they do not see in cities
Unable to recognise the weeds between bricks
Wildflowers growing in our carparks
The way we time our activities with the movements of the sun
The way we adapt to the weather around us
The way we are in her complete mercy, helpless, unable to predict what comes next.
Why are we so scared of this?
Does it scare us that no matter how much we eliminate tall grass
it grows back wilder than ever?
No matter how much we thought we knew about the world,
she proves us wrong time and time again?
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