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Clutter
03:44
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Voices spinning out in my head again
Fumbling around amidst all the clutter
Started maxing out and I don’t know when
Serotonin smiles began to get dimmer
Oh oh…inner aura spiralling see it simmer
Oh oh…on the rise standing up to deliver
Voices spinning out in my head again
Fumbling around amidst all the clutter
It started minimising and I don’t know when
Serotonin smiles began to get dimmer
Oh oh…inner aura spiralling see it simmer
Oh oh… on the rise standing up to deliver
When metaphoric days bring on simile nights
Emphatic ways should ignite
Songs in a daze always try to harmonise
Vivid recall internalised
Listen to that voice in my head again
I won’t let me down because I’m no quitter
Started listening close and then tapping in
See the dynamic dimension getting clearer
Oh oh…inner aura sparkling see it shimmer
Oh oh…on the rise standing up to deliver
When metaphoric days bring on simile nights
Emphatic ways should ignite
Songs in a daze always try to harmonise
Vivid recall internalised
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Dead Inside
04:45
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The algorithm decides your destiny
Keeps the starving masses fat
On a diet of fear and apathy, ignorance
We all fail to see that
You only believe what you were told
You only see what you were shown
You only do as you are told
Daily deception fuels your warped perception breeds
And everything that’s wrong is someone elses’ fault
A willing subscriber – another cog in the machine
It keeps turning, turning, turning on in itself
But are you alive? Are you alive?
Are you alive…are you alive? are you alive?
You don’t seem alive to me
But are you alive? Are you alive?
Are you alive…are you alive? Are you alive?
You don’t seem alive to me
You’re just dead inside to me
Misinformation creates your identity
Keeps the starving masses fed
On a diet of austerity – hypocrisy
Corruption of how great things used to be
You only believe what you were told
You only see what you were shown
You only do as you are told
Are we really so content or naïve to believe State-sponsored media distortions, smears, lies and deceit…
payments for peerages, for wealthy elites; dodgy backhanders, friends with benefit schemes; and since you’re asking
“more freedom please”; think tanks concocting more corruption and sleaze; it’s getting hard to see the wood from the trees;
oh what a tangled web we weave…
But are you alive? Are you alive?
Are you alive…are you alive? Are you alive?
You don’t seem alive to me
You’re just dead inside to me
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Where I Am
05:43
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Another lucid soul
Have I found my medium
Let me take your leave
But don’t worry I’m still breathing
Right to be the one to be wrong right now
Wrong that I’m the one to be thrown right down
And I am throwing sixes, that’s all I can
To try take me over, over to where I am
Nothing ventured nothing gained
But you know I’m keeping track of me
Armed with my prose
You give it flight and I will give it meaning
Right to be the one to be wrong right now
Wrong that I’m the one to be thrown right down
And I am throwing sixes, that’s all I can
To try take me over, over to where I am
And I want you to see me with my head held high above water
I’m just trying to breathe and I know it
Right to be the one to be wrong right now
Wrong that I’m the one to be thrown right down
And I am throwing sixes, that’s all I can
To try take me over, over to where I am
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Ctrl
03:29
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He incites a million followers one day, they say “we love what you’re doing”
And he gets all the love he needs from what they say
if he just posts about how he is feeling
narc, narc…I see who you are
controlling the controlling agenda’s gone too far
narc, narc…we see who you are
transparency precedes you, like anybody else who needs you
They ask him once he twists it round and round again
Humanity is grieving
For years and years it goes around and just becomes
Years of planned deceiving
narc, narc…I see who you are
controlling the controlling your agenda’s gone too far
narc, narc…we see who you are
transparency precedes you, like anybody else who needs you
narc, narc…I see who you are
controlling the controlling agenda’s gone too far
narc, narc…we see who you are
“We’re stronger together” he tells them all “so here’s what we’re gonna do”
“We’re gonna march in guns a-blazing but I’m gonna hide behind you”
Your gaslightings’ light’s gone out….I wonder if there’ll always be doubt
narc, narc…I see who you are
controlling the controlling agenda’s gone too far
narc, narc…we see who you are
transparency precedes you…
narc, narc…I see who you are
controlling the controlling agenda’s gone too far
narc, narc…we see who you are
transparency precedes you, like anybody else who needs you
Transparency eludes you, like anyone else would ever need you
narc, narc…I see who you are
controlling the controlling your agenda’s gone too far
narc, narc…we see who you are
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Seeing Things
04:03
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I was the one with a plan and a vision…You were the one to move closer to me
But I’m not thinking of abandoning my mission
Even my stars are saying to me
That even when you let me in nearer there’s only a small space in you
And even when you allowed me to push further
It’s only allowed when it’s good for you
And I am seeing again, I believe it again
The sun is shining in my eyes and I can feel it again
I go on a whim, never going to compromise
This feeling again, cause when you see it again
The benefits are all mine, and I can see it again - I believe it again
Gonna be that person, gonna be that person, they don’t recognise
Into my soul inject slow-release as I plead with my heart to just give me peace
Magnitude loud it takes it’s toll, spins me a line and let’s it unfold
Cos even when you let me in nearer, there’s only a small space in you
And even when you allowed me to push further
It’s only allowed when it’s good for you
And I can see it again, I believe it again
The sun is shining in my eyes and I can feel it again
I go on a whim, never going to compromise
This feeling again, cause when you see it again
The benefits are all mine, and I can see it again - I believe it again
Gonna be that person, gonna be that person, gonna be that person,
Gonna be that person they don’t recognise
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60 Seconds
01:00
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60 seconds to say goodbye
60 seconds no time to question why
No chance to pack a bag
No time for tears or to cry
60 seconds until bomb blast
60 seconds until your home is flat
Reduced to rubble at the blinking of an eye
60 seconds to stay alive
In a conflict that's not even your own to decide
Leaders talk while people die
60 seconds no time for tears or to cry
For the futile waste of life
60 seconds to realise
How lucky it is to be alive
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Listening to see, telling it to be
Don’t pull the light down, where we all drown
Telling it to see, listening to be
But you pulled the light down, where we all drown
I’m reclaiming from the fire, watch the flame grow higher in me
When there’s someone else to blame, it’s fodder for the flame to breathe
Breathe…Still breathing…Believe….still believing
If we ever were, ever were free
What’s the concept of how that should be
I’m reclaiming from the fire, watch the flame grow higher in me
If we ever were, ever were free
What’s the concept of how that should be
When there’s someone else to blame, it’s fodder for the flame to breathe
I’ll reclaim it from the fire, and watch the flame grow higher in me
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Decisions
03:02
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We only see what we want to cos we are so blind
But when it comes down to trying to live with someone you find
We steal from, and are stolen from, our integrities and our pride
How can we love one another when it’s our true feelings we hide
And I ask you do you love me like I would always want you to
To be near me, will you hear me, if at sometime I should ask you who
Who are you and what kind of a man
Will you be till this life is through
Look now don’t worry, I’m in no hurry
I will just sit waiting till God knows when
You have made all, all of your decisions
And just maybe I can go on living then
But till that has happened you know you’ll always be a friend
And I ask you only one favour and if you haver I know where I stand
But don’t tell me, tell me you love me
If you have no intentions of seeing it through
So be gone, think about it
All of the decisions now lie with you
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9. |
Gravity
03:30
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Tell him it’s nothing, I just needed to speak
Everyone’s got the freedom of speech
He’s so hung up on things he cannot see
I never once asked him to love me
And while we’re on that, what’s so hard to love?
There are worse things to be thinking of
All of your endeavours are steeped in ironies
I never once asked you to love me?
And Jamie, you throw your weight around but it’ll never match
The wait that’s in my mind
And maybe, one day I’ll get me back I’ll see you, where you are
I won’t be your lost and found
My eyes accustomed, they see colour in black
And the realms within me still call me back
Back to a place of aerial screens
Watch you fill and paint your life in green
Can’t put my finger, finger on you at all
You pick me up just so I can fall
You read my notes, then read them back to me
I never once asked you to love me?
And Jamie, you throw your weight around but it’ll never match
The wait that’s in my mind
And maybe, one day I’ll get me back I’ll see you, where you are
Won’t let this bring me down –
And the weight that’s in my mind knows it could never match
All this waiting around, and maybe
One day I’ll get me back I’ll see you where you are
Won’t be your lost and found
And every time I feel
I’m on my way to some place good you seem to find a way to creep in
And reveal
Something that you know will reel me in and get me in and keep me in
I can’t keep losing me
And Jamie, you throw your weight around but it’ll never match
The wait that’s in my mind
And maybe, one day I’ll get me back I’ll see you, where you are
Won’t let this bring me down –
And the weight that’s in my mind knows it could never match
All this waiting around, and maybe
One day I’ll get me back I’ll see you where you are
Won’t be your lost and found
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10. |
U-Turn
06:06
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Sat here waiting for something normal to reappear
When there’s nothing normal here
Time will keep your fear
Breathing
Curtain call when
It’s easier just to stall
Quell the inevitable
Conclusions to be drawn
And in
When rolling thunder finds a friend
It rolls harder in defence
Plummet further growing longer
spiralling
U-turn
Paradigms in a paradox
Reeling in and then just not
Fight or flight push or pull
It’s the inevitable
Tied in
When rolling thunder finds a friend
It rolls harder in defence
Plummet further growing longer
spiralling
And storms keep thunder rolling in
Rolling harder in defence
Plummet further growing longer
spiralling
U-turn
And it grows louder reeling in
Dissonance under pale skin
Trembling pausing moving in
It grows stronger
U-turn
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11. |
Re-Turn
01:49
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12. |
Ctrl (Acoustic) Bonus
03:28
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BREATHE BAND Kingston Upon Thames, UK
Breathe are an energetic, sometimes acoustic, sometimes electric (always eclectic) hyper indie folk band based in Kingston
upon Thames, in the UK.
Playing all original music since 2019. Their songwriting spans a range of influences from Indie Folk, Folk Rock, tinged with elements of world music, & Americana but with their own unique energy & melodic twist.
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