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Algorithm&Blues
03:40
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I invite conversation
nuanced approach means a smile when leaving
humane respect for human emotion
a killer smile
& eyes that see heaven
love untold
won't save a soul
find your place
speak the truth
all that I seek is within me already
a perfect love
forever happy endings
meditation
a diet of restrictions
self discipline
one with everything
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2. |
Free to Decree
03:12
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we are free to decree if we are she or he or they
we are perfectly entitled to be straight, bi, lesbian, trans or gay
we are fully within our rights to take to our knee should we so choose
we are human beings and our rights you will not refuse
this is what it looks like
on the right side of history
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3. |
there is a silence
06:30
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there is a silence inside me & I try to give myself to it
even for just a moment
some kind of auditory respite
from the noises that sing daily and the sentiments that will try to down me
I know that the silence is willing
& I think that it may do me good
& prove a worthy & healthy distraction to the alternatives previously described
but I know too I must be careful
because with the silence comes a mirror
& with all mirrors come a reflection
face to face with imperfection
I must stare down my own self, my self
I must stare down my own self
there is a silence inside me & it is neither opponent or co-conspirator
I can spend years trying to find it
it proves unwilling to be summoned easily
& then one day
it takes hold
without forethought
or warning
it chokes out every last decibel of sound & places me in the centre of its vacuum
something wished for
but never wanted
I have little other choice but to learn its lessons
or succumb to the same fate as sound
for here is a still vibration, a flattened peak, & a circle squared
here is an empty nation; bringing peace yet waging war
the mirror is now unbreakable
I must stare down myself
I must stare down myself
I must stare down myself
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4. |
i live with a monster
03:54
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I live with a monster
its trying to kill me
I live with a monster
looks just like me
I live with a monster
its never through putting me down
I live with a monster
convinced me nobody wants me around
I live with a monster
eating me like rust
I live with a monster
tells me its the only one to trust
I live with a monster
sometimes hibernates
I live with a monster
somehow always wakes
I live with a monster
it wasn't always here
I live with a monster
seems forever near
I live with a monster
& I don't know what to do
I live with a monster
but I know
that it came
from u
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5. |
rock &/or roll recovery
05:09
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they say the gates of hades are open night & day
smooth is the descent & easy is the way
spending all our time
stating at screens
any wonder all my friends are as fucked up as me?
spending all that time
staring at screens?
you bet all my friends are as fucked up as me!
I wear my sleeve on my chest
& wear my chest on your sleeve
a path will clear
a day will dawn
cliched mantras
with good reason well worn
I pull the curtains
face the sunlight
I feel the warmth & the promise of what might
I still cry daily
but more and more with a smile
recovery takes time
all good things take a while
sad songs
sad songs
sad songs
sad songs
battle stations
hold off the hold up
take them alive
they left us for dead
sad songs
sad songs
sad songs
sad songs
still make sense
but carry less weight
in the present tense
battle stations
hold off the hold up
take them alive
they left us for dead
these scenes they gotta be seen
right up there
on the big wide screen
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6. |
what if we won
04:37
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what if
things turned out alright this time
what if
what if we won
what if we held those wrong to rights
what if
what if we won
what if
we survive our longest night
& rise up like the sun
what if
we make the darkness light
what if we won
take this hope & believe it
its true
take these words & then speak them
its true
I know we'll succeed
what if
we held those wrong to rights
what if
what if we won
what if
we survive our longest night
& rise up like the sun
what if
we make the darkness light
one day
our day will come
take this hope & believe it
its true
take these words & then speak them
its true
I know we'll succeed
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7. |
Be Proud
03:34
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stand up
walk tall
face front
be proud
don't hate
just love
what's more
speak up
be brave
don't fear
breathe deep
hands out
be strong
love all
be proud your love
be proud our love
be proud one love
all love
mindful
heart full
hopeful
beautiful
come one
come all
coming
sweating
breathing
heaving
loving
its begun
it be fun
we be proud
we be one
too late
they can't stop this
it's too late
they're just jealous
come on
come on
you know we got this
everything is here
everything is ours
everything is here
everything is ours
stand up
walk tall
face front
be proud
don't hate
just love
what's more
speak up
be brave
don't fear
breathe deep
hands out
be strong
love all
be proud your love
be proud our love
be proud one love
all love
mindful
heart full
hopeful
beautiful
come one
come all
coming
sweating
breathing
heaving
loving
its begun
it be fun
we be proud
we be one
too late
they can't stop this
it's too late
they just jealous
come on
come on
you know we got this
don't let
don't let them change you
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9. |
Peacetime; now.
05:15
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lord won't you give me some peace
I'm so tired
I feel like going home
I'm so tired but I can't sleep
oh lord
won't you give me some peace
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VerseChorusVerse Belfast, UK
VerseChorusVerse
Singing Guitar Player
Melody Bothering Bellower
Rock n Roll Adventurer
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