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A Broken Bond
03:21
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I’m told that I’m the good guy
As I ditch the burner phone
I watch the foreign actors
I’m a man who has no home
I’m a comfortable assassin
And I don’t know where to start
All the peril in my routine
Makes a shadow in my heart
And the devil that is lurking
Behind my cold visage
You don’t know how it burns me
My assassin’s broken heart
I will piss away my wisdom
As the minutes turn to hours
Hiding with a rifle
In a loft above a bar
Another day is wasted
Like the man I’m told to kill
I feel ironic sadness
Cos It no longer gives a thrill
But the devils that are living
Behind my glib portrayal
I am destined for a lifetime
Of failure and betrayal
The stranger avenger
Who lost his sense of danger
Life waster defacer
I am the ghost imposter
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2. |
Fires
03:49
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Goldilocks has plans for you
your fears I guess are Luke warm too
And there is a perfect view
To see the Earth
Sabre toothed geeks are proud of
Point out their inventive plans to
Travel to Mars on their rocket ships
The tinsel on this burning tyre
Do we cut the green or reddened wire?
They’re hoping we don’t see the fires that burn
Play those sorry songs for me
And learn to love your own complicity
These final days we’re feeling free to hope
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3. |
Dopamine Girl
03:56
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She really can shoot the breeze
And the world she knows is exactly what she seizes
Don’t you break apart again now
Cos it doesn’t really suit you
You’ve seen the things that took me years
The biggest pushes of this latent fear
And it creeps behind us when we hide a tear
It never fails to knock us down
The Dopamine girl
is Painting all her her mirrors
her beautiful song
Can be heard again
The Dopamine girl
Knowing everything has gone astray
Sometimes you can’t seize the day
But that’s alright
In the dark with Thom Yorke’s voice
Hidden from the obvious choices
But I gotta agree I would feel the same
I’d sever the rigging of this odious game
It’s just a phase they promise you
The sun will shine when you least expect it
But until then don’t worry about it
It will never be your fault it's just the way it is
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4. |
Mr Big Wig
02:51
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Hey Mr Big Wig
Tell me how it feels to fall as far as you have fallen from the sky
You’re now an ordinary guy like me
Hey Mr Big Wig
Tell me how it feels to know as little as you seem to know right now
You’re going to have to tell me how it feels
If hindsight was a currency
You’d be poorer than people like me
Your ego’s now a fallacy
That only you believe in
Hey Mr Big Wig
Tell me how it feels to exercise a power that has wained
Yet somehow not feel ashamed of yourself
Hey Mr Biggest Wig
Tell me when you start to feel that you are insignificant like me
When you’re not a big bully anymore
If hindsight was a currency
You’d be bankrupt that is plain to see
You could experience all the misery
That you once gleefully dished out
Big Wig Two Face
Welcome to the coal face
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5. |
Green Beetles
03:37
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Whilst she shines like those tiny green beetles
That you find when you lift up the rocks
She will thrive on the warmth of your people
And the effortless smiles she unlocks
We’re the wallflowers that sit near the hand rails
Where we grunt out our idiot views
And we love to ride on her coat tails
In the shade that’s created by you
And the patience she saves up for worry
And respect for the darkness we show
We can embrace melancholy
As the men that only they know
If your girl is a natural carer
Who knows how to nurture the soul
Hold on to her with the firmest of grips
Cos without her we’re nothin at all
If this girl eclipses our being
Don’t grumble at how this all passes
Don’t Sit in the shade that we’re seeing
Be sure to Wear your sunglasses
Let her be
She’s your shiny little green beetle
She’s the best
Of all the really kind people
Shelter you
She will ward off nearly all the evil
Keep her safe
She’s your shiny little green beetle
She’s the Eve
You’re the Adam who will eat the apple
She’s the scribe
Who is writing up your own fable
Keep you strong
Keep your feet underneath the table
Keep her near
She’s your shiny little green beetle
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6. |
Off and On
02:55
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Vaccination
Won’t be long
Computation
Could go wrong
Drugstore nation
Find the cure
Acceleration
To the pure
You’re right we know
It’s time to go
The time to choose
Not for the slow
They scream they shout
They get it out
The doubt The doubt
Turn it off and on again
Choose the option
Show no doubt
Tin foil hat men
Wanting out
Protein binding
Cellular blight
Herd immunity
See the light
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7. |
The Others
04:31
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It’s said that some believe
And many of us don’t
That our tiny little footprints
Are really not our own
If you ask me we have failed
To fully understand
That our collective sorrow
Comes from all our hands
And all the crap we chase
And The things we try to hide
It Doesn’t really matter
When we’re eventually found out
So Don’t worry about our future
That You won’t be here to see
You can rest easy my darling citizens
If you think it was not ME
And somewhere west of Oregon
Is the litter of our lives
Swirling as a constant
Beyond our view
And no one ever sees it
And no one makes a change
We’ll keep on keeping on now
It was always about the others
I’m making a confession
I’m as bad as all the rest
This song is my apology
For the shit I passed to you
Let’s admit we are complicit
Let’s admit we fucked things up
Let’s work to make it better It was not about the others
It was really me and you
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8. |
Indie Kid at Heart
03:27
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I’ve seen people spend lives yearning
Setting goals they can’t achieve
Making judgements that are fleeting
Cos We’re easily deceived
Giving lives to being parents
And putting by some hard-earned cash
Taking shots of every sunset
Whilst they grow up in a flash
Chorus:
So every time you feel it
If the darkness plays a part
When you hear your sadness knocking
When you don’t know when to start
Put on your favourite record
Let the tune fill up your heart
Put on the songs that move you
Cos we’re Indie Kids at Heart
When your life has hit the railings
And your youth begins to fade
A second wind will get you sailing
From the life you thought you made
You can open all the windows
hair flying in the slipstream
Just as long as you can tune into
who you are as a human being
CHORUS
So give up on the yearning
Setting goals you can’t achieve
And sit back on your haunches
Watch the others be deceived
You don’t need to be consuming
You should give it all away
Go sit upon a cliff top
And breathe in all the spray
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9. |
Silent Clicks
03:19
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They’ve flown the nest
And we’re Grasping at the branches
Gasping at the mess you left
These Holes in us
That Cannot stand the silence
And the fuss you made of going
The damage is real
Those silent clicks we grant you
Our identity revealed
Our data and Our lives
Used it all against us
So that Everything contrived to put us down
Take a trip
To a hide out in the heavy north
Where we can start to flip out
Please stay we said
The world is spinning wildly
And the sky is turning red for you
The damage is real
Those silent clicks we grant you
Our identity revealed
Our data and Our lives
Used it all against us
So that Everything contrived to put us down
It is time to interrupt
These methods they would use to box us
In to corners we would never normally go NO
It is time to push right back
It is our time to choose more kindness
Don’t let their blindness hold back all the love you know NO No NO no NO
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10. |
Soul Brother
03:39
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11. |
We Held Firm
04:19
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12. |
These Kids
05:06
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Joe Adhemar London, UK
Joe is both a songwriter and Producer / Remixer.
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