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1. |
Now You Tell Me
06:02
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Modern life arrived deceased
A hole where nature used to be
And I
Could take all of the slings
Had a clue which direction we were moving in
Talking heads will sell you south
High on horses gonna ride it out
And we know that you know
Almost too late so we have to get it started
Have to say we're not surprised
Deal in sleight of hand, no straight reply
Now why
Should we bet the house
No intent of paying up just cashing out
Tend the garden that feeds all fools
Don't pour on the oil, make cleaner tools
And we know that you know
Almost too late so we have to get it started
Thought my eyes were open, why did nobody tell me?
Everything was peachy, now its looking unhealthy!
Family is arguing, you'll struggle for the words
Expert plans a eulogy, a paywall to be heard
And if facts won't bail us out
Gold chains and all the feelings will help us drown
A wave is coming if you know what I mean
Projected and dissected over billions of screens
Rather not think about it, drink and shake the booty
Keep your mind on fashion lines, cults are recruiting
You can find what you want, only at a price
Cracking under pressure, should be learning to play nice
Plant the tree you'll never sit under
If we fade away who will count the plunder?
What's to do, just sit in my room?
Sounds like survival, still looks like a tomb
Silver tongued, but we smell a rat
Keeping drilling, how original, coulda told you that
And I
Don't get how you're surprised
Cartoon villains maybe should all wear a sign
All the skeptics, everyone devout
Surely see we can do without
And we know that you know
To build a better future we have to get it started
Vampire nations don't need a priest
Invent in your bedroom, globally release
If they
Drag their feet gotta do it yourself
Wouldn't wait on a burger chain to care for your health
Only have a few years at most
Self organise coast to coast
And we know that you know
To build a better future we have to get it started
Can't speak for me til you've spit my bars
Take my shoes you can wear 'em, can't run a yard!
Oppa-lenz made us late for rent
Broad media training causing over-spend
Champagne buttons are ethically gross
Last days of Rome in your social posts
Seeking affirmation, not a conflict unabated
Who walks into a knife when the whole truth is serrated?
Obvious you want to live your life
A place to dwell, tucked in at night
I feel that pull but can't ignore
Every sign and the omens are at our door
Not enough to carry on or trust in others to get it done
First chimes of midnight have begun to ring
Gotta try or being human doesn't mean a thing
Unite and join the fray, it's all or nothing
Only constant is to change, nature of time
Promise we're not falling back, a second dark age
But continue this divided, our potential's betrayed
Your anger's justified, just misdirected
Pointed at those just arrived, powerless like you
Barely grazed the heavens before hitting the ground
Look at what we built together in just a short go-around
No more I told you so's
Find out what moves your soul
Search out a common thread
We'll get there, our hearts bared
No more I told you so's
Find out what moves your soul
Search out a common thread
We'll get there, our hearts bared
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2. |
Please Look Back
05:10
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Was only out for the weekend
Down to have some fun
Not looking for the one
Simple scraps of conversation
Big beats and friends
Caught a glimpse now and then
Moment immortalised
Hands brushed each other, I met your eyes
Not left my mind
Never had a friend like this
All the crew would tell me that there's other fish
But I know what this is
Sure you felt it
Keep it platonic
If i'm honest
It's terrifying
Held it together
Starting to waiver
I need a saviour
Or I fall apart
Too scared to cross the floor
Just to find out if you wanted more
Look back – Look back – Look back – Please look back
Don't you know after all this time?
You smile is enough to blow my mind
Look back – Look back – Look back – Please look back
How can joy be so tense?
Always tied up in knots
Caught me on the hop
Don't ask me how i'm doing
I don't want to lie
And say i'm doing fine
Now you're asking for the truth
Short term friends, but you know my moves
Voice so low and smooth
Should be more drunk than this
Jump with both feet, make it worth the risk
Don't you swing and miss
Sure you felt it
Keep it platonic
If i'm honest
It's terrifying
Held it together
Starting to waiver
I need a saviour
Or I fall apart
Too scared to cross the floor
Just to find out if you wanted more
Look back – Look back – Look back – Please look back
Don't you know after all this time?
You smile is enough to blow my mind
Look back – Look back – Look back – Please look back
Too scared to cross the floor
Just to find out if you wanted more
Look back – Look back – Look back – Please look back
Don't you know after all this time?
You smile is enough to blow my mind
Look back – Look back – Look back – Please look back
I was a player, tasted all flavours
Was fun while it lasted, but was never enough
You danced into my life and i'm soaring
Too scared to cross the floor
Just to find out if you wanted more
Look back – Look back – Look back – You looked back
Don't you know after all this time?
You smile is enough to blow my mind
Look back – Look back – Look back – You looked back
Too scared to cross the floor
Just to find out if you wanted more
Look back – Look back – Look back – You looked back
Don't you know after all this time?
You smile is enough to blow my mind
Look back – Look back – Look back – You looked back
Look back – You looked back
Look back – You looked back
Look back – You looked back at me
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3. |
The Web We Weave
04:55
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We can look anywhere, at calls and responses all these walls
To the uninitiated it would look like a brawl
Our betters listen in, other taken the fall
Partly our fault
It handles everything, all the services we could ever need
Make life frictionless, sign something we'll never read
Tip your Typhoid Mary cuz we can never leave
Time of death and greed
Here we are locked into our homes
Listen to the pundits drone on and on
Flexing on conspiracies, arguing empirically
Circle back around and nothing gets solved
Might be because my mind is getting bent
I could swear the strife's no accident
Cuz you're acting like the only one who's hurting
Is it just me or is the world outpouring with pain?
We're at the mercy of whim
Noble inventions wearing wolf's skin
A few big players hold too much sway
How can a distant few understand our race?
We all shut up cuz we need the rent
Getting brutalised if we start to vent
There's a price for pushing people farther and we'd rather
Sit back but it's hard to relax
We can't afford anything
But you advertise, extend me a line
Even half the time, I can't tell what is even mine
The pace is blistering, losing all sense of time
Feeling left behind
Work the 40 hour week
Sink or swim, we can only tread
Robber barons so generous
Give us now our daily bread
Who thought that the brightest light would catch us unprepared
Can't sleep, i'm scared
Have to focus amid the noise
All fine appearance, no grace or poise
Living in complicity
Everything we buy or read
Take a ticket, you're in line for opportunity
I didn't say that I agreed to this
Just nature, said the shark to the fish
There's no curbing or dissuading, they'll just keep on masticating
Til we're braver and stop being prey
Pyramid scheme now fully digitised
Took a while but now we realise
Caged in dopamine, passed the point we get out clean
Clues to mitigate it if you read our browsing history
Have to say that we'd make a better show
Writing's uneven and the pacing doesn't flow
All in the edit, setting up a precedent
Network only good as its weakest link
Hey, we get it, you want to escape
While we put out the flames, you'll just have to wait
Denying the fumes are choking us both
Crops spoil in the field, demanding more growth
Getting hard not to use the past tense
Monopolies breaking peace for dividends
Spreading illness, ignore the evidence
Grand finale for a captive audience
Hey, we get it, always had things your way
You can fight it, but opinions are swayed
Put out the ads, fake news to repost
World is changing, and it's not what you know
All the backlash, cancelling who you hate
Doesn't cut it, pariahs will be replaced
Surface reading, you'll never get enough
We're all connected, much more than we're worth
See the web we weave
Wasn't founded on greed
Hey yeah
Young and full of hope
Built by the great unclean
See the web we weave
Wasn't founded on greed
Hey yeah
Young and full of hope
Built by the great unclean
See the web we weave
Wasn't founded on greed
Hey yeah
Young and full of hope
Built by the great unclean
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4. |
Just Take Little Steps
04:19
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Everything fuzzy
All around grey and brown
Crack up above me
Sickly light pouring down
Instinct won't move at all
Lay here and wait it out
Shadows are creeping
Preparing to head south
The rope rubs against me
Beckons, it reaches out
Hurts just to push free
Grip just the right amount
Decided to pull about
Wrestling with torn parts
Everything fuzzy
All around grey and brown
Scratching on the floor at night
Our kind, born to defy
Null space we always occupy
If I lay here, inaction in reply
No easy option, still decide
Simple choice, I want to be alive
Each have our pick of precedent
Despite our birth of accident
All the effort truly moves me
Telling tales of things improving
Though my back is raw, legs are bent
To get back out I find the strength
If fate is yet to be proven
Might yet affect my conclusion
Hand on hand, slowly climbing
Rope is burning, it's better than dying
Cuz finally I'm tasting fresh air
It's better than sugar or lovers hair
One last push and i'm over the edge
Was the sky really this blue before?
No straight lines, rolling on it's own reward
A stumble feels like flight
Each breath becomes a sweet delight
Don't want to slip on down again
Take it all in my stride
Take it step by step
Bit by bit
Much as you can take
Might be more than you think
Take it step by step
Bit by bit
Much as you can take
Might be more than you think
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Gadè Aylesbury, UK
Shimmering riffs and towering beats, born of the artist's British and St Lucian heritage. Proudly DIY recorded using Garageband for Smartphone.
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