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all my best actualization
has been done while i'm failing
i'm doing well, at least my resume is
but i've not felt proud of all that for ages
you call me bright
but i feel dim
you call me bright
but i feel dim
i know that lately i’ve been standing on thin ice
could you convince me please that this is not
the underwater side
and if i throw a little tantrum and stomp my feet
just understand that i'm not sure
breaking through's not breaking free
i don't want to die
i don't want to die
i desperately, desperately want to live and thrive
oh, but the life
that we've been prescribed
it takes away the energy and it takes the time
it takes to be and make what makes us feel alive
so hang me up and bleed me dry
you call me bright
but i feel dim
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Cold white hell
Falling down
Taste the lies
In my mouth
Remember when it meant something
Remember when love was warm
Cascading down a path unsure
What could be the harm
It just don't change
Everything we knew keeps on tilting us askew
It just don't change
Words we thought were true are the only things binding you
Empty lips
Callous touch
Why do you
Hurt so much
Remember when it meant something
Remember when we ruled the world
Who's burdens I pulled
It just don't change
Everything we knew keeps on tilting us askew
It just don't change
Words we thought were true are the only things binding you
Took us away
Like a blinding fire
Burned our fate
Lost desire
It just don't change
(Took us away)
Everything we knew keeps on tilting us askew
(Like a blinding fire)
It just don't change
(Burned our fate)
Words we thought were true are the only things binding you
(Lost desire)
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[Verse 1 - Aran]
They taught me I could be anything
They told me I could say anything I like
They said that I could fly, if I would only try
And I'd be everything they wanted
[Verse 2 - Aran]
My future is approaching fast
And the past has a nasty way of catching up
I've done every damn thing that they ever asked
And it'll never be enough
[Pre-Chorus - Aran]
But the person they say I should be
Looks nothing like the truth of me
The path that they provide is paved with violence
So I'll find my way by
[Chorus - Aran & Jeremy]
Instinct
Every road outstretched bеfore me's just a story written for mе by the fates
And I won't take it
Instinct
Every choice becomes a corridor conforming to the shape of my mistakes
And I can't escape it
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i been in the game for a year now
took a lil while, but i’m here now
showed ‘em what i had, they said it warranted a badge
why the hell did i think it wasn’t clear how
now i’m coming back on the mic
the studio one, that’s right
out from the dorm, back in the home, bass with the amp simulator on the vox, automating the delay time
i’m making bank in a business they ain’t even heard of
i only stumble over my words
tryna explain just half of a third of
what kinda world i’m living in terms of
now even they want me to get the word out
137, to be unexact
they think it’s crazy i made that work out
brains getting blurred out
cause on top of the lyricism, yeah i made the beats hit
top of the line before they’re even completed
go ahead with the tuner, boy, i don’t even need it
and on top of the quality, i stay friendly to speak with
if i even blow up, that’s how i intend to keep it
if i’m being real i still don’t fully believe this
but jesus
would be a good rhyme if i said the name that way so i gotta go meta
hardly would be my song if i didn’t
i know the way i write and i woulda dodged that shit if i didn’t know better
but y’all love me and i don’t dodge evidence
i’m too busy here setting precedents
getting a bit excessive like
pali nasa
mi wile e mani la
mi ken kalama suli e nimi sama “wawa” sama “pipi” sama “mama”
mama mi li ken kute e ni
nasin pi jan mute la mi nasa taso ala
(sina pilin monsuta ala monsuta?)
taso mani li kama tawa mi
toki sewi li kama tawa mi
sona mute li kama tawa mi
ijo ni li pona tawa mi
lukin mi la mi ken monsuta
tenpo pini la ken ni li lon ala
(a a a musi a, sina o pilin monsuta)
ni la
o jan pi awen toki lawa ni:
mi o awen lili sama ni
a la sina ken ala lukin
mi kama pilin e ni:
sina lon ala lon tenpo mi
ni la mi ken weka e sona toki sina lon tenpo ale
ken la lon ni li awen
utala sina la sitelen
mi li lon e wile mi kepeken
pilin wawa pi ken ala lape
ni li ike taso sina wile ala pake
la mi toki suli sin e ni:
(omekalikante)
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Used to scavenge like a wild animal
chew through trash to get slightly full
HIDE UNDER ROOTS, or inside, if indulgent
if you find me, try to put aside judgements
You’d like seeing me when you come home
Bright eyed greetings with another hello
Find my time might well be your own
That’s fine, I just need a home
And I’ll run out of my tricks you taught me
done WRONG behind your back ’til you spot me
tail tucked between my legs when you’ve caught me
fraught, distraught, at my follies, falling
out of line with the pet you knew, when you
found me like I let you do, and you
wound me tight, kept me stuck into
counting blessings I get used to
I'll love you like a dog, just train me right.
Enough done wrong, even tame me bites
but make me jump, and I'll say "how high?"
then I'll find how to fly to impress you
I'll offer up my mind to you
be aligned to you
put my likes aside and lie for you
do whatever short of die for you
'til you're satisfied, that's all justified for you
I can't read your mind, but I'll try for you
I'll love you like a dog would do.
I'll let you put me to good use.
I'll love you like a dog would do.
I'll never get you, I don't expect to.
I love to beg you, I live to beg you.
I lick scars to remember wounds
My own heart can run on fumes
Darkened moods you've walked me into
up to me to restart sweet hearted views
I'm telling you what I can't stand
Revel in devotion to a master's hands
Letting moments that we "get it" make a dent
I am an animal who'd rather have a known greater-than
I'm but a beast, and this is my beast frame.
And at least it meets my needs when tamed,
this machine's got growing pains,
and a glowing flame, flowing through a brain,
so put a name on it, take my old one.
No sense of shame 'bout it, guess I don't own one.
You'll have to train all that in, come and change me,
chain me to your aims until it strains me,
Oh baby I'll love you like a dog, just train me right.
Enough done wrong, even tame me bites,
but make me jump, and I'll say "how high?"
then I'll find how to fly to impress you.
I'll offer up my mind to you,
be aligned to you,
put my likes aside and lie for you,
do whatever short of die for you.
'til you're satisfied, that's all justified for you.
I can't read your mind, but I'll try for you.
I'll love you like a dog would do.
I'll let you put me to good use.
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Back in the city
I'm just another girl in a sweater
Perpetual novice
Signature on a check made out to you
Took ten laps 'round the planet
To prove what I wasn't
And the door slams hard behind you
When you leave the house of judgment
Been waiting for regret to hit me
Some kind of reckoning
I waited for the drop, 'cause lately
The yang comes with yin
Back in the city
I'm just another girl in a sweater
Perpetual novice
Signature on a check made out to you
Now there's the sunset
Salt in the wound, yeah
Sometimes I don't know who I'm singing to
Who is the you who I sing to
When the house is empty?
You open the door
To another door, to another door
To another door, to another door
And I'm running through to you
You open the door
To another door, to another door
To another door, to another door
And I'm running through to you
And we're waking up sore and dizzy
From a ten year concussion
And the rainfall makes you miss me
Even though you say it doesn't
Back in the city
I'm just another girl in a sweater
Back in the city
Everything's different
When we're not together
You open the door
To another door, to another door
To another door, to another door
And I'm running through to you
You open the door
To another door, to another door
To another door, to another door
And I'm running through to you
Running, running, running, running
Running, running, running, running
Back in the city
I'm just another girl in a sweater
Perpetual novice
Signature on a check made out to you
Now there's the sunset
Salt in the wound, yeah
Sometimes I don't know who I'm singing to
Who is the you who I sing to
When the house is empty?
You open the door
To another door, to another door
To another door, to another door
And I'm running through to you
You open the door
To another door, to another door
To another door, to another door
And I'm running through to you
Running, running, running, running
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(fetch the time)
(patch it up)
(a worn out life of a doll)
(passing on, denying)
(it's just a matter of time)
(it's a tether on my spine)
I could, I could, I could never move
any further, any faster
and your letter caught my eyes
ever after, ever after, ever after
I got that fucked up vibe pointing at the wrong way
when the snow hugs hill
I'll be there to sow pain
sadly enough, says, there should never be a short day
and the life goes slower, slower, slower
I got that fucked up vibe pointing at the wrong way
when the snow hugs hill
I'll be there to sow pain
sadly enough, says, there should never be a short day
and the life goes slower, slower, slower
I could, I could, I could never move
any further, any faster
and your letter caught my eyes
ever after, ever after, ever after
got my problems buried in my head
looking worse than ever I could tell
but I wanna be the guy who tries to live one's best
got my problems buried in my head
looking worse than ever I could tell
(I got that-)
fucked up vibe pointing at the wrong way
when the snow hugs hill
I'll be there to sow pain
sadly enough, says, there should never be a short day
and the life goes slower, slower, slower
I got that fucked up vibe pointing at the wrong way
when the snow hugs hill
I'll be there to sow pain
sadly enough, says, there should never be a short day
and the life goes slower, slower, slower
got my problems buried in my head
looking worse than ever I could tell
but I wanna be the guy who tries to live one's best
got my problems buried in my head
looking worse than ever I could tell
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Drain my
Power
Stackin up
Hours
Playboy playin' it through
Nothing new to me
Dream of
My childhood
Pikachu
Lifeblood
Need no nightlight
Cause my eyes shine
Wide and narrow
Dizzy, shallow
Melatonin
Rainy monday
I walk outside
Naked, so high
Why do I keep
Feeling so cold
Like Glaciers in the sky
Dripping down over time
You disappear on cloud nine
While I am flying overdrive
Like glaciers in the sky
Like glaciers in the sky
Like glaciers in the sky
Drippin down over time
I’m bleeding colours
Gray disaster
Can't stop feeling like I'm
Can't stop feeling like I'm
Can't stop feeling like I'm
Wide and narrow
Dizzy, shallow
Melatonin
Rainy monday
I walk outside
Naked, so high
Why do I keep
Feeling so cold
Drippin down over time
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guess what i found while browsing ebay
it's a magic potion that'll make me a dog, today!
this flask has been sitting on the shelf; yeah it's ancient
and i really really thought "man, this potion ain't shit"
but what's this, huh? i've got a snout now!?
and my hooves, they are turning into paws now!?
somebody hit pause now! this is going way too far!
i can't speak anymore! woof bark woof woof bark!
only dog chow for me; i can't eat normal people food
and every night, you can find me howling at the moon
i'm in such a good mood; yeah i never felt better
how was i ever a deer; i'm really starting to regret it
cuz i'm at the dog park; i'm catching these balls
paid a visit to the vet; he's detaching these balls
i get so much hugs, i'm just *so* fucking fluffy
i get so much tail, even your bitch calls me puppy
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Oh, you're so good to me, and I hate it.
lyrics
I’m nothing major
You’re luxe bliss
What in you made you wanna
Treat me like royalty
Now I’m no peasant
But ain’t too noble either
We got done being hesitant
And got down to heavy breathing
Binary system cyclical
And you rhyme without a reason
You speak Elysian tones.
Wind no longer breezing, no
You had little to prove, but
It’s that regal how you move, I
Can’t try to like fetch a high price
But you crashed right into my life
No I’m nothing major
You’re luxe bliss
Oh, what in you made you
So coy with me
Far from in my nature, did
Not expect this, no
What in you made you
Treat me like
Royalty
You treat me like royalty
Unrighteous throne,
They hail the way we’re leading
When it’s just us alone
This scales are never even
No, you had nothing to prove
its that regal how you move
I can’t see myself like I’m high priced
but you crashed right into my life
No, I’m nothing major
You're a short trip
What in you made you
Make me worth your tricks?
No, i’m nothing major
you’re luxe, bliss
Oh, what in you made you
Wanna toy with me
Target you can aim for,
Not expecting this
What in you made you
Treat me like royalty
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kiss like elastic
stretch it everlast it
need to tell the world
turn my back
i'm not acting
everytime I wait
on her word
on the last train
satisfy your nerves
seek it out
call me asking
no i don't wanna
even out of sight i can still feel the pyramids watching us
like we're it's prey
♪
how much for your body
and ill never let it go
i got caught
swimming round the topic
i won't ever let you know
i don't wanna x2
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roll up my sleeves
my palms
consumed by thoughts
my mind, my mind
outside
time ripples in my mind
time
i can see
a ghost, a ghost
dressed, loose threads
undone, come close
outside
time ripples in my mind
time
skipping stones on shallow tide
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Full Set (Seamless)
01:07:24
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Jeremy Blake Seattle, Washington
Musical output of Jeremy Blake
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