1. |
Dear oh Dear
04:32
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Well I don’t know what you expected to hear
But this has been building for quite a few years
And never before has it felt so clear
Damn me or not, I am finally here
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
Tempered or turned up
It’s me all along
Talk bitter, sing sweet
Trust me I can move on
But what’s wrong with sad songs
Or a deluge of past wrongs?
It’s high time for my shine
When high life is long gone
Save me your come-ons
I’ll savor life’s run-ons
It’s twilight not dawn
Ain’t the bad light a turn on?
And I felt it before
But it never once came
Swear me up and down
That you do feel the same
And breathe me in deeply
Or exhale me completely
To put it succinctly
I don’t care either way
Great things get boring
And my stories they’re for me
And I can’t deny
I want more stage and more me
And more rhymes that push lines
This is my frontier
Now, hear me or not
I am finally here
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
I live a state of defiance
You won’t find me buying
No means, they are filler
And those ends are uninspiring
Uncompromising grit
Goes best with butter
So don’t take what you’re given
We all need another
Love me in excess
This world it’s a hot mess
And hearing my songs
Is like watching me undress
And I’ll bear you my heart
If you dare something drear
Now, love me or not
I am finally here
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
Dear, oh dear
Well I don’t know
What you expected to hear
But this has been building
For quite a few years
And never before has it felt so clear
Damn me or not, I am finally here
Dear, oh dear
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2. |
Honestly Speaking
04:51
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The world lives react
It's all clear cut fact
But this isn't that, forwards is back
Why's where it's at
I took life in great strides
Thought my horizons so wide
Until I peered inside, bleary eyed
Quietly I, shifted my sights
I was confounded
Saw no way around it
Practically drowned in a stream of subconsciousness
And now I've found it
I am surrounded
I'm cradled in sound and I'm whispering
Hard won truths
Truth is a waveform
Your mind is a rain storm
Life bites you and takes from
What it once gave
Truth is a waveform
Your mind is a rain storm
Life bites you and takes from
What it once gave
Oh and you
You're still trying tell me what to do
You say this is nothing new
I have always claimed to see through
But back then I was sleeping
I woke up in the deep end
It took time to sink in
And surface something new
Something new
Something true
Yeah, something new
I was confounded
Saw no way around it
Practically drowned in a stream of subconsciousness
And now I've found it
I am surrounded
I'm cradled in sound and I'm whispering
Hard won truths
Truth is a waveform
Your mind is a rain storm
Life bites you and takes from
What it once gave
Truth is a waveform
Your mind is a rain storm
Life bites you and takes from
What it once gave
What it once gave
Truth is a waveform
Your mind is a rain storm
Life bites you and takes from
What it once gave
Truth is a waveform
Your mind is a rain storm
Life bites you and takes from
What it once gave
Truth is a waveform
Your mind is a rain storm
Life bites you and takes from
What it once gave
Truth is a waveform
Your mind is a rain storm
Life bites you and takes from
What it once gave
What it once gave
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3. |
Waking Dream
03:48
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Well it's an endless stream of waking dream
My imagination seems to get the best of me
Three months to go, free fall, wind blow
All tomorrow's parties play on hi-fi low, well
All strung out
Feeling more than I should
Then is now
The present and future merged
Hear me out
Real is a relative term
Live supreme, waking dream
Well I don't draw no line between the present time
And what is yet to come, oh I have seen the signs
All that may pass persists as impending fact
My faults, my loss, my wrongs: wet cement casts
All strung out
Feeling more than I should
Then is now
The present and future merged
Hear me out
Real is a relative term
Live supreme, waking dream
All strung out
Feeling more than I should
Then is now
The present and future merged
Hear me out
Real is a relative term
Live supreme, waking dream
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4. |
S.S. Rekt
05:21
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I've been off the deep end before
But this is the first time in a while
Thank god eccentricity
Is coming back to style
Never been too good on my feet
Sure enough, I'm gonna slip
But if you want I got you a first class ticket
To the sinking ship
It's a little messed up
It's a little messed up
I'm a little messed up
It's a little messed up
Can't stress enough that
This ain't always how I've been
Just put myself back together
And realized there were pieces missing
And I'm not quite sure how it happened
Or why, or when
But something tells me
We could be each other's own medicine
Or maybe not
Or maybe not
Could be worth a shot
Or maybe not
It's plain to see
That I'm losing my grip on reality
It's plain to see
That sometimes you don't what to think of me
It's plain to see
That we both know these things they get ugly
It's plain to see
That my reckless heart
Well, it's gonna come back to bite me
Tell me something about yourself
It's you I need to know
I've been sitting here desperately
Trying to square your circle
And they say that you always reap what you sow
Goddamn this year's gonna be real miserable
Already know
Already know
Reap what you sow
I'm reaping miserable
And I got a bad feeling
I've been in this story once before
And it ends with me drunk
And spilt across the floor
Won't you write us a better ending?
I am craving something more
Just keep it wild and horrific
Cause I don't ever want to do this anymore
Gotta mess me up
Gotta mess me up
Girl I know what's up
Gotta mess me up
It's plain to see
That I'm losing my grip on reality
It's plain to see
That sometimes you don't what to think of me
And it's plain to see
That we both know these things they get ugly
It's plain to see
That my reckless heart
Well, it's gonna come back to bite me
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5. |
Loving Kind
04:11
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Loving kind
You know I'm the loving kind
And my heart's been kicked around
One too many times
All of me
You want all of me
Well I'm a bit afraid
What happens if I end up empty?
Cause I can break
But this time, please no, I can't break
You bring a whole lot of give
And a whole lot of take
My demands they are made
Brightness reigns every day
And all that passes this way
Must shine on
Loving kind
You know I'm the loving kind
And my heart been kicked around
One too many times
Easy fit
What you are is an easy fit
You're easy come but when you go
I can't stand the thought of it
So please, miss
Oh my dear, it is ceaseless
I mapped my heart to words
And it reads this
My demands they are made
Brightness reigns every day
And all that passes this way
Must shine on
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6. |
In Pursuit Of
04:09
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Can sheer force of will
Drive my thoughts and leave me filled
Or for once still
This wild, wild world?
Greatness is a line
Are you following or doing or are you hearing?
You've been working overtime
Still not pushing around the sides, it's the small things
A full lifetime passed without
You've not yet asked yourself, "How come?"
Still must step on up and out
Like a shadow that walks around untethered
Can sheer force of will
Drive my thoughts and leave me filled
Or for once still
This wild world?
I live borrowed time
I echo, I scream and shine, I'm ringing
I refuse to be reduced
Life's a complex truth, I'm no exception
I know that I'm unreasonable
My head, my heart, my soul: they ache me plentiful
I don't want to be controlled
Who will stand accountable? I'm calling
Can sheer force of will
Drive my thoughts and leave me filled
Or for once still
This wild world?
Can sheer force of will
Drive my thoughts and leave me filled
Or for once still
This wild, wild world?
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7. |
Self-titled
04:14
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Well I'm need to be but I'm stuck on
Need to know
And if it's something you ain't felt before
Why'd you go?
I'm brushing up on
Slowing down
Step one find someone who will be around
A year from now
How's that sound?
You stick around this stale old town
When you drink your fill
You will find still
You're awash in a sea
Of mediocrity
And you'll feel me
For I will be
Floating there
Quietly
Pleasantly
Saltily
Straight breezy
Straight breezy
Damn son, where'd you find that breeze?
I'm straight breezy
I took out my eyes
To look at the sun
And I've only got
One thing to say
To you empty-hearted
Level-headed
Busy-bodied
Broken jimbos
Coming my way
Yeah, okay
Well let me tell you something guys
Every day that's a new day
It's still the same old day
I used to ask
"Should we really?"
And, "what's the purpose
to all this feeling?"
Oh my, my contemplating
It gets frustrating
Even I, I don't know
What I've been saying
And I held that choice to un-be
I tugged the ends repeatedly
And I picked to act intentionally
Now hear me out and tell me
What do you see?
And finally
I choose to be me
And who is that?
I'm a.k.a. formerly by nature
I'm a.k.a. formerly by nurture
I'm a.k.a. formerly by pressure
I'm a.k.a. formerly by chance
I'm a.k.a. shakily sculpted
I'm a.k.a. Mr. Weathered Down
I'm a.k.a. lost, not found
I'm a.k.a. prince no crown
I'm a.k.a. drop dead sober
I'm a.k.a. well life's not over
I'm a.k.a. ex-sad-boy
I'm a.k.a. yo forget that noise
I'm a.k.a. found this voice
I'm a.k.a. me by choice
I'm a.k.a. found this voice
I'm a.k.a. me by choice
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8. |
Exalt
04:33
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My life's a constant battle between two sides
And it's me against myself and I lose, oh every time
And that devil on my shoulder
He done moved into my head
And I don't trust a single word that's said
And I am always playing defense
And it's hard to shut it out
When everything makes so much sense
To be or not to be?
Well, ask yourself cause that's not for me
And I know truth it is uncertainty
And I know truth it is complexity
And I am not bound to be
Who I am or who you see
Yeah, I can be both me yet free
Yeah, I define my destiny
I manifest
Who says what's best?
I'll say what's best
I manifest
But if that's the truth
Why does it all feel amiss?
Yeah if that's the truth
Why did I choose to be this?
Everything I love has been scrubbed out by me
I've taken up my own periphery
And all that talk about accepting myself
Well, maybe that's just one of those lies that I tell
And now I see that there's someone else
And when I'm lost that's when I'm my best self
So lose the truth, love is all
To live supreme: exalt
Exalt
Exalt
Exalt
Exalt
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9. |
Alice on High
02:30
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Alice in the sun
Tell me where are you darling?
You flew yourself across the sea
Our bed is made and the hallways are waiting
Oh come and make your home with me
Alice starshine
I dreamt I had fallen
And I lost myself in sheets of blue
But in the dark I held the brights of your eyes
And they led me straight on back to you
Alice on high
Your name's perched on my lips
I sang your song to the trees
With leafy sighs the branches were whispering
They told me, "This is meant to be"
Alice everyday
You're a spirited sunrise
You do whatever your minds set to
Full of life, I'm caught in your wake
And my heart is tireless with you
Alice my love
I've been trying
But sometimes I wish I was someone new
Take my hand and I'll hold you gently
If you will have me too
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Elliot by Choice Kampala, Uganda
American musician based in Arusha, Tanzania and Kampala, Uganda
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