1. |
Overrated
02:30
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We raise the roof
Watch it fall down
We make mistakes
Turn it around
We lose ourselves
In history
Then get obsessed
With prophecy
Who are we now
Who shall we be
Does any of it matter?
I understand it
I get it
I know why they were angry now
Feels like I'm fighting for something to look forward to
Oh, wow
The rules are overrated
And I'm apathy defined
It's either in my nature
Or I'm running for my life
Over and over
Living for tomorrow, not today
When am I gonna
Find a way to cope with all the change
Over and over
Living for tomorrow, not today
When am I gonna
Find a way to cope with all the change
The rules are overrated
And I'm apathy defined
It's either in my nature
Or I'm running for my life
Over and over
Living for tomorrow, not today
When am I gonna
Find a way to cope with all the change
Over and over
Living for tomorrow, not today
When am I gonna
Find a way to cope with all the change
Like is this just me sort of holding on to my youth?
Got to keep running
Running faster now
Fill up the seconds
On the calendar
Got to keep running
Running faster now
Fill up the seconds
On the calendar
Got to keep running
Running faster now
Fill up the seconds
On the calendar
Got to keep running
Running faster now
Fill up the seconds
On the calendar
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2. |
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Cars speed through my city, no sunlight
Humid drops of rain
Conversation takes place on phones
Who needs eye contact?
Me and my friends are pretending
To be anything but lost
If we're in love then it's end-game
If we're hard-up then we're not
And the projects that we're making
Are all starting to take off
Every now and then we try to face reality, but it's forgotten
As this day fades to another
We're all competing undercover
And for what?
I don't know why
Energy in low supply
As this day fades to another
We're all competing undercover
And for what?
I don't know why
Energy in low supply
Strangers shouting while a busker tries to sing
Stand by me again
Birds above fly through the concrete sky
Looking for a home
Me and my friends are pretending
To be anything but lost
If we're in love then it's end-game
If we're hard up then we're not
And the projects that we're making
Are all starting to take off
Every now and then we try to face reality, but it's forgotten
As this day fades to another
We're all competing undercover
And for what?
I don't know why
Energy in low supply
As this day fades to another
We're all competing undercover
And for what?
I don't know why
Energy in low supply
As this day fades to another
We're all competing undercover
And for what?
I don't know why
Energy in low supply
As this day fades to another
We're all competing undercover
And for what?
I don't know why
Energy in low supply
I can feel it pushing at me til I can't breathe
Aware of what I want but not sure what I need
I can feel it pushing at my til I can't breathe
Aware of what I want but not sure what I, what I, what I, what I, what I need
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3. |
New Construction
01:57
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I don't want to feel like I'm treading water
I don't want to feel like I'm just... here
I am a new construction
Built from broken pieces
Each one filled with stubborn hope
Simultaneously green
And seen more than I should have seen
It's the strangest combination
So I can't be your guide
Cause I stumble through this life
With the best of my intentions
And the will that I can find
But it's alright
It's alright
Yeah, it's alright
I just need time
But I don't wanna waste time
No more
No more time
I just worry so much about the future
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4. |
Strip Lights
03:34
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Oh my god
What is this dystopia
That I blinked and we’re floating in?
TV clips online
From 1995
Are my make believe medicine
Sit in the bar and listen
I just blur my vision
Til the sparkles are just coloured dots
And I don’t wanna be
In this reality
Of dying ends as we pretend
Everything is better than it ever has been
It’s not your fault
I think I’ve lost my light
My guiding star is hiding somewhere tonight
And honestly
I think i’m finding it hard just to be
Nothing new
Wish the opposite were true
But the territory has been worn
The patterns appear
With the roots in my hair
Can’t run from the way you were born
I leave to no surprise
And as my lift arrives
Sit in the back seat
Chapel street flashing by
And I stare out to space
Apologise in case
But when i say goodnight
Voices fight
Whisper like a phaser through my stereo mind
And It’s not my fault
I think I lost my light
My guiding star is hiding somewhere tonight
And honestly
I think I’m finding it hard just to be
(Tired of the strip lights and late night messages
Take me somewhere I can rest my head)
I know it will pass I know it will pass
I know it won’t last forever I’ll stay together
I know it will pass I know it will pass
I know it won’t last forever we’ll be together
I know it will pass I know it will pass
I know it won’t last forever (til fade)
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5. |
Another Lesson Learnt
05:14
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They take it out on us
Flaunt it in the face
Of anyone who buys into the big race
It's a battle for the insecure
On the filtered screen
All rational thought disappears
To memory
I want to belong
Just like anyone
What do I have if i'm not rushing into the future?
In our quest for unity
We get ourselves burnt
By the ever-looming fire
Of another lesson learnt
To make peace
With myself
Would hurt less
Than someone else
Turning me into a ghost
Why's it I fear that the most?
Time running from us constantly
Not a chance to pause
Just when we think we've done it all
They say there's more
It's a battle for the insecure
On the filtered screen
All rational thought disappears
To memory
I want to belong
Just like anyone
What do I have if i'm not rushing into the future?
In our quest for unity
We get ourselves burnt
By the ever-looming fire
Of another lesson learnt
To make peace
With myself
Would hurt less
Than someone else
Turning me into a ghost
Why's it I fear that the most?
Why's it I fear that?
Why's it I fear that the most?
Why's it I fear that?
Why's it I fear that the most?
Why's it I fear that?
Why's it I fear that the most?
Why's it I fear that?
Why's it I fear that the most?
Why's it I fear that?
Why's it I fear that the most?
Why's it I fear that?
Why's it I fear that the most?
Why's it I fear that?
Why's it I fear that the most?
Why's it I fear that?
Why's it I fear that the most?
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6. |
Some Kind of Cliché
03:21
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Told a friend I'm happy on my own
Now I'm watching videos of celebrity couples looking into each other's eyes
What a surprise
I didn't know I was lying
I didn't know I was lying
I didn't know I was lying
Wrote affirmations on loving myself
Now I want somebody else to confirm independently the stuff I already know
Got to let go
Got to let go
But it's easier said than done though
Hey
If I'm some kind of cliché
Hey
I hope it turns out okay
Say I do what I want for a living
But at family dinners I'm giving minimal details about what I'm up to these days
What can I say
Hard to describe anyway
Hard to describe anyway
Hard to describe anyway
Tell myself there's nobody who'd do better in my shoes
But whenever I see somebody's life announcement I just run and hide
I don't know why
Too scared I'm messed up inside
And I'll never get to know what their normal is like
Hey
If I'm some kind of cliché
Hey
I hope it turns out okay
No official guidebook
Just some precedents
Weighing on your shoulders
Items on a checklist
All the fairytales
Were only in my head
And all I wanna do now
Is sleep alone in my bed
If I could just stop analysing everything that I've ever said
I want to take it down
Burn the feeling out
That they're all moving while I'm static but I don't know how
Just want to let it go
I've got to let it go
Drain my resources trying so hard to let it go
I want to take it down
Burn the feeling out
That they're all moving while I'm static but I don't know how
Just want to let it go
I've got to let it go
Drain my resources trying so hard to let it go
I want to take it down
Burn the feeling out
That they're all moving while I'm static but I don't know how
Just want to let it go
I've got to let it go
Drain my resources trying so hard to let it go
I want to take it down
Burn the feeling out
That they're all moving while I'm static but I don't know how
Just want to let it go
I've got to let it go
Drain my resources trying so hard to let it go
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7. |
Clairvoyant
02:23
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Things are just weird right now
They're just weird
In the world
In my life
I have to believe that it's all for something
You ate up my time
Infiltrated my past
Cleaned out all the money I ever had
Where's the line between loving you and hurting myself
Cause I just can't seem to picture doing anything else
Did I somehow get cursed when the clairvoyant came to me
Told me I'd be a star
When I was 17
Tried to make out like I didn't take it seriously
But held it inside like somehow it was meant to be
Would I have been happier
If I'd just let it go?
Fade with the memories
In that home video
Why is it that this is all that I've ever known?
So hard to define but still with me when I'm alone
I know
I know
I know
I can only save myself
I'm not a wheel re-inventor
Maybe that's okay
Am I okay?
Am I?
Am I?
Am I?
Am I?
Am I?
I used to think, like
If you worked really hard at something for like a decade
There's very few people if they stuck at it that wouldn't get anyway
Now I'm like
Is that really true though?
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8. |
Lucid Dreaming
04:31
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Silence is the fear
Of every broken down creative
So as it appears
I'm gonna work until I get sick
Many times i've felt
Enemy of all the pressure
Put upon myself
Colouring my spirit blue
Going through the motions like I got this in control
Balancing personas but I can't restrict my soul
It's all I
See when I close my eyes
And most of the time
You're present in my mind
I'm lucid dreaming
(I'm hooked on your love)
Awake and sleeping
I'm lucid dreaming
(I'm hooked on your love)
Awake and sleeping
I am still the child
Dancing on the garden steps
I see her when I smile
Biggest dreamer you'd have met
Longing to break free
Of the never-ending cycle
Anything to be
More than what they thought of me
Going through the motions like I got this in control
Balancing personas but I can't restrict my soul
Oh baby It's all I
See when I close my eyes
And most of the time
You're present in my mind
I'm lucid dreaming
(I'm hooked on your love)
Awake and sleeping
I'm lucid dreaming
(I'm hooked on your love)
Awake and sleeping
I am not meant for this world
If it's living without you (repeat til fade)
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9. |
I Guess, Anyway
05:54
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If the sky still is the limit
It seems like it's falling to me
And just getting out of my bed now
Is some kind of small victory
And good days are wearing a new shirt
And remembering therapy
Walks through the park in mid-morning
With the sun peaking out of the trees
If only I'd taken
A moment to capture
The confidence I had before
Thought I'd figured out the world then
Threw the pieces in the air again
And now I've forgotten
Why I was so sure 'cause
Here I am tired again
And here I am covered with cynicism
And here I am my hope wearing thin
Though I've dragged it around through wherever I've been
And here I am at least twice my age
At the same time I swear I'm too young
For the next stage
If I have the whole world to grow in
The days seem to fly way too fast
Spent so long in this breaking news cyclone
That I don't remember who I am
And some days are pretty much write-offs
Where the best intentions are in vain
There's no concentration or feeling
Set to wait for tomorrow again
If only I'd taken
A moment to capture
The confidence I had before
Thought I'd figured out the world then
Threw the pieces in the air again
And now I've forgotten
Why I was so sure 'cause
Here I am tired again
And here I am covered with cynicism
And here I am my hope wearing thin
Though I've dragged it around through wherever I've been
And here I am at least twice my age
At the same time I swear I'm too young
For the next stage
I'll keep working through it
Not much I can do it's
Just some growing pains
I guess, anyway and
I don't have the answers
Though I wish I did
I'll find comfort in the people before me who lived
Through uncertain years
Facing the curtain years
Crying and learning years
Fixing, returning years the
Knowing nothing years
Desperate for loving years
Wishing for golden years
Hate getting older years
It's all been played out before
Over and over and over and over so
Won't you save a place for me
At the party
We promised to have one day when we weren't sad
I just hold on to that
I just hold on to that
I hold on
I, I hold on
I, I hold on
I, I hold on
I, I hold on
I, I hold on
I, I hold on
I, I hold on
I, I hold on
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10. |
It's All Cyclical
03:41
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I gave myself a bit of a pep talk last night and just said like
I know it feels like the whole world is on your shoulders
But like you have to step back and just remember
It's all cyclical
The good, the bad and what is cool
Generations on the move
And hating everything you do
It's all cyclical
The good, the bad and what is cool
Generations on the move
And hating everything you do
Health, nature
And what you want to do later
Heartbreakers
Health, nature
And what you want to do later
Heartbreakers
For this radical moment
Who I am is good enough
My past, my present and my future
All perfectly aligned for this moment in time
In my loaned piece of the universe
I am not inadequate
Yeah, for this radical moment
Who I am is good enough
My past, my present and my future
All perfectly aligned for this moment in time
In my loaned piece of the universe
I am not inadequate!
Cause I tried to be cute
And I tried to be aloof
And I tried to be assertive
I tried to make it work
I tried to be intellectual
Mysterious and ethereal
Broken once, but fully healed
And this close to a major deal
I tried to please people
I tried to appease people
But I still never felt like I was enough for the people
I could be sick just thinking of it
All the fun that I had missed
Dreaming of someone else
When I already had this!
Yeah I could've just lived it up
Karaoke in the club
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
Where the music's good
Where the music's good
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
Where the music's good
Where the music's good
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
Where the music's good
Where the music's good
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
Where the music's good
Where the music's good
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
Where the music's good
Where the music's good
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
Where the music's good
Where the music's good
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
Where the music's good
Where the music's good
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
Where the music's good
Where the music's good
That's the place I call any four walls where the music's good
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11. |
Extraordinary
02:30
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I know it's hard to see it right now
But the way you feel will change
Seems like yesterday you doubted
That you'd make it to this stage
So don't you go forgetting
The place where you came from
Sometimes you've got to learn to walk before you try to run
And everybody says it
But it happens to be true
So go ahead and do what you've got to do
Some other place, some other time
You'll find the space to heal your mind
And you know it, so you owe it to yourself
To take a rest, however long
Be your own guest, it's never wrong
To be honest
If you want it, get it done
1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a
Hey Hey
It's so extraordinary
Hey Hey
How the world rotates and gives you a new bite of the cherry
Hey Hey
It's so extraordinary
Hey Hey
How the world rotates and gives you a new bite of the cherry
You know you're trying
So why d'you feel bad?
Like you're two-timing
It isn't like that
You know you're trying
So why d'you feel bad?
Like you're two-timing
It isn't like that
Hey Hey
It's so extraordinary
Hey Hey
How the world rotates and gives you a new bite of the cherry
Hey Hey
It's so extraordinary
Hey Hey
How the world rotates and gives you a new bite of the cherry
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12. |
THRIVE
02:51
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For all of the front
They're putting on
I know they're just like me
Confused with their lives
But on the outside
They're living the fantasy
We spend our time watching each other
Try to act normal but we suffer
Why is self love so damn hard to achieve
Chorus:
It makes no sense to me
Hating on yourself
Just because you're different to somebody else
You have all you need
So don't cry, take the lead
Cause this is what it feels like to be free
This is what it feels like to be
This is what it feels like to be
This is what it feels like to be free
Been breaking my back
Wish I could relax
Don't know why I care so bad
It's almost as though
I'm scared to let go
Of something that I never had
Don't say you don't feel the tension
All the fake smiles and not to mention
Every ideal we try so hard to be
Chorus:
It makes no sense to me
Hating on yourself
Just because you're different to somebody else
You have all you need
So don't cry, take the lead
Cause this is what it feels like to be free
This is what it feels like to be
This is what it feels like to be
This is what it feels like to be free
Spoken:
I'd rather be alone than out tonight
Don't mean to be rude but thanks, I'm alright
Said I'd rather be alone than out tonight
Give me the space to thrive
Step out from that bathroom cubicle
You have the strength so use it all
If you don't wanna be here say goodbye
Who said that you were born to live a lie?
Don't bow down to the usual
The fear that you carry isn't who you are
Who you are
Who you are
Chorus:
It makes no sense to me
Hating on yourself
Just because you're different to somebody else
You have all you need
So don't cry, take the lead
Cause this is what it feels like to be free
This is what it feels like to be
This is what it feels like to be
This is what it feels like to be free
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