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Night Light Reprise
01:13
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Tell me I'm normal and now I am happy
Tell me it's all gone away
Give me the answer and don't you shoot me down
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Cliche
05:09
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Hearing that same old line
That we're all in this together
Outreach through music
Don't make me sick
It's a tired cliché
I'll find another way
Isolation is more me
I'm better off alone
Accuse all the others
Just to play it safe
But deep down you know
It's you, who has to pay
I could think of a thousand times
People tell me I'm wrong
Never a clear mind
Or ready to agree
We always fall for the cliché's in life
Claiming a subjective unique stance
We always fall for the bigger stories
And blame our lives on someone else
Test the waters with a lie
Don't show your hand until someone cries
Test the waters with the truth
Don't show your hand until someone dies
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Talk Too Much
06:01
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Music by Matt Jones and Saxon Davids
Lyrics by Matt Jones
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Invisible 'Til I Sing
04:38
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I don't want you to misunderstand
Or ever misconstrue my words
Life has beaten me down
Jaded my thoughts
Invisible, I'm invisible
'til I sing
I don't always have an answer
The only way I know
Is to bellow out my words
I begin to play
The room starts to change
Invisible, I'm invisible
'til I sing
Never knew
Just how long it took
To make a mark
On the world
Never knew
Just how much it took
My ego dismantled
I'm invisible 'til I sing
I know too much
I fear nothing
I know too much
Ignorance was bliss
So many hopeful voices
Destined to fail
There isn't room for us all
Invisible, I'm invisible
'til I sing
I find that merit does not belong
A long line of gatekeepers
With ideas too deviant to list
Invisible, I'm invisible
'til I sing
Expectant ears and lucid eyes
All waiting to hear a voice, another cliché from life
Invisible...
He's a paint by numbers man
A hollow copy of life
His records buy his clothes
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Happy and Myself
07:37
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A daily routine
I'm always stuck between
Happy and myself
My motivation is lacking
I just need to move
People tell me
How to live my life
I don't need your words
A daily routine
I'm always stuck between
Happy and myself
I get caught up
In the meaningless
The things so little and talk so cheap
I don't mean to
It still feels new
I overthink and I act too quick
I'll never change
'cause I wouldn't be here
Happiness
A feeling so hard to deconstruct
Happiness
An emotion
So displaced and overlooked
Happiness
Expecting me to smile
Happiness
Does it really matter?
I can't decide
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Acceptance
01:49
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Tell me I'm normal and now I am happy
Tell me it's all gone away
Give me the answer and don't you shoot me down
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The Impossible Dream
05:44
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Whenever I cannot sleep
I listen to my thoughts
And hear what they have to say
It gets so lonely
I become a shadow too
I wait for the sun to rise
Overthinking how
I always get things wrong
High expectations
Deciding on my own
What my future holds
And how I will get there too
I try to remember
What brought me here
It's hard to focus on
The things that matter
Distractions take me away
And pull me under
I try to live each day
Like I can't see tomorrow
Identity through my art
Has been a saving grace
But it doesn't solve it all
What is my purpose?
Where do I go from here?
Where do I belong?
I don't want to know
I need some guidance too
A voice to help me through
No god or preaching text
To tell me who I am
Just a word of positivity
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8. |
Take A Moment
00:34
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Take a moment
To see inside
Take a moment
To reclaim your past
Take a moment
To forgive yourself
Take a moment
I'm here at last
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Imagine a world where
People lived beyond a screen
Concede to the apathy of life
Tech sold us our dreams
Imagine a world where
We restart reality
I've had enough of this place
Too much time
Spent on avoiding the issue
Restart the world we live in
And take me to a brand new place
I'll excite my own light, I'll run through every wall
With a stubborn amusing nature
Melancholy behind it all
Despair behind the smile
But do we ever call?
Our social game is dying
And people here are realising
Don't you worry about me
I have music
I have life
Excite the Light!
There is more to life
Than happiness
Excite the Light!
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