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Powderpaint

by Powderpaint

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1.
don't give up on your dreams i'd rather stay asleep forever however hard it seems we'll walk out into any weather fall together stare out through a screen i paid for a place to sleep i trade time for money and all i want to be oh please don't you see you for all your looks and talent still one in a million waste of the stage look at all these famous children how we wish we'd been them just a hair away if i'd only been awake before the years took all my time then maybe we could say we did for what we're made though we feel it either way wish that i could help the ennui gives you hell but what can i give you i can't help myself so don't give me hope we have lost our very purpose what's more could be worthless say there's a way but you want such tragic stories we're just being boring i can see the truth i never could be you all sorted by the time you're twenty maybe it's too late to die with dignity so let's not change a thing i believe in you even if it hurts to own up to our true intentions i will take the reins if you believe in me this may be your mistake
2.
truly god you love your irony dealt the ideal body and blinded me noone chooses noone at all wake up and smell the roses face full of thorns   now it's a stranger i see these transformations take over me here is the path, see that fork in the road choose one but don't wander off on your own suddenly you are all over me certain how great it is going to be but i don't believe in and don't understand the person you’re telling me that I am why did you think that I would like this never so distorted and incomplete why mutilate me unless you hate me what is the use of fighting to lose can't break the mold that the almighty chose couldn't get close
3.
For A Moment 03:47
take me to a place so loud i cannot hear bring your mouth closer to my ear i can taste the tension on my tongue your heady perfume filled my lungs made me faint and you were swept away whatever it was they did i’d have to triple it to make you stay why did you lead me on i never could contend we were destined to end for a moment i dared to believe you might be different do things in an all new way so take me out my coffin the cycle never stopping let's break it together today i dared to believe we might be different slip from mother nature's chains but we all know the story there's no role in it for me just another tired cliche should have known better than to try and alter culture deeper desires preside they're under our skin unrelenting easier to give in happy ending but it's just the way things are we can't change our parts mine was just a side role from the start you never could have been much more than a friend you knew this then why pretend whatever you get consider it a bonus always second best you’ll never be the focus convenient while it worked she left the second that it hurt so don't cling onto the notion you were more than just a moment our top priority is someone who doesn’t yet exist it's the traditional narrative and such a shame that you don’t fit but love is conditional and you are not essential love is conditional yours inconsequential
4.
tell me what you want let's talk let's be sure that we know where we are so far so good is there anything better than knowing that you love me no them, or him or her will ever take you from me cos we communicate and talk about our feelings we just don't give this one thing so much extra meaning in my constellation these are my stars and we know where we are so don't be afraid to make the sky brighter cos what's another light in the dark love is infinite so don't police it bound only by time and that's mine to deal with i don't need your concern i know you're just a bigot you've got a lot to learn or else a lot to stomach it really gets your goat and ruffles all your feathers that we've got it all and got it all together trust should be a given not hurting you implicit if you have to keep tabs on them then what kind of bond is it i shouldn't have to sell this it's the opposite of selfish i'm not feeling angry they want me to be so badly but everything they don't do we do so much better so if we're sick and confused let's stay like this forever there's no one form of commitment each situation's different as the people in our lives some things just cannot be defined so let's go by what we want instead of what we're told we're meant to let's break this world apart and make a new one we consent to one with clear communication informed in every situation i'll say today, no hesitation you are my constellation
5.
Ego 03:11
to the broken mind i give you your comfort each and every uncertainty answered i'll take your sins you'll stay moving rest assured the truth will soon be uncovered you say that you know everything i don't and yet somehow i'm the one with the ego you lean on controversy dream up an enemy it's so much easier this way i can't say much too much but something has shifted when the stars align the veil will be lifted know what you know don't just think so forgive, forget those who aren't there yet inner knowing came to nothing where's our revolution? inner knowing came to nothing never revolution history will repeat itself when is our evolution? history will repeat itself there's never revolution history will repeat itself forever history will repeat itself until the day we're done here
6.
Spectrum (free) 04:44
when we first came here we were cold and we were clear with no colours on our skin we were light and paper-thin and when we first came here we were cold and we were clear with no colours on our skin til you let the spectrum in say my name and every colour illuminates we are shining and we will never be afraid again and when we come for you we'll be dressed up all in blue with the ocean in our arms kiss your eyes and kiss your palms and when it's time to pray we'll be dressed up all in grey with metal on our tongues and silver in our lungs and when we come back we'll be dressed in black and you'll scream my name so loud and we won't eat and we won't sleep we'll drag bodies from the ground so say my name as every colour illuminates we are shining and we will never be afraid again

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released June 30, 2020

produced by powderpaint
trumpet on track 1 performed by james cronin (no relation) soundcloud.com/jcronin
tracks 1-5 written by powderpaint
track 6 written by florence welch and paul epworth
artwork by alice clarke twitter.com/aliceincaves aliceincaves.co.uk

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