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So tired of algorithms tryin to rule our lives
Netflix suggestion are so off
IG feeding content I can’t care less about
Glad they’re not ruling our real lives yet but at this rate soon will be I’m afraid
Formulas
Not down with formulas. Not song formulas, not relationship formulas. So bored with music these days nothin is quite exciting. People posting the same thing over and over on social media. All trying to make it. Generative Noise.
Formulas are good for maths. I’ll never make any money.
Left alone in your own damn game.
Say it like it is
The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking. — Bill Maher – 2017
Chicken dinners
Radiohead on OK Computer :
The band tried out OK material while opening for Alanis Morissette on her Jagged Little Pill tour in 1995: “My main memory of that tour,” said Jonny Greenwood, “is playing interminable hand-organ solos to an audience full of quietly despairing teenage girls.”
Yorke added, “We were well adept at playing to people that didn’t give a rat’s ass about us. I used to quite enjoy it. People are sitting down to their chicken dinners. We were trying to get them to choke on the bones.” — RS Mag
We Dream Awake
Your heart beats slow
You couldn’t find me
Oh
In your arms
I couldn’t let you go
Hiding my scars
And everyone is inside
You should have let me go
You should have let me go
Will you do the right thing
When all is gone
If it all comes down to it
You keep breathing
Keep breathing
When all your friends are gone
Keep breathing
Keep breathing
Hurry Up
Hurry up all the angels are swimming outside
Black out again
The wolfs are howling in the country side
We retreat and heal our wounded skin
While the ravens are watching at the door
Days are gone when I step out
Take everything you need
I’ve been hunting all night long
Are we all in a rut
I may be lost
I will ride alone till the morning rise
We keep waiting for someone else
A reason not to drown
Most of us are waiting to come alive
Can you find it my love
We are all lost
We are all images
We are all insane
We will all glide
All collide
We’ll follow
Hurry up
Give it all
Zoe
Zoe
She’s just playing a part
She moves like feathers
In the golden sun
She preys
Zoe
She’s off in the clouds
She is painting the stars
Carrying out life
Out in the blue skies
Zoe
She’s out in the sky
She is chasing the clouds
Carrying out life
Out in the blue skies
Zoe
Is there life on Mars?
Zoe
She’s turning back now
Warrior
Dreams on fire
Light the sky
I won’t let go
I won’t let go
Breath in
The wind against your skin
Did you see the moon
Its so shallow
Mother
Forgive me for my fears
But I won’t give in
Father
Protect me from their lies
Will they come for me,
will they bend at last?
Oh you warrior inside let the fire spring out
Oh you warrior inside let the fire sing out
Reap what you sow, what do you say
Find me by a lake when you run out of light
Find me by a lake when you run out of life
Find me in a haze when you run out of light
Reap what you sow, what do you say
Oh you warrior inside let the fire spring out
Oh you warrior give into the fire
Reap what you sow,
What do you say?
Find me on a lake when you run out of life
Oh you warrior inside let the fire spring out
Reap what you sow,
What do you say?
Quiet Collision
You seemed so self assured
I gave in quietly
Drinking wine in bed
Followed the sun
Silence opens doors
Hold on to your thoughts
Looking through the window
You’re watching me
A twisted bed of hope
You tried to bring me home
Reel me in to shore or cut all the ropes
Entangled in a web
Who’s messing with my head
Read my lips and cast the magic spell
And I hope you’r coming my way
Heaven silence’s burning time away
Round and round and round we go.
A Wise Woman
Tracy Chapman refuses to join Social Media
Digital Panopticon
The Cave
A cave where days blurs into night and days again
I’ve been hunting incessantly
I’ve lost my way
There is no meaning to it
I’m just giving in
Letting go tomorrow will be another day
Courage
Having the courage to be alone
I won’t let this moment slip
Maintain the illusion
Don’t judge me so harshly
I could do the same
Won’t let this slip away
What if I waste the day
Rails
Maybe I can be the rails to your life
But I would hate to interfere
More than you think
Cool
Playing it so cool
Bordering the shallow
All this is bullshit
Listen
Listen to the unspoken
Resitance
So much resistance
Sucking your energy out
They say its best not to fight it
To just get on with it accept
No glorious destiny
Run with the herd
But you’d rather leave it all behind
The promise a finish line
Reality vs Fantasy
All the things I notice are the ones you don’t
Sinking into my fantasy
Pieces aren’t fitting in your reality
Irrigation
Irrigate my brain it’s dying in this nonsense.
Portishead on Music, Misogyny and …
Poem “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
From Maya Angelou’s collection And Still I rise (1978)
RECEDING
Looking to the far side
Where the sea meets the sky
Swelling up from the tides
It seems like god’s wrath found me
We keep getting knocked down
Its hard to stand our balance
Rising up from the ground
We dive in bells of silence.
We are receding
Flowing back to the start
Receding
In mending silence
We ‘re swimming upstream
We are
Receding
PUPPETEER
There’s the sound of a plane
Roaring to silence
When I open my eyes it will fade
In the distance.
There’s a taste on my tongue
From the hot air we breathed
I can still feel your skin
and the sun.
And its hard to recall how we came into a stall…
Well its all so easy
When our dream plays the puppeteer
But I fell out of space.
And in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
Maybe I was to blame.
There’s an odd silver lining
At the end of the road
I will see you again in the house
On our hill.
In this book made of dreams
Full of empty pages…
All the wars we fought were missing
While I’m holding onto the same old pictures of you.
Well its all so easy
When our dream plays the puppeteer
But I fell out of space.
And in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
Maybe I was to blame.
Yeah maybe I fell out of place.
If my heart had been lighter
But it turned to stone
When the forces of attraction got stronger
And you tried to control
What was meant to be free
Then my dreams played the puppeteer
Yeah.
But in laws of gravity
You were pulling upon the strings
And my heart hung by a thread
And maybe I was to blame.
PEACE
You were always here with me
in the forrest of my demons
Finally recalled you through the trees
I was hunting for some reasons
interferences in forms of judgment
Wasted time comparing
To let go the path I was on
Too many doubted the way.
With you i feel complete.
Like a quiet body of seas
When the faraway storms
are hitting by the shores
I am peace.
Laying across a little row boat
I am wondering where you are taking me
Eyes are shut trying to stay afloat
Swinging our bodies at the seas
The sun has almost reached touch down
Soon there ll be just you and I
Morning rolls in with shores or nothing.
Stars shifting’s our only sense of time,
With you i feel complete.
Like a quiet body of seas
When the faraway storms
are hitting by the shores
I am peace.
Tides, come and go
But I’ll lay right here.
Till you bring on an ocean
Over my soul
Over my soul… you
Were always here with me
With you
I am Peace.
SHAMAN
When the ice is melting and the rivers are swelling.
Makeshift winter roads are no longer practicable.
We’ve got to find new ways to make the journey back home.
To reach the mountains back,
Home.
Open your heart and settle the winter ice
Look around how beautiful
When reason and judgements aren’t the law
Go on,
And Walk the open road
Go on,
Just walk the open road
When the grounds are shifting and your home in sighting
And you meet a wandering soul
by the edge of a forrest
remember what you’re looking for
in the first place
In the first place
Open your heart and settle the winter ice
Look around how beautiful
When reason and judgements aren’t the law
Go on,
And Walk the open road
Go on,
Just walk the open road
And here I stand
I’ve been watching clouds
Collide
Where the stars can’t hide
Come on walk with me a while
A while….
Higher and higher and higher
Higher and higher and higher
A while.
ALBATROSS
You’ve been listening
To everyone else
They said your broken wings
Would crumble under your weight
Let the clowns run their show
While you fix them as you go
Go…
Feel the wind at your fingertips
And lighten up the load
Open up this gate
And set all your props away
And rise,
Rise
You’ve been trying to please
Everyone else
With their make-believes
You got in, over your head.
Let them fool themselves
While you find your own.
Own… self.
Feel the wind at your fingertips
And lighten up the load
Open up this gate
And set all your props away
And rise,
Rise
(Interlude)
Rise, rise
Keep your head up
In the sky
And hold on
Yeah hold on
Please
To this magic flight.
When your feet are back
On the ground
Feel the lights above you rise
And fall in line
All Fall in line
Or Fall in line
Fall in line
THEY SET YOU UP AGAIN
They set you up again,
My son
I promise you,
We’ll find a way out
We’ll run.
They set you up again,
My son
This order’s taller
Than we ever asked for,
But I can’t take their egotism
Anymore.
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
this fight.
They set you up again,
My son
These walls are high
But we’ll get them all,
To fall tonight.
They set you up again,
My son.
(Guitar interlude).
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
This fight.
They set you up again, my son.
Just close your eyes
And listen to the voice,
Within.
And don’t look back,
There’s more to life
Than putting up
This fight.
THE BRIGHTEST SUN
I can be the brightest sun,
On your heart.
Or the darkest cloud
This is not up to you,
To decide.
But a new sun
Yeah a new sun is coming round
The corner.
Yeah a new sun,
Is coming down.
We both know,
What is real
And whats a dream.
Chasing ghosts,
Down in the middle
Of our sleepless sins.
But a new sun
Yeah a new sun is coming round
The corner.
Yeah a new sun,
Is coming down.
No I’m not one
To want to have,
What I want.
This story has just begun,
But I beg you to leave me,
Incomplete.
Or I’ll run, run run
Yeah I’ll run
Faster than the sun.
Yeah I’ll run, run, run,
I’ll run.
But I’m scared
It will never rise
Around the corner of my eye
Again.
And I’ll run, run, run
I’ll run
Away from the sun
And I’ll wait
Yeah, I’ll wait.
DARK LULLABY
Hey darling don’t you cry no more
Close your eyes when the night is falling down
I know you can’t see me
but I’m here now
If you needed me
Oh darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home.
Hey darling don’t you be scared of the dark.
Its only meant to guide you
To the light
in times of doubts.
Hey darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home is where the light fills up the dark
And mama can feel your heart beat now
Oh darling
Don’t you cry no more
Mama got here late at night
On the last train home
Home.
ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD
I’m on the train like every other day
the city lights are fading so fast
day after day I keep loosing track of you
I Wish I had all the time in the word
To take it all in and find my way
To hear children’s laughters
And the sound of the ocean
But I’ll be getting off at Bushwick Avenue
Drag my body to sleep and wake up
wake up to the tick tack clock
Reminding me how I wish I had all the time
in the world
I wish I had all the time in the world
I wish I had more time
but I cant rewind any of my life
and every waking hour feels like a waste
I Know I got to feed myself
but my soul is dying
I Wish I had all the time in the word
To take it all in and find my way
To hear children’s laughters
And the sound of the ocean
But I’ll be getting off at Bushwick Avenue
Drag my body to sleep and wake up
wake up to the tick tack clock
Reminding me how I wish I had all the time
in the world
I wish I had all the time in the world
I wish I had all the time in the world
I wish I had more time for you