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This is the start
04:22
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This is the start
The year your feet slow
but the world rushes in
Into your heart
Into your heart
This is the start
A town, a home, you never chose to be born in
And every exit distant as the Moon
The skin stretched too thin
When the wounds are still raw
The rules you’ve not learned
And the boundaries you don’t draw
When you don’t know where they stop and where you start
Hang in there
None of us got through this without scars
But this is just the start, this is just the start
Hang in there
Even as it rips out your heart
Please just try to get through this part
This is just the start, this is just the start
That boy, who pins you to the wall spits in your face
In four years’ time he turns out to be gay
You were just a way to hide the scent
It isn’t about you at all
That girl, the one that seems so confident and pretty
But secretly she throws up every meal
she laughs and calls you stupid fat and ugly
It isn’t about you at all
so
hang in there
As your body pulls you upwards
Hang in there
Keep your eyes on the floor
Hang in there
These years are full of trapdoors
Hang in there
One day the sky will clear
In the meantime you can walk away
It’s ok to say no
It’s ok not to be what they think you are
Hang in there
Even as it rips out your heart
Please just try to get through this part
This is just the start.
Hang in there
None of us got through this without scars
But this is just the start, this is just the start
Hang in there
None of us got through this without scars
But this is just the start, this is just the start
Hang in there
Please just try to get through this part
Even as it rips out your heart
This is just the start
This is just the start
This is just the start
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Lights out (demo)
04:07
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How did all these fires get so dim?
A chronic lack of oxygen
What’s it like to glow without a care
to barely know it’s even there?
I just want to burn
Just want to burn before the light's out
Before the light's out
How’d we end up crying here back stage
trying to contain our rage?
Feeling like we’ve wasted half our lives
Not prepared to act our age
I just want to burn
Just want to burn before the light's out
Before the light's out
How do you refuel
when your energy depends
on trying to squeeze love
from someone who’s not your friend
until the lights out?
I know that it’s all fake
but I still can’t let it go
the sense that I’m less real
than something in a show
That my light is out
That it was always out
That it was always out
I just want to burn
Just want to burn before the light's out
Before the light's out
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The stages (demo)
05:15
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I identify as a crime scene
a map of my mistakes
I identify as an animal
in a state of decay
Hesitantly standing in somebody else’s shoes
Drinking the same water as my ancestors
Walking all the stages
I identify as a black hole
a distant point in space
I identify as an orphan
with my father’s face
Literally standing in somebody else’s shoes
Dragging round the baggage of my ancestors
Walking all the stages
We’re not who we say that we are
We’re the shoes that we live in
We’re the paths that we walk
and the things we’re forgiven
I look more like you with every single step that I take
Walking all the stages
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I’ve seen it
I’m not afraid
I’ve been there
I’ve got the scars to prove it
Do your worst
I’m 50
I don’t give a damn
what you throw at me
Your tiny teenage daggers
Do your worst
We’re holding the hands of the dying
knowing that’s as good as it gets
Our medals and wounds are the same thing
invisible to you until you have them too
Good luck on your journey here
Good luck on your journey here
Good luck on your journey here
God bless and god speed and
Good luck on your journey here
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5. |
This is the start (demo)
05:03
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Andrew Eaton Lewis Scotland, UK
‘Exhilarating… stirringly fresh and smart.’ The Independent
'Adult pop with heart and brains.' The
Guardian.
'Like minimalist classical composers working on adventurous ballads for R.E.M.' The Herald.
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