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Can you tell
02:44
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CAN YOU TELL
Can you tell – where I’ve been
From the way – I carry my heart
Can you tell – what I’ve seen
From the way – I wear my expression
I’ve been down and further down
I’ve thrown away all I’ve been given
I’ve shown nothing but disregard
For those who cared
I fought and I loved with a passion
I still carry the marks on my body
I long to be understood
Just like everybody else
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2. |
Silent
03:56
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SILENT
Sugar honey pie
Why why why have you been so silent?
Please call me again
Please be my friend again
I am missing you
Coz I dont see you round here no more
I been waiting for you to come knock on my door
But I guess the ball’s in your court now
And if it finally should turn out you’re never gonna show
Thats fine just have the decency to let me know
It’s no problem I’ll get through it somehow
You were a special friend with benefits
Maybe naive to think anyone could have
A friendship - like this
But how the hell were we supposed to never go to bed
When invitations were shining through half the words we said back then?
I wrapped you around me too tightly
From the word go
You spoke that word you said it all
I hate this oneway street
I hate it when we don’t speak
I hate tearing up these unsent letters
I need you to help me get better
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3. |
Don't ask me
03:45
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DON’T ASK ME
I cannot give - all of me
When not all of me are allowed to thrive
I cannot love you
With a resentless heart
We don’t call it - putting bonds on needs
Coz we both know As much as we’re alive
You’re my only need
Here at the start
But you should be aware my dear
It wouldnt be the first time
Someone i really loved got hurt
You ask me to let go
Of one of the pleasures i treasure the most
There’s no knowing how bad this might go
Don’t ask me- don’t ask me
A lull in the passion a dull of the flame
I dont want it to be the reason we fade and are gone in a flick
Let me let me let me
Get my kick
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4. |
I trust you
03:15
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I trust you
I trust you in the same way it isn't possible to count the snowflakes
In the way an apple won't erase the need to eat cake
In the way I can't move an object through the power of thought alone
In the way you can't seem to tell apart true words from your own
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5. |
Involved
04:17
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INVOLVED
I know you are not well
I know you can’t help it
I am strangely drawn
I know I shouldn’t get involved
I know I shouldn’t get involved
For both our sakes
I have no business with you
I am not ready to engage
On any kind of human level
Yet I am strangely drawn
I know I shouldn’t get involved
I don’t know you but I feel your heart calling
While I’m trying to stay out of involvement
I feel a kinship I cannot explain it
I’m picking up the message
But I know I shouldn’t get involved
I know
It’s trouble if I let myself get involved
(I know I can’t heal you)
I struggle I shouldn’t get involved
(I know I can’t heal you)
I shouldn’t get involved
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6. |
Creeps
03:12
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CREEPS
They come creeping one over the other
they come from foreign lands to seek my advice
I hear leaves rustle though there’s no wind blowing
it tells me they are back once again
I tell them all I know
they absorb every word falling
they know I am wise
But they don’t know i cannot save them
When they leave
I feel relieved
they crawl all over me like children on a playground
they drain my energy like chores yet to be done
they greedily swallow any scrap i throw them
to help them deal with things yet to come
I feel relieved
When they leave
Drunk with newfound knowledge
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7. |
Disarmed
04:36
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DISARMED
My quivering lip - And eyes full of hurt
Puts an end to all I will not hear
In the aftermath every move - Is a sign of my victory
Long after the salty traces dissapear
I finish the battle - playing that same old card
Once again I disarm you with my tears
They melt your weapons
Weaken your blow
Destroy your thousand man army
They stifle your screams
Fuck up your aim
Ruin all attemps to harm me
Your instinct is to comfort - When you see me suffer
You want to protect me when I’m weak
You never get to release - And again you back down
And bow to what you can never defeat
But I’m sure someplace in you - Resentment will grow
I win another round without even having to speak
They melt your weapons
Weaken your blow
Destroy your thousand man army
They stifle your screams
Fuck up your aim
Ruin all attemps to harm me
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8. |
Kitchen sink
03:12
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KITCHEN SINK
Tired and sick of talking about
Choices we all have to make
On one side - On the other hand
We all know the grass is greener
And how going rolling in those sweet fields make us long for something square clean and white and straight in a moment
No amount of practise can make us - Devlop nightvision
We get numerous choices served on a platter
Every instant of our day
Different doors, exits and entrances, sidesteps and moonwalk backwards and stumble and falling and running towards and away from surprises and certainty and obvious and vague
We fracture and stretch and divide and get paralysed and break free and tie ourselves down once again
…we all know the grass is greener
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9. |
Golem
04:03
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GOLEM
Is it worth the pain you find when you wake up
After passing out from hitting your head against the wall
Just to blot out the thought
That no one ever truly hears your call
Pour water in the dust to make the clay
Shape the man you’re called to create
Light the fire and burn it dry
Say the words and make it come alive
Steel barriers many inches thick
separates you from every blood and lovefilled heart
piling up upon eachother in orgies of feelings so safe and warm
you cant touch it nomatter how you tear yourself apart
Created in your image
designed to serve your need
More selfless and subserviant
Than anyone could ever be
The eyes meet yours with molten glow
But you know the golem aint got no soul
The golem aint got no soul.
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10. |
You lied to me
04:03
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YOU LIED TO ME
You lied to me - you lied to me
Though some might call it
A clever omission of truth
I dont care about that technicality
Im still dissapointed in you
You promised me- you never would
And I happily believed
Now you lied
I find it hard to accept
Although you are now forgiven
The time and secret you kept
How long would you keep it hidden
Now I will always wonder
What else your keeping under
It wasn’t as much all you didn’t say
It was the way
The way you lied to me
I never knew a person
So close to perfection as you
I held you up as a shining example
A place to hang all of my hope for the world
I needed you - to live up to
This impossible standard I demanded
Then you lied
No one ever struck me as you did
With openness and honesty
We shared so much
No holding back - or so I thought
Your defence and explanation
Made up of the good intention
To shield me from what you knew would waste me completely
So be it! I would rather know and live through and deal with,
Whatever I am thrown
Do not wrap me in cottonwool although you now how fragile I am
Now these thousand pieces I’ve broken into
Would heal together that much faster
If they were not now drenched in this dishonesty
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Kat Boelskov Copenhagen, Denmark
Self-centeredness personified with empathy galore-
Lazy-ass procrastinator with strong work
ethics-
Maneater extraordinaire with sapphic tendencies-
Megalomaniac with miniscule self-esteem-
Rock’n’roller with slippers and herbal tea-
Complete amateur with ironcast belief in own ability to create amazing music.
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