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Manchild
04:54
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This is what it sounds like
To be broken
In a good way
This is my cold call
This is how I tell you Iāve been
Hiding in the
Shell I thought Iād
Grown too big for
But instead it kept me small
That's why I love you like a baby
And if you'll have me when I'm tall
We can talk about my
Lies and all my
It's not my faults
And the man-child run
Rampant in me and
How I'd scream when
There was nothing else to do
So if I leave it up to you
To not leave me it could
Be the first thing
I ever got right
In my entire life
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2. |
Lost Inside
03:27
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My God, heās lost inside his room
(I took off my head tonight)
His bed has now become his tomb
(Iām doing the sleep thing right)
His cigarette has been un-quit again
(Iām doing it right by you)
Heās running out of patient friends
(I need more than ones and twos)
He sat on the ground
With his thumb in his mouth
And a watery eye
He was making a noise
That sounded just like a song
About the things that make him cry
It had a beat that kicked in
As if it had been summoned and
In C it would
Do well in forsaken times
And the words were a spell
To send a rain down on hell
So that itās green when he arrives
And it makes him want to cry
And that makes me want cry
My God, heās lost inside his mind
He feels like pools un-laddered like
His Northern Star not in the sky
(But see the rings around his eyes?)
Now he can know his heart is light
(Now we can know heās found tonight)
I thought I was fine
Came off SSRIs
Threw my shoes in the lake
Turns out Iām the same
I bought the new bike
I broke the back brake
Iāve got a long list
Of lessons Iām meant to learn
That I learn over and over again
Back in a ten-year-old body Iām
Part of a cinema audience
Seeing a death for the first time on screen
And it makes me want to cry
It makes me want to cry
It makes me want to cry
It makes me want to cry
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3. |
Make It
03:32
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Baby
Youāve got the makings
Of a man
Youāve just got to put your pen to paper
And keep
Making
Youāve just got to lift your weight
Youāve just got to break it
To make it stronger
You could have it just like all the others
If you want it
If you try
You could make the mark you always wanted
If you want it
If you try
What I mean is you know youāre a pilot, right?
Youāve a say alongside whims of life
Make a head-start to not suffer twice
And if we fly on, take us over the water
Baby
Youāve got the face of
Your mother mostly
And the hoods of your father
Donāt you know youāve got a good one on you?
It will do for what you need and no more
Lucky we arenāt like them, weāve got a good thing
Going on the undercarriage of something
I say, one day it wonāt shake like this
Youāll get your crop when you stop fussing it
And youāll be you still in the thick of it
And in thickets, you, now, thinking it
You know Iām just having a laugh
Weāre covered in grass
But we got some sun on us
And this is just the type of stuff
That grows you up
So donāt think itās lost on us
My baby
Can you make it?
Uh-huh
Good luck
Can you make it
Alone?
You are
Can you use what God gave you?
You are
Can you make it?
Uh-huh
You can make it
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4. |
Bright is the Light
02:54
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Thomas King Brisbane, Australia
'Bright is the Light' EP out now š„šš
Thomas King recommends:
A gorgeous, textured and unrelenting journey through a Pandora's Box vortex of voice, violin and machines.
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