1. |
Fail harder
02:54
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Fail harder
You have tried a lot to be like
Everyone around
Be cool, be successful, be just
Like their instagram
But you’re failing
You’re failing hard
You can say that you’re OK
But I can see that you are not
And I could also do the same
And I would give it all I’ve got
unless we burst Into flames
It hardly makes people stop
But don’t think they are to blame
It’s just that we’re all failing
Failing, all
like everyone around
Like the guys you thought were winning
Takes one to know /one average losing joe
Just know You’re not alone
Everyone failing, and all pretending
So You’re still just on your own
But you’re failing
You’re failing hard
You can say that you’re OK
But I can see that you are not
And I could also do the same
And I would give it all I’ve got
unless we burst Into flames
It hardly makes people stop
But don’t think they are to blame
It’s just that we’re all failing
Fail harder
Fail harder, now
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2. |
The desperate show
05:02
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The desperate show
You’ve come along to the desperate show
You’re come to see oh just how low
I can stoop, trying to fake
Being someone that you would find great
Now can you all look about here
To see the lamest show of the year
I’ll bend to really impossible shapes
to pass for one of them cool mates
So let’s pretend we’re all sincere
maybe it won’t be so so weird
Waving at friends, but they don’t know me
(Then) try to pretend I was stretching
or reaching for something
And disappear
Jumping a talk, they stare at me
(Then) rambling while I’m slowly
Moonwalking myself
Away from here
Too bad you could see me here
I’ve been invisible all year
No idea what got into me
Trying to belong to this party
I guess I think I need them to
Approve of me to talk to you
Because here I go again
Seems I don’t learn that much from pain
So let’s pretend we’re all sincere
maybe it won’t be so so weird
Waving at friends, but they don’t know me
(Then) try to pretend I was stretching
or reaching for something
And disappear
Jumping a talk, they stare at me
(Then) rambling while I’m slowly
Moonwalking myself
Away from here
Steer away, you might get hurt
If empathetic to introverts
You can hardly die from shame
But it really feels oh just the same
Oh let the freak show carry on
I really should have been long gone
Maybe someone be throwing in
A lifeline, no? Well I’m drowning
Guys carry on it’s not your fault
I really should not care for your
Opinion it’s crazy what you might
Do for a girl you think you like
Waving at friends, but they don’t know me
(Then) try to pretend I was stretching
or reaching for something
And disappear
Jumping a talk, they stare at me
(Then) rambling while I’m slowly
Moonwalking myself
Away from here
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3. |
All right now
04:05
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All Right now
It took me days
over nights on that shore
(To) get over that one
For hours away
My friends, my bro /
ther had to hear me cry
But it’s all right, all right, now
And then you told me about them
How they were so much more confident
And how I should up my game
I felt like tearing my ears apart
Rip every vein from my heart
Can’t I unhear what you said
I thought some pills
Would help, well not
(To) get a hold on myself
I know it’s a senseless fear
But sense has nothing
to do with that shit
But it’s all right, all right now
And then you told me about them
How they were so much more confident
And how I should up my game
I felt like tearing my ears apart
Rip every vein from my heart
Can’t I unhear what you said
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4. |
Unprepared
04:04
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Unprepared
First time I tried
To kiss her, really
We’ll both agree
I was so fucking bad
When we both lied
In bed, ready
This time, you see
It got just fuckin sad
There’s a pattern
For me to be
Quite unassured
The clumsiest of lads
I make mistakes
But I own them you see
(Cause) planning my life
Really makes me mad
And now I know
That I am unprepared
I am unprepared
For this life
But I also
Know being unprepared,
Is what makes life down there
Not that bad
I've never been
planning to meet
someone that I
end up to quite like
No friends, no love
no family
Should even be
Ever optimized
Of the times we
have been hanging
I've much prefered
the ones we hadn't planned
We had shit food
nothing to drink
but if I recall
we had so many laughs
And now I know
That I am unprepared
I am unprepared
For this life
But I also
Know being unprepared,
Is what makes life down there
Not that bad
And yeah I know
Most of them folks
Seem to / always plan ahead
What to do with their own life
But I have found
way much more joy
in unexpected bits of mine
serendipity, something like that
It aint out of fear
of disapointment
that I expect nothing at all
it's for my own sanity
How can I ever
feel alive
and enjoy what's happening now
if i'm only looking forward
How can I ever
feel alive
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5. |
Nothing at all
05:39
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Nothing at all
You did not
Give us a word or thought
But I had a clue
If i’d grow old with you
I tried to say
For years along the way
Stay close to me
As long as you want it
Forcing you to being
One you hardly want to be
Makes you close to something
Like defeat
It gives away the violence
of mixing me with you
We tried to aim for balance
of the two
but there is nothing in between
We tried a lot
Had much more cries than laughs
We knew for days
We should have parted our ways
Just see how mean
We both too long have been
To each other
While faking we were lovers
Forcing you to being
One you hardly want to be
Makes you close to something
Like defeat
It gives away the violence
of mixing me with you
We tried to aim for balance
of the two
I guess we knew
Played along and all for nothing
Nothing at all
We tried a lot
Had much more cries than laughs
We knew for days
We should have parted our ways
Just see how mean
We both too long have been
Because between us
I say there is nothing good
Nothing, nothing at all
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Mandragora Toulouse Toulouse, France
Une section rythmique comme fondation, des guitares fuzz, complémentaires et mélodiques, un chant unique et des textes
introspectifs, donc universels, sont la définition de ce rock brûlant et sensible.
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