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Poorly Cast
03:35
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POORLY CAST
This endless game of who you know drags on for a long while
Who can get your foot in the door without endless compromise.
We think it would sound better if you tried this on for size
Yeah the fit is loose and colours wild but we should cast the net wide.
I felt foolish and poorly cast as a leading man in this shit show.
So I bowed out before my name was even announced
To pen tunes in obscurity and reclaim what I once loved
For a while I dealt with some guilt over my failure to be malleable
To the point that I reached out but my apologies weren’t even acknowledged.
I felt foolish and poorly cast as a leading man in this shit show.
Now it holds my heart in it again.
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Slide
03:12
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SLIDE
Sometimes I feel like the people around me take on a blueish hue.
I tell myself it’s not my colours bleeding its just intrusive feelings.
I am not a localised phenomenon that saps all of their joy.
Despite what my worrisome mind tells me I am no villain.
If someone could remind me of my old self for just one moment there before I slide.
I perceive the sadness of a loved one as a personal failing.
As if my lack of awareness has let them down again.
Try as I might to convince myself it doesn’t rest on my bowed shoulders
I’ll promptly try to offer a fix so obvious that it does nothing.
But if I can remind them of their old selves for just one moment there before they slide.
Maybe I won’t have to feel that way again.
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Defend Your Corner
02:59
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DEFEND YOUR CORNER
You defend your corner like i’m encroaching on your territory like a blind man.
I’m not asking for favours just a sense of community on this common ground.
You protect your livelihood from ill perceived threats and time wasters and everyone else.
When all anyone wants it collaborate in some honest way and not give up.
But you act like the reason we’re here is to compete for it.
I always thought this scene should be open minded and full of equal opportunity.
Not some exclusive club that better caters to a certain cut throat mentality.
But you act like the reason we’re here is to compete for it.
But I’m just here to try and create something.
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Tether
03:34
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TETHER
I don’t know how long this tether will hold, if it breaks will it mean I never cared at all?
Or will the line just become less taught so it won’t pull me back with such force.
When August rolls around I shake.
Overcome once again by old grief.
I drag myself away.
Cruel images are laced between my slow aimless daily routine.
My mind takes a hairpin turn at speed into a dead end full of things I never wished to see.
When August rolls around I shake.
Overcome once again by old grief.
I drag myself away.
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Joel Harries Manchester, UK
Joel Harries is a musician & songwriter from Northampton UK.
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