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My Disease
03:19
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I live with my disease
I’m not asking nobody for nothing
Nobody’s asking please
So I’m pleasing myself
No one else is playing
Whatchu gonna do
When everyone you know has let you down? Will you stand around asking why?
Or will you resolve to be the one to get on with your life? Theres only so much time
Whatchu gonna do?
I live with my defeat
Should have never asked someone for something I’m living by the beat of my own drum now I’m not going under
Whatchu gonna do
When everyone you know has let you down? Will you stand around asking why?
Or will you resolve to be the one to get on with your life? There's only so much time
Whatchu gonna do?
Whatchu gonna do?
With everything you are
It’s how you’re meant to be
I feel I’ve come this far
It’s all I want to see in me
Will you stand around asking why?
Or will you resolve to be the one to get on with your life? There’s only so much time!
Whatchu gonna do?
Do, oh
Whatchu gonna do?
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2. |
Time Traveler
03:58
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This clock is old and busted
These hands they don’t keep time
They’re reeling in the lines that missed ya
They’re looking at our lives through a crystal sheet
Try to discover what it means
The happiness you felt back then
Was it all for show?
Hard not to wonder “where did I go wrong?”
I travel to the ancient past
Through fields of glass and silicone
I try to warn “It won’t come back”
But I cannot hear my own
Voice through what is etched in stone
The choices we cannot unmake
Would you take it back?
Are you so sure that we would never last?
Time traveler
You cannot write your own destiny
Unraveling the truth of who you’re supposed to be
Although you try
Nothing is ever what it seems
The things that we cannot unfeel
It ends before it starts
Are you the one or do you play the part?
Time traveler
You cannot write your own destiny
Unraveling the truth of who you’re supposed to be Although you try
Although you try
You try
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3. |
Boomers
04:10
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You recall a time where you could speak your mind
Where you wouldn’t be judged for what you say
But now the thought police have caught you out of line
They say you’re blind cause you don’t see their way
And they could tell you off for telling like it is
They want to take your rights for what they feel is wrong
Well all these kids are just so sensitive today
When they don’t get their way
And all these children who demand the world to change
You didn’t have that ego at that age
You put yourself through school working minimum wage
Why should you pay when they could do the same?
And they will tell you off for telling like it is
They want to take your rights for what they think is wrong
Well all these kids are just so sensitive today
When they don’t get their way
But I will try and appeal to you
This ain’t the same economy or world in which you grew
The planet’s overpopulated
Environment is decimated
Should I have a family?
This world is falling all around my head
Yeah, well what would you say to that?
Why would you ask of us what you won’t do?
And so we’ll tell you off and tell you how it is
You ain’t gonna take our rights with all your wrongs
Well all you boomers best get used to seeing change
You have had your way
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4. |
On The Run
04:43
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I feel my bootstraps are torn
My sole is all but worn
From all the miles beneath my heel
I might have found
This realization that I’ll work until I’m in the ground
You’ve got to move it like you do!
Stuck inside this spinning wheel
Dizziness disguising what is real
Ain’t got time to sit and feel it!
You don’t want to get left behind!
Underneath this smoking gun
Living out our lives being on the run
I find my life is defined
By all the silver linings that I’m finding in the clouds
I feel the cost
Of all this love and loss while I am standing in the crowd
You’ve got to move it like you do!
What’s a different point of view?
Hard to see much else when rent is due
Ain’t got time to sit and feel it!
You are not the only one!
Underneath this smoking gun
Living out this life being on the run
You’ve got to move it like you do!
Is this what we’re living for?
Always thought that maybe there was more
Ain’t got time to sit and feel it!
You are gonna get left behind!
Swallowing this smoking gun
I ain’t living my life on the run
You’ve got to move it like you do!
Is this what we’re living for?
Always hoped that maybe there was more
Ain’t got time to sit and feel it!
You are gonna get left behind!
Swallowing this smoking gun
I ain’t living my life on the run
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5. |
Honeymooning
04:26
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I’m running through these fields of flowers and butterflies
Nothing over my head but bright and sunny skies
Red is my favorite color - I like those lovely flags you wave
I could stay here for hours counting down the days
And the days will fade to years
How will you look when the mask starts to slip away?
Will you look as you feel?
Or am I manifesting my fear?
My fear…
Feels like I might get my hopes too high again
Every time that I do bad things seem to happen
I have a tendency to trip and fall upon my sword It’s a long way down from the top of the world
But I know the fall
What will you see when the halo begins to fade?
Will you love them for real?
As a sinner as you did a saint?
Oh I’m getting sentimental
I think it’s getting detrimental to my mental health
It’s how I’ve always felt
It’s just my wealth of experience...
...In poor results
What will you see when the mask starts to slip away?
Will you see what you feel?
Or am I manifesting my fear?
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6. |
So It Goes
05:03
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Who you are
Where you’ve been
I know I’ve seen you coastin’
I hope that you will pick it up
It never occurs to you it isn’t enough
What you do
You do
Who you are
Where you’ve been
I know I’ve seen you postin’
You sit and think your love is lost
You’ve never paid the price, well is it the cost
That’s too high?
It’s too high?
You’re too high
Nobody gets a second chance for all we know
A seed that isn’t even planted will not grow
And so it goes
It goes
Who you are
Where you’ve been
I know I’ve seen you coastin
You sit and say you’ve had it tough It never occurs to you it isn’t enough
What you do
Cause you’re too high
You’re too high
Nobody gets a second chance for all we know A seed that isn’t even planted will not grow And so it goes
It goes
So it goes
Yeah
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7. |
Your Life to Lose
03:56
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Days like today
You’d welcome anything
Quick and painless
No razor blades
But maybe sleeping pills
Something stainless
But I ain’t got the guts
Won’t let somebody clean me up
I already know
I could not do that to the few I have
But that don’t mean I don’t
Sometimes just fantasize
I could just close my eyes
Disembark
It’s living that is hard
But dying will be easier with time
But we can guarantee we’ll get the time
Days like today
You could do anything
You wake up weightless
You feel deranged
Your demons still surround you
But you see their faces
And you have got the guts
Won’t let somebody clean you up
I already know
You could not do that to the few you have
But that don’t mean you don’t
Sometimes just fantasize
You could just close your eyes
Wave a wand
And wake up on that cloud they’re on
Because very little is given in this life
A war that you can’t win but you must fight
You must fight
Because everything has purpose
When you realize nothing is worth it
Unless you choose
This is your
This is your life to lose
This your life to lose
This is your life to lose
This is your life to lose
Your life to lose
Your life to lose
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8. |
Raised By Wolves
03:11
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I can’t quite find a trace of you
Not the version that I knew
Just an awkward imitation
A performer through and through
One day it will all come back to you
And everything you do
It’s not as if you were raised by wolves
‘Cause a pack knows loyalty
Something that you lack casually
It’s not as though you are a fool
No you’re much too clever
I guess I should know better
That when all is said and done
You’re looking out for Number One
You’re looking out for Number One
You’re acting strange but won’t say why
You’re contradicting all your lies
Without communication
Barring your misinformation
And all these scenes that we have failed to write
So write them as you like
It’s not as if you were raised by wolves
‘Cause a pack knows loyalty
Something that you lack casually
It’s not as though you are a fool
No you’re much too clever
I guess I should know better
That when all is said and done
You’re looking out for Number One
You’re looking out for Number One
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9. |
ILU
03:37
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Blue rays
Pierce my dilated eyes
It’s really no surprise
That I can’t seem to find good sleep
This haze
I can’t seem to break it babe
Maybe ‘cause I’m faded or maybe I am just weak
Or maybe it’s the bloat of all my own complacency
Or maybe it’s the alcohol that’s catching up with me
Or maybe it’s the reaper
Come to take my hand and go
When that specter comes
I just hope that you would know
That I love
I love you
That I
I loved you
My days drag on at the slowest pace
And as I’m growing older all my time is flying by
Some say romance seems to die with age
Maybe it’s the way that we are told to live our lives
Baby if we ever argue and you don’t see me
Maybe I’m ignoring you on purpose
Accidentally
Or maybe it’s the reaper
Come to take my hand and go
When that specter comes
I just hope that you would know
That I love
I love you
And I
I loved you
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Periscope Oakland, California
Started in 2013 in California's Bay Area, Periscope explores the depths of the pre-apocalyptic experience of life and love in the modern landscape, resurfacing periodically to broadcast their findings into the world through music and lyrics.
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