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Live to Live
05:11
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I wonder why we live under the wire.
I wonder who's pushing expectations higher.
I wonder how much more to fuel the fire.
I wonder who's pushing expectations higher.
When you look into it's eyes you see reflected.
Through and past your lies we see your true intentions.
The more that I look the larger its dimensions.
The less that I look the less they like to mention.
I wonder why we live under the wire.
I wonder who's pushing expectations higher.
When you look into it's eyes you see reflected.
Through and past your lies we see your true intentions.
The more that I look the larger its dimensions.
The less that I look the less they like to mention.
Our appetite for excess, god knows I cant satisfy.
Why must we live for excess, why can't we just live to get by.
How can we measure success, sick of working overtime.
Why must we live for excess, why cant we just live to get by.
When you think your going under.
Why must we live for excess, why can't we just live to get by.
How can we measure success, sick of working overtime.
Why must we live for excess, why cant we just live to get by.
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2. |
Kupenga
03:26
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And i’m back
On the scene
Let me great ya with the insight that the wide world has given to me.
And i’m back
To help you understand what I mean when I say na to rourou na taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi.
And i’m preaching the only way I know
To preserve the taha wairua for each and every one of ya’ll.
Listen as your glasses overflow
Listen to mine and man I saw the light and she grows
Only further from the mould.
And i’m back
Here with me.
I tell you that your back yard will save you from the pockets of the powers at be.
And i’m back
To help you understand what I mean, when I say na to rourou na taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi.
And i’m preaching the only way I know
To preserve the taha wairua for each and every one of ya’ll.
Listen as your glasses overflow
Listen to mine and man I saw the light and she grows
Only further from the mould.
And i’m preaching the only way I know
To preserve the taha wairua for each and every one of ya’ll.
Listen as your glasses overflow
Listen to mine and man I saw the light and she grows
Only further from the mould
She grows, she grows
Only further from the mould
She grows, she grows
Further from the mould
We grow
We grow.
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3. |
Lincoln Parks
06:49
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Yeah, times moved on and we’re still here, we’re still in the fields.
Ten score until the last son came to us with a deal.
Got my seat picked out at the back of the bus and they look, so relieved.
They look down like they’re better than us but they don’t know enough, to just leave us alone son.
There’s no life living on the run.
We’ll find peace in a loaded gun.
No going back when its done
You’re in the wrong place, the wrong time, today.
You’re getting off light boy for your kind and i’ll give you the chance to turn away
So forget what I said, he struck a match head.
So set it alight boy for your kind today.
You stutter when you talk boy.
He smiles through his teeth.
An old dog with his old toys that i’d bring to his knees.
If I had one less ounce of compassion, i’d lust just enough, to be free.
He looks down like he’s better than us but he don’t know enough, to just leave us alone son.
There’s no life living on the run.
We’ll find peace in a loaded gun.
No going back when its done
You’re in the wrong place, the wrong time, today.
You’re getting off light boy for your kind and i’ll give you the chance to turn away
So forget what I said, he struck a match head.
So set it alight boy for your kind today.
So don’t you wonder, what it would be like to wander, if you believe in that today better get yourself out the dark age.
You’re in the wrong place, the wrong time, today.
You’re getting off light boy for your kind and i’ll give you the chance to turn away
So forget what I said, he struck a match head.
So set it alight boy for your kind today.
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4. |
Special Spice
03:37
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I may be mangy but I ain’t no hound,
I said to the officer whose ego’s weighing in by the pound,
The way he acted yeah you’d think he was crowned,
But show him what your mumma made today and he’ll come around.
Old people get low or get gone,
I’ll be impressed if you can wear it til’ the end of this song.
There’s a lot of hip shaking and breaking to be done,
But I guarantee my special spice will have you up till the sun yeah.
Don’t,
Tell my mother,
That i’m thinking ‘bout taking another,
It’s fun while it lasts until you’re out on your ass.
I had a woman and I wanted a sprout,
But it seemed to make no difference as she was cussing me out.
I can’t remember, what we fought about,
But the worst, it seemed to come around when I went without,
My special hit me baby one more time,
While we sit inside this van and wait for stars to align.
I can’t move and the feelings divine,
Yeah you might think its ugly but man I’ll pay the fine.
So don’t,
Tell my mother,
That I’m thinking about taking another,
Track my seconds to thirds until i’m out on the curb.
So learn,
From me brothers yeah,
If you think you got strange horizons to discover,
It’s fun while it lasts until you’re out on your ass.
So don’t,
Tell my mother,
That i’m thinking about taking another,
It’s fun while it lasts until you’re out on your ass.
So learn,
From me brothers yeah,
If you think you got strange horizons to discover,
It’s fun while it lasts until you’re out on your ass.
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5. |
Flood Warning
04:19
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I don’t mean to interrupt
But can you tell me what’s corrupt
Cause I can’t tell anymore.
Can you teach me how to act
Cause I can’t seem to find the facts or even what I’m being convicted for.
Can you teach me how to write, to sight, some way to fight
As we cling to the wreckage of our own indictment
For those who reap but did not sow before.
Might I be the one to shun the grace of the sun
And brave the storm who’s weather might be just the run I need
To bring you back from not far off the shore.
Ignorance, seems the perfect medicine at the starting line
But don’t rush me as I breath it in again
Even though it bites
We’re in a state of under-appreciation
For what seems the lesser of the two
What I have and what I don’t
What more I need to feel at home seems the more I have to lose
This world is enough for me
Is yours enough for you?
It’s a wonder we stay with our heads above the water
And I’m hard-pressed to hame my way
Despite all the actions
Your court has brought to order
I’ll tread before I give you away.
Can you teach me how to write, to sight, some way to fight
As we cling to the wreckage of our own indictment
For those who reap but did not sow before.
Might I be the one to shun the grace of the sun
And brave the storm who’s weather might be just the run I need
To bring you back from not far off the shore.
Ignorance, seems the perfect medicine at the starting line
But don’t rush me as I breath it in again
Even though it bites
We’re in a state of under-appreciation
For what seems the lesser of the two
What I have and what I don’t
What more I need to feel at home seems the more I have to lose
People causing me to see what i can be i'm ‘bout to be the
one that tells you right from wrong so go and hide and go and seek some
knowledge that'll make better priorities for your mental health put
money on the bottom and put family on the top shelf.
Please don’t let me interrupt while i create something corrupt
devil and deal and find out what my conviction is
please don’t teach me how to act if ignorance is how you act
in accordance all the problems life challenges you with.
My information’s fundamental to an entire nation
I’m trying to give peoples minds cardiopulmonary resuscitation
it’s too late now for some they'll stay as vegetation
I’ma prescribe for the rest deinstitutionalization
This condition’s what we're in ‘cause of ignorance and
I don't think I'm strong enough to avoid me using
this illusion it’s confusion, it’s what i'm using to lose myself in
all your self absorbed hypocrisy I can't defuse it.
Ignorance, seems the perfect medicine at the starting line
But don’t rush me as I breath it in again
Even though it bites
We’re in a state of under-appreciation
For what seems the lesser of the two
What I have and what I don’t
What more I need to feel at home seems the more I have to lose
Ignorance, seems the perfect medicine.
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6. |
Skar
05:45
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You feel like somethings following you like death but much more kind.
The cold creeps and seeps and spreads, it’s hidden deep inside.
Now you know, you’re not alone
You co-inside with the creatures the climb inside making you feel refined
You feel the coldness making your mind anew just digging deeper ‘til they can deceive you.
No-one cares, no one stops to pay attention
They just laugh they’re all in on the deception
Darkness creeps inside your mind
It’s taken over your insides.
So go, go, run away, run into the darkness where you’ll be safe.
So go, go, they follow close, don’t stop don’t slip or choke.
So go, go, pick up the pieces, put them in a place no one else can find
In your mind, you’ll, always be, you’ll always be the one from which you can not hide.
Your conscience smiles its satisfied
Adjusting to its new mind.
You see the world for what it is, a void of wasted time.
Now you can’t define
How the darkness seems to wind itself inside
You let the feeling flood
You can’t help its just too much.
Tenei au, tenei au
ko te hokai nei o taku tapuwae
Ko te hokai-nuku
Ko te hokai-rangi
Ko te hokai o to tipuna
A Tane-nui-a-rangi
I pikitia ai
Ki te Rangi-tuhaha
Ki Tihi-i-manono
I rokohina atu ra
ko te Kete Tuauri
ko te Kete Tuatea
ko te Kete Aronui
Ka tiritiria, ka poupoua
Ki a Papatuanuku
Ka puta te Ira-tangata
Ki te whai-ao
Ki te Ao-marama
Haumi e hui e
Taiki e
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Strangely Arousing Auckland, New Zealand
Emerging from an era in which Fat Freddy’s Drop and Red Hot Chili Peppers are considered heritage artists and human’s are no
longer boxed by sexuality, one might describe Strangely Arousing as “Trans Genre!” And comfortably so.
July 28th 2017 sees the release of Strangely Arousing, an 11 song exploration into the minds, hearts and souls of 5 musical gypsies from Rotorua, New Zealand.
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