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Fiery Cotton
03:25
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And goodbye
There are these patches
You feel like a quilt
Made by your own hands
Hands that have all these rips on the inside
It’s like you’re constantly trying to put inside of you
On your hands and all over you
Inside the dark sides
It’s lonely
So you put yourself in there
Sometimes your body feels like fiery cotton
Sometimes you have to get down on the floor and roll around
And sit there
And listen to the cars
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2. |
Smart
01:03
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Did you talk about the camera and then splitting?
Real smart
It’s not the same
When a girl can do better
As when the boys rule every corner
Of the working world
Can I come to terms
With my physicality?
More importantly, can someone
See me not as small?
Wow, wow, look at this girl
She does things not for her
Sure, I love to be praised
Not in this silly way
Did you talk about the camera and then splitting?
Real smart
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3. |
Trumpet Hollow School
02:32
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I was on the rooftop
Looking for someone to fool
Blowing the message
Of a trumpet hollow school
Now they’re all just like me
And I think it’s pretty cool
Synchronize the body
Someone else can play the tool
Go ahead and get me
I’d like to see you try
I got my position
Cause I know how to comply
Neutralize the students
They’re not worth it anyway
So go and grab your camera
To watch us do our play
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4. |
All the world is me
00:56
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See, you’re dreaming
All the world is me
Is my stardom
Right in front of your eyes
That’s what I want
To be what you consume
Sit there quietly
Just recognize me
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5. |
Ink
04:23
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Maybe my life is a video game
Maybe all I do
Maybe, maybe all I do
Is controlled by someone else, or maybe every person decides
The same forks in the road
Same, same things through my eyes
But that kind of invention can’t be organic, can it be?
Every little gadget’s made by a human, human being
The ink of human touch, the ink of human touch
Accidental purpose, accidental purpose
The ink of human touch, the ink of human touch
Accidental purpose, accidental purpose
There is art from mistakes we want to make
Sometimes we grow from them
Sometimes they capture them
Inside a photograph, started a movement
Now we do splatter paint
Now we corrupt our games
And everything came from the spine of a person like me
Nothing can take us over, we have this inevitably
The ink of human touch, the ink of human touch
Accidental purpose, accidental purpose
The ink of human touch, the ink of human touch
Accidental purpose, accidental purpose
Glitch is art, we’re having a party of thieves
Come my way, the data from my enemies
Maybe tesla coil is an instrument
Maybe all we make
Maybe, maybe all we make
Has no meaning, can be used for anything
It’s made by us, it is controlled by us
The ink of human soul, the ink of human soul
Everything organic, everything organic
The ink of human soul, the ink of human soul
Everything organic, everything organic
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6. |
Shape Your Arm
01:18
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These are the requirements
I need for sleep
These are the things that nullify me
You and me on the ground Did you see what can be found? You are me and I am you So begin to find me Oh I am trying to understand what is in you You are such a mystery You can’t even speak to me You rely on something I can’t do Something I can’t do while awake or asleep It’s haunting me, it’s haunting me Like a bell at night that I can only hear When my eyes are closed When they are open All I see are the vague shadows And I stare into the ceiling And everything starts flickering and sparkling Like a match Flowing around my eye floaters This operation can’t be real All I see is pitch black And it cannot be real This is improvised, improvised darkness Inside my mind, I cannot make it real But you’re telling me to make it so It cannot be this way It cannot be this way
The way you shape your arm (it’s really important)
The way you shape your arm (it’s really important)
Don’t you cry (You’re not a baby)
And don’t you nap (The feeling’s scary)
No prying fingers (It’s overwhelming)
Stop right now
Sleep, sleep, sleep
To sleep, to sleep, to sleep
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7. |
Loveless
02:13
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Oh my God this is a sin
When I don’t want a husband
It’s all good after today
Other choices are okay
Well it’s loveless, so intense
Never-ending, so immense
Life’s a game so play it right
Well it’s loveless, so intense
Funny how I always go back to boys
But those who don’t have a choice
That includes my own brother
And my friend in solitude
I wish them full happiness
And their struggles, nothingness
Though it’s loveless, so intense
In a moment you’ll be dead
So let’s yearn for summertime
Fight for stars to realign
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8. |
Eastern Consequences
01:37
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Here’s a boy with eastern consequences
Shaking off his pain
Covering his face to the grave
Is a girl the one thing he would want?
Well I’m not really sure
But it’s time to sit and talk to her
Wait around and watch the stars go down
While he passively breathes around town
I know his name, but he never knew mine
That’s okay, he’ll find out just in time
Take my hands through eastern consequences
Let me know you’re there
Never understand cause I’m scared
Here’s the world with eastern consequences
Rolling in our pain
Stupid from the cradle to the grave
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9. |
Ekans
02:32
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Have you ever promised you’d do crazy things?
Commit yourself to one thing and write it down?
Is it possible to hurt my own feelings?
But I believe people change and it’s inevitable
And if I had a mirror to look
Into the future, what would I be?
I see myself defying my own past
I see myself defying my own past
Just like Sharon and Joni swapped each other’s dreams
What I am might once have been foreign to me
But even then the people wouldn’t see that I grow
Physical appearance is everything
And if I had a mirror to look
Into the future, what would I be?
I see myself defying my own past
I see myself defying my own past
Stay with me, even if I always change
Stay with me, even if I never change
I write you, I write you
I write you, I write you
I’m right you, I’m right you
I’m right you, I’m right you
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10. |
A ball and a skate
02:21
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11. |
Libraries of Me
03:42
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Maybe it’s time to settle down when I forget my lines
There are many nonexistent traits I want to hide
Improvise, no self deliberation, let it haunt my thoughts
When the moon appears, time to clear them all, but memories are wild
Can I go and try to see
If there’s anyone for me?
It’s their choice, it’s never mine
Sensitive, so please be kind
Do you look for me or feel jealousy if you write my name?
Make up miseries, think of lunacy, but there’s no reward
Don’t be strange, I know I’m alone in my libraries of me
Bear with me, this is what I think maybe we all assume about ourselves
There are billions of people here but none comprehend my truth
(My truth)
I want to go home and rest
Dispel emotions in my nest
(This room)
But I know life is a game
You earn points through glamourous fame
I love when I know there’s no kind of ghost reprimanding me
There’s sparks in my mind, my mouth was sewn up
Fading laughter, rising from false scars
Are surreptitious wars
“You are not allowed to say no”, they say, the number one rule
But do I ever initiate the things that can please a crowd?
Universal tools of joy that force me to hold breath
Can I do what’s right for the weak?
Scared to fight and never scream?
You’re a feather, I’m a stone
But we’re human, the same bones
I’ll do what’s right for the weak
I won’t fight and I won’t scream
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12. |
Twice a Day
02:32
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My surface shining bright
It appears I have conquered the light
We’re too close, twice a day
And I know you won’t stand in my face
And it’s so hard to yourself, hard to run yourself
This fountain flows deep and wide, so much it can hide
And so I take the bluntest brush and spread the surface tide
And I’m allowed to ignore if something wrong happens to you
I could put it off as if it’s something I don’t do
Along my glorious life, how do I live
With all my mistakes?
Finally know who I am
A girl with irregular plans
I know that pair may change
My problem is have I learned you
And it’s so hard to yourself, hard to run yourself
To keep up with what happens in the place I cannot gaze
To never know if you’re okay with how I change to amaze
And I’m allowed to ignore if something wrong happens to you
I could put it off as if it’s something I don’t do
Seldom do I ever cross the line
I live in the past
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13. |
Salt
03:18
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Pack my bags and leave this house
Tomorrow I’ll join a crowd
There’s many things I have to try
So I’ll leave without goodbye
It’s here, it’s here
I never want to go home
I never want to go home
We’re made of covalent bonds
Water nor blood breaks us down
I’ll throw you over my shoulder
One of us will be brand new
Shadows cannot turn me down
My face is closer to the ground
It’s not the best but it’s what I’ve got
There’s nothing I do for myself
They see, I’m here
I never want to go home
I never want to go home
I never want to go home (Shadows cannot turn me down)
I never want to go home (Shadows cannot turn me down)
I never want to go home
I will wade out till my thighs
Are steeped in burning flowers
I don’t want to sell you lines
I only mean to do you right
But I’m such a foolish child
I wish I said anything
Please answer me, please answer me
I know you will, I know you will
All I try to do is invisible to you
And hopefully that’s not their point of view
I’m here, I’m here
I never want to go home
I never want to go home
I never want to go home (Shadows cannot turn me down)
I never want to go home (Shadows cannot turn me down)
I never want to go home
I never want to go home
I never want to go home
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My surface shining bright
It appears I have conquered the light
We’re too close, twice a day
And I know you won’t stand in my face
And it’s so hard to yourself, hard to run yourself
This fountain flows deep and wide, so much it can hide
And so I take the bluntest brush and spread the surface tide
And I’m allowed to ignore if something wrong happens to you
I could put it off as if it’s something I don’t do
Along my glorious life, how do I live
With all my mistakes?
Finally know who I am
A girl with irregular plans
I know that pair may change
My problem is have I learned you
And it’s so hard to yourself, hard to run yourself
To keep up with what happens in the place I cannot gaze
To never know if you’re okay with how I change to amaze
And I’m allowed to ignore if something wrong happens to you
I could put it off as if it’s something I don’t do
Seldom do I ever cross the line
I live in the past
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Lylajean Evanston, Illinois
Indie artist, writer, and Lylajean and Who We Are band leader! I'm Lyla and I'm a 22 year old Filipino-American from Chicago. Check out my Subscribe tab for a way to support me and get access to demo albums of exclusive content, with new ones dropping almost every month. lylajean.bandcamp.com/subscribe ... more
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