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Model Roll
04:24
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(We’re all talkin’ ‘bout)
Covert schemes with submarines
Rotten to the core
Déjà vu like we’ve seen it all before
Looking for anybody else to blame
When your best pal doesn’t even know your name!
Abandoning any decent protocol.
Is there any hope at all?
We’re juggling hand-grenades, pins pulled for us all
(Where the bloody hell are ya?)
Letting you think you’re in control
(Do you really want to know?)
They’re dragging their fingernails down the blackboard of your soul
(If you still have one)
That’s how we make our model roll.
(Let me tell you how)
Loose lips sink relationships
Pride before a fall
Pulled the plug now we’re spiralling down the hole
Such a mistake playing with high stakes
When all you got’s dependent on a handshake
With fingers crossed behind their backs and all
All mirrors and smoke.
We’re juggling hand-grenades, pins pulled for us all
(Where the bloody hell are ya?)
Letting you think you’re in control
(Do you really want to know?)
They’re dragging their fingernails down the blackboard of your soul
(If you still have one)
That’s how we make our model roll.
Grandiose and comatose
Intelligentsia juxtaposed
Grovelling on your hands and knees
Bending over backwards to appease
Feeling like a needle in a haystack (it’s coming)
Waiting for the devastating payback (it’s coming)
No joie de vivre, et je sais pourquoi
Qu’est-ce que c’est?
We’re juggling hand-grenades, pins pulled for us all
(Where the bloody hell are ya?)
Letting you think you’re in control
(Do you really want to know?)
They’re dragging their fingernails down the blackboard of your soul
(If you still have one)
That’s how we make our model roll.
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Hashtag (Influencer)
04:38
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What can I do for you?
I could tag you in my post
What can I do for you?
Cos’ it’s me they love the most
Maybe put your hashtag with my photograph
Would you like my autograph
What can I do for you?
Anything at all
What can you do for me?
Spread the word to my believers
What can you do for me?
They’re my influence receivers
Disciples doing what I tell them to
Always agreeing with my point of view
What can you do for me?
Everything and more
Tell them what they wanna hear
I’m the ultimate marketing engineer
Doing it all from a strobing screen
I’m an advertorial magazine
The heavy-weight champion of self-promotion
Got millions following with blind devotion
I’m more viral than influenza
They call me…(Hashtag) Influencer
Look at me, can’t you see, obviously
I’m the biggest seller of them all
Quick split, just a click, take the pic
Then I pin it up to my wall
No stress, no worry, nothing’s a drag
It’s all provided by a hashtag (Hashtag)
What exactly do I do for you?
I do nothing at all
See me
Everybody wants to
Be me
I guess I’m just
Lucky
Getting paid for doing bugger all
Tell them what they wanna hear
I’m the ultimate marketing engineer
Doing it all from a strobing screen
I’m an advertorial magazine
The heavy-weight champion of self-promotion
Got millions following with blind devotion
I’m more viral than influenza
They call me…(Hashtag) Influencer
All I do
Is smile and pout
Just hang about
Not working hard at
All the money
Milk and honey
Thrown about me
Why work hard at all?
Tell them what they wanna hear
I’m the ultimate marketing engineer
Doing it all from a strobing screen
I’m an advertorial magazine
The heavy-weight champion of self-promotion
Got millions following with blind devotion
I’m more viral than influenza
They call me…(Hashtag) Influencer
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Homeland
04:12
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Another heartache
It’s happening once again
Subjugated by my fellow man
Overwhelming my life
It’s plain to see
Televisual insanity
Reporting the violence
Deafened by the silence
Still searching for some clarity
Devastated by hypocrisy
Of our existence
Diminishing resistance
Maybe you can decide
I’m otherwise occupied
Please understand
This is my homeland
Falling
Down to my knees again
Before I start to understand
It’s up to me
Stalling
No time to hesitate
No longer can I bear this weight
Just set me free
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Heartfelt
04:42
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We’re all walking a fine line
Dodging the headlines
Strapped to a deadline
Not living at all
Talk to me, walk with me, speak with me
Listen to your heart
Come to me, hold on to me, be with me
Open up your heart
One step leads to another, sister and brother
Walking together as our world falls apart
We can help one another, look out for each other
Hold it together if we think with our hearts
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Opportunist
04:59
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I swear
It wasn’t me
An opportunist
An opportunity
I was waiting for something to happen
Just waiting for something to happen
Before I took a step away
Floating up a creek without a paddle
I was starting to unravel
A rat inside a maze
I swear
It wasn’t me
Got an offer but I’m not persuaded
Got another and I should have made it
Should have made it happen
Had the chance and I tried to fake it
Had a chance but I didn’t take it
And it didn’t happen
I swear
It wasn’t me
An opportunist
Takes an opportunity
You had it coming…
Missed an opportunity…
I swear
It wasn’t me
An opportunist
An opportunity
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6. |
Underground
03:35
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Take me down to the valley
To that side of town
Take me where the darkness surrounds me
Take me down to the river
And just watch me drown
I can't breathe from the pressure around me
Come with me, won't you come with me
Come with me
We'll escape where it's safe...underground
I live for the moment
I no longer see
All the streets filled with anger and violence
Just for a moment
Won't they let me be
Heaven's sake I can't wait for the silence
Come with me, won't you come with me
Come with me
We'll escape where it's safe...underground
Come with me, won't you come with me
Come with me
We'll escape where it's safe...underground
Come with me (Underground)
Come with me (Underground)
Won't you come with me
Come with me (Underground)
Come with me (Won't you come with me)
Underground
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Fading Memory
03:34
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Do you remember the time, do you remember the time
We would stand in line on a Saturday night
Swaying in the crowd as The Church arrived
For that unguarded moment when you’d feel alive
Calling them back because you wanted more
Never giving up ’til you got the encore
Do you remember the fall, do you remember the fall
Kaleidoscopic lights and a spinning wall
Lost control of the body and soul
Mind suppressed by the alcohol
Nothing could go wrong, we were young and strong
But the years’ve flown past, somethings going on.
Cuts inside me, terrifies me
My mind’s gone blind and I cannot find what I left behind me,
Fading memory
Do you remember the sights, do you remember the sights
Those blurred crusades under neon lights
Hallucinating in the halogen beams
Blind navigation through the pulsing streams
Find another hole for another round
Then you hit the ground
Cuts inside me, terrifies me
My mind’s gone blind and I cannot find what I left behind me,
Fading memory
Do you remember, do you recall?
Do you remember anything at all?
Do you remember, do you recall?
Do you remember anything at all?
Do you remember, do you recall?
Do you remember anything at all?
Do you remember? Thoughts so jaded.
Do you remember? Memory faded.
(I only want to remember), cuts inside me
(I only want to remember), terrifies me
(I only want to remember), please remind me
Mind’s gone blind and I cannot find what I left behind me,
Fading memory
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Stuck here by myself in isolation
Leaves me with a lack of motivation
Got no fam, got no friends they don't see me at all
It's just me on my own staring at these walls
Doing all I can to avoid confrontation
But I'm told by the man that it's understood
"Stay home, stay safe, it'll do you good"
Gotta do what I can for my fellow man
I'll sing a song...for the dark times
Only can do so much meditation
Before resorting to my medication
So bored, fed up, it's beyond a joke
Can't even hit the pub for a drink or a smoke
It's causing quite a rise in my frustration
But I'm told by the man that it's understood
"Stay home, stay safe, it'll do you good"
Gotta do what I can for my fellow man
I'll sing a song...for the dark times
Sing a song, a song for the dark times
Sing a song, a song for the dark times
Think I'll give this social distancing a try
Remove myself from harm from the passers-by
Shut the doors, stay in my room and hide
Lock myself away alone and cry
I won't complain
I will stay sane
But I'm told by the man that it's understood
"Stay home, stay safe, it'll do you good"
Gotta do what I can for my fellow man
I'll sing a song...for the dark times
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9. |
Gods of the Waves
05:46
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Sun worshiping suntanned goddesses
Parading before the masses
Standing in line sunburnt offerings
Averting their eyes and lashes
From the gods of the waves
Yesterday’s legends playing loud again
Yesterday’s sounds from their temple
Tomorrow’s sleepers, lonely dreamers
Searching for calm, with closed eyes
And drift away on the waves
Falling to the amber sedative
It never ends
Long forgotten memories
On repeat again again
It takes them back
Takes them back
To their glory days
Now they’re just reminiscing
Nocturnal breezes cool the furnace
Band slowly plays on and on and on and on
Soft tears escaping from the corners
Of her blue eyes, emotions
Wash over her like a wave
Tide now receding from the shoreline
Slowly the eyes are weighed down
Consciousness leaving gone for the night
Returning to dream, that one day
They’ll be the gods of the waves
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10. |
Last Drinks
03:44
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Tears fall
Not for the first time as I recall
Son’s tears from a father’s eye.
Lost years of a life…gone by
Never wait until last drinks are called
Time to leave…the curtain call.
Distance kept us far apart
But you’ll always be a part of me
No matter why those choices were made
What was meant to be was what’s meant to be
Never wait until last drinks are called
Time to leave…the curtain call.
Sit and ponder all that makes us sad
Or sip remembering the times that we had
The journey’s never what we could have planned
But your journey made me the person I am.
Never wait until last drinks are called
Time to leave…the curtain call.
Never wait until last drinks are called
Time to leave…your curtain call.
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Shïppa-63 Kingscliff, Australia
Shïppa-63 is a Solo Band, rather than the typical One-Man Band. Creating the sound of a full 3+ piece band in all of his songs, the music style is heavily influenced by British Pop/Rock/Punk, New Wave Electronica and basically tries to create something from diverse genres. All songs are written and performed by Shïppa-63. Latest release: Slay (EP) March 2023 ... more
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