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Grunge-flavoured singer-songwriter & home-studio artist based in Warwick, UK
Song Info
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The Holographic Rodeo
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The Holographic Rodeo
Uploaded
June 18, 2021
Track Files
MP3
MP3 10.2 MB • 160 kbps • 8:53
Story behind the song
Title track from my 2019 concept album. It's inspired by the book 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra', and is about an Ancient Greek philosopher who finds himself in 2021 and isn't entirely impressed with what he sees
Lyrics
i) Of communication
Echo chambers of bad feeling
Amplifiers for deceiving
Its all the wrong way round
You like the words but hate the sounds
Forgot what life was like before you found here
Quench your thirst for indiscretion
Spread epidemics of dejection
Snapshot realities convince you theyre not make-believe
Forgot what life was like before you found here
Its so overwhelming
The voices shout so loud
its never over
Indoctrinated sleeping nations
Zucker punch of underestimation
Its time to tear them down
These walls that we cant see around
Forgot what life was like before you found here
Its never over
Voices shouting louder
Its so overwhelming
ii) Of commercialisation
Yeah everybody wanna sell you something
Yeah everybody gotta have their price
Well let me give you all a whole new angle:
Your worldviews a naive lie
Yeah swallow all their vacant fallacies
To make you think you know what to do
Spoon-fed a victual of sport beer and movies
While they rape the world in front of you
Bleeding the earth and then sucking it dry
With their factory farms and their poisonous sky
And their weaponised news, hidden drugs in your food
While the big screen blows smoke in your eyes
Yeah those beyond this wanna blame their leaders
Yeah everybodys mad at the world
Well let me give another new perspective:
Youre all in on it as well
Denying your power as you exercise your right to
Choose what to say and to do and to buy
As you vote every day with consumption and speech and decisions
iii) Of isolation
You know who is worse?
The ones seeking accolades
by shaming the rest with words all so empty
Ranting so loud, pointing their fingers at everything but
Their unconscious contempt
Take me out of here
Wont you show me a time where we all try to understand
Please take me out of here
And remind me that one day well all be alright
And then theres the ones, cogniscent of everything
But the will to do right, drowned by their lethargy
Bound to their thrones by fears of their failure
Bemoaning the actors whenever they fall
Take me out of here
Wont you show me a time where were unafraid of potential
Please take me out of here
And remind me that one day well all be alright
And then theres the hordes with their brands and their alcohol
And then theres the try-hards who forgot how to feel
And then theres the crooks
And then theres the martyrs
And the copycat actors who have lost their own will
And then theres the prudes
And then theres the cynics
And the ones who think everything real is ironic
And then theres the lax
And then theres the cautious
I love you all but theres no wonder youre sick
Take me out of here
Wont you please take me out of here
Gotta pull myself out of here
Gotta get myself of here
Why dont you come too
