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Is Silver A Shiny Grey? [2013]

by Tobias Zaldua

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1.
Don't search for the hero inside Don't look in the mirror and change Don't learn to love yourself Forget all that inconsequential crap All that shallowness You masquerade as depth Look for the devil inside and Look for the darkness and Accept or reject it Don't ignore it You need to consider it One day at a time Don't shower me in your airy fairy Perfect Love and come criticise mine Unless you know your demons and Have overcome them one by one by one By one...by one One by one Don't search for the hero inside Don't buy your truth off the shelf Ask yourself who designed this truth And who designed the shelf itself Politicians with ideas They just can't bear to waste They stored them in their mind In some Cruel Dark Place. We are closer to the roof than you think You start to wonder what's outside Blue skies and lullabies Money men and genocide Simple ways to stay in power By filling every waking hour With trivia And debt so Aspirations replaced by nostalgia And regret for your entertainment Served up for your enjoyment Watch in haste repeat at leisure Dignified I lied The eyes of snakes are watching me To see me make my next mistake 'Cause... Tragedy has bruised you But I take things so personally If I were as pretty as you I still would not be happy so Don't search for the hero inside Don't look in the mirror and change Don't learn to love yourself Forget all that inconsequential crap All that shallowness You masquerade as depth Look for the devil inside and Look for the darkness. Simplified I tried My shadows are all spoken for All the the fish in the seas are occupied Living full and happy lives The leaves don't leave the tree for fun Their time has come This winter lasts too long You start to wonder what's outside Blue skies and lullabies Money men and genocide There's no good side to pick so Just sit back and watch or Raise your voice to protest Get checked and processed... You start to wonder what's outside Blue skies and lullabies Money men and genocide There's no good side to pick so Just sit back and watch or Raise your voice to protest Get checked and processed... So who will protect my children From the advancing armies Of the nostalgic? You give a man a can of coke in prison Tell him he's tasted freedom Simple ways to stay in power.
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And it seems to me Your room has grown crowded with Gods And I watch you shining there Yes you were the lucky one And it seems to me Your mind grows heavy with thoughts Of what you could be Nothing to do with the life you lead Yes you were the lucky one And you said so many things I used to trip and fall Just to catch them all You said so many things to me Time to step inside my own skin And start living again But I don't know for how long Can I count on you And I don't know for how long Heaven spin above you Don't know for how long Yes you were the lucky one When you speak the silence comes And it seems to me Your room has grown crowded with Gods And I watch you shining there Can't catch you unawares Yes you were the lucky one And then one day You run out of luck 'Cause you move so fast They can't keep up No angel could keep Up with you Time to step inside your own skin And start living again But I don't know for how long Can I count on you And I don't know for how long Heaven spin above you Don't know for how long Yes you were the lucky one You were the lucky one.
3.
Anomaly 02:58
Whatever happened to culture? I was never an expert but I miss it, the soul shaking thrill of it, the unfailing belief in it - not this thin veneer that everyone accepts as a popular version of an old concept. All hollow inside, so much emptiness to go round. The emptiness inside grows larger than your body...Pushes against your skin, swallows the light from your eyes - looks for warmth in others to despise. Then one day you wake up and find you've been replaced by someone with a similar face but who is a much nicer person. And he does all the right things, he's so charming, he makes it all look easy - and I could see if he was me I'd be happy. Friends gravitate to me, with happy memories. He makes it all look so easy. I am the background noise, I am the background hum of someone watching everything come undone And when I leave the building I feel nothing I don't know why. Planes were painting bars across the sky. I am the background noise, I am the daily hum of someone watching everything come undone. Come undone.
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Love, love is on your mind Playing through scenes You've seen a thousand times Different fragments of your life Fear, fear is on your mind Running through endless woods Screaming inside So many words from bitter lives So, let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Dreams, dreams play on your mind The horror of things you can't describe When the darkness crept inside She comes with open arms And citizens say She's in your breath Bare eyed shyness hiding tenderness So, let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go And love, love is on your mind Running through endless woods Screaming inside So many words from bitter lives All the fear, fear, fear is on your mind yeah Fighting all the ghosts Down deep inside Tightly entwined in bitter lives So, let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Raise your game Feel the wind, The wind that stings your eyes, Drops needles to your skin, Wraps you warm in suffering. Signs, signs are all around. But they don't mean a thing 'Til you find self-discipline So let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go Just let her go Let it go Let it go Let it go Just let it go Let it go Go. I don't know where the fear came from But now it's gone So glad to find you here Scared that you might disappear And love, love is on your mind yeah And love, love is on your mind yeah Don't chase the sun Love's still on your mind Don't chase the sun Don't chase the sun I was always waiting for the dawn (repeats) Don't chase the sun. I was only waiting for the dawn. I was only waiting for the dawn.
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Seas of trouble: I had a friend A long time ago Says I should be realistic But I don't know what that means Why would she say that? She wants me to set my sights low And aim beneath it Accept who you are And just enjoy it People would say that I was Quiet and shy So after a while, after a while So did I But there were always storms inside And seeds of trouble What kind of fool Would want to live their life again You know I really couldn't be bothered I want to get things right, right here, right now No time for living in doubt She said she'd love you Forever and a day But she left you She left you behind There's no law no law no law That says you can't change your mind And her opinions were So one sided She'd get so nervous when I was undecided People would say that I was Troubled and shy So after a while After a while so did I But there were always storms inside And seas of trouble What kind of fool says It's time to act your age You know I really couldn't be bothered It's your mind Not your skin That shows The passage of the days She said she'd love you Forever and a day But she left you She left you behind There's no law no law no law That says you can't change your mind Maybe this town would look better Once the trees have grown Funny how the streets seem so much smaller Than when we were young Can't change the past Can't undo the things that you've done, The 'good looking one'.
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Some kind of shelter Music and lyrics: T. Zaldua I don't know A thing about love I'm not sure Anybody does Summer dresses Kept all winter For the days when We were smiling Summer kisses Touches tender I was always hoping I was always hoping I was always hoping Thought you were some kind of shelter From all the days I can't remember Thought you were the warmth Of the sun on the sea Some kind of shelter for me Thought you were some kind of shelter From all the days I can't remember The sun that burned And the salt in the sea No kind of shelter for me I pretend I'm not sure of myself It puts you At your ease But why are you So kind to Fall for tricks Like these? Summer kisses Kept all winter For the days when You were smiling Summer dresses Touches tender I am the insect on the water skin As you through the pebbles in I thought you were some kind of shelter From all the days I can't remember Thought you were the warmth Of the sun on the sea Some kind of shelter for me Thought you were some kind of shelter From all the days I can't remember The sun that burned And the salt in the sea In this wound that never heals. I thought you were some kind of shelter From all the days I can't remember The sun that burned The salt in the sea No kind of shelter for me Sometimes the sea Sounds like chaos approaching Sometimes the wind Wraps your dress against your skin Sometimes the sea Sounds like chaos approaching Sometimes the sea Sounds like chaos approaching Sometimes the wind Wraps your dress against your skin Sometimes I ask myself why the sky Is so much closer to the shore than before Sometimes the sea Sounds like chaos approaching Sometimes the wind wraps your dress against your skin I don't know A thing about love I'm not sure That anybody does. It seems so long ago I was always hoping I was always Thought you were some kind of shelter From all the days I can't remember The sun that burned And the salt in the sea Was no kind of shelter for me Thought you were some kind of shelter From all the days I can't remember Not the warmth of the sun And not a calm blue sea No kind of shelter for you and me. Sometimes the sea Sounds like chaos approaching.
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The Panic 04:37
The Panic Music :T. Zaldua/T.Zundel Lyrics:T.Zaldua Are you the one who is shining above me? Are you wise enough not to say that you love me? Are you the winner in life's little contest? I am the one who just couldn't care less 'cause When you find her Where will you find her? Will she fall into your arms? And summertime brings you a better way of living I've been travelling through the pages of a magazine Summertime girls with average guys And eyes that cut you down to size... 'Cause when you find her Where will you find her? Will she fall into your arms? 'Cause now... Now it's time to go Into the garden I won't let the panic set in Come on and follow your dreams Now it's time to go To the other side of the world I won't let the panic set in Come on I am the one who will put you behind me She is the one to get lost and say find me When you find her Will you find her Will she fall into your arms? One hundred and eighty miles down the greenline To where an old chapel burns white against the skyline And I've been traveling Traveling down the shoreline She says follow me and walks into the sea And when you find her Where will you find her Will she fall into these arms? Now Now it's time to go To the other side of the world (Into the garden) I won't let the panic set in Come on Now Now it's time to go To the other side of the world I won't let the panic set in Come on Find her Where will you find her? Will she fall into your arms? Yea you follow anyone you can Any woman, any man Anyone that you see But you don't follow me. Now, now it's time to go. 'Cause now, now it's time to go Into the nighttime Into the nighttime To where neon lights glitter like All the hearts you broke in your lifetime 'Cause now, now it's time to go To the other side of the world Into the garden I won't let the panic set in Come on and follow your dreams Now, now it's time to go To the other side of the world I won't let the panic set in Come on.
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I went to a man who read my hands He said I'm trying quite hard to understand Do you write with your left hand? Do you write with your right hand? I said I write with both hands man 'cause they forced me to change at school man But I had other plans. I had other plans He says So, you're ambidextrous, Don't expect me to be impressed 'Cause I don't care which hand you write with Or which way that you dress Which makes me wonder why he asked. So I stretch out my arms, trying to keep calm, And for a while the lines in his forehead Are like the lines in my palms. He says You've got a problem with the future You think understanding it doesn't matter. You're unfaithful in your thinking You're ambitious, too ambitious It gets you down. You're judgemental, critical, hate the superficial But use appearances to judge other people. You're lazy, determined Selfless, self serving It just depends what mood you're in. …So you want to get away from the humdrum, Fine, find your own sweet oblivion, Take the motorway round the urban sprawl before it kills us all But as the music plays it seems so beautiful… He says Your soul is like pieces of broken glass in a hollow tree …And I'm thinking it's none too flattering He's staring at the hands he's holding My wrists are aching You'll never let down a friend Unless he lets you down first But you're so bad at revenge You always come of worse And now the room seems darker, But outside the sun is shining I can see a smile is forming on his lips, And after an age he turns and says He says: One day you will soon find yourself at a party, There will be a girl there - her face will seem familiar. It will remind you of someone you haven't met yet. The next night you will find yourself at a party There will be a girl there who will remind you Of the girl you saw at the party the night before You will find her easy to talk to, she will seem to like you Because she reminds you of the girl you saw the night before.
9.
Well it's time for bed again, time to wake at 4 again, time to feel the cold and curl up tight and fail to fall asleep, count sheep and military men and the weirdness of everything. At what point exactly did peace and love become so ridiculous man? Was it when you realized you could laugh in the face of a hippy but not in front of a gun? Yea, you've got it all sewn up, your nervous society, you and the moral majority who kill so freely and hold love so dearly. Well I can see how it is through this fog of failure, all the good men and women knowing God will save them if they do the right thing, all these military men with weak wills to defend all these little boys and girls who know less than they did when their mother's gave birth to them and locked them into a system, all these military men, with regimented souls, who'll never take peace and love as seriously as war. Well it's time for bed again, time to wake at 4 again, time to feel the cold and curl up tight and fail to fall asleep, count sheep and military men and the weirdness of everything.
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Find Yourself Falling: Summer, spring, Find yourself falling For anyone And sometimes in the morning, Dressing She can't bear the feeling, Of clothes against her skin She says Undo all the knots you've tied yourself in Feel your way around This skin your living in Don't give away your secrets so soon All the things you notice as you're falling She's smiling Shrugs her shoulders To cool the air between the cotton and her skin And later as she's talking Idly fingers The shirt under her sleeve And you can hardly breathe She says Undo all the knots you've tied yourself in Feel your way around This skin you're living in Don't give away your secrets so soon Don't tell me your dreams Live them Undo all the knots you've tied yourself in Feel your way around This skin you're living in Don't give away your secrets too soon Don't tell me your dreams Live them And when you're down she says Look up The sun is still shining It's as bright as the day you were born Loved and careless Simple and forlorn
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Through the storm Music and lyrics: T.Zaldua When you come When you go Through the storm I don't know what to say anymore But you are the one To stand by me When all the trouble's begun Yea you are the one for me When the morning comes And you're gone But the storm plays on Here in my room There's a memory of you The melodies we made Help me through the day But you are the one To keep things moving on To stand by me When all the trouble's begun Yea you are the one for me And everything's unfinished As it always was And the only reason left is Simply just because You are the one. Well the cranes on the skyline are breeding And the buildings grow closer to each other With bricks for leaves And smothered we keep breathing in this wind The wind that's made of dust What will become of us When we've built this giant mirror And I can watch myself And you can watch me This mirror grows higher than houses And Sequoia trees So show no fear and make no enemies Show no fear and make no enemies. When you come When you go Through the storm I don't know what to say anymore When you come When you go Through the storm I don't know what to say anymore.
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And it seems to me Your room has grown crowded with enemies And I watch you shining there In company and on your own And it seems to me Your beauty's been working against you And all the doors that open Are not the doors you should walk through And they said so many things A girl could trip and fall If she heard them all They said so many things to you Time to step inside your own skin And start living the truth. And I don't know for how long Can you count on them And I don't know for how long Will they stay your friends Don't know for how long Why can't you see Your room grows crowded with enemies. And when I run into the room I see the walls are closing in But these walls were of your making So I ignore them Until they squash me thin Squeeze my mind and bleed me dry I'll find a place to hide inside And design my own little room But this room is getting bigger And sometimes my friends are there Laughing and chatting Or wringing their hands in despair I tell them this room is big enough for everyone But still they look forlorn They miss the old familiar prisons And the darkness before the dawn Well “What is wrong with me?” I say But they have too many answers So maybe one day I will tell them All the flaws that make me love them Some people are fading slowly from view But few could ever shine like you. I'll go outside in a minute And make this phone call Give them the space To make me feel small Silver dress weighs heavy on your skin Frustrated unless the sun was shining.
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Fall like stars (Music: T.Zaldua/T.Zundel Lyrics: T.Zaldua) I get so lonely Loving you Tell me, won't you tell me Tell me what to do I'm always in a bad mood Always in a bad mood I get so lonely Loving you I Know it's just a feeling Pull me through And suddenly this feeling Of melancholy is gone It's gone And I feel happy Strange how similar they are We fall like stars I get so lonely Loving you I know it's just a feeling Pull me through That night there were three people in the room The bad mood you and me 1-2-3 I remember when you sold your soul to the devil Now you've sold it to the working week So won't you tell me How close laughter and sadness are How quickly and easily we slip one way to the other So hard to come back again but I get so lonely Loving you I know it's just a feeling Pull me through I... I...
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I was a teenage adult Fighting my own little war Endless door doors Hospital corridors Looking for some role in life Far away from yours. Saw the rich man in the centre With the chosen few Between those who can do And those who cannot do. All the doors we ran into All the doors we'll push right through Forest floors to corridors In a world that was not yours All the walls we ran into All the walls we'll push right through Looking for the skylight And out into the night. They want to take our rights away Listen to every word you say Well, when did I agree to this? I say it's none of your business. Set the old against the young As if the old were never young As if old age will never come To the young All ages become the same You'll see how fast you change Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor Rich man, Poor man, Beggar man, Thief Tinker, Tailor, Casualty, Saviour, Rich man, Priest, Celebrity, Deceased Thinker, Maker, Popstar, Failure, Torturer, Jailor, Activist, Police Rich man in the centre With the chosen few Between those who can do And those who just won't do All the doors we ran into All the doors we'll push right through Firewalls and corridors Marble hears new footsteps fall. All the walls we ran into All the walls we'll push right through Rip up rules and stumbling blocks Pick up speed like falling rocks Sell the idea That one day it could be you And you'll join the chosen few Yes, you'll join the chosen few So you tolerate inequality Thinking one day it will be me And I'll be rich happy and free Rich, happy, free. All the elite were on the street And they were begging And they couldn't understand Why no one was helping 'Cause they'd long since Bred out our empathy With non-stop news And furious apathy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor Rich man, Poor man, Beggar man, Thief Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor Popstar, Failure, Torturer, Jailor, Activist, Police, Celebrity, Deceased Thinker, Failure, Casualty, Saviour. I never did put my hand up to ask How did I get on this side Of the bullet proof glass No reality and no bullet can reach me This glass class divider protects me And in this plush prison I've grown to resent The tedious restrictions of my government And now I'd like to impose These limitations on you I build a mental prison for you Same as the one I was voted into.
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Do you remember when the spaceship came? No? Of course you don't. Do you remember when the spaceship came and fired negativity deep into your brain? No? Of course you don't. And do you remember that first vast flight across the planet's surface and you were so high? And when you looked down everything began to seem the same. And as you flew they came to you and whispered sweet nothings in your ear. Until sweet nothings became your way of thinking, your reason for living, your everything. And now anyone can make a profit selling sweet nothing. Because you don't need meaning when you can have sweet nothing. Do you remember when the spaceship came? And do you remember the spaceship had a ceiling filled with stars? And they stripped you on a marble table and filled you with doubt. And then you woke at home alone, and the bed and the pillows were soft as snow but they reminded you of cold stone. And staring at a ceiling filled with stars While they whispered sweet nothings in your ear. Do you remember when the spaceship came? No? Of course you don't.
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Oh God, it's such a long way home She's always waiting there for you For you or So you hope Will she put her arms around you? Yes she could But she never does And you call it love In time, you'll see it's all survival Just preventing a fall Takes years to complete So good luck, good luck On your long slow fall Hope you land on your feet Learn from it all. Wake up, wake up To begin the long journey to bed Sometimes the problems that you laid at her door, Are all in your head. Oh God, it's such a long way home.
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Love, love is on your mind. So let it go, Let it go, Let it go Let it go Let it go.
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He catches the train Takes out his phone Places it down With a laptop Puts down his coffee cup Opens the laptop up Switches on Switches on And all the water covers the flatlands And the sheep are long gone And silhouettes of houses Line the horizon And it's beautiful The trees flash by Against purple skies Now his office is breathing Deep inside his phone Making infinite problems For him to take home His office covers the countryside Expands worldwide And so do I Now the train picks up speed It rocks from side to side He's still not looked up Puts down his coffee cup All the trees flash by It's beautiful And so am I I. Now the sun set fire to the leaves Darkens the trees On this cinema screen Called reality All the trees flash by It's beautiful. And with that smile that set her eyes alight She pulled her hair away from her neck And pulled it down one side She says “You're beautiful, you're beautiful and so am I” And who was I to compromise To act all shy This memory haunts me Why did I try to avert my eyes? From this dark-eyed girl This long lost friend This time will never come round again. Two sisters were singing In close harmony My friend had found an old book of poetry And trees flash by It's beautiful And so am I And Trying to understand you Has worn me out There is no destination Only the journey So I'll take the side streets Before the light fails Steal the show And light matches as I go. All the dark-eyed girls And long lost friends I.
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