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Guided
04:10
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Sitting at the glowing box
Two sets of eyes
Burning through the screen at cowboys earning their stripes in how to spit
How we tried to be
One of the wild guys
With our two sets of eyes
Our two sets of
Wasn’t much adventure
Achieved wasn’t me
Couldn’t sew a button
And messy like I ought not to be
Setting fire not my match
Packing up set me apart
Sitting ‘round this fire singing songs with you is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Muddy little stages
Roaming wild and free
Paddling and peddling
Forged together separately
Lighting up with no match
Picking up set us apart
Sitting ‘round this fire singing songs with you is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Round eyes squared with corners to lose things in
Like missing lines when a story begins
Where we lose our full stops
And the meaning to one is to another lost
Insults in the space between our words
Changing the course of a verse
Predictive thoughts easily missed
And opinions considered with a different twist
We need to find out innocence away from this
Thinking back to the times we used to be kids
Back when we weren’t hooked-in juiced-up and coded
Back in those better days
When we were guided
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided, guided all I’m guided for
Is all I’m guided for
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2. |
Analytic Honour
04:40
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Analytic Honour
I’ve been meaning to text you back for days
Since we saw each other face to face
Under this circumstance
The button’s been misplaced
I’ve been needing to give you time
Listen to your voice
Read your mind
Now mortal offence is the way you behave
When we measure each other like robots
Capture connections in code
Analytic honour will always be a
Let down
Put down
Set down
Get down
Measuring each other like robots
Calculate connections with code
Analytic honour will always be a
Let down
Put down
Set down
You’ll get down
Striving to be well through analytically wired pockets and wrists
Tuning us out to the importance of what’s beneath the skins we live
Eat better, sleep better, communicate better
Just be better
Because you don’t deserve the diamonds
If you can’t handle the pressure
We’ve been putting our fingers in our ears
To look for some space away from here
Away from this din of silicon, yeah
Putting too much weight on metaphors
Realities, perceptions with a clause
You’re virtually flawless
Aren’t you, just
While we’re measuring each other like robots
Capturing connections in code
Analytic honour will always be a
Let down
Put down
Set down
Get down
Measure each other like robots
Calculate connections with code
Analytic honour will always be a
Let down
Put down
Set down
You’ll get down
Have we forgotten that it was the coal which birthed all those sparkles and goals
And the makers of all our drones live to serve a soul
We don’t need robots to play or software to articulate without mistake
Or keyboard shields to cower behind
As we toss grenades of hate
While we’re measuring each other like robots
Capturing connections in code
Analytic honour will always be a
Let down
Put down
Set down
Get down
Pleasure each other like robots
Calculate connections with code
Analytic honour will always be a
Let down
Put down
Set down
You’ll get down
When did things start heading south
To move us again north we need to rediscover the compass we lived so long without
By not being mindless to the kindness we all deserve and need
Long lost to the 1s
The 0s
Scrolling beyond the screen
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3. |
Cheeky Portraits
03:15
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Should really be on display
For the ‘Instas’ to see
You're body proud
You’re beautiful
Wow
Before you feel the force of gravity
In a few years time
Is that the angle your want
Your kids to be inspired by
Own those cheeky portraits
Love yourself
Hashtag #bodyperfect
Nooses swing on carousels
As we judge ourselves
Everybody owes themselves
More than mirrors time
A classic pout
Ain't critical now
You might think back cynically
In a few days time
By then you're
Someone's late night evening private crime
Hide those cheeky portraits
Love yourself
Hashtag #whoneedsperfect
Love hearts ride the carousels
As we know too well
Spread those cheeky portraits
Not yourself
Hashtag #weownperfect
Love heart-powered carousels
Spin our souls to pearls
Oh how I feel for your daughters
Oh how I feel for you
Oh how it feels now doesn’t matter
It’s what’s is left within
Not social chatter
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DodoBones Sheffield, UK
Ironic-pop, indie | Original, heartfelt material, combined with witty and offbeat interpretations of other people's music. They have a good sense of humour when it comes to the darkness of life.
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