1. |
All My Life
04:49
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Under the vines we’ve grown to shield us from weeping.
Inside the fort we’ve built alone for safekeeping.
Through all the doubts and nights of sleepless why’s,
Purpose still pours out from these eyes.
Chorus:
All my life I’ve been waiting for this,
You can’t keep me down
Can’t keep me down
Down down, keep me down
Can’t keep me down.
All my life I’ve been made to hold this,
You can’t keep me down
Can’t keep me down
Down, down, keep me down
Can’t keep me down.
Inside the walls surrounding all we’ve been hearing.
Behind the truth we’ve withheld our bodies from hearing.
Through narrow words that serve to only limit our lives,
Purpose still pours out from these eyes.
Chorus:
All my life I’ve been waiting for this,
You can’t keep me down
Can’t keep me down
Down down, keep me down
Can’t keep me down.
All my life I’ve been made to hold this,
You can’t keep me down
Can’t keep me down
Down, down, keep me down
Can’t keep me down.
[Repeat Chorus]
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2. |
Some Kind
03:15
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Everything I thought I was
Stories...
Fluid...
Is everything that led me here
But at the time I never knew it.
And all the stories give us meaning
Keep us moving on
Make it real
Run our choices
Our bodies
Keep us fused to what we feel.
Chorus:
But I want it so bad
What am I without you?
Some kind of me I guess
We measure all that’s left with time
Our lives a calculated art
The things we do that give us pride
We hold up high as if it’s all that we are
And all I’ve traveled
All the moments I have lived and seen
Call it playful daydreamer
Or a fool pulled to a dream
Chorus:
But I want it so bad
What am I without you?
Some kind of me I guess
[Repeat chorus]
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3. |
Imprinted
04:28
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I feel what I am; I am not what I feel...
Trigger trigger
Like a pistol,
A propensity.
Automatic mechanisms,
Past decisions,
Mold the sense of identity,
The sentiment our leash.
Big plus bigger
Equals better,
So American.
Got to stomach through the static,
So emphatic,
Who we are if we win
Or if we lose.
Chorus:
What I say is what it is
Sinks on in to be imprinted
In my body
But my spirit knows
I can throw my body in the sand and I wouldn’t feel the blow.
Tunnel vision,
Pump the brain,
It’s bliss in overdrive.
To be happy
That’s the goal,
Avoid uncomfortable
Does that make us feel alive?
What’s that say about me?
All the misinterpretations
Dictating where we go
Grief and pain internalized
Labeled and classified
As reasons we're less than whole,
Such stories we see
Chorus:
What I say is what it is
Sinks on in to be imprinted
In my body
But my spirit knows
I can throw my body in the sand and I wouldn’t feel the blow.
Sinks on in to be imprinted
In my body
But my spirit knows
I can throw my body in the sand I wouldn’t feel the blow
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4. |
Stranger
03:22
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Mr. Peace of Mind
Daily grind
Music, please…
Easy, you and I -
But somehow I find
This pretty predicament every time.
Chorus:
I’m a stranger in my own skin
Oh, I’m a stranger
I’m a -
Strange
I’m a stranger in my own skin
I’m a stranger
I’m a -
Strange
Strange how we live to survive
All on autopilot
But music feels
Reels me into life
And somehow I find
I keep running and runnin’ and runnin’ away from the things that make me come alive.
[Chorus - 2x]
Mr. Peace of Mind
Daily grind
Music, please…
Easy, you and I -
But somehow I find
This pretty predicament every time.
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5. |
To Be Human
04:19
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Here I stand alone
Like a wanderer from seas of the unknown
Bring me back around
To connections that we’ve lost from looking down
Are you satisfied?
All the clicking into screens of painted lives
Spokes inside a wheel
Disconnected from the physical I fear
Chorus:
To be human
Something’s gone away…
To be human
Something’s gone away…
(repeat)
People standing by
Unaware of one another at their sides
Hooked into a feed
Filter out the things that we don’t want to see
But what don’t we see?
Chorus:
To be human
Something’s gone away…
To be human
Something’s gone away…
(repeat)
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Lia Menaker Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mixing elements of pop and R&B with buckets of soul, Lia Menaker creates minimalist electronic arrangements with expressive, haunting vocals that delve deep into the core of unfiltered emotion.
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