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We Give What We Take

by Lost Bird

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1.
All the Time 04:51
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There's my double again, tough times, a troubled mime am I Stuck in my head, or just stuck between the lines Big names and bigger shows, to move on to better things I know Just give me the pen, I use the same damn pen for signs and shows What am I supposed to do, you're killing me, feeling like I live for you I love living but I don't feel fine, I'm the maker but I feel used up all the time What's better than you, "oh be you but a better you" in line Behind the rest, "as long as its fine, just be everything all the time" All the time, all the time All the time, every time "Dance baby cause I love you, I didn't forget how long I've known you" I'll try to be just fine, cause I think I love you too "You know what you've gotta do, we need the best of you" "That we means me and you, cause you know as well as me you've got too much to lose" "So figure out the best you can", oh I want it I know it's mine Do it all, but do it right, does it mean being everything all the time? All the time, all the time All the time, can you do everything all the time All the time, All the time Why not spend all of the time, it's time to decide
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Tame 05:15
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Feels like money A lion without his mane Crushed and swallowed whole The taste of the fame Each and every one Praised and shamed Heat and pressure They say that's the game Well here's to the fire And here's to the flame I don't fuck around cause I'm no liar I will not be tamed I will not be tamed I will not be tamed Is this desire Is this the feeling of shame This must be ire And the ire is better than the pain Escape this prison I will not remain I'll be the first to leave it all I'll be last to stay I will not be tamed I will not be tamed I will not be tamed I will not be tamed I'll make my own colours I'll make my own shapes I don't fuck around, I'm my own man I will not be tamed I will not be tamed I will not be tamed Too much pressure Too much shame
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We Give What We Take 05:35
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Colour and shape The bounds ourselves we draw The tools yes they may guide us But we make what we saw When the art is perfection Our jaws they hang agape But genius comes from everything We give just what we take We give what we take We give what we take Now I can see that We give what we take We give what we take We give and we take Oh this pressure I've put on myself was some Great mistake I figured I had sold out I figured I was a fraud I must have thought that I could not truly see If it was not through the eyes of God But beauty's what you make of it Observe and then partake There's nothing unoriginal When we give and then we take We give what we take We give what we take We are all that we make And we give just what we take We give what we take We give what we take I ask why cannot I be God I give and I create I've been a child living in his room I've let the sun cause me my pain But now I'll let it all shine through And do with it what I may, so no more shame! We give what we take We give what we take We are all that we make And we give what we take We give what we take We give what we take We are all that we make And we give what we take I am the body, I have the power To be what I create All of the boundaries that I will be okay with I'll give some and I'll take

about

I want you to say as much as you want about this project, and I’ll be happy to indulge myself to your thoughts as much as I’d like.

The presence of influence over one’s art is a depressing thing if you allow yourself to be consumed by it, and it’s a maddening thing if you try to pry yourself from it entirely. This is because, ultimately, you can do neither of these things. This was the more important lesson I’ve learned over the last year, and one that I hope to have conveyed through, fittingly, some art.

Hence the name of this project, and I believe, the solution: Balance. There will always be influences on me and my art, and I will always have my own voice, what matters is how I (or you, or anyone) choose to navigate conscious influence (subconscious influence is simply ever-present, I feel) with my “own choice”. My own choices will be bounded by norms and cultural understandings I might not be able to even perceive, so ingrained as they are in the social fabric as to seem invisible, despite their everpresence. Air-like, almost: it’s impossible not to breathe in. But influenced as I am, I need not resign myself to the sentiment that I’m hopelessly unoriginal: if it feels like it came from me, from somewhere inside of me and expresses a reality that I hope to convey, then I’m happy.

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released April 2, 2019

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