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Motion
05:05
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I am a moving image
I exist in my conversation The glass cannot hold me
I flow through gesticulations
So I’ll look in glances
Check the teeth and bangs and move on The mirror is unkind
And I don’t need that image on my mind
I am perpetual motion
I will not be ironed out
Flat the mirror may see me That cannot be me
I am always in motion
I am a colour picture
Carefully gradated; my shades and tones Can flatter or delate me
So I fall back on monochrome
The snapshots inform me
How my laughter presents; you look so crazy I cannot change that
So I don’t need that image on my mind
I am perpetual motion
I will not be ironed out
Flat the mirror may see me That cannot be me
I am always in motion
Take a breath
Let it out
Let it go
Fill a breath
Full of doubt
Let it flow away from you
Let them know
You are here
You are whole
Never mind what you cannot control
I am perpetual motion
I will not be ironed out
Flat the mirror may see me
That cannot be me
I am always in motion
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2. |
Indecent Exposure
04:25
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It never used to be so loud
She’d go to clubs and see the shows that don’t begin before lock out
It never used to matter that you can’t hold a conversation
and anyway she wanted to feel that hot hand in the small of her back
A question in gesture
A sweaty proposal
A drunken suggestion
Indecent exposure
Do people change or just get older?
The venison that once was dear
Stealthily buoyed up in the bow
Cleverly smoothed down in the rear
She came to play the game but now the aim is getting hazy
How can it be the loser is the one heading home alone
A stifling closeness Humidity rising
A fruity cologne is Hardly inspiring
Do people change or just get older?
I guess either way we must get older
If anything she knows too much
She’s never been one to hurl her guts then get back on the blended scotch
A paralysing sense of failure assails her
As she takes the average age of every prospect in this bar
A desperate delusion
Has kept her til last call
Impending seclusion
With some drunken asshole
A slurry persuasion
The sin of her choosing
She used to be able
Be able to do this
She used to be able
Be able to do this
Be able to do this
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3. |
No Limit
04:19
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There is a limit on my time
There is a limit on my patience
But there is no limit on my love for you
It goes on and on
Over the years I’ve paired it down
Excised unwanted acquaintances
Now I know who I owe my loving to
and it goes on and on
Humbling confession I’d a stumble at the start
Wrong cues, maybe
Shall I learn my lesson and possess a fuller heart
Play through
Forgive me I’ve been slow to apprehend
All I’ve been needing lies in you, my friend
Guilty my thoughts as worlds divide
Distance the enemy, I’m traitorous
Absence I owe it to, showing how our bond endures
On and on
So I’ll gladly give to you my time
And you are free the try my patience
But keep taking all my love for you
Cos it goes on and on
Why have I a fear of signing in and dialling you
It’s all skewed, lady
I stymied my revival by suppressing all my blues
With you
Forgive me I’ve been slow to apprehend
All I’ve been needing finds it’s kin and brooks a softening
in your revelations, oh, they ease my mind
Trouble shared, trouble halved
You’ve drawn and quartered mine
Forgive me, I’ve indulged too long in feeling grey
How can I hold on to this glow until the close of the day?
Play through, you won’t leave me behind
Play through, I’ll catch up
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4. |
Love Child
05:53
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Sorrow comes prefabricated
Burrows through your memories to begin it
Finding fuel it has used
Time and again
Time and again
Sorrow knows your limit
The hollow hull of a dream boat
can buoy the spirit
Can take your mind of it
for a minute
Though you know sorrow and joy intertwine
Still memories chaff and chide
When your cloud’s got no silver line
You’ve got to wait to meet the love child
Hiding with rosy lens the memories
that you swore time would never defuse
Lamented tattoos
Lovers lie,
they’re only, only human
Though we may imbue them
with our ideal ideology
They’re only
Lovers leave
they don’t stay, stay in love
You don’t say
Let them go
You may never justify the heartache
But was it a mistake?
Don’t you know, recollections can be revised
History is fluid
May your malady reconcile
troubles you need to birth the love child
Feed it a constant flow of regret
Trickling into the pool
Tipping in typical fuel
Should have never left the house
Should have never taken that call
Should have never left him and her alone
when it was so damn obvious
Would have never bet the farm
Would have never suffered the fall
Would have never noticed his selfish motives
hidden in the haze of lust
Governed every action made
Left her questioning her own mind
Put her in a corner chained by the thought
that she should not expect too much
Although it took time to see
Infidelity set her free
To release the brake and get into
something great
Would never have known
Would never have seen
Would never have shown
Would never have been
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Prospectus
05:10
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I don’t believe in you
I invented you
You are the spectre of my success
My prospectus
You are the chatter in my mind
Ambitions scatter in my mind
Oh my mind
You are my litter in the ha
My obligation every day
Every day
I don’t believe in you
But I talk about you all the time
You are the advent of my ascension
My intention
You are a bubble in my mind
You are the source, a trouble mine
Oh my mind
You are my purpose and my plague
Had I religion I would pray
your visions away
Been about, been not a lot yet
Seen the page turn, before I’ve sketched out the silhouette
Hardly, wet the nib yet
Tell me now,
Is there another way to live my life
Is there a better way to spend my time
Is there a better way to be okay
with the idea of the future
I don’t believe in you
But that matters less and less
Each trivial conquest resurrects
My prospectus
My inner monologue maligns
Your motivating party line
Oh my mind
You’re a prediction of a debt
My predilection for regret
is stonily set
Just walking backwards down the road
Hailing whoever passes
Hitching whatever slows
Avert my eyes from the horizon
Iff’n I ever get there
Guessin’ then I will know
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Nomika Brisbane, Australia
Nomika is a Brisbane based nu-soul/fusion band. The 8 piece line up, fronted by award winning
vocalist Megan
Crocombe, draws upon broad influences including Hiatus Kaiyote, Vulfpeck and
Anderson .Paak to produce sensational grooves laced with provoking melodies.
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