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Smile
04:03
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Look upon your own face
Wait until you’re young again
Is it better?
Is it right?
Every word you say
Who am I now to decide?
I could never tell
Right from wrong
Left from right
You’re so hard to find
Smiling, just keep smiling, yeah
Smiling, keep on smiling now
Read about parallel worlds
Those behind the mirrors
Only a smile can get you there
But we’re still stuck in here
Stand in front the mirror
Now I understand why you won’t cry
But always smile
You’re still hard to find
Smiling, just keep smiling, yeah
Smiling, keep on smiling now
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Start Another War
04:57
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You think, you think before you speak
And watch, yeah watch your every step
Before you lose your path,
You’d burn it all down to the ground
And set it all on fire
Before, before you leave the room
You take everyone with you
You reach their hands
And pull them carefully away from here
Until there’s no one left
Will someone wake us
And tell us to get ready
Will someone shake us
Is it too late already?
I think I need another broadcast,
I think I need a different star
At least a writer who manages the truth
Let’s start, let’s start another war
Bigger and better than the ones before
You walk up to that stage
And take the microphone into your hands
And sing your lullaby
Soon we all might be amused
And tell our children what to do
To save the truce
We start all over again
Maybe this time we’ll reach the end
And blow ourselves away
Will someone wake us
And tell us to get ready
Will someone shake us
Is it too late already?
I think I need another broadcast,
I think I need a different star
Or at least a writer who manages the truth
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Remember
03:50
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While optimism never fails
Your stoicism can accept
Perfect ideas
All has been solved
That nihilist who doesn’t care
Relativist says it’s all fair
Books full of thoughts
Word after word
It has been said too many times
We might be deaf
We might be blind
What are we claiming?
When did it start?
Guess it even has been written in stone
Everything moves on I guess
Not everybody’s wrong with that
All we ever had is right
Not all we ever shared is bad
Every single day you choose
Your own little ways, you see
Whatever you decide is worth
To try and try again
What else is there to do?
Some of it might
Not be for us
Some of it can be
Never undone
Much of it hurts
Most of it kills
Do you still remember how
Some of it heals?
You can’t deny
We take our part
In what is tearing
This world apart
Everything moves on I guess
Not everybody’s wrong with that
All we ever had is right
Not all we ever shared is bad
Every single day you choose
Your own little ways, you see
Whatever you decide is worth
To try and try again until
You‘ll see it for yourself one day
At least that is what they all say
Not sure if I’m still on that way
Not sure if I’ll remember that
So help me to remember that
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Music Clips
03:49
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Someone breaks the dishes
He seems to have a very good time
A girl sits on a bed an cries
Hot whips under hot hips, well
Can’t stop watching music clips
High-school diploma, Janes come to grips
Naked on the rapper’s lap
I can’t stop watching music clips
Ambitious young band, products smashed
They have been manufactured by some
Underpaid and lonesome drinking pals
In constant fear of dying
Can’t stop watching music clips
Pissed and waiting for the apocalypse
When they roll their own
And read boyish strips
I can’t stop watching music clips
A jolly’s lit by a hundred-dollar bill
Fireworks, explosions, car rides
Wedding in white, boys in freedom
Girls they aren’t, no, girl’s they aren’t
Can’t stop watching music clips
They bring on some new relationships
Am I deaf? No, I’m just reading lips
I can’t stop watching music clips
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5. |
No One's Laughing
02:58
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When did you start to be so old?
Was it on your first or last day of school?
When did you start to act so responsible?
Hear you saying the same old words
See you playing no different game
Feel your heart still beating the same way
All along
Are you okay?
Can you still tell?
Please mind my mind
If no one really knows
And no one ever gets there
How long are we supposed to
Laugh about the same joke
If no one really knows
We might as well be doing okay
Doing okay
You’ve been saying you know where to go
You’ve been showing us
We thought you’d know
But really you don’t seem to have a clue now
Oh, ain’t that right?
Are you okay?
Can you still tell?
Please mind my mind
Doing okay
No one’s laughing
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Reply
03:24
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Now I made a first impression
I wouldn’t make another one
Me, I don’t feel like I’ve got an option
Never had an urge to reply
Oh, this silly moon is still up high
And the sunny days passing by
Roll another one for the road
And the rainy days are still on hold
Thought I’d made a good impression
Thought I’d had another chance
Me, I don’t want you to reject me
Never had the courage to cry
Never had the courage to reply
Oh, this silly moon is still up high
And the sunny days passing by
Roll another one for the road
And the rainy days are still on hold
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7. |
Work Alone
04:01
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Me, I work alone
Me, I'd rather come undone
I don't remember
Don't remember
What I said
Me, I work alone
Me, I'd rather come undone
I don't remember
I don't remember
What I said
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Hipster Dad
04:24
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Start again, fading in
Tumbling isn’t bad
To remain on the ground
Is what they had in mind
Better way, better choice
Better everything
Is what they say, it’s what you buy
It’s what you sell yourself
You do it now, you did it before
Start all over again
Wait until you will find
Something isn’t right
They will wait for you to step
Step into their lights
They will prove that we are wrong
Cause we’re the ones who hide
I’m a rambler
The drunk waiter offers me old bread
I’m drunk and satisfied
My expectations have reached a new low
My happiness a new high
The pale soul of plastic chairs
The plastered ground
The hipster dad
You do it now, you did it before
Start all over again
Wait until you will find
Something isn’t right
Better way, better choice
Better everything
Is what they say, it’s what you buy
It’s what you sell yourself
I’m a rambler
The drunk waiter offers me old bread
I’m drunk and satisfied
My expectations have reached a new low
My happiness a new high
The pale soul of plastic chairs
The plastered ground
The hipster dad
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Sleepwalkers
04:19
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With everything I do
I hope you’re fading away
With every season changing
I am waiting for rain
With every raindrop falling
I’m expecting to change
Still everything remains the same
I run out of plans
I run out of plans
With every new day
Waiting for some clouds
Waiting for the rain to come
While late at night
You visit me in my dreams
Still try to get away from you
Sleepwalking
And every road I walk s
Seems I’ve seen before
With every turn I take
I get lost even more
And everybody I meet
I don’t want to shake hands with
And every song I hear
I don’t want to sing along
With every new day
Waiting for some clouds
Waiting for the rain to come
While late at night
You visit me in my dreams
Still try to get away from you
Sleepwalking
Sleep
Let me dream
I don’t want
Don’t want to sleepwalk anymore
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10. |
Now & Then
02:30
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Useful thoughts of good fights bad
Might not what is in my head
Every now and then I understand
Wish I’d just shut up instead
Stepping out and catch some time
Like a bluebird floating up ahead
Like a dream
I forget to use my words
Now I’m starting to
Words I’ve lost been waiting for years
Yeah, waiting for me
Yeah, waiting for
Now I’d like to start again
What you want me not to do
Overhead, everyone understands
Things might not just be as good
Bring back foals from your childhood
Like a snake
It’s moving underneath
Like a dream
I forget to use my words
Now I’m starting to
Words I’ve lost been waiting for years
Yeah, waiting for
I was just me, yeah
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11. |
Electricity
03:54
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I’ve seen them walking by day after day
I saw them moving away
And though I told them
Not to travel by night
I guess it’s just what they do
And since they all are gone
I follow the night through dawn
To break on through
Because I love the life I try not to think
About all the harm it can do
Though I’m not far from it
I can feel inside of me, electricity
I thought about
All those charged particles
That run through you and me
And though I don’t look back
I know they’re right behind me
On their way to find me
Guess now I look back
But I can’t see a sign
Believing might be easy
Knowing might be nothing
Nothing I can see
Because I love the life I try not to think
About all the harm it can do
Though I’m not far from it
I can feel inside of me, electricity
I thought about
All those charged particles
That run through you and me
I saw the units
On my own
Electroencephalogram
I don’t know
What they’re measuring
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12. |
Cracks
04:12
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Find and choose another broken crack
What else is there for you to see
What else is left for you to feel
What else is there for you to say
While life is tearing you apart
Let’s try to be real this time
Been laying it out for you to take
It’s hard not to see the cracks
Been pulling apart by time
And while I adored your life
It’s easy enough to look away
Keep digging it up again
Beneath your skin
Begin to peel away the many layers
Keep digging up what has been lost
What hides beneath your thickened skin
What makes it hard for you to breathe
What has been drowned in time again
Let’s try to be real this time
Been laying it out for you to take
It’s hard not to see the cracks
Been pulling apart by time
And while I adored your life
It’s easy enough to look away
Keep digging it up again
Beneath your skin
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Would Hamburg, Germany
Would is the solo project of Palila singer/guitarist Matthias Schwettmann. The project is best described as the little,
introverted brother of his main band.
The debut album “Be Okay To Not Be Okay” is due on February 23rd, 2024.
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Would recommends:
The upcoming record "Mind my Mind" is our best work so far. We put lots of thoughts, effort and time in the recordings and worked with Ron & Ritchie from K-Klangstudio in Hamburg, Germany.
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