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Exercise in Futility

by Soft Touch

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1.
microbes 03:32
And you walk around Unforgotten sound Silent infancy Garbage majesty All too fine to say If you want it your way Talking all around just like you like to Hanging in the darkness of your mind Hope doesn't feel like what it used to Hope it's not a hopeless frame of mind But I can't wait to turn back into microbes Where I can take all my precious time
2.
Better Now 03:24
And it's been so long now Over time And your hope is running out But you still have the light In your heart And it's beating full of sound Cleanse your soul of empty sorrow It's better now Hold your head off the ground Cleanse your soul of empty sorrow It's better now All these things will go down
3.
yr a star 03:27
There's a fire Protect your face It's gonna go down And it feels too late And like nothing's gonna come around And like nothing's gonna be for you And all the places that you know about And all the people that you thought you knew You're a star Shadows rolling through the street And I feel like it's gonna come for me 'Cause I feel in the fall, the time around now The cold coming in - the cold coming thru And it bites through your bones Your blood turns to frost And the ice takes hold And your brain turns blue You're a star
4.
u 02:14
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If at first you understand Don't be afraid of future plans For you must seize the day It's all we have anyway Reckless heart Say goodnight Reckless heart Say goodbye If at first you take your time Well then you might just find Your life in a place you understand Your life through a lens not made of sand Reckless heart Tender night Reckless heart Say goodbye
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And in these walls I feel impatient In the air there's a better day The more I read and hear I doubt it But there's no point in dwelling that way And in these walls I feel a hunger For the life of nature's way Is this corrupt Is this feeling A made-up answer to a made-up way Hanging out looking for someone to talk to Always running out of things to say And I'm not sure if that has to do with me Guess it don't really matter either way In the dark now Sitting with my glowing screen As the night kisses away the day Trying to figure what to do with myself So I hold out for a better day
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ALWAYS OVER 03:07
In the streets tonight It's feeding on its own It's getting colder Always colder And I can't hear the light It's always over Always over And in this way of life There's a problem here It doesn't go away When you close your eyes And there's a heartache in this way And I'll crawl into my tomb
9.
Washed Away 02:53
Washed away The visions that we had In our way Together we are mad For too long The movements that we made Hope is gone And now we have to wait Dreamers Don't be afraid We still have our way Until the tide will break Fear not in this day And I would like to help it work But it can be hard to change a thing When people hold back on their heels But change is gonna come and then we'll sink But change is gonna come and then we'll see
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4THECOST 03:34
And on this day Won't go away It's here to stay So make it yours And for the cost Of all this loss You're growing strong This life's not long It's not always Changing always does With you no concern And all we know Is what we sow We can't know all So then we fall
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"Across the world today, our actions testify to our belief that we can go on like this forever, burning oil, poisoning the seas, killing off other species, pumping carbon into the air, ignoring the ominous silence of our coal mine canaries in favor of the unending robotic tweets of our new digital imaginarium. Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovation and endless energy, just as the reality of mortality shocks our casual faith in permanence.”

- Roy Scranton

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released December 14, 2017

All music written, produced, and mastered by Julian K.
Cover image by Julian K.

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