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Echo Chamber
02:03
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Bound to people I've never met
Bound to my compliance in a world that celebrates my power but doesn't really make room for my sadness
Bound to the idea of my submission
bound to platforms that reduce our connections to algorithms.
Bound to be social without leaving the house
Bound to be inspired and constantly have to shout about it.
Bound to our friends who never really try
Bound to a lens that feeds us a lie
because feeling good about ourselves for the sake of insight isn't really the truth
but just a vacuum we're all trapped inside.
Bound to our families and resenting their discourse and learning too late that we're more alike than not.
Bound to the belief we're sold that we should always be dreaming
For more
Even as our hands turn to bones and at the end we scream,
Why didn't we smash our screens?
How much will we give away to something that doesn't really exist?
Because we are all bound to
at some point
feel guilty for it,
but bound to love
bound to light
bound to the little red thread that quivers and holds us together.
Bound to your warmth and trees in the park
Because we are bound to the earth
And that's all that matters.
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Bound
04:20
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Oh, he without some sin, let him come knocking
The devil got my number from my own idle hands
You're the judge and the jury
Disappointment and the fury
Oh, your love knows no bounds
Here's to the chains that bind,
Ties that will know no times let me
Go
The ones with all the strength, twist arms while they kiss my neck
Got my interest in their vision, oh lord I've learned my lesson
You're the judge and the jury
Disappointment and the fury
Oh, your love knows no bounds
Here's to the chains that bind,
Ties that will know no times let me
Go
The fractures in these bloodlines are gladly healed but flawed
The picture's false but taken, nothing is true of sacred any more
You're the judge and the jury
Disappointment and the fury
Oh, your love knows no bounds
Here's to the chains that bind us,
Ties that will know no times let me
Go
Here's to the chains that bind, ties that will know no time, let me
Here's to the chains that bind, ties that will know no time, let me
Here's to the chains that bind, ties that will know no time, let me,
let me,
Go.
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3. |
Hype Machine
02:50
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Black mirror
Show them my true face
As I post in disgrace
It doesn't matter
As long as I'm seen
To be all I'd never believe
Outrage
In your age it doth replace
Facts and figures
Endorse me 'cos I matter
Fickle figures
We dance in your light
Is there enough in my fight to warrant clamour?
Am I sincere enough
To make you fall in love?
Engage
The martyrs of your age
Pull the trigger
We're disengaged always
Steepled fingers
Pray for insight
Sacrifice inside atop the altar
Truth is just a slave turned from sacred to inane
Hype Machine
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4. |
Fountain of Youth
03:30
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There's no fountain of youth, just a mountain of dreams,
I'm bored of being sold a better me.
There's no fountain of youth no lines I can un-crease,
Tear myself apart for the mirrors ease.
Uh, I'm bored.
It's a liars road to agelessness,
got lost on the way 'cos I knew it didn't exist.
Am I worthy of youth, where's my laughter line?
I've been biting at the bit but I swallow it every time.
Uh, I'm bored.
My beauty's out of time and they know.
I, I'm bored, bored of being bought and sold.
Where did I sign to be so undermined?
Just a mouthpiece for fun until I say mine.
There's no fountain of youth, just beautiful untruths,
Telling me I'm not good enough and neither are you.
Uh, I'm bored.
My beauty's out of time and they know,
I, I'm bored, bored of being bought and sold.
Don't let them take what I feel
All that I do makes me real
Not the lines on my face
It's a fucking disgrace
I've been begging all my life to let them steal
Believing all their lies won't make them real.
There's no fountain of youth.
There's no fountain of youth!
There's no fountain of youth!
There's no fountain of youth!
There's no fountain of youth.
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5. |
Missing Me
04:40
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Watching a sad movie scene
Watching grieving mothers scream
Watching borders come between
Watching someone make the team
Knowing someone else got clean
Just something that I'd like to feel
'Cos everything's been feeling grey
Like joy and pain don't wanna stay
For years it seems it's been this way
But I seem ok
I just envy them their release
It's hiding there inside of me
I'm scared one day it will come to be
Uncontained
I'm missing me
Feeling like I don't belong
Hating clothes I've owned so long
Tried to make a mould but I fit wrong
Wonder where the wonders gone?
I hate the mob I hate this song
The words are silent on my tongue
'Cos everything is not the same
I shield my joy and raise my pain
I'm a child of my own make
But I seem ok
I just envy those that just go
I'm so inside my fear now
I'm scared one day I'll never know
I'm missing me.
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YVA London, UK
"There is a truth to [YVA's] voice that veers from unapologetically disturbing to simply sublime. An artist with a profound
mastery of genuine magic.”
-Nitin Sawhney, Ivor Novello Award winning producer, composer, artist, and friend.
My second single, Do Not Descend, from my second EP (out in September), is out now! ✨
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YVA recommends:
A stunning EP from Imogen, a fellow local lass who I adore for her unflinching lyrics and soaring compositions.
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IRAH transports me out of my body and into space. Into Dimensions is a remarkable album that moves your soul- Stine's vocals veer from soaring to spoken to a bare howl at times. The mix/prod. is TOP.
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From the singles she's released over the last year, I'm expecting her forthcoming debut album to be as soaring and dark as the beautiful birds that fly through her painfully reflective music.
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Airy pop songs from this NY group with breezy hooks, wrapped up in sumptuous synths.
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