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I'm an Ocean (produced by Hunke)

from Around the Bend by Plainspoke

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about

I'm an Ocean plays both upon my love and longing for the ocean that I've never seen, and also the life that I currently and forever lead.

lyrics

I'm out of breath
climbing up and down the stairs that I step
walking around in circles, talking to pretty girls on the internet
the world's spinning, closer to the sun than it was before it finished
I think I'm done, but torn at forgiveness and giving it my best
I'm born of a different thread, made of less material with more to stretch
Ethereal—a lightness and delicate rightness
a delegate to my ship in the whiteness of ice flows and islands
I divide my time between this and that and combine them

Discombobulate the populace, the spineless swine that you find when you copy this
Everything is only just inside your head, but you stop it with
the time that you spend inside the shit, where everyone is dead
and diamonds don't exist, all the wonders are things you climb up to get
all the good books have been read and writ, the dives serve the best guts and bits
I find the earth destroyed by the tiny words of little boys dressed as gentlemen
the suits are facades, covering up the stench of them

I know my place but I refuse to name it
for fear of it becoming no more safe than the name that I take when
everything's dissolved into the pavement
blue skies are shaming us with our windowless halls
and obsession with the famous, drifting through malls
spending our change on vending machine staples
made in packages of plastic with warning labels
I believe the fables, all the gable-roofed houses, with 2.8 children and a dog
nothing about them ever set off an alarm, no one shouting for their mom
the clouds been off and on, I'm all about them but their gone
moving out west, but I still can't move past the rest of my life
and into the next set of perpetually bad advice
I bite down, cut up my lips, making the right sound,
of the way the pain makes everything around you better than this
I rip away my chains, and drown too, becoming obsolete
a body in a body, two objects, meaning nothing to me
I had a hobby, wanting to make a life out of ABC's
but there's nothing about me, that's particularly spectacular

credits

from Around the Bend, released January 29, 2012
Chorus samples Red Hot Chili Peppers. Beat by HunkE.

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