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Awkward

from Awkward Awe by Elian Gray

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lyrics

It's like something sick
It's like
It's like scratching the head trying to figure it out
It's like staring at the ground
It's like finding your feet without looking down
It's like the crowd below you screaming "don't look down"
It's like a wink with a scowl
It's like learning to swim
Like learning to drown
It's the little things
So hold it down
It's something else
A self-help book without the help
Something like selflessness without the self
Half amazing
It's the same thing conveyor belts
[It's the same thing conveyor belts]
It's a daydream
It's like Akira waking up
It's like Takashi's face the moment he got snuffed
It's like a wolf in sheep's clothing munching pedigree chum
It's like front-page news about celebrity bums
It's like diamonds
Forever, in the rough
It's as if I didn't play clever dick enough

It's like
I'm fucked if I know
It's like a bucket with holes
It's like winner stays on
I won one in a row
Two two's it's nothing to see it's just something to show
For all those sleepless nights
Squeeze life in between lines on the page
Something to hold when the creek runs dry
And time sneaks by like a thief in the rain
Or a face on the train - Jacobs ladder
Tasteless and vain - Jane and Dada
I don't know what that is but that doesn't matter
I was busy being braggadocious patronising rapper
It's like something ambiguous and deep
Springing a leak
Crack in the hourglass figure of speech
It's little old me
I'm punching in the coordinates
Amidst a smorgasbord of 80s toys and assorted Indian ornaments
Insubordinate
Bored of the tournament
Forced to contort to the laws of conformity
According to sources we saw him consorting with
Forms that he's drawn nothing short of transformative
Or glorious
Reportedly skin crawls at the mere thought of it
Life's been awfully awkward
I've been in awe of all of it

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from Awkward Awe, released August 14, 2020
Written & Produced by Elian Gray
Electric Oud - Noemie Ducimetiere
Cello - Francesca Ter-Berg
Mixed by James Preston
Mastered by Andy ‘Hippy’ Baldwin

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Alternative rap for ageing nerds.

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