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Reverie

from Darkly by Flat Battery

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A song about loneliness and frustration with modern life.

lyrics

This is a story about every
Single person I know
Who've had their tender hearts
Ripped apart and left with a hole

We try and try and yet
Goodbye's the only word we can say
A single sound comes from the ground
It's footsteps leading away

We hope against hope that the
Boat will float even as it rocks
Nothing to do except feel blue
Listening to ticking clocks

Or maybe skydive into someone's life
If we're feeling brave
Or better yet, we'll just forget how we were
Meant to behave

The only thing that saves
Me from caving in
Under these memories
Is this reverie

So, we'll live high-strung and
Will be seen for all the things that we're not
To be a walking coping mechanism
Is what we're taught

Let's trade in self-respect for money
Each and every working day
And on the weekend we'll pretend that
Everything is okay

The only thing that saves
Me from caving in
Under these memories
Is this reverie

Slipping away, just
Sliding away

Trapped in these lives we never chose
A generation that just froze
This is a story about every
Single person I know

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from Darkly, released March 26, 2011

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Flat Battery London, UK

London-based one-man band originally started in Johannesburg, South Africa. Recording music since 2005, many genres and styles have been explored.

Liam Wiser, the person behind this project, also creates electronic music under the name Rectifier: rectifire.bandcamp.com
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