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The Rhythm & Colour of Folk Modern (or songs on the nature of self​-​hatred as a form of beauty)

by Carl Philip Louis

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(pink sky) On a Cold Night 02:42
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Pink sky at dawn wish you'd not been born Pink sky at eve you'll never leave Pink sky at dusk never any luck Pink sky today you'll never play On a cold night Beauty grates the eye of he who is beholden Strength is in the barrel sent to bury all the fallen Romance lays a flower on the grave of lust Courage is the dagger vengeance is the thrust On a cold night
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Concrete Lake 03:20
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By the water By the walls Shimmering Partitioning I'm drawn Into a time Into a place My own concrete lake In which to swim or to drown I haven't yet made up my mind By the valley By the well Sprawling and quivering I fell Into a land Into an age My own concrete lake In which to swim or to drown I haven't yet made up my mind By the river In the city Respiring and weeping I'm tired of a world so Obsolete These concrete lakes but puddles at my feet On which to dance Or Splash Or Burn Or Crash By the people By the space I'm in my own concrete lake My own concrete lake
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Slowly Going Crazy (I Like It) 03:08
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Help me, I'm slowly going crazy and I like it To lazy to notice the world's passing by My memories melt into lies Help me, I'm slowly going crazy and I like it So maybe the world's passing by My melodies melt into time I'm lying in my bed Sick of staring at the wall A thousand voices in my head Surely I can't be them all I'm crying in the streets Staring at the pavement Down on my knees and I'm going to hell Help me, I'm slowly going crazy and I like it They wonder if i'm still alive Maybe I am in their minds Help me I'm slowly going crazy and I like it I'm slowly going crazy and I like it
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A Semblance of Sense 04:08
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A semblance of sense Assembling a scent so sweet Resemblance is dense I can't quite comprehend it's taste It's taste It's not that I'm not like you It's not that we're not the same I look in the mirror with shame Not for what I see Nor for who I am Only for the presence of a hand on my back Sentencing past tense But my mistakes remain to be tamed To be tamed It's not that I'm not like you It's not that we're not the same I look in the mirror with pain It's not that I'm not like you It's not that we're not the same I look in the mirror to blame Not what I see Nor who I am Only those things I never grasped in my palm
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Am I Song? 04:46
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Do you know what day it is and what we have to do? Don't you roll your eyes again it really isn't you I can feel it in my bones that there could be so much more But I've got too much time to reflect I'll meet you by the front and show you round the town See where I lived and where I used to hang around I was but a child you were but a girl I dreamed of being wild and free There comes a point in time you know it has to change Tear up all the previous and learn how to behave Can you see it in my eyes I used to be deranged I'm not sure I can keep all this up It's not so unusual to be all that you hate For hate is just a love that didn't know it's fate If you know it's meaning then you know it's worth the wait Please don't give up on yourself, please don't give up on me Can you see I'm not okay, I'm not so sure myself Please listen to my heartache before it takes my health I don't wanna cry when you are in my arms I don't wanna die but for each man it comes There comes a point in time you know it has to change Tear up all the previous and learn how to behave Can you see it in my eyes I used to be deranged I'm not sure I can keep all this up It's not so unusual to be all that you hate For hate is just a love that didn't know it's fate If you know it's meaning then you know it's worth the wait Please don't give up on yourself, please don't give up on me Please don't give up on yourself, please don't give up on me
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Fallow Land 04:14
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Hungry but I'm off food, Tired but I cant sleep Happy but I'm so sad Still searching for relief Don't ask me why I cry Don't worry over me A thousand yards I stare and stare For place I can be be free Does the moon still shine When the river's running dry Does the truth still lie at the horizon When the night sky can glisten over future memories No more hiding in the blackened Fallow land Never thought to mention you never thought to ask go in our own directions but will it ever last should we be together will we love apart can we give those special times the right place in our heart Hungry but I'm off food, Tired but I cant sleep Happy but I'm so sad Still searching for relief Don't ask me why I cry Don't worry over me A thousand yards I stare and stare For place I can be be free Does the moon still shine When the river's running dry Does the truth still lie at the horizon When the night sky can glisten over future memories No more hiding in the blackened Fallow land Do you listen to your heart or do you run and hide away scared to see the real you you bury it in shame Have you come so far that you fear turning around the distance lost is but acres to gain if the mysteries unwound. Hungry but I'm off food, Tired but I cant sleep Happy but I'm so sad Still searching for relief Don't ask me why I cry Don't worry over me A thousand yards I stare and stare For place I can be be free Does the moon still shine When the river's running dry Does the truth still lie at the horizon When the night sky can glisten over future memories No more hiding in the blackened Fallow land No more hiding in the blackened Fallow land
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Don't Say Prayers 02:58
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Don't you say a prayer for me Don't you say your prayers I said it all day long I'm not going out in the rain I don't wanna see the hills are agreen Just take me to my grave I know you got it dug Just in case your numbers came up I'm not angry i'm not sad I'm not numb to this sweet world I'm just lost as I've never been before Lost like I've never been before Don't you say a prayer for me Don't you say your prayers Don't you send your prayers to God He ain't never answered once before

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The Rhythm & Colour... is a record of failure.

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released May 26, 2023

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Carl Philip Louis England, UK

Folk-Punk Free Jazz mandolinist and sing/shouter of anarcho-romance poetry

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