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you hibernate inside your head where no-one sees your freedom’s dead
you’re causing all your pheremones to show the world you smell alone
you can’t get back the things you love, you try you fail you don’t give up
you can’t create the will to sing and self help books don’t help a thing

you’re holding out for someone kind to come along and change your mind
you dream the same thing every night, the barking dog, the birds in flight
but like to like, your darkened soul still tends towards the darkest hole
where all the comfort you can find’s in tears for what you’ve left behind

someday you’re gonna free yourself and fly away from all this shame
rest down in the fields of kindness, never wonder who’s to blame
pour out in a river of sadness, cool yourself in the gentle rain
listen to your heart beat slowly, love’s a song that you’ll be singing again

you complicate the simple things with thoughts that fly on broken wings
you burn with things you can’t explain, they fight for space inside your brain
you think you’ve found a friend to trust who tells you you should lighten up
and so you wander off alone to the lonely place you’ve made your home

you’re never gonna be your mama’s boy you know
and daddy’s gonna wish he’d put you on ship, sent you on a trip, given you the slip
and every little thing you love you’ve got to let go
cause and effect leads you to the next, nothing to correct, love the effect

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from Guest of my Feelings, released January 4, 2008

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Simon van Gend Band Cape Town, South Africa

Simon and the Band à Parte are an introspective indie/folk/rock band from Cape Town, whose music has been described as a unique blend of folksie foot-tapping red wine fireside poetry. This trio, with Simon on vocals and acoustic guitar, Eric Michot on bass and Ross Campbell on drums, has released 3 albums to date, with a 4th due to be released on 30th June this year. ... more

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