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Mirages (ft. Diatom)

from Fitzcarraldo by Weird Family

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lyrics

Verse One:

Illusions, delusions
Confusion
I Choose when
I'm winnin, or losin
Perspective, directs it
I'm Clued in
Assumin'
I let it
Consume &
Oasis
In faces
Of humans
I knew then
My chest is deep and cavernous
I let these pests inhabit it
Eat me from inside, they ravenous
Attack the passages
Of dreams
And accidents
Bash the passionate
Bones in my back n'
Smash it with'
These acts of passiveness
Imagine
Rubbin' on a lamp like Aladdin
Try to make wishes, but wishes won't happen
Everytime I grab em, they slip through my fingers like sand in my hand and
I'm left stranded
Damn, this…
Is not how I planned it
But how I planned it, was rejected by this planet
Man this, becomes too much to take
Please open my eyes to see the fake

Chorus:

I'm seeing mirages
See an oasis
See my dreams
Vanish right in front of me

Verse two:

Illusions, delusions
A fusion
Abusin
My moods n'
my movement
The crudeness
Life, when it loses its newness
Looks like a noose
Or a nuisance
That loops its
Way into my music
These words that I transmit
Are my only transit
Move from point a to b
Hope they understand this
Talk a lot, but think alot
Quick sand makes me sink in spot
Fly...Icarus
I'm...sick of this
Ambition, crushing my shoulders
Weighing me down
Sit in a position
Far from the crown
Dream of foreign landscapes
If a man is, a man makes
A man gives, a man takes
Reachin' deep
In speech
I leap into this sleep
I seek in cold and heat
I walk on broken feet
Travelin' through life
On the edge of the night
Travelin, I fight
On the edge of a knife
Drift in the hands of my dreams, to bed
Time sifts through the sands of Tibet
Find my mind in the land by the edge
Mapped and planned, climb deep in my head

Bridge:
Why do I?
Why do I?
Why do I?
Chase mirages...

Verse Three:

These mirrors surround me
They try to drown me
Right where they found me
But I am reboundin'
Live life and soundin'
Out to the Alps
And about to be
Houndin'
Truth in the mountains
Live on the ground
But dreams of the clouds be
Seepin' in my chest, while I lay awake
Please open my eyes to see the fake

Chorus:

I'm seeing mirages
See an oasis
See my dreams
Vanish right in front of me

credits

from Fitzcarraldo, released May 20, 2013
Torben - Raps
Kemble - Production

Additional Credits:

Ian Nate - Guitar
Diatom - Chorus (soundcloud.com/diatommusic)

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Weird Family Portland, Oregon

Weird Family is one part Torben (vocalist, Salt Lake City), one part Kemble (producer, Portland). Torben is a filmmaker. Kemble is a technologist.

Their debut EP, 'Fitzcarraldo," was released in 2013. It was inspired by Werner Herzog's film about a man attempting to build an opera house in the jungle.
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