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Your Favourite Colour
02:33
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As long as I can remember, you’ve always loved the colour purple,
Even as we’re speaking now it sits and shimmers on your nails.
Last month I, fell off of my skateboard and black gravel tore up my skin,
I think it’s because I lost my focus, my life was just too much to take in,
I was spread so thin.
So wrap me up,
I’ll hold you tight, like your favourite purple sweater,
I’ll keep you warm and keep you sheltered from this awful Melbourne weather
let me be your favourite colour,
Won’t you pick me every time,
So I can cherish every moment, every second that you’re mine.
I’d turned an awful shade of blue by the time I saw the doctors,
I was quickly rushed away, I was patched up and put on oxygen,
When I started to heal and watched my wounds all turn to scars,
I thought I was glad to have you beside me, and that you never stray too far from my side.
Now I can see the upsides to this stinging skin and memories so hurtful,
Because now my skin has healed and left me a lovely shade of purple
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Waking up to pancakes on Sunday,
With our Pokémon and Video Games, we spent our time determined to waste the day away.
There was 150 I was born to see,
and you were right there learning them next to me,
I got this tattoo on my side that’s why.
Hey Dad, I miss you greatly,
But when I catch a Nidoran in a Master Ball I know you’ll be there to save me
Hey Dad, we know you’re happy where you are,
and we’re happy that you’re happy, it just sucks that you’re so far away.
I’ve always been proud that I reflect you like I do,
Because when I think of growing up, I think I want to be like you,
And I’ve got enough Dad Jokes to last for my kids and grandkids,
And I’ll pass them as my own, but I’ll smile because they’re his.
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Old Beyond Your Years
04:10
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Days seemed much longer when we were younger,
but I’m not ready to fall asleep,
I won’t stand Idly by and watch you fade away,
We’re not getting old
I know we’re not 15 anymore,
Spin the bottle and sugar rushes don’t quite fulfil our needs,
We’re chasing the same ends just with different means,
So no, I won’t call it a night.
I Listened to those songs, I’m not sure what they meant,
I miss the days when we’d get drunk on youthful exuberance
Lately It seems like you’re trapped inside your head,
You’d rather stay at home than go and see your friends.
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I'm Not Racist But
03:15
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I'm proud to live in Australia,
I'd say about half the time,
The weather's sick and the people treat me alright,
but to tell you the truth, that might have something to do with the fact that I'm male and white.
They say, "I'm not racist but"
Maybe the're a little under-educated,
Maybe that's the way that they grew up.
I'm not racist but,
That's just the way they feel, they don't care how you feel,
Mate, I'm pretty sure that's not good enough.
All these kid's in their country towns,
With their backwards views upon this country's racial makeup
I met a few where I grew up,
And if I tell you the truth, they're just as scared as you,
When you think about it, that's pretty fucked up because.
I wrote this song not to sympathise with the way that xenophobes treat the xenophiles,
Rather to suggest that we educate rather than ostracise,
That's just the way I see it, so take it as you will,
I'm just a stupid kid living in the hills,
But I'm pretty sure that these people don't think they're in the wrong.
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Left Behind
03:10
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I’ve got a Long way to go before I finish my degree,
and to be entirely honest, the future scares the shit right out of me,
I’m going in circles while all my friends are making great strides,
Will a piece of paper make me happy when I’m about to fucking die?
I want to travel, I want to see the world,
I want to fuck right off with this gorgeous girl that somehow made her way into my life
But when you’re working Eight days a week,
and your study keeps you up and you can’t get to sleep,
because you’ve got three essays due in the next two days, It doesn’t seem so easy.
And when you’re working Eight days a week,
and your mother says that she can’t get to sleep,
because she’s scared of what’s going on in your life, It doesn’t seem so easy.
Don’t get me wrong, I really love what I do,
I’m lucky to live in a country among the privileged few,
that get the chance to pursue education in something they’re truly passionate about.
but when I tell myself that at night it doesn’t keep me from freaking out ,
about my seeming lack of progress or my stagnation in this position,
or the way that I’m always broke because I spent my money on tuition.
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Apprehensive Emerald, Australia
Apprehensive is an alternative acoustic musical project.
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