1. |
Empty Shells
04:01
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Empty Shells
We come across another force we’ll overcome again
With the memory of the lives we’ve lost still fresh in our heads
While we divorce our inner selves
Our empty shells, no one can tell
We then declare our fear not there for another bout of strength
No use flying away from here migrating to someplace else
While we divorce our inner feelings
Our empty shells, no one can tell
No one can tell
In a matter of 50-odd years, change is now my friend
The things I hate become the things I love, imploding upon themselves
While we implore our inner selves
Our empty shells, no one can tell
No one can tell
No one can tell that we hide ourselves so well
Sure we do
No one can tell that we hide ourselves so well
Sure we do, sure we do and so we do
So we survive another force of nature again
No outbreak of another pandemic would eviscerate what’s left
While we divorce our inner selves
Our empty shells, no one can tell
No one can tell
No one can tell that we hide ourselves so well
Sure we do
No one can tell that we hide ourselves so well
Sure we do, sure we do and so we do
Despite another forced plateau, I’d stay here
I know we’ve been living with fear, living with paranoia
What is Singapore without paranoia?
Oh well
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2. |
Isolation
03:54
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Isolation
Sitting helplessly here
I’m waiting
I’m waiting
I’m hoping
Waiting for your call
Call
Call
Call me baby
You’re in I
I
I
Isolation
And I’m way
Way
Way
Way over here
I’m worried sick
If you’d be okay
If you’d be okay
Still I’m helplessly here
I’m waiting
I’m waiting
And hoping
That you’d call
Call
Call
Call me baby
You’re still in I
I
I
Isolation
And I’m trying
Trying
Trying
Trying to be calm
I’m writing this song
I’m shaping this song
All over again
I’m rewriting this song
I’m reshaping this song
To keep my mind sane
Now I know
Know
Know
Know that you’re fine
All the weight
Weight
Weight
Lifts from my mind
And what’s left of this song
Song
Song
Becomes a memory
Of the time
Time
Time
Capsulized
I can see it in your eyes
Don’t apologize
Baby you’d be fine
Counting down the days
Days
Days
Before I can see you
Counting down the days
Days
Days
Before I can see you
‘Cause I can’t get you out
Out
Out
Out of my mind
You’re in I
I
I
Isolation
You’re in I
I
I
Isolation
And so am I
I
I
In isolation
I’m so glad you’d be fine babe
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3. |
Insignificant Revenant
04:19
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Insignificant Revenant
I can see everything from way up here
I feel like a mountain, there are no mountains here
Now I’m towering 40 storeys up
I denounce all of the pressure, I swallow it up
Living tall these days tipping Mount Faber
I’m a small ant anyway
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
I’ll adopt and bite and steal and appropriate
As long as your culture’s on display, I’ll imitate
I brag and I boast, and still I struggle to reach the top
The rarefied air up there, sure I’ll self-destruct
Living tall these days tipping Bukit Timah
I’m a small ant anyway
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
I miss living closer to the ground
I miss the birds chirping just above me
I just sold my flat, I can’t wait to move away from here
Enough of the fumes, what’s with the wind blowing my brains out?
Blowing my brains out
I can imagine an apocalyptic scene
Dreaming a daymare, dream-streaming unconscious streams
Alternate realities escaping away from me
I want to be close to the ground here
And have a real phantasmagoria
I’m going home, way home, I’m going home
Living far away
Phantasmagoria
Lives inside my head
Insignificant Revenant
Living far away
Phantasmagoria
Lives inside my head
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
I may have been dead but I’m back again
I was top of the world now I’m insignificant
Looking at ground zero, I’ve lost everything
You can have my ego, I don’t need that thing
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
Insignificant Revenant
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4. |
Inside of You
03:53
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Inside of You
You’re beautiful
But better still
You’re beautiful inside
I wish the world could have the will
To see the colours in your mind
It’s unusual someone like you
Don’t fall for the usual trappings
Makes it so magical
How these particles
Of you are glowing around you
You’re beautiful inside your head
You’re beautiful inside your head
And you radiate
Light beams emanating from you
And you permeate
Every aching fiber of my being feels you
Somehow you helped me
To see the error of my ways
Somehow you showed me
The strength to look myself in the face
You’re beautiful inside your head
You’re beautiful inside your head
No one really wants to know about
Some sad story
Everybody’s got one
Everybody’s lonely
Everybody feels sad and alone
That’s what you been saying to me
Let those feelings flow right through you instead
No use holding onto every little sorrow
Every little pain has a weight
Beautiful inside your head
You’re beautiful inside your head
You’re beautiful inside your head
So beautiful inside
And you radiate
Good vibes emanating from you
And you eradicate
And transcend the vain trappings of life
No one really wants to know about
Some sad story
Everybody’s got one
Everybody’s lonely
Everybody feels sad and lonely
So sad and lonely
Everybody’s lonely
Some sad story
Everybody’s got one
Just stop feeling sorry for yourself
That’s what you been saying to me
Let those feelings flow right through you instead
No use holding onto every little sorrow
Every little pain has a weight
Just be beautiful
Inside of you
Just be beautiful
Inside of you
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5. |
On the Edge of my Noise
03:55
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On the Edge of my Noise
Went by Normanton
I haven’t been there for a while, it’s gone
The glory of what it once was
Who will remember?
‘Cause photographs won’t do
Mementos won’t do
Don’t fake it
There’s nothing that can capture its vibe
No camera phone can do it
Now I’m here on 33, going by A.Y.E., feeling loopy
With just another downer
One more won’t matter
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It’s just another downer
One more won’t matter
What difference does it make?
When you destroy what we created
It’s okay, it’s over-rated
It’ll be over in a day or two
It’s just another downer
One more won’t matter
Twenty years have gone by
I’ve got no feeling
I’m disillusioned
I’m way past numb
I was already there on the edge of my noise
Not a worry or care for the shades left behind
Then I suddenly see with awakened eyes
Something I once had believed in and now I do not
Nor will I believe in the seal that I broke
While none of them answered, none of them spoke
My friends at home seemed like they were dead
So when I left them, I didn’t feel
I followed the train tracks all the way here
Crossed the threshold to this bare oak
Overlooking the edge of the sea
The ends of the earth is oblivious to me
I took the dirty pathway up this mountainside
It opened up the sky
And the noise faded away from my ears
The ringing finally stopped
So I sat down
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6. |
Burden on a Hill
05:06
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Burden on a Hill
Don’t think we’ll be wiser today
Time’s around the corner in a daze
We walk with our shoulders wide open
And float across the oceans like deities
Oh lord, maybe I might fail
To see but I don’t see too well
Say what you want and what you will
But I’m here
To lay my burden on a hill
Lay my burden on a hill
My burden
Oh what the hell!
There’s hardly an illusion we’re used to
Clearly a distortion of the truth
But in this world of blowhard giants
The powerless observers are silent
Oh lord, maybe I might fail
To see but I don’t see too well
Say what you want and what you will
But I’m here
To lay my burden on a hill
Lay my burden on a hill
My burden
Oh what the hell!
I’ll lay my burden
Up on a hill
I’ll lay my burden
Up on a hill
I’ll lay my burden
Up on a hill
I’ll lay my burden
Up on a hill
Why do I find myself still weighed down here?
With my burden on the hill?
My burden
Oh what the hell!
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7. |
Existential
05:35
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Existential
You got me home here sitting in my armchair
You got my eyes subscribed and fixated on a four-wheeler
And every channel gets me riding high on a road-trip
to some forever lost and confused twisting of my paid vision
Who am I?
Are you “you” too?
Who am I?
Are you “you” too?
You feel existential with every scene change
You got your phone out, fingers all shot, you’re exhausted
You drag your shoes across the scum and moss on the concrete
And every better excuse has been used on both your parents
Forever lost to a lost cause
Bet your last coin on it
Who am I?
Are you “you” too?
Who am I?
Are you “you” too?
Who am I?
Are you “you” too?
Who am I?
Are you “you” too?
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8. |
Into the Valley
05:24
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Into the Valley
Long before our time
There was a friend of mine
Who told of a future a lot like today
What kind of frame of mind does one need to be in?
To see beyond the mundane concerns
of this day-to-day existence?
We live simply
With simple concerns
I’ll play the game if you let me
I’ll follow you, follow you
Into the valley
Into the valley
I’m afraid to philosophize
For my simple mind may break down
For its pathways are unprepared
For the speed my thoughts would fill my head
There’s a full moon out, don’t feel alright
There’s a curfew on just stay tonight
We live simply
Our simple existence
It’s not that my faith has died
Just unafraid by this mountainside
We live simply
With simple concerns
I’ll play the game if you let me
I’ll follow you, follow you
I’ll follow, follow you
Into the valley
I’ll follow you
Into the valley
Into the valley
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9. |
Singaporean
06:02
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Singaporean
I’m Singaporean
I was born here
Long before this shore was formed
But sometimes I feel
I’m not so sure anymore how I’m Singaporean?
Look how the trees they fall
Carried away to where no one hears their call
So how do we feel about this?
Well I’m not so sure anymore
Is this really Singapore?
Is this Singapore?
Other than the real people in the sand
The rest are very far
Far removed from where we are
Other than the good will of family and friends
The rest are nebulous
Up in the foggy universe
And I feel like nobody
And I feel like nobody
As Singaporeans
We’re allowed to have a say about the things around here
But all around here is lost to us
Or maybe stolen like the shores
Like the shores of Singapore
Like the shores of Singapore
Other than the real people in the sand
The rest are very far
Way up in the stars
Other than the good will of family and friends
The rest are nebulous
Up in the foggy universe
And I feel like nobody
And I feel like nobody
I’m Singaporean
I belong here
Every skin, colour and flaw
I wish all of us courage above all
Take it easy Singapore
Live not a little but a lot
Take it easy Singapore
Take it easy Singapore
Live not a little but a lot
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LESLIE LOW Singapore
Am I afraid of baring my soul, of letting you know all my innermost feelings?
Gone into myself again. Trust myself to lead the way. When duality's erased, I'll be whole again.
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