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Mark Twain

by Shelf Lives

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We’re in an age of self-expression which comes hand-in-hand with opinion. We’re being told by each other who we can and can’t be, what we can and can’t feel and how to express it. Our second single, Mark Twain, is a, sort of, commentary on the confusion and complexity this behaviour creates of something meant to be genuine and authentic. It becomes safer to be emotionless, or at least perceived as, but as we waste these moments of vulnerability and expression a resentment and sadness build. This inevitable leads to the disassociation with these “new norms” and potentially social isolation.

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I get the feeling and I get the love but I can’t get the words out
I get the feeling and I get the love but I can’t get the words out

Preachers standing tall on the box selling words, I can’t relate. Ay.
I cannot care for the love that is on display, I say. Ay.
Witches on my case, showin’ up, what a shame I can’t relate.
Hiding their face under miles of lace, what’s the aim? Mark Twain.

I get the feeling and I get the love but I can’t get the words out
I get the feeling and I get the love but I can’t get the words out

Who are they to say we like fame, enough
There’s no praise, we don’t imitate.
You can never blame enough, there’s no change
They’re not who they say
I’m done for the day. Ay.

Preachers standing tall on the box selling words, I can’t relate. Ay.
I cannot care for the love that is on display, I say. Ay.

I get the feeling and I get the love but I can’t get the words out
I get the feeling and I get the love but I can’t get the words out

Haven’t been out for years.

I get the feeling and I get the love but I can’t get the words out
I get the feeling and I get the love but I can’t get the words out

It’s a moment you wasted, you hated.
You wanted some meaning, it’s over, you’re fiending
You’re screaming your fomo.
You’re peeling the layers
Revealing the chaos, revealing the chaos.

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released January 29, 2022
Label: Not Sorry Mom Records
Written By: Sabrina Di Giulio, John Hillyard, Paul Frazer
Produced By: John Hillyard, Paul Frazer

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