1. |
Under Control
03:29
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Some days you get that feeling
It eats you up inside
You’ve been misunderstood
The truth is buried in lies
Why bother taking time
If they won’t change their minds?
No need to justify
It’s done, so what’s it to yah?
Oh oh don’t get emotional
You’ve got to ride it out
You’ve got a long way to go
Relax, you’ve got it under control
With every mile that passes
You start to understand
What once looked like a mountain
Can fit inside of your hand
It bears a quiet sadness
And now and then you sigh
You know you took your chances
Scars serve to remind
Oh oh don’t get emotional
You’ve got to ride it out
You’ve got a long way to go
Relax, you’ve got it under control
Now it’s said and done
They have our recognition
But the rhythm is right
Et le vent se leve
We’re running ahead
And though the picture can’t get any clearer
Trouble will come around
Try and get you down
Oh oh don’t get emotional
Oh oh don’t get emotional
You’ve got to ride it out
You’ve got a long way to go
You’ve got to ride it out
You’ve got a long way to go
Relax, you’ve got it under control
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2. |
You Get Used to It
03:46
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Ain’t it peculiar, well, don’t you think?
After all the dreaming it turned out this way
It’s all too familiar but it makes no sense
As I’m looking around and feeling out of place
Walking in circles, keeping with the pace
Stumbling lost, cause it all looks the same
Head to my knees saying “you’ll be okay”
Clinging tight to my dignity
Hold on
Don’t Go
Whoa o o o
No turning back now
You’ll work it out somehow
But you’ll never be the same again
No need to get down
You’ll make it out somehow
But you’ll never be the same again
The same again
The same again
I’m wondering, am I gonna make it?
I don’t want to give in
Can’t shake it, I’m sinkin’
Lying in bed and feeling sorry
Tryina get a grip of reality
Won’t cut you a break, you gotta toughen up
Hold on tight to that dignity
Wake up
Just go
Whoa o o o
No turning back now
You’ll work it out somehow
But you’ll never be the same again
No need to get down
You’ll make it out somehow
But you’ll never be the same again
Ooo
Ooo
Ooo
Ooo
Walking my streets and feeling out of place
Back in the world that I knew, do I make any sense?
Lost like a dream forgotten on the way
Hey it’s sort of peculiar, well, don’t you think?
Hey it’s sort of peculiar, well, don’t you think?
Uh you get used to it
Yeah you get used to it
Uh you get used to it
Yeah you get used to it
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3. |
Birds of Paradise
04:11
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Pick up the pieces
Give up your reasons
No need to please ‘em
No no no no no no no
Searching, stealing
What to believe in
In every point of view
A lie lie lie lie lie
Mmhmm birds of paradise
Mmhmm could there be no right?
Build up your temple
Tear down your arsenal
Why live to argue?
Why why why why why why why
Hoping, but honest
This hate will cost us
In every shade a hue
Of true ooo ooo ooo ooo
Mmhmm birds of paradise
Mmhmm couldn’t compromise
Mmhmm birds of paradise
Mmhmm could there be no right?
Birds of paradise
Birds of paradise
Birds of paradise
Birds of paradise
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4. |
It Was Nice to Be Loved
04:59
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Faceless
Only just beginning
Jaded
Shy and unwilling
Wasted
In the taste of forgetting
Stainless
But your heart keeps slipping
Ooo, ooo
I’ve fallen for fakes and fools
Seems like you’ve been there too
Trying to suss out why
It seems like you’re someone I knew
No I won’t be around
Hit me up when you’re in town
Though it can’t be assumed
I’ll be seeing you soon
So forgotten and untied
Left a friend in my eye
It was nice to be loved
Thinking
On places left behind
Talking
So what’s been on your mind?
Searching
For meaning in the dust
Sharing
The gravity that holds us
We burn like a manic fire
Day passes sultry and dim
Waiting on freedom, desire
Met with a bittersweet end
No I won’t be around
Hit me up when you’re in town
Though it can’t be assumed
I’ll be seeing you soon
So forgotten and untied
No I won’t be around
Hit me up when you’re in town
Though it can’t be assumed
I’ll be seeing you soon
After all those peachy nights
Left a friend in my eye
It was nice to be loved
One look inside
The heart decides
No… I couldn’t be worthy of missing
Smile, my relief
Reverse the tide
Doubt becoming belief
Doubt becoming belief
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5. |
Echo
04:47
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High above in the sky where the leaves blow
Down below where the stones sit in cool deep water
You can almost hear a voice of something lost, breathe again
Echo rings, feeling sinks, willows sway in yonder
And on the wind a tune of things
That were and left too soon
High above in the sky where the darkness grows
Down below where shadow paints a copper moon
You can see eternity shine for you and in-between
Satellite blinks, telephone rings, raven cries so somber
And in the night a tune of things
That were and left too soon
Too soon
Too soon
Too soon
Too soon
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6. |
Shining Blue
04:18
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Take me outside
We’re on a hunt for a good life
Could be a long time
But hopes alive in the skyline
Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
Can you tell me what you’re thinking of
Every time you’re on your own route
Inception, conception
Was wandering on
Can you tell me in your own way
Let me tell you what I wouldn’t say
Did I mention, I had my back turned?
Sun shines me blue (I did assume)
Hey are you listening? (I’m trying to understand)
What you on about?
Just hear me out
Just hear me out
Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
Take me outside
We’re on a hunt for a good life
Could be a long time
But hopes alive in the skyline
Looking for a place to hide away
Work another year to lose that face
Deception, protection
And security
Kinda hard to get a read on you
Even the right things aren’t what I should do
Feeling tension seeing my walls burned
I’m swinging blue (What can I do?)
I’m trying to understand (Hey are you listening?)
But I’m bleeding doubt
Just hear me out
Just hear me out
And It’s alright
If we ain’t on the same side
See through both eyes
And you know what it feels like
Take me outside
We’re on a hunt for a good life
Could be a long time
But hopes alive in the skyline
Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
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7. |
Wonderful Life
03:46
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We’re in the middle
Of a strange kind of warped and surreal reality
And I can’t seem to care
Spending money and drooling while I drag my feet
Little tequila
To get the morning start off right
I’m feeling light
Bump into Tia
She’s got a look like she ain’t feeling so right
It’s a wonderful life
Such a tragic lie
A world in disguise
And I’m just a simple guy
Another sunset
A little whiskey, Crack-a-cola, struttin’ in through the door
Playing my position
Cut from high modern style
Bought out and flawlessly sold
Pour me a double
(I smile and oblige)
Grab a glass and pour
(She looks at me surprised)
For a moment my eyes betrayed a little more
It’s a wonderful life
Such a tragic lie
A world in disguise
And I’m just a simple guy
I boogie woogie
Dancing till the beat stops
I boogie woogie
Showin off what I bought
I boogie woogie
Posing on a backdrop
I boogie woogie
Yeah I hit the jackpot!
What’s going on?
I don’t get it
Don’t I deserve it all?
What’s going on?
Give it to me
I don’t care what it costs
I boogie woogie
I boogie woogie
I boogie woogie
I boogie woogie
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8. |
Easy Way Out
04:11
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Welcome to your decisions
Constant revolving door
Installing with your permission
A conscious act ignored
What in hopes are you seeking?
The truth you already know?
A telescope for observing
The vision’s eternal glow?
All this time growing up and bending
Getting by at the corner store
The sacrifice on behalf of pretending
Was so much more than we thought before
You can try to commit
Or take the easy way out
Hold your tongue and submit
And take the easy way out
Give up all the excess
Or take the easy way out
Live a life you regret
Cause that’s the easy way out
Stuck up on your conditions
Supported by the crowd
Tangled with politicians
A corporate merry go round
Hung up all your convictions
Couldn’t handle the weight
But you can’t help your addictions
We were born in these chains
All this time growing up and bending
Buying dreams at the mega store
The sacrifice on behalf of pretending
Was so much more than we thought before
You can break at the whip
And take the easy way out
Brace yourself for the hit
Or take the easy way out
Make a stand for something
Or take the easy way out
You can give up and quit
Cause that’s the easy way out
Take more than your share
Call it unfair
Does it even matter
You live for the now
Complain about how
The future just brings you down
They’ve figured you out
Let’s not beat about
The reason you’re static
You’re not unaware
Defenceless or bare
So what will you do?
Take the easy way out (take the easy way out)
Take the easy way out (take the easy way out)
Take the easy way
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9. |
Patience
04:41
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Patience I say
Patience will grow
With a little hard work I know
All in good time
Try in good faith
Then it’ll start to show
How many nights
How many sighs
Go with that ebb and flow?
Heart with my faith
All done for love
Learning to take it slow
Bitter my mind
Bitter sometimes
Hoping to be someone
Saving some face
Mask tied on tight
Smiling fake like scum
Choice in my hand
Choking on pride
So easily undone
Save me some grace
I do it for love
Knowing our day will come
Come along, come along
Someday soon we’ll be gone
Let the light keep me warm
From the shadows that mean to harm
Come along, come along
Let my light keep us warm
Feel the rush in my lungs
As we are standing strong
Sweetness my end
Sweetness you shine
Brave as you make the climb
Timid at first
In wonder at all
Victim to hope’s design
Breathtaking ease
Feeling so high
Unable to define
Arms open wide
Fall from the sky
Taking it as a sign
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10. |
Sea of Numbers
04:10
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Swimming in a sea of numbers
Pushing me backwards and forwards
No I know I don't know the answers
No I know I don't got all the answers
Baby got a backhand from the ocean
Still shocked from the force of the motion
What were you thinking?
Who you been talking to?
Blue skin, bloody toes
Shivering down to the bone
Rising up, shrouded in evening light
And you wanna stop drowning
But you can’t stop diving in
Swimming in a sea of numbers
Pushing me backwards and forwards
No I know I don't know the answers
No I know I don't got all the answers
Jot down, saved by the bell curve
XYs getting their life served up on a porcelain plate
Are they living?
Or waiting to break?
Strung out, open the door
A thousand letters come crashing to the floor
Wanting to commiserate - that's alright but not today
What felt good from the start
can just tear someone apart
Swimming in a sea of numbers
Pushing me backwards and forwards
No I know I don't know the answers
No I know I don't got all the answers
We're 70 miles from home
Destinations always in change
You can argue how much, or how long
But if you ask why, the answers the same
Swimming in a sea of numbers
Pushing me backwards and forwards
No I know I don't know the answers
No I know I don't got all the answers
Swimming in a sea (in a sea of numb)
Pushing me backwards (and backwards and forth)
Swimming in a sea (in a sea of numb)
Pushing me backwards (and backwards and forth)
No I know I don't know the answers
Now I know nobodys got the answers
Now I know I'll never have the answers
No I know I don't got all the answers
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Jitensha Montreal, Québec
Jitensha is the garage rock love child of Erin Rose Hubbard and David Martinez. The sound is a silvery union of honey sweet proto-punkiness and modern indie that is harmonically reminiscent of 1950s rock & roll. With vocals, electric guitar and drums, stealing a niche somewhere between the White Stripes and the Civil Wars, Jitensha nestles catchy, poignant melodies into hard hitting rock grooves. ... more
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