Easy Way Out

from Periscope by Jitensha

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lyrics

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

credits

from Periscope, released August 16, 2019
Written by David Martinez and Erin Rose Hubbard
Recorded by David Martinez and Erin Rose Hubbard
Mixed and mastered by David Martinez
Artwork by Erin Rose Hubbard

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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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