What’s it gonna take to fix me up / I don’t want your london drugs / every time i’m with you I take too much / I don’t want your london drugs / every once in a while when i’m in denial / I wind up doing something I don’t want to do / what’s it gonna take to fix me up / I don’t want your london drugs / on a rainy night in soho / the wind was whistling all its charms / I think we overstayed our welcome / they’re giving us the look at the argyll arms / you happened to notice my anxious commotion / as my heart bled through my shirt / i’ve been a little heavy handed keepin’ it at work / my anxiety can sleep easy / the show was everything I hoped it would be / now we’re sitting in the back of the theater / binging everything that’s left to drink / ‘cause in a moment it’s over / the high and the thrill / then i’m leaving here so unfulfilled / well if I don’t change now I never will.
"Brave Faces Everyone" is a damn good reflection of the world post 2020. Shit has been topsy turvy, messy, and it can feel hard to breathe. But the penultimate track reminds us of something very important at the end:
"We don't have to fix everything at once
We were never broken, life's just very long
Brave faces, everyone" vydra-
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