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Feel Bad
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Let the current carry me wherever currents go.
You can save your warnings, because I already know.
I’ve seen the washed up bodies,
their compasses rusted shut.
Who cares to read my foolish life as noble?
I don’t believe in good or bad. Who’s to say what that means?
There’s only life and death and the sickness in between.
Okay, throw me a line.
I know I've gone overboard again.
I'd love to be saved, not tethered to a safe.
Do I feel bad because things are fucked up, or do I fuck things up because I feel so bad?
I long for the problems of gazelles and giraffes.
I’d gladly run from a tiger than hide from myself.
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Describe Myself to Me
01:53
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The past, it terrifies me.
I owe everybody apologies for everything.
Everyone makes mistakes. I make catastrophe.
How long before they find me?
Tell me what you know.
Describe myself to me.
Guide me through what I can’t see.
We were friends in another life,
one that I’d rather forget.
It’s been so long since I’ve heard your laugh.
Somehow, still, I consider you a friend.
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I’m making up for my lack of experience
by living twice as hard in my mind.
I’m breaking fractured laws. I’m busting plexiglass jaws.
When nothing fills the void, you learn to live with it.
It’s no contest to love me at my best,
but suffer me when I’m insufferable.
You're thinking all this through, and that's more than many do.
I only come alive when I’m inside someone else’s mind.
I could be anywhere by now.
There’s no such thing as magic spell casting.
but let me believe what I think I saw.
You could read between the lines, measure me my screen time.
Sooner or later, you’ll find me out.
I could be anywhere by now.
Hear ye loud and clear, before we all disappear.
I’ll never meet you, but I know you well.
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I Must Go On!
01:59
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You must be trying to break my will.
Discredit what you can’t kill.
Provide life’s conditions and life will thrive,
but make it live by someone else’s and it only survives.
I must go on! I must go on!
I’m all made up. I’m all dressed down.
I’m the only one around.
Took my nose off the grindstone, put it in a book.
If there’s no hunt, there’s no hide, so I’m off the hook.
Life is hard enough just to live.
Not sure I have the strength to fight for it.
I must go on! I must go on!
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Hussalonia Buffalo, New York
Hussalonia is largely the work of a multi-instrumentalist known only as The Hussalonia
Founder.
Founded in 1997, Hussalonia is a "pop music cult" and claims to be owned by Nefarico™, a fictional soap company.
The Hussalonia Founder lives and works in Buffalo, New York.
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