Folk-Pop/Nu Jazz/Soul Discoveries

Micatone - Handbrake

Eternal as the Stars

Present Tense
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[instrumental]

[verse]
Is not everything we think
Based on something that we steal
Over long uncounted years
We have constructed what is real

Layer upon layer
One small brick and then another
With reason and then prayer
We have made it fit together

[instrumental]

We use what others do
All the songs and prose they write
and all the art that they create, 
and all the things that critics hate

We read, watch, and listen
Though we may not remember
But we do absorb an essence
In our minds it is a presence

From then on we cannot tell
What is our own and what we borrowed
The question makes no sense
All that matters, 
present tense

[instrumental]

The first words we ever say
From our mothers, some first day
When they teach us how to beg
and teach us how to play

From these words we build it all
We never had control
Our futures pre programmed
All collectors have been scammed

There are no true originals
Only copies upon copies
We can each add our own spin
But can't hide the truth within

[instrumental]

We use what others do
All the songs and prose they write
and all the art that they create, 
and all the things that critics hate

We read, watch, and listen
Though we may not remember
But we do absorb an essence
In our minds it is a presence

From then on we cannot tell
What is our own and what we borrowed
The question makes no sense
All that matters, 
present tense

[instrumental]

[outro]

I Feel It Like You

Malia

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