This funky caveman-inspired version of the song which explores Ro's struggles with questions about her music career.
 
"Walking into the darkness it makes me feel famous
and gives me the sense that I'm destined for greatness...
but I just can't explain this.

And then there's this wall, waterfall of resistance
words that are hurdles to my readiness
some say "be relentless" and some say; 
"obey the consensus"
and I'm in the middle
just seeking a balance.

They don't want to face me because they can't place me
I don't fit the boxes they try to erase me
I hover in musical androgyny
so, like Van Gogh, must I die quietly?
Slow suicide while I perish in poverty
life of what-ifs: there is no greater tragedy.

If it's not even a voice a mother can love
why expect strangers to be curious?
If not even creation lover can love
how can I get attention success is made of?
Implant a shame-gland to muffle my cries
so their silencing urges are internalized

Am I worth more dead than alive
like grandmother revered post-suicide?
Looking out and inside for the next step to take
stardom on my terms:
pursue music for my own sake.

Good god, good lord
am I gonna be ignored
is a Van Gogh fate what I'm headed for?

Good god, good lord
am I gonna be ignored
is a Van Gogh state what I'm headed towards?

Good god, good lord
am I gonna be ignored
will I be drowned out by the waterfall's roar?

Let me get dressed..."

Van Gogh (funkified Version)

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Conquer Myself

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If you like the theme songs of classic Dr. Who and Star Wars, plus The Beach Boys and Florence and the Machine, then this song's for you. Hell even if you don't like them, this song's still for you. Do you want it? Well anyway, it's a kind of musical equivalent of what it could sound like if one of the theories of how our universe might end (in a Big Crunch; the exact reverse of the Big Bang) were to come true. Enjoi

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