Homecoming

"BROKEN"

I drove to the edge
Where we used to sit and watch the city lights 
Like fallen stars
Way below us

People tried to know us
But we were way too high
Way too high

It was a coming of age

Now I have pieces missing
And you, you are broken
Broken, it’s beautiful to me
Things lose their magic in the daylight 
The sun comes like a thief
To steal our love away
We knew we couldn’t stay

If this world begins to end
I won’t fear the darkness Because I’ve seen it
Lying on my back
Looking up at the black sky 
With a thousand silver eyes Staring into me

It was a coming of age

Now I have pieces missing
And you, you are broken
Broken, it’s beautiful to me
Things lose their magic in the daylight 
The sun comes like a thief
To steal our love away
We knew we couldn’t stay

℗ Bad Future 2019
© Musica Publishing 2019
Written by:​ Mia Van Wyk, Paul Gala & Tatum Strydom
Mixed, Arranged and Produced by:​ Paul Gala
Assistant Engineer:​ Daniel Pawson
Recorded and Mixed at:​ Bad Future Studio, Johannesburg.
Mastered by: ​Jacob van der Westhuizen

"Broken" about first real love and heartbreak. A coming of age story between two young lovers that leaves them broken but also acquainted with the great beauty of love for the first time. They are star crossed and the relationship will almost certainly end just like the world will. They both lose their innocence in love but also life. A sort of fatalistic view of the world is born out of this broken and beautiful love... “I won’t fear the darkness, because I’ve seen it” - when we are young, heartbreak often feels like the darkest thing, the world is ending.

Bloodsport EP

Broken

"Fever"

Lost kids
On a lost highway
Living the words
Of a blues song
I know we won’t get it wrong this time
Let’s ride the divine wind

Beauty is too painful
And I hate you
For the things that you have
Changed forever in me
Changed forever in me
Silence did the killing
And I hate you
For the things that you have
Changed forever in me
Changed forever in me

How did you get in
Hold me closer
When that bad wind
Blows through my soul
Feels like a fever

Standing
Facing roads
Wild thoughts
Drive through me
What’s all of this for?
I keep asking
No answer

Silence did the killing
And I hate you
For the things that you have
Changed forever in me
Changed forever in me
Beauty is too painful
And I hate you
For the things that you have
Changed forever in me
Changed forever in me

How did you get in
Hold me closer
When that bad wind
Blows through my soul
Feels like a fever
How do I wake up
When it all goes black
When that bad wind
Blows through my soul
Feels like a fever

℗ Bad Future 2019
© Musica Publishing 2019
Written by:​ Mia Van Wyk, Paul Gala & Tatum Strydom
Mixed, Arranged and Produced by:​ Paul Gala
Assistant engineer: Daniel Pawson
Recorded and Mixed at:​ Bad Future Studio, Johannesburg.
Mastered by: ​Jacob van der Westhuizen

Fever

"Bloodsport"

Lonely rooms
With too much time to waste The midnight roads
Have laid my secrets bare
I close my eyes
And hold my breath
I rip you right
Out of my chest
No there won’t be prisoners
Oh it all ends in flames and cinders
Love love is bloodsport Twisting the dagger The bleeding is slow Love love is bloodsport Twisting the dagger The bleeding is slow
There’s violence
In the way we love
But there’s beauty
In a bleeding heart
These scars have made us Who we are
In the end all war is art
No there won’t be prisoners
Oh it all ends in flames and cinders
Love love is bloodsport Twisting the dagger The bleeding is slow Love love is bloodsport Twisting the dagger The bleeding is slow

Mixed, Arranged and Produced by:​ Paul Gala
Assistant engineer:​ Daniel Pawson
Recorded and Mixed at:​ Bad Future Records, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mastered by: ​Jacob van der Westhuizen

Bloodsport

Young Blood

Hold your hands
Over my eyes
I didn’t wanna see the sunrise 
I feel a chill
But I’m burning up inside
The candle flame reached up
A little too high

Our circus is a ghost now
I had to leave it all behind
But I can still see you
Standing there with a smile
As I waved goodbye

Run away youngblood
Run away with me my love
What we have will never die
I’m not afraid of the other side
Run away with me
Youngblood

Ride with me
My dark passenger
We have to live
Before we die

Run away youngblood
Run away with me my love
What we have will never die
I’m not afraid of the other side
Run away with me
Young Blood

℗ Bad Future 2019
© Musica Publishing 2019
Written by:​ Mia Van Wyk, Paul Gala
Mixed, Arranged and Produced by:​ Paul Gala
Assistant engineer:​ Daniel Pawson
Recorded and Mixed at:​ Bad Future Records, Johannesburg.
Vocals and vocal harmonies: ​Tatum Strydom
Synths, Beats and Machines:​ Paul Gala
Mastered by: ​Jacob van der Westhuizen

Young Blood

Unholy (feat. PHFAT)

You ran with the wrong crowds 
You got spat out
By a small town
You have your heart on a platter 
But that didn’t matter
You were only a number

And when the wolves came knocking 
Bloodthirsty and circling
The world cracked you open
They took your foundation
You found no salvation
In the ones who held themselves 
Holy

They don’t matter now 
Who are “they”? 
Unholy
Pretty painted graves 
Nothing more
Unholy
They love watching you 
When you fall
Unholy
One day you’ll be free 
They’ll still be
Unholy

Keep these horrors hidden 
Underneath your thick skin 
Don’t you ever let them
In
Keep your head
Above the waves
Hold your heart
So it won’t break
Don’t you ever let them 
Win

PHFAT RAP:
They don't really matter much, they never did 
Holy don't mean shit to me
Holy don’t mean
‘Cos evil is as evil does,
And evil ain't much except each of us
And blood red hand scream "Catch the fucks!" 
Lies feed fools and we eat them up.
Try speak truth but we're too damn scared 
We try see through shit. Cool that fear.
We might seem neutral, pull that move
Baby I'm just evil like you...

℗ Bad Future 2020
© Musica Publishing 2020
Written by:​ Mia Van Wyk, Paul Gala, PHFAT, James Deacon & Tatum Strydom
Mixed, Arranged and Produced by:​ Paul Gala
Assistant engineer:​ Daniel Pawson
Recorded and Mixed at:​ Bad Future Records, Johannesburg
Mastered by: ​Mike Zietsman

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