Name: 09 - Why Hide by Travis Mathews
Duration: 4 min 54 s
Description: “Why Hide?” is an honest acoustic meditation on insecurity, resilience, and the courage to step into life’s joys. It’s a vulnerable yet hopeful call to break down walls and embrace authenticity.

“It’s All Wrong” is a raw acoustic outcry against corruption, deception, and the cold weight of a world gone astray. With stripped-down intensity, the song channels sorrow, anger, and defiance into a haunting reflection on truth and freedom.

02 - It's All Wrong

“The Walls” is an intimate acoustic piece about the barriers we build within ourselves — shaped by pain, time, and loss. It’s a raw meditation on confinement, memory, and the faint hope of a window to let the light back in.

03 - The Walls

“Muse” is a haunting acoustic reflection on fleeting presence and emotional distance — a song about love entangled with loss, where support comes in fragments and absence lingers like a shadow.

04 - Muse

“Tyrant Siren Song” is a defiant acoustic anthem against manipulation and emotional control — a raw cry of resistance that breaks free from the suffocating pull of toxic voices.

05 - Tyrant Siren Song

“Tales and Effigies” is a stark acoustic vision of collapse and awakening — a song that mourns a broken world while challenging blind faith, false idols, and the chains of misguided rule.

07 - Tales and Effegies

“Closed Bye” is a deeply vulnerable acoustic confession — a song about scars that linger, love that heals, and the struggle to stay open while weighed down by memory and pain.

06 - Closed Bye

“Wake Me When It’s Over” is a stark acoustic lament of inner battles and fractured faith — a voice caught between despair and longing, pleading for freedom from the cage of demons within.

08 - Wake Me When It's Over

“Why Hide?” is an honest acoustic meditation on insecurity, resilience, and the courage to step into life’s joys. It’s a vulnerable yet hopeful call to break down walls and embrace authenticity.

09 - Why Hide

“Lightspeed Changeling” drifts between worlds — an ethereal acoustic journey of out-of-body awakening, cosmic return, and love that guides through the vast unknown.

10 - Lightspeed Changeling

“Pinch Yourself Awake” is a sharp acoustic warning — a call to break free from manipulation, reclaim the mind, and resist the lies that lull us into silence. Urgent and defiant, it’s a song about waking before it’s too late.

09 - Why Hide

Travis Mathews

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