1. |
Inhale, Exhale, Breathe
03:14
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[Verse 1]
Infectious noise unsettling,
Minds thoughts deafening
Unconscious editing,
of the what's an uncomfortable moment
Nega Scott, my greatest opponent,
Heart playing pinball with my chest
All smiles but an internal mess
Think less of me? Times infinity
I do critically, brilliantly
Please text me back I need you
Phone blank as I plead to anyone who will listen
whilst my silence leads to tears
I just wish you were here
[Verse 2]
Just wish you were here
Breathe, find a solution
Breathe, mind pollution
Breathe,
No handling, I’m Grappling
Why am I not tackling this,
Where is the bliss
I miss what I never had,
someone to hear
my sad, glad, mad
I want it so bad as I lose my air
Just need someone to care
Nothing to compare to
Why don’t you see me
Why don’t I matter
Why aren’t I dreamy
Stomach flatter,
Mind less scattered
Shit gathered, less chattered
[Chorus]
Inhale Exhale
The world's dazy hazy
Spacey claustrophobic
Protagonist
no heroic
I lost my stoic
When I lost my mind
Inhale Exhale
The worlds dazy hazy
Spacey claustrophobic
Protagonist
no heroic
I lost my stoic
When I lost my mind
[Verse 3]
Glow, my saviour,
That glow, I'll savour
Chronic unease
On my knees
There's no end
Please.|
Minutes go by like days
Think of better ways
Know it's phase
I think. |
No faith in reason
I'm broken,
But there's no bleeding
Just cracks beneath this mask
Falling with nothing to grasp
Each
experience
worst
than the
last
[Chorus]
Inhale Exhale
The world's dazy hazy
Spacey claustrophobic
Protagonist
no heroic
I lost my stoic
When I lost my mind
Inhale Exhale
The worlds dazy hazy
Spacey claustrophobic
Protagonist
no heroic
I lost my stoic
When I lost my mind
[Verse 4]
Rollercoaster Drop
Your stomach stayed without you
Temple of Doom Pop
Heart out, Drums around you
Rain and thunder in the middle of the ocean
Boats holding but the waters closing_ in
Got winded, missed a step on the way down
Headache, but they turned up the sound
All you hear is that
Jackhammer in your chest
You’re a mess
The noise of the road blasts
But I can’t hear over my head
A wave rushes that I’d be better off dead
Just me, an eski on the road
Breathing hardens, drowning in mistakes
Bodies lakes and rivers,
Every drop felt flowing through
Bulldozer chest beating untrue
Screws loosen, everything tightens
Every sense heightens
Worlds big but I can only see inches ahead
Hold your name on a brick message said
“Hey’ but meant I am falling apart
Misplaced heart and apprehension
Unrealistic, unreasonable, unachievable
Altruistic, pessimistic, inconceivable
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2. |
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[Verse 1: Ezra Allen ]
Wake up to see your back, (what’s that?)
Smiling thinking back
Happy for the company regardless of the act
Blissful the morning of unimportant conversation
Afternoon kicked in the complication
Now remembering a youthful romance
Naivety the key to enhance love, no maturity
Months go by there’s nothing new to see
We talk but there’s no discussion
We ain't rushin’ to emotions, burying the problems is custom
Accustomed to this false utopia in our truth phobia.
Lost it to a stranger, drew the line, crossed it
Thought I’d be across it
Thought it be you or the next
(Funny how the change in context )
[Chorus: Amber]
I’m not sure if I want to break in two
Because I’m just not sure it’s worth it for you
[Verse 2: Ezra Allen ]
Regrets, live without them
Doesn’t mean the past won't bite though
It's why I write though
Sword for the demons that I gotta fight though
( Longclaw in the hands of Jon Snow )
Anxious for dates I’ve never went on, been on
Conscious about fate I don’t indulge
Failed by problems I planned on, bring on
Held back by thoughts I don’t divulge
Inexperience keeping me sharp and fatigued
Need to keep up to speed
would that put me in a better place?
Make less space?
Something I can trace over to Grace me
with the confidence, I seem to lack,
Put me on track and
Merge that black and white, grey
or cure the colourblindness
Miss the oz in this Kansas
[Chorus: Amber]
I’m not sure if I want to break in two
Because I’m just not sure it’s worth it for you
[Verse 3: Ezra Allen]
How do I compete, you the NBA, I’m domestic
This game is more than cosmetic
All I see is experience, you’ve been serious,
I’m fearing this
Bonding on your 5-hour layover
Me? haven’t had a sleepover
More scared of a yes than a rejection
Pulled out for a premature ejection
Overthinking and it’s hard to forget
You’ve done things I bet
I didn’t know to google yet
What now?
New rules, new terminology
May as well be Astronomy
Struggling to look after me to worry about you
Don't know If my life's built for two
(Put my time under review)
(Put my time under review)
[Bridge: RENNAN]
If I let you place me, under review
Would you, understand if I had to, split myself in two.
That's one for me, one for you.
And if my, atoms breaking and I talk to you different
Would you, fix my bond or leave me in the distance
Left to look at you, as the space between us grew
You've got more years on this earth than me
Carry yourself perfectly
While my back hunches my words stuttered
I can function when you're aura's here
It's not ordinary, something for all to see
No canary in a cage
As much as I want you all for me
[Chorus: Amber]
I’m not sure if I want to break into
Because I’m just not sure it’s worth it for you
I’m not sure if I want to break into
Because I’m just not sure it’s worth it for you
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3. |
In The Mirror
03:01
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[Verse 1]
I’m holding you and I don’t let go
The question, she’ll say no to
Move to the couch, leave me alone
Stare at my phone
Same photo, five times
Watch the lies, watch the lines
Under eyes disguised by smiles
Drawn on a while ago
Empty mental kingdom where I sit my throne
Haven’t grown
[Verse 2]
Just a child who never went wild
Styled by tv’s pop culture
Picking idols characters like a vulture
Hoping summer comes to the mess of Seth
A narcissistic, spoonfed wannabe
No spice for me,
just comic books, a trail of women mislead
While I seek someone who's actually read Spiderman
Miles Morales Google It
[Verse 3]
I live in a land that one day
A lady on a train will come and sweep me off my feet
and speak of hip-hop and souvlaki
Nice body, beautiful mind, Nash, clash
Planets aligned, find it with all my powers combined
So I’m the captain who planned it
Cooked endeavours find something new and land it
Take the area limit and expand it
I’ll manage to find her other side of town
No tinder on the subway just sandwiches
[Verse 4]
Hope this is a dream
Got that R.E.M - I
No one can hate you like you hate you
Dare you to try
It's not like I'm switching positions in bed
Well not women just laptops instead
I'm known for talking but I hate my voice
Insecurity I don't have a choice
I need noise, I try to avoid
I love without thought
but hate without reason
Small acts like treason
Empathy nah, sympathy, Maybe
I don't fit place me
[Bridge]
Make some time for self-reflection
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
Make some time for self-reflection
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
Make some time for self-reflection
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
In the mirror
Make some time for self-reflection
Reflection, Reflection, Reflection
[Verse 5]
Even old scars still hurt from time to time
Learned to ignore them on the grind to rhyme
Started to lose where the line went
Setting rules, Express less, express more
Do these things to be adored
Take a risk to be abhorred
I like a challenge by why you hate?
Others have it tough you’re not making it great.
It’s funny how they say words will never hurt you
but in the end, they hurt you the most
What by telling you the jump isn’t lethal
that’ll make you jump in first
Or sit at desk until you lie in a hearse
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4. |
Sitting Here Sober
02:35
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[Verse 1]
Seemingly not having fun, What am I thinking?
Why aren’t I drinking? You’ll say,
If I can’t stand you sober I’m not paying to play
I’m still dealing with demons
Just not drowning in a bottle
Life half throttled, thrown into words, like Boggle
Toggling between movies and see you lose things
Stumbling ‘round, Vomiting proud
Then asking why I’m not, here
Sitting here sober
Wish it was over
If you come closer
I'm going to lose composure
[Verse 2]
I can’t stand to be here,
When did the enthusiasm disappear
When did the parties turn from
conversation to being wasted
Charlie showing me the perks, no more fireworks
Just me, lurking in the corner,
Wallflower Watching you lose, brainpower
As you devour juice,
I’m a downer because I'm
Missing out on memories you lose
Verse 3
99 bottles of beer on the wall
99 bottles you drank them all
Then complain you're broke
Work it out
Secrets so secret held in a vault
Secrets so secret or so you thought
How did I know? you
Blurt it out
Don't see how I'm lasting 20 more minutes at this party
I walked in knowing I was doomed before it started
Social Martyr, Fire Starter
Ask me why first to try
And I’ll lie, I’m that guy
Verse 4
I’m not having a great time,
You act like it’s a crime
How’s this society's
Design. It’s not fine
because
‘All my friends are wasted’
And I hate this club
Watching you drink too much
Having to clean you up
Watch you repeat
Talk it up, compete
Act it’s my missing piece
make me feel complete
Tired of the questions
Tired of explanations
Misinterpretations
I don't need persuading
[Outro]
Pay to Play
You’re short-changed
Pay to Play
You’re short-changed
Pay to Play
You’re short-changed
Pay to Play
You’re short-changed
Pay to Play
You’re short-changed
Pay to Play
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5. |
New Years Eve
03:51
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[Verse 1]
It’s the absence of sound
Lugging garbage bags around
14 hours down, handful of ground
dirt, burying the coffin of hurt
See the line and flirt
It’s the absence of soul
Digging a dirt less hole
Autonomous corpse with one goal
Waiting for the sun
It’s the work and no play
It’s pushing on no matter what they say
It’s the fucks you wish they gave
It’s the hands you wish you’d played
It’s the life you wish you’d made
And you want to throw it away
[Pre-Chorus]
How’s that?
How’s that?
[Chorus]
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
Talk about it, That ain’t my style
New Years Eve, New Years Eve
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
Talk about it, That ain’t my style
New Years Eve, New Years Eve
The Night is young, the night is fun
Why you walking ‘round like you ain’t done
The night is young, the night is fun
Why you walking ‘round like you ain’t done
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
[Verse 2]
Locked bathroom door escapes
Real heroes die every day
No capes, just the wrong time
To the world they’re fine
Until they alter god's design
Volatile and elusive, let me stay reclusive
Foldback amongst the music
You're submerged while I’m partly toe deep in the party,
hardly immersed in armies of tongue locked strangers
largely ignoring features for convenience
in the sparkly lit sky too lit to ask why
or whom,
The room is the protagonist and I’m Moriarty.
Open in motion living owen’s poems leaning into omens
I marched asleep, Drunk with fatigue
To progress in the keep the fighting
So they can truthfully write to my mother
That I died Smiling
Doesn’t that sound less tiring
[Chorus]
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
Talk about it, That ain’t my style
New Years Eve, New Years Eve
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
Talk about it, That ain’t my style
New Years Eve, New Years Eve
The Night is young, the night is fun
Why you walking ‘round like you ain’t done
The night is young, the night is fun
Why you walking ‘round like you ain’t done
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
[Verse 3]
Neverland but never showed up
Putting the time in to grow up
Dreaming of soap stars and unresolved issues
Repressed emotions never the tissues
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s being alone not home and writing
About all untold and unspoken
Whimpering; cold and broken
“Hallelujah”
When the dam breaks and you're sunk in self-pity
But you don’t talk about it because it’s too gritty
So you just walk until the lights fade,
Sound dies,
walk on to the road, let time fly,
Step out of the throne of lies, ask why
To stand legless, a sock to be free
No building blocks, Lego less,
Click your heels and believe
[Chorus]
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
Talk about it, That ain’t my style
New Years Eve, New Years Eve
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
Talk about it, That ain’t my style
New Years Eve, New Years Eve
The Night is young, the night is fun
Why you walking ‘round like you ain’t done
The night is young, the night is fun
Why you walking ‘round like you ain’t done
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
Happy to be here, I say with a smile
Happy to be here, I add to the pile
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Ezra Allen Melbourne, Australia
Ezra Allen is an alt hip-hop act living in Naarm, Australia. Allen offers a lyric-heavy brand of hip-hop whilst drawing inspiration from genres of soul, jazz, and indie-rock. Allen is known for his introspective lyricism that explores mental health, masculinity, and maturity.At the conclusion of 2022, his debut album Summer of George was featured on Bandcamp’s ‘New and Notable.’ ... more
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