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Nobody never stays round here
You really need to make a change
Even when you don’t have a choice
Time flies for everybody, for real
And we just sit down at the living room
While our stomachs are growing up
While our old problems are getting old
Soon we will have bills to pay
Soon our dreams, they will fly away
Now we don’t care about the time
But what are we gonna do with our kids?
Even we’re just a bunch of teenagers
Once deads, our lives will get bored
And we just turned on the computer
But this spring is not good for some ones
Sometimes we just want to throw it all away
Life never made much sense at all
For people made of feelings and songs
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Midnight and there’s people outside
Drinking, eating, thinking and perhaps kissing
And I can’t talk to anyone
I can’t see anyone
My friends live in the other side of town
My lovers never used to see me
I just walk alone
I just sing alone
The world is so small, we all know each other
Why being so sad when the streets are calling you?
Take my hand, let’s get some good time
And maybe time to relief
Time to relief
I just wanna see the people I love
I just wanna be with people I love
I just wanna play with who I love
I just wanna sing about fraternal love
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3. |
You Are Free
03:20
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You are what they want you to be
You see what they want you to see
You’re free cause they want you to be free
You mean it cause they want you to be mean
Because you need to represent society
You need to be nice to everyone
You cannot disagree with society
You cannot tell the truth to someone
You think what they want you to think
You feel what they want you to feel
You live how they want you to live
You dream cause they don’t want you to see what’s real
You are free to say what you think
You are free to show them how you feel
This is what you want to play
That is what they want to hear
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4. |
This Weight (Part 1)
04:32
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Lately, I haven’t been taking this so much
And all this way of living’s got me on my knees
Cos my legs sometimes can’t take all this pain
My mind is too blurry to carry this weight
And all this blue is in my body
All this package keeps my soul
I wonder when I’ll take all this weight off my shoulder
In fact, I never needed to take medication
And lately I don’t know if my health is troubled
Cause now I feed my honor with fake fat
Now I don’t care if people think I’m a freak
And all this blue is in my body
All this package keeps my soul
I wonder when I’ll take off this weight from my shoulder
I wonder when I’ll take all this weight off my shoulder...
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5. |
Manu
04:21
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Manu, how do you feel?
“Quite rejected, and sad, for real
In these days, the sky gets gray for me
In these days, I haven’t seen the sea”
But please don’t cry tonight
It’s never too late to fight
Sometimes I’d rather die
Than trying to give a smile
Manu, I’ve got faith in you
Sometimes you go wrong, but I know you’re true
And I know, you really love her
But I know, I’m not the one who will kill your sorrow
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6. |
Green Eyes
02:46
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Two years and you changed it all
Cause things ain’t like they used to be
And I’m not lying to anyone but myself
I’m not lying to her, but to myself
I thought her green eyes would save me
I thought her green eyes would make me go well
I thought her green eyes would rescue me
They’re not here, it’s been a long time
It’s hard to go on with this life
When you just want to turn back the time
And I’m being honest to myself
Honest to her, and to myself
I think her green eyes could have saved me
I think her green eyes could make me do it well
I think her green eyes can make me dream
They are not here anyway.
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7. |
The City of the Sun
05:15
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I was a lost soul on those streets
Now I feel like everyone is mean
I tried to know if I was alive
But I still don’t know the meaning of these lives
All those shit bands on the radio
With all that bad education
Are still inside this drunk youth
And it’s always raining in the city of the sun
I was squared between the young folks
Lost in a sad beach of illusions
But I still want to know where is all that fun
But there’s no answer for my right mind
All the traffic at the bridge
With all the boredom in me (in everyone)
Are still inside what we’ve been
And it’s always raining in the city of the sun
All the parties that make you bankrupt
With all the sick people in hospital halls
This is the place where they spend holidays
I’m glad it’s raining in the city of the sun
And that’s where we’ll be forever (2x)
This is our boring fate… (3x)
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Damned Poetry
05:51
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We don’t know how it feels
We don’t know what it means, to have a heart
We look for good time
We cover souls with divine pantomimes
But all looks fine when we enjoy sunshine
One way to go one is not turning back
But I want twice as hard
Until we draw the line
The line is fine
I got down on my knees
Now I’m begging, please!
We are free tonight
We smile like kids
Well, some ones don’t know what it is, to be a man
We’re through a crooked sun
Where boys become men with guns
Everything is true when you don’t have a clue about the world
A gossip note is cool when you don’t see that you are getting old
Cause things fall apart
Like my manic and I
I will desire
Love is what we need
A game we never win
Love won’t belong to life
We gotta roll the dice
We’re gonna lose it all and we won’t mind
We’re heroes for a day
But we’re a bunch of babies
Fools for a lifetime
None of these lines make sense for a useless mind
But that’s what it is, maybe these are our lives
I still want twice as hard
And I will draw the line
All right in time
I get down on my knees
I’m begging, Lord, please
Just let me be!
Flooding our lives
It makes me leave distress
Minutes are distant
And we are out of time
Love is like a knife
I’m running of it in my whole life
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Dream of the Day
04:16
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Did you ever feel the wind
blowing all the conversation?
So let’s throw our heads on that river
To wash our dirty poetry
That’s the greatest dream of the day
Did you ever drink the rain?
Cos nothing is so sublime
We are going out of this storm
To shock the population
Some people never dream, every day
So I turn strange corners
With stupid drunken fathers
And useless mothers
Loving bottles like babies and dolls
Faking all the cold faces
Looking for spaces
Let’s get lost in the city
And waste our poetry
Until pain sets us free
Cause that was the feeling of
Just a dream of the day
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The Morning Sun
04:53
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Lay down, is there something in mind?
Is it what you abide?
Cause lately life has no time
Dream on, such a feeling inside
All right in line
Maybe you’ve been lazy
This is what you never thought
And this is what you’re dreaming of
Some rays light some ones’ lives
But everybody’s waiting for the morning sun
Hang on, you don’t look so fine
Dress up and shine
Habit won’t wait a lifetime
Come in, sit down now
Is the road to a bounce?
Or is this misery?
Maybe it’s a new vision line
Learning a desire
This is so crazy
Working, this sweat of mine
An everyday fight
Baby, life is crazy
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11. |
September 23rd Sonnet
05:18
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September never makes you change
Especially when you get used to it
16 years of failures and broken promises
I still try to find a reason
Locked in a new old room
Trying to turn back the time in your mind
You can’t predict the end
You can’t fight against the time
And she’s not here
She will never be
She’s never been here
Cos you don’t know her
You never knew her
You should never know
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Luan Bates Natal, Brazil
Singer-songwriter from Natal-RN, Brazil.
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