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Swimming Around Seconds - Live

by Naheli

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    1. Pedestal - LIVE
    2. Deceptive Fantasies - LIVE
    3. Oil - LIVE
    4. Lighthouse - LIVE
    5. Swimming Around Seconds - LIVE
    6. Your Trash - LIVE
    7. Cyclone - LIVE

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1.
Pedestal - Live 03:11
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VERSE Babe, I thought I saw an angel Told me to calm down and gave me His hand and helped me step down from my pedestal Now I'm down but gone's the angel I'm left alone (and) all erased Those years I grew up dancing on a pedestal CHORUS Face me - I can't spread my heart Mind racing - life could be more harming Store my fears and take me home
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Deceptive Fantasies - Live 04:07
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VERSE I You crave what I seem to be You crave to be light and free But what I know is we all crave fantasies To know for sure and never be Mistaken, just devotedly Devoted to deceptive fantasies CHORUS And all our hopes Will be all that is left Will be leading us to An illusion of ourselves VERSE II We crave art, we crave hearts To feel enlightened after all But what I know is, the answers might not ever come The more I grow, the more it shows Accepting is my only choice To handle my deceptive fantasies CHORUS And all our hopes Will be all that is left Will be leading us to An illusion of ourselves END Grab me, show me that life is more than all that I'm not getting I need to feel that my illusion does mean something More than just fooling you to hope and crave I need to feel my fantasies Pushed me, showed me that life is more than all that I'm not getting I need to feel that my illusion is worth something More than just fooling you to hope and crave I need to know why all our hopes
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Oil - Live 05:37
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VERSE I Fought to win this battle, be myself; not shattered I've beaten my own challenge, finally was balanced Gave my all to not destroy you Sparkled through the landscape, lighted up my ambit Off you washed my colours, left me pale and blotted Tried so hard to not destroy you, while we perished me CHORUS I am trapped in who I am and I like to be here It's when you suck me out when I doubt and fall apart My heartbeat is not endless like yours, please see this Strong but that's my weakness, now poisoned by who you are VERSE II I imprison myself to my thoughts Trying so hard to not destroy I know I'm not alone looking for results Everyone around seems sucked dry by tiny thoughts, they accumulate, then build us up CHORUS I am trapped in who I am and I like to be here It's when you suck me out when I doubt and fall apart My heartbeat is not endless like yours, please see this Strong but that's my weakness, now poisoned by who you are VERSE III While these tiny thoughts make me grow I disperse can it be those weighty thoughts Replace me, fill me up? With vanities that seem so damn relevant because there's no longer nothing more about me CHORUS I am trapped in who I am and I like to be here It's when you suck me out when I doubt and fall apart My heartbeat is not endless like yours, please see this Strong but that's my weakness, now poisoned by who you are END You couldn't see it in my eyes; can't you feel we're all alike? Wish you'd roll off my skin like oil to keep me pure
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Lighthouse - Live 04:57
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VERSE I Be yourself, chase your heart They say but what if those terms drift apart What if my urges lead away From the lighthouse that I used to incarnate CHORUS I could fight, I could save me But I know this one's beyond salvation This is hopeless 'Cause I've been here a thousand miles before I fell VERSE II Be yourself don't lose your way Worn out I keep returning, sick of it And all I need to know is that I could change And that I am not enslaved to my own traits BRIDGE Must I burn it down? Can't I go out without abolishing my ground? It seems like the only way There is nothing I would wanna build upon Will my ashes see the dark Beyond the lighted waves or will they drown? Miles and miles to where I've been CHORUS I could fight, I could save me But I know this one's beyond salvation This is hopeless Cause I've been here a thousand miles before I fell END Had to burn it down Could not go out without abolishing my ground That reminds me of repeating and unchangeable proceedings
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Swimming Around Seconds - Live 04:51
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VERSE I When feelings get to rot Because of long forgotten nurture And days seem not to part 'Cause time got ineffectual There are no boarders left to guard Now that nothing is momentous Tomorrow or just Yesterday I couldn't tell the difference VERSE II It doesn't even matter It does not make me sad 'Cause I have misremembered Happiness, and therefore can't compare 'Cause I'm just swimming around seconds There are no borders left to guard Now that nothing is momentous When feelings get to rot END The clock's hands stab my body, But I can't feel them, 'Cause I'm sedated by The boundlessness of being The blankness The transience The unimportance Slight reservations I might be drowning But I won't notice I'm being carried by this ocean Full of motionless seconds That look all alike CHORUS There are no borders left to guard Now that nothing is momentous Or just yesterday, I couldn't tell the difference
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Your Trash - Live 05:26
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VERSE I Say, say what you want then go you are discarded I have, have no excuse but my drained vital sources Can't believe what you did Can't you feel how I felt Nothing ever, will be fixing all your trash CHORUS I Grow, I have grown But the painful scar you've caused won't pale Your face might fade, lives separate No memories and yearnings Still I'll feel your sway through years away, so VERSE I Say, say what you want then go you are discarded I have, have no excuse but my drained vital sources Can't believe what you did Can't you feel how I felt Nothing ever, will be fixing all your trash VERSE II Take, take what you want, then go, I'm empty anyways There's, there's nothing left inside after your soul-sucking days Can't believe what you did Can't you feel how I felt Nothing ever, will be fixing all your trash PRE-CHORUS I'll feel your sway though years away You've trashed me, so incurable I've tried everything CHORUS II When I believe, I can restore my peace Try to revive my dreams I only end up, struggling INTERLUDE Take down my guard I wouldn't care, sick of fighting for it Break down my heart Make me remember at some point it used to be filled CHORUS II When I believe, I can restore my peace Try to revive my dreams I only end up, struggling END Can't believe what you did Can't you feel how I felt Nothing ever, will be fixing all your trash
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Cyclone - Live 03:33
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VERSE When I got what's going on It wasn't easy to adjust To this unknown situation You dissolving in our world And I've tried everything to show That you're still inside my soul But it's too late you already Took leave of us for good And I have - tried to calm you down Tried to face the storm Instead got swirled around Your inaccessible cyclone Insult me, take my pride I need to see you fight Let me scream and let me cry But please don't let me down BRIDGE Can our essence change or just The way we view our world Do we alone decide Or does destiny arrive? I'm flying around I might rise above Or be stranded far, now all I know is I'm CHORUS Graceful, you might think my eyes would show Upright, accordance; melting heart with acts and mind with soul Never let darkness get in control But though glances can reveal slight shades they can't foretell cyclones

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released February 8, 2018

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Naheli Cologne, Germany

“European-Egyptian artist, who has always been torn between cultures, continents,
scientific curiosity and artistic drive. Loves to add moments to songs that tickle your body.”

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