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Feeling Free In The 21st Century.

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1.
Leaving 05:04
Is this leaving or are we returning Smash through the ceiling you're no longer earthlings See the car travelling up the fairway The engines running and there'll be no more delay Is this really the final departure The skies are clear and the course we will charter Strap yourselves in and enjoy the ride Today we are here and tomorrow we may die It's too late to turn back now The only way is to fall back down It's too late to turn back now The only way is to fall back down Look out we're going up in flames And our lives will never be the same But we'll keep on spinning, keep on spinning around Reaching out into an empty space Running from the rat race Where i'll keep my head, keep my head in the clouds It's too late to turn back now The only way is to fall back down It's too late to turn back now The only way is to fall back down
2.
There's nothing in this place I once knew The people have changed the buildings are new Searching for a house that doesn't exist Cracked mortar and closed doors holding all that I've missed I've been slowly walking through the unknown I've been slowly walking through the unknown Our favourite venue's closed finally Gentrification erased memories Pale concrete and glass reflecting the past Some things in life were never meant to last I've been slowly walking through the unknown I've been slowly walking through the unknown
3.
Tiny Towns 04:07
Each passing second is one less left How much of the future do you want to forget? Tearing out pages like your life's a book Beneath a dusty cover that's overlooked I wanna leave home and never look back Live my life through the looking glass Exist for now and take it day by day Be okay with inevitable decay In tiny towns that are left vacant As autumn leaves hit the cracked pavement With trees that will outlive you and me And feel the wind and the spray of the sea Have you made peace with yourself I'm far away but still my same unchanged self I wanna leave home and never look back Live my life through the looking glass Exist for now and take it day by day Be okay with inevitable decay
4.
The atmospheres making it hard to breath The sky's unclear and the moon is out of reach Woke up on a Sunday morning Grabbed my coat the sky is falling down Giving way to the upcoming day In work at eight the cities making its sound But what if we hate what we've become And what if we're not the only ones Greyed out skies are the lowest highs But given time i'd probably wish for them back Information at the speed of light We all despise and nobody's thinking intact But what if we hate what we've become And what if we're not the only ones But what if we hate what we've become And what if we're not the only ones But what if we hate what we've become And what if we're not the only ones But what if we hate what we've become And what if we're not the only ones But what if we hate what we've become And what if we're not the only ones
5.
You ain't seen sunlight in fourteen days Your bedroom walls have morphed into a cage Chasing shadows across the room Holding on to who has made you you Suburban life has taken its toll Not on your mind but on your spirit and soul Existential thoughts of complex lives How does everyone feel so alive Are you feeling free in the twenty first century
6.
Look to the stars and try to find me A couple thousand miles away Above the ashes of destruction The world looks different today The rain falls down but not on me The rain falls down but not on me What did you think in those few moments In your coffin made of steel From up there you can see more clearly Can you remember how to feel The rain falls down on me The rain falls down on me The flames fall down around me And the earth is claimed by the sea Once there was more than what lies here before us And where the blinds let the light in Footsteps in hallways and echoes will always Ring through the house that you grew up in Are you listening to the sound That the news report makes in the background As history repeats and your feet travel streets for knowledge you've misplaced I won't always be around Or keep my feet on solid ground I always wondered if there was anything left for me in this place The rain falls down on me The rain falls down on me The rain falls down on me The rain falls down on me
7.
The moon is shining down on dark empty highways Seeping through the minds of those who want more It seems so hard to feel the things I've felt today God only knows I've tried to before Can you hear The heartbeat in the city Can you hear The heartbeat in the city The sun is rising up to see the sleeping skyline Illuminating what we need to achieve We'll trudge through days on end left trying to define If there's something left to make us believe Can you hear The heartbeat in the city Can you hear The heartbeat in the city
8.
Sitting in the corner of the middle of nowhere Yeah my heart is in the right place but my head has had enough Scratching the surface of a burnt out civilisation While I'm picking up the pieces of a world that couldn't love Is this the end of those English hills Can you rebuild what you've been searching for Is this how humanity dies One final goodbye before the viewers applaud Is this the end What's the harm in saving a soul that's less than empty When the stars come calling and you're feeling incomplete Sitting in my capsule my air is nearly depleted One push of a button and I'll find what lays beneath Is this the end of those English hills Can you rebuild what you've been searching for Is this how humanity dies One final goodbye before the viewers applaud Is this the end Are you out there listening For now I'm drifting

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An album about separation, searching, and solace.

Written and recorded at home during the 2020 pandemic.

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released July 10, 2020

Written, recorded, and mixed by modem.
All drums by Owen Galloway.

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Bedroom made music meanderings from the big smoke

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