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Generation Anxiety

from Primitive by Cave Paintings

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stuck inside another day of feeling empty
fucked up with pride and entropy that's never ending
will i patch the holes and fix the leaks
or listen when my brother speaks
or melt into a sludge of apathy

the only voice of reason trembles with anxiety
it can't convince the paint to lay upon the wall
I know that I can stand up but the body won't comply
bound by thoughts that cant be real or a lie

twitch of my lip, a bit of numbness, i question my state of mind
and im up all night hallucinationg, keep telling myself that im fine
but i cant...i cant..
i cant regulate my thoughts
put my emotions on a chopping block with a little pill that swallows me hole
like a room thats full of carbon monoxide you can't tell sometimes wrong till you're already dying
and the only cure is to breathe
but the air outside is just as toxic, you just have to get used to the diesease
so i cant promise to be honest cause the truth would paralyze
the inertia of our atoms giving voice to our designgs
i feel so far away from anyone that's been my friend
i can't count the times i tried to help
like i can't count on them
so i can't be poetic and i can't tell the truth
so i hold my tongue, and wander off, not sure what to do
sometimes i dont care how the story ends
the news feed, the music scene, the global capital industry
make the peace i need intangible
one coast is underwater, another one is burning down
countless lives are slaughtered to build up bigger bank accounts
our mothers and our daughters abused because we shut our mouths
i cant be my own author
cause all this bullshit drowns the music out

beauty looks for stones by the lake
dredged up to the beach by the moon
exposing pockets of violent heat
somehow made elegeant and smooth
so i trace the lines of history
a circuit board of stone
an ancient lost technology underneath my toes
walking up and down the rocky beach
get a little further away from everything
i think that we are all afraid and we're not made to see
these lights and lies for all our lives we swim against the stream
if we told the truth
we'd just sink

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from Primitive, released May 18, 2019

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Cave Paintings Appleton, Wisconsin

A collaboration of rhythm, melody, poetry and philosophy by Levi Besaw and life-long friend Brianna Phillips.

Whether crooning in a soft intimate environment or letting loose a sonic tidal wave in more raucous settings,
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