Words in Vain

by Sleep Kicks

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Breaking through the static noise
Is there room for one more voice?
Do they listen? Do they care?
The sea of phrases never ends
Drowning in indifference
I am almost out of air

Opinions never spoken
and rivers never cried
Are bleeding through a pencil
Never running dry
I am spelling out my insides
Avoiding all constraints
But if no one’s ever reading
Are they all just words in vain?

Underrated, overrun
"He always was the quiet one"
But the roar was kept inside
Ink is scattered row by row,
spread like piss holes in the snow
‘till the agony subsides

Opinions never spoken
And rivers never cried
Are bleeding through a pencil
Never running dry
I am spelling out my insides
Avoiding all constraints
But if no one’s ever reading
Are they all just words in vain?

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released February 3, 2023
Music & lyrics: Terje Kleven
Recording engineers: Ole & Silje Huleboer @ Chaka Khan studios
Producers: Ole & Silje Huleboer and Sleep Kicks
Mixer: Morten Øby @ Taakeheimen Lydrike
Mastering engineer: Christian Obermayer @ Strype Audio

Cover photo: Jørn Landbakk
Artwork: Terje Kleven

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