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Between the Sedatives & the Speed

by More People

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1.
Hurt People 01:59
are you shaper by the hits you take? my pain erased by the joy i find its not hard, its so so hard its just effort over time i feel like being loud and angry is easy let go become the animal you are its such a balancing act between the sane and wildness underneath hurt people hurt people hurt people hurt people we are all capable of harm with the capacity for so much good its not about what you did its about what you do the only thing you can control is what you do next show the world through your actions show em all show your best hurt people hurt people hurt people hurt people secure your own mask before assisting others.
2.
youre on the treadmill and you cant get off youll hit the ground hard as soon as you stop your to close to see the pain your holding too tight bang your head against the wall to get to sleep everynight wounds become wisdom only if you work on them the damage only deepens the longer that you leave it endless entanglement that you created yourself you can stop if you want you can ask for help sort the natural needs from the ugly desires wounds become wisdom only if you work on them the damage only deepens the longer that you leave it step off the treadmill
3.
people dont change if they dont have to why would you change in a world thats serving you you plod along you yell at the clouds complain the other people are getting too loud backed into a corner repeated rock bottoms a boot stamps on your face but only you can stop it we shuffle on expect it to change needs go unmet we sit silent in pain if you wanna go forward you gotta examine the past understand the whys to help build a future that lasts if you wanna stay angry and scream the sun look in the mirror ask who did you wrong? who did you wrong? you did you wrong.
4.
you have the hunger to fix this and we all have to feed starving kicking screaming at the piles of unmet needs you say its just anxiety i say theres something missing when i look into the heart of it all i see are neglected children maybe its the brain poisoning that wanting feels better than having maybe we are just products of greed broken pieces in a broken machine between the sedatives and the speed how are you supposed to feel anything? depressants on depressants on and on and on we have the nerve to wonder what went wrong? you cant run from this forever youre selling water down by the river.
5.
Grief Song 01:32
it was compulsion over love something more primitive that trust its the thought of the act its the chase that you want i cant wait for you anymore to become what i know you might be i cant dream of a life that might when in reality we are crumbling my faith as it leaves it breaks & it heals its easy to read the ache it is real i cant pretend it dosent hurt to ignore the harm you caused im giving up on you and anybody like you ive wasted my time thinking theres any good inside grieving what we could have been dreaming of reciprocity.
6.
what does it mean to let go of the last part of your old self to abandon who i was and become who ive always ment to be i guess its easier to stay i guess its easier to never change and some never have to grow up but i hit the ground so hard i had to stop is there life after death? is there life after cigarettes? who will i be? who will i be when i stop being who i was? spent a decade in a feedback loop comfort in an echo chamber but now im bare knuckle boxing everyone feels like a distant stranger i guess its easier to give in i guess its easier to let them all win but you never had to grow up & i hit the ground so hard i had to stop is there life after death? is there life after cigarettes? who will i be? who will i be when i stop being who i was? its such lonely work but nothing works except the work and it doesnt make it better but it doesnt make it worse and thats enough.
7.
the crux of loneliness the pain of family the closer you get the harder it is to love them you source of frustration is death by comparison your cause of unhappiness is your lack of compassion grateful is the one who knows what they can and cant control who sits with the pain of the world and lets it overflow and pass miserable is the rest who love to complain that this or that should or shouldn't be this or that way cant stop watching the same tv shows we're so hooked on our own boring bullshit grateful is the one who knows what they can and cant control who sits with the pain of the world and lets it overflow and pass let go a little bit try live everyday more closer release the stress in your neck and more towards life.
8.
Bad Comedy 01:41
bad comedy you pass it off as poetry thats such a longwinded way to say not much at all tiptoe around the point youre never saying anything you think that its softness i think that you lost it but at the end of the day ill sleep alright knowing you have to be you for the rest of your life be careful when people clap it will rot your brain it will make you bad be careful when theres applause it will make you sick poison to your core hands turn blue from sitting still its your own weight move or it stays the same but at the end of the day ill sleep alright knowing you have to be you for the rest of your life i love you but youre letting everyone down when are you gunna prove us wrong?
9.
i miss you falling asleep on me you head on my chest we're on top of the sheets i miss you the way you would hug and hold me my head in your shoulder as i breathe you in something happens in our bodies each time we are close thirty centimeters gravity pulls drags us to where they want to go dont let go of me please I cant keep losing you.
10.
world in decline we dont address the source so you designed a so called chemical cure to pacify keep us right where we are no one lives no one dies living dead sprawl inhabit the earth i dont wanna manage my symptoms i wanna cut to the core you wanna dress the wound i wanna destroy knives cut the source stop spiralling into oblivion pull yourself back from the void unhook from your self created feed back loop use you pain for more than wallowing let it end here with me it ends here with me deceased, deceased youre dead to me youre dead it seams let it end with me it ends with me.

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Songs of grief and compassion, gratitude and compulsion. Songs of heart, habit, hate and everything between.

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released February 4, 2022

On this recording More People is, NJ & Matt.

All songs written by Naif-Jamie Martin

Written, rehearsed, recorded, mixed mastered by the band on stolen Gadigal land. Always was, always will be, aboriginal land.

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