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I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
Trouble walk down a dusty road
But I'm wrapped in flesh
So I'm a righteous soul
The earth may crack
The seas may boil
The lightning flash
And the thunder roll
When I lose direction
Will you point my way home
As I walk my lonely road
Through the good times
The hurt and the pain
I will need you as a friend
So I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
Life can be cold
And we all just a suffer
Trudging home in the snow
Another day as a worker
Time and tide they say
It waits for no man
My days they get shorter
But I know through my son’s eyes
I go on forever
So I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
I strive I strive I strive but I don’t seem to get nowhere
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Words by Kermit Leveridge
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Let me take you by the hand
So you know what’s going on
Let me take you step by step
On a journey that won’t take too long
Come let me show you
Reality is not what it seems
It’s all a construct
And what you see might not be real
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Words by Kermit Leveridge
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Woke up her daddy was knocking
So I creeped out the back door
He told me ‘don’t come around here boy’
And that I can’t come back no more
So I’m banging on your door baby
Cos I got no place to go.
Don’t wanna be sleepin’ honey
Wanna get back to my flow
Gotta get back to my flow
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Words by Kermit Leveridge
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Keep on shining on
Keep on shining on
Keep on shining on
Keep on shining on
Keep on shining on (shining on for so long)
Keep on shining on (shining on for so long)
Keep on shining on (shining on for so long)
Keep on shining on (shining on for so long)
Keep shining on
Keep keep shining on
Don’t stop shining on
Sometimes in your life things don’t go right
No sense of direction you lose all sight
No way to get through and all you feel is blue
So take a pause and be right now
A moment to steel yourself and ground
Plug into the multiverse and you will find
Who you should be
Shining on for so for so long
Shining on for so long
Shining on for so for so long
Shining on for so long
You twist and you turn stay awake all the night
Let go of the pain no need for the fight
It’s all an illusion step into the light
So take a pause and be right now
A moment to steel yourself and ground
Plug into the multiverse and you will find
Keep on shining on so long
Shining all over
Who you should be
Keep on shining on
Ooh shine on
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Words by Kermit Leveridge & The Reynolds
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We're offering up the individual tracks from the 2014 mixtape, Blind Arcade Meets Super Weird Substance In The Morphogenetic Field as a subscriber-only exclusive.
"Uplifting, life-affirming, and perfectly timed for the summer months - cobbled together, Heath Robinson stylee, more by serendipity than design, into a coherent whole by DJ / Producer Greg Wilson. Most of the tracks featured are by Blind Arcade (Kermit Leveridge & EVM128), either existing demos or works in progress, but the mixtape is also peppered with half-a-dozen GW edits, lyrically laced to bubble the Super Weird stew – the constant presence, and main ingredient, being Kermit, for it's his inspirational tale of faith and redemption at the very core of this morphogenetic mixtape. Following on from the Ruthless Rap Assassins and Black Grape, we believe that this is his greatest musical odyssey, drawing from the deep wells of his own mythos and logos. There were 3 frontmen in the Rap Assassins, 2 in Black Grape, but now, for the first time, Kermit steps to the fore – no longer to be described by such a limited term as 'rapper', but as a sabre-skilled vocal chameleon, his shades and depths ranging from wise old soul to lovestruck adolescent, invoking his many I's as a cast of compelling characters, both comic book and close–up personal, whilst, in trickster tradition, keeping us on our toes, not knowing what to expect next." ~ Greg Wilson, 2014
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released June 5, 2020
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