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I R L, U R L

by The Idol Rich

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1.
Gonna run
. Go and run then
. I gotta run
 round the drawing room and back again
. And round and round and round we go
 - we can’t get out, we can’t get out of our home. And round and round and round we go
 - we can’t get out, we can’t get out of our home

. Never leave. Never leave me.
 Never leave.
 Never leave me please. And round and round and round we go
 - we can’t get out, we can’t get out of our home. And round and round and round we go
 - we can’t get out, we can’t get out of our home

. Gonna run then
, or maybe take up pottery or drink myself insensible
 like the forced laughs of a hen-do-zoom-party and round and round and round we go
 - we can’t get out, we can’t get out of our home. And round and round and round we go
 - we have the highs and oh my god we’ve had the lows. And round and round and round we go
 - we can’t get out, we can’t get out of our home
.
2.
On a good day I feel like I could accomplish anything
. On a good day I feel like I wanna carry on. 
and on a good day I feel everything about me illuminating
. On a good day I feel like I wanna carry on

. It’s all in your head
. Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me

? Stuck in your head - 
what is wrong with me
? Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Stuck in your head
 - Oh, what is wrong with me
? Oh, what is wrong with me
? Tell me what’s wrong with me

. Stuck in your head - 
it’s over me 
don’t let go of me
 don’t let go. I guess you never really know. On a bad day I get restless and afraid of everyone
. On a bad day I am black tar that is pulling down. On a bad day I am worthless and my very worst enemy
. On a bad day I am stuck where I don’t want to be

. In my head - Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? 
In my head - Oh, what is wrong with me
? Oh, what is wrong with me? 
Tell me what’s wrong with me
. All in my head - 
Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Stuck in your head
 - Don’t let go of me
 don’t let go. Guess you never really know. In my head, Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Stuck in your head - what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? In my head - Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Oh, what is wrong with me? Stuck in your head
 - Don’t let go of me
 don’t let go I wanted to tell you though.
3.
Don’t you think
 we should give this up for good
? pay someone else to give her what we couldn’t give her but, well, we wanted to, I guess... But she doesn’t know you
 doesn’t know you she doesn’t know you she doesn’t know you yet... But she doesn’t hate you
 doesn’t hate you doesn’t hate you doesn’t hate you yet...
 And I guess we’re gonna be just fine, 
she’s the best thing she’s the best thing she’s the best thing in your life. She’s the best thing she’s the best thing the best thing in your life and probably in mine. 

 Feelings that are wrong
 sometimes creep up when I’m tired 
and get mixed up in the general mise en scene of endless laundry and domesticity. 

 She don’t hate you yet, 
but she doesn’t know you yet. Yet...

 Well, I guess we’re gonna be just fine 
she’s the best thing she’s the best thing she’s the best thing in your life. She’s the best thing she’s the best thing She’s the best thing in your life, and probably in mine too. The writings on the wall
. No - it’s literally on the wall. 

 But I guess we’re gonna be just fine
 she’s the best thing she’s the best thing the best thing in your life

. LIFE! She’s the best thing she’s the best thing the best thing in your life. She’s the best thing she’s the best thing the best thing in your life and probably in mine.
4.
I wanna help the Americans. 
Somebody help the Americans
. They got a lot of situations that they don’t understand
 - they’ve got a better way of voting, they still get the wrong man

, Somebody help them
, somebody help the Americans! Somebody help - 
help the Americans! 
 Somebody help the Americans! God help the Americans!
 They got a lot of situations they don’t fully understand, and they’ve got impediments and a history of violence

 and I want to help them out - somebody help the Americans! They got a lot of fucking problems that are very American.

 I wanna help the Americans. 
Somebody help the Americans. They got a lot of situations that they don’t understand; Like medication, education, systemic racism
 - and I want to help them out of this. Somebody help the Americans! They got a lot of fucking problems going on down the hill. 
 They got a lot of fucking problems that are very American.
5.
Shouting outside through the window, scattered, four sheets to the wind. 
The smell on the air is a battleground. 
I don’t know where to begin with all this

. There are holes in the webbing
 from where I clung on to you
. There are fissures in the ceiling tiles
 wide enough for me to crawl through

. Well, your love was a lie
 and your love’s gonna die
 and I kinda wanna be there when it happens. Well, your love was a lie
 and your love’s gonna die
 and I kinda wanna be there when it happens to you. Board up the holes in the window panes 
with the remnants of things that we owned
. Scatter the pieces in a hurricane 
 named after someone we know Well, your love was a lie
 and your love’s gonna die 
and I kinda wanna be there when it happens. Well, your love was a lie
 
and I wanna be there when it happens to you and I don’t know why I ever loved you
. I don’t know why I ever loved you, but I do Resting a cheek on ceramic tiles
 like the cold, cold embrace of my lover
. Down in the depths of my cellars
 there are the desperate cries of another

. Well, I still wonder if you ever think of me
 down in the dark, on your own
, staring out from the bottom of
 the hole that you dug in the middle of your home. Well, your love was a lie
 and your love’s gonna die
 and I kinda wanna be there when it happens. Well, your love was a lie
 and your love’s gonna die 

and I wanna be there for you and I can’t think why I ever loved you
 I don’t know why I ever loved you, but I still do.
6.
I’m tired of looking at things in scrolling feeds of enemies. 
Tick-tock tin-hearts entropy and shut down. 

It’s not too late for humanity 
If it’s not too late for you and me.
 And it’s not too late for anything that I can see

, Oh if only I could just be me. 

But you’ve got hate your enemies
 like the box they put you in all your life.
 Confirmation surgery. Do or die. 

It’s not too late for anything
, maybe it’s not too late to show your heart
, Not too late to shout about who you are.

 Oh, it’s not too late to make a start

. But not everything is worth photographing
 in this cult of your personality. 
I had anxiety before it was popular, so I got it free. 
 and I can’t afford the therapy to assuage the guilt for seeking therapy. 
So the tick-tock tin-hearts can drown themselves drowning out the sound of people reaching out

. Maybe it’s not too late for humanity.
7.
I still see you I still see you last. 
I can’t help you
 I can’t change the past.

 Don’t say anything to anyone
 - anything to anyone around
. I can’t help you
, I can’t help you reach out, 

Just don’t expect who you are 
 to change who your were
. Don’t forget who you are at the start - 
 Like you already are. 
Tomorrow never mattered but it kept on fucking happening a lot
. Don’t change anything about you though, don’t change anything about who you are.
 Just don’t say anything 
anything about your past

. Don’t expect who you are 
to change who you were
. Don’t regret who you are at this start.

 And don’t forget things you’ve been
. Don’t forget things you’ve seen and done
 and don’t regret who you’ve been to me. 

I think you’re OK
. And I really, really mean that - you know - I really really think you’re OK. 
 Just don’t expect who you are to change who you were
. Don’t regret who you are at this start. 
 Dont’ forget who you’ve been 
 Don’t forget things you’ve seen and done 
and don’t forget me.
8.
There’s dreams I’ve had
 where everyone was a lighthouse for something bad. 
Well, keep a light on you for anybody who happens to be passing through in the dark. 

You can switch on the light in the dark. 
Switch on the light in the dark
 and keep on keeping on

. And keep it on People like us 
will never be the cause of anything serious. 
Well, I like our chances - we pay the bills but never have to pay the cost. 

(In the dark.
) You can switch on the light in the dark 
and switch on the light in the dark
 and keep on keeping on

. You can switch on the light in the dark. 
You can switch on the light in the dark. 
You can switch on the light in the dark
 and keep on keeping on

. Keep on keeping on. 

9.
10.
I think you already know this
 but we have not been here before

. They call these times unprecedented 
 and I don’t care anymore

. We watch the cracks in the paintwork grow longer
 shoddy and broken

 while I catch snatches of desperate words
 that are heard but not spoken

. Well the outside is still outside
, somehow we are not and I am not OK with this
 Someone tell me that is alright. 

In your lifetime, looking backwards,
 did you every think you’d see such days as these?
 Well, I thought I might
 And I’m alright
. I’m alright. 

I get the feeling I was born for this, somehow, at first, but now I am certain
. I can hide under the blankets of silence and loss
 draw my curtains

. As we learn nothing from experts and see without thinking
. We try to suffer in comfort though, and function without drinking. 
 Well, the outside is still outside
 but somehow we are not and I am not OK with this - 
tell me that is alright, someone

. Because I miss people - So many people that I have not seen in such a long, long time before all this even happened.
 So, maybe one day we might get there - standing closer or holding hands or sharing anything in the sunlight again
. And be alright again. And be alright.
11.
Owed Two Joy 03:03
If I could write a book 
you would be a chapter heading 
and I could write a screenplay
 you’d be the lead

 But not everything not everything not everything is necessarily interesting and not everyone not everyone not everyone
 can say what they feel

 Like I can’t explain the sound of a loaded silence
 and I can’t express the depths of what I feel.

 So write everything write everything write everything In pages of diaries 
in the tombs of who I was and what I feel
 Not everything not everything not everything gets fixed by eulogising
 not everyone not everyone not everyone can say what they feel. Like I can’t explain the sound of a loaded silence 
and I can’t express the depths of what I feel. I can’t explain the sound of a loaded silence 
and I can’t express the depths of what I feel.


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Obligatory lockdown album.

Written in the kitchen while my 3 year old ran round in circles.

Recorded in the spare room, whenever I had a spare minute.

It's about trying to stay positive and negative at the same time.

Free to download - thanks for listening.

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released August 13, 2021

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The Idol Rich Cardiff, UK

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