NORALYN
SLOW THINKER (Album 2021)
One of the Few
I'm a curiosity, you find me a mystery/ But you may not like all you see if you delve too deep// I want to be natural, let you sense me as myself/ But like a turtle in it's shell, I don't care for feeling vulnerable// I'm a slow, slow thinker/ I'm a stargazer/ I get cold as winter/ Tear like tissue paper/ You should know I'm quite impossible and if I let you close you're one of the few// I'm not an anomaly/ I'm both blessing and liability/ So if my taste is bittersweet, will you stay with me?// So don't run, don't run/ don't run, don't run/ don't run, don't run/ don't run, don't//
Education
There's something I'm beginning to understand: This is an education/ That maybe we are students all our days/ And death is our graduation/Cos I'm in a menagerie with all sorts of strange creatures/ Trying to learn how I should behave and what to imitate// Everybody wants to have a good time/ Everybody wants to feel a high/ I wish it was as simple as Following my impulses/ But that don't always turn out right// Give me an education/ Give me an education// I've accepted life is a practical degree/ And nothing is simulated/ Trial and error stamped all over me oh This process is fascinating// I'd hoped I'd have evolved by now but I am still a strange creature/ Where head and heart must coexist there will be fisticuffs// I don't want to do anything stupid/ But I don't want to miss out on the fun/ Sometimes I can lose my mind and then I have to improvise/Far too easy to get wrong// Oh discipline, I don't like your sting, but I want the wisdom that you bring/ Oh discipline,I don't like it but I need you// Yeah sometimes I don't like the way I'm learning/ Sometimes it hardly seems fair/ But the puzzles on my page are in ink, I can't erase them/ So I just gotta do my best//
Girls & Boys
The hours used to crawl by like the beetles I kept in cardboard boxes - thought they'd never escape/ but each morning when I woke up, I'd find them gone and it's funny how time has worked out that way// The world used to be like my imagination - an endless string of dreams I'd forever explore/ Every corner of each city, I'd wanna race in/ I didn't think of the terrors that my nightmares could hold// Hai ya ya ya // Girls and boys, girls and boys/ Romping in the backyard, making up stories/ Girls and boys, girls and boys/ Still playing our games, but we've lost our toys (but we're not just girls and boys)// Ooh ooh. Adults 'way back when' were so much smarter/ I was sure that I could trust what they say/ Yet on the odd occasion they'd be mistaken/ And now I've figured out that'll never change// When I was a child I saw my future/ I knew right from wrong, every answer was plain/ But now I'm all grown up I've graduated/ Cos I have seen how black and white can blur into grey// Hai ya ya ya // Shall I play with you? Would that be a bad move? Can we change the rules? Does someone have to lose? Girls and boys... Girls and boys...
Hot Blood
I'm tryna keep my cool, tryna keep it chilled, tryna sit sub-zero/ I'm drinking iced lemonade, tryna freeze my brain, keep the mercury low/ If I could just stay calm, I'd do a whole lot better, and a lot less wrong/ But can you let it go...// When you got Hot blood, Hot blood, Hot blood?/ You're getting too emotional/ You better keep in it in control/ Yeah you got Hot blood, Hot blood, Hot blood/ You got that passion in your soul/ But it can fire up like hell// I've got some real opinions, I've got real feelings that I want to make known/ I'm trying to calculate, trying to meditate cos I dont wanna explode/ My heart makes cotton candy, just a little bit of sugar and it's spun up all crazy/ So hard to let it go// And then you burn someone. And then you burn someone. And then you burn someone. And then you burn someone// You can't hold your temper/ You can't hold your tongue/ It must be the danger of your hot blood// Not much of a villain/ No much 'not to love'/ But you can burn, you can burn with your hot blood/ With your hot blood yeah//
Full Human
If my heart was on display, right now, every lonely place, every secret vault, you would be shocked/ If my exterior absorbed my inner mess, my attitude, and feelings, the image I reflect, it wouldn't be so sweet// I call on my allies but I'm misled/ Pride and self-pity, they are not my friends/ So I am left here fighting myself while the person I want to be is collecting dust on the shelf// Where is purity and innocence?/ Where is the peace we long to feel? the fear of God, not men?/ Has it all been left.. behind... in Eden?/ There is no prosperity/ there is no warmth under the sun if we cannot be free from all the demons that stalk, the beast that keeps beating away, trying to steal our sleep/ Bring me into the open air where I can expel this carbon dioxide/ I'm choked by pollution I need to purge/ Because I'm so full human/ And show me the light I can't discern/ Send the worst of me packing to never return/ I need to believe, there is beauty in being so full human// Oh I get hurt by the people around me And I hurt them in turn It's kind of disturbing I forget my common sense, forget my manners, forget thankfulness, Forget responsibility, forget there are others on this earth I'm scared by the truth cos it's heavy and it's tempting to hide in a perpetual fantasy My brain sips on poison, I say the wrong thing, Make careless decisions, my errors in ink Oh If I were a machine, None of this would be a thing, it wouldn't be a thing But my flesh, is not a curse, it's a gift: getting to choose, getting to feel, And knowing there's meaning being.... so full human ah na na na na na
Terrestrial
I would paint your likeness with oils on canvas if I thought that would make you last/ I would write your future - just a short description- if my words would come to pass// Cos you, you're like a flame that I can't handle/ And you, you're like a breeze that blows away// Time, it ruins all my hopes for you as you waltz on your own winding path/ And though you come back to me, I can feel you drifting just as soon as I sweep away the dust// Oh you, you're like a stone, I can't see into/ And you, you're like a current I can't change// Oh beautiful terrestrial/ How? How? How to keep a hold of you?/ I want to wrap you up safe in the clouds/ But you've got your world always pulling you down/ So how?/ How to keep a hold of you?// A brief fascination I had with the thought of cutting my ties and giving you up/ But the apathy shattered cos it was a hoax/ My perennial// How? How? How to keep a hold?/ How? How? Beautiful terrestrial.
Fiction Borders
Don't dumb me down/ Don't dumb me down/ Don't dumb me down/ Feed me empty pills and I won't swallow// Don't dumb me down/ Don't dumb me down/ Don't dumb me down/ I may not be a genius but I can... I can see it like it is oh/ I can see it like it is oh// And I'm after something real// Don't push me 'round/ Don't push me 'round/ Don't push me 'round// Put me in your circus, I will not perform no// Don't push me 'round/ Don't push me 'round/ Don't push me 'round/ My heart is searching, stirring up my soul// My soul aching to be free/ My soul aching to be free/ Cos I'm after something real// Oh the truth seekers/ They go running, running, running/ Past the fiction borders/ and I go stumbling, stumbling, stumbling after them/ Truth seekers/ They go running, running, running/ Past the fiction borders/ and I go stumbling, stumbling, after something// Something oh/ Something oh/ Something real/ Something real//
Glory
We are dancing mesmerised 'round the ballrooms of our lives/ Underneath the man-made lights and ceilings/ But our glittering criteria to feel something superior/ Seems a lot more like a barrier to me// Cos outside I can imagine a sunrise/ Glory, glory// I shut my eyes and greater dreams start tugging like a memory/ I'm tired of being courted by brief fancies// So I break the motions, slip away/ Out the door, run down the stair case/ Bit by bit the chaos fades/ and I hear myself think/ Yes outside, I see the proof in the sunrise/ Glory, glory, glory Is being loved, being loved, Being loved, being loved, Being loved, being loved by You/ I'm soaring like an albatross/ What I once treasured, I see is dross/ And I don't feel a hint of loss for old mechanics/ Cos glory, glory, glory is being loved//