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Covering the Cracks

from Album: Sub​-​Rosa by Ian Luckett (Data)

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VERSE 1:

It’s so easy
How we paper over cracks
To cover up the things
That we all know that we are doing

And it’s so crazy that
We see the things we need to do
But turn aside
And think it will not matter just this once

Does your heart beat
Like a plaintiff wailing
Well my mind is constant
But my head is aching

I can see the world
And I can feel its stress is greater
Small hurts now
Avoid a big hurt later

CHORUS:

You make-believe
With your liberal sympathies
Standing proud and thinking
You can pay to make it go away

Well you’re just playing
Thinking things can’t change
Because all you want to do
Is just cover up the cracks and keep consuming

If you’re sane you know that
Change is really coming
Because we can’t do the things
That we all know that we have got to do

And everything else
Yeah anything else
Is just covering the cracks
Yeah covering the cracks

VERSE 2:

Pull the covers up
To stop the demons
But it’s just reflections
That you are seeing

Can you see how
We all make these choices
All those tiny moments
All add up to monsters

So your armchair doesn’t
Match the curtains
Well my heart is bleeding for you
My whole world is shaking

I can sense you’ll never
See the bigger picture
Short-term gains
Paint such a brighter picture for you

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from Album: Sub​-​Rosa, released August 8, 2020

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Ian Luckett (Data) Birmingham, UK

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You may notice I use lots of harmonies in vocal overdubs, but it is always just my voice with maybe some echo and a little bit of reverb!!!!!

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