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Pain Sells

from Pain Sells by Cede

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lyrics

You say blue like it's something to be scared of
I exist inside that paradigm
All my life, reacting to the wire
When bird song stops, I'm not ashamed to cry

And hold your truth till the fanfare passes over
Me and you can count the lingering crows
All my time, perfecting blessed silence
What comes next I'm not afraid to know

Pain sells.
I'll put my trauma on a postcard
And you can read it till your hear swells
And sum it up inside a blurb

And go change the world (go start a fight)
The sky remains blue (come back black and blue)
I'll sit with the birds
And tweet about you.

You say new, like the old should be forgotten
But I remember just how frail we are
All our knowledge written on a bloodline
I believe we need to bleed that scar

And what the birds see never really phased you.
I was always more concerned to know
All our secrets hanging from the oak tree
Sunlight shapes us in tomorrow's mould

Pain sells.
I'll put my trauma on a postcard
And you can read it till your hear swells
And sum it up inside a blurb

And go change the world (go start a fight)
The sky remains blue (come back black and blue)
I'll sit with the birds
And tweet about you.

You say blue I say beauty (Blue, Beauty)
You say cry, I say move me (Blue, Beauty)

I went off-road on a flyway
Some say one way
I went a-wall on a highway
Some say, I stray
Pain still sells but I'm giving up on those acrobats
I'm happy and I hope you're well
3 hots and a cot in my habitat
All I need, is to tweet about you.

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from Pain Sells, released June 28, 2021
Written and performed by: Alan Kerr and Becci Wallace
Produced by: Jen Athan

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Cede Glasgow, UK

Cede are the combined songwriting talents of Becci Wallace and Alan Kerr.
Taking influences from mutual tastes in music and across different genres and songs spanning decades, they formed this lyrical focused, acoustic duo with just a touch of satire.
Writing in the shadow of an unprecedented year of torment for far too many, Cede re-evaluate the common tropes of love, loss and need for attention. ... more

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