Performance/Strange Identities

by Whispering Sons

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1.	Performance 04:44	lyrics
I can’t shake it off I can’t shake it off White lights start burning slowly Exposing my fear of showing But I can’t shake them off I can’t shake them off Their indifferent eyes chain me To central stage nudity But I can’t let them down I can’t let them down This black mask I’m wearing Can’t even force a vacant smile And I can’t take it off I can’t take it off Icy sounds fill the crowd And the fool in their midst laughs loudest of all --- Speak up Speak up My words just dramatize Everything that’s banalized But, please spit it out Oh, please spit it out These curtains won’t fall before I have straight on staged my truth I have fooled you again I have fooled you again Music has ceased, performance done Just get your coats and get along Ah, they’ve fooled me again They have fooled me again Music has ceased, time’s up I’ll just grab my coat and crawl back home
2.	Strange Identities 04:34	lyrics
I observe the world tonight And though I don’t take part I enjoy the beauty of the act Their eyes drift, their bodies touch, All urged by a different lust Tempers stirred, unrest raised, Dominated by carnality And though I don’t take part I enjoy the beauty of the act I’m running out, smothered by Savage sounds and piercing cries And though I don’t feel part of it, I want to I want to see How everything disarrays In a haze of strange identities Obsceneties, treacheries, This beauty is illusory And though I don’t feel part of it I want to I want to see How everything disarrays In a haze of strange identities

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released November 25, 2016

Music & words by Whispering Sons
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Koenraad Foesters
Front cover by Iljen Put
Design & Layout by Michael Thiel
Photography by Annick Geenen

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www.weyrdsonrecords.com

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