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about
My mental health has taken a real hit over the past couple of months. As I search for a way out I'm having to be ultra aware of the negativity bias in all media and make sure I'm consuming things to balance it out.
One piece of good new is: I can feel it starting to work.
A second piece is that earlier this year I made this beautiful, healing, pep talk of a track with my talented sis hillayrnx.bandcamp.com
And honestly, listening to it regularly is helping me find some solace and power within myself.
Hope it can work a lil magic for you too.
lyrics
(Hillarynx)
So intricate the mind is
Calling me to keep unwinding
Them pressure points build on joints
Free me
Give me them synchronising synergise
I'm grounded, surrounded
Child like, smiling
(Chorus)
It's gonna always do it
It's gonna always do it
It's gonna always do it for me
It's gonna always do it, do it for me
(Roseland)
Open up my notes app
Twenty minutes, no taps
Rivers run dry
Tell the sailors take their boats back
I was feeling godly, like I done it all and spit it
Little bit of writer's block and I forgot I did it
Should I try a little harder
Run that loop a little further
Leave hair on floor of barber
Praying it don't stop like Yarborough
People's make sacrifice n gifted in return
Ancient and Macabre shift to modern lesson learned
Maybe I should hold one to my lips and let it burn
Watch ashes fall away and turn the ash tray to an urn
Life and death's a cycle, rota taro needs to turn
If my output's getting stale maybe my input needs to churn
(So I)
Lose myself in written word
Listen to my hero's verse
Contemplate the way the light hits the page to lift the curse
Ran through inspiration
Like this shits a race
Too eager or too stupid
To see all I need's a little
Space
(Chorus)
It's gonna always do it
It's gonna always do it
It's gonna always do it for me
It's gonna always do it, do it for me
Do it for me
Do it for me
(Roseland)
It's that moon landing flow, did he did or did he didn't
Tell the mirror man daily that nothing is a given
I do it for the flow state, I do it for the frisson
I do it for connection, what my inner child's been missing
It's therapy as I tap these keys on this keyboard
Sifting through the combinations
Till I find the Me chord
I do it for the ups and downs, you know about the see-saw
Do it cos it's everything the future, now and be-fore
credits
released October 31, 2023
Written and Performed by: Nathan Jamal and Hillary K Juma
Produced by: Nathan Jamal
Guitar: Mel Glynn
Mixed: Mel Glynn & Nathan Jamal
Mastered: Maya Diaz @ Root 73 Studio
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