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Monsters
05:13
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Lately I've been thinking about all the monsters that I've met
Have we grown so close that my mirror has a monster in it
You've been saying I'm not here when you need me most
I'll try to avoid the hole I'll try to ignore the ghosts
This fear has built a wall
I'm trying to not fall
Sometimes I cannot hide
From all this pain inside
Whoa oh oh oh oh
Whoa oh oh oh oh
Whoa oh oh oh oh
Whoa oh oh oh oh
I try to smile and nod at my white girl problems everyday
Living in a fantasy slowly suffocating my anxiety away
I'm so distant I can't see the sure things close to me
I'm on the outside looking in at pretending to be free
Could I be the monster
I've been scared of for so long
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Set Yourself Free
06:13
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Your thoughts are driftwood, vacuous and dim
Your judgment is lightening in your hymns
You keep feeding this façade from within
Your shame and guilt; in the grips of sin
Love isn’t true if it has rules
I’m not boarding your ship of fools
Gender roles doesn’t equal democracy
I wish you could set yourself free
Attached to the dead man hanging from the wall
Lamb of mercy, lamb of god I’m sure that I will fall
Great expectations keep growing up so tall
Hurtling straight to hell when my faith grows small
Love isn’t true if it has rules
I’m not boarding your ship of fools
Gender roles doesn’t equal democracy
I wish you could set yourself free
You cast insults and judgement from your stage
Don’t you think it’s time to turn a new page?
Hate doesn't make you sexy
I am not being defensive
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Two Sisters
07:25
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We both felt the same pain
Our souls bare constant stains
A loss deep as an ocean
Lives shredded by emotion
It feels like we’ve always been an unlikely pair
Travelling alone but still somehow right there
Children torn apart to live our lives in dismay
Two sisters lost each other on judgement day
The death of a shared era
Scars from common terrors
We marched alongside elsewhere
Transformed ties to our forebear
It feels like we’ve always been an unlikely pair
Travelling alone but still somehow right there
Children torn apart to live our lives in dismay
Two sisters lost each other on judgement day
Sadness sunk into my bones
I felt so scared, sad and alone
I put on my best brave face
It took me all I had not to be afraid
It feels like we’ve always been an unlikely pair
Travelling alone but still somehow right there
Children torn apart to live our lives in dismay
Two sisters lost each other on judgement day
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New Years Day
04:26
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It’s 3am on New Year’s Day
All the couples and the good ones have gone away
Feel like I need a holiday
The bar is empty so I might as well stay
I meet a trans sexual stand-up comedian
She’s as sad as a colour-blind chameleon
I buy her a drink to help her stay for a few
I hope to help her think her sadness through
She says I’ll have a screwdriver
I buy her more than two
I ask what kind of drink is that
She says it’s what gets her through
I look her up online to see if she’s real
She had a face like a celebrity but her lips were sealed
She has a comic routine about a suicide note
It seems pretty dark to treat that as a joke
I hope she’s alright I still have her business card
Being a trans sexual lesbian seems like it’s pretty hard
Maybe someday some more souls will give her a break
All society wants to do is be fake and take take take
She says I’ll have a screwdriver
I buy her more than two
I ask what kind of drink is that
She says it’s what gets her through
It’s 3am on New Year’s Day
All the couples and the good ones have gone away
Feel like I need a holiday
The bar is empty so I might as well stay
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Riot
02:55
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What the hell is it to run like a girl?
When is a job made for a man in the world?
How can you make a woman scream?
When you tell her she can't do anything!
Hold back your tongue
Gender roles are no fun
Rebel against the rules
Stop listening to fools
Why do women get paid so much less
Don't expect me to feel good in a dress
We won't bow to your toxicity
Our gender comes with fluidity
Hold back your tongue
Gender roles are no fun
Rebel against the rules
Stop listening to fools
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Felt So Small
06:43
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The air was thick and black. The lights were out.
I tossed and turned. Listened to them shout.
In the room down the hall. Their fight intensified.
I was frozen in fear. Right where I lied.
A little part of me died that night.
So helpless in the shadow of their fight.
I couldn’t mind my own and just sit tight.
I’ve tried not to know with all my might.
I marched into the room. I burst the door open.
She gasped for air. His hands on her neck were frozen.
I pushed him off. I told him to leave my mum alone.
He slapped me across the face. To the floor I was thrown.
A little part of me died that night.
So helpless in the shadow of their fight.
I couldn’t mind my own and just sit tight.
I’ve tried not to know with all my might.
He made a sea of lies. The police would come.
He’d say they were just. Having an argument.
He’d use a phonebook. To hide his blows.
We were all his toys. The damage is permanent.
A little part of me died that night.
So helpless in the shadow of their fight.
I couldn’t mind my own and just sit tight.
I’ve tried not to know with all my might.
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Seance
06:03
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A circle of youth
Seeking the truth
Dark shadows await
Longing for bait
We were so naïve and young
Didn’t know what we’d begun
Spirits lurking in the dark
Fear tearing us apart
Weakness twisting up our hearts
Naïve children in a black art
A figure in the night
Pentagrams in white
Rousing the nameless
Obscure and faceless
We were so naïve and young
Didn’t know what we’d begun
Spirits lurking in the dark
Fear tearing us apart
Weakness twisting up our hearts
Naïve children in a black art
The darkness never left
Its presence is a test
The shadows never rest
They’re itching to divest
We were so naïve and young
Didn’t know what we’d begun
Spirits lurking in the dark
Fear tearing us apart
Weakness twisting up our hearts
Naïve children in a black art
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Ladyshark Hempstead, New York
Ladyshark are a 3-piece, punk band currently based in New York. This all female trio uses guitar loops, bass, vocals and
drums. Sarah Vardy is on guitar/guitar loops/lead vocals, Megan ‘Raygun’ Dillard is on bass/backup vocals and award winning percussionist Jane Boxall is on drums.
Ladyshark were Anu Sava. Anu Sava started out as a solo project from Sarah, front woman of Girl With Cake.
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