Name: Shrinking Man (Original Long Version)
Duration: P00H06M56S
Description: The (original) words to this were written back in late 2018 & inspired by a cancer diagnosis. This was the idea behind the EP title, artwork & the prelude. So having left it for 4 years, I reworked some parts & decided to set it to a jaunty synthpop backdrop by way of juxtaposition. Hopefully it works.

Shrinking Man (Original Long Version)

from The Incredible Shrinking Man by Exposed Brick

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The (original) words to this were written back in late 2018 & inspired by a cancer diagnosis. This was the idea behind the EP title, artwork & the prelude. So having left it for 4 years, I reworked some parts & decided to set it to a jaunty synthpop backdrop by way of juxtaposition. Hopefully it works.

lyrics

They're cutting pieces away
I'm not the man of yesterday
It seems my time has passed
Time to step aside
Step away

Through the wounds my soul seeps
As the knife plunges deep
Holes in my brain
Time to forget
Time to sleep

The cellar web holds me fast
The daylight cannot last
Too small to make my way
The light recedes
So grey

Each day my strength regresses
Time to fight or accept
They'll analyse or burn
I'll drift away
Nothing left

I can pretend I'm fine
But to find peace inside
& without
Without you
So little time

Who will remember
A being dismembered
Not amounting to much
Now even less
Traces kicked over

How can I look after you?
Even if I wanted to
As I drown in the flood
I didn't mean to
Shrink from you

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from The Incredible Shrinking Man, released November 18, 2022

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Synthpop/electronica from Liverpool (though now based in Asturias, Spain). All music (& words) composed, played, recorded by self.

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