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I Can't Help Myself

by State of Mind (DK)

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Don't want to move I might just stay in bed Trying to get rid of all the words inside my head Don't be scared It's just a phase I'm going through I like it here, and this is all I want to do So -please let me stay And hide myself away For another day I think I'll be okay If you just let me stay I've seen the world Seen the way you live Done all I can and given all I had to give Hold my calls Turn out the light You know I won't be going anywhere tonight So - please let me stay And hide myself away For another day I think I'll be okay If you just let me stay Life is hard The world is tough I'm doing nothing until I've had enough
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Now You surely think I've had enough Now You wonder how I stay this tough Now You don't know how I feel inside Now vThere's no emotion left I have not learned to hide But play a sad song And I will sing along I won't fall apart 'cause I have the heart The heart of a cowboy No I never mourn a friend that dies No The bourbon made these bloodshot eyes No I won't be sad I lost my love No There's nothing I can't grit my teeth and rise above But play a sad song And I will sing along Don't care for your art I just have the heart The heart of a cowboy So Let's meet inside the darkest bar So I'll pick the jukebox tune to match how blue you are I'll play a sad song And we will sing along And then we should part 'cause I have the heart The heart of a cowboy We all have the heart It's our favourite part The heart of a cowboy
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We saw Your strangely different lands Your statues and your guns Parades and marching bands So proud Of everything you'd done The rules that you had changed The battles you had won Now they're all forgotten You tried You failed You failed But at least you tried Now, dancing on your grave It's almost like you died Your faith Just crumbled as you fell You promised paradise And built the perfect hell While we keep The money that we make Our liberty to choose From luxury or fake Seems our only future You tried You failed You failed But at least you tried Now, dancing on your grave It's almost like you died We tried We failed Can't fail If we don't try Now, dancing on your grave It's almost like you died
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And so It seems I've spent my life just getting rid of dreams Of how To navigate myself into the home That should be mine by now And everything I never did I remember anyway And everything I've yet to do I still recall like it was yesterday It's called Success To let never them find out I'm a mess Whose fate Is peddling my imaginary goods To people that I hate And everything I never did I remember anyway And everything I've yet to do I still recall like it was yesterday Hesitate Elaborate Tear your soul apart Much too late To contemplate A new and better start And everything I never did I remember anyway And everything I've yet to do I still recall like it was yesterday
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So happy that you've come We hope you all are well Here's wine for us to drink And stories we must tell We make each other smile With tales of happy dies And share our deepest fears In entertaining ways And outside our windowsill The sun is sinking fast Like the joy we feel tonight Is just not meant to last And we all Know the end That waits for us And we laugh Not in spite But because And we all Know the end That waits for us And we laugh Not in spite But just because
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You ask me if I loved her And I did - all those years ago But is that now behind me? I'm afraid the answer's no. 'Cause I don't believe that love is lost forever I don't think you can let the feelings go We all pretend and I suppose it's best for those involved But you and I are old enough to know They say that love's a blessing But you know when it becomes a curse You may still love another Which I guess just makes it even worse 'Cause I don't believe that love is lost forever I don't think you can let the feelings go We all pretend and I suppose it's best for those involved But you and I are old enough to know I cannot be your first love But I can hope to be your last I'll share you with your memories Like you share me with my past 'Cause I don't believe that love is lost forever I don't think you can let the feelings go We all pretend and I suppose it's best for those involved But you and I are old enough to know
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Songs about mortality, masculine melancholy, the fall of communism, love - and yes, even one about art itself.

Danish solo artist State of Mind once again defies categorization by releasing seven new songs so obviously rooted in classic songwriting that they border on traditional pop. Except that once again State of Mind's offbeat, synthetic soundscapes add a unique edge to every track.

State of Mind's 2010 debut was the brooding concept album Myotonic. Later the same year he released the 18 minute long electro-pop track Why Can't This Noise.

"There is no overall theme behind I Can't Help Myself," State of Mind AKA Kim Bülow Bonfils explains. "I'm currently working on a number of concept-style releases - but this one is merely a handful of songs."

"Though there does seem to be a conspicuous amount of electric piano and handclaps on this release," he says. "I guess these things just happen..."

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released May 1, 2011

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State of Mind (DK) Copenhagen, Denmark

STATE OF MIND is the Nom de Guerre of Kim Bonfils, a Danish keyboard player and multi-instumentalist, with a long career as songwriter and synthesizer player on the Danish art rock scene.

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