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Everybody needs
To be heard
To be seen
To feel love, joy and pain
Pain reminds us of our human-ness
What love and joy are
That we are alive
I am no different than you;
You are no different than her
We are a need to love, laugh, connect
We are not strangers;
We are one call away from being
Family
I am you
You are me
We are her
She needs no more than us in all of her human-ness
She loves, laughs, cries, yells
She needs food and water
Her belly growls
Her heart aches
You need no more than her
I am her
I am you
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Everybody Needs It
02:38
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Let’s talk about your daydreams
I’d really like to hear
Good things about the way you
Hope to disappear
Tell me all about the secret
Elements that bend your mind
Never give another take
Unless you hate to be so kind
Please rewind
Awakening in the
Nighttime
Danger dies
Let it drop down
Over all the little things
Voices in the air say
Everybody needs it, yeah, everybody needs it, oh
Better breathe in all the colors
Exhale them anew
Sit around the lost and found and
Imagine something true
Looking out for number ninety-nine
Looking out for letter Z
It’s a little like the
Elevated way you go to sleep
Reach the deep
Awakening in the
Nighttime
Danger dies
Let it drop down
Over all the little things
Voices in the air say
Everybody needs it, yeah, everybody needs it, oh
Life is like this
Allow it to be
Understand how to get bliss and
Give it freely
Heaven is in your head
Let it drop down
Over all the little things
Voices in the air say
Everybody needs it, yeah, everybody needs it, oh-oh-oh
Let it drop down
Over all the little things
Voices in the air say
Everybody needs it, yeah
Everybody needs it, oh
Everybody needs it, ah
Everybody needs it, oh
Everybody needs it, aye-aye, oh
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3. |
Giving The Game Away
03:24
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I know where the bodies are buried
I’ve seen how the sausage gets made
The cat’s out of the bag that I carry
My groundwork is getting laid
Spilling all the beans with nothing up my sleeves
I’m giving the game away
I followed the tracks that you covered
Got help from the fly on the wall
Dug up some good dirt on your lover
Took a look behind the eight ball
Spilling all the beans with nothing up my sleeves
I’m giving the game away
I’ll blow the lid off of this thing
And the canary’s gonna sing
I’m giving the game away!
I’ve watched lots of pots get to boiling
Crossed my heart and I’m still alive
That snake in your grass is uncoiling
The rivers I’ve cried have run dry
Spilling all the beans with nothing up my sleeves
I’m giving the game away
I’m giving the game away!
I’m giving the game away!
Spilling all the beans with nothing up my sleeves
I’m giving the game away!
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Everybody’s got a beard of bees these days
Circus people working overtime
Everybody knows what everybody else weighs
Piecing it together on the climb
Everybody’s showing off their ankles these days
They only drink their water out of glass
Everybody’s brewing all the IPAs
Fancy people acting lower class
Everybody’s navigating Hell these days
Brandishing their blades on every street
Everybody’s working for their meager pay
Just to roll their eyes at what they eat
Everybody’s wearing thicker frames these days
Visionary beatniks see it all
Everybody’s hip to the phrase that pays
They have their own version of the mall
Everybody’s getting all the highs these days
Sneaking them into exclusive shows
Everybody’s finding ways to be unfazed
Cruelty wears fashionable clothes
Everybody’s going back to nature these days
They know how to make it in the woods
Everybody’s in the legislature amazed
Saying things they thought they never could
Everybody’s got a beard of bees these days!
Everybody’s got a beard of bees these days!
Everybody’s got a beard of bees these days!
Everybody’s got a beard of bees these days!
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5. |
Undercover All Along
03:34
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Hey!
What got
Into you?
I remember
When we were aligned
We talked about it all the…
Time
You know
What I mean
Taking down the
Bastards from the couch
Caught up in cleaning
You hid your leanings
Toward perspectives
You claimed to find repellent
Now I see that you were really working undercover all along
Great!
Now you’re
Openly
Into guns, con-
spiracies and rage
Looks like you’ve really turned a...
Page
You see
Sensitive and
Gentle people
As your greatest threat
Seems like you’re hiding
Behind a tough guy
A self-loathing snowflake
A clown with all this weaponry
Now I see that you were really working undercover all along
Now I see that you were really working undercover all along
So...
Here’s the
Way it is
I can’t cancel
You but you should know
Why everybody had to...
Go
It’s on
You ‘cuz you’re the one
The one who doubled
Down on dumb danger
Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb
I think about you
About our thickness
I should have known it
But you concealed everything
Now I see that you were really working undercover all along
Now I see that you were really working undercover all along
Now I see that you were really working undercover all along
All along
All along
All along
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Jump on top of the world with me
The slingshot’s loaded
We have places to be
Jump on top of the world with me
The candle’s burning
We can finally see
I bit it off to test the waters
I bit it off to see the truth
I hit the wall from all this talking
I hid everything from you
Jump on top of the world with me
It’s getting nuts here
In this fickle city
Jump on top of the world with me
Escape the garden
And its variety
We saw the sun around the corner
We saw the sun get through the door
We got fucked up on following orders
We fed our feelings to the floor
Jump on top of the world with me
The water’s rising
And evaporating
Jump on top of the world with me
We’d go underground
But we have no key
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Everybody feels
Hearts collectively beat for
Love
Joy
Connection
Loss
Pain
Safety
Everybody feels
Minds collectively open in and out of
Uncertainty
Division
Fear
Everything we need, we already have
Why do we feel like we need more?
Like we are lacking?
Everybody knows ancestral wisdom collectively pulses through veins
I know what I feel
I know what I need
I know what I can exist without
What I will not perpetuate
Our people, blood and heart
Community, near and far
Impact, here and there
Indigenous teachings are the fucking way
Can we exist as one in
Love
Harmony
Peace
Joy
Understanding
Music
Art
Laughter
Tears
Sadness
Fear
Safety
Now and tomorrow for as many generations as I, you, we can imagine?
Can we choose love and honor fear?
Everybody ascends
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Matt Kollock Albuquerque, New Mexico
On June 21, 2024, alt-rock auteur Matt Kollock will release his most direct and personal project to date – the epic hard-
rock concept album ‘Family Plot.’ It maps the healing journey he has taken as an adult, angrily, irreverently and authentically. And it fucking rocks.
Kollock lives in Albuquerque, NM with his wife and cat. The music never dies.
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