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by Mike Sim

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1.
Kaleidocycle 07:07
the circle begins again seeking & hiding light follows darkness hold on let go hold on let go it’s just a tone for the drone get in tune with the om a sound for the shaman to get in the zone tell me where it’s at & i’ll tell you where it is like that is that and this is this (like a ship in bottled sand it all makes sense like a clock with no hands it’s the present tense) ain't got no direction home all we are is all alone so tell me where it is and i’ll tell you where it’s at like this is this and that is that like a clock in bottled hands all trying to grip the moment like a sea without sands our ship it went and in this land of water & wood all’s not well but it’s all good a mediation is a dot in time ain't no reason for a rhyme the tree of life you try to climb but if you're looking you'll never find it a mediation is a dot in time ain't no reason for a rhyme the tree of life you try to climb but if you're looking you'll never find it a mediation is a dot in time ain't no reason for a rhyme the tree of life you try to climb but if you're looking you'll never find it the circle begins again light follows darkness seeking & hiding hold on let go hold on let go i'm becoming all that i am all that i am i am becoming time's grain's of sands they're a long time running i'm that song, that sound i have no bounds what was lost is found i am this ground upon which i walk the words i talk the thoughts i believe the consciousness stream i'm becoming everything & everything is becoming me i'm becoming everything & everything is becoming me :::now::::
2.
there ain't nothin wrong with love & yes it'll tear holes out of your heart but you better fill it up cuz it's gonna stop beating one of these days & that's why i wish i knew how to take the time back rewind somehow but time travel is dangerous that shit ain't real still i will dream yet we're too young to feel used up too old to be naive we held the hands of clock for so long but time kept on moving on & now we're too old to be afraid but too young to feel at ease yet we knew we had to hold up the sun & in that fire we were one
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Amen 10:43
this is the blood i want to shed of childhood scars & past regrets here's a cheers to every tear that we've shed to every bedtime story & every lullaby sang AMEN AMEN AMEN to every sandcastle & every snowman that melt to every heartbreak every hearts ever felt AMEN AMEN AMEN to every crab caught in a pail & every firefly caught in a jar to every wish wished on every star AMEN AMEN AMEN lord, stretch my heart's capacities give me drama & please give me comedy AMEN let me paint with color & sound give me strings on my fingers & a song on my tongue AMEN let me find all your mysteries until i expire & become the you that's within me AMEN COME NOW - BEAR WITNESS COME NOW - SO YOU CAN HEAR THIS SOUND FEEL THE MYSTIC TIME & TONE & FLESH & BONE ALL TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN SCIENCE & THAT NEW AGE VOID STRENGTH & REASON PLEASE LET ME SEE AND FAITH & PASSION PLEASE MAKE ME BLIND AMEN the alter may be wooden but the need to be reverent is real god might be dead but i still need some kind of focal point to feel so even if it's just a focal point to feel AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN this is the blood i want to shed of childhood scars & past regrets here's a cheers to every tear that we've shed to every bedtime story & every lullaby sang AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN
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Why 05:22
if you ask me why if you ask me why cuz there's a reason you're loosing your keys in the morning & there's a reason for a broken heart & there's a reason for every question & there's a reason for every regret but you gotta forgive to heal & you gotta heal to forgive you gotta live to die & you gotta die to live you gotta get to grow & you gotta know to forget & yet & yet you'll forget it in people but it's hiding in the crevices of every mind you'll forget it in your routines but it's waiting to be shattered & untied it's hiding where you left it & it's selfless & if you ask me why if you ask me why cuz there's a reason the sun comes up in the morning & there's a reason to sing a song & there's a reason for every coincidence & i'd like to think there's a reason we can make sense of anything at all but you gotta begin to end you gotta end to begin cuz everything is expanding just to come back in & if it goes in & out then there ain't no out without oscillation & yet & yet you'll find it in people even if you're lost playing those games with stones you'll find it in that moment & it might shatter you until all is one it's hiding where you left it & it's selfless & if you ask me why if you ask me why
5.
i'd like to write a beautiful story about love sometimes even more than i'd like to live one how do you find it? can you keep it? how's it feel when it's not there? does it follow rhyme or reason? how's it end? how's it end? how's it end? how's it end?
6.
when i make this sound "love" is anything understood? as in your mind you go back in time through your memories of love or lack thereof in your mind hit rewind back in time *it's alright* memories are your guide pick up what you left behind your's aren't the same as mine as we move to define "love"
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when i make this sound "love" that sound hit's your ears & the hairs in your ear vibrate & you hear a word & in your mind you hit rewind & go back in time through your memories of love or maybe lack there of but as memories are the guide that we use to define & i know yours aren't the same as mine well that's why i'd rather not say anything at all... but love is realizing all is none & none is all winter, spring, summer, fall days, seasons, years only appear to be here to me cuz i got a spark in my ear & hear through my ears & when i see that spark in your eyes those lies i live become meaningless hypnotize me till ain't nothing real but this till i confuse my heartbreak with apocalypse & apocalypse with heartbreak till i want to take all i can throw & throw it all away we're all pushing up the daisies & this our passion play so come on, let's say away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go to death depart those words my heart don't start it never began & the older i get the more i forget to start my heart & it never ends a lie it spread inside my head i thought i was dead but now i know i am living so i've come to find what was left behind in the wake of my mistakes that are too late to correct & when i hate i forget about that force above the trees that reminds me now's an eternity now's an eternity to sleep to wake to work to play to think to say to do to be to want to need to kiss to suck to love to fuck to text to call i love you all but i forget i forget life's not a check list away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go "& when we break as we wait for our miracles remember god is just a place where you'll wait & wait for the rest of your life & when we break as we wait & wait for our miracles remember god is just a place where some holy spectacle lies" "well i'd like to find it, but i guess it's something you just feel & i'd like to feel it, but I'm afraid that it just isn't real & god is whoever you perform for & god is whoever you perform for & god is whoever you perform for & god is whoever you perform for" it's you: the universe in my head the water that i tread a dancer wild as a flame set an endless pain that ain't quite healed yet you're the hands i have to let go of when my clock runs out & i might never even know you i might never even know you but i know we all break "& when we break as we wait for our miracles remember god is just a place where some holy spectacle lies" & when we break as we wait & wait for our miracles remember god is just a place where you'll wait & wait for the rest of your life" i'll wait for it for the rest of my life for the rest of my life... for the rest of my life... for the rest of my life... away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go away go ego, away go ego, let go how do you find it? can you keep it? how's it feel when it's not there? does it follow rhyme or reason? how's it end? how's it end? how's it end? how's it end?
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how's it end?

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released September 19, 2020

written, performed & recorded by Mike Sim
mixing & mastering by Brady Custis
Artwork by Adam Blake & Mike Sim

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Mike Sim Boston, Massachusetts

Mike Sim is a Boston based multi-media artist that uses video and music - musically falling somewhere between folk, hip-hop, & electronic music and visually creating a kaleidoscopic mix from manipulated home videos & found footage.

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