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[selftrained]

Body Is Branching
A Vertebreak Fanmix

01
Assemblage 23
Skin
Identity sometimes seems fleeting
An ever-changing tapestry
But at its heart is the foundation
The very essence of our being...
At times the self seems in transition
A mere projection on a screen
But what happens when you turn the lights on
And things are not as they once seemed?
Shed your skin, cast off your chains
Feel the sun upon your face for once and wash away the pain
Shed your skin, be who you are
Unencumbered by the weight of hiding every little scar

02
Ava Max
Who's Laughing Now
Does breaking me make you feel good?
Guess you don't understand
What goes around comes around
Don't cha know that I'm stronger?
Don't cha see me in all black?
Don't cha cry like a baby
Ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha
Who's laughing now?
Know that it's over
Don't cha know I won't call back?
Don't cha cry like a baby
Ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha
Who's laughing now?

03
Charlotte Martin
Any Minute Now
Zipped up my mouth
My tongue split the hemisphere
My tongue split the hemisphere
Should I spit the words out
On a little piece of broken mirror?
A little piece of broken mirror
My reflection
Is a woman I do not know
Thunderclouding
Cause she hasn't got far to go
I haven't got far to go...
My walls are ready
Ready to be knocked down
Little crazy
But I'm breaking some heavy ground
I'm breaking some heavy
Any minute now

04
Faouzia
Puppet
Hello to the one that I am now
Guess it didn't go how you planned out
Little did you know, I'm my own Geppetto
And now you get to watch me go, go, go
Ohhh, tried to dim my flame, I shine brighter
And you tried to dull my blade, well, keep trying
And you tried to pull me under
Said I was too much, you're just not enough
I was born to dance, dance
Could never tie strings to my hands, hands
You could only love a pu-pu-puppet
I could never be a pu-pu-puppet...
حرية، حرية، حرية، حرية، حرية

05
Ghost and Pals
Those Who Carried On
Crumbling still, their little world rebuilt
Couldn't be endured now
There's nothing left to go to waste
So sort it out with new perspectives
Reused and defective
They challenged odds face-to-face
Once more, their head had caved in
And the past lingered nearby a locked door
Once more, they had revisited
Something over and over and over again and carried on
So, after all these years they remained a form of art
Cause they had problems from the start
Though they acted on a dare
There's nothing stopping them, so beware
These are people too fearless to die out
Though they'll never escape from the rise, now
You'd say that things have improved
Right?

06
I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
MAD IQs
Oh, you will never, ever stop me cause I'm never gonna quit
Gonna get just what I want and I am gonna get it quick
Lose yourself inside the city, lose your mind inside a week
You can lose all of your money, you can find enough to sleep
In this world to survive we can live while we're alive
Or we can die
Come inside, twist the knife like it's something to do
I'm a voluntary victim
Watch your colonial tongue, I'll watch you tighten the noose
I'm burning in your mad IQ
I'm burning in your mad IQ

07
Mustii
Give Me A Hand
Look at my angry eyes, I mean it
Under this empty sky
And I can barely talk about it
No, I can't even try...
My generation is doomed, you know it
And I'm still pretty high
And I can barely think about it
No, I can't even try
Oh no, there's no one around
And when there's no one around
Can you hear me? Do you want me?
Say it louder...
Give me a hand if you still have compassion
Come on, give me a hand if you've got any reason
Give me a hand, show a little compassion
Come on, give me a hand if you've got any reason
Won't you give me a hand?

08
Seeming
My Body Is Always Screaming
My body is always screaming a scream
That's unprovoked and true
And no soothing hand could interrupt
I'm a side effect of a deathless roar
My body is always firing
Ten thousand rounds of breath
My lungs are a suffering engine
Pounding to after the after, before the before
Cover my face and sever these hands
But the noise remains, the noise remains
Muzzle my mouth and fetter my legs
But the light still shines

09
ThouShaltNot
Breathing Like a Fish
Look into wanting
Look deeper still
And you'll see the back of your head
Looking down the filthy wishing well
And I learned about my brain
And, oh, it made me smarter
I would break apart the eggshell
I would fall into the water...
And these hands have spokes inside them
This body's branching
See that I'm trying too hard
Always landing, always landing...
Your body's branching
As I twist to eat the serpent's tail
And I'm trying too hard
This joke just writes itself

10
We Are Scientists
Lethal Enforcer
I wouldn't put much stock in that, cause the fact is
It doesn't matter what you ask, it's who you're asking
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore...
I'll have to ask you to speak up so we're sure that
We're all perfectly clear on what we're ignoring
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
Well, I'd say go throw it away if it's not working anymore
I promise this is not a test
It's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense
I guess that's what you're looking for

11
Weathers
C'est La Vie
Take a shot and fall short
I don't get the support
But I guess that's just life
Someone go get me some more confetti
I think I might have hit my peak already
I don't know euphoria
Would like to meet her someday
C'est la vie
I don't feel hysteria
She leaves me lonely
C'est la, c'est la vie
(C'est la vie)

12
Will Wood and the Tapeworms
2012
I was an existential criminal, so innocently cynical
Ignorant as fuck but a proud individual
Originally meant to live a God-damned miracle
It might've been metaphysical but I think it was medical
Testing my hypothesis
Never finding the theory...
Well, I think I bought into the comedy and brought a lot of oddity
An odyssey I thought to be consider a commodity
And not until anomaly abolished my monotony
Did I applaud autonomy and modify a lot of me...
I don't remember
How I forgot myself
I don't remember
I don't remember 2012
I heard the world would turn to hell
Compared to that, I'm doing well