Extra/Different

Another first-take demo off the Qleer album, captured in March of 2019 in LA. This song is a reflection upon my desire to get back to the innate creativity of my childhood, and heal from my addiction to busyness + work. And I think I have…I just spent 3 days alone in nature with no anxiety or loneliness, just a whole lot of bliss…and this is just a massive milestone marker in my mental freedom.

While I was away, I realized that [redacted] had followed a script written by someone else, to please someone else - which ultimately led him to an unfulfilling life he dismantled through crisis…and then called it all finding his feet. I do not desire to replicate this journey.

As an artist, a creator, I have no script to follow; my life is a freestyle. My consistent creativity is my source of grounding; my feet have always been here beneath me, and I have trusted and followed them steadily for the past 15 years. This is my journey, and I would do it all again.

As I’m approaching dropping the final singles off this collection, I wanna give a massive shout out to CY without whom this body of work probably would not be out in the world, for multiple reasons - and without whom my mindset around the innate value of my creative path would probably be quite different. Thank you 🤲🏻

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Prod. by Waine + Wes Singerman
Mixed by Waine
Mastered by Will Borza
Cover art by Andy La
Written + sung by moi

Lyrics:
VERSE 1
Feeling in my right mind again
Left brain full of ink from other’s pens
Scriptures and these rustic fashion trends
Scared to let the new life in.

I am a Creator at my core
E-mails and e-meetings got be bored
Tired of being alone and being sore
Got to let the new life in
PRE-CHORUS
You can see my in the night time dreaming of getting lost
You can see me in the night time dreaming of losing myself
CHORUS
I’m looking to you
Give me a reason to prove my best
I’m looking to you
Get me away from my loneliness
POST-CHORUS
I I I I I I i
VERSE 2
Years I’ve tried to deny what was mine
Anxiously addicted to the grind
Static like I forgot to resign
Scared to let my own love in

Extrovert, extra intuitive
Trying to make sense of where I live
I been extra different since a kid
Had to let my own love in
PRE-CHORUS
You can see my in the night time dreaming of getting lost
You can see me in the night time dreaming of losing myself
CHORUS
I’m looking to you
Give me a reason to prove my best
I’m looking to you
Get me away from my loneliness
POST-CHORUS
I I I I I I i