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Little Man in My Head

by Cheeky Chalk

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1.
I left myself near a glass of water which Swiftly turned into wine Found a perfect place Just kept on going Self destruct in 5 Sleep comes easily When u get knocked out The simplest alibi But when you're waking in the gutter And it's not getting no better, remember You promised an end Getting louder and prouder The sound will make you grin Until that river runs dry We’ve had enough When we say we’ve had enough But it's hard to say when you can hardly speak And we want it all And it feels like everything But then who needs to feel when u can’t see Who needs to feel when u can’t think Straight at all Straight at all No can't think straight at all Twinkle twinkle little eye No longer such a beautiful thing The morning sun is telling me my fun Has turned into a problem again But I probably won't learn Probably won't turn over a new leaf in my head But I'll definitely say And I'll definitely claim That I'll never be the one to wander in the insane Getting louder and prouder The sound will make you grin Until that river runs dry We’ve had enough When we say we’ve had enough But it's hard to say when you can hardly speak And we want it all And it feels like everything But then who needs to feel when u can’t see Who needs to feel when u can’t think Straight at all Straight at all No can't think straight at all And all along we're down in the dirt again Oh we keep scrubbing Thinking we're cleaner then It's not a race but we're not winning Crawling under Getting louder and prouder The sound will make you grin Until that river runs dry We’ve had enough When we say we’ve had enough But it's hard to say when you can hardly speak And we want it all And it feels like everything But then who needs to feel when u can’t see Who needs to feel when u can’t think Straight at all Straight at all No can't think straight at all
2.
I'm going to have a little talk with my head Tell him to start using logic and reason instead Of these worries that he puts in a hat Adds a pinch of paranoia, a puff of smoke Pulls the rabbit out The rabbit of regret Hey little man in my head I’m talking to you and you're mumbling back Stumbling over the reason you said You'll never be happy, get over it man But answer me this do I not have a choice To wake up and stand up and silence that voice It's taken me so long to realize I can It's over little man get outta my head Thoughts float in the river And they pick up little scraps Trapping bugs that don't belong And all those cutting blades of grass You ask them where they been Where were you while I slept But the thoughts they never have no answer Leaving you drowning and shipwrecked Hey little man in my head I’m talking to you And you're mumbling back Stumbling over the reason you said You'll never be happy Get over it man But answer me this do I not have a choice To wake up and stand up and silence that voice It's taken me so long to realise I can It's over little man get outta my head So now I'm listening to my heart instead It's been broken, caught fire, fell over and bled And yet it’s still yelling the right words at me Still telling a story of hope and be happy It's found me my love and it's owning my thoughts Catching all the good ones and throwing back the small And it's cast a net wide for the right memories Put the rabbit back inside the hat and that's where he'll stay Hey little man in my head I’m talking to you And you're mumbling back Stumbling over the reason you said You'll never be happy Get over it man But answer me this do I not have a choice To wake up and stand up and silence that voice It's taken me so long to realise I can It's over little man get outta my head
3.
Waterfall 03:27
When the waterfall full Sometimes you got to climb a little The hidden hill Tree that tell a tale of hope No one find it if they don't Have a little feather A little sliver of belief In there other bruddas What about the water that is cold What about the slime on the bottom of the track Or the rope so old That it frays every time that you swing Singing like you didn't have a problem but it pays To be cautious Endorphins Running so high that you Looking down your nose At the way that the guy Like me Says wait a minute brother I don't wanna be the one who’s got to Call the ambulance and then your mother Say sorry miss Jackson but your son’s Had another accident Might never walk again I’ll never say no to fun I'm looking back on what we used to do And it's closer to dumb Risking this is what makes life taste But you gotta let your brain catch up With your running feet So if man invent the wheel Then he better use its full potential Better still Combine it with the gravity of slope No one knows if there’s a car No we didn't look that far But it’s better to break bones Than be still forever What about the others on the road What about the part where the trucks and the cars Only looking for the quickest way to get to work Certainly hurtling faster than you can possibly hope to go Hope to god the timing’s right Gotta have the courage But suddenly drunkenly toppling Towards that red light Might mean you'll see the one At the end of the tunnel first I”ll never say no to fun I'm looking back on what we used to And it's closer to dumb Risking it is what makes life taste But you gotta let your brain catch up With your running feet
4.
Love Letter 03:13
I thought love was a letter that I'd written long ago But I found out they were scribbles that were written in the chalk Tall stories that I told when I thought I knew myself Now I know I've found the one so I've written it in stone And now loneliness no longer got its hold on me I was half before, now I'm 2, becoming 1 finally It seems that I'm escaping From a pattern of my own making Waking from a sleep which had no dreams So now my cupboard of worry is empty And every bag is full Of the pictures she's been drawing of me look down left at the lines she's drawn Painted my fate with an artist hand Colours and tones that I could never hope to see Now I write in my little book of letters Words that never struck before Love's a hard song to try and sing along But she taught me every word And now loneliness no longer got its hold on me I was half before, now I'm 2, becoming 1 finally It seems that I'm escaping from the pattern of my own making Waking from a sleep which had no dreams I left it all in a cold hard place Thinking that I'd never get to fill that space cuz It's a world that I hadn't gone Didn't have my string so I had to moonwalk Making sure I had a map of the way Too scared to pass the point of no return Then she came and she gestured forward Said doesn't even matter if we can't go backwards Cuz I got you here with me Don't need a light and forget your string Leave all your luggage oh my lover I can take it from here And now loneliness no longer got its hold on me I was half before, now I'm 2, becoming 1 finally It seems that I'm escaping from a pattern of my own making Waking from a sleep which had no dreams
5.
You’re the Crack on the pavement I step over So I don’t break my mother’s back You’re the shattered broken mirror Giving me seven years bad luck You’re the tread on my tyre That’s worn down Just enough I’m not usually superstitious But my luck has struck such a bad chord with you I cross my fingers You won’t point your bony fingers at me Cross my heart and hope to die Your eyes slide into the east It’s not a question Of why or even how you do it to me Our past is really all the answer I need You're the wibble wobble ladder I walk under Without looking up Cuz I know that downs the only way I'll go If I keep drinking from the very same cup Noise and poison Follow you like two fish in a pond It’s not just paranoia You are the destroyer of me I cross my fingers You won’t point your bony fingers at me Cross my heart and hope to die Your eyes slide into the east It’s not a question Of why or even how you do it to me Our past is really all the answer I need All the answer that I need The answer the answer the answer the answer I need Yeah our past is really all, It’s really all the answer that I, that I need

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released March 4, 2017

Little Man in my Head
by Cheeky Chalk
Released 04/03/2016

Music written and performed by Cheeky Chalk

Vocals by Mark Chapman
Music by Mitchel Hudson

Recorded and Mixed at Sound Machine Studios Melbourne
Soundmachinestudios.com.au

Mastered at Turtlerock Mastering
Turtlerockmastering.com

Artwork by Ivano Martini
Ivanomartini.com

Guest artists
Dave Cooper - drums, percussion and marimba
Paul Lambert - bass, percussion
Rachel Chapman - backing vocals
Jerome Smith - bass (Little Man)
Ask Clements - violin
Cerwin Martin - cello

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