Anyone got any recommendations to "feel"
Truth - Alex Ebert
Heard this song on the radio about 15 years ago.
This is one of the few songs that didn't need to grow on me. It was instant.
As we were driving through a daylight savings time zone, I knew I would hear it 1 hr later, so I could get thr name if it.
Had always thought of it as a really catchy cool song. Didn't think to much of the lyrics.
On the last day of 2025, I listened to this song while reading the lyrics.
It's just gone into a new level of genius to me. I have a small handful of songs that can strip layers away. Some memories of things or people. This one is different.
Fuck it is nice to "feel" art.
Thank you Alex Ebert
"Truth
The truth is that I never shook my shadow
Every day, it's trying to trick me into doing battle
Calling out faker only get me rattled
Want to pull me back behind the fence with the cattle
Building your lenses
Digging your trenches
Put me on the front line
Leave me with a dumb mind with no defenses
But you're defenseless
If you can't stand to feel the pain then you are senseless
Since this (ooh) I've grown up some different kind of fighter
And when the darkness comes, let it inside you (ah-ah-ah)
And your darkness is shining
My darkness is shining (ah)
Have faith in myself
Truth
I've seen a million numbered doors on the horizon
Now, which is the future you're choosing before you go dyin'?
I'll tell you about a secret I've been undermining
Every little lie in this world comes from dividing
Say you're my lover, say you're my homie
Tilt my chin back, slit my throat, take a bath in my blood, get to know me
All out of my secrets
All my enemies are turning into my teachers
Because, lights blinding, no way dividing what's yours or mine (ooh)
When everything's shining (ah)
And your darkness is shining
My darkness is shining (ah-ah-ah)
Have faith in ourselves
Truth
Yeah
Yes, I'm only loving, only trying to only love
And yes, what I'm trying to do is only loving
Yes, I'm only loving, trying to only love
I swear to God, I'm only trying to be loving (yes, I'm only loving)
Yes, I'm only lonely loving
Yes, I'm only feeling, only loving, only loving (yes, I'm only loving)
You say it ain't loving, ain't loving (ah)
Ain't loving, my loving (yes, I'm only loving)
But I'm only loving, still only loving
Swear to god, I'm only loving
Trying to be loving, loving
Loving, loving, loving, loving (ah)
Yes, I'm only loving, yes, trying to only love
I swear to god, I'm trying but I'm only loving
You say it ain't loving, ain't loving, ain't loving
Ain't loving, ain't loving, my loving (ah)
But I'm only loving, loving, loving, loving the truth"
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