Story Behind the Song
Written By Matt Kelly. The first song Mandrake put together, recorded at home days later in two takes. Have decided to keep the song very raw sounding.
Lyrics
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
Does my heart belong to the head of state?
And all my dreams, are they all at stake?
The prison commission just tucked another face away;
A paranoid, deluded public: symptoms of a system failed…
Like a storm at sea, no one there to witness your grief.
I guess you’ll just have to learn to live waiting for your turn for discovery.
When you have got it all, and you’re the master of these walls,
You’ll learn that you can fall and maybe live a little more.
And I keep on trying so hard to remain true to myself,
But it’s my mind that I am fighting, detached I can do nothing.
We pay for what we earn, detached, disregarded.
All I want is to open up these arms to anyone.
Bending rules to tell the lies, just do easy to justify.
In amongst all the right I can only see your wrong.
Sailing further from human. Vertigo on the brink of enlightenment.
End this phobia, close this self-destructive flow.
A race from the start, gave chase to get nowhere,
But I kept and I keep on running neither here nor there.
Trying hard to keep things sacred to revive the mystery,
Because there’s so much history.
My life is an hourglass that I am not allowed to see,
And time is running out for me.
Does my heart belong to the head of state?
And all my dreams, are they all at stake?
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