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They Want Familiar

from Throw Me Away by Styles Maleficent

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A song about being fed up with the music industry

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I'm only a beard or a hat away
from breaking it wide fucking open one day
Just a simple little shift in my image
Could baby maybe make all of the difference
In a shallow world, why bother to swim?
I'm just keeping my head above water pretending I fell in
It might be a joke, But I'm the one who's laughing
So tell me what I gotta do to make it happen

Sell my soul and don some shades
Make a record called "throw me away"
All the other fakers seem to get it
But I'm left out here resetting
Trying to come up with something new
When from the get-go I should have used
tired cliches said a million times
America doesn't want new rhymes, they want familiar

I'm only a snappy line away
On some new actor's twitter page
From getting a reaction
And maybe gaining some traction
Cuz everybody wants drama, everbody wants mama to fix it
The sick shits getting me all in my feelings
Clean or not the fucking country is hot
It's time to switch it up and give this truth thing a shot

CHORUS

Ain't it something bout the way I spit?
It's like a different language but it's fake as shit
But you believe it it's fiendish, the way they seethe it
Always was a game, now they NEED the hit
Now everybody acting like they saying something
They saying nothing
And I'm tired of all the images and hollow visages in syzygy
They trying to get to you and me but it's a fucking fallacy
NEW REALITY
It's time to open our eyes and stop eating the lies
We been force-fed forever now they spit in your eye
Time to ride or die for our damn selves, buck the tribe
Motherfuckers living but yo, they aint alive

CHORUS

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from Throw Me Away, released April 1, 2020

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Mike Hamel Beacon, New York

Somewhere between Jeff Buckley and Queens of the Stone Age sits Mike Hamel. Blending haunting melodies with stark, raw emotion is the main goal for Hamel. The lyrics are honest but poetically ambiguous, the musicianship is tight and focused, and Hamel, himself, is an alluring character. ... more

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