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Why I Keep Going Back

from Seen So Far by Mono

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about

I wrote this track when I was 17 years old. I was battling with addiction and habitual drug use and this is how I felt about it at the time.

lyrics

[verse one]

When I wake up from the night before
no need to get up for my lungs to be tight and sore
no matter how ill I feel I go and buy some more
even though I know it aint worth dying for
I watch that cone sink
my eye goes pink
Im heavenly sedated so my mind wont think
my pain and my habits seem to be both linked
so I’m grabbing those tablets to make those demons grow extinct
explicit images witnessed as infant
I have to live with this every minute you get it?
addicted from ripping away from the pain thats been inflicted
affected with the sickness and wickedness is my medic
this boat will float even though
I need to choke on smoke to feel dope
my hope energetic
this bloke self control broke
killing my self slowly
if you know me I wrote a note in poetics

So why do I feel deep inside that this fish needs fly
fin and tale and only lift me so high
swam out of like from the school
used my mind and as a tool
swimming in an ocean the size of a pool
lets go little deeper
let me give you a peace of the key
but keep up in the deep stuff
the boiling water burns the tea cup
like your throat after three puffs
we know this dream sucks
is why were heating up that green buds


[chorus]

Yeh yeh yeh
don't ever judge me
adventures been ugly
who said this life was fair?

yeh yeh yeh
the only feelings that can touch me
is the music the drugs and the love in the air
So
thats why I keep going back
thats why I keep going back
it heals all the wounds from being scratched up and slapped
thats why I keep going back







[verse two]

I like that burning sensation
from the Bourbon that I'm tasting
its so tasty and its taking away the pain
from the bones that are breaking
is why I gave in to the urges of temptation
hurting till regurgitating on the pavement wasted
I used to chill back by the Yarra river
with mates slab a goon sack and a bottle of licker
I would rap while my mates would attack the liquid
see who could get it down their chin
and scoff it quicker
on our own journeys
had our own issues
early on the drink that gets
abused and misused
for some fun and some laughs
live in the now son
and learn from what you done in the past
even though we were sixteen years old
we’d seen and had enough to be tough
and be bold whoah!
had to stay strong through the memories we hold
and we’re still living on
rock and roll mother fucker rock n roll

I wouldn't change things even if I could
I’ve lived in a day dream and here I’ve stood
made my self feel amazing I only like feeling good
you have to feel bad to feel great
and thats somethings I’ve understood
so slowly
I’m getting used to feeling how I'm feeling
with out having to change the vibe
but in a world full of
killers pedophiles and heroine dealers
its hard to believe its a miracle I'm alive
that peeling feeling that stops me from seeking meaning
don’t want to be a human being feeling I'm done
but your steam trains steaming
and rivers and creeks streaming
you gotta get chewed up
before you blow up like bubble gum

[chorus]
yeh yeh yeh
don't ever judge me adventured been ugly
who said this life was fair?
yeh yeh yeh
the only feelings that can touch me
is the music, the drugs and the love in the air
So
thats why I keep going back
thats why I keep going back
it heals all the wounds
from being scratched up and slapped
thats why I keep going back

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from Seen So Far, released July 15, 2017

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