Name: Sick And Sold
Duration: P00H04M33S
Description: Frustrated with those who would sell the cure while creating the disease, "Sick and Sold" reminds us to live mindfully. Beginning like a New-Age song with birds chirping and harp-like plucking, the instrumental picks up to a head-nodding breakbeat shuffle with a funky hook anchored by processed vocals. It feels like a comparatively subdued yet rebellious response to "Pearl's Girl" by Underworld.

Sick And Sold

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Frustrated with those who would sell the cure while creating the disease, "Sick and Sold" reminds us to live mindfully. Beginning like a New-Age song with birds chirping and harp-like plucking, the instrumental picks up to a head-nodding breakbeat shuffle with a funky hook anchored by processed vocals. It feels like a comparatively subdued yet rebellious response to "Pearl's Girl" by Underworld.

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It started up and it was not the thing we hoped that it would be
They promise big when set to win it falls apart we feel the hit
Heart
Keep to hope but where to run our movement small when left to one
A system said to keep us safe use fear to aid the power chase
Heart Heart
We didn’t need all this and we don’t need it now
Such a waste of life we have to make it up somehow
See what we do don’t change a thing it all get fixed don’t need to think
Hope for truth can’t see the lie watch the haze fill up the sky
Look straight ahead the blinders on when they come off the best is gone
Run ahead to chase a dream eyes open wide too crippling
Can’t make it right
We didn’t need all this and we don’t need it now
Such a waste of life we have to make it up somehow
We didn’t need all this and we don’t need it now
Such a waste of life we have to make it up somehow
Keep being told to live with heart
Keep being told to live with heart
Live with heart
Live with heart
It’s time to take care of ourselves
Too easy to consume and ignore our health
It’s time to look after the soul
Not waste away and wake up sick and sold

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from Elba LP, released February 18, 2022

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Elba Vancouver, British Columbia

Elba is a collaboration between producer/engineer Dark Arps (Jon Bierman) and singer/songwriter amsii (Amber Sawicki). Sawicki's orations elate the body and soul, while her lyrics tap into the zeitgeist of urban decay presently unfolding amidst late-stage capitalism. Her vision imbues Bierman's technically sophisticated techno-tinged breakbeats with an elevated pop sensibility. ... more

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