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Future Past

by Colouring Rainbows

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1.
Iroiro 04:53
Anyway and anyhow Earth keeps turning while Our world is not enough To satisfy Our hunger for love For pleasure within us We collect so many things That don’t do anything Anyway and anywhere We drop our waste Little synthetic bits of earth We mold and destroy Have you forgotten how it feels To be small and scared We put the power in our things Instead of our hearts We bathe in colours we see and take measures we know regardless of the cost Cuz we want to live purposeful lives, make something of ourselves in the end We are but stardust in space, in the cosmos of it all And anything and everything doesn’t matter at all
2.
We are always connected, Satellites keep sending our dreams Into space For all the world to see and hear And listen, judge, interpret, fear We interpolate, elevate, calculate, cache is cleared The engine gods modify thoughts, give us results we never asked Our world has changed, it is no game when we hear strangers attack, we’re already hacked, there is no turning back Electric world on my circuit board Electric world in my silicon heart Static has built up Satellites keep sending, Code Red Through our skies The metal army is discharged The bombs are loaded, engine starts How could they do this to us How could they laugh all the while The remote controlled sunrise burns my eyes Electric world on my circuit board Electric world in my silicon heart
3.
Timekeeper 03:47
Can’t keep up Beat of the drum You wind me up Turning my gears like clockwork Now step aside Bury your pride They take their strides Hands just in time We need to take some steps right now They’re marching right outside our door I don’t know what we’re waiting for Tell me what we’re waiting for We all can see That time is running out before our eyes In a heartbeat Our world will be in shambles oohh And yet the belief It will simply all just fix itself, That’s what they tell you Listen to their story We can see Time is running out before our eyes In a heartbeat Our world will be in shambles oohh And yet the belief It will simply all just fix itself, That’s what they tell you Don’t believe their story
4.
Farewell 05:08
I regret it so, but I’m sure we all know we’ve reached a forking road and for me it is time to go I can’t tell you when we could have seen this coming but every now and then I’ll be thinking of you I drive by, and feelings pierce my chest, you see, I must confess the memories are made to last tomorrow this will all be the past and yet I have packed my things, our faces are collected emotions are checked in, I hand over my keys I think of the good times, tears welling in my eyes but after everything my heart is way too scarred to stay in love with the idea of us I have packed my things, our feelings are collected emotions are checked in, I hand over my keys I think of the good times, tears welling in my eyes but after everything my heart is way too scarred
5.
Once when I am much older And possibly a little bit taller Then I am sure I’ll reach for the stars and catch one two three or Millions of stars await me and I will harvest them recklessly Someday I’ll own all the colours of the universe Once when I am much older And possibly a little bit wiser I will have seen all those things and know for once and all that humans are Tiny and not important at all Comets might crush us because we’re so small And we try to run from our destiny of vanishing from universe history Flying to Jupiter’s moons and beyond Well, something of us might still live on Humans are brilliant and beautiful things, so I’ll watch and wait and see
6.
Shaders 04:59
With each touch you cast a shadow on my skin Make me three-dimensional All my senses are programmed to savour you Our moments between the light It is thanks to you I’m feeling visible Like more than a polygon It is others’ eyes that fill out all the blanks So let me fill yours in Polygonal dreams, they come over me Round the edge and see our reality Get out of the box when the shadow knocks life all into you, shaded through and through (Polygonal dreams, they come over unto me) One step ahead of me you will always be Like a shadow in the future I can’t help you being there But I don’t want to wish you away I don’t know how we will continue this thing Where I need you all too much, but still I don’t want to miss your touch and miss your shading Because I feel like it makes me whole Polygonal dreams, they come over me Round the edge and see our reality Get out of the box when the shadow knocks life all into you, shaded through and through (Polygonal dreams, they come over unto me)
7.
Nightflyer 04:55
I’m flying high flying at night (nightflyer nightflyer) Tonight I’m finally wide awake No borders hold me back There’s no convention telling me I cannot be myself There was no step along the way I wasn’t scared at all But now I know tonight’s the night when I’m not gonna fall I’m flying high flying at night (nightflyer nightflyer) There was no step along the way I wasn’t scared at all But now I know tonight’s the night when I’m not gonna fall (scatting) Different’s good, different’s okay, for tonight I’m doing things my way Let the people stop and stare, even the occasional glare, tonight I don’t care There was no step along the way I didn’t doubt myself or wasn’t scared at all I felt alone for much too long, no one to confide in, to cry in their arms But this changes tonight, tonight I fly high, and even if at midnight the magic stops, the glass slipper drops – this is my time. Now. Right now.
8.
Foreigner 03:42
Layers of me lying on the floor Strange sensations all I feel My usual self is out the door What stays just feels unreal Foreigner in my own body Unfamiliar with my own mind My calm a distant memory My safe haven nowhere to find Why am I acting this or that way My feet just led me to your door But nothing’s left that we might say Who’s the stranger in the mirror I don’t want to loathe myself But what’s to like at this point My words inflicting so much pain My heart a welted emptiness Foreigner in my own body Unfamiliar with my own mind My calm a distant memory My safe haven nowhere to find I know I couldn’t make you stay With inner demons roaming free But nothing’s left that we might say except Hello darkness, goodbye old me
9.
Hyperdrive 03:57
I went home with you, it all seemed innocent You’re a father of three, there’s age difference In the afternoon, you made us some tea And the rest remains in my memory Glimpses did remain, my whole body froze when you put your hand where it didn’t belong No apology went into this song But surely you must know what you did was wrong When did gears shift between our faces, I recall nonverbal interactions so different The situation’s not the same, I am not playing this game, you took control so I’m dropping out while I can Speed is set to hyperdrive, I am losing my mind you aren’t halting because you are not my friend My heart is fluttering in my chest, I don’t know what to feel, how to deal, please help me I went home with you, it all seemed innocent You’re a father of three, there’s age difference In the afternoon, you made us some tea And the rest was wiped from my memory
10.
Life has its way of handing out lemons by the pound But oftentimes when I’m feeling down I tell myself „Sound and music’s everywhere You just have to listen, it is there Concentrate on the beat“ I’m not here I’m elsewhere Even on the saddest day, don’t stop I know that you can do it, just get up, Listen to the drum of your heart The beat will drive you forward any day No matter what just happened, you’re okay, go your way and keep dancing inside, hey The groove inside your bones wants out Inside your head you’ve started singing out loud, a party in your head No matter what, no one can take this away Your inner dancefloor and your inner sway, keep it that way and keep dancing inside I know that this is very difficult I know that you have bourne so much And sometimes you just don’t know how But you sing and when this inner requiem has finally come to an end you’ll still be dancing inside” Life has its way of handing out lemons by the pound But oftentimes when I’m feeling down I tell myself „Your inner dancer is going strong The dancefloor awaits, you know where you belong Dance to the rhythm of life“
11.
Shishigami 05:26
12.
Rosy Red 07:02
[verse] At four in the morning quite inexplicably A miracle happened just for you and me In an unattended moment for no one to see I stole a kiss Running down the alley you were chasing me Begging for explanation of the causality A confession of my feelings or just a forgery? Am I in love? [bridge] And I hold my breath to shake off the fear Insecurities of not being good enough And I hold my tongue till the moment comes Where I open up and tell you everything [verse] When I tried to hug you, you pushed me away But never hard enough to make me stay in place A conflicting message for me to decode What do you want? Is it really me you want after all? Or just a little push for your self to stand tall Regardless of the hardship that might have made it fall Are you happy now? [chorus] Love is difficult unexpected mystical Love makes hearts pound pink vision butterflies Names etched into subconscious body parts Rockets flying into space through the clouds [bridge] And I hold my breath to shake off the fear Insecurities of not being good enough And I hold my tongue till the moment comes Where I open up and tell you everything [verse] At four in the morning I woke up in tears A miracle happened, but just in my dream You were closer than ever, it just felt way too real No [chorus] Love is difficult unexpected mystical Love makes hearts pound pink vision butterflies Names etched into subconscious body parts Rockets flying into space through the clouds

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released April 20, 2020

All songs written, played, sung, recorded and produced by Jessica Müller a.k.a. Colouring Rainbows.

Additional drum programming on Iroiro by Jan Deppisch.
Additional drum programming on Hyperdrive by Tobias Matz / 3fcf1aa0[hex].
Drum programming on Electric World by Ingmar Ehler / Armin Spätzünder.

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Started as modern metal, nowadays genre-bending somewhere between jazz, prog, electro, art pop and post-rock.

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