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Everything To Everyone

by Kobayashi

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1.
Playing With Fire (free) 04:31
I’m gonna get burnt I shouldn’t do this You’re gonna get hurt If you see through this I’m gonna get burnt There’s something wrong with me But what if we weren’t The slaves of insecurity? Every word lights the world again Another step closer to the end Everything about this is wrong Why do we love it when there’s something going on? Everything about this is wrong (And) we wonder why we sink when it’s sand we build our houses on I’m feeling the heat I should have known it From my head to my feet I can’t disown it I’m feeling the heat It burst the bubble I should make a retreat I’m in the rubble Stupid thoughts got my heart’s desire Because we ought not to play with fire Round and round and round we go I want to stop, I can’t say no Down and down and down we go Just let me off, let’s take it slow
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Public Persona (free) 05:37
Where’s the line, where’s the line? I didn’t see it as it blurred What’s the time, what’s the time? I know they said, I never heard Open up, open up ‘cause I don’t recognise this face It’s like we’re stuck, we’re always stuck Because we’re standing in this place Everything to everyone Who’s the man, who’s the man? It isn’t me, no not today Yes I can, yes I can But just not yet, there’s just no way Everything to everyone Always happy, always sad I’m every thought you ever had
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Becoming The Same (free) 05:18
Hard work didn’t build that body The sun didn’t grow this tan She is the bionic woman I am the synthetic man Humour free, no irony A soul that speaks in binary New, improved, unloved, unmoved But dressed in all our finery We’re all becoming the same In everything but our name And in degrees of our pain We make the likeliest gain True love didn’t hone these feelings I don’t read because I can She is the bionic woman I am the synthetic man What did we do without “insecure” How did we even live before The invention of tension, the inception of stress Didn’t we used to meet the test? We’re all becoming the same In everything but our name And in degrees of our pain We make the likeliest gain
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On The Precipice (free) 05:57
We stand on the precipice Of something truly massive It happens just like this When we are blind and passive History does not play out On canvas, moving, vast It creeps and sneaks, no doubt ‘til tomorrow is the past This is bigger than you This is bigger than me This is bigger than both of us can be Six million Six million Don’t tell me not to get excited No motive, guile or art But surely you were cheated Or was midnight in your heart Were you tricked or were you treated? This is bigger than you This is bigger than me This is bigger than both of us can be And we turn away As the truth it stings our faces And we thought today / And who thought today We’d never have to face this / We’d ever have to face this This is bigger than you This is bigger than me This is bigger than both of us can be

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released June 17, 2011

All songs written, recorded and produced by Kobayashi

Matt Searles: Keyboard, voice, percussion, weevil, stylophone
Alan Stead: Guitar, voice
Mark Durham: Drums, voice
James Rampton: Bass, voice, percussion, camera, melodica

Featuring Eleanor & Lucie Mason: additional vocals on "Playing With Fire"

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Kobayashi Croydon, UK

Kobayashi are a strange band.

Not strange as in weird (except, maybe, for guitarist Alan) but strange as in hard-to-define. Linkin Park, Basement Jaxx, Roxy Music, Queen, James Brown, Tom Waits, The Stooges, Gomez, Bowie and Muse are just some of the artists we’ve been compared to. We don’t try to sound like any of them. ... more

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