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Track #6 from 'Insignify'

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ARTIST:
Wondering why I do what I do
Caught in the race for afternoon dew
Born into isolation, weaned
On whoring out my
Carefully embroidered community mask
Chasing stardom, all I find is stardumb
It's fake, it's grotesque, it's sick, it's
Who we are now and forever
No sign of life behind the mask
Just a portrait for virtual
Galleries long after we are gone

Wondering why I do what I do
When all you want are background hues
To your idle, suburban rants
A magic ride away
From the abandoned recesses of your mind
You need a merchant, not an artist
Because all is well with all that sells
Like beauty and war and hunger and
The idea that God wants
Me to kill, so just go ahead and
Put that fucking price tag on my soul

LOVER:
Wondering why I am what I am
Inert at sea, drowning on land
Honesty breeds loneliness
Loved for someone I'm not
Hated for everything that I truly am
So I hold you night after night
A nameless, faceless, unfeeling
Orgy that I wish would fill the
Void in my soul

Wondering why I am what I am
Futile emotional anagram
Loved and been drubbed, been loved and snubbed
Now I'm all out of love
Left to rule my haunted empire of loss
My misery hates company
Broke free of a thousand cages
Only to find I'm forever
Trapped in my own

SEEKER:
Wondering why I am here at all
Just a raindrop in an endless squall
I'm the voice of eternity
I am truth, I'm reason
And there is no true reason for why I am

Wondering why I am here at all
An ounce of shale in a limitless wall
Fused to a distant corner of
Infinity; take me
Away and there would still be infinity

HUMAN:
Why couldn't I be special?
Why should I be special?

And what does being special even mean?

credits

from Insignify, released November 7, 2018
Vats Iyengar - music, lyrics, vocals, guitars
Thejus Nair - mixing
Tony Lindgren - mastering

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Rainburn Bengaluru, India

Rainburn is a progressive rock band based in Bangalore, India.

The band's debut EP, ‘Canvas of Silence’ was rated one of the Top 5 Prog Albums of 2015 by Classic Rock Magazine.

Rainburn's debut full-length album, 'Insignify' was lauded by Prog Magazine, and picked among the Top 10 Indian.albums of 2018 by Rolling Stone.

The band's second full-length album 'Vignettes' is out on 24 Nov 2023.
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