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Collabavirus: Isolate & Collaborate

by Various

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Isolation Collaboration It’s that time of year Isolation Collaboration Let’s all have a beer What you gonna do when you’re stuck at home? You’re not motivated to put your trousers on You wanna go out but you need to isolate What you gotta do is create
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This is what it's like when the mask slips This is what it's like to feel empty This is what it's like when the truth hits This is what it's like to personify apathy And I'm tired of pretending That I want to go back To the normal before this When we knew how to act Cigarettes burn out in the ashtray A crude metaphor for our wasted lives All of time has merged into one day Suspending us above a bed of knives And I'm tired of pretending That I want to go back To the normal before this When we knew how to act
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Little acts cause big things if you let it be a big thing It’s an addiction You’re in a bad place It’s a lightbulb in the dark if you’re led along with these things Infatuation Leading to a big stink The idiot’s tired Walking up and down the hallway Pacing back and forth with the lights out Disappearing when the light’s on And you’ll see And you’ll see If you let it be a big thing And you’ll see And you’ll see And you’ll see Little acts cause big things if you let it be a big thing Inspiration Put you on a good face
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More than a year has passed since our breakup in Cambridge You didn’t keep your promise to check in after a month You didn’t see it necessary to answer my email And it didn’t occur to you to reach out in any way since then I have also learned recently that you didn’t hesitate to throw away The possessions I left at your place without asking me I’m disappointed and angry But mostly I pity you You had so many chances to make this right And act like a decent human being But you’re a selfish spineless bitch In retrospect I can say I’ve never met anyone more numb And emotionally dead than you I hope that life will give you what you deserve Fuck you I’m so angry Yeah I’m angrier than you Don’t understand me That’s cos I’m angrier than you I’m so angry Yeah I’m angrier than you Don’t understand me That’s cos I’m angry Anna, I don’t think you and I don’t speak the same language It don’t matter if I tried to iframe this short url code I don’t know why if I gave you my log in credentials You didn’t try yourself so you don’t have to ask me If I gave you my log in it’s because I’m asking you to go and try for yourself This getting ridiculous Do as you are asked Don’t get half pregnant You’re either pregnant or not Do a complete job That’s what you get payed for Muchas gracias por la invitacion pero no voy a asistir a esa reunion, ya que he decidido dejar el trabajo / Thanks a lot for the invitation but I am not going to attend that meeting as I have decided to quit my job. Estoy arta del mal ambiente que habeis creado en la oficina hasta el punto en que se ha echo imposible trabajar alli / I am exhausted by the awful atmosphere you have created in the office, to the point where you’ve made it impossible to work there. Espero que pareis esta locura pronto y que os deis cuenta de vuestros errores / I hope you stop this madness soon and realise your own mistakes. That’s all from me. Hasta la vista! / See ya!
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Let’s see if we can explain it You and I have a coat of armour That protects our bodies from the outside world It’s our skin We wash it with soap and water, why? Well there’s a special reason Look at your skin through a magnifying glass It looks like it’s full of tiny holes doesn’t it? These holes are called pores But did you know that you really have two skins? The one you see is the outer skin It’s the toughest part of this coat of armour Underneath it is another layer, the inner skin Underneath this is a layer of fat In this fatty layer are sweat glands Lots of them all over your body There are special kinds of sweat glands under your arms And other parts of your skin These glands have little ducts to carry the sweat or perspiration To the outside air Most of the time the sweat dries as fast as it comes out But sometimes it collects into little drops The air dries this sweat and that’s what helps you keep cool Every hair grows from a tiny root These roots are in the fatty layer too Around the hairs and other parts of the skin are oil glands They open on the outer skin like the sweat glands These openings are some of the pores you can see in your skin The oil made in these glands spreads over your skin And helps to keep it soft When you get dirty, the dirt sticks in this oil Germs do too, you can’t get them off with plain water To get off this mixture of oil dirt and germs You have to use soap
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Sudden and wasteful Shadows converge in the sun Eager replacements Turning tail on everyone We’re stuck inside We’re stuck inside But let’s stick together We walked for hours At the top there was a monument We climbed and stared And saw only what was naked and dead And it was beautiful And it ended
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Isolate, isolate, please, please We gotta regulate The air that we breath Here we are in the year 2020 Where shelves are stocked Toilet paper’s a plenty I’m making my way To a new paradise Holing myself up With kilos of rice PM talks and it causes a storm I’m at home with bundles of porn Can’t decide what to watch on a Saturday night Worldwide shortages causing a fright Tell me if you wanna walk where the sun still shines Unmandated contact is a crime If you wanna have a ball Baby you can have a ball Spend the whole day on your games console Viruses spreading No sign of stopping Half of the world’s playing animal crossing Homeschooled children Zoom yoga classes Rich folk don’t know Their mouths from the arses I’m real close to injecting disinfectant BoJo’s latest misses is expecting Proper funded healthcare Mate I beg your pardon? Let’s just get a pensioner to walk around his garden If you wanna walk where the sun still shines Unmandated contact is a crime Wanna close my eyes and cry in pain Will Greta ever go to school again?
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I’ve come to my senses Realised what is what Now I know who I am Though I don’t know what’s to come But you Little you You won’t have Any of that Decisions led to heartbreak I still feel the pain The blame was never mine to bear It’s time you feel its weight Just stay away I won’t play your game You know you’re no different Though you act like a star You came saw and took Didn’t care at what price But now Time is up To collect What was mine Decisions led to heartbreak I still feel the pain The blame was never mine to bear It’s time you feel its weight Just stay away I won’t play your game Just stay away I won’t play your game
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“My idea is let’s all collaborate and make some music, a covid-19 EP… A umm, a collabavirus, if you can conceive of such a thing” Isolation Isolation Tell me what you mean No silence now No empty hum We drown you out We drown you out

about

A collaborative music project to raise funds for charity during the outbreak of Coronavirus in 2020.

All songs on this album were made collaboratively during the Covid-19 pandemic that began in March 2020.

Because of the lockdown imposed, this was done electronically through the sharing of samples, demos, and projects.

All proceeds from this album will be donated to Olympias Music Foundation, a charity which supplies opportunities for music-making to people who might otherwise not be able to afford it.

www.olympiasmusicfoundation.com

See how we used disparate samples to make this record: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PaUZ5aXcXY

credits

released June 26, 2020

Artists:

Scatterchild: scatterchild.bandcamp.com
Theo Sayers: theosayers.bandcamp.com
Liam Taylor: www.twitter.com/ltguitarist
Simon Pettit: soundcloud.com/mangoflush
Vel: veluk.bandcamp.com/releases
MOÉT: soundcloud.com/moetmusica

Also features samples and ideas from various other contributors, full credits included with purchase.

Please consider checking out the artists' other work, links are by their names.

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A collaborative music project founded by Jay Plent during 2020's Coronavirus outbreak. All profits are donated to The Olympias Music Foundation.

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