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QuicksandJade Bird

Released: February 9, 2018

Songwriter: David Bowie

[Verse 1]
I'm closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley's uniform
Of imagery
I'm living in a silent film
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality
I'm frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain't got the power anymore
No I ain't got the power anymore

[Verse 2]
I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
Living proof of Churchill's lies
I'm destiny
I'm torn between the light and dark
Where others see their targets
Divine symmetry
Should I kiss the viper's fang
Or herald loud the death of Man
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

[Chorus]
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release

[Verse 3]
I'm not a prophet or a stone age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don't explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it
On the next Bardo
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain't got the power anymore

[Chorus]
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release

Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death's release

Jade Bird

Listening to the country-folk acoustic tone and stripped-down soul of Jade Bird’s voice, you’d expect her natural raw talent to be inherited, but her musical background is anything but.

Born into a military family, she had a wild childhood, constantly moving around to different military bases – but nothing as wild as her “proper rave head” parents’s love for EDM. So how did the British singer-songwriter find country and the blues? The influence of strong working women.

After the divorce of her parents, she settled in South Wales with her mother and grandmother, who were the foundation of empowerment in her early life. Then as she grew up, her female role models expanded to the artists in the music subcultures she was obsessed Loretta Lynn and Patti Smith. Influenced by her two pillars of music inspiration, Jade took her own path at the tender age of 12 – learning guitar and transforming her own experiences into art through songwriting.

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