The Present Is A Foreign Land (2022)

 












Pocari Sweat lyrics - Deaf Havana

 I was on a bridge in Singapore, thinking of jumping

But then I looked up at the skyline, and it reminded me of London

Used to be my home, now it's a place I can't afford

To live in anymore and it's all my fault


You can't really be homesick when your whole life's a mess

Getting sick of my drinking? Well I couldn't care less

I fell asleep on a plane and I dreamt that we fell to our deaths

Then I woke up alone and upset


Lost count of the airports 'cause I drink to forget

Try to throw up for good luck but I've got nothing left

Jumped out of the car for a bottle of Pocari Sweat

Good god this is as low as it gets


How the hell do I come back from this?

19dreams lyrics - Deaf Havana

 It's been a minute since we believed

It's been a while since I could see

That we were all on it, we felt it honestly

I've been looking for ways to live

I've been knocked back I've left myself

To give it up and try to keep this alive


Cause time ticks on, people die

Some of us get stuck in here left behind

As we find grey hairs, change our clothes

It leaves us to wonder where in hell life goes

We're all getting jaded, losing our will

I can't help myself from wondering still:


Are we chasing the same dreams I had when I was 19?

When I was 19?

When I was 19?

When I was 19?

Are we chasing that dream?


Calm down, come down

Try and pick your head up off the ground

Cause round and round and round yeah

Won't do us any good


Cause time ticks on and life drives by

Friends feel like a portrait of a different time

When you had long hair and boundless hopes

Sewn up in your three minutes of rock and roll

But we all got jaded, lost our will

I can't help myself from wondering still:


Are we chasing the same dreams I had when I was 19?

When I was 19?

When I was 19?

When I was 19?

Are we chasing that dream?

Are we chasing that dream?


I might feel dead to the world

It's just another day

Is this my time drawing close

I'll find some other way...


To keep it going cause I'm afraid

That I've seen my death and I've felt it all subside

Maybe I've lost it, maybe we've lost it


Cause time ticks on, people die

I feel like I'm stuck in here left behind

I've found grey hairs, changed my clothes

I've been left to wonder where did my youth go?

We've all been getting jaded, I've lost my will

I can't help myself from wondering still:


Are we chasing the same dreams I had when I was 19?

When I was 19?

When I was 19?

When I was 19?

Are we chasing that dream?

Are we chasing that dream?


What did this mean, when I was 19?

When I was 19?

When I was 19?

I Put You Through Hell lyrics - Deaf Havana

 I put you through hell

But don't you know I was right there as well

I've been down so many times I just can't tell you

The choices I made that just fell through

'Cause I've been thinking


That I was the worst of us

And I was never the first to trust myself

In any place that I could fuck things up

'Cause it's my fault you've always had enough

Of my hell


Stay up

Make up

Waste it away

Hold on

I'm gone

Make it okay

Until the morning

Comes and leaves me dry

I can only try

To leave this piece of me behind


Go ahead and leave it out

I don't need reminding what I was like

I know I wasn't right

Is it all a waste of time?

Am I just chasing good trips that went bad?

Feels like they're all I ever had


Stay up

Make up

Waste it away

Hold on

I'm gone

Make it okay

Until the morning

Comes and leaves me dry

I can only try

To leave this piece of me behind

(Because I don't need it)


Stay up

Make up

Waste it away

Hold on

I'm gone

Make it okay

Until the morning

Comes and leaves me dry

I can only try

To leave this piece of me behind

(Because I don't need it)


Nevermind lyrics - Deaf Havana

 I was living out of a box

You were reliving the years you missed out on

I don't believe in god

So I ain't got a shot at redemption

And I fell out of love again

Not with you but with living in general

I lost a lot of friends, never mind


'Cause I've been on a losing streak

My hearts made of stone and I can't trust my own damn feet

To show me the right way home

It's been a hell of a year

I'm struggling to see what the next one looks like

Without you here, my love

I never enough...


I was living in a haze

Trying to make strangers feel familiar

But I needed to get away

Leave it all behind

I travelled miles, travelled miles

To end up sleeping on your floor

Now I'm not sleeping well at all, anymore


'Cause I've been on a losing streak

My hearts made of stone and I can't trust my own damn feet

To show me the right way home

It's been a hell of a year

I'm struggling to see what the next one looks like

Without you here, my love


And every time I fall asleep

I see you in my dreams but then you're gone again

Yeah, you're gone again

I can't seem to shake you off

You're everything to me just like you've always been

Like you've always been

And even if I fall asleep for a second

I see you

I see you

I see you


'Cause I've been on a losing streak

My hearts made of stone and I can't trust my own damn feet

To show me the right way home

Its been a hell of a year

I'm struggling to see what the next one looks like

Without you here, my love


Without you here

Without you here

Without you here

And I will try to be alright

On The Wire lyrics - Deaf Havana

 Could it ever be any more

Than just something I think about?

When my love feels low and my blood runs thin

I guess it's time to figure out

'Cause everything changes when the drugs run dry

And there's nothing between us

It's just bottles and bags and my tired hands

Getting over the staying up


'Cause I've been feeling older

As the nights rage

And the days roll

As the lights fade out


See me walking on a wire

Fallen down so many times

I've given up on moving higher (Higher, yeah)

I never wanted to leave you, but it's done now

You don't wanna believe me when I'm strung out

Still just walking on a wire

It's getting tighter, I'm getting tied up

(Mm, I'm getting tied up, yeah)


I've been thinking about the nights I never finished

What do they mean in time?

Staying wasted on the days, I couldn't face it

Thought I could balance on a line


But I can change

God, I've tried before

I've lost faith

And I can't lose more


See me walking on a wire

Fallen down so many times

I've given up on moving higher (Moving higher)

I never wanted to leave you, but it's done now

You don't wanna believe me when I'm strung out

Still just walking on a wire

It's getting tighter


So how could I survive

For a minute without the drive?

Every day to another class

If I could get out from my past

But I can't give it up yet


See me walking on a wire

Fallen down so many times

I've given up on moving higher

Yeah


See me walking on a wire

Fallen down so many times

I've given up on moving higher (Moving higher)

I never wanted to leave you, but it's done now

You don't wanna believe me when I'm strung out

Still just walking on a wire

It's getting tighter

I'm getting tied up

Trying/Falling lyrics - Deaf Havana

 Is this hopeless? Would I cope less

Somewhere new? Without you

Out of focus, I've been low less

Without you I feel new

I'm still open, tired, hoping

I'll make it through without you


I'm scared I've wasted all this time until now

Where is the worth in these years, broken down?

I've watched the worst of it all stutter out

Maybe I'm no better, but I'm trying


I'm wired, I'm mired, I'm out here, all uninspired - underdone

I'm over, everything I've been over-hung for too long

I'd stay gone and wake up with a headache

Just laying all empty, for who's sake could I not make it?


I'm scared I've wasted all this time until now

Where is the worth in these years, broken down?

I've watched the worst of it all stutter out

Maybe I'm no better, but I'm trying

I'm trying


Wake me up, I've been falling

I'm falling, out of love

Wake me up, I've been falling

I'm falling, out of love

Wake me up, I've been falling

I'm falling, out of love

Wake me up, I've been falling

I'm falling, out of love


I'm scared I've wasted all this time until now

Where is the worth in these years, broken down?

I've watched the worst of it all stutter out

Maybe I'm no better, but I'm trying

Someone/Somewhere lyrics - Deaf Havana (feat. IDER)

 You met me in the dark

I saw you from the train

I was wasted

You didn't look a thing like I remembered

Smiling like a kid

Hands were trembling


God what a mess I'm in

Stuck like a stranger

Stranded and nameless

Blissful and blameless

Is this when the pain kicks in?


I broke down when we got back to your house

If you can call it that

Just a makeshift room in ancient building

Covered in dust and the rain gets in through the ceiling

What have I done?

I shouldn't have come here I know

But I can't be alone...


See how we fall

After all we're just strangers

Keep me on call

Through it all

This love is faithless


I found hell

In a hotel room somewhere near the western border

All my demons stick around 'til the morning

And I must have fallen asleep

Because I woke up from the strangest dream

The ghost of you was haunting me

Nailing crosses to my feet


See how we fall

After all we're just strangers

Keep me on call

Through it all

This love is faithless


I've been crying out I'm trying to focus on the positives

In this but then

You break apart like porcelain

And I can't make you whole again

If you think this is a mess God you don't know the half of it

You never did

You break apart like porcelain

And I can't fix you


I didn't want to meet the people that you knew

But I gave in, caved, got wasted again

And played the good guy (At least I tried)

But I just wanted to die

Each glimmer of progress

Was drowned out by hopelessness

And a simple sadness so sincere

It filled my veins with fear

And I just wanted to run


To run from everything

Outrun my youth maybe shed my skin

Reverse the years of selfish sin

Climb back inside and start again

I'm done

Maybe in another life

We would be nothing but passers by

And even if I see you

You're just someone, somewhere in the dark...


Someone, somewhere in the dark

Someone, somewhere

Help lyrics - Deaf Havana

 Feeling like I fell by the wayside

And I can't get back up

Turning 31 doesn't feel right

And I still think of

When I was too young to be jaded by anything

But those days are unfamiliar

Now it's all done and I've wasted 20 years


I should have chose sleep over staying up

But I'm defenceless

I couldn't find peace in the darkness

So I numb the senses

Falling so deep, couldn't stop if I wanted to

Who should I believe?

Feeling so weak, gave up then I lost you

Am I dead or dreaming?


I'm too low to be alone

And my head is an ocean of misery

So call for help or let me go out on my own


My head is an ocean of misery

Let me go out on my own


Crying out for a lifeline

But I won't hold my breath

I'm hard to be around sometimes

And I won't forget

When I was beat up, broke down and burnt out

You helped me to my feet again

I was never there, you were never a friend


I'm too low to be alone

And my head is an ocean of misery

I'm too low to be alone yeah

So call for help or let me go out on my own


My head is an ocean of misery

Let me go out on my own


I'm drowning again

Calling for help, please let me in

Please let me in


Try being me

'Cause my head is an ocean of misery

And I'm drowning in defeat

Try being me

'Cause my head is an ocean of misery

Is an ocean of misery


The Present Is A Foreign Land lyrics - Deaf Havana

 I've been living in the present

As a foreign land, foreign land

Blurred, the days fly by, like road signs

I can't understand, understand


Wait up, I wanna take it all in

I don't see any future calling

I've lost a decade in a moment

Washed out before I even noticed

Wake up, you're not getting younger

What's time but pressure in a number?

Locked down and being left to wonder

If these hours will come back to haunt me


The past pummels me like an avalanche

I can't see, I can't breathe

Time's insidious disconnect

Eats away at me, totally yeah


Wait up, I wanna take it all in

I don't see any future calling

I've lost a decade in a moment

Washed out before I even noticed

Wake up, you're not getting younger

What's time but pressure in a number?

Locked down and being left to wonder

If these hours will come back to haunt me


Perhaps on another day, I might find some other way

To keep the fear in every second at the door

How can I reconcile this world that I don't recognise?

Nothing ever seems familiar anymore


Wait up, I wanna take it all in

I don't see any future calling

I've lost a decade in a moment

Washed out before I even noticed

Wake up, you're not getting younger

What's time but pressure in a number?

Locked down and no need to wonder

These hours are already haunting me

Kids lyrics - Deaf Havana

 Coming to terms with things on a comedown

On a train across the city, that I no longer love

Taking me straight to the edge of our nowhere town

Oh, what a pity to see the lives we let go of


Thinking back on the summer

When that even meant anything

When I was a young man

Waiting for my life to begin

We were throwing stones at the sky

Aiming for the moon

Hitting the windows on the lighthouse

We gave up too soon


With the sand at my feet

The people around were the air that I breathed

We could stay young forever

Forever


Set fire to a cruel world

And the hearts of the cool girls

Sometimes I wonder where you've been

'Cause I heard you got sober, moved away

Then someone died and you were never the same again

Guess your time came and went


With the sand at my feet

The people around were the air that I breathed

We could stay young forever

Forever


Was it all in my mind?

'Cause everyone else grew older in time

I'll be alone forever

Forever


(Forever

Forever)


With the sand at my feet

The people around were the air that I breathed

We could stay young forever

Forever


With the sand at my feet (We were just kids)

The people around were the air that I breathed (We know nothing)

We could stay young forever (We were just kids)

Together


Was it all in my mind? (We were just kids)

'Cause everyone else grew older in time (We know nothing)

I'll be alone forever (We were just kids)

Together (We were just kids)


Who knew any better than this? (We were just kids)

All the hours spent wasted (We know nothing)

We were just kids (We were just kids)

We were just kids (We were just kids)


Who knew any better than this? (We were just kids)

All the hours spent wasted (We know nothing)

We were just kids (We were just kids)

We were just kids (We were just kids)


And you can, leave home, never look back

Change your names, cover your tracks

And you might get lost from time to time

'Cause you're still just a kid trying to survive

Going Clear lyrics - Deaf Havana

 I don't know what's happening to me

I wake up soaking in my sheets

I do lines on the weekend

I do lines with my "real friends"

Don't you say a prayer for me

Sometimes I pray I die in my sleep

I do lines on the weekend

Lose time with my "real friends"


I gave up before I tried

Maybe I could tell it was over

Maybe I could tell it was over

I fall back behind my lies

Maybe I don't wanna be sober

Maybe I don't wanna be sober, yeah


So you just get lost

In the pages of the books you love

And inexpensive wine

Is keeping you numb for the mean time

And I always try to stumble home before you go to sleep

But the devil is calling me

I do lines on the weekend

I do lines with my "real friends"


I gave up before I tried

Maybe I could tell it was over

Maybe I could tell it was over

I fall back behind my lies

Maybe I don't wanna be sober

Maybe I don't wanna be sober, yeah


I could tell it was over, it was over

I could tell it was over, tell it was over


I don't know what's happening to me

I wake up soaking in my sheets

Lose time on the weekend


I gave up before I tried

Maybe I could tell it was over

Maybe I could tell it was over

I fall back behind my lies

Maybe I don't wanna be sober

Maybe I don't wanna be sober, yeah

Remember Me lyrics - Deaf Havana

 Maybe I was a liar

I've been getting tired

I don't think I can get any higher

Look at the date, we've expired

I really wanted to make it work

But I broke first

Being driven round the bend

It all had to end


Cause it takes its toll

On the man I am, the man I should be

And it gets old

When I'm losing touch with what I can't see

Is it too late?

Because I can't take it, I can't take it home with me

I never wanted to be

Still here, just history


Call me naive

But I thought we'd be

Recognised in time

We were so blind

But I've just got to accept

That more time was spent

Chasing all the little things

God what we could have been


Cause it takes its toll

On the man I am, the man I should be

And it gets old

When I'm losing touch with what I can't see

Is it too late?

Because I can't take it, I can't take it home with me

I never wanted to be

Still here, just history


How will you

How will you

How will you remember me?

How will you

How will you

How will you remember me?


How will you

How will you

How will you remember me?

How will you

How will you

How will you remember me?


How will you

How will you

How will you remember me?

How will you

How will you

How will you remember me?


How will you

How will you

How will you remember me?


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