Die polnischen Prog Pioniere RIVERSIDE veröffentlichen am 20. Januar 2023 ihren neuen Studiodreher „ID.Entity“ und vorab den Schlusstrack des Albums im Video: `Self-Aware.
Sänger/Bassist Mariusz Duda über den neuen Song:
“‘Self-Aware’ is a song which summarises the entire album, and talks about how it’s difficult these days to live in a society and ignore all the social changes, how you can’t simply be passive, ‘shut yourself off’, or ‘hole up deep in the woods’. We need each other in order to change something in our lives. Not everything can be done single-handedly; ‘I have to be better than others, I have to be the best’ is not a good mantra. We need cooperation to achieve goals. And it’s important that this message comes not from a solo artist, but from a band, whose success lies mostly in cooperation within the band and interaction with their listeners.”
Videostream:
https://youtu.be/Weuo4hgVHyY
Lyrics:
I told myself I don’t need it
Scrolling watching reading
I told myself I don’t need it
To know what kind of world we live in
I shut myself off from
The whole broken world
I told myself I don’t need it
That this is not any of my concern
But the truth is that I cannot live without you
And I should do something
Cannot just stand and watch
I told myself I don’t need it
And I can numb this feeling
And I can hole up deep in the woods
Far from everyone
And then I realised
I’d lived in self-denial
And didn’t even try
To understand
To recognise
Just want to be close to you
I want to feel you close to me
I want to be close to you
I’m sick and tired
Of our fighting
On a minefield
Of the social distance warnings
The future is in our hands
But first
Let’s
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile
I want to feel you close to me
Cause I still believe
I will find the answer
But I already know
I need you for
The feeling of
Being complete for the first time
But the truth is that I cannot live without you
And I should do something
Cannot just stand and watch
I told myself I don’t need it
Scrolling watching reading
I told myself I don’t need it
To know what kind of world we live in
And then I realised
I’d lived in self-denial
And didn’t even try
To understand
To recognise
Just want to be close to you
I want to feel you close to me
I want to be close to you
Being complete for the first time