This song was written mid 2020, inspired by Koa and I’s difficulties in traveling to see each other. In particular, her getting detained at the UK border in 2018, and myself getting denied entry at the US border in 2020, not being allowed back until I had an appropriate Visa.
I committed to only releasing this song on the ’Tube if and when I secured that Visa. So here we are, three years later.
Available on the album Hindsight, released in 2020:
Artwork by Koa
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Lyrics if the vid hurts ur eyeballs:
I’m on the outside, looking out
But bricks and wires block the clouds
So I’m on the inside, looking in
And I don’t know how long it’s been
Confine me into a prison
The walls only echo my cries
Come find me, I’m in the system
A number, a digit, a lie
I’m on the outside, moving out
Through bricks and wires, above the clouds
So I’m on th