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Mania
5
Metal
Mania was released on May 9, 2023 by NineEight Records as a part of the album Mania - Single
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Release DateMay 9, 2023
LabelNineEight Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM89

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

COMPOSITION & LYRICS
David Ellis
David Ellis
Songwriter
Hayden Wright
Hayden Wright
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Matthew Templeman
Matthew Templeman
Producer
Hopping Mouse Studios Fremantle
Hopping Mouse Studios Fremantle
Recording Engineer
Simon Struthers - Forensic Audio
Simon Struthers - Forensic Audio
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

We come out of the womb
With skewed cognition as a precondition
Every decision an equation
Between desire and inhibition
Rewind the tape to day one
And would your life have played out any different
It calls into question how to exercise judgment
Degrees of free will, the concept of a subject
It's easy assuming you're compos mentis
A loose definition that's suspect at best
I'm tempted to guess at my alleged enemy's intent
But I know I'm better off to find out what they meant
And what elements may have made them that way
An antidote to the temper of the day
What a quaint idea, but it doesn't work society wide
Or so we might conclude from the clamour of the constant outcry
We're still answering the biggest questions
It's natural that we might fall either side
But the shapes assume so many dimensions
It depends on where you draw the lines
Lucky you're a perfect arbiter of wrong and right
Base strategies on fallacies
Repel the other side
Quixotic and neurotic
Yet somehow a perfect model for modern negotiation
On active lookout for signs of violation
Well, I don't know about you
But it's like a hall of mirrors in my head
But I know, despite all my uncertainty
Admitting fallibility moves me as close to sanity as I can get
I see it encouraged institutionally
Mania
We exalt like Olympic medallists
Our leading pop polemicists
Our lionised tribalists
And energised supremacists
It trickles down and magnifies
And now, not only am I your opponent
I'm your wicked, scheming arch nemesis
You think I'm wrong about X and Y
It's black and white
And that gives you a green light
For you to see red
I wish you'd recognise some shades of grey
And break down all these fortresses
Well, I don't know about you
But it's like a hall of mirrors in my head
But I know, despite all my uncertainty
Admitting fallibility moves me as close to sanity as I can get
I see it consuming the better part of us
Mania
Well, I don't know about you
But it's like a hall of mirrors in my head
But I know, because of my uncertainty
Admitting fallibility moves me as close to sanity as I can get
Mindreading, magnifying, twisting and dichotomising
It weakens, disorders and deranges us to the point of
Mania
Written by: David Ellis, Hayden Wright
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