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Secret Archives
Singer/Songwriter
Secret Archives was released on December 8, 2023 by Beta Vulgaris Records as a part of the album Look at Me
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Release DateDecember 8, 2023
LabelBeta Vulgaris Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM166

Music Video

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Credits

COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Dillon Shane Banis
Dillon Shane Banis
Songwriter

Lyrics

I devoted my life to history
I dig through the archives of our love
And contemplate all the pain and sadness
And joy from below and above
I spend my days being handed cardboard trays
Pages bound or piled astray
Unsorted and musty, waiting for the day
When someone makes them whole again
Think of how good it all was
All that's come to pass
Write me our history, do it because
It'll be once more at last
Fill my archives with your love
Bring us from below back above
Use your mind and write just enough
So your hands don't blacken with dust
Scattered leaves of a fleeing past
Shall never remade as had been
Alas my love these memories
Are myths plastered over sin
That jaded hex of memory
It's filled, that past, with suffering
Between those cardboard sheets and leaves
Repressed and subverted remembering
Armed with silence and credulous posterity
Bound together by love and hate
Captives asunder, forced to wait
Plotting mutiny and sorting humanity through hate
Don't mind me when I get like this
I promise it's nothing you did
It's because of all those moments of bliss
It's because of the crimes I've witnessed
Yes, I study the crimes of history
I study the crimes in you and me
I study those things that make us uneasy
Living with deft, ironic dignity
It's true, there's so much that is us
And there are many instances of good
But outside of these memories
Is a world come misunderstood
When I could be angry, but instead I'm sad
Because it'll bring you down or make you mad
Why am I quiet, was it something you said?
No, it's just me, and I'm so sorry
All those people that I've been and done
I keep them bound up inside
I do it because we're all one
And you're the same, I cry
Written by: Dillon Shane Banis
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