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Montrer Ses Plaies

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1.
Addiction (Intro) (free) 02:11
Baby, please stay with me I know I'm crazy, but only I can make you say (you make me smile with my heart) Watching the whirlwinds spin on summer days I close my eyes and visualize a paradise, I'm safe Then I see your face (you make me smile) I can't forget the day you came to me Wrapped in perfection, under a forbidden tree You walked away, but still I can't deny (you make me smile) Is this addiction? My actions prove unsafe All out of character depending on this case Can't piece the puzzle, all that is can be is (you make me smile with my heart) With my heart, you make me smile But it seems I only love you for a while At times it's hard to say (you make me smile) Wrapped in passion, love echos off the walls Dying at your love, crying out for more When the seas are calm and I collapse into your arms (you make me smile) Baby, please stay with me I know I'm crazy, but only I can make you say (you make me smile with my heart)
2.
First Verse: It's 8 o clock, and my bath waters running You say, choose your mood 'cause I'm coming, coming for ya So into me, into you watching our fantasies interlude Just wait, and take me deeper into your magnitude Chorus: Your love fits so high, I just can't get right without you So deep in, I won't give in until I meet you Second Verse: Ding ding, round two, oh what you gonna do with that? Ring, ring, ring, let it play in the background, till I get back down All I can see, is you and me; facing off in this sea of purity Get me stoned on your touch and high on your upthrust Chorus: Your love fits so high, I just can't get right without you So deep in, I won't give in until I meet you Bridge: I'm falling into a melody I've never heard Digging my thought a remedy I need before I speed off course, Of course life is for living and saints turn to sinners when offered enough golden chalets to get their conscious spinning So high in the heavens, this is beyond good and evil Your love fits so high
3.
Tell me why Explain to me 'cause this is bullshit Excuse my language but how the hell can we get through this Running into a brick wall and I free fall into a black hole of anger, pain and spite But, forgive thy neighbor, right ? When the hell is this gonna end, cos I can't pretend like this cycle is not a cycle, we recycle terms and rhymes, turn them into good times, apologies and long sighs, but eventually they subside and we end up here Across the room, lost in a vacuum, where the hells the happiness we just had before we turned the TV on What the hell just went wrong Seconds ago we were body to body, tongue to tongue and suddenly all that joys gone Miles away, but I still stay What am I waiting for, a sorry, a don't worry, a short joke that's half funny Where are we going? Why are we slowing down? I couldn't say or even manage to half make an array of thoughts or similies for symmetry for what this is, or could be, what we feel or could see But I'm still here, my heart beats 4 times faster, the road gets 10 times harder, harder than logarithm, I'm losing rhythm tryna stay on beat to this and keep to this, unwinding, unfantasizing road of disappointment and perfection, how messed up is this possession. No such thing as goodbye but the door will fly when I hear get the fuck out, Just not out of my life, well maybe days will fade into night ways and like wise our darker greys to sway into a light filled spray of peace and joy And stay that way, cos this yoyo game of laying love with hate is pretty harsh on the brain But let's hope and pray, no Mavado, cos God knows they'll be no other way if you walk away, and God knows my heart aches when you're far away, arms length in the physical, but we're on a different page
4.
Chorus: You can't tell me that all that we had, meant nothing to you at all And you can't tell me that look in your eyes was not in your eyes before, when you looked at me I gotta watch you fade away, gaze into her eyes and fall I'll fade into the background noise around you Watching perfection unfold Hook: I just can't help but wish you were with me Chorus: You can't tell me that all that we had, meant nothing to you at all And you can't tell me that look in your eyes was not in your eyes before, when you looked at me Second Verse: You made me feel, like nobody mattered but me Now I'm stuck here alone, drawing blood from a stone Tryna leave you in my memory Hook: I just can't help but wish you were with me Now I regret letting go as I watch your love grow, I can't help but wish you were with me, wish you were with me
5.
Dear vivienne, The bottom line is I'm not waiting anymore. You're gonna have to choose me or him. I can't be left hanging like this, its not nice. If you don't have the conviction to make a decision or u would be more comfortable staying in a relationship with him in london its ok. That's your choice at the end of the day. Just don't waste my time. But if you do choose that, make sure you made the right decision because I'm not going to be waiting around like a fool for you. I'm just saying, me and you should be together. I can't stop thinking about us, and how special our relationship is. I'm not saying that I'm better than jemal because he is a nice man. What I'm saying is that we're better. Time waits for no man, and I am not waiting for anything. I'm young, I've got one life to live and I'm not wasting time thinking about girls who waste my time. I want to be with you, you know that. I'm seeking clarity, not a half-hearted response. You're gonna have to decide who you want, me or him. What's it gonna be?
6.
Wait For Me 05:31
Baby, I know it's not that easy But I'm asking you to have some faith in me I know, I should have told you from the start That you always had my heart But I never and I never, thought we'd end up here Secret lovers, under cover so I drown in my own tears I gotta look him in his eyes and tell him that he's mine When in the back of my mind, I'm dreaming of you Won't you just wait for me (x3)
7.
Dear vivienne, The bottom line is I'm not waiting anymore. You're gonna have to choose me or him. I can't be left hanging like this, its not nice. If you don't have the conviction to make a decision or u would be more comfortable staying in a relationship with Jemal in london its ok. That's your choice at the end of the day. Just don't waste my time. But if you do choose that, make sure you made the right decision because I'm not going to be waiting around like a fool for you. I'm just saying, me and you should be together. I can't stop thinking about us, and how special our relationship is. I'm not saying that I'm better than jemal because he is a nice man. What I'm saying is that we're better. Time waits for no man, and I am not waiting for anything. I'm young, I've got one life to live and I'm not wasting time thinking about girls who waste my time. I want to be with you, you know that. I'm seeking clarity, not a half-hearted response. You're gonna have to decide who you want, me or him. What's it gonna be?
8.
He said time wait for no man, guess man waits for no one cos I'm on my lonesome, like a lost ones I'm out sprung into a whirl pool of confusion, but can't express this, or let this, spill out verbally, mentally shut down, cut down till I'm literally dumb, and numb I guess I need a lesson in expression cos deception of progression hides all of my depression and I know it I know my mind shuts up and the shutters come down I've got that poker face over this heartfelt frown Each moment ticks my heart leaks tears, the tears are never checked Its mixed with happiness and comfort but countered with regret Chapter 1, scene 2, wished you were with me, said you wouldn't wait but its a lose lose, catch 22, so scrap that. Stay faithful, stay true, theres a man that loves you...i can learn to love him back but yet I feel my heart beat faster for a new lover, though the tempos not enough Truth just isn't for us, but if God is for us who is against us you say, everybody, including you you had enemies and frenemies, uncut strings and love felonies, from lacy to mill, heart made of steel yet a cry for affection is all i could feel nearly gave you my all, like a love struck teen on the last day of school, last day of term you gave me joy that joy had no devotion, we stopped in between motion, what a sinful potion we passed around this table of deceit, you made me a cheat, and karma gave me it back and more because i left him to knock on your door only to find there was someone else that you made fall, for you, fool for you. i believed you when you said she was just a friend, but she saw you with her so i had to let this go, i would't repeat history, all that glitters isn't gold so Tried to be a friend and smooth things from this diamond in a rough And all the while my heart Is throbbing for the wrong that I've done again, again Its chapter 2, Scene 1, moved on swiftly to next one Loaded an AK up with disregard each kiss let's off this gun How can I fall into anothers arms, his brothers arms? Yet to forget anothers past with me, when practically, you were almost everything that I need Yet I speed off course of course into a buzz source and happened to find some more But how can I enjoy, when I know I have done wrong How can I endure if regret surely goes on My mind can't hack the solitude of self inflicted pain And there's no words or acts or prayer I can do to start again two wrongs don't make a right, but they do make you even That's a recipe for a rebound if you needed a reason
9.
Rebound (free) 04:11
First Verse: You gave me time when I felt I was losing me Into these moments I flooded with misery Drowning my sorrows or blowing away my tomorrows You shined your light on me Then my stability stayed in your grasp Driven by selfishness you blocked my past Shunning my present, I laid in your arms wanting you Feeling vitruvian hands Chorus: And I, I could never guess that I couldn't forget this time I could lay in your arms knowing you were not mine When karma meets fate, what's fake will always fall down When my heart's on my sleeve you were a rebound Second Verse: You played a melody sweeter than time Time was our essence and lust was our guide Wrapped in my broken beats I let you play my mind My body was left to use No sense of worth I was hoared like a tool Reeping the fruits of an ignorant fool Pain hit my chest as I rested this lost song to fade To hear this vitruvian play Chorus: And I, I could never guess that I couldn't forget this time I could lay in your arms knowing you were not mine When karma meets fate, what's fake will always fall down When my heart's on my sleeve you were a rebound Bridge: What a cycle of hurt, we hurt others the same When it falls apart there is no one to blame When the chorus is done, and the lies that we form fall to flames Karma wins every game Chorus: And I, I could never guess that I couldn't forget this time I could lay in your arms knowing you were not mine When karma meets fate, what's fake will always fall down When my heart's on my sleeve you were a rebound
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Before you know it you're scarred up with memories you can't get far from. And far from is only a half song away from Getting back in that moment, the pain went but it always comes back again An we try to pretend, block out the noise with some friends and pump the music so loud that we get lost in a crowd of melodies and similies that are similar to being free But once the song ends your back here once again So maybe this time we'll use a drink or some green seeds Tryna clear my garden with some pure and untouched weeds, pun intended But the rain will come an wash it away And when you come back in the morning only one thing will stay and that's. The memories how it feels to be used, how it feels to be a tool? a constant fool, somebody's inanimate, object to have no prospect in anything above being appreciated for my physical, my visual presence seemed to be eminent in my very acceptance, this was reflected in my lack of confidence, and this was obvious to any predator of a human that crossed my path, and by human nature, we ended nowhere fast, To be, young, dumb and naive, that was me, to see every word as genuine, call me overdosed on oestrogen, i fell for every single sin painted with good intention never learning my lesson, i lost my worth in giving others all i had and more, for free the more i fell, the more i saw gateways to happiness and hell in the next ones doors, only to find the same anti climax i just endured, i was looking for love. a reason to be, a reason to live and feel free. a blanket of security to wrap me in stability leaning on a shoulder that didn't see me, for me. Want me for me, my rivers flowed toxic, i became immersed in this exotic expectation, and presentation of a person i was anticipated to be until i realised that just wasn't me, my reflection radiated pain, i went insane, tryna remain in my safe terrain of being this girl who plays the game knowing my spirit burned, and yearned to find a better place, so i had to let go, of guilt, self pity, being a Walter Mitty and come back to life, back to reality. i am a sinner, searching in vain. How deep does it go cos every now and then it gets that bit easier to show, to overcome and let go, not use and abuse as an excuse to be cold But then the guards fly straight back up and then you're back in these 4 walls with no calls and no laws to stop yourself breaking and taking every bit of experience to shield against this emptiness that continues to form, the memory of losing it all To lose your worth is to lose your hope, to be used, abused and spirituality choked, i warn you brothers if you strip your queens of their dignity you will crush your nations soul
11.
I'm not a trophy, I'm not a game I'm not s'pose to be won, I'm not s'pose to be played (x4) Why don't you love me? (x4) I'm just a sinner, searching in vain I've been searching for love and been finding this pain (x4) Lord, why do you love me? (x6)
12.
Wait For You 03:04
First Verse: Wandering down this dusty trail Wondering how I got so lost and out of touch with this world The more I pass the more I fail But I know that patience is faith in You And if I seek You, You'll see me through Pre-chorus: I will wait, for You Said I will wait for You You know I will wait for You Till the ground falls in and the skies fall through I will wait for You Chorus: Now my pain's rooted deep with these scars on my chest But I know that this road is all part of my test All my days become nights, all my wars and my fights they remain But I will find my wait with You Second Verse: Seems like the sunset failed to rise And all of these smiling faces turn to shadows after this tide The more I give, the more they fight But I know that patience is love in truth And through the darkness it will shine through Pre-chorus: I will wait, for You Said I will wait for You You know I will wait for You Till the ground falls in and the skies fall through I will wait for You Chorus: Now my pain's rooted deep with these scars on my chest But I know that this road is all part of my test All my days become nights, all my wars and my fights they remain But I will find my wait with You I will find my way

about

You were my addiction, your love fit so high until our pens mispelt l o v e. Turning the pages we let the river flow seperately, still i wish you were with me. Wishful thinking is far from enough, i went far enough to ease your absence in the arms of another until i asked you to wait for me. Time waits for no man, so i go from rebound to rebound hoping to catch a point to equalise these scars. Playing a game where we all lose, i dont love me for me, how can i expect you to? I exceed my own decline and find the truth behind my pain. Back to the beginning i walk with pride, dont forget to remember where love lives. I will wait...for You.

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released August 11, 2015

JP Styla - Rebound
KZ - Fits So High, Wait For You
Melodic Beats & Soli Keyz - Wait for me, Wish You Were With Me

Kayne West - Addiction ( Addiction)

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VVN London, UK

Likened to artists such as Lauryn Hill, Lianne La Havas and Erykah Badu, Vivienne is a singer/songwriter, spoken word artist, actress, and poet.

Her most recent project - Elemental uses a mix of vocals, poetry and spoken word to tell a story of self realisation through the five elements that make up our living experience. Elemental is available on major streaming platforms and hardcopy CD.
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