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uprooted

by swanbird

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    yooo this shit comes with a vibey photo zine? fuck yeah it does!
    you could keep it on your futuristic digital device, maybe get it done physical all nice on fancy gloss paper at Officeworks or some shit or even just print it off at home
    it's yours now, do what you want
    i hope you dig it
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5000 city 03:25
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ketter mine 02:20
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meat clown 02:33
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slave 01:54
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melbourne 02:46
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about

insta: @swanbird.the.rapper
facey: www.facebook.com/swanbird.the.rapper

if you can't afford to purchase this album for real, please hit me up on my socials just above and i'll send you the complete download package for free
i know what it's like to be poor

this is an honesty system, please don't fuck me over, it's $5 i could use myself
but i also know sometimes $5 is a servo pie for a treat, or it could make your next hit viable so you don't have to withdraw
some album you saw and liked on bandcamp falls short in the face of that shit

what i'm saying is, i don't care if it's cos you're on the dole and you can barely make rent or if you've got a daily drug habit that keeps you scraping by day to day, as long as you're legit we're good
link up, follow my shit, hit my messages and have a chat, we'll make it work for sure

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aight
here's a story about existing in a liminal space
or at least, bits and pieces of my existence, past and present, on the threshold of a future i actually want, as i wait out its arrival

maybe it's not for the feint of heart, or those with highly sensitive sensibilities, but this release is basically my soul ripping open to expose a bundle of raw nerves

there's only so much a grim sense of humour and a tongue in my cheek can do to soften the blow of substance abuse, physical vulnerability, egregious mental illness, gender dysphoria, being broke and feeling distress at sitting between two worlds, one you are desperate to leave behind for the other
but i wrote this album for myself more than anyone else
it's what i wanted to do and sometimes that doesn't factor in everyone else in the world

who knows if anyone will like it? maybe it doesn't matter

i chose not to write out the lyrics here on bandcamp
it's not grindcore, it's rap - you can decipher what i'm saying
it's a pretty blunt and transparent album, there's not much mystery to the lyrics, i'd rather you listen to them than than read from liner notes

as an aside, i deliberately abstracted my voice a little for this release
i'm not faking anything, i'm just making things tolerable to my own ears in the context of this little album
dysphoria is a cunt, i haven't come far with vocal feminisation therapy and y'know, fuck it?
nothing about how i sound here changes who i know i am

credits

released September 1, 2021

lyrics, beats and production by swanbird
additonal lyrics on 'they came from inside my head / house of fear' by skorpion king
manifested in the fuckdungeon 2021

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