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The Breaker Broke My Mind

from Is That You? by Lewis Mullen

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In the middle years of secondary school, my grades were doing very well and my teachers had high hopes. Until the stress of trying to live up to expectations combined with anxiety over who I was, and mixed feelings about my classmates to create something of a miniature breakdown (I don’t use the term lightly). In the aftermath, I felt hollowed out and incorporeal, and my sanity took a wee holiday. Not sure if it’s ever fully come back

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My self-esteem went surfing
One night, left me alone
The breaker spoke to me in bed
In sneaking, mocking tones

And so I didn’t worry when
The life guards turned their backs
As the big wave came down on me
My memory fades to black

I surrendered to that breaker in the night
Wish I could say that I at least put up a fight

When the breaker broke
The breaker broke my mind
And since the breaker broke
I’ve been so hard to find
So very hard to

Now I drift around this small town
Like a trenchcoat-wearing ghost
If hollowness was riches
Then I’d have more than most

The fat kid in the neighbourhood
Asked me "why so blue?"
I said well son it’s what happens
When you let ‘im wash over you

See I surrendered to that breaker in the night
Wish I could say that I at least put up a fight

When the breaker broke
The breaker broke my mind
And since the breaker broke
I’ve been so hard to find
So very hard to

So hard to….So hard to…..
So hard to….So hard to…..

You said you’d take me for
the vampire that I am
Forget that big wave and his
blissed out brain-dead scam

When the breaker broke
The breaker broke my mind
And since the breaker broke
I’ve been so hard to find
So very hard to

I’ve since lost touch with him
At last at least I’m free
If he is anywhere
He’s somewhere out at sea
I doubt he dreams of…

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from Is That You?, released August 22, 2020

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Lewis Mullen Glasgow, UK

I write the kind of music I'd like to listen to, and I hope you enjoy listening to it to. It's a window into a slightly different world that's a more honest mirror of our own

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