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So You Know Yourself (live acoustic)

from The Karma Sessions: Vol. 2 by MAILMAN

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A live, home recording of an older but still relevant Mailman song.

A humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in Syria for years. There are desperate people in Aleppo and countless places throughout the war ravaged country that need all the help they can get.

Syria Relief is running an ongoing appeal to raise essential funds that they then use to get food, blankets and fuel for cooking and heating homes directly to people who need it. More info can be found here: www.syriarelief.org.uk

If you'd like to help, you can donate via this Just Giving page: www.justgiving.com/Mailman4Syria In return you will receive a copy of the four track Mailman EP "The Karma Sessions: Vol 2", released exclusively on Bandcamp in December 2015.

Alternatively, you can buy it on here and I will donate the money for you.

Here is a video of me performing a version of the lead track 'Never Be Safe' on current affairs show 'Going Underground': youtu.be/wCj8zBV5W2s?t=2m12s

Thank you for taking the time to visit this page and please consider making a potentially lifesaving donation.

Love & light,
Stan (aka: Mailman)
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SO YOU KNOW YOURSELF
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So you know yourself…
But cannot look outside
The hole you dug yourself
In which your heart resides

Becoming ever more entrenched in the ridiculous idea
That it’s sensible and normal to be guided by your fear
Leaving nothing else to chance except your time and when it’s called
Well I do believe we’re heading for a fall

‘Cos you don’t know yourself
And you don’t own yourself at all
You just circle and recycle like this hammer never falls
But you don’t know yourself
And you don’t own yourself - not at all

So you know yourself…
But cannot recognise
The need within yourself
To fashion truth from lies

Forever hopelessly beholden to the childlike belief
That there’s order and protectors who will offer you relief
From some crazy, unpredictable and dangerous free-fall
Well I do believe the writings on the wall

‘Cos we don’t own this world
And you don’t see the things we burn
You just pander and meander like there's nothing left to learn
But we don’t own this world
And you don’t know this world - not at all

I am done with you... (x2)

'Cos you don’t know yourself
And you don’t own yourself at all
You just circle and recycle like this hammer never falls
But you don’t know yourself
And you don’t own yourself - not at all

We don’t own this world
And you don’t see the things we burn
You just pander and meander like there's nothing left to learn
But we don’t own this world
And you don’t know this world - not at all

Do you understand
Fucking anything at all?
You're an illogical progression and embarrassment to all
Giving nothing back
And never looking back

I am done with you... (x3)

Until you know yourself.

© 2011 MAILMAN c/o Zeitgeist Production

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from The Karma Sessions: Vol. 2, released December 2, 2015
Written and performed by Jamie 'Stan' Stanley.

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Limited edition CD of the 3rd Mailman album S3ASON (season three) available now. Featuring all twelve 2019 singles plus alternate versions and three brand new tracks for 2020 and beyond.

The 2018 double concept album 'Yang Yin' is now also on Bandcamp.

You can also stream and buy the first full album 'No News Is Good News' plus the EP's 'Long Walk Home' and 'The Karma Sessions: Vol. 1 & 2'. ... more

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