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Pusher

Clear

Release date: 5th April 2016

From Chapter 3
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About This Track

Pusher and MOTHICA collaborate on a track about the struggle to communicate clearly with someone who unsettles you. MOTHICA's vocals carry the weight of someone caught between wanting to be understood and fearing they never will be. Words fail her; thoughts scatter. She's rough around the edges, she admits, and no amount of smoothing will change that fundamental roughness. The song circles around a central tension: the desire to be transparent set against an inability to deliver it. MOTHICA sings of being hard to read, hard to speak to, tired of being misunderstood. There's a brittleness to the performance, a voice that trembles even as it insists on its own incompleteness. She won't promise clarity, won't pretend to be something she isn't, won't forget the ways she's been hurt. The refrain becomes a kind of resistance, each repetition of "I'm not ready to forget" a small act of refusal against the pressure to soften, to change, to become palatable.

"Clear" is a track by Pusher, from the album Chapter 3, released 5th April 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Pusher

Pusher

Lyrics

Clear

[Verse 1: MOTHICA]

Words fall out of my mouth

They drift to the ground and they don't make a sound

I'll try to assemble them back

To the place in my head but I fear that I lack

The proper speak that I need to narrate the scene

To tell you these things

The proper place for my thoughts

I know that I'm not, I know that I'm not

[Chorus: MOTHICA]

So clear and transparent

Well, I'll try, but I can't promise it

So dark but delicate

Well, I'm rough around the edges and

You can try to smooth me down

But I'm not, no, I'm not

You can try to smooth me down

But I'm not ready to forget

[Build: MOTHICA]

You can try to smooth me down

But I'm not, no, I'm not

You can try to smooth me down

But I'm not ready to forget

[Drop: MOTHICA]

You can try to smooth me down

You can try to smooth me

I'm not ready to forget

[Verse 2: MOTHICA]

Take back all that I've said

I've said it before and I'll say it again

It's not like me to pretend

But the best part of me is the worst I can give

But you make me so terrified

I tried to reply but I'm shaking inside

You gave me a tongue just to tie

I'll swallow my pride if you swear not to lie

[Pre-Chorus: MOTHICA]

Hard to read and hard to speak to

But don't take my word

'Cause I'm honestly so bored of being

Misunderstood

I'm not

[Chorus: MOTHICA]

So clear and transparent

Well, I'll try, but I can't promise it

So dark but delicate

Well, I'm rough around the edges and

You can try to smooth me down

But I'm not, no, I'm not

You can try to smooth me down

But I'm not ready to forget

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2016
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  • Credits

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    Writer
    MOTHICA, Pusher
    Producer
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    Vocals
    MOTHICA
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