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Enclosure

by These Five Years

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'Enclosure' is the third single from our new EP, to be released on Sep 27th through Stereo Brain Records. The song is about the phenomenon of overworking yourself to the point of inaction. It reflects those simultaneous feelings that you're doing everything you can, and yet nowhere near enough, in all aspects of your life - failing to fight the battle on all fronts.

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Have the nerves got a hold of me again?
And is it fair enough to say
I’m in over my head?

My nail’s cut to the finger
as stress begins to linger
'cause my work has been mounting up again.
Instead I lay here thinking -
just flick the light switch
and go to bed,
and hesitate.

Am I afraid?
And have the nerves got a hold of me again?
Am I okay, with going wrong?

So am I disappointing you,
or do I make you proud?
Maybe if I just give myself a little break?
A little time to compensate?
A little lie so I can fake
building myself back up again?

My bed’s unmade,
and I think that I’ll leave it that way -
just mould into this mask again.
‘Cause I will show a false façade
and I will bear no battle scars

Am I afraid?
and have the nerves got a hold of me again?
Am I ashamed of doing fine?

So am I disappointing you,
or do I make you proud?
Maybe if I just give myself a little break?
A little time to compensate?
A little lie so I can fake
building myself back up again?

All you do is cut the slack.
Just give something back.
Just give something back.

I’ve given my all to this
and I’m not sure
what I’ve got left to give.

So break your back.

I'll bend with my spine
and keep struggling.
I'll search, I will scramble
this long-broken barrel.
Until then, I can't rest?

So am I disappointing you,
or do I make you proud?
Maybe if I just give myself a little break?
A little time to compensate?
A little lie so I can fake
building myself back up again?

Am I afraid?
And have the nerves got a hold of me again?
I've given my all to this
and I'm not sure
what I've got left to give.

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released September 13, 2019
All music & lyrics by These Five Years
Recorded, mixed, & mastered by Ian Sadler at Emeline Studios, Whitstable.

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