Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

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May 21st, 2010.

The hazey, neo-psychedelic worlds of Tame Impala came into full view on this day in 2010. The infinite focused its gaze down on Perth, Australia. Perth, Australia gazed back. 

Everyday, back-and-forth, what's it for? Feeling that fuzz on your insides. Fill your lungs with that fizzy phosphorescence. The internal weightlessness; the external glow. The cool breeze which frosts the brain. The sand which scrubs the sole clean. Friction turns to frictionless. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. The duality that sits at the centre of existence. The spark which sets light to your sleepy side. Call it dreams. Daydreams. Gazing out the window. Staring into nothingness. Waiting for that feeling to arrive. Waiting for a lifetime. 

"Desire Be Desire Go" would be featured in a more raw form on Tame's initial self-titled EP two years prior - call said EP the warming of the lush waters that the band, Kevin Parker, would later dip into.

Why won't you make up your mind? It's there to be made. A malleable piece of flubber begging to be kneaded, searching for meaning, craving for something more. Solitude is indeed bliss, but too much of a good thing offers up its own problems. Too much time spent away breeds a need for "more" in and of itself. Be careful what you wish for, life has a funny way of stuffing it down your throat. Try as you might, you haven't got a hope in hell. Not even on your best day. But in all honesty, trying never got anyone anywhere. Trying signifies a quantum leap between you and your life. If you want something to happen, become the thing that will make it happen. Buy the ticket; take the ride. Get lost and loose. Come back aligned. Fresh modes of being. Better inputs; better outputs. The clock will tick-tock as it always has, at the same speed, but will feel more full. As if life has opened up and invited you in. There's a moment within the tick-tock which stretches open. Space to breathe. Space to be. No longer an outsider to life itself. Tapped in. One with the essence, the source, the spring from which it all falls and flows. The expanse which only widens as you step further inside - the deeper you go, the deeper it gets. 

Left behind but already ahead. Two steps to the touch.