The Outside

from Scared New World by Kabir Sheikh

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Representation is everything - the whole "you gotta see it to be it" mentality. But it has to start somewhere, and maybe it can start with you.

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Maybe it’s nothing to you
But it’s everything to me
When you feel like you’re invisible
You just want someone to see
Withdrawing from the real world
‘Cause everything’s wrapped in fear
When you feel like you’re kept quiet
You just want someone to hear

This is what it feels like to never be seen or heard
Made to feel like you don’t exist
And this is what it feels like
When no-one understands your words
Always on the outside looking in

I know I’ve come a long way
From where i used to be
I had to search to find my voice
‘Cause no-one spoke for me
Knowing where i started
Knowing I have grown
I had no platform so I had to build my own

Have we had enough of progress
Falling back to our old ways?
Doomed to repeat our mistakes once more
Going back to the bad old days
Everyone grows up some time
But was it too big a task?
Living with the rest of the world
Is getting on too much to ask?

It took so long to get here
Just to be forced back
That’s no path to walk again
That broken ruined track
Wishing to see the future
Dragged back to an imagined past
But the ones who act like they won something
Don’t want to hear that they have finished last

Everything sounds like machines
Slowly falling apart
Everything is breaking down
And we’re worse off than we were at the start
It’s said you can’t go back in time
But here we are again
How did we make such a big mistake?
Don’t you know how this all ends?

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from Scared New World, released October 3, 2022

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Kabir Sheikh London, UK

With London-based indie-rockers The Silver Bayonets on hold during lockdown, lead guitarist / singer Kabir created a solo album with the help of producer Dave Draper. Featuring Bullet for My Valentine drummer Jason Bowld and a lead vocal contribution on a track from 90s alt-rocker Andy Delany, the 10-song album Scared New World was recorded over 2021and 2022 and released 3 Oct 2022. ... more

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