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Ugly in a Beautiful Way

by Ride2Reality

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Spectre 03:46
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Seed of Love Please grow strong I got ambition for you Sense my presence Sense my will I live to love Not to kill Ugly in a beautiful way The earth shakes My heart aches Call my senses to aid Are you ready to embrace? I'm sure we got what it takes Seed of life Breaks through the earth from desire to see light The new child is given birth from desire to see light Walk on Walk through Go on Grow up Walk on Walk through Go on Grow up The smoke of the temples Dims the sun Soon the sense of it all is gone The smoke of the temples Dims the sun Soon the sense of it all is gone Gone Ugly in a beautiful way The earth shakes My heart aches Call my senses to aid Are you ready to embrace? I'm sure we got what it takes She trusts this chance Leaps through time for one more glance The best in its cage its been longing hungry for change not a laughter not a scream why dont they dare to dream who crushed their spirits and who trampled their mind? she will get it right this time be fearless or die she reaches out her fingers touch the rope with one last move she recreates hope we create hope
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Water falls So gentle and sweet Hits my face The people on the street Do they race Just to feel their heart beat? Just to feel their heart beat? heart beat heart beat Lights All or nothing Illuminate These broken bits of lost love Turned to hate Is it hard to shake? Is it hard to take? Is it hard to shake? You & I We Breathe Fire The bird, the caterpillar’s tiger Alive by lover’s desire Pioneers cry through actions Their tears are their passions The bird, the caterpillar’s tiger You and I We Breathe Fire Raindrops are hitting the patterns of dirt Streams are leading the spoken word Rivers of sorrow You lead I follow Rivers of sorrow You lead I follow For they are longing For a loving living breathing interaction But all the universe provides is the classical contraction and expansion Birthing every action after reaction Raindrops are hitting the patterns of dirt Streams are leading the spoken word Rivers of sorrow You lead I follow Rivers of sorrow You lead I follow Waiting in line Taking up precious time But my time is not mine It’s to share With you if we dare To live by moments Of footprints in each other’s snow You made me shiver I made you glow You made me shiver I made you glow For let my fingers do the walkin’ Had enough of endless talkin’ Since we’re new in this dimension I allow us to become a new creation Creation To believe in this secret sacred intention Forget it and simply start anew Another freedom invention Another freedom invention Young or old Our story must be told They got glory Sheep got worry No more No more No more being Sorry Water falls So gentle and sweet Hits my face The people on the street Do they race Just to feel their heart beat? Do we race Do we race Do we race Just to feel our heart beat? Just to feel our heart beat? You & I We breathe fire You & I We breathe fire You & I We
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My spiral of infinity was intertwined with yours So I could not tell us apart Apart from my part becomes your part And that part was entirely my working twist You twisted your curly line into mine Your lips became mine If not forever then just for a brief moment in endless time We be Becoming and became A simple yet complicated rime We stepped into a line As we crossed some border of our own mind As your heart became beating with the same frequency as mine One! Our and ours No longer hers, his, yours or even mine That’s when we chose to step out of line and mutate into something divine Into this spiral of love Raising us down and above I had the faith To leave the house Alone and open You came Smashed the window Broke in I had the faith To leave the house Alone and open You came Smashed the window Broke in Missin you You told me to stay true Not to you But to my heart, my soul, my mind Aint got nobody to stand behind, Lookin for my own kind But true kindness too hard to find When searchin for something light andkeeps on bein night And people aint treatin each other too kind, No they rather blow each other up words thrown, guns loaded, bombs imploding, exploding, no one really knowing why I keep askin and askin When we gonna have a time where the only thing we gonna blow up is each others mind? Cause you blew my mind When you told me why People would do such a thing like suicide I understood it wasn’t even that wild I was never too far to take that ride, but woman man There soon mustcome a time to arise, arrive and be alive alive alive alive Again like people livin instead of cryin about everythin that's dyin Lets breath air, cold or warm, crispy or soft cause hard times call for hard measurements and that’s why it got so dense so dense We need to enhance Our chance To dance feel romance Stabilizing the equalizing Realizing True freedom calls for No sharing of touch you know about love and such? you know about love and such?
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Free space Free expression Free space Free expression Free the place As everyone is free Freely born in this world Put into cages Fighting for middle low wages To pay a small room Where we can wither and rotten Instead of flourish and blossom What we knew crystal clear as children Is soon forgotten forgotten We can live true to our souls When we no more have to hunt for gold Come on, Come on We cant keep this worn out way Let's change it now today Today It's done it's over Let's change it now today We can't keep this worn out way No they ain’t got time No they ain’t got time No we ain’t got time For the life we’re livin’ Busy givin’ To the faceless corporations Profiting on human sensations We have another intention To be there for each other Being each other’s faithful mothers To no longer bother if we look fabulous fantastic If we smell of perfumes and plastic No we look like pirates and vagabonds And our writings, art and music are our guns As we fight for peace, love and justice, freedom We shine with the power of a 1000 suns We can live true to our souls When we no more have to hunt for gold Come on, Come on We cant keep this worn out way Let's change it now today today

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This album was produced working on and off as our relationship and lives changed, all the while this music project was accompanying our lives. We are amazed to finalize this project, and finally close the circle by releasing this project.

We all face moments where beauty and uglyness coexist in incomprehensive ways. Music and art are tools we can use to transform great pain and uglyness into something strong and beautiful which unites us, and reminds us that we are not alone.

This album is an omage to hope and beauty in times when you can't feel any of that, to relationships and their power to heal and destroy, to fighting for justice and the necessity of resistance.

We are grateful to share our own personal Ride to Reality with you. Through troubles and turmoil, love and trust, we present
"Ugly in a Beautiful Way".

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released August 9, 2023

Recording, Mixing and Co-Production by:
tonstr.studio - Noah Frick

Mastering by:
Asly Sarsour

Photo by Kiki
Cover Design by Ride2Reality

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Ride2Reality Berlin, Germany

Ride2Reality is a singer-song-writer duo with influences from hiphop and spoken word.

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