Truth; Alexander Ebert

Alexander Ebert is the guy from the indie band Edward Shape & the Magnetic Zeros, the one that has the hit "Home", another whistling song. Besides this band, he also sings in the eletrorock band Ima Robot. Very well.

I had already write about him in the blog, but I'll speak some more things about him. Ebert is from LA and was born in 1978. While his start in Magnetic Zeros was the result of a break down with his ex-girlfriend, his solo career began without any drama:

no drama, sir!

According to Ebert's recording label, Vagrant.com, "during breaks from touring with the Zeroes over the past year, Alex would hole up in his Los Angeles bedroom, working with a bare minimum of recording gear beyond a microphone and simple M-Audio direct box. He had his guitar, a Lowery organ he picked up at a St. Vincent’s thrift store in Los Angeles for seventy bucks, a clarinet he used for the bridge on 'Truth' and a violin he’d found somewhere in Tucson on tour."

The album, called 'Alexander', was released in 2011 and its first single is our whistling song of the day: Truth. According to the weblog Awmusic.ca, "Truth [is] a hip-hopish tune [that] does have an intro that includes whistling but to say it resembles an Andrew Bird song would be like saying it resembles an Eminem tune because it has a rap meter. In this song Ebert takes a look at the darkness within himself and concludes that the only real way to deal with it is to let it out into the light and allow love to enter in it’s place. And if this album has a theme it is that love is what we should all be striving for, love of each other, ourselves and love of something greater than us."

The truth is that I never shook my shadow
Every day it's trying to trick me into doing battle
Calling out 'faker' only get me rattled
Wanna pull me back behind the fence with the cattle
Building your lenses
Digging your trenches
Put me on the front line
Leave me with a dumb mind
With no defenses
But your defense is
If you can't stand to feel the pain then you are senseless

Since this,
I've grown up some
Different kinda figther
And when the darkness come, let it inside you
Your darkness is shining
My darkness is shining
Have faith in myself
Truth.

I've seen a million numbered doors on the horizon
Now which is the future you choosen before you gone dying
I'll tell you about a secret I've been undermining
Every little lie in this world comes from dividing
Say you're my lover
say you're my homie
Tilt my chin back, slit my troath
Take a bath in my blood, get to know me
All out of my secrets
All my enemies are turning into my teachers

Because
Light's blinding
No way dividing
What's yours or mine when everything's shining
Your darkness is shining
My darkness is shining
Have faith in ourselves
Truth.

(Yeah)

Yes I'm only loving, only trying to only love
And yes, that's what I'm trying to is only loving

Yes I'm only loving, trying to only love
I swear to god I'm only trying to be loving

Yes I'm only lonely loving
And yes I'm only feeling only loving, only loving
Ya say it ain't loving, loving but my loving

I wanna only love til I'm only loving
I swear to god I'm only loving.
Trying to be loving, loving, loving, loving, loving, loving, love

Yes I'm only loving, yes I'm trying to only love
I swear to god I'm trying but I'm only loving
Ya say it ain't loving, loving, loving, loving, love my love

But I'm only loving, loving, loving

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