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Thoughts Can't Hurt You

by Color Theory

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Your thoughts are never dangerous Accept them without prejudice The only passage out is through What you resist comes back to you You think your house a cluttered mess (these patterns) Wrangling with uninvited guests (like phantoms) Who vandalize your furniture (don’t chase them) Be grateful for each visitor Thoughts can’t hurt you Don’t usher them away Thoughts can’t hurt you Invite them to stay Thoughts can’t hurt you They whisper like a breeze If you keep the doors open They’ll come and go as they please Can’t reason your way out of this (unravels) There’s no one here to bargain with (like shadows) Who do you think you’re talking to? (point backward) That voice you hear, it isn’t you
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Your thoughts are never dangerous Accept them without prejudice The only passage out is through What you resist comes back to you You think your house a cluttered mess (these patterns) Wrangling with uninvited guests (like phantoms) Who vandalize your furniture (don’t chase them) Be grateful for each visitor Thoughts can’t hurt you Don’t usher them away Thoughts can’t hurt you Invite them to stay Thoughts can’t hurt you They whisper like a breeze If you keep the doors open They’ll come and go as they please Can’t reason your way out of this (unravels) There’s no one here to bargain with (like shadows) Who do you think you’re talking to? (point backward) That voice you hear, it isn’t you
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I spent most of my life locked in a losing battle against so-called “intrusive thoughts.”

You can't stop your mind from thinking any more than you can stop your ears from hearing or your skin from feeling.

Thoughts arise spontaneously, all on their own. Over time I learned to treat them as welcome guests rather than intruders.

Surrender.

All non-vocal sounds come from the Elektron Syntakt. The project file is included in the Bandcamp album download.

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released January 12, 2024

Special thanks to patrons Valski, Jonathan Albin, Heath Sims, Tom Martine, Ernesto Peralta, TheLeftExit, James Bloom, Burt Empson, Travis Murdock, Amy BuGoudi, Reina Lorenzi, John Mondick, and Page One Project

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