Biography:
Alex the Astronaut is Australian folktronica singer-songwriter Alex Lynn.
Alex has been described as one of "Australia's most powerful and important songwriters". She released her first two EPs in 2017 - the first: To Whom It May Concern which features the single [single artist=Alex the Astronaut album=To Whom It May Concern]Already Home[/single] and was described by Huffington post as "a melancholy number about a bus ride and ruminations on the mundanities of life" and includes the line "there's billionaires for president
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I learned to drive to school when I was 1
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and I was happy with my friends and we skipped class for time to breathe
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We learned about the stars and the trees
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I cried when I found kissing boys wasn't for me
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So I tried every trick in the book
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I tried talking to the pretty boys
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I changed the way I looked
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But wearing dresses to impress just left me lonely and upset
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And the boys could tell when I looked at her I wasn't interested in them
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It's not worth hiding if you've got something to say
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And it's not worth smiling if you're feeling in pain and it's
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Not worth hiding if you think you might be gay
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Or different in another way
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You're perfect just the same
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I opened the paper and it left me ashamed
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Said These contagious gays aren't safe and you should keep your kids away
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But I got older and bolder and my friends caught on slowly
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Nineteen and we threw all the weight from my shoulders we sang
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It's not worth hiding if you've got something to say
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And it's not worth smiling if you're feeling in pain and it's
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Not worth hiding if you think you might be gay
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Or different in another way
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You're perfect just the same
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So tell me anyone
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If you love them as a daughter could you love them as a son
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We all smile at different faces
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We all blush at different names
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But holding someone's hand should never make you feel ashamed
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Your story might not be at all like mine
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I don't mean to simplify
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This should be in your own voice in your own time
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But the cages that they've made us should soon just rust away
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And this song just won't need singing
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But for now I'll let it play
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It's not worth hiding if you've got something to say
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And it's not worth dying for the people who don't smile at your name
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It's not worth lying if you're feeling in pain
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And it's not worth hiding cause happiness
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Could be on the way
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