Privately Owned Spiral Galaxy

"**Privately Owned Spiral Galaxy**" is a single recorded by English indie rock band Lovejoy. It is a cover of the Crywank song of the same name and was released by Crywank as part of their cover compilation album titled *Here You Go, You Do It*.

## Trivia

* The frog on the album's cover art is called Wayne.
* Wilbur previously covered this song in 2018 as part of his ARG.
* The Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music releases were delayed until March 8, 2022.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

Thought cycle gusty a mind filled with hot air

Must I care for nothing more than myself?

Do I dare admit the fraught thoughts cavorting, resorting in inner-directed mourning, for the part of me that was selfless but left without a warning

Well that’s what I said, but maybe it’s the fact that I detest, this obsession with myself that leaves a mess inside my head

Oh shit, I’m doing it again, repelling any potential friend, revealing my innate ability to never fully comprehend, anything bigger than myself, but in the end I still pretend

Condescend anyone polite enough to choose to misspend their time watching me achieve, my secret social mission;

To drain people with my boring stories and opinions

To see the bigger picture; takes intelligence and wisdom

But I won’t see nothing with just myself in my vision

**[Interlude]**

**[Verse 2]**

I go outside, a blitz of faces unwilling to confess to any empathy, endlessly, incessantly declining any pleasantries

Heavily breathing, I'm socially teething, I’m open like a vivisection

Intense tendency to dwell, seething over missed connections. Infected by my perception that I’m a non-entity

Project my insecurity until intensity is weaponry

Grieving a heavenly fiction I perceived while I was dreaming. Awake!

Freezing, wheezing, fundamentally I’m still believing that

This is an elegy for concepts I conceived in deep sleep

And I helplessly watch them fade as I awake--I try and keep them alive

Incomparable with life but eventually they die

And the brain I used to cultivate reveals my lovers were a lie

**[Verse 3]**

But when inside my mind I find a way to replicate reality

Through lucid dreaming I decimate limitations of actuality. Capacity's practically eternal, mortality's external

No God, but I investigate the blasphemous worship of the nocturnal

Internally existing without morality creates profanities without the travesty, and compared to the apathy of realness, I reveal my own insanity

The majesty of fantasy protects me from tragedy

Normalities affect trajectory your agony of rationality, which thankfully penetrates with no avail to my unreality

It's an elaborately designed, privately owned spiral galaxy

Financially I’m failing, naturally I'm decaying

Soon I’ll have no safe space to sleep if these bills still need paying

Displaying cravings with open eyes for something mind-expanding

For when I drift away I see the totality of understanding

**[Interlude]**

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Crying Wanking Band [@CrywankBand] via Twitter (February 25, 2022): "I’m not waiting for streaming platforms. Here it is! Crywank Covers Compilation featuring a whole bunch of artists covering our songs. Free download! https://crywank.bandcamp.com/album/here-you-go-you-do-it-a-crywank-covers-compilation… please share, tell yr pals, let’s goooo. Thanks so much to everyone involved ❤️ (the frog is called wayne) [Image]"
2. ↑ Wilbur Music (December 21, 2018). "Privately Owned Spiral Galaxy (unlisted)" (YouTube Video).
3. ↑ The Crying Wanking Band [@CrywankBand] via Twitter (March 8, 2022): "‘Here you go, you do it: a crywank covers compilation’ is finally on all streaming platforms. Please add the songs to your playlists, check out the album and share them around! Featuring songs from Kylie V, Lovejoy, Guardin, COMMUTED, Ellis, Dandelion Hands, Hey ILY, & more [Image]"

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