MATT OTTEWILL MUSICIAN
Axiomatic album 2025
a•xi•o•ma•tic (true in such an obvious way that you do not need to prove it)
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1Cheap Dopamine
2Wah And Peace
3Agency
4Preying Mantra
5Walk In
6Where's Your Empathy Now?
7Queen Of Clumsy
8Undertow
9We Are Out Of Control
10Summertime With You
Music videos
Wah & Peace music video
Song lyrics
Cheap Dopamine
Capitulate and pour another drink
The easy way is harder than you think
Between the lines your story will unfold
The truth is hard to stomach if the truth be told
All that glitters is not gold
Everything you’ll ever want
Nothing that you need
Get it when you touch the screen
Loving that cheap dopamine
Something dying in your mind
But you can’t stop now
Genial as kerosene
Loving that cheap dopamine
The people who you follow are just ghosts in the machine
Reality is not just what you've heard and what you've seen
There's more to this existence than the dying of the light
Rage against the dark before you take another swipe
All that glitters is not gold
Everything you’ll ever want
Nothing that you need
Get it when you touch the screen
Loving that cheap dopamine
Something dying in your mind
But you can’t stop now
Genial as kerosene
Loving that cheap dopamine
All that glitters is not gold
We are made for joy and woe
And it is right it should be so
So when this truth we rightly know
Through this world we safely go
Everything you’ll ever want
Nothing that you need
Get it when you touch the screen
Loving that cheap dopamine
Something dying in your mind
But you can’t stop now
Genial as kerosene
Loving that cheap dopamine
All that glitters is not gold
Wah And Peace
Here he comes it's the sun king
Changing the world one song at a time
He's though it through and he knows what's best for you
Letting us know from his bed back in sixty-nine
Best laid plans are easily made
If you get paid
Irresponsible when far from home
Self sufficient coz you roll your own
You're giving indolence a brand new lease
When all you offer us is wah and peace
You think a festival is heaven sent
You're gonna save us with your one-man tent
A hippy saviour in a shaggy fleece
But all you offer us is wah and peace
Everything he does is by design
His beard and Rolls Royce are genuine
Imagine no posessions or motorcade
Are you sure you don't just want to get laid?
Best laid plans are easily made
If you get paid
Irresponsible when far from home
Self sufficient coz you roll your own
You're giving indolence a brand new lease
When all you offer us is wah and peace
You think a festival is heaven sent
You're gonna save us with your one-man tent
A hippy saviour in a shaggy fleece
But all you offer us is wah and peace
Agency
In my dreams I can't tell if I'm asleep or awake
And I don't know who's making the decisions I take
We all know - what it's like to be
Ever at the mercy of this agency
On we go - trying not to be
Ever at the mercy of this agency
Am I the public face of some secret society
A civil servant of instinct and anxiety
We all know - what it's like to be
Ever at the mercy of this agency
On we go - trying not to be
Ever at the mercy of this agency
Preying Mantra
We all need a path to follow
And you need a cause or two
A call to fight the infidels where-ever they may be
Well that one would seem to do
You left behind your school and text books
And created yourself anew
The teachings you heed inevitably lead
To a plan for a killing or two
And you don't see the light
When it's shining from behind
Is there nothing we can do to set you free from the
Preying mantra in your mind
You made clear your ideology
Using words that you spoke with a gun
Your aim was true as they surrounded you
But the damage was already done
Now a community has lost its innocence
And no one knows what’s to come
When a father has lost the argument
And a mother has lost a son
But you don't see the light
When it's shining from behind
Is there nothing we can do to set you free from the
Preying mantra in your mind
Walk In
The lesson I was taught today
Was don’t hope, don’t prey
Lead yourself in another dance
And keep the dreams at bay
Walk in my words
Talk in my words
Walk in my words
Talk in my words
The day belongs to me you see
As it’s faster than fiction and better than fact
Right away let’s get ready
Ready for the final act
Walk in my words
Talk in my words
Walk in my words
Talk in my words
And always desire, the night burn
The pleasure of touch
Never forget how to kiss
Walk in my words
Talk in my words
Walk in my words
Talk in my words
Where's Your Empathy Now?
I have learnt your language from A to Z
And in my book your every word makes history
I hear trumpets, I hear drums
Where’s your empathy
The first familiar feeling you felt was a lie
You're keeping a one dollar secret
Under this brilliant sky
You have left temptation wide awake
And you should know that memories can't wait
To be gentle, to be kind
The first familiar feeling you felt was a lie
You're keeping a one dollar secret
Under this brilliant sky
Queen Of Clumsy
I will not bow down to the
Queen of clumsy
I never listen to the
Duke of spin
And when the waters reach the
Queen of clumsy
I'll stand in line to help to
Push her in
First he made the heavens
Then the garden grew
Somewhere inbetween
He created you
You created stupid
That's just what you do
I will not bow down to the
Queen of clumsy
I never listen to the
Duke of spin
And when the waters reach the
Queen of clumsy
I'll stand in line to help to
Push her in
Who ya calling selfish
Who ya calling scum
Living in a glass house
Standing in the sun
It's a shady business
Nowhere left to run
Don't get me wrong now
I kinda admire all you've achieved
Not afraid to speak your mind
If the trolls can be believed
If a house is not a home
The problem is there for all to see
You made your bed in 3 locations
Please explain, how is that not hypocrisy?
I will not bow down to the
Queen of clumsy
I never listen to the
Duke of spin
And when the waters reach the
Queen of clumsy
I'll stand in line to help to
Push her in
Undertow
A broken sky
The rain is falling
Rivers run dry
I see it all
Now come the memories
Calling calling
Can I speak to you now
The undertow
A fading shoreline
To live to tell
I know it well
This feeling
Igniting
Inside me
Pulling me back to the shore
Mid8
Falling
- the rolling hills
Falling
- the endless path
For it all
- the journey home
A broken sky
The rain is