SONG LYRICS
SINGLES (2026)
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Caroline (The Nordeens)
You stepped in front of me, and I lost my nerve
Is this the only day I don't deserve you
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you
I 'll fight my distaste, And burn because
You took my hand, Where you stand
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you
You stepped in front of me, And I lost my nerve
Is this the only day I don't deserve you
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you, I don't believe you
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you
Caroline I don't deserve you
In time we'll find a reason, Turn to the blind side of ourselves
I'll make it hard to make you try
I'll make it hard, to make you try, to make you try
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you (to make you try)
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you (I don't deserve you)
Before It Breaks (The Nordeens)
Can I ask you how you've been, Can I ask you where you're staying
You know that you're the last voice I thought I'd hear today
Wish I could calm down before I break, You can't hide a smile
I thought you said you were never coming home
If I don't bring you back
For five years we had no answers
I never knew if you love me anyway
Lock it in your heart, Before you're forced to let out
Some compassion, all that I am asking
Forever trapped in, Forever trapped in, Forever trapped in
No nice way to say this, Not worth it your heartless
Some compassion is all that I am asking
For five years we had no answers
I never knew if you love me anyway
Lock it in your heart, Before you're forced to let out
Some compassion, all that I am asking
Some compassion, all that I am asking
Some compassion, all that I am asking
All that I am asking, all that I am asking
Better Off Dead (The Nordeens)
I coat your baggage one last time and I walk around the room
Before I light the fuel I spread the blinds so I can't hide
My feelings are burnt anyway
But I could not remember as wild as ever, Now you know what I did
Does it make you sad, Now I'm locked inside I think I'm better off dead
You throw me bones I'm not looking and I don't even gaze outside
So I just float back to the time we lived with love in life and hope inside
I watch your regression with my admission, Now you know what I did
Does it make you sad, Now I'm locked inside I think I'm better off dead
Now you know what I did, Does it make you sad
Now I'm locked inside I think I'm better off dead
Now you know what I did, Does it make you sad
Now I'm locked inside I think I'm better off dead
Lonely Lines
I need to break the silence before I lose my voice
Try to find a reason not to bruise my only choice
Set off all your flares but I can't find you
Turn on your receivers but I can't get through
Inside I keep retreating and lying to myself
I keep under reacting I know you could never tell
Set off all your flares but I can't find you
Turn on your receivers but I can't get through
Lonely lines waiting for something to give
Lonely lines hoping for a new way to live
Set off all your flares but I can't find you
Turn on your receivers but I can't get through
You stepped in front of me, and I lost my nerve
Is this the only day I don't deserve you
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you
I 'll fight my distaste, And burn because
You took my hand, Where you stand
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you
You stepped in front of me, And I lost my nerve
Is this the only day I don't deserve you
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you, I don't believe you
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you
Caroline I don't deserve you
In time we'll find a reason, Turn to the blind side of ourselves
I'll make it hard to make you try
I'll make it hard, to make you try, to make you try
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you (to make you try)
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you (I don't deserve you)
Before It Breaks (The Nordeens)
Can I ask you how you've been, Can I ask you where you're staying
You know that you're the last voice I thought I'd hear today
Wish I could calm down before I break, You can't hide a smile
I thought you said you were never coming home
If I don't bring you back
For five years we had no answers
I never knew if you love me anyway
Lock it in your heart, Before you're forced to let out
Some compassion, all that I am asking
Forever trapped in, Forever trapped in, Forever trapped in
No nice way to say this, Not worth it your heartless
Some compassion is all that I am asking
For five years we had no answers
I never knew if you love me anyway
Lock it in your heart, Before you're forced to let out
Some compassion, all that I am asking
Some compassion, all that I am asking
Some compassion, all that I am asking
All that I am asking, all that I am asking
Better Off Dead (The Nordeens)
I coat your baggage one last time and I walk around the room
Before I light the fuel I spread the blinds so I can't hide
My feelings are burnt anyway
But I could not remember as wild as ever, Now you know what I did
Does it make you sad, Now I'm locked inside I think I'm better off dead
You throw me bones I'm not looking and I don't even gaze outside
So I just float back to the time we lived with love in life and hope inside
I watch your regression with my admission, Now you know what I did
Does it make you sad, Now I'm locked inside I think I'm better off dead
Now you know what I did, Does it make you sad
Now I'm locked inside I think I'm better off dead
Now you know what I did, Does it make you sad
Now I'm locked inside I think I'm better off dead
Lonely Lines
I need to break the silence before I lose my voice
Try to find a reason not to bruise my only choice
Set off all your flares but I can't find you
Turn on your receivers but I can't get through
Inside I keep retreating and lying to myself
I keep under reacting I know you could never tell
Set off all your flares but I can't find you
Turn on your receivers but I can't get through
Lonely lines waiting for something to give
Lonely lines hoping for a new way to live
Set off all your flares but I can't find you
Turn on your receivers but I can't get through
ALBUM (2025)
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Empty Starters
A burning metal, in a cold lonely earth
I can not settle, 'til I open up the hurt
I give a fire to you, you absorb most of the pain
But it ignites you, and the earnest flag you wave
Open hearted empty starters, open hearted empty starters
When you're a river, I begin to cool, amazed
That I can live here, feeling calmer every day
I will not lie to you, at all to get my way
I give the sky to you, and you steadily float away
Open hearted empty starters, open hearted empty starters
We move home, into the ranges, now we have ages
To find the middle, let the edges fade away
We can build, a world without escape
I see inside you, your sweet delicate heart
I want to give to you, do you want to let me start?
Open hearted empty starters, open hearted empty starters
Twin Flames
I want to say it was so nice to meet you, I cannot wait until the next time I see you
Yesterday was amazing together, Excited eyes could oscillate forever
I wonder do you feel the flame, So familiar and miles away
When you meander I tenderly accept your words
When I surrender you pause and never make it worse
The world we enter, Imagine the light our twin flames would ignite
I feel intense at times, you cool me down
You fly away some times, I will always, be your soft ground
I will wait a lifetime in the hope you will land
And if I break it's okay you will understand
And I will live on and grow the love I let decay, I will rise
And you will give on if you get honest every day, You will rise
Close our eyes be the flame alone tonight, We'll survive
And when we harmonise, Imagine the light our twin flames will ignite
Imagine the light we'll ignite, Imagine the light we'll ignite
Imagine the light our twin flames will ignite
Deflated Balloons
Love can live in many different tones, For me I felt it at the surface alone
Where I tinkered and toyed, I tried to hone
When love pierced me deeper it would scar me, Until I became corrupt with insecurity
So I took love to make the hurt feel better, Until I had nothing but a mess to clean
The constant scrubbing kept spreading the dirt again
When I met you
You saw straight through and I saw straight through
All the lingering doubt stood up and left the room
All that remained was magic truth, That you can give to me and I can give to you
I still marvel and dream
You were the shelter and the perfect storm, Liquid fire inside me has been born
There was nothing i ever needed more, Than being seen at my core
Now i know what you were for
We shared our secretive news, Built a castle of words and deflated balloons
We learnt how we are is not what we want
We can make it alone and not break every bone, In our lives, & our bones have eyes
I still marvel and dream what we could have been
Hover in the Now
Did you know I'm on board, Breaking old pattern source
When I told you the truth, It was old news
You have known forever
When I'm smothered in sound, And I quake the ground
At the bottom I found, You were all the way around
I chose to walk away, From chasing my grave
Through a clouded haze, And I purged tears of loss
And counted costs, Neither free or tethered
And I'm making new vows, To hover in the now
Searching in and out, You were all the way around
When my days fade out, And I lose my doubt
Let me feel proud, Saw you all the way around
I Really Fucking Love You
When I said I really fucking love you, You know I meant every word
When I said I really fucking need you, You know it was true every word
When I fall can you see the scrapes on my knee
When I call you don't feed me the love I need
I know a humbled heart isn't much to see
And I know a humbled heart looks a lot like me
So I said I really fucking miss you, We fight and it hurts 'cause it's true
So I said i'm never gonna leave you, It's not true, i'll leave when you ask me to
When I fall can you see the scrapes on my knee
When I call you don't feed me the love i need
I know a humbled heart isn't much to see
And I know a humbled heart looks a lot like me
Little Wars
You spilled turpentine and poisoned all the acreage
But it filled a peace of mind, escape all the jitteriness
You live on impervious
You try to locate a painless remedy. A lie to cling on to unequivocal
You keep watch criticise and never do anything at all
You split everyone in half and never fix a damn thing at all
You never put your heart on the line for anyone at all
You tried one time, got hurt and now you'll never fall
You start a war with guilt and fight everything
The anxiety builds, you know you're not going to win
You got locked in your mind, You can never break down the wall
Now you're running from your tears, And complain it's something medical
When you lie to yourself there is no one you can ever call
It takes time to turn around, You've got to find and face the little wars
You abandon love, without a reason to trust, And kill everyone off
There is only one way to feel
The pain in your eyes no one ever empathised before
You were sad for thirty years and they just handed you a panadol
Did you ever recognise you were learning not to love at all
It takes time to turn around, You've got to find and face the little wars
It takes heart to turn around, You've got to to start and face the little wars
It takes love to turn around, rise above and face the little wars
Better Than Clever
I'm not lonely, I'm empty that's much worse
Let the day make up my mind
I'm not clever enough for suicide
I can live with the truth, I can't live with telling you
I'm not made of fire I'm made of iron, I'm not made of sky I'm made of wine
I cherish my regrets, they grew what I reject
I will find love again, If you don't want to know we won't grow here
I can live with the truth and I'll live with telling you
I'm not made of iron I'm made of fire, I'm not made of wine I'm made of sky
The Hardest Rock
Open the front door, let the neighbours hear my voice
I tend to let the doubt in and holler until i am hoarse
You are the hardest rock i've seen, and you are everything i need
As i dissolve in my disease, i have been flattering to deceive
I continue living in clutter, i avoid meeting your eyes
We both know for me it was better, To keep on traveling and never arrive
You have got the worst job I know, But you would never let me know
Tending to me when i bleed, and then agonise when i leave
I gave you the best i could
I look deep in the mirror, i want to find love once again
You are the hardest rock of all, you don't need to talk at all
Stay here with me through the night, Knowing you are keeping me alive
I gave you the best I could, I leave you with all i have
Shelf Life
I don't wish another day of hell upon you
If you take your love away with the fear divide you
And the time you told me you've got nothing left to give
I'll remember that when I'm dead
I don't want you to make amends
In all these years, all the causes all the tears
We're both hurting, don't tell me what I want to hear
'cause love like ours has a shelf life
I walked around the farm, You were crying in the lounge
I've always had a heart with needs
But the pain you showed last night bought you some empathy
And it beat the fight right out of me, Yeah it ripped my spine right out of me
When I died I caught a purer part of me
When I died I built my heart a sanctuary
My love doesn't have a shelf life
Now I walk the field alone, And I feel you in the moon
When we fade into the sun, I will hear you and we will become one
Paperback
These foreign lines are making good time, toward my eyes
I taught myself to live this way, I place my hand next to your hand
The best paper back writers, couldn't find a way to unite us
I need to believe in you again, I need to believe in me again
These foreign lines they're making good time, toward my mind
I fought myself to take a stand, I place my hand next to your hand
The best paper back writers, couldn't find a way to unite us
I need to believe in you again, I need to believe in me again
Second of March
I'm on the ledge of a scar
Stuck at the edge of the end
It will take a new day to figure out the distance
I will have to travel to unravel this mess
Stuck at the edge of a scar
Trapped on the ledge of the end
Every broken path I take is a dead end and one way
Every fire I die to burn is earth at the end of the day
If I reach out I know I'm gone for sure
And I can't hold on anymore
No I can't hold on anymore
Goodbye
A burning metal, in a cold lonely earth
I can not settle, 'til I open up the hurt
I give a fire to you, you absorb most of the pain
But it ignites you, and the earnest flag you wave
Open hearted empty starters, open hearted empty starters
When you're a river, I begin to cool, amazed
That I can live here, feeling calmer every day
I will not lie to you, at all to get my way
I give the sky to you, and you steadily float away
Open hearted empty starters, open hearted empty starters
We move home, into the ranges, now we have ages
To find the middle, let the edges fade away
We can build, a world without escape
I see inside you, your sweet delicate heart
I want to give to you, do you want to let me start?
Open hearted empty starters, open hearted empty starters
Twin Flames
I want to say it was so nice to meet you, I cannot wait until the next time I see you
Yesterday was amazing together, Excited eyes could oscillate forever
I wonder do you feel the flame, So familiar and miles away
When you meander I tenderly accept your words
When I surrender you pause and never make it worse
The world we enter, Imagine the light our twin flames would ignite
I feel intense at times, you cool me down
You fly away some times, I will always, be your soft ground
I will wait a lifetime in the hope you will land
And if I break it's okay you will understand
And I will live on and grow the love I let decay, I will rise
And you will give on if you get honest every day, You will rise
Close our eyes be the flame alone tonight, We'll survive
And when we harmonise, Imagine the light our twin flames will ignite
Imagine the light we'll ignite, Imagine the light we'll ignite
Imagine the light our twin flames will ignite
Deflated Balloons
Love can live in many different tones, For me I felt it at the surface alone
Where I tinkered and toyed, I tried to hone
When love pierced me deeper it would scar me, Until I became corrupt with insecurity
So I took love to make the hurt feel better, Until I had nothing but a mess to clean
The constant scrubbing kept spreading the dirt again
When I met you
You saw straight through and I saw straight through
All the lingering doubt stood up and left the room
All that remained was magic truth, That you can give to me and I can give to you
I still marvel and dream
You were the shelter and the perfect storm, Liquid fire inside me has been born
There was nothing i ever needed more, Than being seen at my core
Now i know what you were for
We shared our secretive news, Built a castle of words and deflated balloons
We learnt how we are is not what we want
We can make it alone and not break every bone, In our lives, & our bones have eyes
I still marvel and dream what we could have been
Hover in the Now
Did you know I'm on board, Breaking old pattern source
When I told you the truth, It was old news
You have known forever
When I'm smothered in sound, And I quake the ground
At the bottom I found, You were all the way around
I chose to walk away, From chasing my grave
Through a clouded haze, And I purged tears of loss
And counted costs, Neither free or tethered
And I'm making new vows, To hover in the now
Searching in and out, You were all the way around
When my days fade out, And I lose my doubt
Let me feel proud, Saw you all the way around
I Really Fucking Love You
When I said I really fucking love you, You know I meant every word
When I said I really fucking need you, You know it was true every word
When I fall can you see the scrapes on my knee
When I call you don't feed me the love I need
I know a humbled heart isn't much to see
And I know a humbled heart looks a lot like me
So I said I really fucking miss you, We fight and it hurts 'cause it's true
So I said i'm never gonna leave you, It's not true, i'll leave when you ask me to
When I fall can you see the scrapes on my knee
When I call you don't feed me the love i need
I know a humbled heart isn't much to see
And I know a humbled heart looks a lot like me
Little Wars
You spilled turpentine and poisoned all the acreage
But it filled a peace of mind, escape all the jitteriness
You live on impervious
You try to locate a painless remedy. A lie to cling on to unequivocal
You keep watch criticise and never do anything at all
You split everyone in half and never fix a damn thing at all
You never put your heart on the line for anyone at all
You tried one time, got hurt and now you'll never fall
You start a war with guilt and fight everything
The anxiety builds, you know you're not going to win
You got locked in your mind, You can never break down the wall
Now you're running from your tears, And complain it's something medical
When you lie to yourself there is no one you can ever call
It takes time to turn around, You've got to find and face the little wars
You abandon love, without a reason to trust, And kill everyone off
There is only one way to feel
The pain in your eyes no one ever empathised before
You were sad for thirty years and they just handed you a panadol
Did you ever recognise you were learning not to love at all
It takes time to turn around, You've got to find and face the little wars
It takes heart to turn around, You've got to to start and face the little wars
It takes love to turn around, rise above and face the little wars
Better Than Clever
I'm not lonely, I'm empty that's much worse
Let the day make up my mind
I'm not clever enough for suicide
I can live with the truth, I can't live with telling you
I'm not made of fire I'm made of iron, I'm not made of sky I'm made of wine
I cherish my regrets, they grew what I reject
I will find love again, If you don't want to know we won't grow here
I can live with the truth and I'll live with telling you
I'm not made of iron I'm made of fire, I'm not made of wine I'm made of sky
The Hardest Rock
Open the front door, let the neighbours hear my voice
I tend to let the doubt in and holler until i am hoarse
You are the hardest rock i've seen, and you are everything i need
As i dissolve in my disease, i have been flattering to deceive
I continue living in clutter, i avoid meeting your eyes
We both know for me it was better, To keep on traveling and never arrive
You have got the worst job I know, But you would never let me know
Tending to me when i bleed, and then agonise when i leave
I gave you the best i could
I look deep in the mirror, i want to find love once again
You are the hardest rock of all, you don't need to talk at all
Stay here with me through the night, Knowing you are keeping me alive
I gave you the best I could, I leave you with all i have
Shelf Life
I don't wish another day of hell upon you
If you take your love away with the fear divide you
And the time you told me you've got nothing left to give
I'll remember that when I'm dead
I don't want you to make amends
In all these years, all the causes all the tears
We're both hurting, don't tell me what I want to hear
'cause love like ours has a shelf life
I walked around the farm, You were crying in the lounge
I've always had a heart with needs
But the pain you showed last night bought you some empathy
And it beat the fight right out of me, Yeah it ripped my spine right out of me
When I died I caught a purer part of me
When I died I built my heart a sanctuary
My love doesn't have a shelf life
Now I walk the field alone, And I feel you in the moon
When we fade into the sun, I will hear you and we will become one
Paperback
These foreign lines are making good time, toward my eyes
I taught myself to live this way, I place my hand next to your hand
The best paper back writers, couldn't find a way to unite us
I need to believe in you again, I need to believe in me again
These foreign lines they're making good time, toward my mind
I fought myself to take a stand, I place my hand next to your hand
The best paper back writers, couldn't find a way to unite us
I need to believe in you again, I need to believe in me again
Second of March
I'm on the ledge of a scar
Stuck at the edge of the end
It will take a new day to figure out the distance
I will have to travel to unravel this mess
Stuck at the edge of a scar
Trapped on the ledge of the end
Every broken path I take is a dead end and one way
Every fire I die to burn is earth at the end of the day
If I reach out I know I'm gone for sure
And I can't hold on anymore
No I can't hold on anymore
Goodbye
EP (2024)
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(songs not on Unravel)
As Deep As You Can See
If I'm honest I never would have guessed
I would feel anything quite like this
You have been waiting, hoping he will arrive
But you are going nowhere until you can
Drive alone, you can navigate the perilous roads
You are living through, it fuels the fire in you
And I see all of you
And if it ended, I'm sure we will endure
And when we meet it will feel like
I'm dying and you're the cure
I can't promise if we can ever live real
I will never need you to
As long as I see you feel
So fly alone, and navigate the fire and smoke
You are living through
It fuels the fire in you, and I see all of you
Survive the cold, you're not out there alone
What we have feels old
And we will always be, I built a fire in you
As deep as you can see, I am burning for you
As deep as you can see, I am burning for you
As Deep As You Can See
If I'm honest I never would have guessed
I would feel anything quite like this
You have been waiting, hoping he will arrive
But you are going nowhere until you can
Drive alone, you can navigate the perilous roads
You are living through, it fuels the fire in you
And I see all of you
And if it ended, I'm sure we will endure
And when we meet it will feel like
I'm dying and you're the cure
I can't promise if we can ever live real
I will never need you to
As long as I see you feel
So fly alone, and navigate the fire and smoke
You are living through
It fuels the fire in you, and I see all of you
Survive the cold, you're not out there alone
What we have feels old
And we will always be, I built a fire in you
As deep as you can see, I am burning for you
As deep as you can see, I am burning for you
EP (2022)
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(songs not on Unravel)
Panic I'm Fearing
Life in a box full of opinions
I'm taking it all in my stride, living inside
I know it all means nothing to you, if I just can't get it to rhyme
And you're locked outside
You just cruise along the luckiest person alive
Until you get the door
And you find that you can't always know me
Or what I'm about to do next
Now you're on fire
I set you on fire
I hope you know I'm a memory, I couldn't live this long
Without fading to nothing, without getting it all wrong
I find ways to reinvent this old story again
With new words to hide in, another burn that you don't learn from
And I can't hold on here, to all of the panic I'm fearing
Without you hearing about all of the flaws that I've got
And all of the hurt that I'm hiding
When I'm so afraid that you'll get in
And destroy the lot
My Personal File
I molest all the simple things you have
Now the tables turn on everyone you love
So I lost all of the beautiful things about you
Believe me when I tell you, the worst has, come true
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
If you open up my personal file
You'll see the things inside that are not part of your life
hiding out from you, Don't go in there for a while
And if you open my up my personal file
You'll see the moments of regret and all the sides of my life
That you're not part of, Are still alive
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
I'ts a waste of time weaving and battling
I guess it's the only way I know how to drive
I lost control and you're still finding it
No matter what you say I'm gonna let it ride
If you could open up and not stonewall my words. It's easy enough
You don't connect what I find in your diary
I read it all and it's such a shame to think
There's hope and trust I'm not envious of you
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
I'm not envious
I'm emptier
The Waving Kids
A boat can take a chance, But the tide will not return for me
And the consequence awaits, predictable
Cruise away I'm with the waving kids
Cruise away I'm with the waving kids
Grew an ocean out of your seeds, The motion helps you breathe
And I'm soaking in my old creek, We're lost in what it all means
The further you float away, The less the weeds will stick to you
While your decadence remains, irrational
You cruise away, i'm with the waving kids
Will you turn around and see this for what it is?
Grew an ocean out of your seeds, The motion helps you breathe
I'm soaking in my old creek, We're lost in what it all means
And you don't turn, no you don't turn around
Surviving Somehow
I saw it painted on her face, The kind of look you can not erase
But I soaked it up and didn't walk away
A soldier at a dark end, I learn the art of defending
Eyes are piercing and I'm surviving somehow
I'm losing, your losing, we're giving up before our eyes
I'm bleeding and your bleeding, but I dry it off and keep on trying
You give no reaction I can't believe it, When you turn away to hide your crime
You're leaving, I'm leaving, we're losing touch
I saw it painted on her face, Every line feels out of place
The raven can not pick it back again
I'm losing, your losing, we're giving up before our eyes
I'm bleeding and your bleeding, but I dry it off and keep on trying
You give no reaction and I can't believe it, When you turn away to hide your crying
You're leaving and I'm leaving
And we're losing touch
I walk alone around Melbourne
I see a kid she looks like you and I
I wonder, she could have been ours
Panic I'm Fearing
Life in a box full of opinions
I'm taking it all in my stride, living inside
I know it all means nothing to you, if I just can't get it to rhyme
And you're locked outside
You just cruise along the luckiest person alive
Until you get the door
And you find that you can't always know me
Or what I'm about to do next
Now you're on fire
I set you on fire
I hope you know I'm a memory, I couldn't live this long
Without fading to nothing, without getting it all wrong
I find ways to reinvent this old story again
With new words to hide in, another burn that you don't learn from
And I can't hold on here, to all of the panic I'm fearing
Without you hearing about all of the flaws that I've got
And all of the hurt that I'm hiding
When I'm so afraid that you'll get in
And destroy the lot
My Personal File
I molest all the simple things you have
Now the tables turn on everyone you love
So I lost all of the beautiful things about you
Believe me when I tell you, the worst has, come true
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
If you open up my personal file
You'll see the things inside that are not part of your life
hiding out from you, Don't go in there for a while
And if you open my up my personal file
You'll see the moments of regret and all the sides of my life
That you're not part of, Are still alive
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
I'ts a waste of time weaving and battling
I guess it's the only way I know how to drive
I lost control and you're still finding it
No matter what you say I'm gonna let it ride
If you could open up and not stonewall my words. It's easy enough
You don't connect what I find in your diary
I read it all and it's such a shame to think
There's hope and trust I'm not envious of you
With hope and trust I'm not envious of you
I'm not envious
I'm emptier
The Waving Kids
A boat can take a chance, But the tide will not return for me
And the consequence awaits, predictable
Cruise away I'm with the waving kids
Cruise away I'm with the waving kids
Grew an ocean out of your seeds, The motion helps you breathe
And I'm soaking in my old creek, We're lost in what it all means
The further you float away, The less the weeds will stick to you
While your decadence remains, irrational
You cruise away, i'm with the waving kids
Will you turn around and see this for what it is?
Grew an ocean out of your seeds, The motion helps you breathe
I'm soaking in my old creek, We're lost in what it all means
And you don't turn, no you don't turn around
Surviving Somehow
I saw it painted on her face, The kind of look you can not erase
But I soaked it up and didn't walk away
A soldier at a dark end, I learn the art of defending
Eyes are piercing and I'm surviving somehow
I'm losing, your losing, we're giving up before our eyes
I'm bleeding and your bleeding, but I dry it off and keep on trying
You give no reaction I can't believe it, When you turn away to hide your crime
You're leaving, I'm leaving, we're losing touch
I saw it painted on her face, Every line feels out of place
The raven can not pick it back again
I'm losing, your losing, we're giving up before our eyes
I'm bleeding and your bleeding, but I dry it off and keep on trying
You give no reaction and I can't believe it, When you turn away to hide your crying
You're leaving and I'm leaving
And we're losing touch
I walk alone around Melbourne
I see a kid she looks like you and I
I wonder, she could have been ours
ALBUM (2018)
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Bijou Model
lyrics by Jodie Musto
It's time to say farewell, to the only truth left here in this house
You have been the one and only thing I could confide in
You have seen the one and only thing I could lose sight in
Where no one else would get me
Where no one else would let me cry
Before I say farewell, I can spend the night here with you alone
And I will miss my safety, you will never know just how much of it you gave me
Who Made Other Plans
When you open up and I peel you
You start looking back at the old view
Oh I was sure you would know, now that I have led you down that road
I know I could have told you, you would not understand
And I'm sure it would not thrill you, that I'm the kind of man
Who made other plans
Panic skews my mind my health declines
You shut down at every feeling, when you question I keep retreating
I know I should have told you, but I just couldn't face
Another moment I'd betray you, with all of my bad taste
How can I console you when you didn't want to know
About the pain that I can cause you if you had to hurt to go
So there it is
Hold your head down and I wrench my heart out
Let your guard down and I got my scars out
Face my background and I let my dogs out
Tore my fence down and I got my stars out
Melbourne
lyrics by Jodie Musto
Been thinking about the old inflatable pool on our grass
And wondering how the hell, we're going to last
Here, in the rain, 'cause here, I'm just so plain
The streets are wet and my train is always full
My own hope fills regret and then there's you
Here in the rain, but here, we're in pain
Snapshots of my old life, they come and go
Complete with all the love, I had to let go
Here, in the rain, but here, it's not the same
We Can Never Be Friends
I never thought i could, ever make amends, this heavy weight i understated it
so i withered away, so dark i couldn't retreat
And all the glimmers of white inside have shaded, think it over
The moment i saw your face is the moment i knew my fate in it
The second i felt you fade, is the second i deserved every single bit
Today i finally rose, the firs time that i felt alive
Was the second i left it all behind, think it over
So walk away again, we both know we can never be friends
Don't strike a deal with the old and helpless
We both know we can never be friends
Work the Corner
For a moment, it felt like yesterday
We would innocently while the night away
You would hold on to all the fears I'd cast away
So if I saw you smile I knew I'd like the day
When you walked the coast for a year you knew I'd wait
But you got home I noticed something in you change
I could not unlock the words inside your brain
I did believe the awful things you were saying
Now you work the corner where we used to play
I tried to raise a smile, you just looked away
Now you work the corner where you used to play
I want to, talk about the reason why you hid away
I want to, walk a day in the shoes that you've now thrown away
I want to, dream about flying with you down the freeway
I want to, laugh about how we can stop our town decaying
Now you work the corner where we used to play
I tried to catch your eye, you just looked away
Now you work the corner where we used to play
Kill the Bitch
You do not bleed when I cut further in
You do not feel a thing when the story wells in my throat
Keep my head bowed, let myself out
Growing weeds, fleeing from my bed
Digging deeper in, until I lose my head
Let it wreck in a second, I'm past the end
Take a moment, make amends
Or I could die from this, I'll die from this, in time
When I freeze I can't break out
Unless I fight, you're so damn quiet
I'll kill the bitch, I'll kill the bitch
I'll kill that slut, I'll fuck her up
What a mess, the only thing you said
Lose another day, trying to connect
All the real reason, we never said
Take a moment, make amends
I'll kill the bitch, I'll kill the bitch
I Waited for You to Change
I waited for you to change
When you knew I'd always stay the same
So I left you, but I still held out some hope
That I might be the one thing you would miss the most
Now I can't come home
The road freezes over, I'm jailed on a freeway
The passengers are older, but they mean what they say
Home is not closer and we're both giving way
I forgot the things that hold her
The past and a nest without weeds
So I waited for you to say
I'd love to give my new life away
When I lost you I too held on alone
Please come back home
No Never
lyrics by Jodie Musto
You lay there listening, but you do not know what to make of this
We just met, but we are best friends already
I'm out of key and there is cobwebs in here
But you do not go, you stay here with me
My new best friend, until the old one forget
No never, no never
From white to black, oh how these things have changed
But I will not feel bad, no I will not feel sad about it
No never, no never
Until the old one forget, no never
Pelicans
I'm all alone and I wish you here today
We both know that I did not fight at all
I broke down when I thought it was years away
I had more hope than a whole world could know
But I tired and the weeds crept inside
I never gave you words when we broke up
You were my child, I gave you up
Searching for something else, I can't remember what
It was so important I forgot
But I searched so hard, so damn hard, we both gave up
We watch the pelicans fly, they never look back at you or I
And I am not strong enough to admit that I am often wrong
And I'm sure if you ever came back I would say to you
I don't deserve you
lyrics by Jodie Musto
It's time to say farewell, to the only truth left here in this house
You have been the one and only thing I could confide in
You have seen the one and only thing I could lose sight in
Where no one else would get me
Where no one else would let me cry
Before I say farewell, I can spend the night here with you alone
And I will miss my safety, you will never know just how much of it you gave me
Who Made Other Plans
When you open up and I peel you
You start looking back at the old view
Oh I was sure you would know, now that I have led you down that road
I know I could have told you, you would not understand
And I'm sure it would not thrill you, that I'm the kind of man
Who made other plans
Panic skews my mind my health declines
You shut down at every feeling, when you question I keep retreating
I know I should have told you, but I just couldn't face
Another moment I'd betray you, with all of my bad taste
How can I console you when you didn't want to know
About the pain that I can cause you if you had to hurt to go
So there it is
Hold your head down and I wrench my heart out
Let your guard down and I got my scars out
Face my background and I let my dogs out
Tore my fence down and I got my stars out
Melbourne
lyrics by Jodie Musto
Been thinking about the old inflatable pool on our grass
And wondering how the hell, we're going to last
Here, in the rain, 'cause here, I'm just so plain
The streets are wet and my train is always full
My own hope fills regret and then there's you
Here in the rain, but here, we're in pain
Snapshots of my old life, they come and go
Complete with all the love, I had to let go
Here, in the rain, but here, it's not the same
We Can Never Be Friends
I never thought i could, ever make amends, this heavy weight i understated it
so i withered away, so dark i couldn't retreat
And all the glimmers of white inside have shaded, think it over
The moment i saw your face is the moment i knew my fate in it
The second i felt you fade, is the second i deserved every single bit
Today i finally rose, the firs time that i felt alive
Was the second i left it all behind, think it over
So walk away again, we both know we can never be friends
Don't strike a deal with the old and helpless
We both know we can never be friends
Work the Corner
For a moment, it felt like yesterday
We would innocently while the night away
You would hold on to all the fears I'd cast away
So if I saw you smile I knew I'd like the day
When you walked the coast for a year you knew I'd wait
But you got home I noticed something in you change
I could not unlock the words inside your brain
I did believe the awful things you were saying
Now you work the corner where we used to play
I tried to raise a smile, you just looked away
Now you work the corner where you used to play
I want to, talk about the reason why you hid away
I want to, walk a day in the shoes that you've now thrown away
I want to, dream about flying with you down the freeway
I want to, laugh about how we can stop our town decaying
Now you work the corner where we used to play
I tried to catch your eye, you just looked away
Now you work the corner where we used to play
Kill the Bitch
You do not bleed when I cut further in
You do not feel a thing when the story wells in my throat
Keep my head bowed, let myself out
Growing weeds, fleeing from my bed
Digging deeper in, until I lose my head
Let it wreck in a second, I'm past the end
Take a moment, make amends
Or I could die from this, I'll die from this, in time
When I freeze I can't break out
Unless I fight, you're so damn quiet
I'll kill the bitch, I'll kill the bitch
I'll kill that slut, I'll fuck her up
What a mess, the only thing you said
Lose another day, trying to connect
All the real reason, we never said
Take a moment, make amends
I'll kill the bitch, I'll kill the bitch
I Waited for You to Change
I waited for you to change
When you knew I'd always stay the same
So I left you, but I still held out some hope
That I might be the one thing you would miss the most
Now I can't come home
The road freezes over, I'm jailed on a freeway
The passengers are older, but they mean what they say
Home is not closer and we're both giving way
I forgot the things that hold her
The past and a nest without weeds
So I waited for you to say
I'd love to give my new life away
When I lost you I too held on alone
Please come back home
No Never
lyrics by Jodie Musto
You lay there listening, but you do not know what to make of this
We just met, but we are best friends already
I'm out of key and there is cobwebs in here
But you do not go, you stay here with me
My new best friend, until the old one forget
No never, no never
From white to black, oh how these things have changed
But I will not feel bad, no I will not feel sad about it
No never, no never
Until the old one forget, no never
Pelicans
I'm all alone and I wish you here today
We both know that I did not fight at all
I broke down when I thought it was years away
I had more hope than a whole world could know
But I tired and the weeds crept inside
I never gave you words when we broke up
You were my child, I gave you up
Searching for something else, I can't remember what
It was so important I forgot
But I searched so hard, so damn hard, we both gave up
We watch the pelicans fly, they never look back at you or I
And I am not strong enough to admit that I am often wrong
And I'm sure if you ever came back I would say to you
I don't deserve you
ALBUM (2016)
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The Draw
All I have got to say, all you can deny, when you look away, from every scar I find
Honestly we can’t survive, before we tie the fight
Hiding underground, folding in the sides, breaking up or down, is all you can provide
Just open up or start to cry, before you say, good bye
Honestly we can’t survive, before we tie
Hold my strong resolve, another drawn result, hold your strong resolve, another drawn result.
Get Functional
For the moment I’m just watching, I’m keeping distance until I can
Digest and understand the dark noise we both keep living in
I can’t receive it when you look me down, tell me I should walk
When you know that I can’t stand, when you know I won’t survive this
Another year of holding plans, we are still dying in our hands
Before I take my only turn, we both sit back and watch it burn
I don’t believe it when you keep on insisting I’ll be fine
I felt the darkness when, you found a way to hide your friend
I know that you are not listening, not even trying to be real
You said "you have got to go", you said "I’ll never grow"
I feel the sickness taking hold I lost the chance to take a stand
Before your venom takes control, before your actions break our plans
Write it all off, bury it all down in the background
Dust yourself off, water it all down with a black cloud
Caroline
You stepped in front of me, and I lost my nerve
Is this the only day I don't deserve you
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you
I 'll fight my distaste, And burn because
You took my hand, Where you stand
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you
You stepped in front of me, And I lost my nerve
Is this the only day I don't deserve you
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you, I don't believe you
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you
Caroline I don't deserve you
In time we'll find a reason, Turn to the blind side of ourselves
I'll make it hard to make you try
I'll make it hard, to make you try, to make you try
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you (to make you try)
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you (I don't deserve you)
Ten Minutes or Your Life
I force myself to pause and I burn my instinct further away
I am trying to survive I don’t know who you are
When I begin to fade in the depths I am sinking in, you are listening
To how I would react when you cry your heart out, I can’t now
So how should I react if you cry your heart out? I can’t now
So I don’t sleep for days, I am stuck anxious again
This is easy for me now all my hope is gone
All your hope is gone
Attitude ricochets, feeding an empty war, I feel more ashamed than I ever have before
Attitude ricochets, feeding an empty war, I feel more insane than I ever have before
All your hope is gone
Damn Reality
Don’t raise my hands, I won’t admit that I know when it got that bad
Just ignore the world
You look away when I question the life I thought was real and you
Just close the door
Damn reality staring at me
I realise I was risking everything on one small chance
You might arrive
In the same place, at the same time when we are so far apart right now
We could barely survive
Damn reality, I’ll stop listening now
Arrested I left it until you drowned out everything
I sure can let you down
Un rescued I miss you, but now I have ground down everything
I sure can let you down
In so many ways we keep drawing the same circle over again
And I’m bored and I’m done.
You don’t have to know and I don’t have to grow.
In Ratio
I am in your debt and I am starving but I don’t want you
To feed me the easy answer, I’ll take the rear view home
I don’t know the reason why I don’t make you sad, in ratio
I have broken all the records and you don’t care to know, if I am gone
Cut my eyes I am not bleeding, too cold to shiver
Vapour trails are not forming, my face is overgrown
I am living every reason why you don’t win me back, but I sure know
It hurts to think about you, I hit a clutter overflow then I’m gone
I know I am the reason we never stood a chance, in ratio
I have broken all my records and you don’t care to know, now I am gone
Broken enough before I met you
Lose the Night
Around about the last time I saw you
I took a spark to everything we loved
I am trapped alone within my hateful words fuelled up by you
We carry on ignoring what I have done
We flood the fire numbing every wound
We ignore the truth and lies keep wandering on driven by you
You want to argue until I make it worse
You fan the flames until my bones have burned
I never hide and I will never learn
The melted love and mess that our lives became
We will never have pure air to breathe again
I cannot clear the haze when all I say is blocked by you
Don’t try to tell me why it has been so long
You burn the bridge that we were sleeping on
I am packing up now the peace has gone
Lose half of the night but you can still fight when I am lying still
Almost like you invented our love to grow something you could kill
There is freedom in your honesty, but not the kind of truth you think I mean
I have given up on all these broken things rebuilding you
Lose half of the night but you can still fight when I am lying still, almost like you invented our love to grow something you could kill
Out of My Mind
Here I tell the years that I fell around you until you died
All the times I tried and failed in my own eyes, I compromised
Let go before cancer kills the population I can’t take you
Most of the time I try to keep a smile
All the years that I have lost by not giving you what you want
I still tell you why I need to love you, forget what I said
I can’t get you out of my mind, I am out of my mind
Forget what I said
Btrthn
I woke up feeling stained when the words keep me down
Fire juice into my veins I am feeling better now
But there is a pain I can’t explain I am feeling better now
If I lie and hide away or I fight I am stuck in doubt
I might decay further each day but I am feeling better now
Either way I won’t complain I am feeling better now
I am like a circular line drawn over again, knowing it never ends
We are all the same we will never change I am feeling better now
My malaise all that remains but I am feeling better now
I go back to where I am from and forget why it felt so wrong
In Adelaide I lost my jade but I am feeling better now
So afraid I felt betrayed but I am feeling better now
Your eyes are redder now, feeling better now
All I have got to say, all you can deny, when you look away, from every scar I find
Honestly we can’t survive, before we tie the fight
Hiding underground, folding in the sides, breaking up or down, is all you can provide
Just open up or start to cry, before you say, good bye
Honestly we can’t survive, before we tie
Hold my strong resolve, another drawn result, hold your strong resolve, another drawn result.
Get Functional
For the moment I’m just watching, I’m keeping distance until I can
Digest and understand the dark noise we both keep living in
I can’t receive it when you look me down, tell me I should walk
When you know that I can’t stand, when you know I won’t survive this
Another year of holding plans, we are still dying in our hands
Before I take my only turn, we both sit back and watch it burn
I don’t believe it when you keep on insisting I’ll be fine
I felt the darkness when, you found a way to hide your friend
I know that you are not listening, not even trying to be real
You said "you have got to go", you said "I’ll never grow"
I feel the sickness taking hold I lost the chance to take a stand
Before your venom takes control, before your actions break our plans
Write it all off, bury it all down in the background
Dust yourself off, water it all down with a black cloud
Caroline
You stepped in front of me, and I lost my nerve
Is this the only day I don't deserve you
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you
I 'll fight my distaste, And burn because
You took my hand, Where you stand
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you
You stepped in front of me, And I lost my nerve
Is this the only day I don't deserve you
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you, I don't believe you
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you
Caroline I don't deserve you
In time we'll find a reason, Turn to the blind side of ourselves
I'll make it hard to make you try
I'll make it hard, to make you try, to make you try
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you (to make you try)
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you (I don't deserve you)
Ten Minutes or Your Life
I force myself to pause and I burn my instinct further away
I am trying to survive I don’t know who you are
When I begin to fade in the depths I am sinking in, you are listening
To how I would react when you cry your heart out, I can’t now
So how should I react if you cry your heart out? I can’t now
So I don’t sleep for days, I am stuck anxious again
This is easy for me now all my hope is gone
All your hope is gone
Attitude ricochets, feeding an empty war, I feel more ashamed than I ever have before
Attitude ricochets, feeding an empty war, I feel more insane than I ever have before
All your hope is gone
Damn Reality
Don’t raise my hands, I won’t admit that I know when it got that bad
Just ignore the world
You look away when I question the life I thought was real and you
Just close the door
Damn reality staring at me
I realise I was risking everything on one small chance
You might arrive
In the same place, at the same time when we are so far apart right now
We could barely survive
Damn reality, I’ll stop listening now
Arrested I left it until you drowned out everything
I sure can let you down
Un rescued I miss you, but now I have ground down everything
I sure can let you down
In so many ways we keep drawing the same circle over again
And I’m bored and I’m done.
You don’t have to know and I don’t have to grow.
In Ratio
I am in your debt and I am starving but I don’t want you
To feed me the easy answer, I’ll take the rear view home
I don’t know the reason why I don’t make you sad, in ratio
I have broken all the records and you don’t care to know, if I am gone
Cut my eyes I am not bleeding, too cold to shiver
Vapour trails are not forming, my face is overgrown
I am living every reason why you don’t win me back, but I sure know
It hurts to think about you, I hit a clutter overflow then I’m gone
I know I am the reason we never stood a chance, in ratio
I have broken all my records and you don’t care to know, now I am gone
Broken enough before I met you
Lose the Night
Around about the last time I saw you
I took a spark to everything we loved
I am trapped alone within my hateful words fuelled up by you
We carry on ignoring what I have done
We flood the fire numbing every wound
We ignore the truth and lies keep wandering on driven by you
You want to argue until I make it worse
You fan the flames until my bones have burned
I never hide and I will never learn
The melted love and mess that our lives became
We will never have pure air to breathe again
I cannot clear the haze when all I say is blocked by you
Don’t try to tell me why it has been so long
You burn the bridge that we were sleeping on
I am packing up now the peace has gone
Lose half of the night but you can still fight when I am lying still
Almost like you invented our love to grow something you could kill
There is freedom in your honesty, but not the kind of truth you think I mean
I have given up on all these broken things rebuilding you
Lose half of the night but you can still fight when I am lying still, almost like you invented our love to grow something you could kill
Out of My Mind
Here I tell the years that I fell around you until you died
All the times I tried and failed in my own eyes, I compromised
Let go before cancer kills the population I can’t take you
Most of the time I try to keep a smile
All the years that I have lost by not giving you what you want
I still tell you why I need to love you, forget what I said
I can’t get you out of my mind, I am out of my mind
Forget what I said
Btrthn
I woke up feeling stained when the words keep me down
Fire juice into my veins I am feeling better now
But there is a pain I can’t explain I am feeling better now
If I lie and hide away or I fight I am stuck in doubt
I might decay further each day but I am feeling better now
Either way I won’t complain I am feeling better now
I am like a circular line drawn over again, knowing it never ends
We are all the same we will never change I am feeling better now
My malaise all that remains but I am feeling better now
I go back to where I am from and forget why it felt so wrong
In Adelaide I lost my jade but I am feeling better now
So afraid I felt betrayed but I am feeling better now
Your eyes are redder now, feeling better now
EP (2014)
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(songs not on other releases)
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Don't Give Up Now
A Sensitive One
An Ashen Hue
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Don't Give Up Now
A Sensitive One
An Ashen Hue
EP (2012)
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(songs not on other releases)
(lyrics soon to be provided)
This Man Is A Ghost
A Sensitive One
What's Wrong
I Am constantly Breaking Down
a Million Failures
Don't Criticise
Oxygen
(lyrics soon to be provided)
This Man Is A Ghost
A Sensitive One
What's Wrong
I Am constantly Breaking Down
a Million Failures
Don't Criticise
Oxygen
EP (2011)
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(songs not on other releases)
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Don't Interrupt
Give Up Hope
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Don't Interrupt
Give Up Hope
ALBUM (2010)
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The Curse of Us
I'm counting the cost of the curse of us, letting the criminals dig with knives
At time it made perfect sense, we can purchase better lives
I know when the tension is high, you are bound to get the answer wrong
So take it in your stride, when they cut you down a size
Are you going to sleep tonight
With no regrets you smash this land, then wait for the stocks to rise
And the world wants you to win, when it's lost in a pit of lies
You won't change anything yourself, it's a trap you can't break out
You will still feed your kids tonight, so take it from her mouth
I am sure you realise, we're punctured either way
I hope you're feeling proud, shovelling out your grave
My Confession
There was a time when I was sharp and young and focused
But your manipulation I barely even noticed
(You fight me like it's only hard for you)
You built a colosseum and you dressed me like a lion
You slide up next to Caesar knowing either way I'm dying
(You fight me like it's only hard for you)
Well I have learned my confession, this is my confession
You don't have any discipline with all your carnal missions
While to me you're blaming loneliness for all your inhibitions
(You fight me like it's only hard for you)
Well I have learned my confession, this is my confession
I have lost my passion, this is my confession
But I kiss you off and you pick me out again
Piss you off and you kick me out again
We start again
(What are you afraid of)
Trying to find my path, want to make this last, got to take my chance
I'm leaving you
Come to Bite Us
lyrics by Jodie Musto & Glenn Musto
I will go down to the market for you, and buy your niece some sweet sixteen perfume
I would do anything you ask me to, and give you everything you want
And then the day comes when I just don't
And all the things that we just won't do, come to bite us in two
You went and took that fancy job for me, even though it never made you happy
You said "it's no trouble" to give me everything I want
And then the day comes when you just don't
You won't catch my heart can't find the time to
Times two
The Flood
You want to forget me, please don't do it yet
I won't deceive you, I really shouldn't yet
Because I know my best half, is lost in translation
Questions flood down, when the drug runs out
I want to see ya, but I won't do it yet
Take another powder, and break out a new sweat
Anticipate the worst part, when I am stuck in emotion
All the questions are flooding down to you
From all the mountains you know you can't walk through
All the sessions that take you off the ground
Bring all the tensions that tighten once you're down
My mind is grounded, my emotion is drowning
I'm completely surrounded and I don't hear a sound
This Change
lyrics by Jodie Musto & Glenn Musto
This change could be the best time of my life
This change should be the time when I do anything I want
Well it's not, who knows what it is
So I am lost, but I just keep pretending
They say you're so lucky, they tell me you're so pretty you'll move on
Well who cares it's all irrelevant, well being nowhere has no movement
If I had realised before I stopped trying, we would have survived
If you had taken a stand before I stopped crying, we would have survived
With this change, I have lost the best part of my life
With this change, having a broken heart is the best thing I have realised
I'm so sorry I can't begin to understand what you think of me
Now I need press reverse 'cause running this way I can't believe in anything
I shut you out and forgot what I needed, so I lost you
And now I am home, just one more time I am here, to tell you
I'll change, we'll change, rearrange, this change
It Only Matters What We Do Now
The handbrake's shot, trying to drive survival is gonna be hard
Two hours out of Finland, and a universe from where we started
You're tired I'm oversensitive, either I am right or you're lying
Then I grab a look at you, and we just smile
When I look in your eyes I know where still strong
It only matters what we do now, it doesn't matter what we've done
It's bittersweet and industry in such a sad decline
A bad night rolls into a week, we've gotta leave this town behind
So we drive, until the ocean swallows up the horizon
And Plymouth switches all the blue skies on
Abandoned
lyrics by Jodie Musto, Simon Bartlett & Glenn Musto
I promised myself when we last spoke, we would never change
I deserted you for people we hardly knew, you cried every day
Did you feel abandoned, the city swept away (the city swept me up)
Now I feel hollow and you're lost in the undertow
As I follow my dream, I tried to balance what can't be
Did you feel abandoned, I'm sorry I let you go
Clean out clean out, the past from my spare room
Clean out clean out, maybe you should too
Clean out clean out, don't hide it further away
Clean out clean out, and let the emptiness fade
Did you feel abandoned, don't give up all that we've got (don't give it all up)
Or we'll catapult into extinction and waste our shot
Scream out scream out, do any feelings remain
Scream out scream out, what have you got to say
I am completely lost but I have accepted the cause and I'm starting over again
(Don't tell me this is the end)
And if you ever come back I know the bond that we have
Isn't strong enough to hold you in place, don't tell me this is the end
Did you feel abandoned, I guess it's all I deserve
I should have known, that leaving home, would have caused all this hurt
Now we have both been abandoned
Door Prize
I have wasted my life and I just can't remember how I ended up here
But I ended up here
I think the last time I ever really felt safe was twenty years ago with him
At the Queens Park drive in
When I come home tonight I might lose control and explode before I realise
I wanted children once and I hoped that we could remain in love
If the bruises don't get worse, it can't hurt
My door prize tonight is a cut from a bottle locked in a room without a light
My door prize tonight involves keeping real still when he is coming inside
My door prize tonight is a good few hours of being scared for my life
My door prize tonight means hating myself just to survive
My door prize tonight means hating myself just to survive
The End's in Sight
You look at me with a smiling face, we made the most of the last few days
But I can't let this feeling shake, soon it will be over
I drove you up to Serpentine, we made the most of the autumn light
A few months you'll be off my mind, expired and retired
But here we stand the end's in sight, and I just can't believe we might never reunite
When we depart I'll grow again, but my heart will stay the same
As my feelings hurricane, a storm builds in my head
I wanna tell you that I feel all these regrets that I've concealed
I'm hoping that you might tell me first, yeah that's my curse
I can't believe it, the end's in sight
Quit telling me it's gonna be alright
Fake Life
I can never be the guy I want to be, I find it easier to fake life and live wrong
I hardly know the girl standing next to me, I find it easier to fake life and live wrong
I don't want to take responsibility, I find it easier to fake life and live wrong
I'd marry you but I won't stop eating meat, I find it easier to fake life and live wrong
Silk ties imperfect lies I'm gonna fall down, fall down
With white lines and constant highs I'm gonna fall down, fall down
I don't want to take responsibility
At times when I'm alone I think that I could change
The chances I have blown I'll never have again
Take a seat in my four wheel drive, I've got surround sound, all around
I'll never try it's all contrived, I've got surround sound, all around
Look at me before I fade in the light, I'm gonna fall down, fall down
With more cash than I have time, I'm gonna fall down, fall down
I hardly know the girl, I've got to fake the life
Blankets
In my memory I can't see, through this labyrinth of tears and screams
I'm the shield between my fathers' hands and my family
And the blankets came out that summer
Sleeping in is all I do, my legs and arms are aching my body is all consumed
I can't expect my friends to understand what I don't, it's got to end soon
And the blankets came out that summer
I didn't mean all of the awful things I said
I didn't want to take your dream and tear it all to shreds
I didn't want to hurt you, but darling I had to, to save myself
So the blankets came out that summer
Burnt Out
lyrics by Glenn Musto & Jodie Musto
Can you even comprehend the way this could have ended
I'm sorry but it's not enough, you don't hear a sound
I'm sorry but it's not enough, the light is burning out
What have you got to say, I'm in desperation for your attention
When I push you away we never mention your reaction
I can tell that you're frustrated because every word is overstated
Every time that you get angry it makes me feel intimidated
I can't respond I'm freezing from the cold
The fire is dying out without you and I'm so dull you'll never find me
Will you change and will I ever know
Every time that you get angry I feel so damn intimidated
It chips a piece of you out of my soul
Every time we pick apart it was not enough when we got started
I am all burnt out
I'm counting the cost of the curse of us, letting the criminals dig with knives
At time it made perfect sense, we can purchase better lives
I know when the tension is high, you are bound to get the answer wrong
So take it in your stride, when they cut you down a size
Are you going to sleep tonight
With no regrets you smash this land, then wait for the stocks to rise
And the world wants you to win, when it's lost in a pit of lies
You won't change anything yourself, it's a trap you can't break out
You will still feed your kids tonight, so take it from her mouth
I am sure you realise, we're punctured either way
I hope you're feeling proud, shovelling out your grave
My Confession
There was a time when I was sharp and young and focused
But your manipulation I barely even noticed
(You fight me like it's only hard for you)
You built a colosseum and you dressed me like a lion
You slide up next to Caesar knowing either way I'm dying
(You fight me like it's only hard for you)
Well I have learned my confession, this is my confession
You don't have any discipline with all your carnal missions
While to me you're blaming loneliness for all your inhibitions
(You fight me like it's only hard for you)
Well I have learned my confession, this is my confession
I have lost my passion, this is my confession
But I kiss you off and you pick me out again
Piss you off and you kick me out again
We start again
(What are you afraid of)
Trying to find my path, want to make this last, got to take my chance
I'm leaving you
Come to Bite Us
lyrics by Jodie Musto & Glenn Musto
I will go down to the market for you, and buy your niece some sweet sixteen perfume
I would do anything you ask me to, and give you everything you want
And then the day comes when I just don't
And all the things that we just won't do, come to bite us in two
You went and took that fancy job for me, even though it never made you happy
You said "it's no trouble" to give me everything I want
And then the day comes when you just don't
You won't catch my heart can't find the time to
Times two
The Flood
You want to forget me, please don't do it yet
I won't deceive you, I really shouldn't yet
Because I know my best half, is lost in translation
Questions flood down, when the drug runs out
I want to see ya, but I won't do it yet
Take another powder, and break out a new sweat
Anticipate the worst part, when I am stuck in emotion
All the questions are flooding down to you
From all the mountains you know you can't walk through
All the sessions that take you off the ground
Bring all the tensions that tighten once you're down
My mind is grounded, my emotion is drowning
I'm completely surrounded and I don't hear a sound
This Change
lyrics by Jodie Musto & Glenn Musto
This change could be the best time of my life
This change should be the time when I do anything I want
Well it's not, who knows what it is
So I am lost, but I just keep pretending
They say you're so lucky, they tell me you're so pretty you'll move on
Well who cares it's all irrelevant, well being nowhere has no movement
If I had realised before I stopped trying, we would have survived
If you had taken a stand before I stopped crying, we would have survived
With this change, I have lost the best part of my life
With this change, having a broken heart is the best thing I have realised
I'm so sorry I can't begin to understand what you think of me
Now I need press reverse 'cause running this way I can't believe in anything
I shut you out and forgot what I needed, so I lost you
And now I am home, just one more time I am here, to tell you
I'll change, we'll change, rearrange, this change
It Only Matters What We Do Now
The handbrake's shot, trying to drive survival is gonna be hard
Two hours out of Finland, and a universe from where we started
You're tired I'm oversensitive, either I am right or you're lying
Then I grab a look at you, and we just smile
When I look in your eyes I know where still strong
It only matters what we do now, it doesn't matter what we've done
It's bittersweet and industry in such a sad decline
A bad night rolls into a week, we've gotta leave this town behind
So we drive, until the ocean swallows up the horizon
And Plymouth switches all the blue skies on
Abandoned
lyrics by Jodie Musto, Simon Bartlett & Glenn Musto
I promised myself when we last spoke, we would never change
I deserted you for people we hardly knew, you cried every day
Did you feel abandoned, the city swept away (the city swept me up)
Now I feel hollow and you're lost in the undertow
As I follow my dream, I tried to balance what can't be
Did you feel abandoned, I'm sorry I let you go
Clean out clean out, the past from my spare room
Clean out clean out, maybe you should too
Clean out clean out, don't hide it further away
Clean out clean out, and let the emptiness fade
Did you feel abandoned, don't give up all that we've got (don't give it all up)
Or we'll catapult into extinction and waste our shot
Scream out scream out, do any feelings remain
Scream out scream out, what have you got to say
I am completely lost but I have accepted the cause and I'm starting over again
(Don't tell me this is the end)
And if you ever come back I know the bond that we have
Isn't strong enough to hold you in place, don't tell me this is the end
Did you feel abandoned, I guess it's all I deserve
I should have known, that leaving home, would have caused all this hurt
Now we have both been abandoned
Door Prize
I have wasted my life and I just can't remember how I ended up here
But I ended up here
I think the last time I ever really felt safe was twenty years ago with him
At the Queens Park drive in
When I come home tonight I might lose control and explode before I realise
I wanted children once and I hoped that we could remain in love
If the bruises don't get worse, it can't hurt
My door prize tonight is a cut from a bottle locked in a room without a light
My door prize tonight involves keeping real still when he is coming inside
My door prize tonight is a good few hours of being scared for my life
My door prize tonight means hating myself just to survive
My door prize tonight means hating myself just to survive
The End's in Sight
You look at me with a smiling face, we made the most of the last few days
But I can't let this feeling shake, soon it will be over
I drove you up to Serpentine, we made the most of the autumn light
A few months you'll be off my mind, expired and retired
But here we stand the end's in sight, and I just can't believe we might never reunite
When we depart I'll grow again, but my heart will stay the same
As my feelings hurricane, a storm builds in my head
I wanna tell you that I feel all these regrets that I've concealed
I'm hoping that you might tell me first, yeah that's my curse
I can't believe it, the end's in sight
Quit telling me it's gonna be alright
Fake Life
I can never be the guy I want to be, I find it easier to fake life and live wrong
I hardly know the girl standing next to me, I find it easier to fake life and live wrong
I don't want to take responsibility, I find it easier to fake life and live wrong
I'd marry you but I won't stop eating meat, I find it easier to fake life and live wrong
Silk ties imperfect lies I'm gonna fall down, fall down
With white lines and constant highs I'm gonna fall down, fall down
I don't want to take responsibility
At times when I'm alone I think that I could change
The chances I have blown I'll never have again
Take a seat in my four wheel drive, I've got surround sound, all around
I'll never try it's all contrived, I've got surround sound, all around
Look at me before I fade in the light, I'm gonna fall down, fall down
With more cash than I have time, I'm gonna fall down, fall down
I hardly know the girl, I've got to fake the life
Blankets
In my memory I can't see, through this labyrinth of tears and screams
I'm the shield between my fathers' hands and my family
And the blankets came out that summer
Sleeping in is all I do, my legs and arms are aching my body is all consumed
I can't expect my friends to understand what I don't, it's got to end soon
And the blankets came out that summer
I didn't mean all of the awful things I said
I didn't want to take your dream and tear it all to shreds
I didn't want to hurt you, but darling I had to, to save myself
So the blankets came out that summer
Burnt Out
lyrics by Glenn Musto & Jodie Musto
Can you even comprehend the way this could have ended
I'm sorry but it's not enough, you don't hear a sound
I'm sorry but it's not enough, the light is burning out
What have you got to say, I'm in desperation for your attention
When I push you away we never mention your reaction
I can tell that you're frustrated because every word is overstated
Every time that you get angry it makes me feel intimidated
I can't respond I'm freezing from the cold
The fire is dying out without you and I'm so dull you'll never find me
Will you change and will I ever know
Every time that you get angry I feel so damn intimidated
It chips a piece of you out of my soul
Every time we pick apart it was not enough when we got started
I am all burnt out
ALBUM (2007)
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For What It's Worth
I am resigned to dance around your feelings
I will take a breath and start again
So we let it go today, can we talk it over another day, it's overdue
I need to let you know, soon enough I will have to go
You know I'll miss you my heart is still here with you
But if you disagree, for what it's worth I'm not secure enough in us to hear your doubt
But if you disagree, for what it's worth I'm so in love with you but I can't tell you now
I fell on this feeling, I can't reveal what you need to hear me say
I gave my reason, I don't have the pieces left here, so I can't say
Well then write your plans of or write your chance off
Gravity
I'm all alone since you let me down
I always knew you would be the only boy around, who could
My heart survives trying to guide you home
It left the coldest feeling coping alone
And you said, it's technical
When I said I love you, I meant do you love me
Does your satellite orbit me, is your light heart free from gravity
Another season drifts further away
And still I hope I am reason enough for you to stay
Because I am sure I love you, I am not secure you feel it too
The line is clear now but you won't talk
The stars are fading to black, I am resignated, I can't react
Built an Empty Home
So it snowed right through spring and by June all the road signs
They weren't making sense, I slowed down
And all I heard was a breaking heart in a parking lot
I built an empty home, I disconnected the phone, and waited alone
If I wake up but I don't hear you, just keep knocking
If I look up but I don't see you, then I'll start writing
You will always be the same, still hiding all your pain
But I am hurting too just waiting fading away
And if my words don't reach your hands, if I lose my chance will I find you
If it run downstairs but you're not there, if it sit and stare will I find you
I might give and leave him, begin healing this devastated feeling
It's All Over
You said you can't understand, but the feeling of falling faded fast
And you've got nothing left
I turned around in time you hid your eyes, I had no choice
I thought of all the days I tried, to keep you there, figure it out
You're sitting back and I'm no further
When I just want to scream at you all night
You won't even hear a word I cry
The window opens up and all the pages float away outside
But it's too late to apologise, the author is dead, his story is old
It's all over, before you know it, it's all over, and all that I can leave with is my pride
I need a bottle, to get me so numb, a little tired of thinking about you
And I'm broken and you're long gone, a little tired of weeding out of the truth
I can't admit it even if I want to, I won't let you hear my voice again
I'm fresh out of reasons why I am here, maybe I'll never get
It's all over, and I can't even talk about it
Before I get up, and wrap the towel around and walk away
Give you the chance to say to tell me why, let you cry, say goodbye
It's all over, and I don't want to let you go
Six or Seven
Six or seven hours I have been awake, I don't think you would have noticed
I couldn't say what I thought about until you called and you warned me not to
Think at all, 'cause I can't even get
My mind off my heart sores, or the pain where my eyes rest
The drugs didn't take, will you tell me why they can't
Will you tell me what's gone wrong, when I don't understand
It's not enough, you're not in love
I am giving up again, I never thought I would
I question why I live in the dark of all the passages
In time, I am hoping to learn why, but the answer is terrifying
And it always feel like I am the one that is stuck behind
I'm the one just left to die, I'm the one that's out of time
And it would mean so much, if I knew you loved me once
And I know we made mistakes, and you make me so afraid
It's hard when you have been betrayed
If I am behind will you find your way
Like It or Not
You ignore all my phone calls, if I don't find you tonight, I might blame it all on you
A broken heart in College Fall, if we turn out alright, then I have got nothing to lose
Like it or not, I'll never give up, I kept your heart right in my hand
It's been so long, I've been so wrong, and now you are gone
I know I have made mistakes before, if I could press rewind
I would and live again with you
I can't explain enough for you, it's complicated you really don't care
I want to make it back up to you, if I could take back I would if I could
I still miss you
Sure I messed up, and the bets are all off, and you know I won't stop, I'll never give up
Closer
lyrics by Jodie Musto (Bartlett) & Glenn Musto
What is it you hope for in a friend
I should have asked you that before you went away
So I am waiting here for you alone again
While you spend time with her, will you stay away
I might be all you need to keep from falling at her feet
I need you closer, closer, I need you closer to me to know I am in your heart
So you phone me, you have never felt so far away
I wish I could tell you everything I want to say
I don't want your letters I don't read about London
And I'll die inside I am losing you
I don't want your letters I don't want to know that it's snowing
And I'll die inside I am losing you
I don't want your letters, I don't read about her, I can't breathe
This Direction
We greet the new year with a red wine, I'll meet you here at the time next year
In bed before we spoke, you left before I woke
I can't live this any more, I don't fit the scene I am set in
You would, if you could, well you should
I can't give this any more, drag me out of this direction
You would, if you could, well you should
I don't hear from you again, it's been forever since you called me
I don't know the reason, but I can't find redemption
I told you what I am feeling, I can't see your connection
Now I face oblivion I look in your direction
And I'll break your fall
Back Down
I am not going to give you any more ground, I need you tell me now
I've got to hear it anyway
I never thought you would let me down, but the time I figure you out
You move away
I am lost this time, I am never going to see you again
I hoped you would recognise, how much you needed your friend
You let me down, once too many times
If you don't back down, I won't back down, this time
I Won't Leave You
Can you stay if we're not friends, will you show if you still care, I search for us again
I try and comprehend, waiting in despair, I still crave her
The sky is closing in tonight, my fear amplified
I heard you shut the door, I won't leave you anymore
My hand reaching out for yours, I can't believe you let it fall
I haven't been this hurt before, I won't leave you anymore
Every letter I don't send, and every minute I can't spare
They are the moments you remember
I am tired of hearing your mistakes, this time it is easier to care about you
If you care about me some more, I won't leave you any more
To Where You Are
We have grown apart, since we have last spoken
Do you still have my heart, or is it broken
Because I am here and you're not
It just gets so hard, I want yesterday
You still draw me into you, I just drive you away
There is nothing I can do to end the nervousness
And when I see you I hope you answer yes
I am out of here, to where you are
It's what I have to do to end the emptiness
Then I look at you and we begin to kiss
And I want to give you all that I have now
I will give it all up to, this time I will get out
To where you are
I am resigned to dance around your feelings
I will take a breath and start again
So we let it go today, can we talk it over another day, it's overdue
I need to let you know, soon enough I will have to go
You know I'll miss you my heart is still here with you
But if you disagree, for what it's worth I'm not secure enough in us to hear your doubt
But if you disagree, for what it's worth I'm so in love with you but I can't tell you now
I fell on this feeling, I can't reveal what you need to hear me say
I gave my reason, I don't have the pieces left here, so I can't say
Well then write your plans of or write your chance off
Gravity
I'm all alone since you let me down
I always knew you would be the only boy around, who could
My heart survives trying to guide you home
It left the coldest feeling coping alone
And you said, it's technical
When I said I love you, I meant do you love me
Does your satellite orbit me, is your light heart free from gravity
Another season drifts further away
And still I hope I am reason enough for you to stay
Because I am sure I love you, I am not secure you feel it too
The line is clear now but you won't talk
The stars are fading to black, I am resignated, I can't react
Built an Empty Home
So it snowed right through spring and by June all the road signs
They weren't making sense, I slowed down
And all I heard was a breaking heart in a parking lot
I built an empty home, I disconnected the phone, and waited alone
If I wake up but I don't hear you, just keep knocking
If I look up but I don't see you, then I'll start writing
You will always be the same, still hiding all your pain
But I am hurting too just waiting fading away
And if my words don't reach your hands, if I lose my chance will I find you
If it run downstairs but you're not there, if it sit and stare will I find you
I might give and leave him, begin healing this devastated feeling
It's All Over
You said you can't understand, but the feeling of falling faded fast
And you've got nothing left
I turned around in time you hid your eyes, I had no choice
I thought of all the days I tried, to keep you there, figure it out
You're sitting back and I'm no further
When I just want to scream at you all night
You won't even hear a word I cry
The window opens up and all the pages float away outside
But it's too late to apologise, the author is dead, his story is old
It's all over, before you know it, it's all over, and all that I can leave with is my pride
I need a bottle, to get me so numb, a little tired of thinking about you
And I'm broken and you're long gone, a little tired of weeding out of the truth
I can't admit it even if I want to, I won't let you hear my voice again
I'm fresh out of reasons why I am here, maybe I'll never get
It's all over, and I can't even talk about it
Before I get up, and wrap the towel around and walk away
Give you the chance to say to tell me why, let you cry, say goodbye
It's all over, and I don't want to let you go
Six or Seven
Six or seven hours I have been awake, I don't think you would have noticed
I couldn't say what I thought about until you called and you warned me not to
Think at all, 'cause I can't even get
My mind off my heart sores, or the pain where my eyes rest
The drugs didn't take, will you tell me why they can't
Will you tell me what's gone wrong, when I don't understand
It's not enough, you're not in love
I am giving up again, I never thought I would
I question why I live in the dark of all the passages
In time, I am hoping to learn why, but the answer is terrifying
And it always feel like I am the one that is stuck behind
I'm the one just left to die, I'm the one that's out of time
And it would mean so much, if I knew you loved me once
And I know we made mistakes, and you make me so afraid
It's hard when you have been betrayed
If I am behind will you find your way
Like It or Not
You ignore all my phone calls, if I don't find you tonight, I might blame it all on you
A broken heart in College Fall, if we turn out alright, then I have got nothing to lose
Like it or not, I'll never give up, I kept your heart right in my hand
It's been so long, I've been so wrong, and now you are gone
I know I have made mistakes before, if I could press rewind
I would and live again with you
I can't explain enough for you, it's complicated you really don't care
I want to make it back up to you, if I could take back I would if I could
I still miss you
Sure I messed up, and the bets are all off, and you know I won't stop, I'll never give up
Closer
lyrics by Jodie Musto (Bartlett) & Glenn Musto
What is it you hope for in a friend
I should have asked you that before you went away
So I am waiting here for you alone again
While you spend time with her, will you stay away
I might be all you need to keep from falling at her feet
I need you closer, closer, I need you closer to me to know I am in your heart
So you phone me, you have never felt so far away
I wish I could tell you everything I want to say
I don't want your letters I don't read about London
And I'll die inside I am losing you
I don't want your letters I don't want to know that it's snowing
And I'll die inside I am losing you
I don't want your letters, I don't read about her, I can't breathe
This Direction
We greet the new year with a red wine, I'll meet you here at the time next year
In bed before we spoke, you left before I woke
I can't live this any more, I don't fit the scene I am set in
You would, if you could, well you should
I can't give this any more, drag me out of this direction
You would, if you could, well you should
I don't hear from you again, it's been forever since you called me
I don't know the reason, but I can't find redemption
I told you what I am feeling, I can't see your connection
Now I face oblivion I look in your direction
And I'll break your fall
Back Down
I am not going to give you any more ground, I need you tell me now
I've got to hear it anyway
I never thought you would let me down, but the time I figure you out
You move away
I am lost this time, I am never going to see you again
I hoped you would recognise, how much you needed your friend
You let me down, once too many times
If you don't back down, I won't back down, this time
I Won't Leave You
Can you stay if we're not friends, will you show if you still care, I search for us again
I try and comprehend, waiting in despair, I still crave her
The sky is closing in tonight, my fear amplified
I heard you shut the door, I won't leave you anymore
My hand reaching out for yours, I can't believe you let it fall
I haven't been this hurt before, I won't leave you anymore
Every letter I don't send, and every minute I can't spare
They are the moments you remember
I am tired of hearing your mistakes, this time it is easier to care about you
If you care about me some more, I won't leave you any more
To Where You Are
We have grown apart, since we have last spoken
Do you still have my heart, or is it broken
Because I am here and you're not
It just gets so hard, I want yesterday
You still draw me into you, I just drive you away
There is nothing I can do to end the nervousness
And when I see you I hope you answer yes
I am out of here, to where you are
It's what I have to do to end the emptiness
Then I look at you and we begin to kiss
And I want to give you all that I have now
I will give it all up to, this time I will get out
To where you are
EP (2006)
COLLEGE FALL ~ BUILT AN EMPTY HOME (EUROPEAN TOUR EP)
(all songs on previous releases)
EP (2006)
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Heart Strings
You said rock and roll is dead and you threw that hateful look, toward my head
We both know only i was meant to catch it
Because you are here to break my stride
To make me jealous now you have found another new guy to keep you alive
Through the night
Do you honestly expect that i would drink myself to death, i owe you more than that
Because if i am drunk i will start crying
And decide my heart has got to cut away all your strings to survive through the night
I can't tell you why i am tired i am sick of breaking up
Don't give me any more reasons to say good bye, through the night
I do wish i could love you, i do wish we could love each other
Truly
Heart Strings
You said rock and roll is dead and you threw that hateful look, toward my head
We both know only i was meant to catch it
Because you are here to break my stride
To make me jealous now you have found another new guy to keep you alive
Through the night
Do you honestly expect that i would drink myself to death, i owe you more than that
Because if i am drunk i will start crying
And decide my heart has got to cut away all your strings to survive through the night
I can't tell you why i am tired i am sick of breaking up
Don't give me any more reasons to say good bye, through the night
I do wish i could love you, i do wish we could love each other
Truly
EP (2005)
COLLEGE FALL ~ DEMONSTRATION
(songs not on other releases)
Five Years Later
I was in your beat up car, I was twenty years old
You said the next time you saw me you wouldn't be so cold, and I believed you
But five years later I don't
When you looked in my eyes, and you held my hands
You told me you're sorry, begged for one more chance, I believed you
Five years on I don't
It was six o'clock, I hadn't eaten for days
You phoned in collect saying you had changed your ways, and I believed you
But five years later I don't
You spend every waking hour in that band I hate
You say you are one gig away from that lucky break, and I believed you
And it's been five years and I don't, I don't
You ignite me then let the fire regress, it's a little obvious
You divide me then let the fire regress, it's a little obvious
And I know it is breaking your heart, and I know it is making you sad
To have a dream that tears you apart, and lose the girl that you never had
Five Years Later
I was in your beat up car, I was twenty years old
You said the next time you saw me you wouldn't be so cold, and I believed you
But five years later I don't
When you looked in my eyes, and you held my hands
You told me you're sorry, begged for one more chance, I believed you
Five years on I don't
It was six o'clock, I hadn't eaten for days
You phoned in collect saying you had changed your ways, and I believed you
But five years later I don't
You spend every waking hour in that band I hate
You say you are one gig away from that lucky break, and I believed you
And it's been five years and I don't, I don't
You ignite me then let the fire regress, it's a little obvious
You divide me then let the fire regress, it's a little obvious
And I know it is breaking your heart, and I know it is making you sad
To have a dream that tears you apart, and lose the girl that you never had
EP (2004)
THE NORDEENS ~ SO LONG
(songs not on other releases)
So Long
I am in curse control, you padlock your front door
I scream outside all night, i hate knowing your lies
i heard the talking in the background
It killed to think you're there with someone else
I was good enough last year, yeah you needed me once
I fight not to write it off, i have got the worst time
I hate the way you screw my mind
When i think about it, i haven't even seen you in so long
I know you are out there
I have got this to say, hear me out just once
It's four more hours to perth, in five hours i will be gone
I see the distance within you, i drew the line you crossed through
When i think about it i haven't even seen you in so long
I know you are out there
Even when i ignore the ride signs, i can't even say to you so long
I know you don't care
So Long
I am in curse control, you padlock your front door
I scream outside all night, i hate knowing your lies
i heard the talking in the background
It killed to think you're there with someone else
I was good enough last year, yeah you needed me once
I fight not to write it off, i have got the worst time
I hate the way you screw my mind
When i think about it, i haven't even seen you in so long
I know you are out there
I have got this to say, hear me out just once
It's four more hours to perth, in five hours i will be gone
I see the distance within you, i drew the line you crossed through
When i think about it i haven't even seen you in so long
I know you are out there
Even when i ignore the ride signs, i can't even say to you so long
I know you don't care
ALBUM (2003)
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Alison Archer
Alison
Tell me how your name got inside my head
It's always the same, or is that someone else
It is so hard talking about you
When I don't know a thing and I don't know where to start, when it's time to fall apart
Time and time again I try to meet your friends
And tell them that you're gone, so leave my life alone
I don't want to go out because when I get home
You're always by my door with a message from your heart, and it's then I fall apart
Alison
This Moment is All it is
You don't think when you talk do you want to know that you're more capable
Because when I get lost I will do anything to find you
I'll give you who I am and you'll get out
If I make you laugh will you turn around or find another way to let me down
Can you answer that? (You won't answer that) because it all adds up
I'll put you together when you fall down
When you get up and don't need me I'll write it off this moment is all it is
This moment is gone
Out of My Mind
Here I tell the years that I fell around you until you died
All the times I tried and failed in my own eyes, I compromised
Let go before cancer kills the population I can't take you
Most of the time I try to keep a smile
All the years that I have lost by not giving you what you want
I still tell you why I need to love you, forget what I said
I can't get you out of my mind, I am out of my mind
Forget what I said
Controlling the Airways
By the time we were leaving Cleveland airspace
I could tell that you needed more than two days
I put on my skin and you got under
You're a mannequin again I wonder
I wonder why you said you hate me
And I wonder why I made you angry
I put on your face and said we're over
And you would implode like a super nova
If I was in control of the airways, I'd have flown us over that town all day
Now I just watch re-runs of you forever and miss the final screen on New York weather
Through all the turbulence you got home
And it's like I'm stuck behind you eight rows
If I was in control of the airways, I'd have flown her over Cleveland all day
Nothing Left to Bruise
Tell me what's on your mind, when a call from me won't do
On and on we're silent I catch you out again when something's gone
When you call I don't want to, when you're gone I just want you
I give up now and I am so lonely I must have been wrong
Say it I won't tell, 'cause I give up real well
Now you've got someone else to tell you how it is
So I take what I can sell, and if you're parallel
Then why make my life hell
I can't think about it anymore, my head is turning over
Build it up and weigh the fall when I know you have left it all behind
Work it out before you call, I am eaten inside when I stall
The times that you were never there, the times that I was so wrong
You're jealous all the time but you've got no reason now
So go and live with your own mind because I can't fight it all
And I won't ask for you to tell me what I need to
I just seem to forget how to forget you
You're never home, where do you go
I am stuck here by myself, not knowing where to stand
You have been thinking of someone else, now you're not about me
And I've owned a fear for a while, I must know it's not your style
To tell me what I want to hear and not that you're giving up
I told you leaving is fair enough, you're hard to stop when I can't get up
You want to end yourself well shout, I only hear you when you're loud
And I just need to write this wrong, but all I do is wait too long
To tell you why I know that we can't be alone from now on
Quit telling me you're strong
'Cause you've got nowhere else to find out what it is I want
So tell me what you missed
You think it's not that bad, but I am stuck here with nothing
I have got nothing left to bruise, I'll start again
And now you're home, where did you go
Alcohol
Is it something I said, did I let you down
'Cause I don't remember a thing, I use that excuse again
And it's not my problem
And I'll make it up to you, just give me a day to breathe
And I'll be someone new, that you always wanted
But something else is wrong, I can see it in your eyes
And I'm a little drunk tonight, so you just want me gone
And every time I leave, you never let me go
But it's you that I don't feed with all this alcohol
It's you that I don't need with all this alcohol
Alison
Tell me how your name got inside my head
It's always the same, or is that someone else
It is so hard talking about you
When I don't know a thing and I don't know where to start, when it's time to fall apart
Time and time again I try to meet your friends
And tell them that you're gone, so leave my life alone
I don't want to go out because when I get home
You're always by my door with a message from your heart, and it's then I fall apart
Alison
This Moment is All it is
You don't think when you talk do you want to know that you're more capable
Because when I get lost I will do anything to find you
I'll give you who I am and you'll get out
If I make you laugh will you turn around or find another way to let me down
Can you answer that? (You won't answer that) because it all adds up
I'll put you together when you fall down
When you get up and don't need me I'll write it off this moment is all it is
This moment is gone
Out of My Mind
Here I tell the years that I fell around you until you died
All the times I tried and failed in my own eyes, I compromised
Let go before cancer kills the population I can't take you
Most of the time I try to keep a smile
All the years that I have lost by not giving you what you want
I still tell you why I need to love you, forget what I said
I can't get you out of my mind, I am out of my mind
Forget what I said
Controlling the Airways
By the time we were leaving Cleveland airspace
I could tell that you needed more than two days
I put on my skin and you got under
You're a mannequin again I wonder
I wonder why you said you hate me
And I wonder why I made you angry
I put on your face and said we're over
And you would implode like a super nova
If I was in control of the airways, I'd have flown us over that town all day
Now I just watch re-runs of you forever and miss the final screen on New York weather
Through all the turbulence you got home
And it's like I'm stuck behind you eight rows
If I was in control of the airways, I'd have flown her over Cleveland all day
Nothing Left to Bruise
Tell me what's on your mind, when a call from me won't do
On and on we're silent I catch you out again when something's gone
When you call I don't want to, when you're gone I just want you
I give up now and I am so lonely I must have been wrong
Say it I won't tell, 'cause I give up real well
Now you've got someone else to tell you how it is
So I take what I can sell, and if you're parallel
Then why make my life hell
I can't think about it anymore, my head is turning over
Build it up and weigh the fall when I know you have left it all behind
Work it out before you call, I am eaten inside when I stall
The times that you were never there, the times that I was so wrong
You're jealous all the time but you've got no reason now
So go and live with your own mind because I can't fight it all
And I won't ask for you to tell me what I need to
I just seem to forget how to forget you
You're never home, where do you go
I am stuck here by myself, not knowing where to stand
You have been thinking of someone else, now you're not about me
And I've owned a fear for a while, I must know it's not your style
To tell me what I want to hear and not that you're giving up
I told you leaving is fair enough, you're hard to stop when I can't get up
You want to end yourself well shout, I only hear you when you're loud
And I just need to write this wrong, but all I do is wait too long
To tell you why I know that we can't be alone from now on
Quit telling me you're strong
'Cause you've got nowhere else to find out what it is I want
So tell me what you missed
You think it's not that bad, but I am stuck here with nothing
I have got nothing left to bruise, I'll start again
And now you're home, where did you go
Alcohol
Is it something I said, did I let you down
'Cause I don't remember a thing, I use that excuse again
And it's not my problem
And I'll make it up to you, just give me a day to breathe
And I'll be someone new, that you always wanted
But something else is wrong, I can see it in your eyes
And I'm a little drunk tonight, so you just want me gone
And every time I leave, you never let me go
But it's you that I don't feed with all this alcohol
It's you that I don't need with all this alcohol
ALBUM (2003)
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Perish Union
Put me down I get scared up too high with you
If I fall in no time you will forget me won't you
When the sky opens up will you watch me flying, who knows
Tired homes, the train won't stop when we need it
With old men, we are stuck in Perish Union
Don't know, if we could leave the town we loved in
Not today
(It's been five years since I've known what you're feeling
So just go, before I do I don't know
It's been five years and you know I am still listening
But you're leaving, don't tell me again why)
Only you seem to make my kind of sense
Until now, no one ever thought what I think
Do you know, yeah you know, I hate you leaving, any way, anyway
Always all ways I give what I can
Always all ways you never feed me
So I will hunt you down and perish with you, always all ways
A parachute and a pair of shoes is all that I have left of you
A parachute and a pair of shoes is all that there is left of you
Always, all ways, I give what I can
(It's been five years since I've known what you're feeling
So just go, before I do I don't know
It's been five years and you know I am still listening
But you're leaving, don't tell me again why)
Break It
You use your metaphors proclaiming wars on evil shores
The locals wish you just went home
You stall to change the laws when you're the cause of all the flaws
The evidence is still on loan
Mediaeval legions retort photo transport you know much more
Than how to shoot a dead recruit
Leave the camera on the shelf now you think you're something else
Go and find a world to tell, did you fake it and break it
You want it simplified when they all hide and multiply
And all the while you grow old
Try to mesmerise the fleeting eyes with oversized
Samples of how much you have grown
So many times you mountaineered too far from anywhere
The climate's always so severe, did you fake it and make it
If you think what might have been if they had seen all your schemes
They could never tell you what to do
Are you just a has-been in tattered jeans with broken dreams
You're blaming me but I blame you
The blanket's been there up 'til now, kept me warm anyhow
We'll find the gold and then get out
Did you take it and make it
Did you fake it and break it
Bandy
I never noticed that you don't make any sense
This time I think I got the question wrong
Now it's over and I don't have a defence
I realise my lives are all gone
What can I do, but freeze for you
I didn't notice before you look as good as you do
I never knew why you would take so long
And now it's over I'm never going to give in to you
I realise I really got the answer wrong
And when I do, I freeze for you
When you're down do you want me to
When you're cold I'll turn off to
And freeze for you
Sick Again
Waking up, I'm still tired
Wear my forgetful eyes and forge it from my mind
You won't leave fifty five percent, seventy five percent, ninety five percent
Of the time, leave me alone
I am on my own, with no defence, will you call me always
I want to rest, but confidence is too easy to deflate
Talking in business codes, dining with tiny eels, do you feel it is real
Drowning my football hopes, surviving on the skin of the thing I'm fleeing
And tomorrow I go through the same thing, all again
I'm sick again
How Much Would It Hurt
You won't tell me what you're thinking, so I drown into my drinking
Tie me down until I'm sinking, what's up with you
I didn't notice in the letter, you were telling me we're never
Gonna turn out any better, with something new
You're jumping in with nothing, I can't hear what you're saying
And even when you lie there is not a lot you want to prove
There is only one chance ever, are you staying here forever
How much would it hurt if my heart fell on you
When all the thoughts of you have faded, they linger while you waited
I am living on frustrated, like you're going to lose
And you think the end is nowhere, I fall into a blank stare
I want it so much but I can't bear the thought of having you
I wonder if you're listening or if you want me to sing
A song that's gonna put a little pressure on you
I hate how we're being so tell me one thing
How much would it hurt if my heart fell on you
Coastguard
This evening I'm just a little low, I'm getting practice for when you go
'Cause I need you all myself, but I see your mind is somewhere else
So I said, that I want you naked in a million smiles
But you leave your clothes on all while
It is too hard for me to stay, when you're here tomorrow but gone today
I'm beaten, cut up, but you deny it, I'm eaten, shut up inside I know it
You used me from the start and now you
Rip out part of my heart and pick up
My feelings straight off the floor and you make them yours
Throw us both overboard and when you
Hold me down 'til I fight no more, well you know
You'll never make it back to the shore, now your coastguard's gone
And you are miles from home
And now you're coastguard's drowned
Mean to You
The best can only take you so far but I'll nest in the wake of your arms
Yet so far I don't really know what I mean to you
And the test might just break me apart as I get so lost and I fall so hard
You're running scared now that you believe what I said to you
It's not now, I see you run in my head
I want to search the answers for you but I sense
I can't move, I'm caught in the signals you have sent
If you wait, I'm certain we'll find what we want to
East or West
Sleep in I got to know what pieces I am part of
It seems that it's too hard to make something we are proud of
And now we won't get there while someone else went harder
I'll have tea with the talkers way too often and now I know them
It will only fuck us up, are we east or west, will you talk it over
'Cause satellites they're not that far
When you travel down from the moon to get here
We lie under covers, in hotels, like rehearsal
You want to go out now but I feel so residential
Is it right or wrong for you does it have to be such a scandal
Over exposure of all our honesty is too hard to handle
I'm waiting wasting time, I'm hating wasting time
Goodbye Friend
One time you stood me up, now we're living in the core
When it dawned on us, what is it we're here for
You said you're my goodbye friend, you will be with me 'til the end
Tell me what's changed since then I don't know
This time you're giving up, I don't notice anymore
Why I left it all like it was before
Beginners
You know I hate you staring, when you see all I'm fearing
You know it's true, I want it to last, take a photograph you wouldn't believe it
I give up and hide until you stop, fear on every breath I think it's for the best
When all the beginners enter and we're alone outside
If I ever took a chance on you, we could be some much more, than we ever knew
I don't know if I'll feel it again, I wanted us exposed, we're so much more than friends
I need it more now I'm hopeless, we're not keeping score but you know it
I thought I got it right what did I miss, we saved the truth for when it didn't matter
Now there is so much in the way, I know that time will drag you away, so forget it
Was I just so wrong to guess you'd never know
Now the longer you're gone I'm just a wet photo, hoping to dry
What I've got left to say before you go, we lost ground but I want you to know
I'm hoping to try
Never Get There
All I have is nothing, you know the spark is not there
But part of me is holding on, because I don't know where, to fall and do you care
Well I doubt it
The kind of pain that follows, to feel all alone
I know I haven't lost a friend, but I have broken everything, and you know that
I kind of fear the truth, I would die for you, but you'd never guess that would you
When you were strong we were alright, but you were never wrong
It's like a Hollywood film around you tonight, I know the ending half way through
And again I lose, so it is time to go
You leave a note for me, I will not reply before you validate why
And all the while it's me, it was all make believe
We could never get there could we
I need now to keep me up
Alive Again
Time is easy to find here, but it was never you, I had nothing to do
But wait for my own dry end, it seems you want me to pretend
That now it's alright, my own feelings aside, I would
Be the one who runs too many miles for you
I got pieces of you, through a phone line today
You said you want to turn around now, and find a way out
I remember when you could never leave, and now it's alright with me
I've lost my heart I guess it's following you
I'll just go out with my friends and feel alive again
And I hope that tonight it is worth it missing you
Different Town
When I fall into you I melt away, I can't say the right things to make you stay
I just want to write you the right song to say
All the things that I feel for you, and all the ways I want to try
Tell me who is she, why don't I know her name
I don't think I can stand to hear about her all day
I won't stay or argue, I'll be fine anyway
Now I am not sure what you meant to me
You burn my house down, I'm not inside, I don't live there anymore
So now you live in a different town, and you're up when I go down
When we're over I'm underground, I won't hear you make a sound
I just want you to understand, I'd love you take my hand
And I'll be everything you planned, if you let me be that man
Yeah you live in a different town and there is so much life around
And I am lost until you're found, so I need to tell you now
So just know that I will stand, next to you when you land
I won't fuck it up again, just give me one last chance
I don't know why you write to me, you burned my house but I survived
Here It Ends
When I give you who I am I lose in the end
But I can live on if you don't know, do you
I can't stay here if you're sure, you don't want it anymore, you don't love it anymore
Those words will stick to you, and I don't forget a thing
But I don't want to think, about loving you anymore
So when I go away, I'll spare a little time and destroy everything that's yours
Do you really think, that I could ever mean, to be so mean, well hey
Don't say you know me, 'cause I don't think you do, but you like to think you do
Don't you
Every time I let you believe me, I could not accept what I was really feeling
'Cause I didn't show, 'cause I never bet, 'cause I get obsessed and I want nothing less
Why didn't you need me as much as I hope you could, 'cause I really miss us
I can not admit how you get me down, 'cause all I do is sink, yeah all I do is drown
I can't say why I stuck around to dig my broken heart further underground
But what else is there that I can do when all I knew was how I love you
But you're gone aren't you
I'm hurting and here it ends
Put me down I get scared up too high with you
If I fall in no time you will forget me won't you
When the sky opens up will you watch me flying, who knows
Tired homes, the train won't stop when we need it
With old men, we are stuck in Perish Union
Don't know, if we could leave the town we loved in
Not today
(It's been five years since I've known what you're feeling
So just go, before I do I don't know
It's been five years and you know I am still listening
But you're leaving, don't tell me again why)
Only you seem to make my kind of sense
Until now, no one ever thought what I think
Do you know, yeah you know, I hate you leaving, any way, anyway
Always all ways I give what I can
Always all ways you never feed me
So I will hunt you down and perish with you, always all ways
A parachute and a pair of shoes is all that I have left of you
A parachute and a pair of shoes is all that there is left of you
Always, all ways, I give what I can
(It's been five years since I've known what you're feeling
So just go, before I do I don't know
It's been five years and you know I am still listening
But you're leaving, don't tell me again why)
Break It
You use your metaphors proclaiming wars on evil shores
The locals wish you just went home
You stall to change the laws when you're the cause of all the flaws
The evidence is still on loan
Mediaeval legions retort photo transport you know much more
Than how to shoot a dead recruit
Leave the camera on the shelf now you think you're something else
Go and find a world to tell, did you fake it and break it
You want it simplified when they all hide and multiply
And all the while you grow old
Try to mesmerise the fleeting eyes with oversized
Samples of how much you have grown
So many times you mountaineered too far from anywhere
The climate's always so severe, did you fake it and make it
If you think what might have been if they had seen all your schemes
They could never tell you what to do
Are you just a has-been in tattered jeans with broken dreams
You're blaming me but I blame you
The blanket's been there up 'til now, kept me warm anyhow
We'll find the gold and then get out
Did you take it and make it
Did you fake it and break it
Bandy
I never noticed that you don't make any sense
This time I think I got the question wrong
Now it's over and I don't have a defence
I realise my lives are all gone
What can I do, but freeze for you
I didn't notice before you look as good as you do
I never knew why you would take so long
And now it's over I'm never going to give in to you
I realise I really got the answer wrong
And when I do, I freeze for you
When you're down do you want me to
When you're cold I'll turn off to
And freeze for you
Sick Again
Waking up, I'm still tired
Wear my forgetful eyes and forge it from my mind
You won't leave fifty five percent, seventy five percent, ninety five percent
Of the time, leave me alone
I am on my own, with no defence, will you call me always
I want to rest, but confidence is too easy to deflate
Talking in business codes, dining with tiny eels, do you feel it is real
Drowning my football hopes, surviving on the skin of the thing I'm fleeing
And tomorrow I go through the same thing, all again
I'm sick again
How Much Would It Hurt
You won't tell me what you're thinking, so I drown into my drinking
Tie me down until I'm sinking, what's up with you
I didn't notice in the letter, you were telling me we're never
Gonna turn out any better, with something new
You're jumping in with nothing, I can't hear what you're saying
And even when you lie there is not a lot you want to prove
There is only one chance ever, are you staying here forever
How much would it hurt if my heart fell on you
When all the thoughts of you have faded, they linger while you waited
I am living on frustrated, like you're going to lose
And you think the end is nowhere, I fall into a blank stare
I want it so much but I can't bear the thought of having you
I wonder if you're listening or if you want me to sing
A song that's gonna put a little pressure on you
I hate how we're being so tell me one thing
How much would it hurt if my heart fell on you
Coastguard
This evening I'm just a little low, I'm getting practice for when you go
'Cause I need you all myself, but I see your mind is somewhere else
So I said, that I want you naked in a million smiles
But you leave your clothes on all while
It is too hard for me to stay, when you're here tomorrow but gone today
I'm beaten, cut up, but you deny it, I'm eaten, shut up inside I know it
You used me from the start and now you
Rip out part of my heart and pick up
My feelings straight off the floor and you make them yours
Throw us both overboard and when you
Hold me down 'til I fight no more, well you know
You'll never make it back to the shore, now your coastguard's gone
And you are miles from home
And now you're coastguard's drowned
Mean to You
The best can only take you so far but I'll nest in the wake of your arms
Yet so far I don't really know what I mean to you
And the test might just break me apart as I get so lost and I fall so hard
You're running scared now that you believe what I said to you
It's not now, I see you run in my head
I want to search the answers for you but I sense
I can't move, I'm caught in the signals you have sent
If you wait, I'm certain we'll find what we want to
East or West
Sleep in I got to know what pieces I am part of
It seems that it's too hard to make something we are proud of
And now we won't get there while someone else went harder
I'll have tea with the talkers way too often and now I know them
It will only fuck us up, are we east or west, will you talk it over
'Cause satellites they're not that far
When you travel down from the moon to get here
We lie under covers, in hotels, like rehearsal
You want to go out now but I feel so residential
Is it right or wrong for you does it have to be such a scandal
Over exposure of all our honesty is too hard to handle
I'm waiting wasting time, I'm hating wasting time
Goodbye Friend
One time you stood me up, now we're living in the core
When it dawned on us, what is it we're here for
You said you're my goodbye friend, you will be with me 'til the end
Tell me what's changed since then I don't know
This time you're giving up, I don't notice anymore
Why I left it all like it was before
Beginners
You know I hate you staring, when you see all I'm fearing
You know it's true, I want it to last, take a photograph you wouldn't believe it
I give up and hide until you stop, fear on every breath I think it's for the best
When all the beginners enter and we're alone outside
If I ever took a chance on you, we could be some much more, than we ever knew
I don't know if I'll feel it again, I wanted us exposed, we're so much more than friends
I need it more now I'm hopeless, we're not keeping score but you know it
I thought I got it right what did I miss, we saved the truth for when it didn't matter
Now there is so much in the way, I know that time will drag you away, so forget it
Was I just so wrong to guess you'd never know
Now the longer you're gone I'm just a wet photo, hoping to dry
What I've got left to say before you go, we lost ground but I want you to know
I'm hoping to try
Never Get There
All I have is nothing, you know the spark is not there
But part of me is holding on, because I don't know where, to fall and do you care
Well I doubt it
The kind of pain that follows, to feel all alone
I know I haven't lost a friend, but I have broken everything, and you know that
I kind of fear the truth, I would die for you, but you'd never guess that would you
When you were strong we were alright, but you were never wrong
It's like a Hollywood film around you tonight, I know the ending half way through
And again I lose, so it is time to go
You leave a note for me, I will not reply before you validate why
And all the while it's me, it was all make believe
We could never get there could we
I need now to keep me up
Alive Again
Time is easy to find here, but it was never you, I had nothing to do
But wait for my own dry end, it seems you want me to pretend
That now it's alright, my own feelings aside, I would
Be the one who runs too many miles for you
I got pieces of you, through a phone line today
You said you want to turn around now, and find a way out
I remember when you could never leave, and now it's alright with me
I've lost my heart I guess it's following you
I'll just go out with my friends and feel alive again
And I hope that tonight it is worth it missing you
Different Town
When I fall into you I melt away, I can't say the right things to make you stay
I just want to write you the right song to say
All the things that I feel for you, and all the ways I want to try
Tell me who is she, why don't I know her name
I don't think I can stand to hear about her all day
I won't stay or argue, I'll be fine anyway
Now I am not sure what you meant to me
You burn my house down, I'm not inside, I don't live there anymore
So now you live in a different town, and you're up when I go down
When we're over I'm underground, I won't hear you make a sound
I just want you to understand, I'd love you take my hand
And I'll be everything you planned, if you let me be that man
Yeah you live in a different town and there is so much life around
And I am lost until you're found, so I need to tell you now
So just know that I will stand, next to you when you land
I won't fuck it up again, just give me one last chance
I don't know why you write to me, you burned my house but I survived
Here It Ends
When I give you who I am I lose in the end
But I can live on if you don't know, do you
I can't stay here if you're sure, you don't want it anymore, you don't love it anymore
Those words will stick to you, and I don't forget a thing
But I don't want to think, about loving you anymore
So when I go away, I'll spare a little time and destroy everything that's yours
Do you really think, that I could ever mean, to be so mean, well hey
Don't say you know me, 'cause I don't think you do, but you like to think you do
Don't you
Every time I let you believe me, I could not accept what I was really feeling
'Cause I didn't show, 'cause I never bet, 'cause I get obsessed and I want nothing less
Why didn't you need me as much as I hope you could, 'cause I really miss us
I can not admit how you get me down, 'cause all I do is sink, yeah all I do is drown
I can't say why I stuck around to dig my broken heart further underground
But what else is there that I can do when all I knew was how I love you
But you're gone aren't you
I'm hurting and here it ends
EP (2002)
SHOWBAG! ~ NEVER GET THERE
(all songs on other releases)
SINGLE (2001)
SHOWBAG! ~ HOW MUCH WOULD IT HURT
(songs not on other releases)
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Not From Here
New August Girl
lyrics by Jeff Baker
Never did you need to go that far but I guess we both were led to see
That the profit that we waged from a steady start is now spent upon the money tree
And a step in time takes you closer to your truth than mine
I fear, I do, have I broken you
Let me live the dream and a hope for glory, is it easier to think she cares
Should I keep the words and just change the story, it's a face I must believe to wear
She cries for you, was there nothing better we could do
I came last, I do, have we spoken too
Take a minute don't have the time, licking my books and burning your fingers
Take a point make that climb, wood just sticks to a poisoned mind
Multiply my every need, carry the two but not the three
It's true, I say, we all choose our own mistakes
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Not From Here
New August Girl
lyrics by Jeff Baker
Never did you need to go that far but I guess we both were led to see
That the profit that we waged from a steady start is now spent upon the money tree
And a step in time takes you closer to your truth than mine
I fear, I do, have I broken you
Let me live the dream and a hope for glory, is it easier to think she cares
Should I keep the words and just change the story, it's a face I must believe to wear
She cries for you, was there nothing better we could do
I came last, I do, have we spoken too
Take a minute don't have the time, licking my books and burning your fingers
Take a point make that climb, wood just sticks to a poisoned mind
Multiply my every need, carry the two but not the three
It's true, I say, we all choose our own mistakes
EP (2001)
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Quicksand
Lyrics by Glenn Musto & Kelly Campbell
You were not there any time I tried to look for you
That's not your fault I'm never on track so
I won't tease you when you think I want you back again
As I fall I will pretend that I'm sinking into quicksand
You know I don't know if I want to go down
We are so loud but we're looking for a new sound
You won't treat me like a friend 'cause you think I want you back again
Time has deleted you again I know it will be alright
You were so right you were telling me all night
Throw the rock right and now we've got a mudslide
Name a dream you want to sell and never get it back
Well every fight has got to end I know it will be alright
You are not fair I never want to go there
That's not my call you know that I'm dying here
You are so right and now I'm the one alone tonight
But that's not my fault
Something for You
I am always last to hear the news, your timing is so bad I'm going to lose
Crying out I've got to tell you, how I need you
I've got something for you, time is not on my side are you
I've tried so hard to let you know, so now I'll pour it all on to you
Turning blind you never saw the signs, you fake tomorrow but today I see the lies
With all the secrets it was you I never knew, now I'll delude that
I've got everything I need, come I'll show you the worst of me
I tried for so long to keep it from you, but now I guess you deserve the truth
You think I owe something to you, well one time is enough for me to bruise
Go hide behind your teary eyes like you aren't guilty
I've got nothing to give you, so many times I tried to prove
That you're the one to sweep me away, now I know that you won't change
Skinny Dipping
Water falls around I see your face, you've taken your clothes and your under the moon
I waited for the day I could feel this, I wondered the way that I could get near this
I think of your touch and being with you, to think that I was alone before you
I wonder what I would say to meet her now
You're everything in my head hope you don't let me down
Dream walking alone with you, I've got to get away, when water falls around
Dreams in my head tell me to see her, I try to catch her eye and I'll call her
She'll look as happy as ever, her smile stuns me again, I'll turn around in fear
I wanted to say to you I'm in love, with you
Loving in another day leaving and coming again we'll make it stop, with you
No Matter What I Do
It seems like those words will follow me and almost change the way I think of me
It seems like it's all the same to you, you always seem let down no matter what I do
Let's carry our minds through this to be the way we are just try to exist
Let's see if you will wait for me or fall down to anything you see
I am not blind I just can't see, you are not the one thing and there is so much left to be
And I know I'm right and I know you're right and I hope you'll love me
No matter what I do
It seems like those words will follow you and almost change the way I think of you
It seems like it's all the same to me, you always seem let down by me
I Know the Missile That Killed the President
Lyrics by Jeff Baker
Going down that's where you'll find me
Now breathing the air I'm down that's where you'll find me
Now don't want to be there
Quicksand
Lyrics by Glenn Musto & Kelly Campbell
You were not there any time I tried to look for you
That's not your fault I'm never on track so
I won't tease you when you think I want you back again
As I fall I will pretend that I'm sinking into quicksand
You know I don't know if I want to go down
We are so loud but we're looking for a new sound
You won't treat me like a friend 'cause you think I want you back again
Time has deleted you again I know it will be alright
You were so right you were telling me all night
Throw the rock right and now we've got a mudslide
Name a dream you want to sell and never get it back
Well every fight has got to end I know it will be alright
You are not fair I never want to go there
That's not my call you know that I'm dying here
You are so right and now I'm the one alone tonight
But that's not my fault
Something for You
I am always last to hear the news, your timing is so bad I'm going to lose
Crying out I've got to tell you, how I need you
I've got something for you, time is not on my side are you
I've tried so hard to let you know, so now I'll pour it all on to you
Turning blind you never saw the signs, you fake tomorrow but today I see the lies
With all the secrets it was you I never knew, now I'll delude that
I've got everything I need, come I'll show you the worst of me
I tried for so long to keep it from you, but now I guess you deserve the truth
You think I owe something to you, well one time is enough for me to bruise
Go hide behind your teary eyes like you aren't guilty
I've got nothing to give you, so many times I tried to prove
That you're the one to sweep me away, now I know that you won't change
Skinny Dipping
Water falls around I see your face, you've taken your clothes and your under the moon
I waited for the day I could feel this, I wondered the way that I could get near this
I think of your touch and being with you, to think that I was alone before you
I wonder what I would say to meet her now
You're everything in my head hope you don't let me down
Dream walking alone with you, I've got to get away, when water falls around
Dreams in my head tell me to see her, I try to catch her eye and I'll call her
She'll look as happy as ever, her smile stuns me again, I'll turn around in fear
I wanted to say to you I'm in love, with you
Loving in another day leaving and coming again we'll make it stop, with you
No Matter What I Do
It seems like those words will follow me and almost change the way I think of me
It seems like it's all the same to you, you always seem let down no matter what I do
Let's carry our minds through this to be the way we are just try to exist
Let's see if you will wait for me or fall down to anything you see
I am not blind I just can't see, you are not the one thing and there is so much left to be
And I know I'm right and I know you're right and I hope you'll love me
No matter what I do
It seems like those words will follow you and almost change the way I think of you
It seems like it's all the same to me, you always seem let down by me
I Know the Missile That Killed the President
Lyrics by Jeff Baker
Going down that's where you'll find me
Now breathing the air I'm down that's where you'll find me
Now don't want to be there
CASSETTE (2000)
SHOWBAG! ~ SMILE LIKE YOU'RE FAMOUS
(songs not on other releases)
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Found So Red
Nowhere
Long Distance Halos
Scarlet Never
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Found So Red
Nowhere
Long Distance Halos
Scarlet Never
EP (2000)
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Your Stares Scare Me
I see your plumb line fall, you're not making any sense
I'm building up my walls, to hold your tolerance
I'm making up my mind and digging my own grave
I'm sorry I piss you off every time that I get sick
Want to pick up from the end where the line won't fall again
I'm sorry I piss you off with every letter that I don't send
I'm sorry I piss you off
Want to break it means to me not as much as it does to you
There is a mess I don't want to clean but I think it has to be me
To neaten all the pain while you're patting down my grave
Big Solder
Did you see him write a letter, do you notice it's getting harder
To make contact with your saviour, 'til you get there I will save her
Big solder (burning holes on the under side, take control of the minor signs)
We're a pair broke and old, it's essential we are central
No contract it's a dilemma, we'll sever, find a lever
Big solder (burning holes on the under side, take control of the minor signs)
Big solder (what a goal and at what a time, we have sold out and I feel fine)
Now we're older, the heat is colder, you could have told her, it should be over
Big solder
Hope in You
I apologise to you for all the time I thought I could force it happen
And I apologise to you for the way I deteriorate your satisfaction in me
Why don't we make a little time fly by
Why don't we fake it 'til my eyes can't stay dry
Why do I see his eyes every time you say you love me
The door isn't locked but you're still trying to use your key
So I might say goodbye and make out it all means nothing to me
To me it seems I've got to go, 'cause I am feeling things that I really don't want to show
So it's time to grin and bare our lost goal
Say goodbye to love and hello to hope in you
Now It's a Blur
lyrics by Kelly Campbell
Remembering things about missing time
Thinking things, saying things and doing nothing at all
Christ, it haunts me still, Christ, it probably always will
It all happened so long ago, to someone I hardly know
I missed you there, I was looking for you, had a feeling that you'd show up late
It all happened now it's a blur, and I can't remember except that it happened
Miss you
Your Stares Scare Me
I see your plumb line fall, you're not making any sense
I'm building up my walls, to hold your tolerance
I'm making up my mind and digging my own grave
I'm sorry I piss you off every time that I get sick
Want to pick up from the end where the line won't fall again
I'm sorry I piss you off with every letter that I don't send
I'm sorry I piss you off
Want to break it means to me not as much as it does to you
There is a mess I don't want to clean but I think it has to be me
To neaten all the pain while you're patting down my grave
Big Solder
Did you see him write a letter, do you notice it's getting harder
To make contact with your saviour, 'til you get there I will save her
Big solder (burning holes on the under side, take control of the minor signs)
We're a pair broke and old, it's essential we are central
No contract it's a dilemma, we'll sever, find a lever
Big solder (burning holes on the under side, take control of the minor signs)
Big solder (what a goal and at what a time, we have sold out and I feel fine)
Now we're older, the heat is colder, you could have told her, it should be over
Big solder
Hope in You
I apologise to you for all the time I thought I could force it happen
And I apologise to you for the way I deteriorate your satisfaction in me
Why don't we make a little time fly by
Why don't we fake it 'til my eyes can't stay dry
Why do I see his eyes every time you say you love me
The door isn't locked but you're still trying to use your key
So I might say goodbye and make out it all means nothing to me
To me it seems I've got to go, 'cause I am feeling things that I really don't want to show
So it's time to grin and bare our lost goal
Say goodbye to love and hello to hope in you
Now It's a Blur
lyrics by Kelly Campbell
Remembering things about missing time
Thinking things, saying things and doing nothing at all
Christ, it haunts me still, Christ, it probably always will
It all happened so long ago, to someone I hardly know
I missed you there, I was looking for you, had a feeling that you'd show up late
It all happened now it's a blur, and I can't remember except that it happened
Miss you
CASSETTE (1999)
SHOWBAG! ~ FORGET THE COTTON
(songs not on other releases)
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Seven Sisters
Hatch a Lizard
It's A Lie
Get Out Of My Headspace
For You
(lyrics soon to be provided)
Seven Sisters
Hatch a Lizard
It's A Lie
Get Out Of My Headspace
For You