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New Resolve
02:14
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A new choke has got a hold of me
When you spoke it sent me out to sea.
Some old ghosts are lingering
I can still hear them when they sing.
Old haunts that had a hold on me
Are fading from memory and losing their sheen.
If you challenge ideas
You can challenge yourself
And get back the mojo you left on the shelf.
My heart was full of youth;
I thought I was bullet proof.
A new choke has got a hold of me
When you spoke it sent me out to sea
Some old ghosts are lingering
I can still hear them when they sing
But I'm not listening.
If it takes my whole life I will make amends;
I’m pledging it daily with paper and pen.
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2. |
False Step
02:45
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One false step won’t shake me
I have plenty to lose but I have more to gain.
One false move won’t break me,
Or make me stray from the path I’ve worked so hard to carve.
One lost cause won’t sway me,
Though I’ll think about it every time i want to go back.
One closed door won’t phase me;
If we don’t have they key we can knock it down.
Is it written in stone
that we all end up alone?
Turning on each other is a matter of time
Or is it I who is bitter and blind?
There were some by my side
who turned themselves into something despised
With crude snipes they barely disguised
Bring hate to the table and the devil will rise.
The only thing they ever taught
Was that positivity has to be sought.
The only thing I ever learnt
Was that chasing a dream can still get you burnt.
So I can't be less than grateful or throw it all away on...
One false step won’t shake me
I have plenty to lose but I have more to gain.
One false move won’t break me,
Or make me stray from the path I’ve worked so hard to carve.
One lost cause won’t sway me,
Though I’ll think about it every time i want to go back.
One closed door won’t phase me;
If we don’t have the key we can knock it down,
So don’t come around
With intoxicating words to make me drown
The world is a small town
Karma can wait and you will be found.
Sometimes i think back to a tall pine against a clear sky, with the bluest of blues and the highest of highs.
Down below are watchful eyes, too afraid of broken ties;
Fearful minds hiding shameful lies.
One false step won’t shake me
One false move won’t break me
One lost cause won’t sway me
One closed door won’t phase me
One false step won’t shake me
I have plenty to lose but I have more to gain.
One false move won’t break me,
Or make me stray from the path i’ve worked so hard to carve.
One lost cause won’t sway me,
Though I’ll think about it every time i want to go back.
One closed door won’t phase me;
If we don’t have the key we can knock it down.
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3. |
Left Behind
03:37
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I bid farewell to my pain
It bitters and strains
Strung up with a long tight hold
It's never doing as it’s told.
What do you see when you're looking at me?
A heartbreaker? Wave chaser?
Underneath just another face-saver.
So let the truth be told my friends.
I'm moving out of sync and getting left behind
It's sinking in that there's nowhere left to hide
What these thinkers think they never realise
But provers prove and they cannot be denied.
So what are we going to achieve,
Hands open and waiting to receive?
You can never tell me we’re going nowhere
Even when I see the writing’s on the wall
There’s a lot in this life and it's all on the line
as you get old some dreams may die.
Youth is the time to choose your desires,
To aim and aspire no matter what it may require.
So let the truth be told my friends.
I'm moving out of sync and getting left behind
It's sinking in that there's nowhere left to hide
What these thinkers think they never realise
But provers prove and they cannot be denied.
So what are we going to achieve,
Hands open and waiting to receive?
I look around and see the faces we ignore
24 and there's not much more.
I used to lie through my teeth...
I got so sick of the taste.
To cover up what’s beneath
I held a mask to my face
I used to lie through my teeth
But then I gave it away
For better or worse, but you stayed.
So let the truth be told my friends.
I'm moving out of sync and getting left behind
It's sinking in that there's nowhere left to hide
What these thinkers think they never realise
But provers prove and they cannot be denied.
It seems we’re running out of time
So I’ll let you in on all these secrets of mine.
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4. |
Endure
02:51
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Lead me off the streets to places I can't see;
The alleyways are all we need.
The pavement pounds against my feet
As I push on through to where we meet.
I take my demons for a walk;
I see them each day to a different fork.
The roads seem so thin and winding,
I'm being myself now young and giddy.
We move along and they won't take back control.
Lead me off the streets to places I can't see;
The alleyways are all we need.
The pavement pounds against my feet
As I push on through to where we meet
Now I'm reading the omens and I'm heeding the signs
A personal journey starts when you look inside.
With boot laces tight, and you by my side,
I am making some progress and I'm hitting my stride.
You've been here before and you said it’d get harder
But I took it for granted since the day that we started.
As a guide, as a guard, as a god, help me take charge.
As a guide, as a guard, as a god, help me take charge.
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5. |
Tethered & Tied
03:48
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I started this years ago and I finished it today
with the help of the friends I made by being this way.
I’ve been torn between the person I am and the person I should be;
I’ve been a liquor loaded man, what my parents didn’t want to see.
Spirit’s what took me, you hated it so much, but by hating it and hating me my spirit was crushed.
You get what you give and I gave you my worst, I was begging for the best as I quenched my thirst
But when the sun comes up, in the harsh glare, you’ll discover me bare and exposed and alone and I’ll say
How can I push out another apology?
What did I do to bring back the old me?
But there is freedom in the secrets I keep, in the lies that I weave and the solace I seek.
It makes it harder and harder to sleep.
I want to write sincere, of having no fear, of being more than what I am here.
But it takes more strength and more might, more will and more fight than I can muster.
And when the sun comes up, in the harsh glare, you’ll discover me bare and exposed and alone and I’ll say
Help me to be the person I need to be.
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse to be just a bad memory
But there is freedom in the secrets I keep, in the lies that I weave and the solace I seek.
it makes it harder and harder (and harder and harder) and harder and harder to sleep.
And then I know
About everything that left me alone
You can't stop thinking ‘bout death from trust
When deep down you know it’s not close enough.
But there is freedom in the secrets I keep, in the lies that I weave and the solace I seek.
It makes it harder and harder (and harder and harder) and harder and harder to sleep.
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6. |
Turnover
03:19
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I bend at the knees and I break
I savour, then crave it, the twisting of fate
My fingers are grasping at straws and straw men to make
But hours slip through them, it’s getting late.
I was searching for counsel, I was angry and sore
I had pondered my choices and what was in store
I was looking for answers, pride tattered and torn
I had squandered my chances and slept through the morn.
But I shouldn’t be sour, I gave in, I gave out
The only thing for it is to get it all back in the next round.
But I shouldn’t be sour, I gave in, I gave out
So I took his advice and let go of my fears and my doubts
I came unburdened
I came undone
I came crawling for judgement
In the harsh glare of the sun
The weight of his wisdom hit me like a freight train...
“Be happy in your heart,” he implored
“You’ve heard me say it at least a thousand times before.”
“You work all your life to fill certain desires.”
“Do what makes you happy” was his only reply.
“I’m a little more comfortable but an awful lot older
Seen places and faces that made me feel colder
Leave no wave unridden
Leave no stone unturned
And you’ll be riding this life for all that it’s worth
You’ll back in the next round
You’ll back in the next round.”
I’ll be back in the next round.
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Spectral Fires Melbourne, Australia
Alternative punk band from Melbourne, Australia.
2013 - 2019
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