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Lyrics to new album ‘Found Ourselves’

Lyrics to new album ‘Found Ourselves’

Be my Coastguard

It’s getting busy and I’m staring at the sea


An ocean full of promise that means a lot to me


They said that they would listen I’d be smothered by the throng

True enough it happened in the silence of this song


I’m entering this ocean and the dot you see is me

Am I waving as I fade into the sea?

All they could teach me was exactly how to drown

And the cruelest aspect is they can’t hear my sound

Skip the playlist and love the things you lack

Learn to know the artist, don’t blindly follow back

You’re the fade out and I’m the sudden end

If you be my coastguard then I will be your friend

You can see me waving from the edges of the sea

If I could keep on floating I could learn to shelter me

You’re getting smaller every time I stare


I feel these waves and I’m learning not to care about you


The Trip

It’s 4:18 in the morning and the first smile has arrived

As I light my first cigarette - The only one I need

The coffee is Italian and it’s bitter as betrayal

And the froth’s as white as seagulls that are standing in the hail

I’m going on a journey - I’m free within my car


I’m playing Death Cab For Cutie and I’m travelling so far

And the tempo makes me faster in the slow lane of my life

And the sun still makes me dizzy as I drive away from me

Blindfold the sun and our laughter’s on the run

From emotion hidden well from those who fear to think themselves

Mindful the one who gives without asking for the truth we belong to

We are coloured through our spirit selves


Found Ourselves

Turns out this was the last day we could see

I’m in need of some mortal strategy

Gonna sit out on this crumbling balcony

And stare towards the waves

We could walk yet another hundred miles

Just to find another one of those unforced smiles

That would make it thoroughly worthwhile to find the hope


They’ve been teaching us to want

So that time is always lost

We’ve been learning how to find it

And not caring about the cost

All the stable introverts with the brains that smell the dirt

Writing songs that like to flirt with all the haters


They’ve been teaching us to want

So that time is always gone

We’ve been learning how to find it

And not caring about the cost

We could give it all away

If it showed the way to love

We know a day ain’t wasted

We might have lost the summer but at least we found ourselves


Mother’s Domain

Another question from the boy

He is inquisitive yet knowing

And she shelters his tiny soul

She knows there’ll be a broken heart

And fear may break his longest stride

She’ll do her best to nurture anything called courage

She might try to hide him in the rushes

When her embrace doesn’t seem quite enough


We are restrained

Try to contain

Sheltered from pain

This mother’s domain

From where he came - It feels the shame - Keeping her sane - This mother’s domain


He’s kicking little pebbles along his Brighton Beach

Oblivious to sorrow and joyous to the now


The point of being present so natural and devout

Is a boy who knows no weapons

And she’s singing him to manhood

She’s is showing him a type of man who’s naturally curious

Who can channel him to kind

She just knows it’s third time lucky bring a child it’s inner peace

This time it feels so natural with a boy who knows no weapons


Gaia

Here we are so contained as she will drift away

Open space as we embrace what we thought she’d lost

Watch the nature. Watch the fuss

This all seems so irrelevant to us

All these dots that fuse and spin

Hoping for a silence whilst the chaos seems to win


Hoping she still loves us. Hoping she still cares for us


You’re feeling safe without a signal

Now there’s nothing more

Hold the branches towards your body

Feel them in your arms

This is Gaia she feels unsteady

She is asking to be alone

This is Gaia she is not ready to die upon this throne


This Chaos

Your regression to the mean your bias and your leaning

To support the hidden meaning

Whilst we fade to the final scene with our spectacles made of rose

These spectacles and shows

When everyone knows pretty well what’s pushed out from this citadel

Is a message without feeling

I keep wanting to tear the pages

I get ridiculed for my rages

Our views have no redeeming features

I guess these creatures must meet us upon a chosen hill yes they will

Have the will to find the treasure in our hearts

Will the soul be taking part?
Is the soul afraid to start?


Their flags are on the stage with shirts of fearful slogans

They’re triggered can’t you tell?

They scaled the hallowed walls but they cower in the basement

This history will never sell

I guess these creatures must meet us upon a chosen hill yes they will

Have the will to find the treasure in our hearts

Will the soul be taking part?
Is the soul afraid to start?


It’s 1933 again and the boots are on the ground

The simple men are coming we can hear their angry sound

The sound of their angry whining (they got guns for your complaint)

They claim it’s about their freedom but dark is their intent

They whipped you to a frenzy they whipped you up real good

And moulded all your tiny minds to think they stole from you

I know that nothing’s perfect but you think we’re less than you

The shrinking of your privilege when equality steals from you

He hides inside his White House with his sycophantic men

Choosing hate instead of love to enrage compliant men


I’m not sure how we’re going to soothe these stinging wounds

Keep trying to be kind


Your Phone Does Not Love You

Give me love Give me Love NOW


Tendrils

This language is designed - It zooms through the ether

And no time for the earnest kind

It is guilty and we are lost

The deck of this cruise ship is glinting in the frost

These glimpses of their gamma rays

Their Rome is collapsing from the anger of the slaves

Floating villages avoid the throng

This quartet of commoners just get told to play the song

We’re the snowflakes in the sand that have melted by your hand

Coliseums start to fall these sorry Romans that own it all

We’re the snowflakes avert your gaze

We have melted in your haze

Your Rome is falling into the sand

We’re the tendrils from the land

They’re shuddering in their getaways

The Rome that’s collapsing from the anger of the slaves

The avoidance of all the doubt

Whilst their money lies idle in a vault we’ll empty out


Mr Gaslight

Her mind a graveyard let’s pay a visit

To touch the granite to make it real

The flowers are wilted within her memory

A force of habit that she can’t heal

So hear the image of pathetic rage

He calls at midnight and storms the stage

The door is bolted from outside

He wants her zeroed and terrified


The fist-shaped holes in walls she’s a thousand yard stare now

Mr Gaslight runs the show but she will learn to run one day

She will find herself standing on her own

Without this demon sucking on her soul


She feels the panic setting in

The reddened skin upon her wrists

The skinless knuckles and tightened fists

An unholy monster with bloodied shin

Conceal with makeup the tears she hides

Force the smile - Her brave face on

Worried friends sensing something

Sense the fray (but not quite yet)


The fist-shaped holes in walls and his pleading midnight calls

Mr Gaslight can make his claims but she will learn to run one day

She will find herself standing on her own

Without this demon sucking on her soul

She may feel there’s no escape but there is dear girl

Hold on for us

Those fist shaped holes in the walls and his pleading midnight calls

Mr Gaslight will make his claim but she will learn to run one day

Those fist shaped holes in walls

Muffled cries behind the doors

Mr Gaslight will meet his end

And she will learn to love again

She will learn to love again


Zul

If you ask him how 
he is the quickest one to answer

And he answers it with love: the natural thing to do

He’s got a champion smile and if he could know his power

And if the clouds could beckon him he’d only know his worth


There’s so many that miss him 
so many open doors

But he’s shackled to his loyalty on these Canadian shores

He’d run to the fire that burned within your soul

And he would hold his hand out for you


C’mon Zul don’t you go we’ve got time for another more

We’ve got cash and we’ve got time so grab yourself another wine

C’mon Zul it’s looking great there’s another bar in every state

So keep on smiling like you do - you’re the champion of being cool


Icarus

I was staring at the son and his light so bright it blinded

How this Icarus collided with adult world

With a life that’d just begun and my pride upon his sleeve

Things were so hard to believe could this be true?

This chaos is too hard to bear

Finding it hard to show that I care

Don’t you dare keep it all inside

This is not about duty, this all about your pride


This song is for the ones who fall


Sometimes the trauma that feels hard to bear

Will carry you forward to a place you can share

Look back at this chaos with eyes on a prize

You’ll learn to feel privileged whilst you learn to be wise


This chaos is too hard to bear

Finding it hard to show I care for you

Don’t you dare keep it all inside

This is not about duty, this all about your pride


This song is for the ones who fall


So the wax upon your wings melted by their sanctions

And their business-like reactions my dear Icarus

And the iron fist’s are gone so now Icarus can move on

And it’s time to say ‘So long’


This chaos is too hard to bear

Finding it hard to show I care

Don’t you dare keep it all inside

This is not about duty, this all about your pride


What you’re sensing, what you felt

Your fragile wings weren’t supposed to melt

As you watch them fade from view you should now what to do

Such bad timing that happened but they were thieving your oxygen

Stand up tall now you’ll make it through

Keep on shining the sky’s so blue

Keep on falling
Keep on shining


Faded Grace

Faded Grace. The mirror can lie no more. These jaded faces staring back at us, etched and forlorn.
We shadow box our virtue, knowing youth has run the line.
Blame it on those sleepless nights whilst cornered by the advance of time. We all need sincerity to admit to the crime of wasting our youth in the passage of time. Let’s focus on beauty that is hidden within, so dish out the kindness (don’t spread it so thin)

Faded Grace I’ve come to love you so. Now youth’s escaped, you’re all I know. Faded Grace? There was a time we could do no harm
. Our secret place of peace and un-fractured calm. We’re oblivious to rusted emotions
and hearts that have dried in the wind. To be fond of the march towards older must relinquish the beauty that’s thin. We all need sincerity to admit to the crime of wasting our youth in the passage of time. Let’s focus on beauty that is hidden within, so dish out the kindness don’t spread it so thin Faded Grace. I’ve come to love you so. Now youth’s escaped you’re all I know. I must accept my fate and go with your flow.
This faded grace I love you so, Faded Grace. Please hold me in your arms. Surrender to your embrace and I’ll love your stubborn charms.


Melancholy Words

This crowded prison : My broken mind

Make room for wisdom when they’re not kind

Should I feel open?

Palms to the sun?

If I should envision. Can this be done?

I feel things closing. We’re running scared

Blistered heels: we run towards the beauty
to find that nothing’s shared

We all desire a lifetime of Sunday’s buried deep beneath the quilt of knowing

Please let us all sleep

They keep creeping in like a cold hand on the back

How I wish I was unknowing! The cracks are showing

These melancholy words keep on flowing…


Neowise

Time to open up the houses ‘cos the Coliseum is dead! They’ve dithered with your life again (forgotten what they said) 
Your herd is in the killing pen and they’re moving far away. Here is the proclamation: Rome will be burnt on this day.

I know that he is watching looking straight at us.

I can hear him sighing

He can’t hear your pain
I know that he is watching

Looking straight at us

I can’t hear him sighing He can’t hear your pain

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