Circle The Wagons EP1
Ships (Balsamo)
Storm warning on the radio
So I think I'm gonna take my love down low
But not so deep that I can't see you
Think I'm gonna take my love down low
Right about now I need another drink
The bottle from the wreckage helps me think
Prefer it looking at me than a shrink
A bottle from the wreckage helps me think
We're not even ships that pass in the light of day
The undertow of different oceans keeps us away
We've been pulled apart by the light of a different moon
We're not even ships that pass
Even ships that pass at high noon
Trawling through the hertz for a lost signal
I saw the plane go down in the triangle
Static on the line has become hymnal
The plane went down in the triangle
We're not even ships that pass in the light of day
The undertow of different oceans keeps us away
We've been pulled apart by the light of a different moon
We're not even ships that pass
Even ships that pass at high noon
And we've drifted where we harbour all our fears
Our fears
On the horizon is the hope of new frontiers
And we're the pioneers
Storm warning on the radio
So I think I'm gonna keep my love down low
But not so deep that I can't see you
Think I'm gonna take my love down low
Sing Your Soul Back Home (Balsamo, Hamill)
I dream of the river
To carry me easy
Ancient provider
Whispers your name from the deepest blue
The payphone is broken
To call in the family
lost the connection
sending my love down the wire
To you
It's written deep
Deep in our bones
The peace that we gave away
At last is coming home
Sing your soul back
Sing your soul back home
Watching our memories
Play like a movie
Beautiful flowers
Cover our bodies asleep down there
A room with no number
A door is left open
A bed in the corner
Lovers are left coming up for air
It's written deep
Deep in our bones
The peace that we gave away
At last is coming home
Sing your soul back
Sing your soul back home
The crow and the lover
Alone in the silence
Called to remember
History written in me and you
I dream of the river
To carry me easy
Ancient provider
Whispers your name from the deepest blue
It's written deep
Deep in our bones
The peace that we gave away
At last is coming home
Sing your soul back
Sing your soul back home
Step Into The Unknown (Balsamo, Collins)
Summer light lays golden as we find ourselves on solid ground
Words softly spoken with a kiss the missing peace is found
Something is calling me
Like a whisper thru the trees
As we step into the unknown
Letting go of stories we've outgrown
As we step into the unknown
Shaking off the bodies that hold us down
Let's step into the unknown
Darling take my hand
For every end there's a beginning time
As sure as we stand
Oh we fall before we fly, we burn to shine
I want to turn and run
But I got these words biting my tongue
So I'll step into the unknown
Letting go of stories we've outgrown
As we step into the unknown
Shaking off the bodies that hold us down
Let's step into the unknown
We'll show what we're made of and what we're afraid of
But in a moment it's all gone...
So let's step into the unknown
Letting go of stories we've outgrown
Oh we'll step into the unknown
As we step into the unknown
Letting go of stories we've outgrown
As we step into the unknown
Shaking off the bodies that hold us down
Let's step into the unknown
Feels like i'm coming home
I've come home
I've come home
Blood Is Blood (Balsamo, Collins, Deighton, Hamill)
My father was a lucky man
He Rolled the dice took his chances
Mamma do all that she can
Tried to keep the wolf at bay
Taught the devil all he knew
His smile could seduce the angels
Sing the sirens out the blue
Wipe all their tears away
I know blood is blood
But the pull is stronger
When you're hiding out
The truth becomes stranger
I wish that I wasn't a stranger
Lie beneath a sky of stars
Contemplating all the mystery
See how connected we are
what we're made of can make us afraid
Sweetest sound I ever heard
was my baby daughter breathing
Said it all without a word
Till I saw him in her eyes
I know blood is blood
But the pull is stronger
When you're hiding out
The truth becomes stranger
I know blood is blood
But the pull is stronger
When you're halfway home
The road can look longer
I wish I wasn't a stranger
The weight of our history
The good and the bad comes down the line
Sometimes it's too much to carry
I see your life in my design
the more I try to run
the more I become you
(Still try to run)
I know blood is blood is blood...
I know blood is blood
But the pull is stronger when you're hiding out
The truth becomes stranger
I wish that I wasn't a stranger
Longer Road (Balsamo, Collins)
Loneliness can fall
Cross a crowded room
Providence still calls
When you play your hand too soon
What makes you react
Can't explain away all the sparks
You're losing all the facts
When you're hiding in the dark
What you're hiding in the dark
I can't see the road behind us
I can't see what lies ahead
Let's take the longer road
Take the longer road
Instead
A cautionary route
Was always ours to take
But rules are always rules
Till you find the point to break
Will we learn from our mistakes?
I can't see the road behind us
I can't see what lies ahead
Let's take the longer road
Take the longer road
Instead
And we shine
Shine
Shine a light
C'mon and shine
Shine a light
Let the path get us lost get broken and tossed away from all we know
I can't see the road behind us
I can't see what lies ahead
Let's take the longer road
Lets Take the longer road
Instead
I can see,
See what lies behind us
See what lies ahead
Let's take the longer road
Instead.
Circle The Wagons (Balsamo, Phillips)
Before the night draws in let's circle up the wagons
Save all we know
When arrows fly and spears rush by
To separate our atoms
Let them pass thru?
If innocence was my defence
It crumbled like a martyr
But thirsty heart and aching bones
Just make it harder
You know that by my hand my world had shattered
I tried to find the road I know you followed
I proved that all the while I lost hold of the reins...went down in flames
That what remains will never change
Love is strange
We gotta keep it close where all the bodies buried
No one need know
Secrets find a place to shine when no more burdens carried
Will you let go?
If restlessness is evidence
It showed up uninvited
My want to change to rearrange
Maybe misguided
You know that by my hand my world had shattered
I tried to find the road I know you followed
I proved that all the while I lost hold of the reins... went down in flames
That what remains will never change
Love is strange
I'm strung out walking the high wire
While shadows jump into the fire
You keep at bay my naive attempts to fly
Go circle the wagons tonight
You know that by my hand my world had shattered
I tried to find the road I know, (I know) you followed
I proved that all the while I lost hold of the reins... went down in flames
That what remains will never change
Love is strange
High On Sunset EP2
High On Sunset (Balsamo, McTaggart, Mosby)
He's a major player
Among the sharks and thieves
He could snap his fingers
And they believed
He said that he could make her
A star that shone so bright
She put on a smile
Took off her dress
Cos she knew he was right
High on sunset
Oh the stars are out tonight
Only some get
To see their name in lights
High on sunset
Every would be Brando
Got an eight by ten
And a tan to die for
From parking Jags and Benz
They all got a movie
That they're working on
The saints and sinners
All rush down
To where they know they belong
High on sunset
Oh the stars are out tonight
Only some get
To see their name in lights
High on sunset
To sell your soul in this town
You gotta stand in line
So many dreams burn out before
They've had a chance to shine
High on sunset
Oh the stars are out tonight
High on Sunset
Their sinking from the sky
Cos only some get
To see their name in lights
High on sunset
Better Man (The Storys)
I'm trying to be a better man, a better man, doing all I can
Trying to be a better man, a better man, I hope you understand
I'm trying to find a fearless heart, a fearless heart
Don't know where to start
I don't know how, but I know I must
Find a fearless heart to win your trust
There's a ghost in my place
Sometimes I hear a voice, think I recognise a face
Are you lost on your way?
Do you move inside of me, the man I used to be?
I'll use my love to pick you up, pick you up, please take my love
Wanna make this house a home, a shelter from whatever may come
There's a ghost in my place
Sometimes I hear a voice, think I recognise a face
Are you lost on your way?
Do you move inside of me, the man I used to be?
Ohhh
There's a ghost in my place
Sometimes I hear a voice, think I recognise a face
Are you lost on your way?
Will I hear you whisper what you have to say?
There's a ghost in my place
Sometimes I hear a voice, think I recognise a face
Are you lost on your way?
Do you move inside of me, the man I used to be?
I try to live a simple life, a simple life, for this I know I'll fight
Wanna see you dressed in white
One of these days, I'm gonna make it right
Lost And Found At The Same Time (Balsamo, Phillips)
The maelstrom from his orbit was too strong
You got pushed and pulled along
But the wake got you to wake up
To rise and shine
Now you're lost and found at the same time.
Singing like a bird from a broken clock
You're right twice a day so don't you stop
The stakes that you are tied to
Satisfies the crime
Now you're lost and found at the same time.
You can be more, so much more than you know
Gotta give yourself permission to receive all this love
Caught I'm the middle
Of an old map and a riddle
Darling I believe in you
Can't stop a freak tsunami when it comes
No use trying to swim or trying to run
The wave black and relentless
Drowning power lines
Now you're lost and found at the same time.
You can be more, so much more than you know
Gotta give yourself permission to receive all this love
Time to take refuge
In the solace and the deluge
Darling I believe in you
Now you're lost and found at the same time
Now you're lost and found at the same time
I Won't Give Up On You (Balsamo, Collins, Lewis)
I won't give up on you
Please don't give up on me
I won't give up on you
Please don't give up on me
Drawing your heart in the dusty glass
Neon lights set our eyes on fire
Drink up, this place is closing
Is nothing gonna change your mind?
Is nothing gonna change your mind?
I won't give up on you
Please don't give up on me
I won't give up on you
Please don't give up on me
Hailing a ride in the morning air
Soho rain wash the dirty streets
Look up, can't see you crying
Is nothing gonna change your mind?
Can I try to change your mind?
I won't give up on you
Please don't give up on me
And you can go your own way
I will go mine
Whenever you need a shoulder
I will be right behind
Baby if you change your mind
I won't give up on you
Please don't give up on me
I won't give up on you
Please don't give up on me
It's Always Been You (Balsamo)
Will you be willing
To hold fast against the weight of all these dreams?
Cos you were there when I woke up
feels like a million lifetimes here with me
Everything before you seems like some rehearsal
Like I missed something I never had
It's you
till the sun burns cold
It's you
Till gravity loses hold
And the world disappears
Stars fall through the blue
It's always been you
You
I made a promise
this lonely desert rose won't bloom alone
So I left a light on
in case you ever found your way back home
Because together we're the dance and dancer
A song whose words I waited for
It's you
Till the last bullet flies
It's you
Till the blood in my veins run dry
The lost pieces you found
Was my burden laid low
It's always been you
You
Middle 8
What if this moment is all that the we got?
And everything that I was seeking, all along was seeking me?
We gotta give it our best shot
Hand over both our hearts
As part of you becomes a part of me
Will you still love me
When autumn leaves will blush and start to fall?
Between the lines on our faces
Our story in the space between it all
It's you
Till there's nothing left but dust
It's you
Till the gold starts to rust
Thru the illusion of choice
My little voice knew
It's always been you
you
You
Breaking Apart (Balsamo)
You are my rabbit's foot my good luck charm
My answered prayer my do no harm
Dark day of the soul into my night of light
You are my desert breeze first taste of wine
My lucky strike in a diamond mine
My wake up call like a whisper through the trees
Where there once was
Lives on like an echo
Haunting our lives
Until we try to let go
The holiest point is our heart
Put together again from the breaking apart
Put together again from the breaking apart
You are the midnight sky the thunder crack
The wheel of fortune in my tarot pack
Let's Bury the past in this future memory
You are a radiant smile in a Picasso Blue
A keeper of deep dark secrets too
You are what remains of how hard we fought for love
Where there once was
Lives on like an echo
Haunting our lives
Until we try to let go
The holiest point is our heart
Put together again from the breaking apart
Put together again from the breaking apart
Solo
So what ever comes whatever goes
We'll smoke the highs and we'll dig the lows
Roll with punches until that final bell
If we get lost or find ourselves apart
I'll always carry you in my heart
I'll leave a light on until you make it home
Where there once was
Lives on like an echo
Haunting our lives
Until we try to let go
The holiest point is our heart
Put together again from the breaking apart
Put together again from the breaking apart
Put together again
Armour Of My Soul (Balsamo, Batteau)
Between the heartbreak and the genesis that brought me here
Between the river and the leaves where doubts all disappear
Between the towers and the power lines that call your name
Like some new Troy rising up from the ashes of my shame
Feel your breath against my body
In the naked light
A hope that's burning like the jasmine in the air tonight
Ohhh you are the armour of my soul my battle cry
Ohhh you are the shield of faith that tumbles from the sky
Ohhh you are the armour of my soul
My lost companions turned into the birds of memory
My dream's unburied ghost still walks the coast inside of me
Murder by accident by providence I can't explain
Like some forgotten son of some Aeneas in my veins
Moment to moment
Brings another song into my bed
The unknown chapter you recaptured
Sweeter left unsaid
Ohhh you are the armour of my soul my battle cry
Ohhh you are the shield of faith that tumbles from the sky
Ohhh you are the armour of my soul
Lyrics
Lyrics for M.I.A. Music Is Art (Volume 1) by Chimpan A
WOLVES (Balsamo, Reed, Dallas)
This city in the after hours
Gone and missed the midnight train
Joan of Arc in the flames of mourning
Vampire offers me cocaine
In a time between the time
Voices where the borders blur
Hear it louder than a nuclear warning
Can’t stand this feeling anymore
Watching it all fall slowly
No matter rich or poor
It’s a beautiful day
Who will I call to help me
When the wolves come to my door
A siren singing through the streets
Scatters souls like falling ash
In a world of little consequences
Smiling for the camera flash
We’re watching it all fall slowly
No matter rich or poor
It's a beautiful day
Building a wall to save me
This time I'm not so sure
You can have it your way
Who will I call to help me?
When the wolves come to my door
When the wolves come to my door
When the wolves come to my door
In the heart of the night the city breathes stories of shadowed corners and forgotten whispers
Here where history's echoes meet the pulse of now
We stand at the crossroads of being and becoming
Watching as the world shifts beneath our feet
The wolves with their silent promises and hungry stares
Circle ever closer
A reminder that no fortress of solitude
No matter how grand or meagre
Can keep the inevitable at bay
In this urban sprawl we're all but travellers
Journeying through the hours between dusk and dawn
Searching for a train that's long departed
Leaving only the cold comfort of its tracks
As the city holds its breath we realise that the wolves are not just at our door but within us and among us
Baying for the soul's surrender to the dark
In the dance of light and shadow
Rich or poor
We're merely players
They wear many faces now
Some draped in suits speaking in tongues of law and order
Others cloaked in banners of righteousness
Their fists clenched around the past
They tell us who belongs and who does not
Carving lines through neighbourhoods
Through nations
Through blood
They do not come in the dead of night anymore
They come in daylight
Unmasked
Unashamed
Welcomed at tables once and for all and the rest
We watch and whisper and wait
Some turn away believing silence will keep them safe
But silence has never kept the wolves at bay
The hunger grows
And soon they will not ask
They will take and when the gates break
When the feast begins
When the ones who built walls with their own hands find themselves surrounded
Only then will they wonder why no one came when they called
Caught a spider in a jar
She’s trying to find her way back home
Can’t see invisible walls around her
That break as easily as bones
Watching it all fall slowly
No matter rich or poor
You can have it your way
Who will I call to help me
When the wolves come to my door
When the wolves come to my door
Watching it all fall slowly
No matter rich or poor
It’s a beautiful day
Building a wall to save me
This time I’m not so sure
You can have it your way
Who will I call to help me?
When the wolves come to my door
When the wolves come to my door
I WILL WAIT FOR YOU (Balsamo, Reed, Dallas)
In this house I’m all alone
Faceless hollow on the pillow
I am here but far from home
Throwing confetti from the window
Verse 2
I unpack your Sunday clothes
Pages missing from the bible
Have no fear, meet your foe
I was always my own rival, rival
Say you will stay?
Say you will stay?
Say you will stay tonight?
We can watch the morning break
And listen to the summer rain
Till the gold begins to rust
I will always wait for you
Till every map is lost
Till there’s a thief that we can trust
I will always wait for you
Till our bones will turn to dust
I’ll wait for you
I’ll wait for you
Pulling on my shoes
The air is thick with memories
Radio is all bad news
Another spinning of the story
Say will you stay?
Say you will stay?
Say will you stay tonight?
We can watch the morning break
And listen to the summer rain
Till the gold begins to rust
I will always wait for you
Till every map is lost
I will always wait for you
Till there’s a thief that we can trust
Till our bones will turn to dust
I’ll wait for you
Pulling on my shoes
The air is thick with memories
Radio is all bad news
Another spinning of the story
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
Whooooo
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
I will always wait for you
Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh
In this house
Silence holds dominion
A sovereign draped in echoes of conversations that once painted these walls with laughter and warmth
Now I roam its corridors
A solitary figure tracing the outlines of memories that linger like perfume in the air
The cold sheets on the bed beside me remain a nightly reminder of your absence
A dent in the fabric of my days
Each day unfolds like a page from a book whose chapters we wrote in tandem
Now missing pieces
Relics of a faith once shared
They whisper of a time when fear was just a shadow and not the foe it has become
The rival I wrestle with in the quiet of my mind
I turn over reaching for warmth that isn’t there
My hand meeting only the quiet hush of an empty room
The walls hold their breath
The air thick with words we never said
With echoes of a presence that lingers but never answers back
Sleep comes in fragments
Scattered between the spaces where you used to be
I listen to the quiet hoping it might speak but it only stretches on
Long
Unbroken
Indifferent to the weight of waiting
And so the night carries me forward
Not in silence
Not in stillness
But in the restless hum of something just beyond reach
The world stirs alive with the pulse of what was and what could be
And for a moment
I forget the waiting
For a moment I am running
I’m weightless
I am not alone
The wind moves through me
The air electric with possibility
And though time has taken
Though distance still lingers
I swear
I feel you here
The candle burning slow
Through the borrowed hours
Sing hallelujah sweet and low
Falling petals of the flowers
Say will you stay?
Say you will stay?
Say will you stay tonight?
We can watch the morning break
And listen to the summer rain
Till the gold begins to rust
The gold begins to rust
Till every map is lost
Till every map is lost
Till there’s a thief that we can trust
A thief that we can trust
Till our bones will turn to dust
I’ll wait for you
I’ll wait for you
I’ll wait for you
I’ll wait for you
Wait for you
I will always wait for you
SAVIOUR (Balsamo, Reed Dallas)
Stealing all the stones from the Tower Of Babel
All speaking in a tongue my mother fears
But my mother hears
Take another bite from the golden apple
All longing for a taste of forbidden fruit
And it tastes so sweet
Yeah yeah yeah
Now we are earthbound
Open arms reach up to heaven
Now we are earthbound
Be my saviour
Be my saviour
Sing me all the songs that your daddy taught you
As he rocked me in your arms as you fell asleep
Dreaming so deep
Paint me all the pictures of the streets you ran through
As the neon in the night blocked out the stars
Yeah yeah yeah
And prison bars
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Now we are earthbound
Open arms reach up to heaven
Now we are earthbound
Be my saviour
Be my saviour
Now we are earthbound
Prayers and charms won't bring the devil down
Now we are earthbound
Be my saviour
Be my saviour
When hope is all but gone be strong
We have so much to give to live
Underneath this sky don't cry
Don’t cry
Be my saviour be my saviour
Stealing all the stones from the Tower Of Babel
All speaking in a tongue my mother fears
Yeah yeah yeah
But my mother hears
My mamma hears yeah yeah yeah
Now we are earthbound
Prayers and charms won't bring the devil down
Bring it down bring it down bring it down bring it down
Be my saviour
Be my saviour
Aren’t you gonna save me now?
Aren’t you gonna save me now?
Aren’t you gonna save me now?
Be my saviour be my saviour now
Ohhh ohhhhh
Be my saviour now
KARL’S SONG (Balsamo, Reed, Jenkins)
Our love is true so true waiting for you
Everything leads back to you
Intertwined like ivy climbing around a weathered wall
Two souls entwined through passing time we rise and sometimes fall
We touch lips all soft and slow a language learned by heart
A lifetime's lesson ebb and flow love's exquisite art
Anything worth while will take a lifetime
And I will wait I will wait
I will wait
I’m waiting for you
You
Our love is true so true
Waiting for you
Everything leads back to you
If love's a compass never still it spins with every tide
We chase its course up every hill where hidden secrets hide
We touch lips all soft and slow a language learned by heart
A lifetime's lesson ebb and flow love's exquisite art
Anything worth while will take a lifetime
And I will wait I will wait
I will wait
I’m waiting for you
You
Our love is true so true
Waiting for you
I will wait I will wait
I’m waiting for you
Waiting waiting for you
My love is true so true
Waiting for you
Everything leads back to you
SKELETONS (Balsamo, Reed)
Like A skelton of a sleeping giant
Light throwing shadows
The old church tower proud and defiant
A crow on the gallows
Like a canopy of a billion stars
On some distant planet
Piccadilly Circus without any cars
Just diamonds and granite
Every road leads to the sea
Every turn it makes
I'II do whatever it takes you'll see
Stay in touch love
Call me
Do you dare to dream as summer dies?
Grey sky on horizon
Ache of desire as you say your goodbyes
Navigate by Orion
Met a pilgrim and he gave me a dime
Took me to the crossroads
Where the borders blur in a time of no time
My saviour stared in the mirror
Every road leads to the sea
Every turn it makes
I'll do whatever it takes you'll see
Every turn it makes
Until Forever you're flying free
Stay in touch love
Call me
Call me
Ah
Call me
ANYBODY OUT THERE? (Balsamo, Reed, Dallas)
Hear your voice upon the breeze
Swear I see your face amongst the branches in the trees
The freezing rain kisses my face
A bird on a wire between her chase
Well I don’t feel love
Suspended in mid air
Well I don’t feel love anymore
If anybody out there can hear me calling?
Anybody out there can save my fall?
If anybody out there can hear me calling?
Anybody out there can save my soul?
A shadow passing through the wall
A feeling something’s gone or never there at all
I can’t reach you now it’s clear
In all the wreckage we stopped breathing and disappeared
Well I don’t feel love
Suspended in mid air
Well I don’t feel love anymore
If anybody out there can hear me calling?
Anybody out there can save my fall?
If anybody out there can hear me calling?
Anybody out there can save my soul?
And I don’t feel love anymore
And I don’t feel love anymore
Well I don’t feel love
Well I don’t feel love
Well I don’t feel love
Well I don’t feel love
Anybody out there can save my soul
Anybody out there can save my soul
Anybody out there
Anybody out there
Anybody out there can save my soul
And I don’t feel love anymore
And I don’t feel love anymore
Anybody out there can save my soul
Anybody out there can save my soul
Anybody out there
Anybody out there
Anybody out there can save my soul
Beneath the cloak of an indifferent sky
I find comfort in the whispers of the wind
Faint
Familiar
Like a voice I once knew drifting through the air
The trees move like shadows
Their branches stretching out but never quite reaching
The shadow passing through the wall
And for a moment I swear I see you there
Feeling somethings gone or never there at all
The cold rain traces lines down my skin
I can’t reach you now it’s clear
Like roads we never travelled moments we never had
In all the wreckage we stopped breathing and disappeared
And I don’t feel love
A lone bird fights against the wind
Hanging in the space between flying and falling
Maybe that’s what hope is
Something fragile something waiting
If anybody out there can hear me calling?
Anybody out there can save my soul?
If anybody out there can hear me calling?
Can you hear me calling?
Anybody out there can save my soul?
I stand here now, caught between the past and whatever comes next. Some voices fade with time; yours still cuts, sharp at the edges, a memory that won’t settle. The silence between us was always louder than the words we spoke. The world moves on, but I am still here, searching for warmth in a place that never felt like home.
Can you save my soul?
Can you hear me?
Save our soul
Anybody?
THE KEEPER (Balsamo, Reed, Mylan)
Hmmmm hmmmm
I wear the crown
And all I see is mine looking down
On you all
You are small
I control the tide
The sea of change the rise the fall
I’m a raging storm
And you will never see me creeping up behind
And I will release you only to hunt you down
Lies I am lies I am strong
I will take you down
Cries I am cries in the hills of these towns
I will take you down
Slide I reside in the back of your mind
And I know you’re kind
Man alive use your eyes
Oh I’m coming for you I am coming for you
I’m coming for you
Hmmmm hmmmm
I control the tide
The sea of change the rise and fall inside
I am the raging storm
So deep in our bones
The long forgotten pictures of home
I am the raging storm
I am calm
I am warm
I am calm
I am warm
I am calm
And you will never see me
Creeping up behind
And I will release you
Only to hunt you down
Lies I am lies I am strong
I will take you down
Cries I am cries in the hills of these towns
I will take you down
Slide I reside in the back of your mind
And I know you’re kind
I know your kind
Oh I’m coming for you
I am coming for you
I’m coming for you
I’m coming for you
Oh I’m coming for you
Its gonna be great!
I’ll start putting money aside
I’ll do my plastering course
You can reduce on the juice
We’re gonna love it so much
I’m gonna sing to it in your belly so it knows me when it gets here
It’s gonna be smart and confident and happy s
So happy and safe
Football!
It’s gonna be Maradona by the time I’ve passed on my skills
We can get moved to a house down West Cross so it grows up by the sea
The good schools
Away from the city so it has a chance to be someone
And she cuts me dead with WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON BRUMMIE STOP!!!
Just STOP Please
I’ve got three kids in care
What makes you think
It’s not that I don’t want it
I want it too
But how the hell are they gonna allow me to
Three already lost
Why would we even contemplate a world
It’ll kill us dead Brummie
Dreaming will kill us dead
And I looked at her
Really looked at her and eventually I said
We’ll get them back
We’ll get them all back
I believe in us
I really do
Yeah yeah ohhhh
A slipstream of streets
Kaleidoscope of souls at my feet
I am the raging storm
I am the raging storm
I will keep you warm keep you warm
Ohhh
Oh we’ve travelled so far
Sleeping underneath a sky full of stars
Oh we’re lost in a raging storm
Lost in a raging storm
You will never see me
You will never see me
I will release you
I will release you
No ohhhh ohhh ohhh ohhh
Lies I am lies I am strong
I will take you down
Cries I am cries in the hills of these towns
I will take you down
Slide I reside in the back of your mind
And I know you’re kind
I know you’re kind
Oh Man alive
I know you’re kind
I’m coming for you
Use your eyes
I’m coming for you
Cries I am lies I am strong
Cries I am cries in the hills of these towns
Slide I reside in the back of your mind
And I know your kind
Man alive use your eyes
I’m coming for you
I’m coming for you
Coming for you
I’m coming for you
INVISIBLE PEOPLE (Balsamo, Reed, Mylan)
Strip lights and hard chairs
See everything tonight
Shows the scars and the flaws
Pretending everything will be alright
If hope is a kind of prayer
I’m on my knees
If hope is a kind of prayer
I’m on my knees
Invisible people
Yeah ohhh
Invisible people
Yeah ohhh
We’re all invisible people
Yeah ohhh
Invisible people
Cages are cages
Even when disguised as castle walls
In the clean air
The dirty secrets fall
There’s a whispers in the static
Old boxes in the attic
It only takes an ember
Burning to remember
Remember who we are
To catch fire
Fire fire fire
We’re all invisible people
Yeah ohhh
Invisible people
Yeah ohhh
Invisible people
Yeah ohhh
Invisible people
Look around tell me who you see?
Look around is it really me?
Look around tell me who you see?
Look around
So my dealer went dark
Yeah
It’s usually only twenty four hours while he reloads but on the second night I was fucking crawling so I had to phone the Scousers for the first time which I didn’t wanna do
You don’t know what or who’s coming but they’re always on so I had no choice really
Twenty five minutes later met a kid on a moped and took it back to my room
Thankfully the gear was banging
On weight too
Probably didn’t recognise the drop so gave me the new customer meal deal Anyway I was relieved
But I like to keep it all simple
The less involved the better
Phoning the Scousers made it all feel that little bit too real
And I know that sounds stupid
I know I’m right in the fucking shit and this is all very real but even after all this time I’m still not used to it
I still can’t get my head around the fact that all the filthy fucking addicts I judged in my head and to colleagues
Even when I was on morphine
Are now
Fucking hell
I don’t know
I see them
I just
I fucking see them now
All these invisible people
I just see them
If hope is a kind of prayer
I’m on my knees
Oh Yeah yeah
If hope is a kind of prayer
I’m on my knees
Yeah yeah
Invisible people
Yeah ohhh
Invisible people
Yeah ohhh
We’re all invisible people
Yeah ohhh
Invisible people
Ohhh ohhhh
Ohhh ohhhh
Hold me
You purify my soul
Heal me
It’s you that makes me whole
Save me
Oh won’t you save me yeah
You purify my soul
Love me
Oh won’t you love won’t you love won’t you love me
It’s you that makes me whole
Hold me
Oh won’t you hold me
Purify my soul
Heal me
Oh won’t you love won’t you love won’t you love me
It’s you that makes me whole
Save me
Oh won’t you save me
You purify my soul
Hold me
Love me
It’s you that makes me whole
Touch me
Don’t you break me
It’s you that makes me whole
I want me you to love me
DREAMING WILL KILL US DEAD (Balsamo, Reed, Mylan)
When lightening agrees to coalesce
Be caught in a jar of happenstance
To fuse the spark and start the dance
I know that it’s no coincidence
We sat in the road and looked to the sky
Dragons and demons caught our eye
Worlds apart but united in the lie
I know it’s no coincidence
It’s older and wiser
Than we can grasp from where we stand
But maybe maps we’ve found
Will help us understand
The roses in bloom have all been bled
Dreaming will kill us dead
Dreaming will kill us dead
Dreaming will kill us dead
Dreaming will kill us dead
Tonight
These city streets are slick with rain
A ghost in a storefront window pane
Looks like me but I don’t know his name
I know it’s no coincidence
Blue lights are lighting up your face
An angel in a state of grace
Followed the tracks that brought you to this place
I know it’s no coincidence
It’s older and wiser
Than we can grasp from where we stand
But maybe maps we’ve found
Will help us understand
The roses in bloom have all been bled
Dreaming will kill us dead
Dreaming will kill us dead
Dreaming will kill us dead
Dreaming will kill us dead
Tonight
When I found myself walking back through those automatic doors
Imagine you were made of porcelain
And inside you was a stick of dynamite with a fuse that’s slowly burning down throughout your life
And then it blows and your porcelain shell explodes
But you’re suspended in that agonising moment
The moment you come apart you’re held there
Eternally
That’s who I was when I walked back through those doors
Pale
Tired
Bloated from a three week binge of Aldi gin and Rossi’s
I felt every second of that twelve and a half hour shift
And what killed me the absolute most
The love was gone
I had nothing
Weeks went by on nothing
And it’s difficult
It’s a tricky one this
All I can tell you is it wasn’t premeditated
It just sort of presented itself
I reach like Adam to touch your hand
I pray the words I cry will land
You’re building castles in the sand
I know it’s no coincidence
When lightening agrees to coalesce
Be caught in a jar of happenstance
To fuse the spark and start the dance
I know that it’s no coincidence
No no no
It’s older and wiser
Than we can grasp from where we stand
But maybe maps we’ve found
Will help us understand
The roses in bloom oh they’ve all been bled they’ve all been bled
Dreaming will kill us dead