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1.The Heart Will Bleed 

 

C1

There is no going back

And the heart will bleed 

Time will help solve most of this 

But some things just can’t be fixed 

 

V1

Webs we weave have caught up with us

Taking their toll no time to adjust 

Drowning in the dry before your eyes

Searching for gods I’m Yet to find 

This suffering is currency, the truth concealed, nothing is what it seems

 

C2

There is no going back

And the heart will bleed

Time will help solve most of this 

But some things just can’t be fixed 

 

For the cause you fought and bled

This place wants us all dead

Push water up a hill

Don’t let a drop spill

 

C3

There is no going back

And the heart will bleed

Time will help solve most of this 

But some things just can’t be fixed 

 

Don’t you, reason

It is, written 

In, stone 

 

And the heart will bleed

Time will help solve most of this

But some things just can’t be fixed 

 

2.Never knew You Existed

 

V1

The first time I saw you face 

i couldn’t help but double take 

Become part of my shadow

My pulse has lose control 

Marrow in my bones 

 

I swore we’ve met before 

In a past life or more 

Can’t imagine the hole

The rhythm of my soul

Without you always here  

 

B1

It seems within reach

Give all you can for it 

 

C1

When the one you love 

Never wanted you back 

What hurts the most 

They never knew you existed 

 

So i put down some roots

Make myself a home

Give it my best shot , believing the line

Anything is possible 

Have my own seat at the bar 

That i sit in every day 

Coming here all these years, then realise 

No one knows my name

 

B2

It seems within reach

Give all you can for it 

 

C2

When the one you love 

Never wanted you back 

What hurts the most 

They never knew you existed 

 

M8

Not right 

Was I ever really here 

My time 

Is spent and I’ve got nothing left

 

C3

When the one love 

Never wanted you back

What hurts the most is

They never, even knew my name 

 

 

3.For right, or wrong, for better, or worse 

 

 

V1

Submit to the river, go with the flow

Sever the ties, that prop you up 

Anchored to the shore

Too scared to break free 

Or is it because 

You were told to believe  

 

This world doesn’t function 

Without lots of those 

like you and me

 

why do we let

The system breathe 

And take Everything 

 

B1

For right, or wrong, for better, or worse 

 

C1

I haven’t gotten all the answers 

Been here for so long 

But here I am still crawling

Talking about standing tall 

There’s always tomorrows 

In a world of failed yesterdays 

Got to keep on moving 

I gotta find a way 

 

V2

Do you know yourself, or is it just pretend? 

Going on a journey, you can’t regret 

A house filled with mirrors, sees to your soul

Can’t look away, nowhere to hide anymore 

 

Hold ,yourself, up to the flame 

Are you different, or just the same (or just the same as them)

The same as them

 

B2

For right, or wrong, for better, or worse 

 

C2

I haven’t gotten all the answers 

Been here for so long 

But here I am still crawling

Talking about standing tall 

There’s always tomorrows 

In a world of failed yesterdays 

Got to keep on moving 

Got to find a way 

 

Find a way

Find a way

Find a way

 

C3

Here I am still crawling, 

just pretending,

Got to keep moving to find a way,

No matter some day 

 

 

4.We Are Just Fooling Ourselves

 

V1

Made so much sense, from, the outside 

Started to burn the closer i got

Until the whole damn thing was just pretend, 

came apart, sand through my hands

Disintegrated with out a trace

 

Go against the ones who loved you 

Averse to the ones who stood by you  

Tell them all what , they need , To hear 

 

C

Is even bit of this true 

Or have they been lying to you 

 

V2

Do anything, to be right,

Cut my nose off to spite, my own face.

least likely to love,

Struggling to relate to myself,

So why should anyone else, care

 

C

Is even one bit of this true 

Or have they been lying to you 

So it became your point of view

What else were you supposed to do

 

I FIGURED IT OUT, I HEAR IN STEREO 

IM SEEING CLEAR NOW, WE’RE JUST FOOLING OURSELVES 

 

Is even one bit of this true 

Or have they just been lying to you 

I FIGURED IT OUT, I HEAR IN STEREO 

IM SEEING CLEAR NOW, WE’RE JUST FOOLING OURSELVES 

What else is left 

 

Made so much sense, from, the outside 

Started to burn the closer i got

 

5.Sum of all our parts 

 

V1

Draw a line, in the sand 

And let it define you 

No matter what, don’t back down 

Deny what’s in front of you 

 

B1

When all is lost, what you have left, but what you have done

You never know, who wins the war, between the head and the heart 

 

C1

We are just a sum of all our parts 

Your actions speak much louder than your words 

 

V2

Fool me once, shame on you, 

a passenger must learn fast 

No matter what, don’t look back

Doesn’t lead you , anywhere 

 

B2

When all is lost, what you have left, but what you have done

 

 

C2

We are just a sum of all our parts 

No matter the intention in your heart 

We are just a sum of all our parts

Your actions speak much louder than your words, ever could 

 

M8

We, are just, the sum, of what we have done 

You, can paint it as you want, but that’s just not what was, the sum of all our parts

 

6.Built to break 

 

V1

By design, 

it came undone

Never meant to last 

Get another one  

 

Like almost everything 

Throw away these days 

Too easy to replace 

Just unremarkable 

 

C1

Built to break

Never, meant to last 

Put together, knowing 

It will fall apart

 

It’s hard to sustain / can’t be sustained 

When it’s set to fail / created to fail / faultline in the DNA

 

V2

Are you in full flow

Top of the tree 

Trapped in a bubble 

Illusions of a king

 

Is it temporary 

Or does everything you touch 

No matter what is done

Eventually turn to dust 

 

C2

Built to break

Never, meant to last 

Come together knowing it 

 

Outro

Built to break, never meant to last x3

 

7.Haunted By Myself 

 

V1

There is a space 

I should fit 

Measured the angles

All sides considered

 

Is it me

Or is it them

Losing arguments

With myself 

 

Crawling in my own skin

Upset by my heartbeat 

By the wheez when I breathe 

 

And the chewing noise

Of my teeth

Like finger nails, scratched until i bleed

 

B2

Sick, of it, need a, break, 

a new, perspective, I’ll take anything 

 

C1

FIGHT TO BE ANYONE ELSE

Lost and tired being myself 

Failed in this narrative 

haunted by myself 

 

PCHORUS

Like a jigsaw 

With a missing piece 

Got so close

But never be

complete 

 

V2

Happiness

So far off 

Seems to come 

easily to some 

 

They all say

Be yourself 

Everyone else is taken 

Can’t stand my reflection 

 

I find a little more hate 

For myself every day 

Can’t live with myself 

 

B2

Sick, of it, need a, break, a new, perspective, I’ll take anything 

 

Sick, of it, need a, break

The mirrors that still bare my face 

 

C2

FIGHT TO BE ANYONE ELSE

Lost and tired being myself 

Failed in this narrative 

haunted by myself 

 

Can’t let it go 

 

Breakdown 

FIGHT TO BE ANYONE ELSE

Lost and tired being myself 

Failed in this narrative 

haunted by myself 

 

Outro 

FIGHT TO BE ANYONE ELSE

Out of time with MYSELF 

Don’t care about the consequence 

Pray I’ll wake as someone else 

 

8.choreography and chaos

  

V1

Tidal wave crash down but solves this puzzle,

Bomb blows up with love instead of destruction,

Crave the pleasantness,  

But it bores you half to death, 

 

triumphant self combustion, 

As an answer, 

Barely able to contain, 

The heat from the flames 

 

C1

Stuck in a dance

Choreography and chaos

Cling to life with both hands 

On the edge, praying to transcend 

 

V2

The Fire burnt the house that stands

Forgive it’s fury, it’s selfishness 

But those walls kept the light away 

Now you have room to grow again 

I need constant tests, on my toes 

For a mind that cannot rest, just slows and slows 

Then explodes

 

C2

Stuck in a dance

Choreography and chaos

Cling to life with both hands 

On the edge, praying to transcend 

 

M8

Between despair and a dance 

Impossible 

On the edge but in a trance 

Not of this world 

 

Mix the 

absurd 

And planned

And try 

your best 

To make them blend 

And ,push harder than you’ve ever tried

In a world designed to Pause and watch die

 

C3

Stuck in a dance

Choreography and chaos

Cling to life with both hands 

On the edge, praying to transcend 

 

9.can’t be explained 

 

C1

 

It just can’t be explained

The light leaves you blinded 

The sentence completes

just when you need 

 

V1

In this moment, you will question everything 

Abandoned by the very streets, that kept you safe 

The answers never lived in far off places

It just took some time for you to see the light 

 

C2

 

It just can’t be explained

The light leaves you blinded 

The sentence completes

just when you need 

 

V2

searching, craving, validation 

Like being fed to the lions 

Running further from all embraces 

That taught you everything you know about life 

 

C3

 

It just can’t be explained

The light leaves you blinded 

The sentence completes

just when you need 

 

10.Digging your own grave 

 

V1

You’ve been spending all your time

Building walls to keep youself safe 

The more money the more you can have 

Thicker layers to keep people out

 

B1

towering, no light can be found

Too thin, nearly falling down  

 

C1

You can dress it up, just how you like, new facade, insist this is the one  

Can’t deny, the void inside, nothing’s changed, you lost what made this good

Frantically searching for the old ways 

or maybe you’re just, digging your own grave 

 

V2

Starved of physical contact  

It feels fast forward down the wrong path 

Each shovel full more desperate 

Scavenging around to find an answer   

 

B1

 

Alarming, always reaching high 

Tragic amounts, fall by the way side 

 

C2

You can dress it up, just how you like, new facade, insist this is the one  

Can’t deny, the void inside, nothing’s changed, you lost what made this good

Frantically searching for the old ways  

or maybe you’re just, digging your own grave 

 

11.Waiting in the wings 

V1

Colouring between 

Sense I’ve ever seen 

The lines simply evade you  

Never there for all that you knew 

 

Paint by numbers 

Making this much worse 

Broad strokes closed eyes 

Who knew you were Colourblind 

 

B1

And the promise that I made still stands 

I never told a lie 

 

C1

No doubt about it

Things are going to change 

I’ve spent too long 

Waiting in the wings 

 

V2

Biding my time 

Reclaim what is mine 

Waiting for the right moment 

Perfectly time each component 

 

Leave it all behind 

weight dragging the line 

Atone for all your sins, 

A game you can ever win 

 

B2

And the dream I dreamt still stands out vividly in my mind  

 

C2

No doubt about it

Things are going to change 

I’ve spent too long 

Waiting in the wings 

 

For all the times you doubted yourself

Too many times you hid away 

So many things sacrificed 

It’s time to see this to the end

 

Before it’s too late

Re-grets are the en-emy 

 

12.Random faces 

 

V1

Free fall

Make the same mistakes

Forgive me 

For dragging you in 

 

B1

I’m not saying I’m not happy 

Never made the time to be

 

C1

You can’t keep filling empty spaces

With all these random faces 

Seeking answers from someone else

Cause you never loved, never loved yourself 

 

V2

Moved on 

A one sided game 

Can’t win

Or go through this again 

 

B2

I’m not saying your unhappy 

Have you made the time to be?

 

C2

You can’t keep filling empty spaces

With all these random faces 

Seeking answers from someone else

Cause you never loved, never loved yourself 

 

M8

You can’t keep filling these spaces

With random blow ins 

There’s a bottomless hole

That can’t be filled 

You just need to love yourself 

 

C3

You can’t keep filling empty spaces

With all these random faces 

Seeking answers from someone else

Cause you never loved, or made peace with yourself 

 

13.Before The Dark Takes All Of Us

 

V1

Something you’ve always known 

Spent your life trying to fight 

Won’t be put in a box

there is no way to hide 

 

But you can’t force the seasons

Or hide from your shadow 

Searching for the reasons

How it’s always you who is left in the end 

 

C1

I just need something 

More than this nothing

That proves there is more

Before the dark takes all of us 

 

V2 

Under the influence 

Terrified to look back 

I know who I am

And that’s what scares me from time to time 

 

C2

I just  need something 

Stop the numb feeling 

That proves there is more

Before the dark takes all of us 

We all need something 

Convinced we’re  failing 

Trying to feel more

Before the dark takes all of us

 

M8

All of us x2

You can’t con-quer this dark-ness

But it can be tamed 

 

Outro 

Just a glimmer of hope 

The slightest of light 

Keep spirits raised 

In dark of night 

It’s a black hole 

That lives inside 

Slowly taking

All of our time 

 

14.THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY

 

V1

I’ve never known where this path leads 

but I run at full pace

Only got one gear, singular thought process, 

solitary way 

Going to flog this horse until it works, 

or breaks

 

B2

It seems the dusk has set in

On our fairytale end

No point reminiscing

Or wondering what could have been 

 

C1

There’s no, such thing , as bad weather 

You just never pack the right things 

centre of the storm (centre of every storm)

There has to be another way 

 

V2

Endless New Years resolutions

left unfulfilled 

Intentions must count for something 

Is what your tell yourself  

Strike the stone with so much force 

it breaks 

 

B2

It seems the dusk has set in

On our fairytale end

No point reminiscing

Or wondering what could have been 

 

C2

There’s no such thing, as bad weather 

You just never packed the right things 

centre of the storm Always 

There has to another way

 

R

WHEN THE SMALLEST THINGS

CAUSE YOU SO MUCH PAIN

WATCHING YOU BLEED

FOR NO REASON

 

WHEN THE SMALLEST THINGS

CAUSE YOU SO MUCH PAIN

THIS SHOULDNT BE 

SO HARD

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