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Dying on the Vine
03:24
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V1
Took a trip to find the voices in my head
They don’t come round here anymore
Peaks and valleys transport me back to their door
Filling verses, filling pages, filling lines
They’re gonna move the ladders so you better learn to climb and I’m just another dreamer dying on the vine
V2
Velvet visions lost in frantic reverie obscure patches of reality
Unprocessed trauma rooted deep inside of me
Threaten bouts of constant crippling anxiety
Now the wheels are coming off and the pressures building high and I’m just another dreamer dying on the vine
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2. |
Out of Place
03:14
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V1
The streets are lined with cars all riding their brake lights
They’re all a little lost like me
And I see the sidewalks are lined with the ghosts of faces I used to know Wish they’d haunt someone else and leave me be
Feeling more than a little like this used guitar
I may be scratched but I wear weathered well
Hold me close and write your songs on me
The neck is cracked, the action is out of whack, but I swear that you won’t break me down
You could make beautiful music with me
V2
Three AM in the morning and you say you’re lonely hey I’m lonely too
So let’s dance together and shake the dust of this town from our broken in boots
You know some say “all that’s good in life is wild and free”
I know it means that you and I must go our separate ways
The rain is washing down over me again rinsing this heartache out
I found out that I can still fall in love
Wandering aimlessly down these dark dank streets pleasantly lost in petrichor
Bridge:
A rotary telephone in a touch screen digital age
Is just a little bit out of place
An old school pocket watch in this anti-analog daze
Whined me up and then watch me run
Chorus:
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3. |
Tattered Baggage
04:15
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V1
The garage door closed for the very last time
And I’m dropped out stuck on the other side
Got the chords to a song that I can’t find
Echoing endlessly in my mind.
Another lost generation that’s been maligned
The sun is sinking low and the daylight’s dying
Now we’re here, it's time to settle the score
I’m not a young man, but I’m so angry with the state of these affairs
V2
Fire station burning wakes me from my sleep
The Livingroom’s vacant, and The Parlour’s faded
Nights in the city try and make ends meat
Tore it all down to make smoother streets
It’s broken; go fix it
They broke it; go fix it
I broke it; go fix it
It’s broken; fix it
Unpack the boy from the mismatching tattered baggage of this man
Chorus
Memories fade to film noir
Still got the magic of my youth in this guitar
Strumming it all away the bumps and scars and let the music make you
Melodies play it’s no holds barred
Unlock the magic of my youth from this guitar
Strum it all away the bumps and scars and let the music take you
Bridge:
Stuck inside, repeat rewind songs we did not get to play
Lonely nights spent better storming vacant stages
I try in vain to fit another’s voice into my mouth
Chorus
Memories fade to film noir
Still got the magic of my youth in this guitar
Strumming it away the bumps and scars and let the music make you
Melodies play it’s no holds barred
Unlock the magic of my youth from this guitar
Strum it all away the bumps and scars and let the music take you home
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4. |
Second Time Around
02:57
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V1
The past is roadkill in the rearview there’s nothing more to say.
Go and leave it all with yesterday.
And orchestrate a new tomorrow and put the rest away.
Tomorrow’s full of better days.
On this second time around we are just a little Wiser.
No need to share the reasons. You don’t need to have an answer yet, but I’ll bet we go farther on this second time around.
V2
Between desire and transgression the memories at play. So plug it in and shred away. And if you miss the notes you’re after just bend it all the way. Towards What you were after anyway.
On this second time around. There are fewer complications.
We don’t need it figured out just yet. There’s no need to settle up old debts. But I bet we’ll go farther on this second time around.
On this second time around
On this second time around
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5. |
All's Not Meant For You
04:27
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V1
Took a detour from the planed destination or so the story goes.
Try so hard to defy their expectations but everybody knows
Older one gets and the more one sees the world makes a little less sense
Climb to the tops of their ivory towers, but never did make it inside
Should have known that I would never leave this valley alive
Chorus:
All that want, all you crave all’s not meant for you
All you build, all you create all’s not meant for you
Take a bow move on to something new
V2
Trade in vices for the virtues of devotion, but virtues can’t console
All the rebels shed agnostic doctrinations before called home
Older ones take as the young bloods seethe it all makes a little less sense
Born on the banks of a burning river underneath brown skies
Should have known that I would never leave this valley alive.
Chorus:
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6. |
Shadow of The Royal
03:50
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V1
Ground was broken this town sprung up almost overnight
The people were astonished at the sight
Justin like a castle from a time long past
The Royal dwarfed everything
Blocked out the light
From far away the people came to work and slave
In the service of The Royal all their days
If they could change one choice they'd say it'd be the day they came
To slave an work their lives away
Chorus
In the shadow of They Royal
We've worked and cried
In the shadow of They Royal
We lived and died
V2
Buff was a doffer he'd spin his rope while making jokes
The children fumbled with machinery
Up on the fourth floor the king and queen lived happily
As the workers toil endlessly, you know they'd say
Chorus
V3
Now in the shadow of The Royal I've lived my life admiring its ancient majesty
Who knows the secrets that it keeps? Its spire once tall now it weeps
The Royal rises again
Chorus
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7. |
Ghost Lights
03:05
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V1
It’s curtain call; we’ve come to cheer you
One final bow, bring down the show
Tonight is done there’ll be no encore
Tomorrow’s here it’s time to go
Sleep now and don’t be bothered
And we’ll complete these tasks of thine
The brightest lights don’t burn for long, but they sure do shine
Brightest lights don’t burn for long, but they shine
V2
And so we leave the ghost light burning
For those who’ve gone to find their way
Shadows cast in every doorway
Wit still lingers on the page
And though you won’t be there to greet us
Beneath the vacant marquee sign
The brightest lights don’t burn for long, but they shine.
Brightest lights don’t burn for long, but they shine.
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8. |
Still Searching
03:19
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V1
Time keeps passing by can’t help but see shadows on the path creeping bigger.
The blue sky it still holds holds luster.
The light’s grown a little dim, still enough fuel to keep on searching.
Into the fringe of the lunatics. I’m still searching.
V2
Staring down a freight train out on the globe you're just a small child swimming in the deep end.
So dive In. Even the outs just want some place to fit in
The lantern’s grown a little dim, but I’m still searching.
Bridge:
Most of us lie and others they cheat, sell you change cheap leave your hope on the street.
Cause the whole worlds broken now people don’t you know that man is just dung heap covered in snow and we’re searching.
Still Searching
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9. |
Empty Sky
03:33
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V1
Orphan posters scar the pay for plays
With storied tales of brighter yesterdays
Complete this thought that hasn't happened yet
If I die before the rest, hold four beats and pay my debts
V2
Stargazing in an empty sky
I dream of screens and random passersby
Criticize what you cannot create
If I die before the rest, hold four beats and pay my debts
Chorus:
This shape is unfamiliar
I don't recognize the form
Cannot comprehend the function past is present till it's gone
I don't want to play here anymore.
Bridge:
Another time, a different space
Past the age of saving face
Can't recognize familiar faces anymore
Gentrify; eviscerate fictions logical and break the chain of mediocre common fantasy
Chorus:
This shape is unfamiliar
I don't recognize the form
Cannot comprehend the function
Tomorrow's promised till it's gone
I don't want to play here anymore
I don't want to play here anymore
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10. |
Broken Sound
02:53
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Songs call out to me to stand on the shore
And I feel languid and forgotten
So sordid and rusty
Chorus:
Spells worn off
You know it's time to sink or swim
Magic potion's wearing thin
I don't know if there's anything that anyone can do
Does this sound feel broken to you?
Carry me back to the fight
In the armor of my father
Chorus:
Spells worn off
You know it's time to sink or swim
Magic potion's wearing thin
I don't know if there's anything that anyone can do
Does this sound feel broken to you?
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Survivors of The Kraken Providence, Rhode Island
Survivors of The Kraken is an independent rock band from Providence, Rhode Island bending genres textures tones and notes.
They may also have battled a mythical sea beast and lived to tell the tale.
Allan - Bass
Brian - Drums
Justin - Guitar/Vox
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