1. |
The Twlight Is Folding
00:47
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Verse
We all have a story to tell
Yes we have this in common
How we aimed for the top
And somehow hit the bottom
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2. |
Patterns
03:03
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Verse
I get up in the morning
Try to feel some sense of worth
I try to take some time
Just outside my mind
But lately that doesn’t seem to work
Verse
I listen for a word
Just a whisper on the wind
Or a rhythm lying hidden in the rain
But nothing that I hear
Is ever really clear
So I mourn the moments as they disappear
Verse
I pour my blood and sweat into a song, I know
Nobody but you will ever hear
And then I wonder why I ever even try
Cause all the words just seem to sound so insincere
Bridge
The sun is coming up
Behind the houses on the street
It’s looking for a footing
So the day can find its feet
And here I am inside the thought
That all my worth is wasted on these words
Chorus
The morning’s never new
All I ever feel is blue
The patterns never change
While in the light
Or hidden by the darkness they’re the same
Verse
And so this song will live and die in vain
And with it all the hours and ideas
And all the sleepless nights I lay alone
Just staring at the patterns
As they form and as they disappear
Verse
I’m taking back the hateful things I’ve said
I hope you can forgive me my mistakes
Or at least believe me when I tell you
That I never meant to hurt you or to make you feel unwell
Verse
I tie myself to the ship and sing
I watch it fall below the water line
I try to tell you how it makes me feel
But no one ever listens
No one ever has the time
Bridge
The sun is coming up
Behind the houses on the street
It’s looking for a footing
So the day can find its feet
And here I am inside the thought
That all my worth is wasted on these words
Chorus
The morning’s never new
All I ever feel is blue
And when I hear the birds begin to sing
I shiver in the morning light
Outro Bridge
Every song’s a souvenir for somebody to take
The ironsides of a memory that fortune can’t forsake
The patterns never change
While in the light or hidden by the darkness they’re the same
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3. |
Things We Have In Common
02:43
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Verse
Everyone’s feeling ok
But looking a little, worse for wear
The twilight is folding, in behind us
The fire’s a dying light
The stories and laughter
Tears and spills are the body of the night
Chorus
And we all have a story to tell
Yes we have this in common
How we aimed for the top
And somehow hit the bottom
Verse
I’m trying to keep it together
Trying to fight, the tide of time
Are we destined to hide in the under side
Of what we really feel
Holding on to the past
And the people we were yesterday
Chorus
And we all have a cross to bear
Yes we have this in common
How we aimed for the top
And somehow hit the bottom
Verse
I’m trying to make you believe
There’s something inside me you really need
I don’t want to be alone
No I need someone beside me
To have and to hold when I get old
And weary of my life
Instrumental
Verse
I hear the words you don’t say
They echo in the emptiness
You can’t conceal what you steal
Or the mortgage on your face
You’ve been moving through so many worlds
You just look out of place
Chorus
And we all have a heart that beats
Yes we have this in common
Though some are aware
Some have just forgotten
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4. |
Vincent
03:04
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Verse
His room is never empty but there’s no one around
There’s always a silence for his thoughts to resound
He is pale and he is thin
He is only bone and skin
And he has no recourse to love
Verse
Amid icons and artists, marble and gold
He sits in the corner smoking cigarettes and getting old
The ornaments they dangle
The mirrors they steal light
From the cold empty streets of a November night
Verse
He cries at his reflection while combing back his hair
He wishes you were with him
He wishes you were there
And somewhere in the clutter his crooked body bends
His silhouette it slackens and then it suddenly distends
Oh the room it reels
Chorus
Every year around this time Vincent can be seen
Looking through the pages of the weekly magazines
Looking for a face to frame
Somebody he can claim he knew
Verse
The statuettes and chandeliers they sparkle and beguile
And it seems to me from what I see it makes his life worthwhile
Cause everything he clings to
Everything in sight
It’s all designed to cloud his mind and keep him from the light
Verse
His weary eyes are moving over everything he owns
The gilded frames with silver chains and rows of antique phones
And buried in the heart of all the things that he’s acquired
Lies a man without distinction who’s beginning to look tired
Verse
He sold me a gold record, he sold it for a song
He looked into my eyes and said:
“You really can’t go wrong
Cause everything around you
Everything you see
Those chandeliers and paintings
They all belong to me,”
Everything you see
Chorus
When at night he lies alone in his 18th century bed
The past begins to fill the void that opens in his head
And there he lies, his sunken eyes
Unwrapping every facet of his fear
Vocals, Organ, Bass and Guitars by DANIEL ANDERSON
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5. |
History
02:54
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Verse
Nobody seems to want to know
About the things that really matter
The rush and push from day to day
Is slowly wearing us away
Still I see the sunrise in your eyes
Chorus
The summer it lives in song
But the heart of it is gone
It still looks the same
But everything’s changed
And many of the hearts still beat
We know some will live there forever
I feel history
The ashes of yesterday
Verse
We watch the seasons come and go
With things we thought would last forever
Days when life was ours to live
And all it ever did was give
Still I see the sunrise in your eyes
Whenever blue
I look beside me and I see you
Chorus
The summer it lives in song
But the heart of it is gone
It still looks the same
But everything’s changed
Many of the hearts still beat
I know some will beat there forever
I feel history
The ashes of yesterday
Instrumental
Bridge Outro
Still I see the sunrise in your eyes
Whenever blue
I look beside me and I see you
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6. |
The Melody
02:46
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Verse
If I had the love you need to give
Would it be enough for you to live
I can’t make sense of all this space and time
It’s swallowing my body and my mind
Chorus
It’s hard to keep track of what your losing
And what your leaving behind
Cause love can be stupid sometimes and blind
And we give ourselves away
We beg and steal and borrow
And dream about tomorrow’s getaway
Verse
Love is cruel and sometimes love is kind
Your looking for a love you’ll never find
Chorus
At times I get lost in the melody
See the things you say you see
Feel the love you say you feel for me
And you give yourself away
You beg and steal and borrow
And dream about tomorrow’s getaway
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7. |
The Existential Vacuum
02:21
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Verse
You’ll never find her sitting still her days are never dull
Her mind is always racing and her hands are always full
She keeps a list of heady books she’s been meaning to read
I’m surprised she finds the time at all to breathe
Chorus
If she’s sad in the morning by the afternoon she’s fine
In the company of strangers sipping complementary wine
Spinning in the existential vacuum
Where all the famous painters seem to be
Verse
The overwhelming sense that she’s completely lost at sea
Is shattering the image that she wants the world to see
She can’t abide the suicide that happens within
Or the creases that are forming on her skin
Chorus
She stands in the mirror scrutinizing lines
Cursing her condition and the debt she owes to time
Spinning in the existential vacuum
Trying to find a means to an end
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8. |
Cecilia's Sister
02:12
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Verse
I go walking through the fields
Past the burnt out cars and the bicycle wheels
Wondering what I’m supposed to do
To get out of this place and get through to you
It’s not hard to make sense of the things that I see
How the people react when they’re talking to me
The cycle is spinning out of control
And the years are beginning to take their toll
Chorus
And you hide in your heart what you want me to say
When you give yourself over to doubt
Cause you know how it feels when your down and your out
And you can’t see a future in me
Verse
Looking out over the concrete maze
Where as a child I put away the best of my days
The sun cut horizons remind me of you
Where the cloud starts to split and the light comes through
The hood of the night comes over the day
And the kids on the corner laugh together and say
“Mister why do you dress like that?
You look like a queer in that stupid hat!”
Chorus
And I fell for the feeling I got from this song
But Cecilia was there all along
And she bitched and she cried till the sun set and died
And I knew it was time to move on
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9. |
Through The Night
02:37
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Verse
We sat beside him through the night
Hanging on every heart beat
Suffering every sound
As the clock spun round
We sat so silently
“Tell me,” he said, while turning his head
“Is this real or is this a joke?”
Chorus
And his words were like a wrecking ball
They rattled walls in every hall
His eyes were cold and clear
As the darkness disappeared
And the room was filled with light
The last breaths of an endless night
When our hands were entwined
And our tears fell in time with the rain
Instrumental
Verse
I turned towards you
As the light
It fell on your face
And I watched sun cut through the rain
To fill the bones beneath your skin
When an echo from the past
Came bounding in my brain
I trembled with joy
As I looked in your eyes
There before me you were forever young
Chorus
And life had yet to be unkind
With nothing lost and nothing left behind
A vivid picture I could trace
Of any given time or place
And I took shelter in the memories
Sacred days you’d given me
And with your warm hand in mine
The burden of time fell away
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10. |
Sad Lullaby
02:53
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Verse
With the babies down and the evening old
There’s nothing left to do just some clothes to fold
And a glass of wine
But she’s been feeling down lately
And given a minute she can hardly breathe
When she thinks of things
As they really are
With the bills and the mortgage
And the shopping and the car
Verse
She thinks of the girl that she used to be
Sure of herself and the things she would see
No more broken homes
And all that pain and suffering
The nights in the bedroom trembling
She would leave behind, sail away
And build her home in her own paradise
Verse
The sound of violence ignites the silence
The darkness shakes and the babies wake, crying out
Cause they don’t know what they’ve done wrong
They don’t know what the fuck is going on
So they cover their ears, close their eyes
And they start to sing an old lullaby
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11. |
About A Life
03:09
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Verse
You always knew what this life could do
But one day it just came in on you, you really tried
You asked for help and when none came
You carried on despite your pain, you really tried
When the ghost of your beginnings was strangling your brain
Cutting you to ribbons or driving you insane
Verse
You watched the sunset and rise
Split the cloud and clear the sky
How the shadows shift and shape
The ghettos broken streets below
Feeling tired and needing time
Out of your skin and of your mind
Far away from the feelings
That you get when you’re alone in your bed
Chorus
The drunken kids sing from the stairwells below
As you try to hold on to a dream
In it you’re no longer there
You’re walking through a world that really cares
Where the cool November breeze is waltzing with the trees
And shadows are dancing in the light
And there’s a song playing in your head
About a life a lot like yours
Verse
You’re drifting in and out of sleep
Sirens sing on empty streets
Where once there was darkness in its place there was light
Throwing patterns on your bedroom wall that softly rise and gently fall
To ornament the hours and colour your confusion and your pain
Chorus
There’s a panoramic view of the places that you knew
And a watercoloured picture of your life
But as you look you’re no longer there
You’re walking through a world that really cares
Where the cool November breeze
Is waltzing with the trees
And shadows are dancing in the light
And there’s a song playing in your head
About a life a lot like yours
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12. |
The Mornings Never New
01:29
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Refrain
The morning’s never new
All I ever feel is blue
The patterns never change
While in the light
Or hidden by the darkness they’re the same
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