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In The Present Moment
02:26
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Undici
02:26
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LYRICS:
Sleep has come too soon
It won’t wait for you
Put your dreams to bed
Hope is gone
The rain has come and brings you back again
Be certain you’ll never forget,
What your Father said
The end is just the start
I’m speaking from the heart
Put your thoughts to bed
Promise none
The summer’s gone
You can’t go back again
You never will forget
What your Father said
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LYRICS:
Scary human please move on, please walk on
Scary stranger please go away, just leave me today
All the times it’s brought you fear
Can be counted on the hands of many more than mine
Still, the sky looks different here
Disarming trickster I fall in your trap, I’ll accept all you have
Disarming imposter give me your shade, give me the blame
All the times it’s brought you fear
Can be counted on the hands of many more than mine
Still the sky looks different here
Still, the sky looks different here
Is this where your torture is?
Go down that rabbit hole
You get lost in the shadows of remarkable men
I guess we’ll never know
This is where your torture lies
Stop closing your damned eyes
Face the fact, the sky looks different here!
Fearsome sentence…
“Say the words, I haven’t heard”
Fearsome presence. Has it gone away?
“It’s still here isn’t it?”
All the times it’s brought you fear
Can be counted on the hands of many more than mine
Still, the sky looks different here
Still, the sky looks different here
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4. |
Sidewalk
05:17
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LYRICS:
This is where your sidewalk stops
This is where your path will end
This is how a goodbye starts
Bid a farewell to friends
The body goes but your spirit still carries on
I’m dying for no company
I just wanna be alone
Don’t need anyone here next to me
So please just close the door
This is where the sentence stops
This is where the story ends
This is how a goodbye starts
Eyes closed. So long. The end
The body goes but your memory will surely live on...memory will surely live on
I’m dying for no company
I just wanna be alone
Don’t need anyone else calling me
So please put down the phone
This is where your sidewalk stops…
This is where your sidewalk stops
This is where your path will end
This is how a goodbye starts
Bid a farewell to friends
The body goes but your spirit still carries on...spirit still carries on
I’m dying for no company, I just wanna be alone
Don’t need anyone here next to me
So please just close the door
I’m dying for no company, I just wanna be alone
Don’t need anyone else calling me
So please put down the phone
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Thousand Yard Stare
05:26
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LYRICS:
Welcome to oblivion, a sanctuary of sacrifice
A ministry of compromise
Welcome to suburbia, you bleed responsibility
Devoid of any reasoning
For years you’ve been running.
For years we’ve been telling you…
Look ahead, look afraid
Look aware with this thousand yard stare
Welcome to normality, a shadow of the past
Your window is closing fast
Welcome to certainty, the days laid out before you
The lines clearly drawn through
Welcome to obscurity where no one knows your name
And no one’s left to blame
Welcome to the rest of your life
Well my friend at least you tried
For years you’ve been running.
For years we’ve been telling you. (We’ve been telling you)
Look ahead, look afraid
Look aware with this thousand yard stare
Oh my world was beautiful
Wasn’t it so beautiful?
There’ll be no flowers for you. For me. For you
Look ahead, look afraid
Look aware with this thousand yard stare
They plan to plan to work to live to live to work to eat to sleep to breathe to live to lose to love to hide to fly to walk to die…
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The Man Who Couldn't Say
04:26
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LYRICS:
Cold, depressed and broken. Lost in the rain
Your sidewalk ends and suddenly you’re left with none to blame
The mirror shows you half of what you are
The rest hides behind your mask of lies and scars
There he goes, he turns and fades away
He lies you, the man who couldn’t say
Down you go into the dirt where you’ll lay
There he walks, the man who couldn’t say
Lost, obsessed but focused on living in the past
Your mourning brings no solace. No splendor in the grass
The words you say mean nothing.
It’s the ones that they don’t hear that hold the most importance
But all in all, unclear
There he goes, he turns and fades away
He lies you, the man who couldn’t say
Down you go into the dirt where you’ll lay
There he walks, the man who couldn’t say
You’re on a road all your own
You’re on a road all alone
You’re on a road all your own.
All alone... words escape you. You’ve wasted the moment
Lost, forgotten in whispers.
YOUR VOICE!, silence is your virtue
Try as you may these words you cannot say…
Emotionless and torn with the mud still in your eyes
You’re past the point of no return beneath a moonless sky
The mirror showed you everything you already knew
Now all that’s left is a hole in the wall…
Time to step through!
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The Darkest Of Summers
04:39
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LYRICS:
Even when the sun shines it’s still a rainy day for me
The darkest of summers casting shadows for all to see
Even when I’m loved I still feel all alone
The darkest of summers won’t let me go
“Even when there’s no more music left to listen to and melodies just don’t seem to calm.
What do I do? Where can I turn to?”
The darkest of summers...
Rid me of sin and all that you know
The voices within won’t let me go
Wash me of guilt and all that you’ve seen
The feeling within won’t let me come clean
“Another lonely day with just as much to look forward to as another empty wall.
What I’m needing most of all is...love”
‘cause quiet men tell no tales
Out of touch
Mouth shut
Losing sleep
Knee deep
Going back...facing my past!
THE DARKEST OF SUMMERS!
(It will never ever let you go)
THE DARKEST OF SUMMERS!
(It will never ever let you say no)
The darkest of summers...
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8. |
Mourning Prelude
02:49
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9. |
When Your Mourning Comes
05:11
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LYRICS:
When was the first time you knew you couldn’t get out of here alive?
You’re not ready for the storm
Those that surround you and those that compound you
They’re not ready to go home...yet
I think we lost him years ago
Forgotten in the words he wrote
Will you be ready when your mourning comes?
Face to face with the curse that you’ll embrace
You’re too weak to hold her world
How long did you think you could dodge this albatross?
Before the devil came to your door
I think we lost him years ago
Forgotten in the words he wrote
Will you be ready when your mourning comes?
With eyes closed wide, your dreams cast aside
Knowing that all too well your days have passed
That ship has sailed away from the coast...
From those that matter most
Will you be ready when your mourning comes?
When was the first time you knew you couldn’t get out of here alive?
You’re not ready for the storm
Those that surround you and those that compound you
They’re not ready to go home...
I think we lost him years ago
Forgotten in the words he wrote
Will you be ready when your mourning comes?
...when was the first time?...
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10. |
Mourning Postlude
01:47
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LYRICS:
THE HEADHUNTER:
Awaken my child...let me show you the world.
Rise. Shine. It’s time to open your eyes!
The mourning is near…
MORGAN:
Who are you!?! Show yourself
THE HEADHUNTER:
You know!
MORGAN:
Where am I?
THE HEADHUNTER:
In the here and the now.
In the present moment….
There’s no place else that you should ever be
MORGAN:
Look! The light...it’s coming from the outside
I can see you so clear now
Even when the sun shines it’s still a rainy day for me
THE HEADHUNTER:
The darkest of summers casting a shadow for all to see
MORGAN:
But everything is changed...everyone is gone
THE HEADHUNTER:
You’ve been gone awhile
MORGAN
The snow? Where is all the snow?
The Headhunter:
The rain came and washed it all away
MORGAN:
So it was you! You kept me alive
You showed me the way
THE HEADHUNTER:
Time to say goodbye to this cold city…
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11. |
Goodbye Cold City
05:26
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LYRICS:
Memory conceals hours that I’ve missed and overlooked
(Standing...standing…Standing alone with the…)
Memories made and facing the shame of the love
The love that brought you here
(Is now pushing you away)
Fine. Let us pretend. Let us enjoy this silence
(It’s still time for us to say)
Let us pray! Let us stay!
You kept me alive
You showed me the way
Goodbye cold city
Hindsight reveals minutes that have gone astray and will never come back
(But the feelings...the feelings stay)
Memory conceals hours that I’ve missed and overlooked
(Standing...standing…Standing alone)
Fine. Let us pretend. Let us enjoy this silence
(It’s still time for us to say)
Let us pray! Let us stay!
I’ve worn out my welcome and I cannot stay...
Goodbye cold city
It’s hard to see where this is going when I’m looking the other way
If I bury the future and embrace the past, at least I know...
Fine. Let us pretend. Let us enjoy this silence
(It’s still time for us to say)
Let us pray! Let us stay!
I’ve worn out my welcome and I cannot stay...
Goodbye cold city…
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Geoff Barone Buffalo, New York
Geoff Barone is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He writes and records out of his home studio releasing self-produced instrumental and concept albums. He also writes and composes for TV,Film & Video games as well is a well versed performer and singer-songwriter. ... more
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