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Battle lines
04:02
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And in the end it all boils down to how much you’re prepared to give and take.
Should come as no surprise by now there’s no rhyme or reason to your fate.
Behind the battle lines.
Behind the battle lines.
We fit together piece by piece but fall apart the same way. Let it be.
Sick and tired of us and them. Our difference is the only certainty.
Behind the battle lines.
Behind the battle lines.
Most love is lost between what’s said and done. Would you cross over. Would you cross over.
The enemy is us so one by one would you cross over. Would you cross over the battle lines.
Most love is lost between what’s said and done. Would you cross over. Would you cross over.
The enemy is us so one by one would you cross over. Would you cross over the battle lines.
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I was born a blizzard child in the deep Toronto snow under pale moonlight.
I was raised by loving hands with a west coast breeze and the white caps to both sides.
But little did I know beneath this fragile sky we are one, united together alone.
And all the places I am bound are just horizons to me now. Blood red sunrise and light the way home.
I was far above the blue to a distant shore where the hills rolled green betwixt tide.
I was forged on shifting sands where the streams run gold and the bleak smoke spires rise.
But little did I know beneath this fragile sky we are one, united together alone.
And I’m coming home… home, yeah I’m coming.
I was born a blizzard child.
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Wildfire
03:45
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She’s wildfire coursing through my veins.
In the dark I will feed her flames.
Wildfire from a lonely ember looms, douse the glow in kerosene and watch it as it blooms.
Winds change, she is so hard to find.
It was always her she is the bellows in my mind.
She’s wildfire coursing through my veins.
In the dark I will feed her flames.
Come the dawn we’ll burn down sunrise.
Scold me, the heat reaches the heart.
When I try to run I only end up at the start.
The smoke clears, there’s nothing left but you.
Already regret what I know I’m about to do.
Under stars, blazing through the night.
You and I bleeding fahrenheit.
Come the dawn we’ll burn down sunrise.
She’s wildfire coursing through my veins.
In the dark I will feed her flames.
She’s wildfire coursing through my veins.
In the dark I will feed her flames.
We’ve come too far, we’ve come too far to get here.
We’ve come too far, we’ve come too far this time.
We’ve come too far, we’ve come too far to get here.
We’ve come too far.
She’s wildfire coursing through my veins.
In the dark I will feed her flames.
She’s wildfire coursing through my veins.
In the dark I will feed her flames.
We’ve come too far, we’ve come too far to get here.
We’ve come too far, we’ve come too far this time.
We’ve come too far, we’ve come too far to get here.
We’ve come too far, we’ve come too far this time.
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Deep end
04:20
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Lately I’ve been waking up in a cold sweat, pulling at the thread only to forget.
Night after night unraveling, wondering why.
Find myself suffocated by my old tricks. Getting high, always looking for a new fix. Staring at reflections of an old familiar sky.
And if all comes tumbling down, a whole world built on hope, if there was nowhere left to drowned would you try and stay afloat?
In the deep end, sink out swim.
In the deep end, it’s where we all begin.
In the deep end, soaked through to the skin.
In the deep end, in the deep end.
Then it comes to hit me like a big wave, cold still truth like a siren to the grave. Once you get a taste things will never be the same.
Out of mind I’m waging battle with my old soul.
Kaleidoscope spinning, heading for a black hole, dancing with the devil like a mouth around a flame.
If it boils down to some degree, on facing every fear, would you put your trust in me, forget it all and disappear?
In the deep end, sink out swim.
In the deep end, it’s where we all begin.
In the deep end, soaked through to the skin.
In the deep end, in the deep end.
I can feel again.
I can feel again.
I can feel again.
I can feel again.
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Between you and I
03:58
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Paralysed I stay, still beneath the waves.
All I see is sky between you and I. Between you and I.
It’s the breeze that I crave. How I want to behave.
It’s the breeze that I crave. How I want to behave.
All I ever wanted was to be wanted.
All I ever wanted was to be.
All I ever wanted was to be wanted.
All I ever wanted was to be.
Paralysed I stay, still beneath the waves.
All I see is sky between you and I. Between you and I.
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Dust
03:48
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And if you look a little closer you will a see it’s just another big problem between you and me.
And you say you don’t care but let’s say you do.
I’ve been swallowed by the ground deep down echoing the times we’ve been rushing through.
And if the dust don’t settle we’re all going to breathe it.
Yeah, if the dust don’t settle we’re all going to breathe it.
So we take a little step back and soak up the view.
Because it’s another mind broken between me and you.
And you say you don’t care but let’s say you do.
I’ve been swallowed by the ground deep down echoing the times we’ve been rushing through.
And if the dust don’t settle we’re all going to breathe it.
Yeah, if the dust don’t settle we’re all going to breathe it.
Yeah we breathe in what we breathe out.
Yeah we breathe in what we breathe out.
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Tearing up the darkness
04:02
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Light it up and let it fly until I’ll this black night surrenders and colour fills the sky.
It’s a heavenly frontier, all I seek are willing eyes. Don’t let me disappear.
When I was still invisible they saw you coming, tearing up the darkness till they came running.
Well it’s in the way I’m wired. I want to gaze till I’m star blind and sleepwalk till I’m tired.
Until the fog comes drifting in, reaching out is vertigo and solitude a sin.
You in all your splendour ascend the abyss.
You made me the target none could miss.
Tearing up the darkness.
Tearing up the darkness.
When I was still invisible they saw you coming, tearing up the darkness till they came running.
You in all your splendour ascend the abyss.
You made me the target none could miss.
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You look out for me
02:19
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You look out for me.
You look out for me.
You… look out for me.
You look out for me.
You look out for me.
You…
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Good for you
03:54
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I must admit I was a fool.
How in this world could it be true?
Since when did Live become so cruel?
As my meek mine crumbles my lonely heart keeps thumping.
I woke in someone else’s dream, my feelings sparks round gasoline.
Beyond the camouflage unseen there’s a songbird singing, a lonely siren calls me on.
So be careful what you wish for. Woe betide it comes true. Word has reached me you look happy. Good for you.
I was the wind, you were my kite and we flew free into the night. When you got scared seems I held on too tight, there was such sweet thunder but you were gone by morning.
So now the cherry blossom falls in disparate chaos beautiful. It’s time to stand a different tall.
As my meek mine crumbles my lonely heart keeps thumping on.
So be careful what you wish for. Woe betide it comes true. Word has reached me you look happy. Good for you.
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10. |
Reason or rhyme
05:03
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Summit of the Big Low UK
Indie-folktronica artist undercover Canadian living and making music in the garden of England.
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