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Let it go
03:54
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I was watching you
Slowly drifting out of view
lying in the dark
Wide eyes and heavy heart
There was nothing I could say.
Bound to bridled words
you swallowed your unspoken hurt
and tried to hold the space
with amazing wasted grace
But nothing seemed to change
I let it all just fall away
And it crashed
And I broke
Collapsed
And I woke
Oh lord
I didn’t know
That I found love
Until I had to let it go
Holding all I’ve left
And desperate in my hopelessness
dying to believe,
I persevered to breathe
On the ashes of the burnt out flame
Trying to bring it back again
And it crashed
And I broke
Collapsed
And I woke
Oh lord
I didn’t know
That I found love
Until I had to let it go
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Albatross
04:12
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Albatross
My Heart was cast to greener grass
There in your garden walls
I laid my plans to trade my hand
And answer to your call
was heading for your warmer shores
there on my sinking ship
I raised the mast to race my past
Your name upon my lips
there in the storms, illusions formed
Around my guiding stars
the sirens call, they tug and pull
on the strings of wounded hearts
Then I saw the trail of second chances lying wasted in my wake
And saw that every heart I’d ever held I’d never failed to break
Forsaking grace for shame, I sailed away, and became a drifting wreck
with the saviours cross an albatross to hang around my neck.
Now I’m lost in a tempest
I’m Drowning in doubt
Tossed by the rapids
My last hope devoured
My will has surrendered
My soul enslaved
To the raging waves
Because I stopped believing it could change
Because I stopped believing it could change
Because I stopped believing it could change
Because I stopped believing it could change
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Skyline
03:49
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Skyline
The passion turned
Oh the passion turned
To a firefight
It crashed and burned
And it crashed and burned
In a white light
And the echo screams
And the echo screams
Across our ruins still
Our broken dreams
In the bloodied streams
Still run through our killing fields
So would you dare to rebuild the skyline
From the fallen shards?
and stand again on the fault lines
That tore it all apart?
Restored to be
Forever temporary
And rise to tumble down?
Raise the flag
Would you raise the flag
In the wasteland?
And take it back
Would you take it back
As your heartland?
Was the moment all that beautiful
That you’d take another risk?
and go through all the pain again
Just to catch another glimpse?
So would you dare to rebuild the skyline
From the fallen shards?
and stand again on the fault lines
That tore it all apart?
Restored to be
Forever temporary
And rise to tumble down?
You can’t stop it falling down
You can’t stop it falling down
You can’t stop it falling down again
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4. |
Glory Days
04:09
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Glory Days
Impatient is anticipation,
The curtain rose on your empty stage
And everyone watched your space
There from a high expectation
You fell to earth as you fell from grace
Now everyone’s losing face
And the memory’s now just a haze
as you lie with your head in the lap of the glory days
Still the moment you soared in golden rays
is something that won’t fade away
is something they cant take away
Oh how the mighty have fallen
The vultures swoop up above your head
But they’ll bury you before you’re dead
I still hear your promised land calling
In your broken dreams and your heart of lead
But they’ll bury you before you’re dead
And the memory’s now just a haze
as you lie with your head in the lap of the glory days
still the moment you soared in golden rays
is something that won’t fade away
is something they cant take away
Fallow the dream now
know that it’s not all in vein
Fallow the dream now
Until you can sow hope again
Until you can sow hope again
Somehow you’ll find a new way
when you lift up your head from the lap of the glory days
to rise & refine until gold remains
over & over again
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Mark Stoney Sheffield, UK
Sheffield based Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, general noise maker. lover, fighter, procrastinator.
Former Bobby Jealousy singer/guitarist.
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