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Intro (Darker Times)
01:40
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I’m not oppressed by guns or war but at times I still quiver
When oppression comes through our doors, we all start to shiver
Tyrants grown from men, set to cause public hysteria
So the poorest of the pen have to flow against the river
People in power will distort mainstream perception
Saying work rate is high, crime is down – one big deception
Spreading reckless, infectious, vicious lies, through tabloid sheets
Knowing pretentious intentions will pass by with no repeal
Working class masses left in financial defeat
By bent bankers and MP’s who like to sit back and feast
On false inflation and taxes with claims that it’s needed
To keep recessions behind us and growth a chance of succeeding
Still we’re moving into darker times
With budget and funding cuts
And you can’t seem to read between the lines
Trying hard just to scrape on by
They know that poverty’s rising
And still they leave the whole damned ship to sink
And still they leave the whole damned ship to sink
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2. |
Fade Away (Radio Edit)
04:10
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The race to the top was tough
But you never imagined the fall would be rough
Like the path had been lost
You were stuck in a rut too much this had cost
So I stand here and whisper
All you fears all you secrets
You don’t believe it you shiver
All the people you trusted sold out
Sold your heart to the tabloids no doubt
Your like story’s bared on display
Can’t take the pressure it’s made
Anxiety crushing you down in your place
Still feeling distressed you try to take rest in this sham of a life
That helped make the mess you now live in
Chorus:
The curtain falls, and the crowds’ cheers fade away, they fade away.
It turns to black, your cold and hollow eyes, stared through the cracks…
So this life isn’t easy
But don’t be big to say hi when you see me
You couldn’t be me – don’t know the life I’ve lived
Thanks I give it’s not much
I’m not too grateful as such
The hopes and the dreams that you clutch
Keep close to your heart don’t touch
I’m never giving up on this, I wanna be living it up in bliss
Not slitting my wrists – don’t be getting it twisted
Life is hit and miss
You get one wish
Except what you’ve got
When it’s all on top
Don’t ever stop
You need to hold it down, but don’t let your head drop
For everything there is a reason
I will achieve my dreams and fight these demons,
I will leave them, and I’m not gonna start to believe them
Need to keep moving on, you know the road is long
And you might have to bite your tongue
But always keep your head strong
Chorus
Yeah things are gonna change
We’re gonna start to fix it up
‘Cause we’re playing a different game
We’ve gotta put the past behind us
Life’s full of consequence
But learn from your mistakes
All these people full of pretense
So just put on the breaks
Yeah you think you’ve got it made
Well you might be lucky now
But when your world crumbles and shakes
You better make it back somehow
Take it back to the basics
Remember the place you came from
Don’t try to erase it
‘Cause it’s a base to improve on
No one in life can run before they walk
People wanna put you down
People wanna talk
Yeah I’ll try and change my ways
They will start to recognize me
Try to make a better day
But I don’t know when that might be
Chorus
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3. |
Digress
02:55
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As I stared through the cloud and the mist
All I heard were the lies people hissed
At their friends and their enemies
But all this soon was to fade into memory
‘Cause I’m turning a new page
Starting a fresh I’m gonna enter a new phase
All of you are gonna see me soon
I’m flying so high I’m gonna fly to the moon
For the stars is where I’m heading
No stressing
I’m destined for more than this
I’m just finding my feet with this
10 years was a long time
It almost felt like a lifetime
Of being lost and alone
Left in the cold
No inspiration to hone
All my thoughts left to roam
In a whirlwind of hate and despair
But none of it could ever compare
To this feeling I get it’s a full on affair with the music
And you know any day that I’d choose it
For my mind I’m scared I would loose it
Through the fear and the constant distress
But the more I say the more I know I digress
The more I know I digress
But the more I say the more I know I digress (x2)
The last few months it’s like I’ve been wasting
Still chasing the dream
But the less I seemed to be hastened
The more I became complacent
Still stationed
As the man in my head that could never fly
Like a plan backfired
By a score of choices
A chorus of voices
And I’ve always made the wrong ones
Yes I’ve always played myself down
Always run myself through the ground
No more will I play the man uninspired,
No more will I burn at the top of this fire
Now the pain in my chest has expired
Through will to survive I’ve acquired
But the more I reach for success
The more I know I digress
The more I know I digress
But the more I say the more I know I digress (x4)
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4. |
Heartless
03:18
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The agony portrayed here
Is not the same today
As it was the day before
Or the day that we both parted
It’s more real for I am hardened
More strained
For I am pained
It’s constant and it’s righteous, it is my one true friend
You see from the time you took my heart in
All I saw was happiness
And now you started hiding my mind it does regress
To a time where I was shaken a time of bitterness
But once this pain is over I hope to be the best
The best I ever could be
In all that I achieve
The best in all the hearts of my family you see
All I craved for was acceptance, all I wanted was your love
All that time that I spent waste, flying way up high above
Reality it’s so hard to fall back down
But once you see the first step is never really frowned
Upon, believe, maybe your time is now
Maybe that time to up and leave, maybe is now
You could’ve been there in the end, instead of leaving me heartless
You could’ve been there in the end, instead of making me hardened
My mind plays tricks and makes tests for you
So I see now why you thought it best of you
To retreat from that space that I took from you
With all those stories in my head that were so untrue
But still detrimental
It caused a differential
In your head and in your heart suddenly you didn’t feel as special
(Why can’t you see)
Consideration
Turned to desperation
Your deepest thoughts were of hibernation
And space
You needed a change in pace
You tried to take back all the plans we had laid
Down in our heads
All that’s left is the shame and the torture
Of telling me yes
And causing me more mess
Than you imagined you could’ve
You could’ve been there in the end, instead of leaving me heartless
You could’ve been there in the end, instead of making me hardened
Now you’ve left me heartless all I really have is hard thoughts (x3)
Now you’ve left me heartless all I really have is
You could’ve been there in the end, instead of leaving me heartless
You could’ve been there in the end, instead of making me hardened
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