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They say we’re evolving
Well, you could’ve fooled me
We’re just slowly dissolving,
Fallen fruit from the tree.
The winners and losers
They all walk hand in hand.
Some are born to be leaders,
Some wash up on the sand.
Now everything’s broken
All is blurred and unreal
The words left unspoken
Truth never revealed
We’re all vagabond children
Getting stuck in first gear
But sooner or later
There’ll be nothing to fear
Because sooner or later
There’ll be noting left here.
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The Big Blowdown
04:37
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THE BIG BLOWDOWN
The sirens wailed all afternoon
We blanked them out with our favourite tunes
And late at night we hid under the stairs
Conspiracies reached to the moon
Ah, drink up, we’re all dead too soon
And sadness just gets bigger when it’s shared
The fire burns never ending
Come to devour your sacred ground
The clowns arrived armed to the teeth
Angry white boys trying to dump their grief
It seemed our peace was standing in their way
The more we tried to hold on hard
The faster it all fell apart
They trampled on our dignity that day
The fire burns never ending
Come to devour your sacred ground.
Look at the children pretending
A hundred miles from the battleground.
Chorus:
We always hoped they were kidding
Waiting for the big blowdown
We know the shadows so well
Doing some enemy’s bidding
Heading for the big showdown.
It never changes
We mortgage our tomorrows to
Get through the day we wake up to
And all that’s pure gets lost along the way.
How it’s gonna end nobody knows
But the power is where the power goes
And all that matters is to live for one more day.
The fire burns never ending
Come to devour your sacred ground.
Look at the children pretending
A thousand miles from the battleground.
Chorus
Now we know they weren’t kidding
We’re waiting for the big blowdown
We know the shadows so well
Doing your enemy’s bidding
Heading for the big showdown.
It never changes.
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Light of the World
04:36
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LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Cut through the sandy switchbacks
The rocks were saws and blades
An unholy, sky-sized silence
Come rained on our parade
Buying toys as compensation
Confusing want with need
I’ve been to hell and back again,
You cut me and I bleed
You cut me and I bleed
I stuck to the most obvious,
Used words I hoped would sting
So blinded by your vanity,
You didn’t see a thing
I personified deception
Threw in some hate and fear
I did all that I could to prove
There are no saviours here
There are no saviours here
Chorus
We’ve walked too far in the wrong direction
Down in the dark underworld
We’re gonna head in a new direction
Look for the light of the world
The full moon pours its heart out
The night owl calls a truce
A fire burns on the hillside
Brings the chickens home to roost
Surrounded by the helpless,
They’ll only slow us down
They need to look for kindness
On the other side of town
On the other side of town.
Our brains are like a lumber house
Our prisons are our minds
Been drained of some ingredient
Can’t seem to read the signs.
Our obstinate refusal
Our narrowness unfurls
It’s got ‘em all convinced they are
The centre of the world.
They are the centre of the world.
Chorus
Bridge
Won’t you give me consolation
Been knocking in vain on your door.
I’ve always given in to life’s temptations
And then it goes and gives me some more.
Chorus
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4. |
Build My Gallows High
04:58
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BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH
‘Hey you!’ the spirit called out loud
‘Come rest a while with me.
Speak in strictest confidence
On everything you see
Yeah, and it will go no further
Than outside of these four walls.
So put a ring around temptation
That’s as wide as it is tall.’
Chorus:
And I said, ‘My, my
You can build my gallows high
My, my, my
Build them right up to the sky
If you give me a reason why
My, my
You can build my gallows
High, high, high.’
He said, ‘You owe no due to humanity,
Seems war is all they wage
Yeah, you can veil your efforts
But you cannot veil your rage
Yeah, and it will come to nothing
Till you reach the promised land
Yeah, and good feels so much better
With some evil in your hand
With some evil in your hand
Chorus
‘Build ‘em up high.’
Chorus
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Ghosthouse
01:32
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Blue Hours, Red Light
03:36
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BLUE HOURS, RED LIGHT
Take it from the
Guys who have more than enough:
There’s never enough
Waiting for the
Weight to fall down from the skies
But it never does
Chorus:
Hope I make it home tonight
Hope I get to hold you tight.
As long as everybody’s alright
I can walk right through
Each new blue hour’s red light.
Come the new day
Finds me calling out your name
I try and I fail.
I find a new way
But it ends up just the same
Jonah in the Whale.
Chorus.
Blue hour’s red light.
Chorus.
Blue hour’s red light.
Blue hour’s red light.
I can walk right through
Blue hour’s red light.
Blue hour’s red light.
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Free & Equal
04:20
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FREE & EQUAL
Don’t discriminate, no
He hates us all
You can give or take it,
That’s your call.
Thinks you owe him something
Well, ain’t that rich!
Gives you tough love like you’re
His junkie bitch
It seems you liked it so much
That you bought the whole store.
Then when you found your feet
You started kicking the poor.
We’re gonna have to do it
Like we did it before
‘cause grass roots don’t be growing
On the thirtieth floor.
Pre:
(Shakedown, shakedown)
Always getting it right on the money
(Shakedown)
Trying to follow our dreams
(Shakedown, shakedown)
Ain’t like we’re here for the money
(Shakedown)
Listen out for the screams
You stuck your hands in the honey
(Shakedown)
Took it to the extreme
(Shakedown, shakedown)
Gonna take you out of the running
(Shakedown)
Now we’re gonna get mean.
Chorus:
We’re gonna send you back to where you belong
More than adrenaline is making us strong
Power hungry supervillain turning the screw
We’re all free and equal to be better than you.
He got magic potion
He calls the tune
Trying to drain an ocean
With a spoon
Plants a seed inside us
Watches it grow
Sowed to be always the
The last to know
Pre
Chorus
Solo
Chorus
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8. |
Nichts Mehr Geben
01:10
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Früher oder später wird es hier nichts mehr geben
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9. |
Dark Night of the Soul
04:22
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DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
Brave enough to play the game
Not enough to claim your prize
Sometimes the smallest truth
Is harder than the greatest lie.
Tell yourself whatever you want,
You don’t have a prayer
It’s always when you’re stepping easy on the ice,
It breaks and you drown right there.
Chorus:
Gonna be a dark night of the soul
Gonna place your hand in the begging bowl
Gonna take a walk across hot coals
Then the devil’s gonna take your soul.
Down under the ashes where
You laid waste to your lives
Waits a fire biding its time
‘til the air brings it back alight.
Ain’t as hard as you might think
Fooling all the people all the time
Let them think they’re helping each other
While they’re helping in the greatest crime.
Chorus.
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Dimestring
02:06
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DIMESTRING
(Sooner or later)
(Sooner or later)
Searching for meaning
(Sooner or later)
Where you knew there was none
(Sooner or later)
Those dimestring demons
(Sooner or later)
Pulled your strings all along
(Sooner or later)
Try as you might,
You’ll never pay all your dues
(Sooner or later)
Just an old, cold soul
With nothing to lose
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11. |
Too Late Now
04:45
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TOO LATE NOW
Life is a river where the waters runs too deep
Through a town full of promise
That not one of us could keep
My rhyme and my reason were under house arrest
So I took what I wanted
And I left behind the rest
And it’s
Too late now
It’s too late now
It’s too late now for us
And it’s
It’s too late now
It’s too late now
It’s too late now for love
The diner is open, your order’s on the rail:
A bowl of feigned civility
With a heaped side of betrayal.
It’s all an illusion from the same old bag of tricks
And no makeshift redeemer
Is gonna help you find a fix
Don’t make it
Too late now
It’s too late now
It’s too late now for us
Don’t make it
Too late now
It’s too late now
It’s too late now for love
There is no glory like we told ourselves
We’re all the same some place inside
Life is a story that we mould ourselves
Whatever place you choose to hide
You won’t win my hatred
That’s a bell you can’t un-ring
Yeah, sadness is all I fell
For all empty, soulless things.
I’ll keep on believing,
I’ll do everything I can
‘cause I don’t believe evil
Beats in the heart of every man
Nor that it’s too late now
It’s too late now, yeah
It’s too late now for us
Don’t tell me that it’s
It’s too late now
It’s too late now
It’s too late now for love
It ain’t too late
Too late for us.
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This Is Your Life
05:10
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THIS IS YOUR LIFE
There’s always a story
If you show yours I’ll show you mine
Love to keep it between us
But seems everyone wants to pry
And clip off the wings
So the brightest of birds never fly
Tell me your story
How you came to be here one more time
You were guided from all that made sense
Into trouble and strife
And told in no uncertain terms, today
This is your life (x4)
Make up a story
One where it feels good to be alive
Not where carnival freaks
Bring the cruel underbelly to light.
Then, just when you thought it was over…
Chorus:
Don’t let anything come between us
Stay here tonight,
Yeah, this is your life.
Won’t let anything come between us
Yeah, stay by my side
Because
This is your life
Just like all who came before you
You ain’t gonna like what you might find.
The carnival freaks
Are presenting the same show tonight.
You know it will never be over
Chorus.
This is your life x 6
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Broken Angels
05:50
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BROKEN ANGEL
My broken angel
Sometimes it stings
It’s gonna take a while
For me to process everything
Then I won’t come back
I won’t come back
Know what I know, yeah but
Not what it means
I’ll stick around till morning
And we can talk about our dreams
And how they don’t come back
They don’t come back
I’m tired of pretending, really
It’s hardly the place, I feel
It counts for nothing
The simple truth
Is we just do the things we want
And hope it’s what you wanted too
And then there’s no way back
There’s no way back
I’m tired and my head is reeling
It’s hardly the place, I feel
Chorus:
Give me the strength for another day
Give me the chance to be free
Give me the sense find another way
Give me the strength to be me.
I’ve got to be me.
You know I’ll always be there
When the hard times come around
Yeah, they say that the last chances
Are the hardest to turn down
And it ain’t so black
It ain’t so black
I’ve never played that game, yeah
And you know I never will
That goes someway to explain
Why I’ve been running to stand still
But I won’t turn back
I won’t turn back
I’m tired and my head is reeling
It’s hardly the way I feel.
Chorus.
(Trombone solo)
Chorus.
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Give Something Back
06:16
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GIVE SOMETHING BACK
I don’t keep too many secrets
I find that trouble’s better outside than in
I try to battle my weakness
Guess I should’ve chosen one I could win
Sounds like the gloves have come off
And there ain’t no restraint.
You know a deal is a deal
‘til the day that it ain’t.
It’s such a smooth operation
Trying to cover their stink
Now we got too much information
And don’t know how to think
You know that, viewed from above
It’s gotta look like playground stuff
That’s far enough
You’ve had it your own way
Chorus 1:
You’ve got to give something
Give something back
Back to the people, I say
Give something
Give something back
What you’re doing is not in my name
Never again
There are too many secrets
Designed to fill you with a sense of regret
But for all of the defects
We haven’t found another way yet
We all got desensitised generations ago
Yeah, just ask someone pathological
‘cause they always know
And everybody’s asking
Have the good time all gone?
It’s always hate creates the problems
While it solves not one
You know that it’s in my blood
I can’t keep my big mouth shut
It’s gone far enough
You’ve had it your own way.
Chorus 2:
You’ve got to give something
Give something back
To all the beautiful people
Give something
Give something back
What you’re doing is not in my name
Never again
I know your days are numbered
It’s only a matter of time
You got to
Give something
Give something back
You’ve got to give something
Give something back
Back to the people, I say
Give something
Give something back
Back to the people, I say
Chorus 2
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We were all wrong
But I hope you’re alright
Chasing the darkness
To make room for the light.
Our bets were all covered
Yeah, just so you know
We’ll try to add something
Before it’s time to go.
Some still run from the danger
Some still play by the rules
Things will only get stranger
While we’re governed by fools.
All that you trusted
And all you held dear
Amounted to nothing
Now there’s nothing left here.
Yeah, It all turned to nothing
Now there’s nothing left here.
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Paul Miro UK
Paul Miro is an artist who records and performs both as a solo artist and in bands. In addition to his extensive catalogue of solo albums, he writes regularly for film and TV and does mix and production work for other artists.
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