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Amber Glow
04:37
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Oh, I can't sleep tonight
There's too many ghosts from the past wandering around my mind
And there's this hollow light
That keeps me half awake at night
You've been living a lie for so long
You don't know where the truth ends and the show you put on
Begins, you're so entwined
Highly strung and traumatised
Goodbye amber glow
I'm so sorry but it's time to go
Cause it's out with the old and in with the new
The lights will go down
The curtain fall and the people file out
But a piece of my heart will stay true to you
Oh, I cannot recall to bring to mind
The mental souvenirs of the good old times
I know I left them there under lock and key a somewhere
You've been clutching at straws hoping I'd
Change my mind, relinquish control and find
That I was wrong, but I hope, I know I'm right this time
Goodbye amber glow
I'm so sorry but it's time to go
Cause it's out with the old and in with the new
The lights will go down
The curtain fall and the people file out
But a piece of my heart will remain with you
Goodbye amber glow
I'm so sorry but it's time to go
Cause it's out with the old and in with the new
The lights will go down
The curtain fall and the people file out
But a piece of my heart will remain with you
A piece of my heart will stay true to you
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2. |
Leave a Little Room
02:54
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Sometimes I feel I'm fighting on my own
Boxing the shadows covering these dirty whitewashed walls
Forever feeling heartstrings are at war
Endlessly chasing something, nothing
These days I'm not sure anymore won't you leave a little room for my soul
Leave a little room for my...
Lurching 'round like Walter White in haste
Forever reeling from being on some half crazed wild goose chase
Without a goose won't you leave a little room for my soul
Leave a little room for my soul
Shoehorn time like sardines in a can
Chase around like you're a mad man
Something somewhere has got to give
To this haphazard way that we live
I'm a human being, not a machine
Give me elbow room so I can dream
Give me space, won't you widen the hole
And leave a little room for my soul
Leave a little room for my soul
Leave a little room for my soul
Leave a little room for my soul
Leave a little room for my soul
Won't you leave a little room for my...!
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Rome is burning down
The embers fading out
I would have shed my own blood
For the scrap metal crown
You can spend your life
Trying to rekindle the fire
We are pawns, We are pawns
In some hunger games, hunger games
Move the pawns round the board
Chase the people's dreams away
We are pawns, we are pawns
In some hunger games, hunger games
Am I just quenching the fire
Or are we fixing up the empire?
Is this Ichabod?
Have you fled this place
Am I an unsung hero or just covered in disgrace
Do these words amount much
Or are they untapped wisdom or just toxic and corrupt
I was beautiful
Origami in your hand
But now I'm crumpled up
Only worthy of the trash
We are pawns, We are pawns
In your hunger games, hunger games
Move the pawns round the board
Chase the people's dreams away
We are pawns, we are pawns
In your hunger games, hunger games
Am I just quenching the fire
Or are we fixing up the empire?
The emperor has got no clothes and I think that he knows it
He seems happy in skin while the cracks appear and the city burns down
I think over got it made and parade these golden pavements
But, oh, I’m the one who’s naked and showing myself up in all my glory…?!
We are pawns, We are pawns
In your hunger games, hunger games
Move the pawns round the board
Chase the people's dreams away
We are pawns, we are pawns
In your hunger games, hunger games
Pouring petrol on the fire while you’re fixing up the empire
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4. |
Start Again
04:02
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I want to start again
Put all this ugliness behind me
Make amends
Live at peace and harmony
And let's be friends
Oh but then again,
I want to start a war
Give you what you deserve
And have been asking for
See your kingdom turn to rubble
Right before your very eyes
Oh, the bitterest pill
Is making me ill
It's as bitter as hell
It's making me unwell
I want to start over
Reconstruct the bridge over troubled water
Forget this nasty business and swallow the hurt
Oh but then again I want to make mistakes
Not bend my world into a series of life's shapes
There are other planets beyond the landscape
In outer space
Out of your space
Oh, the bitterest pill
Is making me ill
Oh, the bitterest pill
Is making me ill
It's as bitter as hell
It's as bitter as hell
I'm as bitter as hell
And it's making me unwell
Should I start a war or let it go?
Oh but then again I just don't know!
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I rented you some space in my head
But you took over the entire floor
You made a home in my heart but
You nested there with briers and thorns
I trusted you my humble abode
But you're reckless and you trashed the place
A heart makes a happy home but
You've turned my home into disgrace
And all this time I was waiting for something
Pieces of your love that were never forthcoming
Should I be surprised that you put me through this
Again and again and again
I gave you every that I had
Every ounce of strength that I had to give
I try to let bygones be bygones
But somethings are just so hard to forgive
I wrote you a blank cheque on my heart
And you cashed it in again and again
I try to keep the wolves at bay but
You come chasing on those red letter days
And all this time I was waiting for something
Pieces of your love that were never forthcoming
Should I be surprised that you put me through this
Again and again and again
If this is how you say, 'I love you'?
If this is how you say, 'I love you'?
If this is love, then I can't take it
If this is love, then I'm mistaken
If this is how you say, 'I love you'?
If this is how you say, 'I love you'?
If this is love, then I can't fake it
If this is love, then I'm mistaken
And all this time waiting for something
Pieces of your love that were never forthcoming
Why am I surprised when you put me through this shit
Again and again and again
And all this time I was waiting for something
Pieces of your love that were never forthcoming
Should I be surprised that you put me through this
Again and again and again
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6. |
Without the Faith
06:32
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Questions in the dark
Born again from wounds and scars
How did I reduce to this?
Am I imaging
Or is life unraveling
All I built to relic, rack and ruin
Was it the poison kiss
Was it the feast of grace
Am I just loosing face
Or am I without the faith?
How sweet was the sound
That I'm now trying to drown out
Amazing grace has turned and soured
White washed, left for dead
Let your heart rule your head
Nothing left but death on the vine
Was it the Master's plan?
Was the servant's hand?
Am I just falling from grace
Or am I without the faith?
Did I just loose my way
Or was this a big mistake
Will I be found again
Under the rubble of faith?
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Another one bites the dust
Another trampled under foot
Another body under the bus
Another escape from the iron clutch
Another height from which to fall
Another pointed word to make you feel small
Another one cut down to size
Another hurt but laying in disguise
Another hurt and laying in disguise
Another hurt and laying in disguise
My way or the highway
Play the game or be played
How the great and how mighty fall
Another casualty of the wrecking ball
You'd do well to make sense of it all
When you're a casualty of the wrecking ball,
The wrecking ball
Another string snapped from the bow
Just load another bullet, draw another arrow
Another bloodbath in the sea
Another victory in defeat
Another landscape laid to waste
Another dislodged and another misplaced
Another shamed, another disgraced
Another soldier fallen from grace
Another soldier fallen from grace
Another soldier fallen from grace
Lie down and take the hurt
Or light the fuse and watch it burn
How the great and how mighty fall
Another casualty of the wrecking ball
You'd do well to make sense of it all
When you're a casualty of the wrecking ball,
The wrecking ball
How the great and how mighty fall
Another casualty of the wrecking ball
You'd do well to make sense of it all
When you're a casualty of the wrecking ball,
The wrecking ball
Another casualty of the wrecking ball
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Behind closed doors
Are the whispers and the rumours of war
Drawn in lives
Are the regiments and battle lines
Entrenched in hearts
Are the wounded and the victory scars
Where it starts with the echo in the distance
The rumours and the whispers of war
The silence rings
Louder than bombs upon killing fields
The bitter sting
Of betrayal at the hand of a friend
The veteran’s stripes
Are nothing on this hospital ward
A victim of the echoes in the distance
The rumours of the whispers of war
You can fight them all off
But you know they won't win
Under the mountains of rubble and earthquakes of sin
But the darkness envelops like cloak under dagger and pin
Take your malice and hurt
Go spit in their face
You and I are corrupted
We're fallen from grace both a disgrace
To the name that we bear
We're a shame and sons of grace
Wounds from a trusted one are deep
They kill you inside, knock you off your feet
Fear and doubt overtake grace
But this is not the end, the end of your race
Stand your ground
Arise to your feet
The voice inside compels you to meet the battle head on
With no taste of defeat
For these are the rumours and whispers of war!
When all that is left tastes bitter as gaul
You were grace and salvation tainted by the fall
But God loves a sinner and you... don't we all?
Once brothers in arms, I'm poised to attack
At the first chance I get I'd stab you in the back
Brutus to Caesar and Judas to Jesus
And ends that!
Behind close doors are the whispers and the rumours of war
Behind those doors they are scheming and they’re plotting up war
Behind those doors what are discussing as they’re brewing and their cooking?
It ends and starts with the echoes in the distance
The rumours and the whispers
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9. |
Berlin
04:44
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Stay
Stay with me for a while
Don't freeze me out
Of your heart in the bitterest chill
Say
Say something and speak your mind
'Cause all this time
In silence has been killing you
And hey!
Don't go away now
If only life were simple
Caught inside the middle of love
Stay with me
Don't leave me
Though I'm still here my heart is long
'Cause there's a world out there for the taking
But I'm still waiting
Anticipating
The new life that waits here in Berlin
Life
You're life has long eluded you
It's sink or swim
Either way, you just gotta jump in
The way that it is now
Why the complications?
This was complicated enough!
Stay with me
Don't leave me
Though I'm still here my heart is long
'Cause there's a world out there for the taking
But I'm still waiting
Anticipating
The new life that waits here in Berlin
Will broken hearts have chance to mend?
Will we ever make amends?
Will we fight for this like men?
Or will we shrink back in the end?
Will we put our hands to war?
Is anything worth fighting for?
What is left now to defend?
For honour, valour and glory
In the end
In the end won't you...
Stay with me
Don't leave me
Though I'm still here my heart is long
'Cause there's a world out there for the taking
But I'm still waiting
Anticipating
The new life that waits here in Berlin
Forever waiting, deliberating
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10. |
Up in the Air
05:33
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When you want to sit and cry, lament
There's no room for that my friend
Let go of all that still remains
The hurts that put up barricades
Harsh is it out here in the cold
The winter of discontent takes a hold
Bleak is the fog that shrouds my heart
This year of undoing has torn me apart
Time will show
Don't know how or when or where
Will you dare, throw the pieces all up in the air?
Throw the pieces up in the air
Buried so deep somewhere within
Is the man who once has been
A father and son and in between
All manner of lost creative things
So wake up the world that waits outside
Let the sun stream throw those curtains wide
Come out of hiding won't you see
The dawns and horizons and brand new peaks
Time will show
Don't know how or when or where
Will you dare to throw the pieces all up in the air?
When it's all up in the air
Throw the pieces up in the air
When it's all up in the air
Throw those pieces up in the air
Toss it all up in the air
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Nick Law Sheffield
A lot has changed for Sheffield singer/songwriter, Nick Law, over the last 5 years. Having spent the best part of the last
decade writing and recording church material, Nick has returned to his indie/rock roots.
Luscious guitar tones, melancholy melodies and well-crafted lyrics see Nick’s songs delve into darker emotions, asking questions about faith, betrayal and bewilderment.
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