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Ready as I'll Ever Be
03:25
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Open my eyes
and the dream world just gives way
to the heavy light of day and I wonder,
can I prepare
for the pain I do not know,
for the hidden undertow to pull me under?
Do I really wanna spend my days
trying to shield from the myriad ways
that you can break an unsuspecting father's heart?
As I wash it all away,
the greying trim of another close shave
I marvel that I find the strength to start.
'Cause I'm not ready for this life
I'm off balance, but I'm fine
and I'm rising for the day,
for the role I've yet to play now anyway
ready as I'll ever be.
The cloth of my coat,
though it's hard as hell to you,
I can't make it bullet proof by believing.
My collar won't be
the protection that I need
for a skin so quick to bleed, still I'm leaving.
Do I really wanna spend my days
trying to shield from the myriad ways
that you can break an unsuspecting father's heart?
What will my final downfall be?
where did I last leave the goddamn keys?
bring the toil to keep my body from falling apart.
'Cause I'm not ready for this life
I'm off balance, but I'm fine
and I'm rising for the day,
for the role I've yet to play now anyway
ready as I'll ever be.
And all I see is black birds crossing the street,
and all I read is death.
If I don't find Sir Gawain's handkerchief
at the bottom of my sock drawer,
what will be left?
'Cause I'm not ready for this life
I'm off balance, but I'm fine
and I'm rising for the day,
for the role I've yet to play now anyway
ready as I'll ever be.
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2. |
Down Together
04:44
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These bitter days when fear is cheap and easy
when now and then you hear the boiler hiss,
just take my hand and we'll go down together
and find out where the bottom truly is
'cause there's some things in this world that can't be altered
by any muscle strain or sleepless night
and watching as we panic, break, and falter,
we wonder what of this can be put right.
But while I can't fight the feeling of falling down
I can pick another up
No one knows when we'll touch ground
but everyone can raise a cup
raise a toast to feeling found
'cause if we fall forever,
we're going down together.
normal is a relative prediction,
a forecast of the day ahead of you
funny just how quickly we'll adapt it
and adopt it as the once and always truth
'cause even as the sun gets lost for seasons
even as the weather takes its time
even as we get so used to freezing
so this all will give to better clime
And while I can't fight the feeling of falling down
I can pick another up
No one knows when we'll touch ground
but everyone can raise a cup
raise a toast to feeling found
'cause if we fall forever,
we're going down together.
Tomorrow in the light we'll deal with all the wreckage and the real,
to build again what came to dust.
In the morning sweetness trust
Fght the feeling of falling down
'cause I can pick another up.
No one knows when we'll touch ground
but everyone can raise a cup
raise a toast to feeling found
'cause if we fall forever,
we're going down together.
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3. |
The Kill
03:50
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How'd it come to this?
Into a corner, backed in by the fire,
hear it hiss.
And there's no easier out, no secret passage,
so what are we to choose?
no simple answer, no, no exit plan, sir
think it through
and you make the call.
They said get out, get out, the building is on fire!
They said stay in, stay in, the streets are hotter still!
I said just what will it be? We're getting to the wire.
And I can feel the flames as they come in for the kill
I will not hold still
won't let the fumes and cinder
have their endless bender fill,
and there might not be much
that I can change just by power of will
if all this mortal coil is only blood to boil until
it feeds the flames
It's not the end of days, it's something far, far worse.
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Harry Nichols Ithaca
From his earliest days of musical self-expression, Harry Nichols has had a ear for melody. Whatever eclectic influences work their way into his art- from metal to chamber pop- the result is always certain to thrill your brain. He has released music independently since 2010, and continues with his upcoming LP, SONGS FOR THE RICH AND BEAUTIFUL. He currently lives and gigs in Ithaca, NY. ... more
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