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Torn By Flames
03:57
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A fleeting glimpse in a shard of mirror.
A face I recognise no longer.
I hold on but I don't know what for.
Memories I had have all but gone.
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And the pieces burn.
Sometimes I let them hurt.
Is this what I deserve?
Torn by flames for sorrow.
The phone - off the hook and swinging.
They try call. Don't they know I'm not worth saving.
How time flies when you're all alone.
Close my eyes, try to forget the world.
I hold on but I don't know what for.
Memories I had have all but gone.
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Life's not so precious when nothing's left in it but pain.
The things that you grasp till your last dying breath are the things that you lose on the way.
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Counting Down the Days
05:02
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We search each day for another way.
Another view. Too soon we knew.
We love and hope. Know what we want most.
It's why we're first for the bubble to burst.
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In that final breath when there's nothing left.
That's when we remember wasted time and our regrets.
We find a way to go on in vain:
knowing as we're growing old we're counting down the days.
It's on the path - what we learned last.
It's why we lose.
It's what we choose.
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We're the unspoken.
We lead the way for people broken.
Those lead astray.
We're the unspoken.
We lead the way for people broken.
The end it waits.
(We are the unspoken. For people, broken)
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We force our smiles. Only for a while.
We thought we'd never think the end was closer than we'd hoped.
We find a way to go on in vain:
knowing as we're growing old we're counting down the days.
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3. |
Forgotten Heart
04:24
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Fading whispers till the end of time
echo endlessly to torture my mind.
I can feel them as they reach inside -
"let me in. Let me feel you die inside"
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You've opened a vain. Watch me bleed and suffer.
Never known so much pain. Watch me writhe and tear.
I won't be here long.
You don't care what I have lost.
Leave me with my forgotten heart
Beneath the surface I am barely breathing.
I know that these wounds have no chance of healing.
Once it's gone there is no deceiving.
No love left - no life left to keep living.
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Broken - a fragmented drifting soul
wading in shadows as he slowly slips below.
Why must another search this ocean for a reason to go on?
Lost fighting through the darkness but futile is the search for you.
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Proof
04:03
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A voice in the distance beckons me near, it's origin unclear.
The road that I walk on - unsteady with fear. Overgrown over the years
I can't tell where it leads me or if I can come back.
The years they took from me all that I had
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I scream 'cos i gave you all and more.
I need some proof before I go
Now lost in the forest of choices unmade on a path built from yesterdays.
In torment I bleed red as regrets flow free.
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5. |
Lost in Silence
04:35
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I thought life was simple.
Now I fear that it's gone.
Maybe I just can't accept it and maybe I'm wrong.
Sometimes I think I suffer a little too much.
It's hard to find yourself when you feel that you're lost.
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I've screamed at this emptiness.
I've confessed my soul.
God, I've never been so helpless.
I reach out but they're letting me go.
Alone doesn't describe this, I think I'm the only one.
But I don't think words can describe it.
No need for words at all.
I'm just lost in the silence.
Well no-one can hear my words anymore.
I don't deserve to know this suffering.
Every muscle aches from longing
just to hear a voice in this nothing.
I can't let you go.
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(I can't let you go)
(Don't let me die alone)
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Burning Skies
03:58
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You live your life terrified yet on the other side they feel the same as you.
So while you fight and spill blood in spite of what’s wrong and right.
Spare a thought for those you never knew
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Another day, another lie. It can’t be easy.
Living with this hate inside, deep within your veins.
Brought down screaming so you curse the ones who hurt you
While you wait for burning skies.
Does your faith accept wars you wage as the price to be paid? It’s not what your God would choose.
You’ll hear their cries when you close your eyes and your screams will try to cover the sound of those taken.
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While you wait for burning skies
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7. |
Release Me
03:27
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I won’t stay here anymore. Who you are can’t be ignored.
Lie after lie you dig more - a deeper hole every time you talk.
Manipulate to even the score. I’ve realised where you fell short.
I think it’s time I showed myself out.
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You pray but God doesn’t care if I don’t stay.
Each day you took another part of me.
Took my heart. Bruised my soul.
I’ll take it back. I’ll make it whole
And I’ll never look back at what made me.
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Release me.
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8. |
Where Have You Gone
03:59
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Let me say I miss the better days.
Yet even then I knew that you were lost.
In the back of my mind it haunts me.
I could have been there. I'm the one who let you lose your way. That let you fall.
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Where have you gone my friend?
I never said goodbye but I need to know.
Where did you go in the end?
I wasn't there for you. My tears show my sin.
Honestly I can’t remember your face.
It only adds to the guilt that will never fade.
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And some things I can’t change.
Where have you gone my friend?
I never said goodbye but I need to know.
(Chorus)
Where did you go my friend?
Where did you go in the end?
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9. |
Salvation
08:19
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Take a look around you and tell me you can’t see,
The obvious destruction of all you hoped to be.
The pieces are broken now – unfixable.
But still you continue to tear it down.
The night calls. It begs your attention.
Give up now. Sense your damnation.
So burn away the pages of your past.
Forget the ones who made you who you are.
Watch as the ashes rise to you.
Charred black like the heart that hate now consumes.
We both know you’re too broken.
Off you go. Find your salvation.
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And so you crawl towards the edge.
Take a look at where you’re headed.
And while you’re on your knees you beg (but no-one’s listening).
You close your eyes and fall as I pull you closer.
You can see you’re near the end.
Still don’t consider me a friend.
Not at all.
You’re losing grip on this world you live in.
Gone too far to go back again.
Pray for your soul.
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You fight; you claw; you never thought that the end you fear and never want is what you’d get along this road and so you scream. You can’t let go.
You can’t rewind; no going back; there’s only one chance to do your best. Instead you threw it all away.
It’s now time to accept this fate.
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[Release me. I'm alone]
[Release me. Take me home]
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Ronan Craig Glasgow, UK
I live in Glasgow, Scotland and write, record, mix and produce all my own music.
In 2014 I released 'A Dark New Day' on
my soundcloud page and now at the start of 2016 have released my first full album - 'Salvation'.
I'm also planning on bringing out another album soon so stay tuned!
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