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Truth is Broken
04:01
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Woke up this morning everything that I must do weighed me down
Before I thought of you
The search for happiness led us up the garden path, blind to mystery and death
Your tongue betrays you as it slips from your mind, selfish fears entwined with heroes and half truths
Born to kill for peace on earth, opinion breeds contradiction
Through the day I burn the night, I like to twist it into something I can fight
The birds in the trees are smarter than me, and we forgot to paint the roses
You brought your spear and your showman's ear, not all love is kindness
So let me tip toe around you, your highness
As I read the ghostly hand, the shadow of a whisper
Everything that we don't understand, never happened at all
Oh your melancholy eyes are too glamorous,
But your melancholy eyes don't do amorous
Well you know I haven't had a revelation in a while, but I'm open to suggestion
I lay my head down I accept the sacrifice, another day of consolation
A voiceless siren cries a song through my eyes, it's called the truth is broken
the walls are falling around me, and the waves rush in.
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2. |
Rain on a Wave
03:21
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I want you to know that I'll always win
I was already raging before the world started to spin
I'll pick at your eyes I will scrape at your bone
With a smile like a knife I will cut out your tongue
CHORUS
Now your first love is second best, it's hard to get that off your chest
We'll have to make up some pretty lies, to keep the tears from your pretty eyes
It's like the rain on a wave
I'm not selling out cause I didn't buy in
and all that I've given isn't all I could've been
I'm a lover disguised as a murderous glance
And I'm hanging my fears for the future in the past
CHORUS
Now your first love is second best, it's hard to get that off your chest
We'll have to make up some pretty lies, to keep the tears from your pretty eyes
It's like the rain on a wave
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Modern Superstition
03:04
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And all at one once you’re all alone, don’t know how far that distance goes.
You never lost just left behind, you never found that change of mind.
Well now it’s time to raise your head -
and not believe a word that’s said, cause it’s all tangled, torn in shreds and the simple truth is all pretend when it’s all up to you
Chorus 1
The sad little people with the happy pictures
Sitting on the fence thinking with your fingers
30 years later still it’s now or never
You’re gonna die thinking you can live forever
I’ve been waiting for you to make some sense, that’s but a joke at my expense. I listen close I never hear, but still I know the sound i fear.
Well now it’s time to show your face -
Cause all you do is all you waste and how you live is how you fake and what you fixed did never break, I’ll leave it up to you
Repeat chorus 1
All at once I’m not alone, I know how far that feeling goes
I never lost just changed my mind, I never felt so far behind
Well now it’s time to raise the dead - I don’t believe a word that’s said, cause it’s all tangled torn in shreds and the simple truth is complicated when it’s not up to me.
Chorus 2
The angry little man with the void opinion, sitting on his hands and pointing fingers, 30 years ago I would live forever.
I guess I’ll die thinking that it’s now or never.
I’m gonna die thinking I could live forever
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Waiting
04:31
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We're going out tonight, we'll have a real good time
I don't care what they say I've always been a good boy
Nothing to do with me, I live my life care free
I never cause no pain I've always been a good boy
Waiting... To wake up... To the news that it's all over
The economic slave, believes that he is brave
His biggest fear is change he's always been a good boy
Enjoy your holiday somewhere far way
Get on that big jet plane you've always been a good boy
CHORUS
This is the timeless time we get to know time (no time)
This is the final time we have to know time (no time)
Came like a tidal wave, we'll never be the same
There's no one else to blame we've always been such good boys
Waiting... To wake up... To the news that it's all over
CHORUS
This is the timeless time we get to know time (no time)
This is the final time we got to know time (no time)
This is the finest time we have to know time (no time)
This is the timeless time we have to know time (no time)
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OK Boomer
02:58
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Why did you just attack me out the blue?
Simply because I corrected a mistake committed by another
Loved by lots of sister brothers
Just because I was born before you dear
I won't be part of your bone idle crew
Wallowing in trivial delusion while the ship is sinking
In a sea of backward thinking
Well I guess you haven't got a clue dear
A chance on the inside, you barely cast a shadow x 4
Oh please forgive me for telling the truth
In this world of make believe and general bewilderment
No room for experience
Maybe one day you'll be older too dear
Maybe
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6. |
A Life Misleading
03:16
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He doesn't worry about the time knocking on his door
He's not a detective
He's getting ready for the deepest blue that you'll ever see
Can't get his head up off his knee
CHORUS 1
Did you lose your wonder, chances that we squander
Sometimes fear is all we have seeing us here
A life misleading
Nothing is written in stone or in the stars
That's the noise of distraction
Forget your mother, we've got equality to tear us apart
Who turned the lights out in your heart?
CHORUS 2
Did you lose your wonder, opportunities squandered
Sometimes love is all we have to cut into (in two)
A life misleading
Oh and it doesn't matter, it's just the deepest blue that you'll ever see
It's just the deepest blue but it doesn't matter
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7. |
Love Is
04:26
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Love is an ever changing thing, lift you up in your life just to let you down again
Love don't care about the pleasure or the pain, don't go fooling yourself
CHORUS
Takes you down the road like a melody of old
Leaves you standing there, wondering how to get back home
Love is a never changing thing, don't try to get hold of it
Love, love, love and the trouble that it brings
Lift you up in your life
CHORUS
Takes you down the road like a melody of old
Leaves you hanging there, wondering how to get back home
Love don't care, I see it in your voice I hear it in your face
And the remedy is in the bitter sweet debris
Don't go fooling yourself
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8. |
Blame The Devil
03:21
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One fine morning as I lay sleeping, heard a knocking on my pane
See that devil at my window, he's been hanging around again
Causing trouble, thinking evil, calls himself a friend
He says that he's my friend
I lost my darling, she found her freedom,
took her chances when they came
But I just cannot forget her, wrap myself in chains
I wrap myself in chains
Oh I wrap myself in chains
Stand in shadow, lurk in building, cloud the waters, that's my game
If you see me please don't bother tryna change my ways
Don't try to change my ways
Cause I like to roll that way
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Slipping out of Place
03:40
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A face that waits for sometimes, bones that break the day
Blood that bleeds like sunshine, from flesh cold and grey
You always had to take what they put in front of you
The devil hitched a ride home, the money's all been burned
Drifting on a feeling, but feelings never learn
A hand in your sleep is a hand in your glory
That fortune you seek is the terror you fall on
The kid you nearly remember has left his breathing space
The lid you tried to keep on is slipping out of place
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10. |
Loser
02:46
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Tie my hands a little tighter, now we know who's the loser
Cause I've been to see my friend again
Ten years ago
He told me to wait right here and visit my brain
Now it's time to escape escaping, renegotiate
Cause you could die from a heart attack
Find yourself when there's no turning back
Work yourself into a nervous wreck
I've been watching this girl all night, packing her bags and she's right
Cause I've been to see my friend again
I guess that's all I need
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11. |
Disaster Heart
03:26
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Sooner or later it'll all come tumbling down
We'll smile as we kill her, watch her bleed into the clouds
Her face is on fire, kiss the breeze and disappear
You think that you know me, should've thought twice about coming here
The trick of disaster working so well on the screen
Pulls at your heart strings, cause that's what you want to see
Now you can feel good and happily deceived
Spend it away, never think twice
Kyrie eléison x2
Sooner or later it'll all fall into space
I'll be there laughing with the baptist and the snakes
Nothing to live for but get me out of here
Something to kill for... that would be nice
If you want to go where the cold blood lets
Disaster Heart will get you there x3
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So be careful what you say, Cause lies never go away
So be careful what you say.
For all my one true loves x2
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Rodney Owl Galway, Ireland
Evocative yet elusive, filled with abstract lyricism and musical dynamism. Quirky and whimsical Electric
Folk.
Recently released (April 23) 2nd album Truth Is Broken on Black Gate Label.
Currently lives a quasi-reclusive life with his family in rural west of Ireland, inspired by his surroundings - an ancient Celtic rainforest, dogs, cats and a multitude of feathered friends for company.
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