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Gone
02:44
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2. |
Footsteps
03:00
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n/a
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3. |
Empty
06:36
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YM:
I wander these old buildings
The new ones, they're the same
No more people, no more voices
No more pleasantries or games
Search in strife in place of living
Search in vain for signs of life
Just me against the empty
Alone under cold air's knife
Empty streets and empty halls
The silence asks me questions
I can't answer because all these
Empty streets and empty halls
Give me no one I can turn to
My own friends I can't recall
Empty streets and empty halls
The silence asks me questions
I can't answer because all these
Empty streets and empty halls
Give me no one I can turn to
I'm at my own beck and call
I walk the old park now a jungle with no name
And the wind - it howls upon me
Like a wolf who knows my pain
The streets forever haunt me
Lonely tombstones in a line
That scrape the sky and beg forgiveness
For unspeakable, unknown crimes
Empty streets and empty halls
The silence asks me questions
I can't answer because all these
Empty streets and empty halls
Give me no one I can turn to
My own friends I can't recall
Empty streets and empty halls
The silence asks me questions
I can't answer because all these
Empty streets and empty halls
Leave me here in isolation
My life forever at a halt
Maybe I'm just dreaming
I'll wake up and it will change
Back to how it should be
No uncanny, vacant space
Why am I alone?
Why me against the lone unresolve?
These empty halls
If it's just me to whom I answer
It's only me that I can ask
These things that scream in silence
Oh why am I the last?
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4. |
Rooftops
05:24
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YM:
Pull all my favorite threads
Now's the time
Time that I get to divine
What the night has to find
And with everyone there
What would I dare but
Make the best of every moment
Each word spoken
Stars are out for me
This is my own Galaxy
City underneath
Electric heart that beats
Gathered here tonight
'till rooftops bleed morning light
"Hello"
Elise:
"Didn't see you there"
YM:
"Have we met before?"
Elise:
"There's someone that I know"
YM:
"Let them Know they're found"
Elise:
"Sorry, got to go"
YM:
"Hope to see you around"
Stars are out for me
This is my own Galaxy
City underneath
Electric heart that beats
Gathered here tonight
'till rooftops bleed morning light
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5. |
Lonely
04:47
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YM:
Just days fall like these broken leaves
Their sound makes me think someone could be
The trees, the last ones left to stand
The snow, a desert with no sand
And to think this once seemed good for me
When the world of souls was something I could see
Never touching, not opening
Why won't you bring someone I'd reach for now?
But they're gone - ever gone
Maybe it's just a dream
But it's been so long
Time is not what it seems
You know you're wrong
Silent world too strange to believe
The world you deserve it to be
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6. |
Footprint in the Grass
01:00
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n/a
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7. |
Silence I Know
07:51
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TFB:
Too few beats of my heart of been spent
When it didn't feel bent by the world that eats up
Every last cent of my personal sentiency
No need to meet the glances of indifference
Pretending they meant good for me
Too few hours in a day, too little time to care
About those who have not dared
To give me the time of day
Interaction is a two-way street
And I won't be made to play their little games
It's a game I can't beat
You people are all the same
This silence I know
Makes me feel at home
No more ebb and flow
The world's a sea calmed by silence I know
Tried to lock out the world and its cries
As they tried to give rise to the ones who'd rock
The societal boat like they weren't being choked by
Some mental block that always screams "why?"
TFB (YM):
Too few hours in a day, too little time to care
(Too few hours in a day, too little time to spare)
About those who have not dared
(Could this be my answered prayer?)
To give me the time of day
(The steps leading away)
Interaction is a two-way street
(Interaction is a two-way street)
And I won't be made to play their little games
(But if he want's to play a little game)
It's a game I can't beat
(It's a game I can beat)
The silence I know
Makes me feel at home
No more ebb and flow
The world is a vast sea calmed
By silence I know
Being on my own
No more lies, no more show
Just leave me be in this silence I know
YM:
Grounded patch of green
Known it so well
Never took that step
But there's no one here
After all this time
Any difference I could see
If I walked the world
I would see no features but my own
Guess I took that step
No one else around
Not a single sound
This is not my home
Not when I'm alone
Why must I be island out at sea
Or a ship wrecked by an empty breeze?
Sun is beating down
If it were dark, I could imagine
Faces that I knew
Hearts that I could finally open to
Never took that step
Stake the world on it
There is someone I have got to find
Sail the oceans deep
Face the monsters raging in my mind
Oh it only takes a single step
What is that I hear?
Is there maybe someone else to be?
TFB (YM):
This silence I know
Makes it feel like home
No more ebb and flow
The world is a vast sea calmed
By silence I know
Being on my own
No more lies
No more show
Just leave me be in this silence I know
(Someone else could be adrift in this stormy sea)
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8. |
Find Him
05:11
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TFB:
There's no dust on my back
And no rust in the cracks
There's no one to wear me down
There's nobody to stare me down as I sketch
Under the leaves in the shade
No charcoal eyes sear my brain
YM:
The storm has passed
The sun is breaking through
I don't know who you are
But now that you're here too, there's hope
A glimmer from afar
I saw you pass me by
I saw the trail you made
You were gone but there
Your footprints in the blades
Do you know I'm here?
How can I make it known?
How can I help you see you are not alone?
TFB:
The oak in the park has my back
Rooted and firm in the warm green grass
And the ink charts a course through a perforate sea
Oh it travels to shores never seen with me
When I look at the page and survey with my gaze
That the sea rages calm
The sea rages calm
YM:
Empty streets and empty halls
Silent still, but not alone
I'll find you somehow in the fold
Empty feet and empty calls
Find a trail that I can follow
Even if leaves tomorrow
Empty streets and empty halls
Shaded sanctuary park
Draw him out, out of the dark
Empty beats and empty talk
Now I feel alive forever
Someone somewhere I can call
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9. |
The Tree in the Park
05:22
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YM:
Alone too long
I'm not alone at all
Some paper and pen floating there
To match the feet and make a pair
Of strangers strangely bound
The unseen can be found
I've got to get through
The pad and pen will do
"Is anyone there? Please? hello?
I thought I was alone here
And if you thought so too
No worries now
I'm here too but somehow
Can't seem to see you anywhere
So please won't you tell me that you're there?"
The pad lies still
What will they say, I feel a chill
Why don't they answer the call?
I cannot have imagined it all
I wrote the write over artist strokes
I think I might just be the most sorry man around
Pissed off the only one I've found
TFB:
Too right
I thought I was alone here
Knew my luck would never hold here
It cost my peace
Why can't we see?
You have nothing I need
YM:
I know you're there, please, hello
The grass betrays your actions
He left the book behind
Flew from my hand
I didn't mean to hurt you
The steps now quickly run away
Please why won't you stay?
Please say you're there
He's gone again
No telling when he's coming back
Or if I scared him off
The book's still here
Its eyes they steer my to see her face
And pulled back hair
I stare
Good thing that I
I didn't harm this lovely piece
What have I done?
What will I do?
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10. |
Ransom Note
05:24
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TFB:
There is no dust on me
There is no rust forming
It doesn't change anything
I am still on the wing
My book's still there
But he better not be
Cause I"m through the woods
This is my happy ending
It's not in the shade
Just this page stuck to the tree
An address and a ransom note
How could he do this to me?
YM:
"Can't face the silence anymore
I swear I didn't want this for you
You must be lonely too
I've got your book with me
Brave the empty world
To meet me in my flat"
TFB:
The silence I knew
What happened to you?
This is what I get for going
Thinking hoping knowing
Can't trust what you don't see
Play his game 'till it's free
Think I'll change the rules around
I'll get it back, won't make a sound
I won't rest until it's found
There's no turning back now
He's nowhere to be found
Done my deed
What's it to me if he's alone?
Just like me
Alone just like me
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11. |
Friends
03:15
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TFB (Mother):
Paper, Pencil
Only friends that I need
Make a new world
That's exactly where I want to be
No more classroom
Homework a memory
(is that your plan?)
I'll keep to myself
I don't need anyone
(quite a lonely life to live like that)
What's the big deal?
She doesn't know anything
They don't care how I feel
I'll do the same
Open up and then you'll see
That they're not so bad
Elise:
"Hi there
Why are you sitting all alone?
Come with me
If you don't have a friend or home
We could be friends, my name's Elise"
"Please won't you talk to me
Was it something I said?
You're lonely that much I see
You can talk to me"
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12. |
Elise's Song
03:31
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Elise:
Sometimes even stones can speak
It just takes someone who's listening
Even the hardest of stones can bleed
If there is no one who's listening
Maybe it's that I don't understand
Why a boy would choose to be a stone instead
Alone it's water rising high
Why sulk in the ocean when there's the sky?
Stone is strong
But not against the tide
I know there is a child locked inside his mind
If he can't see
Then maybe I can show him
A stone is not a man
Only a boy can ever grow
I'll be there to see the boy who's grown
To hear the sweet melody of a singing stone
I'll be there to see the man that shows
What happens to the boy that chooses stone
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13. |
Someone Like You
00:57
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Elise:
"Hi there
You know you always sit and stare
Would you mind drawing me a picture too?
I've never seen someone like you"
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14. |
Write, Erase
06:26
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YM:
Door is open they've come back
Write, erase, unseen impact
"Knew you'd come for her sake
I had to try this"
Write, erase
"Can't you see we're on our own?
Once I knew there was someone
Saw a chance to take
Please don't leave"
Write, erase
"Write"
Erase
Color floating, starts to write
TFB:
"I'll just take my sketch and go"
YM:
"Can't we work together now?"
TFB:
"I was better on my own"
YM:
"But what kind of life is that?"
TFB
"The kind we both have now"
Both:
"And I don't know why you'd think
We'd be better off
The world's much smaller from inside
The world's much darker than the light"
TFB:
"If this will make peace
Of your stormy seas
Give the sketch to me
You'll have company"
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Joey Frevola Nashville, Tennessee
Also plays with UK band KYROS and Nashville band Edge of Reality
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