1. |
Anything Was Better
02:57
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I felt invisible, but everyone
Was staring at me
I felt alone, yet smothered
Like no one would let me be
I felt a yearning, like a burning
Too hot to overcome
Cuz anything was better
Than where I was from
I met a band, they played a show
And then we head out on the road
We made it down to Arizona
Where it didn’t seem so cold
I had a California Dream
You know I need that fun fun fun
Cuz anything was better
Than where I was from
Anything was better
So I went out on the run
Anything was better
I couldn’t wait to see the sun
Anything was better
I said goodbye to everyone
Cuz anything was better
Than where I was from
Goodbye to old Queen Street
Goodbye to Whitaker Park
I’m thankful for the lessons
But the memories are dark
Good riddance to that home
Where the nightmare had begun
Yea anything was better
Than where I was from
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2. |
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As we live, as we live, this is the time to love
As we live, as we live, this is the time to love
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
Is there a hero among us or are all of the good ones just dead?
Life is for dancing, life is for moving
As long as I’m breathing, I am renewing
Life is for dancing, life is for moving, as long as I’m breathing
As we live, as we live, this is the time to love
If the fall of the western civilization, leave the bus and arrive
At the station, music vocation, stereo citation
Peace and love raise the world vibration
Life is for dancing, life is for moving
As long as I'm breathing, I am renewing
Life is for dancing, life is for moving, as long as I’m breathing
As we live, as we live, this is the time to love
Love is an action, start with yourself
This is the time to love, seize the day, don’t wait for a sign from above
Love light may blind my eyes, can’t keep me down
Like a yearning still I rise
As we live, as we live, this is the time to love
We’re running out of time!
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3. |
Raised By Wolves
03:01
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You got my letter, read it twice
Short breaths, long sighs
Might be a liar, might be a drunk
But I forgive you for your giving up
It doesn’t matter, my life was shattered
And my heart’s got holes
You left a child, out in the wild
And I was raised by wolves.
I was raised by wolves.
We would dig for scraps out in the cold
After you left to go and try to find your pot of gold
My teeth got sharper, my skin got tough
So I forgive you for your giving up
It doesn’t matter, my life was shattered
And my heart’s got holes
You left a child, out in the wild
And I was raised by wolves.
I was raised by wolves.
Yea when you left and said goodbye
Under the moonlight, we had to learn to say alive
In the wild!
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4. |
In The Mirror
03:04
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No matter how far I run, I always end up back here
No matter how far I go, I always end up back here
Took me two years to write this song
I wanted it perfect, no wrinkles in it
Took me a long time to come clean
To be honest, the truth’s so ugly
Took me a long time to come home, I didn’t think you’d get me
I had too much explaining.
No matter how far I run, I always end up back here
No matter how far I go, I always end up back here
In the mirror, in the mirror, in the mirror, only in the mirror
I always felt so out of place
In a crowded room, I speak too soon
Yeah I put a big smile on my face
I can’t let them know it’s all for show, No
Took me a long time to come home, I didn’t think you’d get me
I had too much explaining
No matter how far I run, I always end up back here
No matter how far I go, I always end up back here
In the mirror, in the mirror, in the mirror, only in the mirror
I’m tired of running
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5. |
Kiss The Ground
03:20
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Sometimes when you’re low
You gotta kiss the ground
I wanna live life like a bird on a wire
Let the wind come take me higher and higher
But I've been so low, like a hurricane I go
Round and round and round and round
Weak with pride, where there’s smoke there is fire
Devil on my shoulder always been such a liar
When I lose control, I drop to my knees and go
Down and down and down cuz
Sometimes when you’re low
You gotta kiss the ground
Every tribulation in life is a lesson
If you count your scans then you’re counting your blessings
Pride before fall, in this spiral we just all go
Round and round and round and round
We need light only love can inspire
Sing it all together like a seraphim choir
Flying with the angles right before we fall
Down and down and down but
Sometimes when you’re low
You gotta kiss the ground
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6. |
Jailbird
02:45
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I hear the sound echo off the concrete
The same song is playing on repeat
Haven’t taken a breath in hours it seems
My skin turns blue, my ears ringing
The trauma skips like an old C.D.
That’s all scratched up from my OCD
It echoes on like a jailbird, echoes on like a jailbird
Year after year I hear the screaming in my ears and it
Echoes on like a jailbird
Strung out adrenaline junkie
My heart pounds but I look like a zombie
There’s wires crossed inside my brain
And broken tracks lead to runaway trains
I bite my nails, until they bleed
Pullin’ out my hair from the root like a weed
It echoes on like a jailbird, echoes on like a jailbird
Year after year I hear the screaming in my ears and
It echoes on like a jailbird
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7. |
The Hard Way
02:51
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I learned everything the hard way
I learned everything the hard way
I never listened to what anyone had to say
I learned everything the hard way
The road was rocky but I dug my heels in
Til blood and concrete had worn right through my skin
And it would take a special kind of pain
Before I’d ever say, I learned my lesson
I learned my lesson
My every battle scar could tell a different tale
Of all the times I'd go all in, and I would fail
And i know the house, it always wins
And jokers never say, I learned my lesson
I learned my lesson…
They like to say “I told you so”
But I know things they still don’t know
So many lessons I forget
So many nights that I regret
…I never listened, and I still don’t today
I learn everything the hard way
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8. |
My Heart
03:27
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The day that you left I couldn’t believe
The earth was still spinning and I could still breathe
All that I saw, painted in grey
All of the color just faded away
Now you’re my angel, a sweet sweet soul
And though it’s painful i’ll let you go
My heart keeps beating, my heart keeps beating
My heart keeps beating, my heart keeps bleeding for you
And then i woke up, I was alone
It’s empty inside this shell of a home
Cards have been read, roses are dead
Don’t have the strength to get out of this bed
But you’re my angel with sweet sweet eyes
And I’m so grateful you saved my life
My heart keeps beating, my heart keeps beating
My heart keeps beating, my heart keeps bleeding for you
How long, how long, how long. How long I’m gonna miss you
I don’t know how to carry on
I’ll never ever ever be the same again without you
A part of me is dead and gone
But my heart keeps beating.
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9. |
Let 'Em Go
02:47
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Static comin’ down my radio station
I’m always caught up in the same old situation
You dig your claws in me when we’re embracing
I see your face, and my heart starts racing
I told myself this time would different
I turn around it’s the same old heartbreak
The energy of the earth is shifting
So it’s the time we say… let ‘em Go
When they try to take control, let ‘em Go
You never give, no you always been taking
I hear your name and my hands start shaking
And every X Every O you were faking
Walk all over me? You must be mistaken
I told myself this time would be different
I turn around it’s the same old heartbreak
The Energy of the earth is shifting
So it’s the time we say… let ‘em Go
When they try to take control, let ‘em Go
If you ever feel like they don’t want your light
To shine this bright
If you ever feel like you don’t have the right
To live your life…
Let ‘em go!
When they try to take control let ‘em go
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10. |
Worst For Me
02:24
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You celebrate my pain, I know it brings you pleasure
And all my suffering, a diamond that you treasure
Sociopath, you smile to my face then oh behind my back
You raise a glass to my mistakes and
You’ve got an attitude, you’ve got no gratitude
You’ve got no grace
Puffed up and arrogant, it’s such a punishment
To be in the same place
As someone who wants the worst for me
You celebrate my tears, I know they make you blissful
Just dancing on my grave and throwing dirt down by the fistful
You wouldn’t have my picture by a candle
It’s pasted on the bullseye of the dart board on your mantle
You’ve got an attitude, you’ve got no gratitude
You’ve got no grace
Puffed up and arrogant, I swear never again
To be in the same place
As someone who wants the worst for me
You’re someone who wants the worst for me
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If it gets too heavy, yea too heavy
Gonna bring you to the ground
Lay your burdens down, down, down, down
Lay your burdens down
It’s a heavy weight, on a rainy day
We’ve bankrupted our spirits from all the bills we have to pay
I said hey now, what you say when the pressure gonna come around…
My mamma told me “Baby, you’ve got to lay your burdens down”
From the sharpest fangs a good heart can harden
We’ve paralyzed compassion, we need to cast snakes from the garden
I said hey now, what you say when the pressure gonna come around
My mamma told me “Baby, you’ve got to lay your burdens down”
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I know you won’t come home again
But I keep your things where you left them
I wear your clothes so I can sleep
Imagining you’re next to me
And I know, in my soul
That love never dies, that love never dies
I can see your face when I close my eyes
That love never dies
This house is just my little cage
Where no one comes to check on me
And no one sees the hell I’m in
I’m a long long away from heaven
And I know, in my soul
That love never dies, that love never dies
I can see your face when I close my eyes
That love never dies
I play blackbird on your guitar, they way it bleeds won’t let it scar
You have my all
I still write you everyday, I put my letters on your grave
I’ll wait for your call
That love never dies, that love never dies
I can see your face when I close my eyes
That love never dies
Not now, not ever, no chance, no never
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13. |
Afterthought
03:14
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Well I guess you’re just another raindrop
In the puddle of my pain
Dancing off the rooftops, down the gutter
To the drain
And I’m the bolt of lightning
Tearing through your darkest skies
The storm on the horizon, speaking truth
To all your lies
So thank you for the heartbreak
Thank you for the pain, thank you for the bruises
Thank you for my broken brain
Cuz I made it through the battle stronger than I used to be
And now you’re just an afterthought
You’re just an afterthought to me
After the sad songs of my childhood
You were a warm familiar tune
You cut me deeper than the ocean
Then I poured whiskey in my wounds
Yea you tore me into pieces just to keep your demons fed
You’re not the man my mama prayed for
You’re who the devil sent instead
So thank you for the heartbreak
Thank you for the pain, thank you for the bruises
Thank you for my broken brain
Cuz I made it through the battle stronger than I used to be
And now you’re just an afterthought
You’re just an afterthought to me
… I made it through the battle stronger than i used to be
With the sword of an archangel always there defending me
From the fire on your tongue and the serpent in your eyes
You were always “seeing red” I can’t believe I’m still alive
Trying way too many nights to burn and kill those memories
And now you’re just an afterthought, you’re just an afterthought to me…
Yea I guess you’re just another raindrop in the puddle of my pain
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14. |
Alien
03:12
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My bones are the bars of a jail
And I’ve never felt completely female
I sleep when the sun starts to rise
So I spend the night drying my eyes
And I watch all the humans, they move place to place
And hide in plain sight with that look on their face
Do they feel the same or is it just me?
I wish I could fly into that beautiful beam
Cuz I don’t fit in, I’m struggling
I’m trying to be “one of them”
But I’m an alien around here
My soul’s crawling out of my skin
Yea this gravity’s wearing me thin
I’d probably breathe better on mars
Floating up there above the stars
And I watch all the humans, they move place to place
And hide in plain sight with that look in their face
Do they feel the pain or is it just me?
I wish I could fly into that beautiful beam
Cuz I don’t fit in, I’m strugglin’
I’m trying to be “one of them”
But I’m an alien around here
They look at me like I’m from light-years away
And I don’t fit in, I’m struggling
Now I am not trying to be “one of them”
I’m an Alien, around here
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15. |
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Once I got to the mountain top, everywhere I could see
Prairie full of lost souls running from the priests of iniquity
Where the hell was Elijah?
Well, what do you do when the prophecy came was true?
You cannot take the walls of Jericho
(Na na, na-na-na-na-na)
Put your lips together and blow
(Na na, na-na-na-na-na)
To the very top
(Na na, na-na-na-na-na)
Sayin' the truth crystallizes
Like jewels in the rock, in the rock
Get down Moses, part another sea
Carve another tablet out of LSD
Get down Moses, out in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down in the street
The blood is washing down all the gravel to our feet
Get down Moses, down in the pit
Lying in a green, cross bound field
Crashing on a downtown strip
Looking in the eyes of the diamonds and the spies and the hip
Who's sponsoring the crack ghetto
Who's lecturing? Who's in the know and in the don't know?
You better take the walls of Jericho
(Na na, na-na-na-na-na)
Put your lips together and blow
(Na na, na-na-na-na-na)
Goin' to the very top
(Na na, na-na-na-na-na)
Where the truth crystallizes
Like jewels, in the rock, in the rock
Get down Moses, from the eagle eyrie
You gotta to make a new friend out of old enemies
Get down Moses, back in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down with the dreads
They got a lotta reasoning in a dread head
Get down Moses, down in the street
Get down Moses, part another sea
Carve another tablet out of LSD
Get down Moses, out in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down in the street
The blood is washing down all the gravel to our feet
Get down Moses, down in the pit
Get down Moses
Get down Moses
Get down Moses
We need to eat
We gotta chew it over with our wisdom teeth
Get down Moses
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Father, can you hear me?
How have I let you down?
I curse the day that I was born
And all the sorrow in this world
Let me take you to the herding ground
Where all good men are trampled down
Just to settle a bet that could not be won
Between a prideful father and his son
Will you guide me now? For I can't see
A reason for the suffering and this long misery
What if every living soul could be upright and strong?
Well then I do imagine
There will be sorrow
Yeah, there will be sorrow
And there will be sorrow no more
When all soldiers lay their weapons down
Or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crowns
Or when the only true messiah rescues us from ourselves
It's easy to imagine
There will be sorrow
Yeah, there will be sorrow
And there will be sorrow no more
There will be sorrow
Yeah, there will be sorrow
And there will be sorrow no more
Yeah, there will be sorrow
Yeah, there will be sorrow
And there will be sorrow no more
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You got my letter, read it twice
Short breaths, long sighs
Might be a liar, might be a drunk
But I forgive you for your giving up
It doesn’t matter, my life was shattered
And my heart’s got holes
You left a child, out in the wild
And I was raised by wolves.
I was raised by wolves.
We would dig for scraps out in the cold
After you left to go and try to find your pot of gold
My teeth got sharper, my skin got tough
So I forgive you for your giving up
It doesn’t matter, my life was shattered
And my heart’s got holes
You left a child, out in the wild
And I was raised by wolves.
I was raised by wolves.
Yea when you left and said goodbye
Under the moonlight, we had to learn to say alive
In the wild!
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