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01. Right By Your Side

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
Tell us how far this has gone
Sneakin' in under the nose of everyone
Fix it all you and I and the damage you've done
Say farewell boy and you're gone
Step right into the face of everyone
Fall apart you and I and the damage you've done

Tears and eyelids are melting into one
Counting your lucky stars
You're holding on to the thorn on your side
Just along for the ride
While I'm whispering out loud
I'm right by your side
I'm right by your side

And when you're all dead and gone
A sliding knot around the hearts of everyone
Give it up you and I and the ties left undone

Spinning thoughts in your sleep
You end where I start

02. Summer Is Red

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
Summer is all around you
With water and sand to teach you
Forgotten lessons
Hollow conversations
Summer is all around you
Nobody grieves nobody sleeps
Ultraviolet bonehead
Through shades your summer is red

You're gas I'm fire
Be burnt for liars again
Viewed from the spire
Your precious summer is over

Summer is all around you
With water and sand to dig through
Forgotten patience
Hollow convenience
Summer is all around you
Coming with fire leaving with scars
Illumination braindead
Through shades your summer is red

03. Catchlight

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
Dead white hole in the clouds
Beats come straight from the heart

It's the silence of the world
That draws our scars and brings us down
From the clouds
Wish upon the stars
The silence of the words
Just like nothing really matters anymore
Fading to black
When everything is right
Color me blind
And I'll be catching light

Point your gun into the air
Shoot your imaginary friend

04. The Stray

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
It's just another night out
Driving you out of your mind
The black dog in your footsteps
You're only the ghost passing by
It's just another night out
Keep your love

If seeing is believing
It's a damn hard habit to break
Uneasy lies your head
My sorrow's share
Is keeping your love away

No mystery to unravel
I'm not sure exactly why
The black dog in your footsteps
Afraid of the ghost passing by
It's just another night out
Only dust upon your eyes
In a world that's so blind
Keep your love

05. Battles

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
Lie to me
The same sun a different day
Let me see
You're the dog now go chase your own tail

I see battleships from the seashore
The blood in your veins
Your struggling hand
We're no callow children anymore
But engined and armed just the same

Could it be
In your work of waste and ruin
Honesty
Hits like a bullet in the brain
Lie to me
The same cards a different game

I sink battleships in a sea of yore
The blood in my veins
The ace in the game
We're no kindred spirits anymore
But engined and armed just the same

Smokes and mirrors
Taint the blood in your veins
Hide the cards in the game
I don't really live by the trigger
You're the dog now go chase your own tail

06. Like Fireflies

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
The here the now the moving fast
The flame the star the moth desires

Like fireflies
We're being many, seeming one
Heaving and quiet
The hidden secrets of our lives

The night the morrow curtain calls
The peace the foe the vessel crossed

Like fireflies
We're being many, seeming one
Heaving and quiet
The hidden secrets of our lives

The crumble down the world above
Arise despise tears they dry

Like fireflies
We're being many, seeming one
Your love knows no bound
And contradictions bite the ground
Like fireflies
I should be useful when I lie

07. Slow Blood

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
Sick and sore a bee in the swarm
Your eyes and senses getting numb
Of seeing the world in a howling storm
Of being the pounding of the drum

Back to the place you're running from
To the tune of the same old strum
There's not a stone that the wind has blown
Take your chances and become
Become the world electrical storm
Embrace the cycle of the hum
Silence in motion or an endless groan
A different beat on the drum

Slow your blood to the beat of your song
Til good luck comes you'll play along
Slow your blood your head in the hive
If you're lucky you might get out alive

08. Scissorspaperstone

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
Whatsyournextmovewhatyoutryintoprovemewrong
We'rescissorspaperstoneandcoldandblindfolded
Andgrowingoldandseparated
Whatsyournextmovewhatyoutryintoprovemewrong
Thedoorssowidelythrownbeholdandtakemetothe
Promisedlandoursoulasylum

Guessmynextmovewhyyoutryintokillthegroove
We'rescissorspaperstonethecrowyoutakemeto
Thebitterendaslongasicare
Guessmynextmovewhyyoutryintobitetheblade
You'resuffocatingtakeadeepbreathor
Asksomeonesmarterrunasfastasyoucan

What is wrong and right now
This is all you and me have now

09. Sterling Silence

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
The silence of the city calling you
The racket of the daylight missing you
I'll spare you mistakes that I wouldn't make
Imaginary scenes keeping me wide awake

I find you everywhere I just can't see
Triggering inspiration in your peace
You lived a golden life along the run
Imaginary landscapes in the midnight sun

Wave goodbye
Here with me under the moonlit sky
A stare in the distance
An ordinary sweet disaster in the midnight sun
Wave goodbye
Stay here with me and I'll watch it through your eyes
Sterling silence
How can we live in this world...

The silence of the city calling you
When they have closed the gates i'm missing you
I'll spare you guesses that wouldn't be fair
Spreading like your ashes in the brittle air
Your ashes in the brittle air

Wave goodbye
You're always here with me under the midnight sky
A stare in the distance
An ordinary sweet disaster in the midnight sun
And I'll wave goodbye
Stay here with me and I'll watch it through your eyes
Sterling silence
How can we live in this world watching it burn

10. Blossoms

Music & lyrics by Nicolas Chapel
Winter came and never got me down
Tangled knots of cold we can't untie
I feel no shame in being a broken man
And testify there's more than meets the eye

Wild roses in the rain
O spring come back again
And gently numb the pain

Blossoms in cellophane
And I begin again
As the world outside ends

Safe in my arms, smile and look alive
Sister we don't care enough to try
We know it well we can still pretend
We put the gun in the hand of a friend

11. +Right By Your Side

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

12. +Summer Is Red

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

13. +Catchlight

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

14. +The Stray

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

15. +Battles

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

16. +Like Fireflies

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

17. +Slow Blood

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

18. +Scissorspaperstone

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

19. +Sterling Silence

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]

20. +Blossoms

Music by Nicolas Chapel
[instrumental]