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Lost In Our Time
03:41
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It's the month before we start our lives
but I wonder if we ever will try
You see reality hurts, it kicks you and distorts you
your shell emerges lifeless and gone
But I'll delay my fate this once
before I slave my days away for a prize I'll never see
You were once an adventurous youth
and you wouldn't let a weight tie you down
You adapted and adjusted, you led by example
and no one could have dragged you around
But I don't even know
If you could open up your eyes so I could look into your soul
I can see the sunset on the desert sky
The road goes on without turning, the days flashing by
And yet we are still in yearning, lost in our time
And it might be some day that I turn out this way
I can tell here that I'd rather not now
It's an empty existence and I hope you get through it
so some of you remains in the end
But I don't even care
If it brings us apart because I've changed and I want to live
Looking over the cliffs at the ocean in the sun
We could live this way and find our battles won
Why would you run away before it all comes undone?
Find my way to a slow descent
I could wait for months and years
and if you're gone I will mourn a friend
I won't go through this again
I can see the sunset on the desert sky
The road goes on without turning, the days flashing by
And yet we are still in yearning, lost in our time
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2. |
Leaving, Dreaming
04:08
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Daylight's leaving, I've been fearing this time if year again
when all my aggravation never seems to go away
The air is cold and I sit freezing
smoke pours from the chimney to my
soul I want these months to go so I can run away
Just don't call when I leave here
I wouldn't say where I'm going to go
You won't stop me from dreaming
Cause I've spent my last year alone and
nothing seems to matter anyway
Same as ever, we can never find ourselves this way
stuck in circles, running treadmills, stalling until May
Close your eyes and feel the sunshine
through the window right into your soul
You dare not open them, you want to run away
So don't call when I leave my home
I wouldn't know where I'm going to go
You won't stop me from thinking
Cause I've spent my last year alone and
nothing seems to matter anymore
Just don't call when I leave here
I wouldn't say where I'm going to go
You won't stop me from dreaming
Cause I've spent my last year alone and
nothing seems to matter anymore
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3. |
No More Fun
04:10
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Smile a little wider, look behind your shoulder
and see what you can do today
Good times can be had if you know how to hide it
Don't let them catch you in the act
And say, is tomorrow gonna come?
Won't be too long until we're done
Time moves on as the days and weeks and months merge into one
What has become of our fun?
Working days get longer, clockwork like robots flail
clean all the cogs in the machine
Look for the freaks in secret, behind the frozen air
they work at basking in the sun
And say, is tomorrow gonna come?
Won't be too long until we're done
Time moves on as the days and weeks and months merge into one
then no more fun for anyone
How to live life with love if you're threatened from above?
Was the past all that bad? There was freedom to be had
Is life improved when you take all the choices that we make,
tell us what we should say, throw our rights all away?
We should live life with love, be the voices from above
Paint the future when we see, we all deserve to be free
Life's improved when we believe in all the choices we'd receive
In present times we all weep, there is freedom we should keep
And say, is tomorrow gonna come?
Won't be too long until we're done
Time moves on as the days and weeks and months merge into one
then no more fun for anyone
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Yesterday I was well on my way
to a world filled with glory and promise
Now it's all gone I must try to move on
but I don't know just where I am going
I've seen pictures of people who've climbed through the fog
I've seen people who've mastered their flying
but I sit on the ground as if I'm not around
I think that I'm lost and I'm dying
Looking beyond all the faces stay the same
Are they looking away?
There's nowhere we can turn
I'm watching the doors closing now, and I'm running out of time
Should a homeless man pay for a mortgage each day?
Should his work lead to a future of labor?
Learning's a privilege but not yet a right
and it no longer gives an advantage
Lives are delayed, we're set behind right from the start
and you need not apply,
your chances are slim unless
you know someone or have years of experience
so good luck in the military
Hear me children of the recession
They'll take their money with them when they die
They've torn you down, they'll watch you fall to pieces
Their conscience is gone, they've left it far behind
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5. |
Confessions
05:37
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Don't ever leave me here, that is if you can find me
I'm fed up with dreaming and I'm tired of being here alone
But you're not the one to care
is it even fair I am here?
But if you find me I will leave this behind me and
never look back until you go
What is the perfect man for them?
Would he stand in the doorway with a smile?
I thought I had it inside me, but I'm missing all the keys
Locked away in an ocean of thoughts and pain, will he ever be free?
Or forever be lonely in his mind?
All this emotion in my soul, how much can they see?
Cause I stay uplifted even when my heart is bleeding out to you
Are you the one to care?
Am I overreacting?
This hole expanding all around, is my life collapsing?
My happiness might go away
I put off my problems for this year, can they be gone forever?
I try for this but I need to face my fears
Tell myself I should see it through, I know I need to be better
I won't let myself falter, it's the power of the mind
I could be in a perfect place,
I should cherish this for I know in the future
I'll want these memories to stay, these experiences are living
Joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, confusion and assurance,
Feelings all, and those who walk without them aren't
living, they are dead
I put off my problems for this year, but I need to stay free
I try for this but I need to face my fears
Tell myself I should see it through, I know I need to be better
I won't let myself falter, it's the power of the mind
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6. |
Suite: Liberty and Peace
09:08
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LIBERTY
I saw them fly overhead
Circling over the crowd
we turned and marched down broadway
Down to the square of liberty
two blocks from wall street
with revolution in the air
They saw potential and they crushed us in our place
The square of possibility
passion and youthful energy
Hope for the future in our faces
We saw our rights crash to the ground
Here in our stange new land
Was this democracy at hand?
They'll stop at nothing, take their power to the grave
And many sit by thinking nothing has gone wrong...
And how could, I have been so brazen,
seeking all the answers and truth
But Dr. Paul said, all this truth is treason when
you're living in the empire of lies
Realize all the danger outside your home
How can it be so insane?
I'll run through fields of rain
I was, only yesterday, calling for the lesser of evils
But evil is evil and righteous is right
Even when it isn't in style
And realize that the drug war has failed in its goals
How could it be so insane?
I'll run through fields of rain
PEACE
I would be obliged if left alone
To you I'll do the same
and if e'er we meet we'll shake our hands
and then we'll walk away
For the world is ours to share in peace
in distant harmony
We'll maintain the land on which we dwell
so our children can be free
Why do the fools always carry the day
leaders who murder with naught to say
And if indeed there is a God
Help me now, help me now
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Is this a dream land cause all this can't be real
Realize all the monsters can win in the end
How can it not be insane?
I'll run through fields of rain
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7. |
Life's Prison
05:31
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So I keep to myself
and I play into your hands
I could fly into the heart of the sun
No one wants to play
So lonely with those around me
I can't find the signs in your face
Long drive far away
Distant thoughts and nothing to say
Line grows longer, and I wait at the end
Move ahead, knocked back again
Lets be different until we get older
Fall in line and make others follow
Life's prison, and you're the jailer
I won't listen, I will find the answer
I'll never leave here
I'll always walk alone
You're happy with being unkind
I can't get through to anyone
Say the wind blows my way
Think of times back in my day
and if I'm gone will you care at all?
I'll make you care
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8. |
The Meek
05:12
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I saw life and I took advantage
but I was standing at the end of the line
thinking one day they'd find some reason, right, maybe tonight
those who stood strong with voices calling
they found love and they threw it away
I was hoping maybe I'd find this love some day, maybe later on and
All I want is for one voice to call me
I'll be waiting at the end of the line
I'll be everything you needed in this life, I will leave with you tonight, won't you travel light
The meek and lonely will find salvation
if they're honest with their desperate lives
no need for loudness to be ambitious, you fight,
you fight to stay alive and
All I want is for a window to open
I'll be waiting at the end of the line
I'll be everything, I'll find the answers to life, I will leave with you tonight, won't you travel light
in the morning the
clouds have lifted
we will illuminate the world within our reach
and as the day goes by there will
be no darkness tonight, it's alright
All I want is for one voice to call me
I'll be waiting at the end of the line
I'll be everything you needed in this life, I will leave with you tonight, won't you travel light
in the morning the
clouds have lifted
we will illuminate the world within our reach
and as the day goes by there will
be no darkness tonight, it's alright
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Atlantis
05:45
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Far away in distant lands before the dawn of time
An island rich with culture rose above this ocean line
Past the reach of Gibraltar's stone they acted with command
Countless opportunities, they had them in their hands
Their lives were happy, they were grand
And here, they left with nothing
as I follow my way back home
I'm leaving this gladly, should have been easier known
Should be easier known
Years they toiled and worked upon a perfect harmony
Where life and love could live in peace and cross the galaxy
Progress made by those who lived in want for light heavenly
They built a great society that would forever be
They lived for glory and were free
But here they met their destruction
Why were they throwing it all away?
I'm leaving this gladly, I wish I still heard their calls
I wish I heard them all
They soon filled their lives with greed
Then they sunk into the sea
They forgot the greater cause
Why couldn't they look back and say
It's ok, I have lost my way, don't leave me here alone?
Here as I cross 'round this corner
as I follow the curve of Earth
I'm leaving this gladly, I hope we don't fare the same
We shall not fare the same
We'll not fill our lives with greed
To our purpose we'll take heed
Moving to the greater cause
We'll build heaven when we say
It's ok, I have lost my way, no longer shall I roam
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10. |
Tomorrow
06:14
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Dawn time's my last changes
you were the only one
I was a wreck and a wretched lie
this was my life
Laughing all the faceless cowards
etched here in the threads of time
I'll never play such a glorious part
if this is how our story ends
Take some time to laugh again
I'll be here with you my friend
and I won't fall down from the start
I'll find every reason
The sacred is not forgotten
the sky is now falling over me but I
don't know how I could find it
if heaven would fall down over me
tomorrow
Dawn time's my last confusion
you were the only one
taking a chance on a fool like me
why can't you see this is my life
so my place is dubious
find me questions in the dust
am I going the right way
is there any way and the
sacred is not forgotten
the sky is now falling over me but I
don't know how I could find it
if heaven would crush and maim the crowd
here
take some time to laugh again
I'll be here with you my friend
and I won't fall down from the start
I won't leave her
Tomorrow
Dawn time's my last changes
you were the only one
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Heavy Illusion Providence, Rhode Island
Heavy Illusion is a psychedelic rock band from Rhode Island. Led by brothers Ricky and Tyler North, the band has been around
in some form since 2003 and has released 6 studio albums.
The sound these days draws from a variety of influences, from the complex and compelling songwriting of Pink Floyd and Talking Heads to the improvisational stylings of Phish and the Grateful Dead.
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