Debut album, independently produced and recorded.

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish


12 Gauge Embrace - Beacon

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish

GONER

With trepid hands together
Held high against the white
It grows hard to remember the last time the agony set in...

A smile so wide
As carefree as your laughter
Swallow hardline ties
With a hunger not to deny you

You have the mark of a savior
Born out of death and decay
From the grave, beset your maker
Lost to eyes of gray

Take what's left to give 
As one departed
And heal the darkness of restlessness
For life is haunted

The distance in your candor
A sterile embrace so fair
It's too hard to forget when the first time the vacancy set in...

And time gnaws spite
As carefree as a martyr
All the passing lines
Of the ones lost to another

Goner

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish
Keys\Piano by Elaina Bangma

REWIND

Forward...
Moving forward like faces out of time
Where these old walls
Tell the stories of those who came before

Reach for me
Don't let go

Fallen down for the last time REWIND
In a city that will never forget
We'll leave behind the promises of youth
Confused and caught in the headlights
Without a plan for tomorrow
We're just lucky to be here alive

Today
Is a new day, but brighter than before?
For us here
The forgotten future with no voice

I reach for you
I won't let go

Chorus

This time is the last time...
We won't fall down
Rewind

Chorus x4



Rewind - feat. Steve Marshall on lead guitar

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish

NO REPLY

When I fly
It's to a place I hide inside
And you will never find the way
I hide, I hide, I hide away

It all comes down to a choice
A fact that we must confess
Weighs trivial, so trivial
We can't agree only regress

So many times
I tried to scream above the noise
Of the misery you've held inside
You can't break free, you cannot hide

When you cry
The tears remain and calcify
The past, the hate, commiserate
We can't agree, please call recess

Your no reply
Makes every bit of sense to me
A no reply
Love's silent death moving in the breeze

Before we lost our way I came across
The face of who I used to be
Starring from the sadness of years gone by... just set me free,
For our life is waiting

Chorus

No Reply

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish

Brave Today

I wanted to be brave
But trembled in the wake 
Your body burned to ash
With the smile as you were made

I reached out for you
Cold hands want for embrace
I called out to you
Under the sun, the light fades

I wanted to be brave
Instead I lost my way
The words I held inside
Scream an unsaid 'goodbye'

Now the time to forgive
A young man's fears has waned
Still a boy and I've emptied
The love you poured into me

Got my paper heart on today
Gonna let the line run
Free the weight and glide away

I can’t see you, I can't feel you
In my mind's THAT empty chair
I don’t want to believe 'here' is only my best memory

I am left forever changed
Pretending that I am brave

Brave Today

A CASUAL LIFE 
*dedicated to Danny George who's still lost in the wild

I've got so much to say
And no venue left to play
(a verse without a rhyme)
Your words they warrant truth
Yet scream iniquity
I was just like you

Once upon a time...
Now you wish to ignore me...

My head is upside down
And my smile's stitched by a thread
A scholar with a park bench bed
The ones who sentenced me
Are the same that set me free
All alone I stumble

And fall through the maze...
Now your world has denied me...

Let me taste life one more time before I fade away
I've been blaming everyone except for me
And now it's time I face, face the sick in me

Damn you all
You'd watch a man waste away, you'd trade a son for some stature
With a care free gaze on eyes swollen from the shame
The “famous” outcast, I was your brother

Chorus 

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish
Lead guitars by Steve Marshall
Keys/Piano by Elaina Bangma

A Casual Life - feat. Steve Marshall on lead guitar

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish

SPIN

What is it that you believe in?
(Which holds you down)
So you can't breathe?

What makes it so hard to see it?
(Just the mistakes)
Is it guilt which keeps you alive?

Awake in room
Alone with these shadows which haunt me
I spin on my own
With no one here to catch me...I'm falling

Can only defeat complete us?
(As we come unbound)
Without a release

So much to break down between us
(Like stones to be ground)
The spin...it eats you alive

Pre-chorus

YOU, I can't make you go away
Don't go away
YOU, left me so incomplete
Who left to blame?

The spin....

Chorus

I can't see 
No way to reach the truth
I suffocate and fall 
Beyond the edge of safe
And spin

Chorus

Spin - feat. Steve Marshall on lead guitar

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish

BELONG TO NONE

Time to find my inspiration
Step outside of own head
In a world so full of black and white, you find
The answers fall right through your hands

Everything you ask of me is a lie
Created by you
Honesty is cheap these days
But to refrain, now there's something...

You let me down
Sold out for your own
When the passion drowns
Your industry folds

Take away the need to focus
On all the things you bleed to say
For every face they've got another smile to sell
When your words have lost their taste

Chorus

I belong to none
See, your head's in the clouds
But, your feet on the sun
I WILL NOT BEND BEFORE YOU

Pre-chorus
Chorus

Belong To None

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Music by Jim Harnish

The Space Between (Intro)

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Mastered by Gen Grimaldi @ Oasis Mastering
Lyrics by Jim Harnish
Lead Guitar by Steve Marshall
Keys/Piano by Elaina Bangma

A NEW TOMORROW

What you see in me
Is something less than you used to believe in

How it came to this? Staring into the face of someone 
That I used to know

Now the game's grown old
And no one wants to change, these hands, held no longer

I'm reaching out to you screaming for a way
To save a new tomorrow

Not afraid to say, my heart is wasted
Between the words we watch the sway, of a life so wasted
Is it enough to believe in fate? Instead we've wasted...a lifetime

Stuck between the words and the passing of the time
Does the heart have a rewind?

'Cause I am not myself and suffer from my pride
Turned the good into a goodbye

So this game's grown old and we refuse to change
The flame burns no longer

I'm reaching out to you screaming for a way
To save a new tomorrow

Chorus

Why can't we save love? 

No new tomorrow?

A New Tomorrow - feat. Steve Marshall on lead guitar

© 2015 12 Gauge Embrace
Recorded at Redneck Ranch Studios 
Produced by Steve Marshall and Jim Harnish
Lyrics by Jim Harnish

NO REPLY

When I fly
It's to a place I hide inside
And you will never find the way
I hide, I hide, I hide away

It all comes down to a choice
A fact that we must confess
Weighs trivial, so trivial
We can't agree only regress

So many times
I tried to scream above the noise
Of the misery you've held inside
You can't break free, you cannot hide

When you cry
The tears remain and calcify
The past, the hate, commiserate
We can't agree, please call recess

Your no reply
Makes every bit of sense to me
A no reply
Love's silent death moving in the breeze

Before we lost our way I came across
The face of who I used to be
Starring from the sadness of years gone by... just set me free,
For our life is waiting

Chorus

No Reply ReMix

A warm, encompassing embrace with serious recoil.  12 Gauge Embrace is an aggressive, American hard rock band from Orange County, CA.  The band is completing their debut, independent studio release which showcases a wide range of melodic songwriting and diversity wielded from the heart of their metal roots. 

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