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I've Stopped Breathing

Written by acolourfulghost


I miss you when you go anywhere on your own.
It's cold, and it's lonely, and I can't cope.
Quit living in despair, it's hard, but we're a pair,
and I'm alone tonight, and I miss you.

I've stopped breathing here.
I've stopped breathing here.
I've stopped breathing here.
I've stopped breathing here.

Should I stand and fight
or should I curl up and die?
I don't know you're not listening to words of hope.
I see you dancing in flashing lights.
I see you laughing so dry your eyes.
Just answer the questions without the lies, and I'll start breathing.

I've stopped breathing here.
I've stopped breathing here.
I've stopped breathing here.
I've stopped breathing.

Give me the reasons you failed to see the change in the seasons.
What made you leave?
If we are not breathing then were deceased.
Give me a reason.

I've stopped breathing.
I've stopped breathing.
I've stopped breathing here.
I've stopped breathing.

I've stopped breathing.

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I've Stopped Breathing

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Mediocre Me 

Written by acolourfulghost

Been wandering for many years,
coast to coast, ghost to ghost.
Sick and tired of being the grey man,
save a little life for me.

Don't own a face don't own a voice.
I'm screaming loudly, but nothing comes out.
Sick and tired of being a pain but,
say a little prayer for me.

Tried so hard you won't believe it and I can't take anymore.
I've tried, and I've tried, and I've tried. I tried not to be me.
I've cried so hard you won't believe it. I gotta get off the floor.
I'm going to make a change for mediocre me.

Walk the streets of the living dead,
one he said, please don't follow me.
"Who are you?" I said. 
"Average you," he said.
"I'm your reflection tell me, do you see?"
You're a dreamer, a dreamer, a dreamer. 
All you have are broken dreams.

Tried so hard you won't believe it and I can't take anymore.
I've tried, and I've tried, and I've tried. I tried not to be me.
I've cried so hard you won't believe it. I gotta get off the floor.
I'm going to make a change for mediocre me.

We're born, and then we die.
The bit in between they call it life and I tend to disagree.
We're born, and then we die.
The bit in between they call it life but I'm mediocre me.

Tried so hard you won't believe it and I can't take anymore.
I've tried, and I've tried, and I've tried. I tried not to be me.
I've cried so hard you won't believe it. I gotta get off the floor.
I'm going to make a change for mediocre me.

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Mediocre Me

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Farewell To Arms

Written by acolourfulghost

Produced and Engineered by Bill Sjulin (SwedeSpot Studio) 

Vocals – acolourfulghost
Acoustic Guitar, Synth – Steve Charlton 
Bass – Mike Beatham 
Piano – Mason Embry 
Strings – Bill Sjulin 

Let the bullets fly.
Spin the globe and watch them die.
Pull the trigger now,
pull the trigger now.
Who cares who dies?

When will we drop all the guns?
Call an armistice, say farewell to arms?
I won't pretend that we're safe and we're sound.
Children sing a ring a roses out loud.

Let the generals dine,
talk of medals and drink their wine.
Pull the trigger now,
pull the trigger now.
Who cares who dies?

When will we drop all the guns?
Call an armistice, say farewell to arms?
I won't pretend that we're safe and we're sound.
Children sing a ring roses out loud.


Buried and gone what a world to pass on.
If only a song could undo all the wrong.
Buried and gone what a world to pass on
to the lost kids of our generation.

Who cares who dies?

When will we drop all the guns?
Call an armistice, say farewell to arms?
I won't pretend that we're safe and we're sound.
Children sing a ring a roses out loud.

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Farewell To Arms

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Keeping Me Up

Written by acolourfulghost

Produced by Bill Sjulin of Swedespot studio.

Stagnant mind.
A stalactite in the dead of night,
the shadow from a loaded gun.
A force field of gold,
and I'm vitrified to thwart the suicide, almost.

The hopes are keeping me up all night. 
The ghosts are keeping me up all night. 
My bones are keeping me up all night.
Regret is keeping me up all night. 

Short on dreams, I'm bending.
I'm closer to the end, and now I can not see the beginning.
The downpour the one that I yearn for,
watching the ash fall.

The hopes are keeping me up all night. 
All of the ghosts are keeping me up all night. 
All of my bones are keeping me up all night.
Regret is keeping me up all night.

Sing for the moon,
my heart I exhume,
restore all the love, 
I don't think. I know I lost.
I don't think. I know I lost it. But...

The hopes are keeping me up all night. 
The ghosts are keeping me up all night. 
My bones are keeping me up all night.
Regret is keeping me up all night.

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Keeping Me Up

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Everything Her Father Told Her

Lyrics by acolourfulghost 

Composed by acolourfulghost and Bill Sjulin. 

Recorded at SwedeSpot Studio (Cincinnati, OH). 
Produced, mixed and mastered by Bill Sjulin.

Vocals - acolourfulghost
Guitars and Bass - Bill Sjulin
Drums - Tim Horsley
Dobro - Travis Toy
Slide Guitar - Stevie Snyder

She works her fingers down to the bone.
Spending her money on makeup and alcohol.
She put her glad rags on, in the hope she'll be back home with a brand new guy.

Popped a pill or two upon her tongue,
her mind is ready but her body numb.

Everything her father told her, running through her mind.
Everything her father told her, running through her mind.

Looking through pictures, she wonders where time has gone.
The babies are crying, remind her where things went wrong.
She put her new shoes on and left the kids with mum.
Go get 'em, girl.

Popped a pill or two upon her tongue,
her mind was ready, but her body numb.
Everything her father told her.
Everything her father told her.

Come on 
I'll sing it one more time for you.

Popped a pill or two upon her tongue,
her mind was ready, but her body numb.
Everything her father told her, running through her mind.
Everything her father told her, running through her mind.
Everything her father told her, running through her mind.
Everything her father told her.

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Everything Her Father Told Her

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Firefly

Written by acolourfulghost

Produced and Engineered by Austin Moorhead.

Verse 1
Alright, If you want me, then you got me 
But you better stop playing, 
you better stop messing around. 
Just shut up and hold me, my love,
she said to me while rolling her eyes.

Think I deserve some more answers this time,
but you're wanting me to tell you that it's all going to be fine.
Well, I warn you I mean everything I don't say. 
Better silence than the lies. 

Chorus 
I watch you, and I watch you. 
When you're dancing around every night like a firefly. 
I just watch you. 
I sit and watch you. 
When you're dancing around every night like a firefly oh yea. 

Verse 2
If I wanted I could end it, 
but I won't stop touching. 
I won't stop letting you win. 
It's the way that you look at me.
Never know that it's happening to me, oh. 


How do you turn all the bad things that you've done,
into fuel for my fire and never the bullets inside of the gun. 
Think it goes without saying, but you need to be cruel to be kind, 
she said to me. 
Then she rolled her eyes. 

Chorus 
I watch you, and I watch you. 
When you're dancing around every night like a firefly. 
I just watch you. 
I sit and watch you. 
When you're dancing around every night like a firefly oh yea.

Middle 8
Why do you leave me alone when you go dancing? 
Why do you leave me alone yea? 
When you're dancing. 
When you're dancing. 
When you're floating around like a beautiful firefly. 
And I watch you.
And I watch you.
And I watch you.

Chorus 
I watch you, and I watch you. 
When you're dancing around every night like a firefly. 
I just watch you. 
I sit and watch you. 
When you're dancing around every night like a firefly oh yea.
I just watch you.
I just watch you.
I just watch you.

Firefly

acolourfulghost is the pseudonym of Matthew Mclauchlan, a singer/songwriter from Sheffield in the UK. After a nine-year stint in the British Army, Matt embarked on an almost decade long musical journey eventually plying his trade as the frontman for Always to Tyrants and The Human Genome Project. His influences are wide and varied, but his passion for guitar and heart-wrenching lyrics are apparent and deeply embedded in his music. Legendary acts like The Beautiful South, The Rolling Stones, Ben Howard, and Damien Rice resemble some of his musical heroes. While balancing music, several jobs, and a young family, he has managed to scrape up enough money and free time to produce twelve singles to be released throughout 2020

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