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Head Rush by Buchanan

Cycle thine own mania
Beholding alternating remedies
To see the world in straight lines
Without the twisting twine

My heart beats my head to the finish line
Triggering my mind back to somewhere in time
All the years that you work to forget
But love is just another element you can’t let go of
True and clear, I no longer fear you
Gravity’s crush
Compressed and all I’m left with is a head rush.

Stop imposter!
Let me be.
Is this a comedy or a tragedy?
I will not see the world in such straight lines
We need the weaving of the living vine

My heart beats my head to the finish line
Triggering my mind back to somewhere in time
All the years that you work to forget
But love is just another element you can’t let go of
True and clear, I no longer fear you
Gravity’s crush
Compressed and all I’m left with is a head rush.

Tripartite shift
Set your ship a’ driftin’
Will the storm at sea to calm
You push the penny into the palm.

For what cost will you show me the way?
‘Child, just push the penny to the palm’
For what cost will you show me the way?
‘Child, just push the penny to the palm’

For what cost will you show me the way?
‘Child, just push the penny to the palm’
For what cost will you show me the way?
‘Child, just push the penny to the palm’

My heart beats my head to the finish line
Triggering my mind back to somewhere in time

All the years that you work to forget
But love is just another element you can’t let go of
True and clear, I no longer fear you
Gravity’s crush
Compressed and all I’m left with is a head rush.

Written & Performed by Raised by Wolves (Buchanan/Rowley/Rowley)
Recorded at The Animal Farm, Bermondsey, London, UK
Produced by Mat Leppanen & Ville Leppanen
Buchanan/Rowley/Rowley(c)2021 All Rights Reserved

Head Rush

Fawkes by Buchanan 

Resurrection
Placing body upon the pyre
Release and cross on over
Find your future within the fire.

Know that your eyes won’t save you
As you mind betrays you
Come here I will sustain you
I will sustain you.

c2023

Fawkes

Beginnings by Buchanan 

To achieve what you can see,
Feeds the mind.
To be reasoning all this time.
Empty rows of all you know.
You confide in me
To see right
Without the weight of these failings
It seems so bright.
When you’re running so low,
You can’t feel the pull.

I’m beginning to talk in rhymes
I’m beginning to walk in time.
I won’t be the same
Now everything remains.

Come to see
We’re counting the free
And with a tired eye
Believe what you want to see
Empty rows of all you know
If I hide I’m living to die
I’m getting so hopeful
That everyone passes by
With a little refrain I can start again.

I’m beginning to talk in rhymes
I’m beginning to walk in time.
I won’t be the same
Now everything remains.
We find comfort in the change.
Do we have to start again?

c2023

Beginnings

National Anthem by Buchanan 

I cannot forgive our forefathers
For the way they built this land
Nor the faux-democratic rule
Where people play the fool

For this we stand:
For moral justice
For equality
For every colour that you see
For gender
And for sexuality

For my privilege is such
That I’m born with o’ so much
That I’m here to stand.

Because when I lay
I cannot seem to drift away
The floor is so unbalanced
That I’m slipping through the years.

The north is stealing from the south
And I guess I could just shut my mouth
But I’ve promised to be seen and to be heard
Indocrinating children for tradition or religion
We’ve a chance to be forgiven for our preferential living.

While the winds of war keep blowing down
It is safe but only on this side of town
For every pound I spend goes to fuel somebodies end
Not in my name
Not in my name.

Maybe one day fashion
Will be formed around compassion
And our history will echo something proud
But until we raise our hands and say that
Now we understand
There’ll never be a peaceful future in this land

When I lay
I cannot seem to drift away
The floor is so unbalanced that we’re slipping through the years
I cannot seem to drift away 
The floor is so unbalanced that we’re slipping through the years.

c2023

National Anthem

New the 3rd by Buchanan 

Don’t breathe the air
For the sake of a poor start
If you’re writing from the heart
You’re not lonely in this way
You just try to starve yourself

The stone-wall conversations
Are partly to blame
Could you even throw this far?
You convince me it’s a shame
As you try to starve yourself

They save a day
We’re face to face
And inbetween our need
To find our feet to fly
It’s incomplete without you by my side
Inside, too close, we hide.


c2023

New The 3rd

Frayed by Buchanan 

Breed into our cost
When everything’s lost you end up here

Watch the land as it frays
The edges of the ground remove
That makes us all the same.

You get some calm and delay
From the gifts that you gave
Just come deliver and you can rest,
You can rest.

Turn up to get paid
We’re over-run at this stage
We can end this fear

Different land, the same day
The edges of the ground
Reveal it’s all in what you say.

Suggest the whole will obey
But take care anyway
This will deliver and you can rest,
You can rest.

Just do a little more than pray
This level age should not bear the faults we have today
Breathing out,
This comfort sounds


c2023

Frayed

Reason by Buchanan 

I am undiscovered
A foreign land
Decipher and reorder
The fruits that grow 
Through fire and water.

I feel the ether
Keeping me grounded
I see the fractal
Mantle my humanity.

Find a reason to fight.
Find a reason to fight.

c2023

Reason

'This Beautiful Life' by Buchanan (c2023)

I fly, therefore I die
As the air has no conscience or care.
I run, to ensure my days are done
Slowed only by the ones who need me here.

Shine a light in my eyes
Sparing pennies for darkest nights
Oh, this beautiful life.

I leap, to avoid the chasms deep
But I'm drawn to meet the floor forevermore.

Shine a light in my eyes
Sparing pennies for darkest nights
Oh, this beautiful life.

This Beautiful Life

Taken from the new album 'Silverskin'
Words and Music by C.Buchanan c2020

The Road

'Bail'
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan c2020

Lyrics:
I was gonna go but nobody would let me
Inside and under
She’s not gonna let me go
Lip tight and wonderful
She reminds me of all the people I’ve seen
The places I’ve been, the visions I’ve dreamed
The whole of the scene that threaded the life right into a dream

She pulled me to the outside looking in
To see the carcass laid where my life had been
As we sit and pick apart the perfect place
To steal a spot and rest within
To be here, to be seen
To be heard, to be real
To make sense, to release.

Never put up a fight
Always dodging the light
Weave and ducking on the cusp of every day and night
All the things that you missed on an endless list
That scrolls straight to the bottom of the earth
You’ve got to unfurl your wings
You were born to sing
Build and burn baby
Gather all your strength again
You dug the ground and tunnelled all the way down
Now turn your aim into the air.

Credits:
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan
Vocals / Guitars / Drums - Cantrose Buchanan
Bass Guitar - Cliff Rowley
Recorded at Rivenhall, Essex, UK
c2020 Buchanan

Bail

'Widowing Wind'
Words and Music by C.Buchanan c2020

Lyrics:
She waits in the shadows
In the recessed streets of my past
Flush out her mortal soil
Flood every alleyway that bleeds her last beat

Made real by the light that hit the window
Reflecting everything you aren’t

Don’t let her hear you question your fear
For you’ll find no comfort here

She waits in the shadows
In the recessed streets of my past
Flush out her mortal soil
Flood every alleyway that bleeds her last beat

Made real by the light that hit the window
Reflecting everything you aren’t

Don’t let her hear you question your fear
For you’ll find no comfort here
Don’t let her hear you question your fear
For you’ll find no comfort here
You finally escaped, my dear.

Credits:
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan
Vocals / Guitars / Drums - Cantrose Buchanan
Bass Guitar - Cliff Rowley
Recorded at Rivenhall, Essex, UK
c2020 Buchanan

Widowing Wind

'Beginnings'
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan & Jon Gallop

Lyrics:
To achieve what you can see
Feeds the mind
To be reasoning all this time
Empty rows of all you know

You confide in me to see right
Without the weight of these failings 
It seems so bright 
When you’re running so low you can’t feel the pull

I’m beginning to talk in rhymes
I’m beginning to walk in time
and I won’t be the same
and now everything remains.

Come to see
We’re counting the free
and with a tired eye
Believe what you want to see
I didn’t know that we all could go

If I hide in living to die
I’m getting so hopeful that everyone passes by
With a little refrain I could start again

I’m beginning to talk in rhymes
I’m beginning to walk in time
and I won’t be the same
and now everything remains
We find comfort in the change
Do we have to start again?

Credits:
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan & Jon Gallop
Vocals / Acoustic Guitar - Cantrose Buchanan
Piano - Jon Gallop
Recorded in Belsize Park, London
Buchanan c2020

'Brushfire Heart'
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan

Lyrics:
There was a lot of talk about me in that town
It would circulate the air before me
If you don’t like the coat I wear
My self destructive flair
Will choke and tear
So leave without me

There was a lot of words without the wisdom
They span river wide without the means to cross them
But if you don’t like the boat I’ve made
You may sail alone
But you’ll make it home
So leave without me

Your seeds will grow again
Your seeds will grow again
Don’t starve the oxygen
Break the banks and settle down
and the river flow will take you back home.

It took a thousand lies to force opinion
and a brushfire heart to burn it down
As the bitter bones draw to the surface
I’m not about to let you down

Your seeds will grow again
Your seeds will grow again
Don’t starve the oxygen
Break the banks and settle down
and the river flow will take you back home.

There’s a place that I’ve been living with you
In between the love and shame divide
I will use this chance to open up
I am counting on beginners luck

Your seeds will grow again
Your seeds will grow again
Don’t starve the oxygen
Break the banks and settle down
and the river flow will take you back home.

It took a thousand lies to force opinion
and a brushfire heart to burn it down
As the bitter bones draw to the surface
I’m not about to let you down.

Credits:
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan
Vocals / Acoustic Guitar - Cantrose Buchanan
Backing Vocals - Emma Gallop
Piano / Backing Vocals - Jon Gallop
Recorded in Belsize Park, London
Buchanan c2020

Brushfire Heart

'Trouble'
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan

Lyrics:
Would you ever let it go?
Take your hand down from the broken bridge and let it fall
and take the weight of your move
You’ve got so much to prove.

So tie your heart down and retreat
There’s nothing left upon the sober street
You will come and go
and like the winter begins to keep the cold in

It’s freezing to the touch
It’s bleeding to the vein
There’s going to be trouble..

You will not fall down here
Fall down here, fall down here.

Your path is written down below
Beneath the layers to the central glow
This cast is your right 
To praise the spark in your bones
But we seek the undertones

Like this place is not enough
We’re gilded from the same
There’s likely to be trouble..

You will not fall down here with me
Fall down here and take the space just next to me
Fall down here.

Credits:
Words & Music by Cantrose Buchanan
Vocals / Acoustic Guitar - Cantrose Buchanan
Backing Vocals - Emma Gallop
Piano / Organ / Strings - Jon Gallop
Recorded in Belsize Park, London
Buchanan c2020

Trouble

Elevation

Forget remembering your past
Self contained and everlast 
This dissipating light
Turns a new rotating sky
Tethering to this complicated dream
Tonight

Daylight warms the tide
I can feel it moving inside
But this distance between
Is just the cost of the elevation 
Tethering to this complicated dream
Tonight

The clocks are turning back
Losing time and all the facts
Every second since the fall
We’ve stopped communicating 
Tethering to this complicated dream
Tonight

Through the broken glass is a new reflection
To a stable centre balancing 
All of the changes in the wind

Keep pushing away
Keep pulling in
Keep walking away
Keep marching in

Keep turning stones
Until you find your own
Keep standing up
After you fall down

Daylight warms the tide
I can feel it moving inside
But this distance between
Is just the cost of the elevation 
Tethering to this complicated dream
Tonight

Keep pushing away
Keep pulling in
Keep walking away
Keep marching in

Keep turning stones
Until you find your own
Keep standing up
After you fall down

Through the broken glass is a new reflection
To a stable centre balancing 
All of the changes in the wind

Daylight warms the tide
I can feel it moving inside
But this distance between
Is just the cost of the elevation 
Tethering to this complicated dream
Tonight

Words & Music by C.Buchanan c2020

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