Music & Lyrics: Chris Brockhan
Drums: Kellii Scott of Failure

Glassed-eyes
Mirror stars and bonfire light

Laid soft
Biding, pale and peacefully
Bright-lipped
dreaming of
some far-off waking

Scale hand by hand
Slowly, windows alight
Stone tower nightmares to fade
You've got to know once in awhile
That I'll come through
You've got to know once in a while
I'm thinking of you

Peel back curtains
Bending, begging for
Breath poured from your heart-
beats on fiercely
Spilling forward, alive

Claw from these far shadows
Open your eyes
wide, as the dark melts away
You've got to know once in awhile
That I'll come through
You've got to know once in awhile
I'm thinking of you

There is no crown
or gold promise
Just the weight
Of empty coins falling
Creeping up
This beast chasing
but you'll find me at your side

Claw from these far shadows
Open your eyes
wide, as the first touch of
day marks the sky-
line and the dark melts away
You've got to know once in awhile
That I'll come through
You've got to know once in awhile
I'm thinking of you

Center Switch - Spindle (Kellii Scott/Failure - Drums)

Song written by Jeff Stark
Recorded by Abandon City (unfinished, practice)

Bass, lyrics and vocals: Chris Brockhan
Guitars: Jeff Stark
Drums: Kevin Geist

Abandon City - Drive

Song by Jeff Stark
Recorded by Abandon City (practice, alternate version of "Don't Look Back")

Bass, lyrics and vocals: Chris Brockhan
Guitars: Jeff Stark
Drums: Kevin Geist

Abandon City - Progress

Song by Jeff Stark
Recorded by Briley
"Ka-Shume" 2006

Bass, lyrics and vocals: Chris Brockhan
Guitars: Jeff Stark
Drums: Chris Cox

Briley - The Numbers Are Bad

Briley - This Is Where My Tongue Lives

Song by Jeff Stark and Donald Williams
Recorded by Briley
"Thanks for the Time" 2005

Bass, lyrics and vocals: Chris Brockhan
Guitars: Jeff Stark and Donald Williams
Drums: Chris Cox

Briley - Speak

Song by Mike Boggs and Chris Brockhan
Recorded by The Electric Authority (practice)

Bass, lyrics and vocals: Chris Brockhan
Guitars: Mike Boggs and Ryan Pack
Drums: Chris Cox

The Electric Authority - Haze

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In A Better Place (Purity Ring Remix)

Written by: Chris Brockhan
2008
Special thanks to The Electric Authority, and Chris Cox for drums/percussion inspiration.

I saw the lights
and heard the sirens blaring
but you were only to be found
laying out across a rolling bed
lifted overhead
without uttering a sound

lifted overhead
and I never said goodbye

taken from class
with all these people staring
my eyes fixed upon the ground
walking out towards a telephone
waiting all alone to spin this spirit down

starting down the road
through window barriers watching them carry her
oh, how could I have known 
that when the bus stopped here for me
that you'd stop hearing me?

lifted overhead
and I never said goodbye

Center Switch - Blaring Sirens

Glimpse

Can you see the color of belief
and draw outside the lines
to find your relief
from doubting your release?

Tame some chatter in the mind
Discern the quiet, find
peace within the fold
of what you can control

Call it faith
Call it anything you want
but stay close to me

Come back and hear the melody of us
Grasping at the touch
A taste of something sweet
A raise from your defeat

Don't call it fate
Call it anything else
but don't lose sight of me

Center Switch - Glimpse

Christopher Brockhan:

Abandon City
Center Switch
The Electric Authority
Briley
The New Militia

Center Switch - Spindle (Kellii Scott/Failure - Drums)

Christopher Brockhan

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