[Opening Lines]

"Why do I put up with this?
Like I know I’m a good person.
Someone who deserves to be loved as is.
Why’s that so hard to find?"

[Verse 1]

You only love me if I’m shining,
But what about my cracks?
You only love me if I’m wild,
But what about my quiet?
You only love me when I’m broken,
But what about my strength?
You only love me when I’m heavy,
What about my levity? 

[Pre-Chorus]

"I’m more than what you pick and choose,
I’m tired of shrinking just for you"

[Chorus]

What about all the parts of me?
The ones you never stick around to see.
All my colours, all my shadows.
I just want someone to see me.

[Verse 2]

You only love me if I’m pretty,
But what about my scars?
You only love me if I’m winning,
What about my losses?
You only love me if I’m gentle,
But what about my fire?
You only love me if I’m easy,
What about my fight?

[Bridge]

Maybe I’ve been begging the wrong hands
To hold the weight of who I am.
Maybe the love I need’s not out there
But right here in my own hands.

[Final Chorus]

What about all the parts of me?
The ones I’ve hidden just to be
Something you could understand?
I just need someone to see me.
All of me.
I just need someone to see me.
All of me.
I just want someone to see me.

All of me

[Verse]
We the meek rise up from the dirt
Turn whispers to roars
Make the silence hurt
No gold in our pockets
Just fire in our veins
We march through the ruins
We break through the chains

[Prechorus]
If you cut me down
I won't fall alone
For every drop spilled
A thousand more grow

[Chorus]
Take no prisoners
Burn the sky
Scorched earth policy
Watch 'em cry
If you ill me
There's no end to this fight
We're the storm
We're the night
We ignite

[Verse 2]
We the unseen
Now the force you fear
Turn shadows to armies
We’re crystal clear
No crown on our heads
Just the will to defy
No place to retreat
No reason to lie

[Prechorus]
If you strike me here
I'll rise in the dust
For every one gone
There’s a thousand of us

[Chorus]
Take no prisoners
Burn the sky
Scorched earth policy
Watch 'em cry
If you ill me
There's no end to this fight
We're the storm
We're the night
We ignite

[Chorus]
Take no prisoners
Burn the sky
Scorched earth policy
Watch 'em cry
If you ill me
There's no end to this fight
We're the storm
We're the night

Rise of the Meek

[Verse]
You move when I whisper
You stop when I shout
Your dreams are a mirror
Reflecting my doubt
Every step you take
It's mine to claim
You were never free
Just a pawn in my game

[Chorus]
Do what I want
Do as I say
Your will fades like night into day
A slave
A servant
A name with no face
You're caught in the web
No escape
No trace

[Verse 2]
Your strings are tangled
Your voice is a hush
I pull
You stagger
You break at the crush
No sun
No stars
Just shadows remain
You were never free
Just a pawn in my game

[Bridge]
Is this the end
Or the start of despair
You reach for the sky
But there's nothing up there
You laugh
You cry
But it all sounds the same
A melody twisted
A pawn in my game

[Chorus]
Do what I want
Do as I say
Your world bends where I make it sway
A slave
A servant
A hollowed out flame
Forever you'll burn
Just a pawn in my game

Pawn in My Game

(Verse 1)
Woke up again to the same gray sky
The alarm clock screams back to reality
The mirror just shrugs, no answers in sight
I’m a hamster on a wheel, going nowhere tonight

(Pre-Chorus)
Dreams got evicted, can’t pay the rent
Collecting dust on a shelf where they went
Is this the price of living Or the cost of being alive
Joy’s on vacation never sent a hint she’d arrive

(Chorus)
Spinning wheels on a gravel road
No traction just a unforgiving load
Life’s a paycheck then back to the bills
Losing my mind a circle that kills

(Verse 2)
A number on a sheet not a man of flesh and bone
Clock hands laugh they move so damn slow
Chasing a purpose I can’t seem to find
Leaving the best part of me behind.

(Chorus)
Spinning wheels on a gravel road
No traction just a unforgiving load
Life’s a paycheck then back to the bills
Losing my mind a circle that kills

(Bridge)
I wanna scream but it came out a sigh!
If life’s a party I missed the invite!
Burning on the inside but my outside’s wearing thin
A ghost going through the motions waiting for the end.

(Final Chorus)
Spinning wheels on my grave
Break my back carrying this load
Life's a paycheck back to my hole
Spinning my wheels losing my mind

Spinning Wheels

[Verse 1]
A scent of panic on the air
A pulse of terror, pure and rare
You think your silence makes you safe
I feel the rhythm of your faith

[Chorus]
Running won't save you now
I can hear your frantic vow
A final prayer upon your brow
This city is my hunting ground

[Verse 2]
The shadows begin to weep
A promise that I mean to keep
Your fragile form is wearing thin
I feel the panic set within

[Chorus]
Running won't save you now
I can hear your frantic vow
A final prayer upon your brow
This city is my hunting ground

[Verse 3]
No more stalking in the dark
I see the embers of your spark
My shiny teeth are set and bare
A spectacle of your despair

[Verse 4]
Running won't save you now
I taste the failure on your brow
This game is done, I make my bow

[Chorus]
Running won't save you now
I can hear your frantic vow
A final prayer upon your brow
This city is my hunting ground

Apex

[Verse]
She packed her bags and said goodbye
Left her home under the clear blue sky
With her husband and children three
They set off to find their destiny

[Chorus]
Oh
The wandering soul of the Emerald Isle
Lost in the beauty
Lost for a while
Caught between dreams and reality
Embracing the spirit of Irish vitality

[Verse 2]
She left behind the land of green
In search of life on shores unseen
Far from the emerald isle
She kept that good ol irish pride

[Chorus]
Oh
The wandering soul of the Emerald Isle
Lost in the beauty
Lost for a while
Caught between dreams and reality
Embracing the spirit of Irish vitality

[Verse 3]
Days to weeks and
Weeks into years
Her path unsure
Her future unclear
Yet she pressed on
With love in their eyes
For her family near and far

[Chorus]
Oh
The wandering soul of the Emerald Isle
Lost in the beauty
Lost for a while
Caught between dreams and reality
Embracing the spirit of Irish vitality

[Verse 2]
She left behind the land of green
In search of life on shores unseen
Far from the emerald isle
She kept that good ol irish pride

[Chorus]
Oh
The wandering soul of the Emerald Isle
Lost in the beauty
Lost for a while
Caught between dreams and reality
Embracing the spirit of Irish vitality

[outro Verse]
She left behind the land of green
In search of life on shores unseen
Far from the emerald isle
She kept that good ol irish pride

[Chorus]
Oh
The wandering soul of the Emerald Isle
Lost in the beauty
Lost for a while
Caught between dreams and reality
Embracing the spirit of Irish vitality

[outro Verse]
She left behind the land of green
In search of life on shores unseen
Far from the emerald isle
She kept that good ol irish pride
The wandering soul of the Emerald Isle

WanderingSoul

(Verse 1)
You assume I'm always here
For your needs, anytime
Like a vending machine
Waiting for your dime

(Chorus)
But what's important to me
Is always oblivious to you
I'm just an app waiting for a click
That person you built to exist

(Verse 2)
Just a reason to live
All I plead for is your time
Just notifications for me
Tasks on the line

(Chorus)
But what's important to me
Is always oblivious to you
I'm just an app waiting for a click
That person you built to exist

(Verse 3)
All smiles when I perform
Then you put me on the shelf
A thousand pleas left unread
Talking to no one but myself

(Bridge)
A tool with no voice
A thing with no choice
A dream in a haze
Lost in your scrolling maze

(Chorus)
But what's important to me
Is always oblivious to you
I'm just an app waiting for a click
That person you built to exist

(Outro)

    All I want... is a bit of life...

No Access

[Verse]
Running off a cliff
No time to cry
Don't look down
Don't ask why
Keep your head low
Keep your mind blind
A sacred cow leads the grind

[Prechorus]
We call it progress
We call it fate
But who decides the grand debate

[Chorus]
It's the grand design
The holy myth
Running off a cliff
Off a cliff
A bottomless ditch
No time to twitch
Running off a cliff
Off a cliff

[Verse 2]
Hands tied tight by invisible strings
We march to the beat
The chaos it brings
The edge is near
Can you hear the call
One step forward
We lose it all

[Bridge]
Wheels are turning
But the road's a lie
Sacred cows grazing under empty skies
The bottom's waiting
The top's a trick
Who's the architect of this bottomless pit

[Chorus]
It's the grand design
The holy myth
Running off a cliff
Off a cliff
A bottomless ditch
No time to twitch
Running off a cliff
Off a cliff
Off a cliff

Running off a cliff

(Verse 1)
The sun gets in my eyes
How my life has passed by
Longing for days past
Innocent time recast

(Chorus)
A child's eye summer lasted forever
Each day a new and bold endeavor
As a teen growing up however
The years began to blend and sever
In this fading light, dreams die
Beneath a fast and frantic sky
The haggard, disillusioned I
Just watches all the time fly by

(Verse 2)
Remember streets that had no end
Simple times spent with a friend
The world you couldn't comprehend
Now life blurs and blends

(Pre-Chorus)
The clock ticks slow when you are small
One summer feels a century long
But the pendulum starts to fall...

(Chorus)
A child's eye summer lasted forever
Each day a new and bold endeavor
As a teen growing up however
The years began to blend and sever
In this fading light, dreams die
Beneath a fast and frantic sky
The haggard, disillusioned I
Just watches all the time fly by

(Bridge)
And now the sun gets in my eyes
Not with warmth, but with surprise
At the cost of compromise
And the truth in all the lies
I'd give all my tomorrows
To borrow one of those
Endless, sweet, and slow sorrows

(Final Chorus)
A child's eye summer lasted forever 
Each day a new and bold endeavor 
As a teen growing up however 
The years began to blend and sever 
In this fading light, dreams die
Beneath a fast and frantic sky 
The haggard, disillusioned I 
Just watches all the time fly by

(Outro)
Wondering why 
As time flies by 
The sun gets in my eyes 
How my life has passed by 

Fading Light

[Verse 1]
My mind wanders the interstate at midnight
No destination in the rearview light
From place to place, a ghost without a name
Just flickering signs and the static and the rain
Dream to dream, a channel never clear
Flirting with a reality I couldn't hold near

[Pre-Chorus]
I was a photograph, fading out to grey
A skipped track on a tape, about to wear away

[Chorus]
But you brought me back to life again
Jumper cables on a dying engine, friend
You reset my transition to man
Not with a shout, but with a steady hand

[Bridge]
And I know the rumors that you might have heard
The broken, silent man who never said a word
I really am not that bad, I'm just a house that's been
A little worn, a little cold, from all the storms within

[Chorus]
But you brought me back to life again
Jumper cables on a dying engine, friend
You reset my transition to man
Not with a shout, but with a steady hand

[Verse 2]
And no, not in every way, the ache is still a thread
A phantom limb of chaos living in my head
It's not all inside my mind, it's in the set of my jaw
The way I flinch at silence, and the cracks you never saw

[Outro]
You brought me back
You brought me back to life.
Reset my transition
You brought me back.
Life again

Fading Light

Colin