Fizzy Water

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I miss you so
the days they drag
our time is thick
since you went away
we're waiting here
still here
we're chewing holes
right out of the wall

The night are long
fires cold
the drinks are thin
champions of it all
a pale report today
the war seems over
all the monsters come to stay

I try to pretend
the skin I'm living in
it ain't so far away from you
it feels so far away from you
apart from you it's just sham
apart from you

Our friends they ask
where you gone
say I don't know
He's just hanging out
you know that kid
you know that kid
just got sick of it

The daily grind
wore you down
you took some time
just got out of town
to see the grass 
the green
to see the grass 
and all the spaces in between

All the animals
they all know our howl 
running in the night
when the noise is warm
you are right beside us
so don't worry my friend
we'll see you again
just a matter of time
it's just a matter of time

So don't despair
the time will come
when all this ash
blows out with the wind
out on the breeze
far away
I see your face
It's with me every single day
and we'll be here


The Waiting Game

Lyrics by Ben Woodul
Music by Ben Woodul & Dan DeKalb

Silence calls a lonely wail
as it floats up here
and lays us bare

So open up the bottle dear
the parties over no ones here
and all around us burning down
so let's have some fun let's mess around

So pretend you're tame
but I see all the secret games you crave to play

God forgive our wicked ways
we haven't seen the sun in days
it's just too much fun here in the dark
the firelight and electric spark
yes our friends they have all gone away
so now the dogs come out to play
their hungry howls to a darkened moon 
how they rush our blood it will be over soon

So pretend you're tame
but I see secrets that your eyes have tried to hide

It's the end of your empire
it all blew away

You're gonna own me 
because you got to
you say you got me
well if you say so
but I can taste you
I can smell you near
and I see death on the horizon
his sickle high and his smile widens
as he cuts the line that holds us here


In the Wasteland

Music & Lyrics by Taylor Dondlinger & Ben Woodul

I'll cut a little slit in the back of my head
so I can mend the loose connections
somethings not connected
my wires got crossed
separated, inside
different places reside my thoughts
try to hide it but do you want a piece of me?
cause you're under my skin now

I don't know what I saw in you
I don't recall much of anything
I try to put the pieces in their place
I try but the pieces just won't fit
the pieces just won't fit

If there's one thing I know
it's your signature mark
(taken your games too far but you never
seem to finish anything you start)
and if there's one thing I'm sure
you'll be coming back for me

I just need a memento
I just need a memento
I just need a memento
I just need a memento
something that will remind me


Memento ft Taylor Dondlinger

Time, it always wins,
It always finds that place to cut you in the end
Grace, it’s fading fast
Slipping through the cracks
out over the balcony singing

I laugh at you little fool
you lift your head to look at me
I laugh at you little fool, you fool
Sing your time away and soon your summers gone
Or cry your time away still soon the summers gone
The winter wind is calling out your name
It’s screaming hey, you there

Love, it always wins
it always wins unless it doesn’t in the end
It paints a lovely blue, an angry tangerine
of pieces of your broken dreams singing

I laugh at you little fool, to fix your eyes so fast on me
I laugh at you little fool, you fool
Sing your heart away and hope your love lives on 
Or hide your heart away for fear of what they’ll do
When they find out you’re trying to improve
Anything, at all

Hope is hurtful, and it cuts both ways
Oh it sees the home behind your eyes
Burns it down for firelight, In the dark
You can’t fight the dark
But you can try, try, try, try
Anyway
Who’s gonna stop you
anyway

Music & Lyrics Ben Woodul
Vocals & Harmonies Rebecca Woodul

Angry Tangerine ft Rebecca Woodul

Criminal Birds is an atmospheric groove based nucleus tightly encased by a dense alternative rock shell, prone to hatch explosively.

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