La Vie En Rose Cover

The second song is about Lee. Lee lives with the Trasks and raises two Trask boys. He shares the story of his mother with Adam. She dressed as a man to be with her father when he is sent to work for the railroad company. She does the work of a man, and all while pregnant. Her life seems impossibly hard, but Lee tells Adam, “My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible”. His mother made it through the pregnancy, but the work caused her to go into labor early. Lee’s father has to rescue him from the dying body of his mother. But the most unexpected turn of the story is that from then on, the camp became his mother. The very people who killed his mother are those who now give him life. Lee says, “Before you hate those men you must know this. My father always told it at the last: no child ever had such care as I. The whole camp became my mother. It is a beauty – a dreadful kind of beauty”. Lee believes in the necessity for telling the truth of a story and not making it more dramatic or taking away the worst details. He says, “There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar”. The focus of this song is the importance of truth from Lee’s perspective. The verses are based on the story of his mother and father.

Better Man

This is the first single released off the album, 2020 Hindsight and it's about the courage to continue on in the face of heart-breaking loss.
Written and Composed by Tim Inglis
Produced and mixed by Brian Fifield
Vocals, drum programming, bass, electric guitars and synths by Tim Inglis.
Synths, keyboards and electric guitars by Brian Fifield.
Acoustic guitars by Dave Moran.
Artwork designed by dethklaus on fiver (https://www.fiverr.com/dethklaus/draw-robots-soldiers-demons-and-many-other-things?source=order_page_summary_gig_link_title&funnel=72adc292-4e8c-4bb8-9182-f21cc17a7648)

Lyrics:
V1.
What else is left to do
When my heart is torn in two
Than to cry warm, bitter streams
That feel like ice upon the cheek
It's hard to write the music
When my eyes are filled with tears
The dots don't match; the lines aren't straight
As the days without you melt into years

Ch1.
Dark the days hidden in the shroud
Of heartbreak closing in and
Strained the soul that reaches out to
Touch your frozen love

V2.
They say time heals all wounds
But I don't know if that's true
'Cause each day you're not around
I feel I'm sinking further down
I wish I had this moment
For you to see differently
I'm not the man you think I am
Just a broken soul needing one more dream

Ch2.
Brave the heart that battles on
In sight of the sword to fall upon with
Hope that your forgiveness comes to
Bring a guiding light

Br.
My heart breaks for the way I've broken yours
I wish I had the magic words to say
To steal away your pain and bitterness
But there's nothing that’ll make the hurt okay

Ch3.
Dark the days hidden in the shroud
Of heartbreak closing in and
Strained the soul that reaches out to
Touch your frozen love
Brave the heart that battles on
In sight of the sword to fall upon with
Hope that your forgiveness comes to
Bring a guiding light

Lee

SARAH RINGER