Ryan Manning - guitar, vocals
Adam Smith - bass
Michael Harnois - drums

Scarred Heart (music and lyrics by Ryan Manning)

I want to hold true
Embrace, not mold you
Follow the bold few
The ones that led the charge

Honesty has made it's way to the top
Pressure building every moment it stops
Follow suit, avoid a failure again
Gaining more than what you ever had planned

Use all you go through
Bring order out of chaos

As soon as it's done, it's seen that treating a tear heals with a scarred heart

Give up the old views
From where you're left bruised
Make known that it's true
That one should not give up

Still awake and never sleeping again
Stand for all that you believe in instead
Find a checkpoint on the road that extends
From where you started and around every bend

Use all you go through
Bring order out of chaos

As soon as it's done, it's seen that treating a tear heals with a scarred heart

Lose all you have that's set ablaze
Don't let the madness make you crazed
Forget the past, embrace your fate
Seek out a path, but not the same stained way

I want to hold true
Embrace, not mold you
Follow the bold few
The ones that led the charge

Honesty has made it's way to the top
Pressure building every moment it stops
Follow suit, avoid a failure again
Gaining more than what you ever had planned

As soon as it's done, it's seen that treating a tear heals with a scarred heart

Lose all you have that's set ablaze
Don't let the madness make you crazed
Forget the past, embrace your fate
Seek out a path, but not the same stained way

Lose all you have that's set ablaze
Don't let the madness make you crazed
Forget the past, embrace your fate
Seek out a path, but not the same stained way

Same stained way
Same stained way
Same stained way

Saved

Scarred Heart

Ryan Manning - guitar, vocals
Adam Smith - bass, backing vocals
Michael Harnois - drums, backing vocals

Lost and Found (music and lyrics by Ryan Manning)

You can search entire cities and still manage not to find the right soul that gets you living
Yet, it happens without trying

I feel lucky that I'm stealing all these moments of your time
A shared laugh and voices singing will all blend to harmonize

Saw your face and then I heard your name
Now you've sunk in
Forever affected by you, never to forget

Someone real is hard to find
It's unexpected, so you came as a surprise
Somehow, we are both of one mind
If I'd not met you, I'd be missing so much, I know

Always brighter when you're near me
A warm safety in your eyes
Every day with you that's gifted is a day I feel alive

Saw your face and then I heard your name
Now you've sunk in
Forever affected by you, never to forget

Lost and Found (live in studio)

Ryan Manning - guitar, vocals
Adam Smith - bass
Michael Harnois - drums

The Hateful Mind (music and lyrics by Ryan Manning)

Once upon a long time ago there was a way of thought that was ever taking precedence
Days before have led us to where we are
They're raising up as they bring us down behind the scenes

See the hope on the surface, not knowing what's in the furnace
A scene, it seems, has been set alight, and so shone there the hateful mind

Ignorance is the fear of what is not the way you are
It's the underbelly, primitive
Finding holes in the walls has led to where the time has stood in the same infected meeting place

See the hope on the surface
Not knowing what's in the furnace
A scene, it seems, has been set alight, and so shone there the hateful mind

When the whole world moves on, then we'll all see better times
When the night is dawn, then the truth only applies
When the horror is gone, then we've not set back our minds
Disappointed, though it's known that the more we live we try

See the hope on the surface
Not knowing what's in the furnace
A scene, it seems, has been set alight, and so shone there the hateful mind

The Hateful Mind (live in studio)

Ryan Manning - guitar, vocals
Adam Smith - bass
Michael Harnois - drums

The Homeless (music and lyrics by Ryan Manning)

What's it mean if it's not working, and who decides if it's been broken?
'Cause beauty's in the eye of the beholder
More beckons you

Not for me to throw out something that I can see as useful somehow
'Cause beauty's in the eye of the beholder
More beckons you

A place you can't tell
Better than trapped in a cell
The weight of the damages break all the backs of all of the spirits that slip through the cracks

No

A belief in something more than what I see and feel before me
'Cause beauty's in the eye of the beholder
More beckons you

Suddenly there's some new meaning put to the shattered and the scratched for being
'Cause beauty's in the eye of the beholder
More beckons you

A place you can't tell
Better than trapped in a cell
The weight of the damages break all the backs of all of the spirits that slip through the cracks

No, I've got no home
No, I've got more to go
No, I've got no home
No, I've got more to go
No

A place you can't tell
Better than trapped in a cell
The weight of the damages break all the backs of all of the spirits that slip through the cracks

A place you can't tell
Better than trapped in a cell
The weight of the damages break all the backs of all of the spirits that slip through the cracks

No, I've got no home
No, I've got more to go
No
No, I've got no home
No, I've got more to go
No
No, I've got no home
No, I've got more to go
No
No, I've got no home
No, I've got more to go
No
No, I've got no home
No, I've got more to go
No
No, I've got no home
I've got more to go
No

'Cause beauty's in the eye of the beholder
More beckons you
'Cause beauty's in the eye of the beholder
More beckons you

The Homeless

Ryan Manning - guitar, vocals
Adam Smith - bass
Michael Harnois - drums

Beneath (music and lyrics by Ryan Manning)

Don't get a second to think, then thinking's all there seems to be
I hold the only broken key

Obsession and release of all these actions facing me
I float along a broken dream, and confusion tears it's way beneath

I've spat up everyone's regurgitated sustenance
I'll find my soul
I don't need a line, but it's unclear at times
Passed up deterrents and made straight away for empty threats
I'll find my soul
I don't need a line, but it's unclear at times

Have hope that all will be assigned to take the shape and not divide
A place to live, and not to die

We've come too far, and been too deep
There's more to have
I know, I've seen
It's good to give and not deceive, and confusion tears it's way beneath

I've spat up everyone's regurgitated sustenance
I'll find my soul
I don't need a line, but it's unclear at times
Passed up deterrents and made straight away for empty threats
I'll find my soul
I don't need a line, but it's unclear at times

If it's truly there we're made to see what's inside
Seem to loop around ascendancy
Broken life
For the future of the stolen rite , all align
Need the proof from you to to know that I'm yours, you're mine

Still here

Beneath

Ryan Manning - guitar, vocals
Adam Smith - bass
Michael Harnois - drums

Somewhere Inside the Sun (music and lyrics by Ryan Manning)

I want to feel it once again
I want a fire and a friend
I want the trust where it had been
See the eyes

Forever saying what you said
A staying comfort from within
A state euphoric, over with
Wield the scythe

A face bereft of all the care
A sense of lying in your stare
Foreboding thickening the air
Read the signs

A gaping hole from just a tear
How many trials can you bear?
Decision rising from a scare
Realize

That's where i want to run, somewhere inside the sun, bathed in healing warmth and light, finding what you know is right

Standing atop a razor blade
A deadly fall to either way
Unsure of what it is to claim neither side

When noticed silence doesn't end, it's harder for a wound to mend
With every thought a new defense
Realign

That's where i want to run, somewhere inside the sun, bathed in healing warmth and light, finding what you know is right

When the words conceal the truth, where it lies, it's understood inside
Forced the hand, revealing what has you down, it's understood in time

That's where i want to run, somewhere inside the sun, bathed in healing warmth and light, finding what you know is right


Somewhere Inside the Sun

Influenza is a Worcester-based 3-piece rock band bringing originality and intense performances to the tri-state area.

Ryan Manning - guitar, vocals
Adam Smith - bass, backing vocals
Michael Harnois - drums, backing vocals

INFLUENZA

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