A feel good bop about new beginnings and positive feelings.

Ready Get Set

Well are we lighting the way or going back
We’re gonna stay up late and think of that
And sleep all day
My only hope is a picture worth hanging up
We can look back on for generations to come
Ushering in a new age

I know not why and I could never try
To leave you wondering alone
I know it’s hard to find somebody on the line
Who could leave you wandering alone

How do I feel that you doubt
All these other people, look around
They wish to be you
Every single thing that you’re looking at, well
It makes you feel like you’re second best
The opposite is true

Cause in a world like this
Cause in a world like this
It’s easy to forget

Well are we fighting this off or holding back
Are we riding the stars or lost in the black
Stumbling into old age
Is it harder to face the truth in the dark
Lighting up your youth with things of the past
Is it easier to say we’re only second rate

I know not why and I could never try
To leave you wondering alone
I know it’s hard to find somebody on the line
Who could never leave you wandering alone

How do I feel that you doubt
All these other people, look around
They wish to be you
It’s true
Every single thing that you’re looking at, well
It makes you feel like you’re second best
The opposite is true

Cause in a world like this
Cause in a world like this
It’s easy to forget

You’re gonna feel it start
When true healing’s hardest
When you’re knocked straight off
Fall right into the darkness
I know you want to feel it work
You have to see to yourself first

How do I feel that you doubt
All these other people, look around
They wish to be you
It’s true
Every single thing that you’re looking at, well
It makes you feel like you’re second best
The opposite is true

Cause in a world like this
Cause in a world like this
It’s easy to forget

In A World Like This

Starlit Love Child

Ooh they’re gonna try to get you back 
Every time
Losing isn’t something that
Anybody likes
No one understands how we feel tonight
When we’re on the line
Hitting up the clubs like they’re trying be fanatical
Sitting there like ducks when they’re trying shoot up all the schools
Someone’s gotta find another animal
To tame the beast inside

Ooh baby this is not a reason to hide
Your light 

Flashback! 
What can you take in your
Backpack! 
We’re leaving for the road
Hell over others 
Is all we leave behind
Attack!
Is what they say when we
Fight back!
We’re leaving for the hills
Heaven don’t you even bother
To lead us to the light

Here we are in the dark
With nothing to hold to 
Give a part of your spark
To someone that needs it too
Holding on to each other will
Light the fire up
Losing sight of what is right
Is something that fools will do
Carry on through the dawn like they think there’s nothing new
Hitting all the waves in your living room
As you’re taking it all in  

Ooh baby this is not a reason to hide
Again

Flashback! 
What can you take in your
Backpack! 
We’re leaving for the road
Hell over others 
Is all we leave behind
Attack!
Is what they say when we
Fight back!
We’re leaving for the hills
Heaven don’t you even bother
To lead us to the light

Wait on 
Baby don’t wait on 
Wait on
Baby don’t wait on 
Wait on
Baby don’t wait on me

Wait on 
Baby don’t wait on 
Wait on
Baby don’t wait on 
Wait on
Baby don’t wait on me

Flashback! 
What can you take in your
Backpack! 
We’re leaving for the road
Hell over others 
Is all we leave behind
Attack!
Is what they say when we
Fight back!
We’re leaving for the hills
Heaven don’t you even bother
To lead us to the light

Flashback

Get on it
Ohh

All the people know that big boys cry
Doesn’t have to be such a damn crime
Baby know it’s alright to shine
All the people feel that it’s nonstop
The way the world can feel like a cell block
Where we gonna be when it’s all gone

I think the feeling is broken
When you have no hands to mold it
I want you to touch the sunrise

I said that she said that you were
Fighting the system’s computer
Growing to defy the laws of their reprise
Can you hear all the music
Playing inside you so use it
Defy the system now prove that
All these laws are lies

Everybody knows that people lie
And we don’t have to be so blind
We are just trying to survive
Everybody still can’t save themselves
So it’s alright to ask for help
We are all trying for ourselves

We are all trying for ourselves

I think the feeling is broken
When you have no hands to mold it
I want you to touch the sunrise

I said that she said that you were
Fighting the system’s computer
Growing to defy the laws of their reprise
Can you hear all the music
Playing inside you so use it
Defy the system now prove that
All these laws are lies

Get on it!

Batter up
(Batter up)
Batter up
(Batter up)

Your time to use it
Your will to move it
Your heart will prove it
Batter UP!

I said that she said that you were
Fighting the system’s computer
Growing to defy the laws of their reprise
Can you hear all the music
Playing inside you so use it
Defy the system now prove that
All these laws are lies

Batter Up

You say everything is fine
While the world is burning all around me
You say that we are alright
When I’m tired homeless and I’m drowning

Well I’ve got a thing and it’s not negativity
It’s just realistically 
Speaking about how I’ve been

It’s not nearly as bad as it seems
Nothing is what you think in your bad dreams
It’s only as good as you make it
Maybe we’re not forsaken
Just being redefined by creation 

You say everything is on it’s way
Ok that’s positivity
But times like these they feel kinda broken
Have I misspoken entirely

Well I’ve got a thing and it’s not negativity
It’s just realistically 
Speaking about how I’ve been

It’s not nearly as bad as it seems
Nothing is what you think in your bad dreams
It’s only as good as you make it
Maybe we’re not forsaken
Just being redefined by creation 

Lonely hearts playing games
People are afraid of being to blame
Lonely hearts playing games
Are people afraid to change

It’s not nearly as bad as it seems
Nothing is what you think in your bad dreams
It’s only as good as you make it
Maybe we’re not forsaken
Just being redefined by creation

Not nearly as bad as it seems
Nothing is what you think in your bad dreams
It’s only as good as you make it
Maybe we’re not forsaken
Just being redefined by creation

Bad Dreams

I wanna hold your whole body as you take a ride
Take a ride to the dark side of paradise
Couldn’t ask for more when you were seventeen
Now it’s like you’re a bore with no hunny

Hittin up your confinement it’s your enemy
Solitude is a moment that can’t be redeemed
Coulddn’t beg your lover to be more than true
Seems that you’re on a holy trip to pay your dues

Yea… Pay your dues

Deep inside of your heart
There’s something that’s burning 
Like a fire in the dark
Nothing will cool it
It’s like breathing underwater hey
Floating in the southern bay

Hitting your stride life is just a mess
It’s another type of high
If I had to guess 
It’s like fading into heavenly
You’re just drifting out to sea

I wanna bring you to life because you’re dead inside
Nothing else but a liar in that head of mine
Telling you that things they will get better soon
Lost in your old ways it’s hard to see the truth

Calling out an old friend who left you out to dry
When you were just a child they would let you cry
Now you’re all grown up with nothing else to do
Seems that people they like to get the best of you

Yea… The best of you

Deep inside of your heart
There’s something that’s burning 
Like a fire in the dark
Nothing will cool it
It’s like breathing underwater hey
Floating in the southern bay

Hitting your stride life is just a mess
It’s another type of high
If I had to guess 
It’s like fading into heavenly
You’re just drifting out to sea

Breathing underwater 
Breathing underwater
Breathing underwater yea

Breathing underwater 
Breathing underwater
Breathing underwater yea


I wann ahold your whole body as you take a dive
Take a ride to the dark side of paradise

Deep inside of your heart
There’s something that’s burning 
Like a fire in the dark
Nothing will cool it
It’s like breathing underwater hey
Floating in the southern bay

Hitting your stride life is just a mess
It’s another type of high
If I had to guess 
It’s like fading into heavenly
You’re just drifting out to sea

Breathing underwater 
Breathing underwater
Breathing underwater yea

Breathing underwater 
Breathing underwater
Breathing underwater yea

Breathing Underwater

Exiled

Rhythm of the Radio

Heartbeat

Yea
Ohh
Ohh

Drowning in all of my regret my heart is still aching
You were my very first mistake my only forsaken
You took all the stars away and now I see nothing
But darkness baby it's like I'm going crazy

It's a cool wind... blowin in my hair
then it died down...
So you just beware
of the fool's hand
Trying for fair
but no one got a chance to say they weren’t ever there

Too fly
I can never say baby let's cool it
So right
You're breaking through the smoke to fool me
Mirrors in society show us what's inside
Water’s on the rise
we slip until we take a dive

Don't you tell me it was all just a misunderstanding
I learned a lot in fact it's why I’m still mending
And I'll help you up because if you fall we're still blending
It's our heart’s baby...in the dark lately

It's a cool wind... blowin in my hair
then it died down...
So you just beware
of the fool's hand
Trying for fair
but no one got a chance to say they weren’t ever there

Too fly
I can never say baby let's cool it
So right
You're breaking through the smoke to fool me
Mirrors in society show us what's inside
Water on the rise
we slip until we take a dive

I've cried myself to sleep
because I have fallen
Give me your heart make it one with my being
Tell me what you're thinking when I say we’ve completely
lost this feelin this story we're beginning

Too fly
I can never say baby let's cool it
So right
You're breaking through the smoke to fool me
Mirrors in society show us what's inside
Water on the rise
we slip until we take a dive

Too fly
I can never say baby let's cool it
So right
You're breaking through the smoke to fool me
Mirrors in society show us what's inside
Water on the rise
we slip until we take a dive

Mirrors

I wanna know when will it be revealed
When the light hits… your heart of steel
Dont wanna watch your truth turn its back
On love
I wanna see with eyes wide shut
All of your days like a lightening crash
I wanna watch you turn the rain
Into life again

The light will shine within

Was it my love that saw the future
It was only trust I had in you
And You gave me hope when I believed the truth hurt
But nobody could ever see

The echo
I will never let go
Echo echo
I’ll never let go
Of what I found in you

I feel the love like a never ending story
And all tears that I’ve wept went dry
I couldn’t see past my own disarray
As if it were mine
You loved me more
Than I could know
I adore you for never letting go
Time is burning through my soul
But You saw me through it all
Through it all

Sunshine with find me again

Was it my love that saw the future
It was only trust that I had in you
And You gave me hope when I believed the truth hurt
But nobody could ever see

The echo
I will never let go
Echo echo
I’ll never let go
Of what I found in you

Can you hear the echo
Yea the echo your body
Can you let go of all of the things that bring you down
Can you hear the world cause everybody is worried
Can you hear the sound
Can you hear the sound

Can you hear the sound of my heart

It’s echo
I will never let go
Echo echo
I’ll never let go
Of what I found in you

It wasn’t my love that saw the future
It was only trust I had in you
And You gave me hope when I believed the truth
But nobody could ever see
The echo

Echo

Third Degree. One of the songs on the "Ready Get Set" EP.
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