Written, Performed & Produced by C. Sheppard & J.C. Lucian ©2019 Wax Moth

Lyrics:
Someday, someday
We’ll be thinking about the years
We spent down here
Underground with the sound we made

One day, one day
We’ll be free from the tyranny
Of childhood dreams
Wondering what awaits on the other side

And you sing my favorite song
While my father gets his gun
It could’ve ended there
But nothing compared
To the melody you played

Get in the car
Keep driving on
There’s only future waiting in the open wide
So don’t look back
We have everything    

‘Cause we’re just starting out
On someday, someday

We believed in the poetry
Of the shattered space stuck in between
Walls that greyed with decay, and us
Cross the threshold
Shut the door and we say goodbye to mystery
Only what awaits on the other side

And we fall into the sound
While our house is burning down
It could’ve ended there
But nothing compared

Now it’s time for growing up
Putting yesterday to waste
No one's running down the stairs
They're running down your face
But the echoes in the walls
Are our testament

Weeping at the shallow grave of someday, someday

Feel it now from miles apart
In basements and in concert halls
The sound is growing faint on the other side

And you sing my favorite song
Through a broken telephone
We were unprepared
And no one was there
But a memory betrayed 

Don’t get in the car
Don’t drive away
To a space and time erased between the lines

We might’ve known
Some things weren't meant to change
'Cause it’s been thirteen years
And nothing compares...

Thirteen Years

Written, Performed & Produced by C. Sheppard & J.C. Lucian ©2019 Wax Moth

Lyrics:
Paint someone in your image
To leave a piece of you behind
So they will remember
Your name when you’ll be gone

We’re born into a world of secrets and lies
I believed it was time to try and relate
Something denied my fate
to pass it on

If there was a chance to be unhollow
You'd have had me at hello
It makes no difference how I feel 
What matters is I know
I'm overdue
To pay for borrowed time

Run away from the weight of the empty inside me
Dress me in white and pretend you don’t hear me
Cry as you carry the future despite me and mine

Mother, I never meant to cause you any shame
As you bleed for two when I can’t
Complain I’m the one to blame
For this alone

We’re trained to burn for others’ sake
And the home that we make is wide
As the smile that we fake 
Wasn't my mistake to wait so long

Run away from the weight of the empty inside me
Dress me in white and pretend you don’t hear me
Cry as you carry the future despite me and mine

When the grey turns to black
And my hand's slipping away
I will learn to leave and try not to grieve 
For the ones who got away

Bloodlines

Let It Out

Written, Performed & Produced by C. Sheppard & J.C. Lucian ©2019 Wax Moth

Lyrics:
Catch me if you can
Far away I hope to stay
But your will survives
To glorify the pace
Of the hunter’s race
To change my mind

Understand my instinct was burned
Into memory, so I’ve learned

Your sole souvenir
Is my sorrow, my dear 

You saw me cry in my sleep
Years of isolating grief weren’t kind
And still they take control
I’m not an easy thing to know

So when I lie through my teeth
It’s only justified deceit ringing hollow
Trying not to show you
How I’m a stranger far from home

Then, at the end
I delay, you’re ashamed
And we go separate ways

Now that you've begun
Rearranging all my dreams to stay aligned
With your pride 
All the pain that's overstayed
Is killing time

It’s becoming clear you’re concerned
I may hesitate to return

My sole souvenir
Is your sorrow, my dear

And there we lie, bittersweet
No more to say between the sheets
But a vow of shame, to have, to hold
Until I’m speaking on my own

And when we rise to our knees
With my disgrace I stay 
In our bed unmade inviting in the cold
Like a stranger coming home

You saw me cry in my sleep
Years of isolating grief weren’t kind
And still they take control
I’m not an easy thing to know

So when I lie through my teeth
It’s only justified deceit ringing hollow
Trying not to show you
How I’m a stranger far from home

Then, at the end
You’re enraged, my mistake
And we go separate ways

Not An Easy Thing To Know

Written, Performed & Produced by C. Sheppard & J.C. Lucian ©2019 Wax Moth

Lyrics:

Action on two
Go break all the rules
And a leg, for once
If your courage improves

The role of your lifetime
Gonna put it on view
Betcha cannot wait to shake up
Yesterday’s news

Comfortably cruel
They profit, you lose
If and when the words are given
You read them on cue

What kind of love is left
For anything you
When you only wake your head up
For the morning revue

All the world
Was once amazed
The audience called for their hero by name
When the lights in the house went down on the show
Nervous actresses lined up
To make you their lead

When all the world 
Was once your stage
Before you were making believe from a cage
And a domineering villain threw off your routine
The fool you were playing
Was dead on his feet
(End scene)

While all the world
Was left amazed
You still owe them rights so hey, don’t misbehave
When the final curtain is drawn on the screen
There's an alternate ending
With a private release

And all the world
Becomes our stage
As fearless we face every unwritten page
We can leave our regrets on the cutting room floor
The script is unfinished
We’re still writing act three

Hero

Written, Performed & Produced by C. Sheppard & J.C. Lucian ©2019 Wax Moth

Lyrics:

Don't wanna settle down
I planted roots, but I walked away
And I don't wanna think about
The better plans I could've made

Growing up I was not allowed
To wander far from where I came
And all I can do right now
Is wish aloud for somewhere new
To run away

I've never been to New Orleans
But I like the way she sings
In my head
Because you sang her to me
And now she waits in my dream
Where I'm dancing in the heat
Down on Decatur Street

And I'm feeling so tied down
Been working hard to earn my way
And I don't wanna talk about
The precious time I could've saved

Always better to run from safety
Than to feel you've become a ghost
In your home
Where there is no more music
Except in all those pretty dreams
Where you're walking to the beat
Down on Decatur Street

I'll bet you twenty dollars
I can guess where you got your shoes
This town, she doesn't sing for free
And stranger you need hustling
Well, you got 'em on your feet

As I'm walking through this broken dream
Where I'm dancing in the heat
Down on Decatur Street

Decatur Street

Breathing in the water 💧 
Drowning in the air

Lemurian Crypto

#gothic #darkwave #chillwave #synthwave
What’s never begun, well it can’t be undone, it will never be lost and can never be broken. 
Do you follow? 
Light and darkness in my heart. There’s light and darkness in your ropes around my heart ❤️

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Unchain (80s vibes)

Poem originally written by Alfred Noyes
Recited by the legendary Dirk Smiler
Musical arrangement composed and recorded by J.C. Lucian
Recording ©2020 Lucy Led Astray

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