Lyrics

How many times can I say that I want you? 
I need you
I need you…

When I was standing all alone
All alone
Mmmm

Can you hear me?
Can you see me?
Can you feel me?
How many times did I call out?

Hope for a future with you
Hope for the ways that you move
Hope for the things that you say you’ll do
Oh, come now my love.

Ahhh

How Many Times

Lyrics

I’ve been so distant away
Caught in the system today

Come one come all into the night
Into the desert “hear our cry”
Oh no, it was for nothing.

(Send your rain, Oh God)
The burden is heavy the travel so long
(Kill our fame, Oh God)
Take back the mantle that was so lost
(Hold the pain, Oh God)
Cover the children cover the man
(Make your way, Oh God)
Send us the rain, heal our land

Bramble and honey, you say
Good for the tummy always

We always search for something to sustain
But now we’ve learnt to take the easy way
Oh no, we were so stubborn

(Send your rain, Oh God)
The burden is heavy the travel so long
(Kill our fame, Oh God)
Take back the mantle that was so lost
(Hold the pain, Oh God)
Cover the children cover the man
(Make your home, Oh God)
It’s not what I thought of the promise land

There’s still time left for us
Time left for us, time left for us
There is still time, there is still time for us

There’s still time!

(Send your rain, Oh God)
The burden is heavy the travel so long
(Kill our fame, Oh God)
Take back the mantle that was so lost
(Hold the pain, Oh God)
Cover the children cover the man
(Make your home, Oh God)
It’s not what I thought of the promise land

Promised Land

At Least We Tried

Lyrics

What does it mean to be honest,
With all that's gone on?
Do you notice that you're miles away?

I need to be more than honest
If I want to keep you close.
Standing at the edge, and I’m afraid.

Ahhhh
It’s out in the open
Ahhhh
You chose to go, I know
Ahhhh
The silence is crushing

What does history mean to tell us?
That all things can change,
Subject to the feelings in the fade.

Ruminating too long tell me
That I’m not enough for this.
It’s uncanny that we’re in the grey.

Ahhhh
We’re out in the open
Ahhhh
I know you don’t I know
Ahhhh
The process is crushing you

Ahhh
Feeling honest
The process is crushing you

The Process

Lyrics

Endless night
Broke by sunlight
I wish I could have seen it

Beauty comes
Then it goes again
I wish I wasn't dreaming

Oh, I'm sinking under
Oh, I'm struck by wonder
You're calming my oceans with all of your notions It's fair to say safe to stay
And wait as we gaze

Into the moon

Holding time
Has never been my strength
It's been my weakness

To get out of my own head
And, lay the feelings to rest
Oh I wish it was that simple

Oh I'm sinking under
Oh I was led to plunder
I'm caught in fighting myself and denying it's hard to find the silver lining
I'll wait as we gaze

Into the moon

Into The Moon

Lyrics

I wait as you enter the room
Wide, deep and howlin’
Open, split in two
Green, eyes drownin’

Oh, you light the room
You light the room

Currents flow from your lips
Eyes, wide and smilin’
If only you could see truth
Their heads are rollin’
Their bodies turnin’

Oh, you light the room
You light the room

light the room

Lyrics

I felt it, oh I felt it
Right in the place where you left us

Oh, I'm fighting, out right denying
All the things that have caused me to doubt myself

I have come to this
This conviction that I have missed

Oh oh oh
I'm tired of waiting what I'm waiting for
Oh oh oh
Anticipating
One foot out the door
How could I leave it?
Turn face I'm conceding
Ooo

Could we say that it's a lost cause?
Fighting the light finding the life between glorious ruins

Maybe I should just forget it all
Trying to win and never take the fall

I have come to this
This conviction that I have missed

Oh oh oh
I'm tired of waiting what I'm waiting for
Oh oh oh
Anticipating
One foot out the door
How could I leave it?
Turn face I'm conceding
Ooo

I'm Waiting

Getting Over All Of It

Lyrics

I've been searching for hours
It's alright for you
Underneath pages and pages of regret

Piled in the assumption that 
I am, I’m in the wrong
I've grown a quick trigger process to hide

I'm finding it hard
I'm getting caught in the moment of it all
It's never enough for me

I thought we’d shelved all the contempt
I turned my back
You’ll be a cushion to land on
I’m the brick wall

We’re both so good at assuming,
But I know, I know I’m right
I’ve done all this for nothing again

Ahh ahh ahh ahh

It's all how you say it's alright for you
And all in your words you hate me, I love you
And so, I don't cry it's all right, don't fight, 
Honestly, I am burning, burning from the inside

Burning From The Inside

‘Out Of The Contempt’ is the crowning Jewel of the album. It’s about making the decision that I want to move on from all the hurt I’d held onto. Even though the outcome didn’t feel resolved, for my health and my wife, it was better to move on and forgive, even if we never got closure.

I think it’s the perfect ending to the album, because it finishes what was a really tough experience on a positive note with tones of redemption.

Lyrics:

What day is it?
And in what month did I open my eyes
Out of the contempt
A haze so thick I don't recognize me

Higher and higher I come
Out of the contempt
Further and further I run
Out of the contempt
Faced with the things that I’ve done
Out of the contempt
Maybe I’ve just overcome the voices calling out

Mmm

Could you resist?
Cease and desist you questioning of it
Caught in the crossfire
Of fear and desire, it's crippling us  

Ahhhs
Higher and higher I come
Out of the contempt
Further and further I run
Out of the contempt
Faced with the things that I’ve done
Out of the contempt
Maybe I’ve just overcome the voices calling out

I wish I could save you 
I wish I could make it right
I wish I could feel it all
Just wish I could stand to fight you
But your power is brooding
It’s testing me through the fire
And I think that I’m moving
I just think we should move on

Higher and higher I come
Out of the contempt
Further and further I run
Out of the contempt
Faced with the things that I’ve done
Out of the contempt
Maybe I’ve just overcome the voices calling out

Ahhhs
Higher and higher I come
Out of the contempt
Faster and faster I run
Out of the contempt
Faced with all of the things that I’ve done
Out of the contempt
Maybe I’ve just overcome the voices

Out Of The Contempt

Into The Moon is about being present and in the moment.

I wrote the song at a time when I struggled to intentionally take periods of rest during one of the most challenging times I'd ever faced. Even when I did, I found my mind just couldn’t stop thinking about the next thing I ‘had to do’. I'd made achievements and work my idol.

The image that really encapsulates this feeling is what the single cover artwork turned out to be. It's just me sitting with my wife with no agenda. Just slowing down, being with her and focusing on the moment.

Allowing myself to be.



Endless night
Broke by sunlight
I wish I could have seen it

Beauty comes
Then it goes again
Oh I wish I wasn't dreaming

Oh I'm sinking under
Oh I'm struck by wonder
You're calming my oceans with all of your notions it's fair to say safe to stay

And wait as we gaze
Into the moon

Holding time
Has never been my strength
It's been my weakness

To get out of my own head
And, lay the feelings to rest
Oh I wish it was that simple

Oh I'm sinking under
Oh I was led to plunder
I'm caught in fighting myself and denying it's hard to find the silver lining

I'll wait as we gaze
Into the moon

Into The Moon - Matthew Gilbert

Matthew Gilbert is an alternative Singer/Songwriter who strives to create an intimate connection with his audience through honesty story telling.

Matthew Gilbert

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