First steps outside
To cross the road still scares her
To watch the stars
Still scared that one might take her

Shining stars home in
Hoping they'll take someone with them
Quickly takes her in
Something in her eyes still hide her pain

False teeth in water 
Would smile from her bedside table
Thinks nothing of the bright lights
Thinks it's a car in the driveway
But now they've come to take her

Shining stars home in
Hoping they'll take someone with them
Quickly takes her in
Something in her eyes still hide her pain

Hide her pain
Hide her pain
Hide her, hide her, hide her
Hide her pain

She sits in silence for the stars to take her in
She waits in silence for the stars to take her in
An operation from the stars to test her out
She waits in silence as the stars still shine on her

Vocals/ Guitars: Glenn Fernando

Gathering Stars

Walking on tiptoes, like it was down to this, like it was the end of it
Tiny footsteps walking on a dead mans' grave, trying to find the death of it
Like a leper standing in the midst out there, standing like an answered prayer
Call the heavens, trying to step aside from fate, forced the mind to guess too late

Told it like it is until now, I stand by myself
Because it's a world stood still for the likes of me
All I need is this time while I'm catching a prayer
All is in place that is left

Weight of expectation is dragging you down
So wake up and breath the air, wake up and breath the air
Weight of expectation is dragging you down
So wake up and breath the air, wake up and breath the air

Sleeping on pillows, weighed down by conscience, fate
I hide behind bipolar ways
Find the answers in a memory mosaic
Disengage, participate

Told it like it is until now, I stand by myself
Because it's a world stood still for the likes of me
All I need is this time while I'm catching a prayer
All is in place that is left

Weight of expectation is dragging you down
So wake up and breath the air, wake up and breath the air
Weight of expectation is dragging you down
So wake up and breath the air, wake up and breath the air

Vocals/ Guitars/ Bass/ Drums: Glenn Fernando


Intakes of Sanity

Bipolar Mosaic

There's something inside my brain
That started to eat away
I call it another name
To distance my body

Beneath my skin
It's seeping through
I scream it out
All over you

The sunlight that caused decay
Arises then falls away
I see my recovery
As just the beginning

Beneath my skin
It's seeping through
I scream it out
All over you

Beneath my skin
It's seeping through
I scream it out
All over you

Beneath my skin
It's seeping through
I scream it out
All over you

Vocals/ Guitars/ Bass/ Drums: Glenn Fernando

Seeping Through

I see all the sympathy disintegrates in time
I watch you dig up the tree you planted when you were young
Your anger would settle me, throw answers in my eyes
I channel the mystery, I fell out of the sky

I'll feed you all you want
You're dry inside again
The water is poisonous
You're living out your dream, your dream

Frustration took over you
Got worse as time went on
The nightmares were always due
Predictions always wrong

I'll feed you all you want
You're dry inside again
The waters are poisonous
You're living out your dream

Your dream (x8)

I'll feed you all you want
You're dry inside again
The waters are poisonous
You're living out your dream

Vocals/ Guitars/ Bass/ Violin/ Drums: Glenn Fernando

The Third Person

Caught on the run
Trying to leave behind the damage they have done
I have been conned, I relive the game but still no one has won

After revisiting the souls of yesterday
It's beyond the time to get things right
Can only face the pain
After revisiting the souls of yesterday
It's beyond the time to get things right
Can only face the pain

Search for the truth
Working back from yesterday beyond my youth
Live for the day I can put this all behind without a trace

After revisiting the souls of yesterday
It's beyond the time to get things right
Can only face the pain
After revisiting the souls of yesterday
It's beyond the time to get things right
Can only face the pain

Your minor victory parade 
Has gone on too long
When we have something to say
A silence dawns and ears would burn from the truth

After revisiting the souls of yesterday
It's beyond the time to get things right
Can only face the pain
After revisiting the souls of yesterday
It's beyond the time to get things right
Can only face the pain

Vocals/ Guitars/ Bass/ Drums: Glenn Fernando


Soldiers Of The Dawn

Wake up, wake up from a beautiful sleep
As the vultures preyed around you
Horizon technicolours will bring you back to sleep
Arise and wake, Autumn days drift way
As the ghosts of dawn surround you
They are the omnipresent
Beyond your wildest dream

Won't you ever run away
Do you think it's kind or brave
Won't you ever run away
The past surrounds you every day

Wake up, wake up, no one moves as you wake 
As the smoke ascends around you
Fight and find a shelter
Live within beliefs
Look up, look up, there's a new hiding place
There's a home called peace within you
No one can burn the shelter
An army keeps the peace

Won't you ever run away
Do you think it's kind or brave
Won't you ever run away
The past surrounds you every day

Wake up, wake up, everyone is awake
As the vultures disappear
See the world around you
Everyone now believes

So won't you ever run away
Do you think it's kind or brave
Won't you ever run away
The past surrounds you every day

Vocals/ Guitars/ Banjo/ Violin/ Mandolin/ Didgeridoo: Glenn Fernando

In The Earth

So many times I walk in shadows as I wave back to my old self
This is the reason why I want to change
And every time I walk in shadows and a maze forms behind myself
This is the reason why I want to stay

I couldn't listen while you left
Because everything is lost inside
I couldn't listen while you left
Because everything is lost inside

Every last thing is on the line
I feel it's over
Every last thing is on the line
I feel disarmed because a side of me is gone 
Start again

So many lies behind decisions that I make 
All for something else
Show me the reason why I'd want to stay
I show desire but I'm falling all the way 
Into somewhere else
This is the reason why I walk away

I couldn't listen while you left
Because everything is lost inside
I couldn't listen while you left
Because everything is lost inside

Every last thing is on the line
I feel it's over
Every last thing is on the line
I feel disarmed because a side of me is gone 
Start again

Every last thing is on the line
I feel it's over
Every last thing is on the line
I feel disarmed because a side of me is gone 
Start again

Vocals/ Guitars/ Bass/ Drums: Glenn Fernando
Piano: Denis Fernando

The Last Doorway

All my dreams lay undiscovered
Walk a tightrope, walk a tightrope
Search for meaning in my childhood
Hold a slight hope, hold a slight hope

And it suits me fine
That I'm waiting for the answers all the time
And it suits me fine
As I close my eyes and I arise another way to be alive

I'm coming alive again
And I wake up with a way to try and get it right
I'm coming alive again, I don't feel uptight
There's something happening in my life
It suits me fine because I'm starting to connect again
Now I see it clearly

All the news is getting older
Still I wonder, still I wonder
If the truth is any bolder 
Should it end here, should it end here

And it suits me fine
That I'm waiting for the answers all the time
And it suits me fine
As I close my eyes and I arise another way to be alive

I'm coming alive again
And I wake up with a way to try and get it right
I'm coming alive again, I don't feel uptight
There's something happening in my life
It suits me fine because I'm starting to connect again

And it suits me fine, I'm coming alive all the time, coming alive again
And it suits me fine, and it suits me fine

And it suits me fine
That I'm waiting for the answers all the time
And it suits me fine
As I close my eyes and I arise another way to be alive

I'm coming alive again
And I wake up with a way to try and get it right
I'm coming alive again, I don't feel uptight
There's something happening in my life
It suits me fine because I'm starting to connect again
Now I see it clearly

Vocals/ Guitars/ Bass/ Drums: Glenn Fernando

Starting To Connect

Outro to "Drone Bloodlines" EP.

Piano: Glenn Fernando

Outro - The Solace

Intro to "Drone Bloodlines" EP.

Piano: Glenn Fernando

Intro - The Liberation

"All protect this lie" live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Q1HrlLI-I

Tissues in your angst out hands, they burn
And all the life that's in this land, it turns

Seeing nature die right before your eyes
Human nature strives, brings it back to life

All the views you once held dear are stagnant
Reasoning is loud and clear but truth isn't

Seeing nature die right before your eyes
Human nature strives, brings it back to life

All protect this lie, now until you die
All protect this lie, now until you die
All protect this lie, now until you die

Vocals/ Guitars/ Violin: Glenn Fernando

Meaning: The lie is the belief that we are invincible, but human nature is what rescues us whenever we fall. We protect the lie of invincibility.

All Protect This Lie

Missionary Fades is my solo project influenced by mainly 90's grunge and post grunge. All songs were performed and produced by me, recorded on Logic Pro from home. 

My music explores themes of the bipolar condition, despair, insecurity, falling, positive energy, growth, recovery and rebirth. The name "Missionary Fades" is about keeping faith in the face of turmoil. My main influences are Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Queens of the Stone Age, Living Colour and Skunk Anansie. 

My Album “Intakes of Sanity” is currently available on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon.

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/54nwby0SImWJjVxAB8W5PY

iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/missionary-fades/id945352833

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Intakes-Sanity-Missionary-Fades/dp/B07S39W9MP/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Missionary+Fades&qid=1560526699&s=gateway&sr=8-4

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MissionaryFades

Below are some links to other bands I have been in. I was a rhythm guitarist for ATUM and bass player for Nine Dragons.

Thanks for stopping by!
Glenn

Missionary Fades

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