Chasing Shadows

This is change without difference
Expect the worst, hope for the best
You’ve been isolated
But you built your own fortress
This is ears with no music
This is a voice that never sings
It’s like dying of thirst in the ocean
An appetite that grows the more you eat.

I’ve got to break free of this cage
Every time I’m close to what I want I start over
Tear down the walls and break away
Brick by brick I swear I’ll start over

This is change without difference
Expect the worst, hope for the best
I’ve been chasing shadows
But they all look the same
It’s not as simple as:
‘Just get over it’, I’ve tried
I’ve been chasing shadows
The siren’s song will fade
The siren’s song will fade away

I’ve got to break free of this cage
Every time I’m close to what I want I start over
Tear down the walls and break away
Brick by brick I swear I’ll start over

If the sun fell out of the sky and crashed down like a burning wave
I’d like to say I could die today and have nothing to regret

I’ve got to break free of this cage
Every time I’m close to what I want I start over
Tear down the walls and break away
Brick by brick I swear I’ll start over
Brick by brick I swear I’ll start over

This is change without difference
Expect the worst, hope for the best


Chasing Shadows

Track - Dead Canaries Don't Sing
Artist - Oceans To Athena
Album - One Fight At A Time EP

Lyrics:

I watched you fall
From great heights
In denial
Your body burns
But not in vain
I’ll learn from your mistakes

I saw your ghost in the hallway last night
I saw myself in the smoke
I felt your hand on my shoulder, and I
I turned to stone

I’ll always remember the day
A phone call I’d rather not have received.

I watched you fall
From great heights
In denial
Your body burns
But not in vain
I’ll learn from your mistakes

I’ll learn from your mistakes

You left me like I left you all alone
When you needed me the most
You were just so inconvenient 
And hospital beds are so depressing.

I’ll always remember the day
A phone call I’d rather not have received.

I watched you fall
From great heights
In denial
Your body burns
But not in vain
I’ll learn from your mistakes


Dead Canaries Don't Sing

Track - Sharks Are Born Swimming
Artist - Oceans To Athena 
Album - One Fight At A Time EP

Lyrics

You kept your cards to your chest
And played the victim so convincingly, I know
You hid the blood on your hands
From sleepless nights in a strangers bed
 
We all know
You slipped away in the dark of the night
To cut the light from your children’s eyes
Your words are wasted on me
‘Cause we all know
We all know where you’ve been

We all know where you’ve been
We all know

Your picture perfect world will crumble with your words
You built this house just to burn it down
You thought that water would wash away the floods
You build this house just to burn it down

You slipped through the cracks
Sent the whole crew down with the ship
You slit their necks while they slept
You can only blame yourself for this

We all know
You slipped away in the dark of the night
To cut the light from your children’s eyes
Your words are wasted on me
‘Cause we all know
We all know where you’ve been

Sharks Are Born Swimming

So pull your teeth from your tongue

Tight lipped and knuckles tied
You keep it all inside ‘til it breaks the surface
But there are wolves in your mind
With hungry eyes
And you’re running out of places to hide

You put on a brave face
 It looks just like your own

Pull your teeth from your tongue
And show me the way
Take me to all your darkest demons
Let it spill from your lungs
And take me away
Just open up and spill your guts.

You gave up, laid down on the train tracks
And waited for the vultures circling

So pull your teeth from your tongue
And tell me a story that never ends
Let it spill from your lungs
And take me away
Just open up and spill your guts.

The next time you think you want out,
Let me in.


This Isn't Flying, This Is Falling With Style

His fingerprints are spilled ink on the typeface
Inside his mind
He is violently silent
In photocopied mid-day dreams
He leaves the lights on
His eyes burn holes is his wrists

He can feel the heartbeat in his chest
See it rise and fall with every breath
He’s never felt so cold
Just moving through the motions
Emotionless androids
It haunts his sad soul

His fingertips count cracks in the tiles
To kill the time
Under fluorescent skies
He always followed the format
He leaves the lights on
His eyes burn holes in his wrists

He can feel the heartbeat in his chest
See it rise and fall with every breath
He’s never felt so cold
Just moving through the motions
Emotionless androids
It haunts his sad soul

They said don’t fix what isn’t broke
This is corroding
Now he can’t relate to anything
Or anyone
He’s never felt so cold

He can feel the heartbeat in his chest
See it rise and fall with every breath
It haunts his sad soul


First Tie

AUDIO:
Recorded by: Kris Samos
Mixed by: Beau McKee
@ Oaklands Recording Studios Australia

LYRICS:

I'm always pulling at the cross-hairs and losing my aim
I’m still waiting for the siren song to fade away

You’re not the only one who bleeds,
But that will never make the wounds heal any faster,
It’s getting harder every day.

There's always something in the way
There's always someone else to blame
Always another fucking excuse there to make

We wish on fallen stars
We dream of broken hearts
Trying to find the space between
What we’ve got and what we want.
Trying to find the space between
Who we are and who we want to be

I'm always looking for an exit, another escape.
I just need some space (I’m still waiting for the siren song to fade)
You’re not the only one who bleeds,
But that will never make the wounds heal any faster,
It’s getting harder every day.

There's always something in the way
There's always someone else to blame
Always another fucking excuse there to make

We wish on fallen stars
We dream of broken hearts
Trying to find the space between
What we’ve got and what we want.
Trying to find the space between
Who we are and who we want to be

Trying to find the space between the words
Trying to find the place I wanna be and pull it close.
Trying to find the space between these words
Trying to find the place I wanna be and pull it close to me.

Oceans To Athena - Siren Song

Oceans To Athena is an Alt-Rock/ Post Hardcore band from Melbourne, AUS.

Our music is also available on Spotify, iTunes YouTube and Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/oceanstoathena

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For contact and bookings email:
oceanstoathena@hotmail.com 

Oceans To Athena is:

Morgan Jones - Vocals
Michael McLaren - Guitar
Lewis Vanderhorst - Guitar
Joshua Bayley - Bass
Joshua Layt - Drums
