The years go by and you forget yourself
They come and go, like a new card that's dealt
You grow in a world, you feel so out of place
You grow in a world, you're forced into disgrace

So I just keep on dancing
That’s how I leant to work it out
And it all falls away
I just keep on dancing
So I can wipe away all the doubt
But I know I can say…

That it's you
You know its all because of you
You know its all because of… all the things that you do
You know its true
You know its all because of you

Everything  tells us that we're out of place
Everything tells us, that we won't win the race
In a place we belong we find a shelter
Together we pushed into future

So we just keep on dancing, into a world where we belong
And I'm finding my place
We just keep on dancing, and knowing what is right and what is wrong
So many lives went to waste        

Because of you…
(Chorus)

And I found my place
But it took me ways too long
And I found a space, where I could truly belong…
And that's despite of you

Spotify

You (single)

And you said you'd care for me
Said we had affinity 
But I don't really think you really understand

Because in my reality
There was on-one there for me
A repeated, and revisited one night stand
And I was always alone

And when the world made me feel lonely
The otherness had broken every bone
You were somewhere else out on your own … leaving me alone
And so I found the ones who love me
Friends will always make it feel like home
I realised I'm better off on my own… but i'm never alone

Then you said I pushed you out
You were never really about
So you don't get to make  on me any demands
It was my choice to follow you
But I'm done, I don't want to.
Now I see. Definitely I do understand
That you preferred me alone…

(chorus)

So forget everything
Just keep on dancing
Let the music win
Just forget everything
Now your gone
I'm no longer alone

Alone (Full Length Mix)

Take me away to a better place
My eyes are tired, I cannot stay awake
Euphoria at being unscathed
But I'm isolated, just cannot relate
I cannot breathe, I'm barely alive in here
My anger conceived all of my fears

Take me home, I cannot breathe in here
Take me home, I feel you draw near

I see beyond us, beyond you and me
But my eyes are misted, I find it hard to see
I see some more news, see some more TV
And so I will pray, you'll come and take me home
I cannot breathe, I'm barely alive in here
My anger conceived all of my fears

Take me home, I cannot breathe in here
Take me home, I feel you draw near
Take me home, I can release me fears
Take me home, I feel you draw near

I know how I feel, how I feel now
I could not relate, anyway, how
'Till I found a place, where I can allow myself to feel home

Alien

Out now on all platforms

Lyrics:
And I guess that I'm not sure
If I remember as clearly as I did  before
Everything, it seemed so new
When it was already old

We were the last to get a chance
A freedom of life lessons or a failed romance
Not 'shared' or scrutinized
No spin when it's all retold 

And it always felt like summer
And we danced all night
And we lived our lives from day to day
Thinking it was all so right, oh so right, but...

Time, falls away and moves so fast
We, were the fall of all the old ways past
Failed! Build our dreams on shifting sands
Expectations and demands…
Guess we really didn't turn out right!

And we grew through crazy days
Of falling towers and desensitised by chaos waves 
With the tensions on the rise
We all fell so low

And we picked at  broken locks
And we let every cat out of its proverbial box
Then we all drifted apart
But not knowing where to go

Sometimes we all remember
All those sunburnt days
Of paddling pools and first time adventures
Exploring every phase, every way but...

Time, falls away and moves so fast
We, were the fall of all the old ways past
Failed! Build our dreams on shifting sands
Expectations and demands…
Guess we didn't really turn out right! (x3)

We, were left a world that’s not designed to last
They, hold on to the days already past
We don’t know what we'll leave behind
Just some passing of more time
Guess we really didn't turn out right!

Stream

We Didn't Turn Out Right

And we danced all night
While our dreams took flight
All the possibilities and righteous fights
We were all consumed
As we filled the rooms
And the songs that defined us, always end too soon

But those days  the could not last
But they faded all too fast
Not so long in the past
But I lost that place and I have to asked (that…)
Where did all those people go?
All the things we used to know?
No more stones left to throw…
From this after life, with so much life to go

And I found my place
With every painted face
And we all belonged to that non-conformant space
Then I moved away
And I lost those days
But I still remember my only  happy place

(Chorus)

Faces fade in time
Life forces us in line
As we slowly quit the fight
Yet we walked on thinning ice
Not bothered by the price
Those golden nights look so bright
From this after life…

(Chorus)

After-life (Single Edit)

You think you know
The best way to go
But you never really lived a life in tow
Your always stood standing far away

You want success, 
Know you are the best
Designer suites from Savile row, your way to dress
But you still stand too far away

And you say 
We must be tiered of the pain from all these broken times.
But we say
It was you with the hammer and the nails punched through our eyes 
But it only help us realise that...

No, your never gonna get it
Your never gonna realise
How the privilege falls over your eyes
If you've never really lived it
You've never had to compromise
Only had to choose from two good sides!

Believe the hype, a stowic wife
You married well, it only helped you realise
That your still stood too far away
Trying to convince, more out than coming in
Like you know you've never known where to begin
Yes your still stood too far away

And we say
You think we're not intelligent enough to see
How you...
Are trying to pretend your just like all of us, them and me?
And I think you need to realise that…

No, your never gonna get it
Your never gonna realise
How the priveldge falls over your eyes
If you've never really lived it
You've never had to compromise
Only had to choose from two good sides!

Tell us you sympathise
Tell us conceptualised versions you think represent our lives
But you never can convince
Through all the designer chintz
We'll watch approval ratings dive….
Guess it'd be better if you realise that

No, your never gonna get it
Your never gonna realise
How the priveldge falls over your eyes
If you've never really lived it
You've never had to compromise
Only had to choose from two good sides!

No, your never gonna get it
You've never had to face the truth
Of how the world really sees you
Think you're entitled to it
Like all the other privileged do
But your worlds' not built on what is true

Get It!

Out now on all platforms!

Lyrics:
Welcome to the end of ego
Your psychosis,  won't transfer
Watch the fall of all that you know (cuz you know)
That the penalty we never could defer, (but it did not deter)

All the bombs and fucking bullets
Just push the rot to all-consume
We're just mindless fucking monkey's
Masturbating while the fire eats up the room, (all gone too soon)

And all your blatant crimes
And all the broke lines
Have only eaten time….

Everybody don't look up
At all your wasted days
We obsessed with how good it could look
While it burnt down in a haze
Well its now 91 seconds to midnight anyway

You never thought of all our futures
Play to the corner and short term craze
Made your deals and fucking sold us
To hold the throne for a few more days, (through any ways)

And all the dying cries
While all swarming flies
Crawled over their eyes….

(Chorus)

But the house, it lays in ruins
And the dead, all have cheques to cash
All subversion and half-truth spins
Have convinced the dullened mass (and did it fast)

Through all the burning days
And all this rubbled maze  
We were part of the craze…

(Chorus)
…
Everybody don't look up
It's just another phase
We obsess with how good we could look
As part of the latest craze
While its now 91 seconds to midnight anyway

Chaos & Virtue

91 Seconds To Midnight (Don't Look Up) - Explicit

State you've worked hard enough to know
Say your worth all the status, worth all your weight in gold

State your desire to own the throne
Dimmish the views of others, unless they do adopt your tone

But I see how you compensate
For your real absence of true stakes
You really have no context…
And I see you hesitate…
When your supposed to show up…

You give up!
Avoid the truth, so lets pretend…
Our patience never ends
That you are really needed
To your will, the rest will always bend…. Lets pretend

Create some noise to stay in sight
Try to say relevant, part of the big boys fight!

You create work that has no need
A vampire of time and space you bleed
But you have no purpose
The work is done quite well elsewhere
You just sit there and stare… 

Chorus

Do you think you have earned your throne
When its always just on loan
When you over-built your part,
Don't be surprised to go home
Just an empty machine….

Chorus x2

Let's Pretend

This Time of Year (Take Me As I Am)
(Richard Hill)

And so I'm done with another year
Of placards, politics, back-stabbing and fear
Protesters marching on our streets
While the lost and disenfranchised lay amongst their marching feet

Amongst all this ruin I'm sitting alone
Another victim of a polarised home
Another bloody hole up in the wall
Well thank god they came and took you away after all

We've got to turn our view around...

So enough with all the fear
At this time of year
Take me as I am 
Take me as I am
We add up to the same
The 'devout' and the 'profane'
So take me as I am
Take me as I am

Through this noise of another year
We fought, we clashed, we lashed-out and we jeered
No longer 'agree to disagree' (no)
As insults and bullets fly I guess I can see

This has all gone way too far...

(Chorus)

So you say, you can't stand my point of view
But honey, just listen and I'll listen to you

So enough with all the fear
At this time of year
Take me as I am 
Take me as I am
We add up to the same
The 'leave' and the 'remain'
So take me as I am
Take me as I am

(Chorus)

This Time Of Year (Take Me As I Am)

Lyrics:

He feels right, never wrong
Born to privilege, nothing lost, nothing gone
Always say, a cliche
A purchased education never got in his way

It always turns out right
Always wins the fight
Just another night with 'his girls'
(But he still has to pay! $$$)

The definition of success
Starting with $5 Million, convince you he's the best (?)
The top job, guaranteed!
Paid for every favour so he's never in need

Has to take control
Has to take a hold
Every future sold, wiped away
(or so the rumours say!)

So the wheels are greased and turn
And his platform starts to burn and rise
Climbing higher than intended
Higher than he's capable in their eyes..
Little Emperor looks better, he looks better...
Through half-closed eyes

Corrupt (who cares?)
He starts to see himself as the true rightful heir
Non-stop dialogue
Tells us truth is lie and that he's acting for God

Has to take control
Has to take a hold
Every future sold, so they say
(He's got a family to pay)

So he takes the little things, close them down
His prayers have wings tonight
Points the finger left and right
Feeding their suspicious minds alright!
Divide us down the middle
Make us small and then belittle our lives
Little Emperor looks better, he looks better...
In the darkest night

Divide us down the middle
Make us small and then belittle our lives
Lying to our faces
Tell us all 'There're no disgraces! It's lies!!'
But little Emperor looks better, he looks better
On the inside! (locked up!)

P./C. 2019 HILLside Music

Fall Of The Duke

The Emperor

New album, 'Chaos & Virtue' is out NOW! Rooke is a singer/songwriter from the UK and mixes folk, pop, dance and rock.

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