i wrote the basis of the melody/the chorus while watching the Australia's Next Top Model episode where they're in Dubai. it's about the voyeurism you experience when you follow someone around for 3 months.

the lyrics were written about 3 minutes before the first take was recorded. that's why i say eyes a lot... cause i'm unoriginal.

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inside my eyes, there is a fight
but i don't know much about it
you know this too, because inside you

inside your eyes, there is a fight
but you haven't told anyone yet
can't you see that i see it too

and so i'll go
to a place where i can't see you no more
and i will go so far away

and so i'll go
to a place where love doesn't know anyone
so i will go so far away
where you won't know

it's on again, and i am staring into your eyes
i seem surprised when you don't see me back

i can't explain the fight in your eyes
i can't see why you leave it behind
there are no prizes for giving up so easily  

and so i'll go
to a place where i can't see you no more
and i will go so far away

and so i'll go
to a place where love doesn't know anyone
so i will go so far away

let me take you away to a place where you
don't know where you are
let me take you away to that place
where they keep your lonely heart

you don't know, you don't know

if you'll be there
to help me when i'm all alone
if you'll be there
you're in another world and i don't know where you are

you wont be there
you'll be all alone where you don't know anyone
and i'll be home
waiting in a place that i don't know anyone 

Lucas Shipsides - Can You See Me

i wrote the chorus while out walking the dog one time, and i wrote the rest of the song while i was on a train, half drunk, heading in to town to continue the par-tay.

the song is about some dude who escapes from jail to be betrayed by his accomplice. so, just like all the other songs, it means nothing at all.

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way too wrong, the past lives on
flies right through my great escape
time goes on, you've moved along
what do you think this should be

you've told me, you've showed me
how to be better than that.

running running, i can't stop running
i can't slow what is around me down
falling falling, we're still falling
falling from my great escape

you told me, you showed me
how to be better than that.

and you warned me that you said you'd be free
if i didn't run away with you
and you said to me this advice was free
and from the heart

you told me
you showed me
i'm better than that

Lucas Shipsides - My Great Escape

i like this song because it's so beautiful. it's about some dude who invites a chick to a park close to both their houses. they turn up, and at first it's awkward a little because they like each other quite a lot. the dude gets nervous, makes a point about light pollution, then eventually tells her what she needs to do to make both of them happy. she eventually accepts, despite how daunting it is.

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this is your midnight song
this is where it wont go wrong
this is your slow dance
this is your midnight chance

the stars they shine but we don't see them
the lights that let us see make it so dark
give up the things that make you feel strife
and learn the things you need to save a life

this is your haunting choice
this is where you lose control
this is your heart lunging forward
this is where you need to let it go

keep your heart where you can see it
but let someone else steal it away
give up the things that make you feel strife
and learn the things you need to save a life

this is midnight's song
it doesn't feel wrong
this is midnight's gleam
seize your dream

learn that things can't always be learned
let your free will play with your faith
give up the things that make you feel strife
and learn the things you need to save a life

Lucas Shipsides - Midnight Song

i wrote the first version of this song when i was 16 with a riff i stole from andrew onorato (hi, buddy!)

i then cleaned it up about 3.5 years later and made it a little more deep. i like the 2nd verse. it's about missing people.

--

the time of year is here again
the one where we are

here together for tonight
it makes me wonder if it is right
to feel this hate

these thoughts go through my brain 
and it makes me wonder if its okay
to hear fear drowning your voice 

but i don't know you
i barely can understand what fear makes you do
so i sit back, i'll relax
and i wonder why

it's only this time of year when i
realize that i don't know you

we've enjoyed our many years
and how it ends that just depends
on whoever you believe

i once said i'll stop thinking about it
but i did cause i can't live without this
feeling of hate

even though we're moving on alone
i fear that i can't live with you
this is your thought too

that i don't know you
i barely can understand why i still love you
so i sit back, i'll relax
and i wonder why

it's only this time of year when i
realize that i miss you

Lucas Shipsides - This Time Of

my first dabble in acoustic-house music. i had the guitar part on the back burner for a while, but i was worried the chorus sounded too much like Dashboard Confessional - Ender Will Save Us All.

this song is about stalking really really pretty girls on facebook, and not giving a shit about how creepy it is perceived to be. 

--

i'm staring at you but you don't know it
your eyes they look, but they don't move anywhere else
and i'm sorry you feel that way, but i'm not sorry i don't feel that way myself
this is all that i do

you are what i

and i try to tell myself that it's passion and fire
but it's actually hate and some kind of sick love.

you are what i desire
you will be all mine

but you'll never know the things i do
and the love i dream of thats so true
just to look at you when i'm alone

but you'll never know just what i'll do
when i see you i'll do the things i do
when i look at you when i'm alone

you are what i need to survive
you will forever be mine
but you'll never know
my passionate side

Lucas Shipsides - The Passion

so, it was a friday afternoon and i was at work. just having a chat to a fellow colleague, and he expressed a desire to write a good song that weekend.

fast forward to saturday afternoon, and i started playing those two start chords. i then went to get coffee and the chorus just kinda appeared out of nowhere. then about 20 minutes later i had a song.

it's about getting angry and destroying someones brand new house (not a true story).

it's a foray into a genre i call 'acoustic house'. please try to enjoy it.
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i held my breath for so long
waiting for someone like you to come along
i waited for so many years
and all my greatest fears, were up against the wall

i waited all night just to see you
i couldn't believe after all that we went though
you were right there but you were not alone
and then my recklessness, destroyed the brand new wall

the burning space wasn't worth the pace
i knew that everything would go wrong anyway
all the emptiness that i cannot address
because i never ever know what i'm meant to say

it has pulled me up and pushed me back down
and it's terrible that this is what i've found
that you are beautiful and if you were alone
then my emptiness won't destroy me whole

all i can feel is this thumping
despite my heart and the fear that it's jumping
it's pushing my pain into nothing
and then my greatest tears, stained the brand new hall

i won't be there if you're not there
i won't be there when you say that you don't care
the brand new hall won't remain untouched
once i've destroyed it you'll know how much i

i love you.
and it's terrible how much i love this.
then my recklessness won't destroy the brand new hall.

Lucas Shipsides - The Brand New Hall

i thought of the chorus while i was out riding a bike. true story.

this is what happens when you have a really simple guitar riff that you don't know what to do with. you get a drum kit and use shit loads of delay on the bass and snare drums, and get some crappy little stereo drum loop and shove the compression ratio beyond 50 and crush the pants off of it.

and then you add some lyrics about wanting to bang some chick and you're usually good for three minutes or so of material.
***
and it came before me there and then
despite us being hardly friends
there's this feeling we both recognize

you told me that you think you thought your hair was short
i said it was but it wasn't too much
not too much

so we talked about what could have been if only we'd known
this feeling that we recognize could make us both whole
and all i want is just to be alone, alone with you
but i'm sure he would mind

before you start to think about the rest of your life
come with me just one time

and we might find our home
and you'll never know until we try
can we just try, just one time
and we might find what we're looking for

Lucas Shipsides - Just One Time

no electronic instruments in this one. it's just a diddle about nothing too particular. i am usually anxious about key changes in songs, which is why i did this one. in some places its good, but you couldn't do shit like this all the time. i prefer just one key.

the chorus rhyme is good. i'm also usually not a fan of bridges, but this one really works.

Lucas Shipsides - My Decisions

happy birthday to you, Maddy. here is a song to celebrate your 21st, and maybe give you ideas as to some future career paths.

available on the "Your Future Career In Porn" CD, which had a limited production run of one burned CD.

Lucas Shipsides - Dear Maddy, Happy Birthday

this is the first song i've recorded/mixed in logic. i still rate pro tools better. i'm still getting the hang of the compressors which totally suck in logic, which is why at one point here it feels like the whole damn song is underwater.

this is a song that was originally going to be bass and electronic drums (and was already half programmed) until i decided to make it an acoustic.

i think this song marks the end of the Lester Freemon's Variety Hour era of exploration. i had way more fun writing/playing/recording the Green Man Cometh stuff. so that's the way i'll be going for now.

***
hey, you've got
a weird way of showing what it is that you think you're knowing
hey, you've got a strange sense of fear
when you're thinking that danger could always be near

you're young and you're dumb
but you still have some fun
you're young and you're dumb
but you mean well

hey, i've got some great expectations
but you know that so you don't give too much away
but i know better than you so please listen
when i say it's okay you will feel the same way

we're young and we're dumb
but we still have some fun
we're young and we're dumb
but we mean well

in the open air past midnight
with the chill of a spring night
i stand here and hold you tight
now you know

being guided by starlight
with your skin feeling so tight
alone on this cold night
now we know

we're young and we're dumb
but we still have some fun
we're young and we're dumb
but we mean well

Lucas Shipsides - Great Expectations

i learned how to play drums but all of my friends played guitar so i taught myself how to play guitar and then i started writing songs and then i started buying mics and mic stands and mic cables and mixers and then i recorded some songs i wrote then i realized i was a bad singer so ever since i started belting out tunes in the car i'm slightly better and then i went to uni and did music and i kept writing songs but i was in a band then i wasn't then i almost made a band then i didn't so i use the piano roll in pro tools more than what can be considered healthy for my wrist and that's because i suck at piano/keyboard so i can't do that which means i'm slow and seasonal when i record songs but i'd like to think i can help you if you need terrible life advice, fantasy hockey tips, tech support or even if you need someone to proofread your essay. also i like to buy guitar picks in bulk off ebay.

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