Theres a warning
Shining up ahead
Smoke and mirrors working
Pawns within the game
Watch the world turn
In the blink of an eye
Everything you thought you knew
Falls out of sight

All the pieces are in play
We’re made to look the other way

Can we reach the other side
Can we bridge the great divide
Can we find each other
In the mess we left behind
Can we reach the other side
Where we find the truth still shines
Can we find the meaning 
In the life we left, the life we left behind

Theres a message
Burned into your mind
Every screen is flickering
Prisoners in the light
We’re sold a story
Told what to believe
Who to hate, how to think
Whats fake and what’s real

Innocents still take the blame
In the new world that we made
 
Chorus 

Gonna make it back
Gonna find another way
It’s all or nothing now
Better days are coming

Can we reach the other side
While we still have the time
Can we find the meaning 
In the life we left, the life we left behind

Can we reach the other side (other side)
While we still have the time (great divide)
Can we find the meaning 
In the life we left, the life we left behind

The Other Side

The Other Side (Single 2022)

An eclectic album of original songs mostly influenced by American music

The Circle

Between The Lines

Heartbreak In The Rearview

Last Words

One More Trip Around The Sun

Bandages

Postcards From America

Vanishing Point

Everything I Knew

Ghost

Twilight

Stranded

Once lost in a dream
Places you thought you would be
The garden so bright, not afraid
Out of that bed left unmade
Her words they mended your heart
Broken pieces, falling apart
A cynic dies, jigsaw complete
Give yourself up to the sea

Now its all been washed away
Trying to find the sun again
Reaching out, reaching out for the past
The corridors of history
Where you lost the golden keys
They’re gone, all gone
They’re long, long gone

You are stranded
Never planned this
Now you’re alone
Cold wind blowing
Across the ocean
So far from home
Your heart rises when it’s found
Then you fall on the cold ground
All alone, empty handed
You are stranded

Heart shaped locks, lie strewn across the land
The keys rust with the turn of your hand
Retracing the steps through your life
The memories you thought could bring light
Those days are gone, no way out
What you remember now in doubt
Its just time, time
All lost in time

Chorus

Back in time, you were mine
Slipping fast through my fingers
Standing last in line
The ghosts they walk
These torn paths of thought
Then they go to the light
They go to to the light

Uncharted EP

Stranded

Stephen Rudd is a singer/songwriter originally from Essex, England, UK now living in Raleigh NC USA.  I make music grounded in the alternative, singer-songwriter vein sometimes with American Folk/Rock flavors.

My latest single "One More Trip Around The Sun" is dropping in May 2025!

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