Mix updated 12/17/15, adding a third voice and some timing fixes.
Lyrics:
Oh, they love to tell me / I'm wasting my time
Never moving on, just holding the line
But all the same I'll still be here when I see you again
'Cause you're the one who let go, and turned on a dime

With only one hand, I can list the dreams of those days
Oh, they were few, but they were strong
Come on, give me a reason / why they all fell down
Oh, what did I do wrong?

Try your own advice / How's it workin' for you?
Turn right around, leave it all behind
That's the price you pay to forget the truth
That's the price you pay to turn on a dime

To move my feet is to move my heart
I'm gonna be sure before I get too far

Well, I know where I am / Can you say the same?
Always running, always taking the easy way out
No, I'll never believe you / Stop tryin' to drag me down that road
You're so surprised I don't share your doubt

Try your own advice / How's it workin' for you?
Turn right around, leave it all behind
That's the price you pay to forget the truth
That's the price you pay to turn on a dime

Match Point

On A Dime

The last flakes of ash settle toward the charred stone
But a sudden gust of wind scatters them all aside
Deep cracks in the desolate surface, uncovered by the motion
Give up secrets, now the old is swept away

Ignition

Look Again

Tested and tested, down to the wire
Seven times over, right through the fire
Now the lights are down and the pressure's on
And the best remains when the dross is gone
Burn all the rest away

Diamonds

Proverbs 25:28
Lyrics:
You've taken my mind into the alley out back
And beat it down into the mud and the grass
You've taken my time when I had none to give
You've taken my heart when I just wanted to live

How'd you get such a grip on my soul?
I opened the door, got no self-control
You're just a thief in a suit and tie
With a great handshake and a tear in your eye

The man to my left and the man to my right
Have gone and set themselves alight
And here I'm playing with matches on a wooden floor
When will I learn not to open the door

I'm just a soul with no shell at all
A burning city with a broke-down wall
I need a fortress that I can't afford
I need a ship to pull me aboard

I'm onto you now, I been reading up on your game
No more surprises, you aren't holding the reins
Got shoes on my feet and a sword in my hand
I'm ready to fight, yeah, I'm ready to stand

You get away, you get out of my mind
I'm leaving the dirt and the mud behind
My time is a gift, I won't answer your call
My heart is a city with a hundred-foot wall

Thief

Colossians 2:13-15
Complete re-recording uploaded 12/17/15 - final version, I hope.
Lyrics:
In the heart of man / There is a book of ten words
Placed inside by God Himself on the last day of making the world
But we set fire to its pages / And scuffed and blurred the lines
We've hated its reminders / Acting deaf and blind
But how can we recover / Dead sinners that we are
For as long as we are guilty / Heaven's gates are barred

But God knew we would be here / Unable to stand
Buried by the law we broke / With our calloused hands
It would take a Son to save us / And so a Son He sent
Perfection sacrificed for every evil thing we meant

And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown
He took it in his hands / And nailed it down

What else can we say?

How is it we can be so close / And yet so far away
Our hearts of stone are distant from these righteous words we say
The dead can never earn life / We don't deserve his death
His lonely substitution / His very last breath

And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown
He took it in his hands / And nailed it down

What else can we say?

What else could we see? Just a man that we killed, that we murdered
Nailed to a tree to curse His death and His life
What was there to see? Just a man that we killed, that we murdered
Nailed to a tree to curse His death and His life

In the heart of man / There is a book of ten words
Perfectly kept only once by the same hands that made the world
And while we were busy cursing / And the devil thought he'd won
This silent lamb was bleeding out for every chosen one

And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown
He took it in his hands / And nailed it down

Nailed Down

He prays, he cries, and then recalls a promise
He lifts his eyes, and knows God will provide a
Way out, so - douse the flames and with His help
They'll stay out, He won't let you down
Way out, stay out / Way out, stay out

- lyrics by Nate Hoffmann

Way Out (2022, Nate Hoffmann vocals)

Lyrics:

Look outside, look outside!

Break away from where you lie / Break the windows to get outside
When the moon is soaring and the stars align
Carry your hopes to the end of the night

Ocean waves breaking and crashing away with a roar
Gently reflecting the fall of the sun
Crushing and bursting and carving away at the shore
Drinking the flames that they cannot outrun

Listen to the last bit of hope disappear
Watch the people falling down, shaking with fear
Closing their hearts to the sense of the sign
Pointing out the turning of the grinding gears
Measuring the river as it rises near
While you were sleeping we ran out of time

Break away from where you lie / Break the windows to get outside
When the moon is soaring and the stars align
Carry your hopes to the end of the night

Grasp at the seams as time slowly unravels
This threadbare creation, so tired and worn
All that they cling to is ashes and dust as the
Old falls away so the new can be born

"Not yet," they say, "Not yet!" they say
Give us more time to kill and to play
A thousand years longer to ruin ourselves
Long have we wandered in the winding way
Long have we waited for the judgment day
Longing to hear the archangel descend

Break away from where you lie / Break the windows to get outside
When the moon is soaring and the stars align
Carry your hopes to the end of the night
Raise your head to watch the sky / Raise your voice to join the cry
When all our hopes give way to sight / Now redemption has arrived

This is the end / That all must face
It's the end / Hear them scream and curse the day
It's the end / At last it's drawing near
It's the end / Cast aside the voice of fear

Now we sing in harmony / Our Lord the Judge shall come
How we long to bend the knee / And hail the reigning Son

Look outside, look out!

Break away from where you lie / Break the windows to get outside
Watch the dark give way to light / Every promise satisfied

At Last

Lyrics taken from Psalm 139:

Oh how well you know my rising up and laying down
My rising up and laying down, day by day
You search out my ways, my hidden thoughts, and every word I say

(where could I go?)

Where can I hide when all is laid bare
If I rise into heaven, you are already there
If I fly with the sun into the waves of the sea
If I make my bed in the land of the dead, even there your hand shall lead
Your hand shall lead

I was woven in darkness and secret
Your eyes saw this person unformed
You see me now as you saw me then
In your book, my days are written
Every one

(chorus)

To my right and my left are slander, lies and death
The violent love to curse your name
Come soon to help me, for blood is on their hands
Oh, wash me from my own bloody stains

Search me, try me, know my mind
And lead me to life

Your Hand Shall Lead (Psalm 139)

Lyrics:
Blessing and curse from the one source / Fresh water and salt from the same
Brothers, it ought not to be so / Tell me, where is our shame
Where is our shame?
And we claim / that we're alive

Maybe you can't just admit it / But I know that look in your eyes
Hounded and hunted and driven / When you stumble, it's no surprise
No surprise
Yet you claim / that you're alive

Oh, this is a call to wake the dead
And anyone alive who's gotten in over their heads
Come back (come back) / Come home (come home)
Come back again
Come home / Come back again

Watching your conscience condemn you / I don't know the half of your pain
But you've gotta let go of your reasons / Or the guilt will drive you insane
It will drive you insane
While you scream / that you're alive

Let's just forget how we got here / How bad do you want the way out?
Repentance is a bitter pill / How bad do you want the way out?
One way out
For anyone who struggles now / anyone alive

Oh, this is a call to wake the dead
And anyone alive who's gotten in over their heads
Come back (come back) / Come home (come home)
Come back again
Come home / Come back again

Every choice that kills you / Brings out the beast inside
These sins can't feed your body / They'll only feed your pride
If you give in now and waste away / And trust the heart that lied
Stake your hopes for happiness / On charming suicide
These sins don't know connection / They only know divide
The soul that lives for pleasure / Will die unsatisfied
(These sins can't bring connection / They only bring divide)
(The soul that lives for pleasure / Will die unsatisfied)

Oh, this is a call to wake the dead
And anyone alive who's gotten in over their heads
Come back (come back) / Come home (come home)
Come back again
Come home / Come back again

Our sins wanna bury us under the floor (but we don't need them anymore)
Our sins wanna bury us under the floor (but we don't need them anymore)
We don't need them anymore, no we don't need them anymore
We don't need them anymore, no we don't need them anymore

Stand we all together now / side by side by side
Anyone with the scars of the better fight
Anyone who struggles now / Anyone alive

Anyone Alive

IT'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
Nate Hoffmann on lead vocals, right harmony & bass
Me on wrong harmony, guitar, guitar, guitar & drums

Walkin' down a lonely road / And I don't know where to go
But I hold on to the hope / Of the One who saved my soul
When all I try just seems to fall / Everything that I know
I know He'll be there through it all / And I know He'll lead me home
And I know He'll lead me home

So close / Yet so far / Just depends on who you really are
Broke down / And bleeding / Just lift your voices up and say
I'm finding / A reason / To get back up and start again
So stand tall once and for all now
Stay strong! Stay strong!

I know my dreams just seem so far / And I am so far gone
Looking back at who I was / And the man that I've become
Don't know how I could have made it this far / Without you by my side
And I know you'll be there through it all / To the end of the night
To the end of the night

So close / Yet so far / Just depends on who you really are
Broke down / And bleeding / Just lift your voices up and say
I'm finding / A reason / To get back up and start again
So stand tall once and for all now
Stay strong! Stay strong!

I can't do this on my own / I've got nothing else to show
But you've been there through it all / And you never let me fall
You've got the words that set me free / Words that brought new life to me
I know it's been so very long / Lord, help me stand strong
Help me stand strong

So close / Yet so far
Broke down / And bleeding
Just lift your voices up and say

So close / Yet so far / Just depends on who you really are
Broke down / And bleeding / Just lift your voices up and say
I'm finding / A reason / To get back up and start again
So stand close once and for all now
Stay strong! Stay strong!

Stay Strong

It's taken me five years to make this song - December 2011 was when I came up with the riff, but I wasn't good enough on drums until, like, last week. Main inspiration taken from Proverbs ch. 5. (audio mix updated 9/6/16)

Lyrics:
Ten fingers circling the way that you go
Grasping at your heel to catch the sole
Breathing easy, sure of the snare
A freezing shadow in the frozen air

Ooh, she bites deep like a copperhead / The pain could make you wish you were dead
Now listen to me shouting run away / Get out and fight another day

Oh, she knows exactly what you want
That dress, those shoes, and she's on the hunt
Murder on the mind, running out of time
Better brace yourself for pain up front

How good's your memory when you're under the gun
If it's a haze, you're not the only one
But now's the time as the jaws come down
To recall that you're a soldier, son

Ooh, she bites deep like a copperhead / The pain could make you wish you were dead
Now listen to me shouting run away / Get out and fight another day

Now you're feeling strong
Now your fear is gone
Toss your shield away
Now you're easy prey

The King has not commanded you to win somehow
To walk proud and cut the devil down
No, you resist, you resist and you trust
The Lamb wins, and that's your way out

Ooh, she bites deep like a copperhead / The pain could make you wish you were dead
Now listen to me shouting run away / Get out and fight another day

Ooh, she bites deep like a copperhead / The pain could make you wish you were dead
Now listen to me shouting run away / Get out and fight another day
Fight another day
Fight another day

Copperhead

Lyrics by Nate Hoffmann and Luke Gunkel, some time in 2011 I think...
This version: Nate on bass and lead vocals

Falling faster, every moment / feels six feet deep
'cause every sin and evil passion / haunts him in his sleep
He prays, he cries / then recalls a promise
He lifts his eyes / and knows God will provide a

Way out so / douse the flames and with His help
they'll stay out, He won't let you down
Way out, stay out / Way out, stay out

Head held high, but moving nowhere / Why can't he resist?
The poison which constricts his conscience / in its iron fist 
He prays, he cries / then recalls a promise
He lifts his eyes / and knows God will provide a

Way out so /  douse the flames and with His help
they'll stay out, He won't let you down
Way out, stay out	/ Way out, stay out

Way Out

Lyrics:
These notes, the wings that lift my prayer
For all these souls conflicted, so cold and unaware
They stand in place for so many days & gaze uphill
Patient as a mountain & twice as still

We've met before so many times along the way
I cannot move them but they won't remain
So every one of them has gone and left me here
To wallow in my cowardice & curse my fear

Don't they every wish they could be satisfied?
Raging without respite and dead inside
How can they happy with the pain they wear
Still they hold it closer and just disappear

Turned myself into a harbor that no one needs
Turned myself into a warning sign that no one reads
One by one they disappear and pass me by
The dead just find it easier to die / The dead just find it easier to die

Father hold me in your arms, take me to your side
Let this bitter emptiness pass me by
The waters wash up over me and chill my soul
Be my only anchor, don't let me go

Pick me up and dust me off, save me from despair
Oh, you know how weak I am, so slow to care
So concerned with getting my bruised heart to heal
Deafened to their dying cries, afraid to feel

And all my time is spent so selfishly
I'm here for them but all I talk about is me
Don't let me turn a blind eye that cannot weep
Wishes are all worthless and talk is cheap

Again this darkness settles in my bones
I ask for bread but all I see are scattered stones
Never would I call your providence unkind
I'm just so burned-up, can't lift my eyes

Father hold me in your arms, take me to your side
Let this bitter emptiness pass me by
The waters wash up over me and chill my soul
Be my only anchor, don't let me go
Be my only anchor, don't let me go

Turned myself into a harbor that no one needs
Turned myself into a warning sign that no one reads
One by one they disappear and pass me by
The dead just find it easier to die / The dead just find it easier to die

Father hold me in your arms, take me to your side
Let this bitter emptiness pass me by
The waters wash up over me and chill my soul
Be my only anchor, don't let me go

Be my only anchor, don't let me go

Song For The Dead

Lyrics:
It's time.

Breathing in for the first time in years
Drying my eyes from well-spent tears
I will arise, no longer sleep / The time is drawing near
Just finished bandaging this broken heart
Now how much more can I take
All roads before me lead straight to pain
I can't help but dream of your fate

Fear before, and fear behind / Spread out to every corner of my mind
So afraid of driving you away / The terror drove me blind
But if there's any hope for you, and any real help
I'll have to fight you, to fight you for your self
The time has come for me to stand right in your way
Before the gates of hell

I'm ready to fight [ready to fight]
Ready to lose [ready to lose]
I'm ready to fight you [fight you] for you

Oh raise your blade now as we square off in the dust
Let my aim be true and I'll do what I must
Faithful are the wounds of a true friend, you see
And a risk not taken is a chain not cut 
I know you're settled, and I know you don't believe
These years you've memorized your part
But if there's only one thing that could make me risk it all
It's that my God can start your heart

I wasn't ready to fight for you / 'Cause I was too afraid to lose
But I have come to face the truth / That it was not my right to choose
Now I can never hold you closer / Unless I can let you go

I wasn't ready to fight for you / 'Cause I was too afraid to lose
But I have come to face the truth / That it was not my right to choose

I'm ready to fight [ready to fight]
Ready to lose [ready to lose]
I'm ready to fight you [fight you] for you

Now every road has its own hurt / But some do not end there
If there's a chance that I might carry you away
Then I will not despair

Won't bide my time / Won't just survive
I'm ready to fight you / Fight you for your life
Won't bide my time / Won't just survive
I'm ready to fight you / Fight you for your life

Ready To Lose

In retrospect, I see why nobody else thought the intro segment was agonizingly long. Only the drummer gets bored. Written by Nathan Hoffmann and Luke Gunkel - I contributed basically nothing besides a generous amount of fidgeting.

Station

Six Shot City (Instrumental)

It's not the 90s anymore, but they weren't quite so far away when this song was written. Nate Hoffmann on bass and second vocals. Credit to Luke Gunkel for the guitar style I'm imitating in these recordings.
This also marks the debut of an actual bass tone in my recordings, just 6 or 7 years in the making.

Refuge

The new single from frostcore band Cryonize, Icebreaker is the tragic tale of

[SPOILERS]

consuming an entire tin of Altoids at once

This is just echoed and overdriven guitar/vocals atop needlessly thundery bass and really snappy drums. Therefore, it is an entirely new genre and should be taken very seriously.

Icebreaker

Nailed Down (2020)

I'm here to turn this into rock'n'roll:
  "Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator." - Colossians 3:2-10

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