Before I drink myself to sleep
Is there anything more you ask of me?
Life is fleeting, melting holes between my teeth
I've run this bath, just tie this rope around my feet
Cast my body to the sea

Cut me down
We can't repair this
Burnt out houses in a row
Rusted, the garden overgrown
Leave me alone
You won't regret this
Try to defy the undertow
Be here now, just don't let go

Idolised, your poets die
They'll live forever and a day
Would you not rather be forgotten?
Free to walk the scenic way
Recognise my fears I'll fade away

Cut me down
We can't repair this
Burnt out houses in a row
Rusted, the garden overgrown
Leave me alone
You won't regret this
Try to defy the undertow
Be here now, just don't let go

(just don't let go)

Help me to understand
How "the situation has been getting out of hand"?
We're treading water, I'm trying to keep my head above this broken ground
My green and pleasant wasteland

(this is not my home)
This is not my home
This is not my..

Break me apart
I want to start again

Break me apart
I want to start again

('cause I know)
I know, you know you're not alone
I know, you know you're not alone
I know, you know you're not alone
I know, you know you're not alone
I know, you know you're not alone
I know, you know you're not alone
I know, you know you're not alone
I know, you know, you know

(I know, you know, you know)

Learning to Face the Sun

Overgrown

Manipulated
So over sedated
You know that I hate it
When you fake it

I'll lose my head
Set down the phone
Four walls keep turning
Broken, alone
Forgive yourself
I can't let go
You came alive
And left me low

Absent expressions
The whispered confession
No sense of direction
Feed the self obsession

I'll lose my head
Set down the phone
Four walls keep turning
Broken, alone
Forgive yourself
I can't let go
You came alive
And left me low

(I'll lose)
(I'll lose)
(I'll lose it all)
(I'll lose it all)

Learning to face the Sun

Fold

Manta Ray
The way you fly
Float on by
Glide away

But don't get carried away
You're caught beneath the tidal haze

In and out of space
A technicolour handshake
Morning star fracture through silk leaves
Irradiate my catatonic dream

Don't get carried away
You're still learning to face the sun
You're caught beneath the tidal haze

Manta Ray
The way you fly
Float on by
Glide away

Don't get carried away
You're not the chosen one
You're caught beneath the tidal haze
You're still learning to face the sun

Don't get carried away
(you're not the chosen one)
You're caught beneath the tidal haze

Manta Ray
Manta Ray
Manta Ray
My Manta Ray

Don't get carried away
You're not the chosen one
You're caught beneath the tidal haze
You're still learning to face the sun
You're just learning to face the sun

Pixels

They will tear you apart
Push needles under your skin

I am so cold
I'm shaking
You broke the mould
You're wearing death again

There's something I'd like to know
My black rose
Catatonic soul
Lacerated heart on show
(Its not who you know)

They promised everything
You didn't feel a thing 

DNR tattoo
On your lilywhite chest
It's not wearing you
You're unlike the rest

There's something I'd like to know
My black rose
Catatonic soul
Lacerated heart on show

(Its not who you know)
Its not who you know
My black rose
Catatonic soul
Lacerated heart on show

(it's not who you know)
(who you know)
(who you know)
(who you know)
(who you know)
(who you know)
(who you know)
(who you know)

Black Rose

For all you were, sentimental, you're just a kid
Painting pictures in the clouds
Just like a blur, running through the county fields
Just tryna figure your world out, what life was all about

Now the world, always overcomplicated, disarray
Drain the colour back to grey
For you were, now I feel so fucking jaded and afraid
Break the cycle, don't waste away

Disconnected, erase my life
Driving down the 35
Low winter sun, hold up my sky
The ultraviolet light will burn my eyes

We'll pray for spring
Laze in British summer sun
Lush fields of green
Shine where we used to run
Back in the dog days
Let me float beyond the violent haze
Sustained release, find peace
Behind the waves

Stumbling down a country lane
Laughing at stupid decisions we once made
So kick back your feet, why don't you have a drink? Five string serenade
Another casualty, you're wild and free; I hope you never fade

We'll pray for spring
Laze in British summer sun
Lush fields of green
Shine where we used to run
Back in the dog days
Let me float beyond the violent haze
Sustained release, find some inner peace
Behind the waves
Behind the waves
Behind the waves
Behind the waves
(behind the waves)

(...)
Whoo!

Gotta, gotta, gotta
Get away
Gotta, gotta, gotta
Leave today
Gotta leave this place
Find a different space
Gotta, gotta, gotta
Live behind the waves
Gotta, gotta, gotta
Get away
Gotta, gotta, gotta
Leave today
Gonna leave this place
Finally medicate
Gotta, gotta, gotta
Live behind the waves

Behind the Wavesss

Behind The Wavesss

(I'm leaving)
The scene of a car crash, airbag
Repurposed, raise my new white flag
Twisted metal, broken skin
Highway alight, sweet Vaseline

Distorted antique stereo
Concreted sky, baked tangerine glow
Now we're alone show me who's real?
Remember to eat my plastic pills

(I'm leaving)
(I'm leaving)
(I'm leaving)
I'm leaving

Groggy Pop

Tell me how it is
How I need to get a grip
Is my ignorance still bliss?
Now I'm caught between the drift
(you spin)

Counting colours in the gulf
Stagnant, no wonder it's all my fault
Then sell your offspring, "wouldn't it be nice?"
If we could stop burning paradise

But maybe I will be there this time
Empty bottles just to pacify my mind

Feed the stigma, while all my senses fade
Try to break me down, I have no name
I feel we're growing weaker by the day
Something's got to give

Tell me how it ends
Did we ever make amends?
Or will I give up on my friends?
As I slowly descend
(again)

You wanted to swim free as part of the pod
But couldn't pretend to be something you're not
So you sleep in computers, built your own liberties
To piss away their future in PCBs

But maybe I will be there this time
Empty bottles just to pacify my mind

Feed the stigma, while all my senses fade
Try to break me down, I have no name
I feel we're growing weaker by the day
Something's got to give but you won't break
But you won't break
But you won't break
But you won't break
But you won't break
But you won't break
But you won't break
But you won't break
But you won't 
(break)

Senseless

Sixty-seven on the radio
And I'm flying over west coast
Lush mountainside, evergreen hills
Fingertips comb through the violet fields
Never felt this real

Summer of love
I am above it all
Azure seas SoCal
Redwood dreams so full
Summer of love

Rolling on a sonic wave
Down to the place where all the palm trees sway
And all the smiling faces I've adored
People searching for a sunset shore
For a something pure

Summer of love
I am above it all
Azure seas SoCal
Redwood dreams so full
Summer of love

Breathe in the air, sweet orange groves
Weaving between a Californian oak
A picture perfect postcard of a cove
Moonlit festival, all the young dancing folk
Singing "don't be low"

Summer of love
I am above it all
Azure seas SoCal
Redwood dreams so full
Summer of love
I am above it all
A moonlit festival

(a moonlit festival)

1967

Leaves turn amber gold and rust
For all your shame you're not enough
Born in the shadow of sunken cathedrals
A fabled reminder all things fall

Autumn forever

And I think I lost my way
Stop dreaming of yesterday
Mild life decay
Now I'm spun out and on display

One more flurry a final flame
World turn blurry in the mid-October rain
Downpour stall, blanket of tears
How long before we disappear?

Feeling Autumn forever

And I think I lost my way
Stop dreaming of yesterday
Mild life decay
Now I'll shutdown and waste away

By now you thought you could have changed
Don't blame it on the darker days
Shop life away you could have it all
The cedar scented chemical

Feeling Autumn forever

And I think I lost my way
Stop dreaming of yesterday
Mild life decay
Now I'm spun out and on display
I'm losing face
Summer hearts degrade
Mild life decay
Now I'll shutdown and waste away

Autumn Forever

The buzz of city lights
Allure of scorched trees
Neathe burning satellites
Make a wish, am I finally free?

Waking at the station
There's no place left to go
This town's estranged vibrations
Whatever happened to the afterglow?

Down on the street its all foggy faces
Traffic pulsing through black tar arteries
Romanticising your taillight tracers 
While we taint the air we breathe
 
The buzz of city lights
Allure of scorched trees
Neathe burning satellites
Make a wish, am I finally free?
Down on the underground
I'm just another zombie
A burntout faceless shell
If this is living just let me bleed

A thousand pilgrims pass me by
Eyes demand, fixed to bloodstained shrines
One disciple she's blistered, burnt for time
Her concrete idols bleach our sky

Safe in the shade of your sanctuary
You saw the face of God, now you've gone insane
Been losing sight of the irony lately
Only to smoke away your pain

The buzz of city lights
Allure of scorched trees
Neathe burning satellites
Make a wish, am I finally free?
Down on the underground
I'm just another zombie
A burntout faceless shell
If this is living just let me bleed

(unintelligible)

The buzz of city lights
Allure of scorched trees
Neathe burning satellites
Make a wish, am I finally free?
Down on the underground
I'm just another zombie
A burntout faceless shell
If this is living just let me bleed
(bleed so free)

(the buzz of city lights)
(neathe burnin satellites)

This is Living?

This Is Living?

Looking at the face beyond the broken glass
Recognise the sadness in those eyes
Remember how the Beatle said 'All Things Must Pass'
Don't breakdown and die

Oh Caroline
This mess is mine
So just pass me by
And I won't waste your time

We're empty bottles knocking down the boulevard
Your drunks, our heroes wailing to the night
Singing tributes with little care or due regard
Loaded hearts lusting for life

Oh Caroline
This mess is mine
So just pass me by
And I won't waste your time

Caroline

Green

Otra Vez (Guay-Oh)

Wake Up
Fence hopping
Escape art
She's falling

Her lips are turning green
She's drinking gasoline
(we're falling)

Always late in, never waiting
Brand new week got nowhere to be
Split a cold one, rescue me
p.m. lay in, masturbating
Daily frees wearing off on me
Strike a light and rescue me

She messed up
Train hopping
In backstreets
Dumpster diving

Her lips are turning green
She's drinking gasoline
(she's falling)

Always late in, never waiting
Brand new week got nowhere to be
Split a cold one, rescue me
p.m. lay in, masturbating
Monthly fees wearing off on me
Strike a light and rescue me

(I'm falling out)
Strike a light and rescue me
(she's falling out)
Strike a light and rescue me
(who's falling out)
Strike a light and rescue me
(we're falling out)
Strike a light and rescue me

Her hair is turning green
She's drinking gasoline

In memory, you haunt me
But dumb ghosts won't apologise
My remedy, release me
Sweet psychotropic lullabies

I've got nothing
Ever going on
I am nothing
But a hollow shell, I might be dead

(but something's always going wrong)

Anxiety, blanket me
Will I remain undelivered?
Sertraline, complete me
What's life like underwater?

I've got nothing
But something's always going wrong
I am nothing
But the TV static bouncing round my head

I'm so afraid, to make my next mistake
I'm still hanging by the last
I'll hesitate, just to fuck things up another day
Ooh could this be the last?

I've got nothing
But something's always going wrong
I am nothing
But the TV static bouncing round my head

I'm so afraid, to make my next mistake
I'm still hanging by the last
I'll hesitate, just to fuck things up another day
Ooh could this be the last?

(ooh could this be the last)
(could this be the last)
(could this be the last)
(could this be my last)

Film-Coated

~ Still learning to face the Sun ~

Written & performed by a shitty Musician in a tiny bedroom, compiled by a Producer frequently under the influence; mastered by the hearing impaired. This demonstration should NOT be listened to by ANYONE. Any persons who do choose to listen to these demos, do so at their own risk.

Learning to Face the Sun is the least anticipated demo of today, critics are already describing as "With out a doubt, some of the songs of the last decade." others are calling "Woefully underproduced!" - The Opinionated Press

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