Radar

There’s a place that I go where it’s not very deep 
And I keep an eye open to watch in my sleep
And when I awake will I recall
Did I get off the ground or did I fall

In between words and I wonder why
And a voice in my head says your just in a dream
If you want to fly, if you want to fly
You got to let go

Holding on by a thread
A watchful eye leads the way
Flying high overhead
Don’t second guess or you’ll awake

And then the morning has to come
I kick and I scream and try and play dead
I don’t want to come down from the ceiling
I just want to crawl back to my bed

Which one of me am I willing to see
As I stare at the faces that stares back at me
And insist I admit when I try to be free
All is one and one is all

I get reminded and wonder why
And a voice in my head says you just in a dream
If you want to fly, if you want to fly 
You got to let go

Radar

Meltdown

Yesterday was a meltdown, I’m ok today
Now that I hear your voice
Spending time with strangers, missing your company
Wishing I had a choice

Storm coming round the bend
Feels like a hurricane

Back around in my home town, couldn’t stay away
Sinking in deep, deep water
Everywhere I turn, memories they burn
You know I’m getting slaughtered

You know how much you mean to me
I just can’t find the way
It’s hard to look love in the eye
Much worse to look away

A twisted road is what I’m falling on
Lost my way, can’t go on
Straight ahead a riverbed filled with the tears
You send my way to take me home

Here I’m thinking I’m so strong
I promise I’ll right the wrong
Now you’re thinking I’m long gone
Still you’re keeping the light on

Meltdown

That’s the Way

Give me a reason 
Why should I care at all
Who gets saved and who will fall

Too much confusion
I’ve got my own cross to bear
Pretending you’re not there

Give me a kick back
Shake my point of view
Make me want to talk to you

I need a reaction
Have you heard a word I’ve said
Let it roll around your head

That’s the way I live another day
Some might say stuck in Plato’s cave
That’s the way I keep moving on
Day by day just to get along

Wanted for treason 
I’d rather go astray
Your world makes me insane

It’s an Illusion
To keep me hanging on
While you pray to Unicorns

Stranger and stranger
Time will take its toll
There’s a reason we grow old

Sooner or later
We all give up the ghost
Then you’ll see it’s all a hoax

That’s the way I live another day
Some might say stuck in Plato’s cave
That’s the way I keep moving on
Day by day just to get along

That's The Way

Trick Velocity

The sun, it never goes down
It’s the earth that goes round and round
And if you can handle this and nothing more
Surely you can walk out the door

Life, it never ends
It’s you who says goodbye my friend
And if you can handle this, nothing more
Surely you can walk out the door

A war’s been waged inside your head today
Sudden fits of rage, nothing much to say
The hourglass is your enemy
Going nowhere fast, that's trick velocity

Time clock on the wall 
But where does your shadow fall
And if you can handle this, nothing more
Surely you can walk out the door

A war’s been waged inside your head today
Sudden fits of rage and nothing much to say
The hourglass is your enemy
Going nowhere fast, that's trick velocity

Trick Velocity

Just Hold On

How do I get through to you, when all you see is red
We’ve all been there, had our share with the demons in our heads
When life’s a living hell for you, well, I know where you’ve been
Do you recall we got through it all tripping in our teens

Close your eyes, feel the warmth of the sun
Just hold on, don’t let go

I know life’s unfair to you and me I’m doing fine
It can happen to most anyone, hostage in their prime
If we could trade our places, you could take that break
I’d battle with the voices and wrestle with the snakes

I’d close my eyes, feel the warmth of the sun
Just hold on, don’t let go

Remember when we ruled the world
Friends came way before the girls
Remember when we said
Just hold on, don’t let go

Called you just the other day, cast out that line
You greeted me and we had a laugh, thinking about old times
It’s been forever since I’ve heard you sound and feel this good
There’s nothing better than a friend from the way back neighborhood

Just Hold On

Panictown

If green means go 
I guess red means even faster
You won’t slow down 
Until you’re in a body caster

Always late
Chasing right on-time
Don’t like your place
Why don’t you take mine

Don’t block the road 
I need to get on past ya
I need to make my move
And take off like a rocket blaster

Your license plate 
Makes no sense to me
Go back to two wheels 
Or start again on three

But that was long ago
I’m so far away
There’s no escape you know
From negativity 

Drop into low gear
Turn up your favorite sounds
Don’t take the bait
We’re all late here in panic town

Street control
Shining down on me
I’ve got to pay my toll 
Set my spirit free 

But grid lock has me back 
To second class man
Now I’m standing on the side of the road
Kicking a gas can

Panictown

Katie's Song
 
Tomorrow will never know
How you used to walk right through the door and say hello
Hold on
Sweet memories
 
Even though - yesterday may end
Your precious life’s a book my friend that never changes
Hold on
Eternally
 
Suddenly I can’t defend
How could this really be the end with you
Yesterday who knew
There’d be no tomorrow
 
And the world seems out of place
For the ones left in your wake
Who face tomorrow
 
I don’t know- where to go from here
Without you around nothing’s- very clear
Hold on
Sanity
 
Father Time- please to me be still
I get lost in the past and I always will
Hold on
Patiently
 
Deep inside, in my heart
I feel the worlds to blame
That something here has changed
Why must it re-arrange
Too much pain and sorrow
 
And now the world is not the same
And I think to myself
I can’t trust tomorrow
 
When will I see your smile again
Where are you to help face tomorrow
Hold on
Bravely
 
But you are near
A gift and saving grace
Your children now walk through the door
And I see your face
And Hold on
They say to me
 
When suddenly I can’t defend
How could this really be the end with you
A memory or two- I’ll show tomorrow
 
And when the world seems out of place
For the ones left in your wake
May your love be borrowed
                                   
May we all
Stand tall
We’ll raise a glass
And drink this one to you
 
And we pray
To the day
Together again
Is what we’ll be with you.

Katie's Song

If the world was to end, my last wish is to be with you
No more looking to the future, here and now is what we’re gonna to do
Light a bunch of candles in a fallout zone, I can’t wait to get you all alone

So grab your favorite songs, I’ll bring along my special guitar
We’ll dance away the evening, gonna find out who you really are
And when your hair starts flying in that crazy style, I like it catching on your smile

Only twenty-four hours to go, until we say goodbye
Instead of flowing with the tears, we bump and grind like we’ll never survive
If it’s my only way to get to you, I’ll be the one that lights the fuse

Now the lids blown open, and the sun comes shining in
On my daydreams of you, in a world of original sin
Two lovers without a home, just running for that fall out zone

Fallout Zone

Day after day, tides they slip away
Back to bones of old, fishermen who told
Stories on the waves beneath the valley down below
Drifting on a sea of gold, sail to no one knows

Eye for an eye, flames like arrows fly
Drawn down below, a river lake does flow
A boat that rides the waves tied to the dock
Has a rope that starts to fray from shock

Birds don’t fly, they flee
Don’t return to me 
Cast away at sea
Never your company 

I just want to go home
Which way is home
I just want to go home
Pick up the phone 

Shadow on the wall, rise and soon to fall
Drag me down a hall, at your beckon call
And the wall paper peels a little more
Pulled by gravity to the floor

Paper Walls

Everybody I hear tells me you’re not there anymore
But I know different I can see right through these walls
And all anyone keeps saying anymore, where you going to 
Without a hope of finding out

You’ve got something on your mind
But don’t take it out on me
You’ve got someone else inside your head
But don’t take it out on me

Spend time with yourself lately
Taken a good look at yourself lately
There’s someone hiding right behind the door
You better take a look or you might fall

You’ve got something on your mind
But don’t take it out on me
You’ve got someone else inside your head
But don’t take it out on me

Everybody wants to say hello
No one wants to say goodbye
Even though the sun shines bright I know
The color’s when it leaves the sky

So everybody I hear tells me you’re not there anymore
But I know different I can see right through these walls
And all anyone keeps saying anymore, where you going to 
Without a hope of finding out

You’ve got something on your mind
But don’t take it out on me
You’ve got someone else inside your head
But don’t take it out on me

Something On Your Mind

Warning, I should have stayed in bed
This morning, a dream inside my head
You better run for higher ground don’t misbehave 
Heed the warning sound or dig your grave

Nothing but blue skies forecast overhead 
But in the mind’s eye the world all turns to red

Just when I feel alright here comes a tidal wave
I thought if I just keep my cool that it would be ok
Now I look around the world’s a tidal wave
A finger wagging back at me swaying don’t misbehave

I guess it’s alright, sudden change will do me good
I’d rather shake than fight, I just think I misunderstood
You better run for higher ground don’t misbehave
Heed the warning sound or dig your grave

Sleep tight one foot on the ground
Smile at the sunlight but then I take a look around

Just when I think it’s alright here comes a tidal wave
I thought if I just keep my cool that it would be ok
Now I look around the world is a tidal wave
A finger wagging back at me swaying don’t misbehave

Tidal Wave

Tiltback founder and song writer Tom McGloin on Guitar and Vocals. New Album "Panictown" features Jarrod Oxford on Bass Guitar and Harry Silvers on Drums. Special guest: Emerald Kaitryn on Organ, keyboards and back up vocals.

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