One of the earlier tracks written and recorded while I was performing in Kingston. Always was a band favourite to play. 

Songs for Mark

Another Round

One of the last song I wrote while playing in The Great Augustus. I've always loved this song in particular, especially with what Robbie, Lloyd and Spence were able to do with their portions of the score. 


Speak to me words I've never heard
Write them on my hands in letraset
Place an old memory in a frame
In hopes I wouldn't soon forget

There was once a piece of me
I had given you to keep
Now it's lost and it would seem

You set off the bomb, throwing rocks across the pond
In the cold autumn air, tracing lines all through your hair

Seeing your eyes through the pouring rain
It's a thought that I can't escape
You still whisper in my ear
The little words, the little things that left it so unclear

You said everything I want, is not everything I need
You turned battles into scars

You said I couldn't feel, the mere earth beneath my heels
Let alone your embrace, or the smile across your face
You asked then, could I love, if it only meant to love?
I said "I could pretend, but you won't be fooled again"

I know, always, you're waiting up for me


Erik Hamel