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Barricade
04:07
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Never turn away
You can break the barricade
Finding life, alive again
Terror stands between you
And the place you want to be
Looming dark, consuming everything
The pain you know you must endure
Is all your eyes can see
All your dreams demanding you to bleed
The barricade, it blocks the way
There is no way around
It’s driving you like death, into the ground
Never turn away
You can break the barricade
Finding life, alive again
Now, become life
As you rise on the enigma
We are all deranged inside
Waiting for our dead hearts to rise
But you can be brave
As your body breaks the barricade
Pay the price
‘Till your sacrifice is life
The barricade, it blocks the way
There is no way around
But now you’re driving death into the ground
Never turn away
You can break the barricade
Finding life, alive again
Break, break the barricade
Break, break the barricade
Break, break the barricade
(solo - Jericho Leal)
Never turn away
You can break the barricade
Finding life, alive again
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So bright, she’s the dark light* that awakened me
She’s a shadow, she’s as radiant as day
Shadowed underneath her wings of soaring melody
Secret angel**, with a message saving me
A sweetness that’s this deep is far from quaint
The lion may be good but He’s not tame***
When you see her face she’ll say “don’t be afraid”****
Her brightness blinds you but your eyes can’t look away
And her glow proves that she’s not just one of us
She’s from heaven but she’s oh so dangerous
“Breathe”, she tells me, “take a burst of bravery”
Wings on my feet, gaining speed and unafraid
She propels me fearlessly to destiny^
Living too fast for shame to make us hesitate
A sweetness that’s this deep is far from quaint
The lion may be good but He’s not tame
When you see her face she’ll say “don’t be afraid”
Her brightness blinds you but your eyes can’t look away
And her glow proves that she’s not just one of us
She’s from heaven but she’s oh so dangerous
And we live fast, so fast
Nothing can stop us now
‘Cause we live fast, so fast
Not slowing down
(Guitar solo – Maxwell Kozen)
And we live fast, so fast
Nothing can stop us now
‘Cause we live fast, so fast
Not slowing down
(Guitar solo – Jericho Leal)
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3. |
With Open Eyes
03:46
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There’s so much you won’t let go
So gripped by the emptiness
You won’t show it but I know
You’ve sunken into distress
All that you refuse to face
Leaves you guarded and austere
Hiding an arcane disgrace
And living enslaved to fear
Don’t you want to feel a little more alive
And live with open eyes?
‘Cause if you can believe, you’ll find you’re just in time
To leave it all behind
You have carried endless war
Inside of your mind
Picture now an open door
And take back the time
Don’t you wanna feel a little more alive
And live with open eyes?
‘Cause if you can believe, you’ll find you’re just in time
To leave it all behind
With open eyes
Don’t you wanna feel a little more alive
And live with open eyes?
‘Cause if you can believe, you’ll find you’re just in time
To leave it all behind
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Clouds on fire
Caught between a perfect day and night
A better dream inspired
A wish for something more out of this life
I’m making up for lost time
Got a new frame of mind
Felt the summer rising inside
Somewhere I’ve never been
I’m coming home again
And when I let the light come in
Summer never ends
Sunlight transcendence
Between earth and heaven
Where summer never ends
One through seven
Season measureless embrace
Floating between earth and heaven
Soaking up the summer days
A sacred space in time,
The scenery sublime
Feel the summer rise inside
You’re coming home again
Somewhere you’ve never been
With candy heavens painted red
Lift up your head
Summer never ends
Sunlight transcendence
Between earth and heaven
Where summer never ends
(guitar solo - Richie Nguyen)
Summer never ends
Sunlight transcendence
Between earth and heaven
Where summer never ends
credits
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Somebody Else
03:31
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It was the little things that left me wondering
You won me over at the start
We grew together, heart to heart
But there were little things
That left me wondering
Did you want me to be somebody else?
Did you want me to be somebody else?
Did you need me to go and change myself?
Did you want me to be somebody else?
What did you want me to be?
Go on and tell me about me
How I should act, how I should think
When I should catch my own feelings
It's all the little things
And every time you cut me out
I had these doubts
And I've tried to push 'em down
But now I've found that it's hard
To not believe these little things
That have left me wondering
Did you want me to be somebody else?
Did you want me to be somebody else?
Did you need me to go and change myself?
Did you want me to be somebody else?
What did you want me to be?
Since when did you define me?
And when did you design me?
How long have you reviled me?
I've had enough
It was the little things that left me wondering
I still believe
A dream about who I wish we could be
Did you want me to be somebody else?
Did you want me to be somebody else?
Did you need me to go and change myself?
Did you want me to be somebody else?
Did you want me to be somebody else?
When I finally decide to protect myself
I'll be putting what we had on the shelf
Or just maybe you'll make me knock it down
Dashing all of our memories to the ground
If you need me to go and change myself
Even down to the things I just can't help
If you want me to be somebody else
Maybe I should be first to say farewell
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Bitterly I fixate on another wasted day
Jitter-thinking sinks me in my self-inflicted shame
Slithering like a serpent, my regret constricts my strength
I’m drowning in the wake
Reflecting on today
It seems like such a waste
I feel like I’ve done nothing, and all the things I did
Are drowning in a million better things I should have been
My scattered thoughts have once again
Left me in this unsettled state
This coil of overthought mistakes
Is binding me, I suffocate
Now I’m running out of time
At my limit, wondering why
I’m always running out of time again
(time and time again)
Now I’m barely keeping pace
Stuck, somehow, running in place
And everything I chased left me behind
Watch my most hopeful dreams
Betraying me
Oh I can’t stand to think I’d waste another chance
And watch another moment slip right through my hands
But my unwarranted regret
Becomes the pressure in my head
Am I even worth another chance to try again?
(Chance to try again)
Now I’m running out of time
At my limit, wondering why
I’m always running out of time again
(time and time again)
Now I’m barely keeping pace
Stuck, somehow, running in place
And everything I chased left me behind
Fixate (Fixate)
Mistakes
I hate (Mistakes)
This waste
Fixate (I hate)
Mistakes
I hate (This waste)
This waste
Fixated - Time wasted
I hate the way my mind is made
Fixation temptation
Send every hour to the grave
Fidgety and anxious
Suppressing agitated screams
Fixated - Time wasted
I hate my self-defeating dreams
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Throw it away to the wind and start again
We built a wall made out of words
To try to keep us safe
We built that wall into towers
With keepers at the gates
Now I want to find out what is real
Not just what they told me I should feel
I saw a light from the outside
A window opened wide
And if I don’t belong here in this place
Let the walls give way; they can’t keep me safe
And if the words are wrong, find out what’s fake
Throw it away to the wind and start again
Backspace on bricks around the frame
Remove the windowpanes
The wind could blow this house away
Erase the phrases out of place
My faith, my heart rose to the wind
And I don’t know where it will lead me
I don’t know where to begin
But I’ll take my chances just to find a firmer foundation
And if I don’t belong here in this place
Let the walls give way; they can’t keep me safe
And if the words are wrong, find out what’s fake
Throw it away to the wind and start again
Let the walls give way
Let the walls give way
Backspace what’s fake, throw it away
They can’t keep me safe
I’ll hold to my faith and find a new way
I’ll find a new way
And if I don’t belong here in this place
Let the walls give way; they can’t keep me safe
And if the words are wrong, find out what’s fake
Throw it away to the wind and start again
And if I don’t belong here in this place
Throw it away to the wind and start again
And if the words are wrong, find out what’s fake
Throw it away to the wind and start again
Throw it away to the wind and start again
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Burning, oh the sky is burning
Holy red lights dazzling this judgment day
Yearning, I can feel the yearning
Of the lawless jaws that long to carry me away
Light, erase this age
Scarlet lights - the sky’s so blinding
I’m ready for the foe that finds me
Watching all the world unwinding now
Crumbling down
Scarlet lights - the end is nearing
See the signs that you’ve been fearing
Blood for a world running weary now
All around
Watching the world unravelling
The earth begins to sing itself to sleep
Slumber for this perishing age
But come and wake the graves
Empty graves, greet the morning
Come awake
O Behold!
The end inaugurates a new forever
Baptize it in blood
And let the world rise up in flames
Come hell and high Heaven
Let light erase this age
Erase this age
Scarlet lights - the sky’s so blinding
I’m ready for the foe that finds me
Watching all the world unwinding now
Crumbling down
Scarlet lights - the end is nearing
Open hearts no longer fearing
Blood for a world running weary now
All around
Look to the red skies
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