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Shipwreck
03:46
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I should sing to you whenever I can
Just to soothe your heart
Even if your too young to notice
I hope one day you will understand
Why I had to part
And why I could never explain
When ordinary ships go down
No one seems to care and they will hardly make the papers
A dozen people may have drowned
Still it seems quite fair to think that’s not what might await us in the end
I used to be the hollowest man
But who had dealt the cards
That were just so prone to go down with
I tried, I tried again and again
But then it hit me hard
Folding was the only way
When ordinary ships go down
No one seems to care and they will hardly make the papers
A dozen people may have drowned
Still it seems quite fair to think that’s not what might await us in the end
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Far away
03:09
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I got stabbed in the back
I guess I must have lost track
Can’t remember where I’d been when the sedatives kicked in
I didn’t put up a fight
But something didn’t feel right
Depriving me of sleep, the longing was too deep
I was waiting for the light
But they aimed
Far away from where it actually hurts, my dear
Far away from anything
No decay is avertible by sobs and tears
And it’s tainting everything
So I grab the handle tight
I was making the move
I had something to proof
I was scared like hell, the moment that I fell
Here I stand
The bleeding knife in my hand
This isn’t about you, I finally came to
About to set things right
Since they aimed
Far away from where it actually hurts, my dear
Far away from anything
No decay is avertible by sobs and tears
And it’s tainting everything
So I grab the handle tight
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Starving
03:43
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I used to fall in love
Like every day
In every way
I couldn’t say, with whom or why
Just like a stray
It brought me down
I looked I frowned
I drank I drowned
I washed the monster out of town
Felt like a clown
I felt that I
Had worked it out
Just life your life
Just not too loud
Or so I thought
Until the day
I looked it up
I took it up
Saw that I had cooked it up
It shook me up
Eventually
Essentially
They’re as sensual
As they can be
They make me weak
With their luscious hair
The eyes that glare
The skin they bare
The scent they wear
How is this fair
I tried to have
This figured out
Surprisingly
It’s not about
Me missing out
It’s just that I
I fall in love
In every way
I cannot say with whom or why
Like every day
When finally the blur came off the image
It really felt as if my heart just skipped a beat
In these times of swipe and pillage
I just hope that she would notice me this time
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The shade
04:06
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I found you in the armchair staring at the windowsill
You moved it to the corner that the streetlights never fill
The usual guilty pleasures, guilty pleasures they won’t do it anymore
Your eyes search for an object that lies way beyond their grasp
The peaceful steady breathing has become a shallow gasp
You clearly touched on something that has blasted off the chains around your core
Does it feel as if you have a vision?
Does it feel as if you’re on a mission?
So go and act on it
You tried to understand where you decided not to sing
Stirring up the past has never solved a single thing
The scapegoats form a herd of pointing fingers, pointing fingers back at you
You’re working with attraction now to remodel the cast
Any affirmation will materialize at last
For the first time in your life you don’t need anyone to tell you what to do
Does it feel as if you have a vision?
Does it feel as if you’re on a mission?
So go and act on it
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Grudges
05:00
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This was a crime scene way before you could have told
It had been ruled by fear
The shattered window is the reason why you’re cold
Can hardly see from tears
Investigators are here to help us now
See the detectives, they are here to help us heal
This is what we chose
What did we have here that would be worth of such a steal
I feel we’re so, so close
Your face goes bloodless as they ask you
Who was there who might have held grudge against you all the time
Who would care if you had been accused of such a crime
Don’t you dare, for your own sake, don’t you dare
You know, without them you just wouldn’t stand a chance
They knew right away
The implication lies within your idle glance
As you hear them say
The glass was broken from the inside
Who was there who might have held grudge against you all the time
Who would care if you had been accused of such a crime
Don’t you dare going back to
The drowsiness
The shallowness
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The chirr
05:15
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Last call before we’re leaving
It feels as if we had never seen the sun
The dimmed lights may pretend that we are grieving
While that’s far from what has only just begun
Still I …
We grab our things and find the way out
The August night is sending us a gentle breeze
It might just rain tonight to put an end to this drought
Still there’s something making me weak at my knees
I can sense the darkest thesis
All my love would go to waste
I would fall to a million pieces
That could never be replaced
Still I feel lost without you
Someone has planted the seed of a doubt
The Crickets seem to warn me with the loudest chirr
They’re calling, they’re preaching, they’re screaming get the hell out
Everything inside my head becomes a giant blur
I can sense the darkest thesis
All my love would go to waste
I would fall to a million pieces
That could never be replaced
Still I feel lost without you
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Lifeboat
04:21
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For a moment would you
Would you let me get some rest
Once the dust has settled
And this thing is off my chest
I don’t need a paddle
Couldn’t get myself to row
Just forget the medal
This is not the way to grow
In this endless ocean
That’s just part of the charade
With all the locomotion
I didn’t even know we played
In this thankless struggle
That we finally have failed
I had a soul to smuggle
That was slowly going pale
I tried, I tried to swim
For as far as I could
In the end the chances were too slim
For a piece of driftwood
Now I’m in the lifeboat
And I don’t care where it goes
Beware of all the cutthroats
No matter where the current flows
There will be an island
No matter what they say
Just enjoy the silence
And let’s see what comes our way
I tried, I tried to swim
For as far as I could
In the end the chances were too slim
For a piece of driftwood
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Plundering
04:18
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You grew up believing
That it’s worth the heaving
That was self-deceiving
But it was all you had
Though you were evolving
You had been revolving
You began dissolving
And slowly going mad
You might have been through hell
But reading the signs was not your thing
By guarding your own cell
You have been clipping your own wings
You were asleep for ages
Went through all the stages
Lived in several cages
That never had been locked
And when you came closest
When your eyes had focussed
You began to notice
And you were quite shocked
You might have been through hell
But reading the signs was not your thing
By guarding your own cell
You have been clipping your own wings
You’re wondering what could have been
But ain’t that just like plundering…
What could have been
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The click
03:19
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I had romances
And I went all the way
I took the chances
And I failed anyway
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
Looking forward is the only way to go
I drank the poison
I joined the wicked dance
I tried avoiding any aggravating circumstance
Eventually I just did not comply
Regardless of how many years went by
I had to bail out
When I saw what I had become
They had it in for me
And I clearly was outgunned
I helped them hunting
I helped to stalk for prey
I learned their grunting
But still I dreamed myself away
Too late, too late, too late
The click I heard behind me was the closing of the gate
I prowled the compound with all the other residents
Until I had found a hole in the electric fence
So long, so long, so long
The guards they were distracted by a drinking song
I had to bail out
When I saw what I had become
They had it in for me
And I clearly was outgunned
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The other side
03:25
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You can find a million reasons
You can live your life just teasing
By ignoring your intentions
You’re just playing to the henchmen
You can drown in shallow waters
When you’re hanging upside down
And you will be up for slaughter
If you stay in town
You can let the fear win over
You can put your faith in clover
You can sit and wait for ages
You can turn a million pages
When you’re tired from the rolling
When the hill is just too steep
There is no one who is patrolling
There’s nothing to reap
When they lure you with their poison
Just to put you back to sleep
Try to picture the horizon
And just take the leap
On the other side, there are no excuses
You will forge your destiny
On the other side, there are all the muses
You will forge your destiny
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11. |
Searchlights
03:48
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For the greater part of your life you’ve failed to see the stars
You’ve been blinded by headlights of approaching cars
You asked for directions but they just won’t respond
You’ve followed their actions but that was so wrong
For the greater part of your life you’ve crouched behind those bars
If you don’t switch off the search lights you will never see the stars
You want to be happy just like the next guy
But first you will have to stop living a lie
...
Far away from where it actually hurts, my dear
Far away from anything
No decay is avertible by sobs and tears
And it’s tainting everything
So I grab the handle tight
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To Hell With Tradition Heidelberg, Germany
To Hell With Tradition is an independent music solo project founded in 2019 by Achim Hofmeyer, a singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and music producer based in Heidelberg, Germany
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