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I find myself a space to reflect on the day:
It has stolen the fight out of me
All these thoughts at once
Common sense, a fence, a pretend eloquence
As I'm watching the light slowly flee
Staring, staring
Another night on the tracks
I thought I would be stronger than this
See the weeds in the cracks
My blood runs cold
I sought to find a way to reclaim my lost peace;
A new face for an old enemy
It doesn't work like that
Bitterness a splinter insinuating into wounds
Destined never to heal
Losing, I'm losing
How long?
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Went and dropped it all
Didn't need much reason to escape;
To track that better way
Headed for the hills
Rode the rails from end to end
And now it's time to disappear
That much is clear
The mote that tipped the scales:
Dawning comprehension of complicity;
Can't be party to this any more
How do you reconcile?
How do you go back?
While they've been screaming, you've been dreaming
Sleeping like a baby in a cot
They've been dreaming, you've been scheming
Drain them dry and wring the final drop
Within your sights there's higher heights
Had it up to here with all the rot
If the rising tide can't be defied
And you're undermined and dissatisfied
Easier to give it up, let the devil take us all
Running far from here
Is the only chance to make things right
Hidden from the fight
Winner takes it all
Winner takes the best of us and slams it right into a wall
So it's not your fault
Cutting out and running loose, no further use,
won't be a target to be found or to be run to ground
How do you reconcile?
What is there we could've done?
There is no way back
Hide behind your crooked smile
There's no need to reconcile
Let the devil take us all
While they've been screaming you've been dreaming
Sleeping like a baby in a cot
While they've been dreaming you've been scheming
Drain them dry and wring the final drop
Within your sights there's higher heights
Had it up to here with all the rot
Why take a stand if they're underhand
And there's a chance to turn your tail and flee?
No resolution but no collusion
Never be the one left on your knees
If this rising tide can't be defied
And you're undermined and dissatisfied
Easier to give it up, let the devil take us all
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This quiet
This radio silence
Is bringing me down
The bite
Of April snow driving
Me back underground
I've been
Missing the bigger piece
Of a puzzle that's too hard anyway
I was
Wishing to figure peace
Out another way all on my own
All on my own
Disquiet
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I have been wearing this sleeve on my heart
So no-one can see where I stop
And where the bleeding edge
Of everyone else begins at the end of me
And all this time I've been alone
Tell me when did this become
Little more than an exercise in picking sides, well
Now there's nowhere left to run;
We have only ourselves to blame, it's a senseless shame
I have been hunkered down in the warm embrace
Of increasing isolation
And I have been finding that it's not comforting me
And it's not all it's made out to be
All this time I've been alone
I know so far we've been at sea
But in all this mess there's got to be
Some better spark for empathy
A ceasefire for the enmity
And after all is done and said
Maybe the baggage could be shed
We're sometimes pressed but never bowed
Time is short but we live in hope
And I am not afraid any more
We can be bigger than the sum of you and me
Time is short but we live in hope
We can be stronger than the sum of you and me
And I am not afraid any more
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This EP is a partner EP to Tales from an Age of Mistrust (
pedestrianzero.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-an-age-of-mistrust). It came about as a result of a fun idea that occurred to me whilst Tales... was being edited and mixed.
I was thinking that it was a shame that we hadn't had time to put keys into the original EP, when I thought of two friends of mine who are a bit handy with keys (and many other instruments as well), Adam and Gareth. That's when I decided it would be cool to send them the lead vocals from the EP and ask them to build a song around just the melody, without reference to the original versions. My only stipulation was to make sure there were keys in the mix.
And here is the result. I'm really pleased with it! I love seeing how different the 'same' song can be with someone else's imagination involved. Hopefully this appeals to you too.
released November 23, 2018
Written by Toby Hawkins, Gareth Cousins & Adam Jarvis
Musicians
Keys, guitar, bass, programming, vocals - Gareth Cousins
Keys, guitar, bass, programming - Adam Jarvis (
www.facebook.com/HomeFromHomeStudio)
Vocals - Toby Hawkins
Vocals - Hannah Goslett
Production
Engineered, produced & mixed by Adam Jarvis at Home from Home Studios and Gareth Cousins
Lead vocals recorded by Paul West at Awesome Source
Mastered by Pete Maher at Pete Maher Mastering
Artwork by Eleanor Hawkins, Sam Hickman and Toby Hawkins
Scribble effect by NuwanPanditha (
www.behance.net/NuwanPanditha)
