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Where Are Your Gods?
07:14
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Where are your Gods when you need them most?
And what kind of world will you leave?
One that floods and burns to its innermost
Riddled with Man’s cruel disease?
Your endless desire for profit and for greed
With water more valued than gold
Only the rich could ever sate their need
The Earth is bought and controlled.
Where are your Gods, have they looked away?
Did they turned a casual blind eye
To your precious corporate priorities?
“We’re only matching demand with supply”
And the water systems that you pollute
Are lapping under your feet
With your modern-day version of King Cnut
Drowning in your own conceit
You had the resources to change it all
Instead, you sought rockets and wings
Maybe you’re still trying to find your own true God
And your place amongst legends and kings
So where are your Gods, have they looked away?
Are they showing you their disrespect
At your egotistical and selfish acts?
“We’re not fuelling the greenhouse effect”
So where are your Gods when you need them most?
And what kind of world have you left?
A world that’s rising off its knees
Or one lying barren, bereft?
Where are your Gods when you need them most?
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Black Mist
07:25
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It’s a constant source of tension when the rule of law
Is abused through circumvention, the final straw for human faith
For those who let the power invade their souls
They know there’ll come the hour in opinion polls. They’ll steal the show
But hiding in the black mist, hiding from the truth
Obscured by doubts and loopholes and solid proof
Hiding in the black mist your safety is assured
Through lies and endless red tape secrets are stored
And through association favours are shared
But the cash and compensation go undeclared. There’s a stench of greed
Buy those who seek to question these crooked acts
Conveniently fail to mention the crucial facts and the bastards win
But hiding in the black mist, hiding from the truth
Obscured by doubts and loopholes and solid proof
Hiding in the black mist your safety is assured
Through lies and endless red tape secrets are stored
A light on operations will reveal
Immoral machinations and shady deals and the money trail
And when the black mist rises and bares your sin
The cast iron compromises will save your skin. You’re made for life
But hiding in the black mist, hiding from the truth
Obscured by doubts and loopholes and solid proof
Hiding in the black mist
Hiding in the black mist
Hiding in the black mist
You shadow moves
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Laid Low/Breathtaker
07:32
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Beyond imagination, born of blood and fire
In splendid isolation, I have lived
Corrupted and conspiring
All I wanted, all I was living for
An end to all the silent sweet revenge
And nothing more
No longer God's Apollo, no more Mercury
Down among the unbelievers
Fuck the wild and wasted, look at me
Got pills to sleep, got pills to get awake
Eternally I pray no-one my breath will take
The honesty is gone now
There is no other way in this state of mine
The resolutions halted
The innocence betrayed by your hand
All I can do is keep uncertain company
I get this murderous intention
With a tendency to fly
How can I hold on?
If I'm not living who am I?
He knows that I'm about him
He feels me in his skin, I follow him in again
Confidence is shaken, his conscience is unclear
One of us promised more
I know you lie with me, breathtaker
To dream my dreams
You steal them for the maker of rain
Get out of my subterranean heart and I'm alive
Asylum is everything and it's mine
Oh, are you made of stone?
And are you there at all or here in my head?
Anyone with half a brain would do the same
I know your name
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The Second Fall
06:18
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What will you do to escape it all?
When the world around you falls
Down with the rats, the dust and scum
What will you do when your nightmare comes?
Should have listened to what was said
But you did what you wanted to do instead
Ignoring advice and protocol
So here it comes
The second fall
It won’t get me I’m invincible
I don’t believe it’s even here at all
No time to concede our small freedoms
Whatever they say are good reasons
They’re controlling us all to keep us down
It’s time to break out and protest now
Defy the rules on principle
Here it comes
The second fall
Discover the truth but far too late
The enemy spreads and duplicates
No respecter of age or point of view
It’s heads or tails now if we’ll pull through
Now I wish you had believed it all
Cos here it comes
The second fall
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Finally Free
05:26
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The rain patters away at the remnants of another day stillborn
The time where we lost ourselves in laughter ever after I will mourn
It seems that you’ll always be
That kind and gentle face smiling back at me
The car it runs the red stop sign cutting fine lines, hear the applause
Pulls up outside all the office blocks, stop the clocks, the win is yours
I know we’ll never laugh again
Like we always seemed to find the time back then
The once filled rooms that were full of soul will not console me now
The rain relentlessly dulls the mood to more subdued thoughts allowed
I know it’s for your own sanity
I’m glad you're finally free
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Old memories held in a frame
Keep calling me to open the veil and visit again
No looking back, nothing to be seen
It’s more important to look ahead and not where we’ve been
Forty summers back, so carefree
Laughing in the park, sheer comedy
Pictures in my mind that never change
No use looking back, it’s gone now
Ghosts of all our past, they’ve flown now
Riding on a wave now out of range
Things that we did, but some I regret
But still they’re things I’ll hang onto and never forget
Time that has past will not come again
I’ll try to keep in mind all of the joy and none of the pain
Forty summers back, so carefree
Laughing in the park, sheer comedy
Pictures in my mind that now seem strange
No use looking back, it’s gone now
Ghosts of all our past, they’ve flown now
Riding on a wave now out of range
Just out of range
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7. |
In The End
06:06
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Embrace the flame, court the muse
Things don’t turn out as we’d often choose
Take another step, move two back
The tide has turned against us
For when all is done, we take the climb
Just to see where the Gods will take us this time
Fate or destiny, they’re both our friends
And they will take us in the end
Embrace the flame
Words can leave us now as I’ll contend
That they can’t help us in the end
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8. |
Time
22:39
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Part I: Sands of Time
I wonder why the sky is so blue
They say it may be because of you
The dew on the grass, the leaves on the trees
The delicate pollen that floats on the breeze
We will never admit it although we’ve always known
The sands of time are shifting and will never run slow
I wonder why the flowers bloom
It’s maybe to guide you with their perfume
All that we’ve seen and all that we’ve shared
Always left me feeling so unprepared
Through our outstretched fingers the sands of time will fall
Removing traces of memory until there's nothing left to recall
We will never admit it although we've always known
The sands of time are shifting and will never run slow for us.
Part II: The Space Between Us
Can you hear the space between us?
Can you see the space between us?
Can you feel the space between us?
I can see the space between us.
Part III: Tangles & Knots
Time leaves behind broken and beautiful dreams
And blows the wind through the fragments left
For those who will dare to follow
There’s a place where the lonely it seems
Will mourn untimely death
By a darkness that leaves us hollow
Dreams will fade into nothing but wisps on the wind
Unremembered familiar thought
Where tangles and knots wind their way
Gone the years, the faces, the places, the souls
And all that we were taught
Watch the colours all fading to grey
Part IV: Reminiscence
There’s raindrops falling
Raindrops falling
Reminds me of when
There were raindrops falling
Just us in the rain
Can you hear them falling?
Part V: Time on Earth
Proud and strong, how young you were
Yesterdays are gone in such a blur
Yet they seemed to last so long
When we were so proud and strong
And life is there for those who lead it
The moments there for those who steal it
Live well, whatever that means to you
For this is your time on Earth
Young you were but young no more
We know what time has in store
Steel winds blow, the shadows cast
No regrets for days that pass
And life is there for those who lead it
The moments there for those who steal it
Live well, whatever that means to you
For this is your time on Earth
Part VI: Passages & Passengers
Passengers, passing through time
No destination, no one in control
Just passing the time, passing the days
Until we come to be here again
Through the passages we follow
Nose-to-tail we go
Blindly following each other
Until we reach the wall
Through the passages we follow
Nose-to-tail we go
Blindly following each other
Until we reach the wall
Part VII: Don't Beckon The Stars
Don't beckon the stars when their light burns low
Don't always fight against the water's undertow
To change something you should have done a long time ago
Don't beckon the stars when their light burns low
Don't try to grasp the sands of time or the sunset's afterglow
To be someone you should have been a long time ago
Don't beckon the stars when their light burns low
Don't always wish for one more hour before it's time to go
To have something you should have had a long time ago
Don't wish to all the stars when their light is burning low
Don't always fight against the tide and the water's undertow
Don't go chasing time for the chance to put things right
Just go gently into the night
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Enigma
07:21
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Though you may be out of range
The stroke of midnight hits you every time
The extra mile that makes the change
That’s where your history will be defined
Build a bombe and crack the code
Save the world and bear the load
Step by step you walk the road
A heart of gold a brilliant mind
So far ahead of your own time
Frame by frame you broke the code
Finding faith to make the leap
The secrets you were made to keep
So your truth would always be denied
On the basis of the facts
Logic falls between the cracks
As their fear and prejudice collide
Build a bombe and crack the code
Save the world and bear the load
Step by step you walk the road
A heart of gold a brilliant mind
Way ahead of your own time
Frame by frame you broke the code
Step by step you walk the road
While the world is turning as the minutes and the hours unwind
Every day the weight is baring down results return as undefined
Crack the code you lift the load, the breaking of the tidal wave
Step by step you walked the road betrayed by those you helped to save
Though you may be out of range
You could see what no-one else could see
You gave yourself to make the change
You’re the ghost inside the war machine
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10. |
The Cliff's Edge
06:45
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Standing here just staring at the writing on the wall
It’s often said or so I’ve read pride comes before a fall
To fly too high, beyond your reach is foolish and unwise
Especially when you don’t realise
Be careful what you wish for, don’t grasp the nettle tight
For it may climb into your mind just as your reach for light
Its dark remains move through your veins, you stumble from your ledge
And over the sheer cliff’s edge
Talk to me, you can talk to me
Open up to me, don’t look right through me
They’re feelings, only feelings
Hidden meanings, constant dreamings
“Pull yourself together, you’re always in a daze”
Was all received by mirror-men into the world they gazed
If I could walk beside you without this dark decay
I’d swap our places everyday
Talk to me, you can talk to me
Open up to me, don’t look right through me
They’re feelings, only feelings
Hidden meanings, constant dreamings
To walk the road of emptiness alone and quite afraid
I’ll stare into this deep, dark abyss, embrace the life I’ve made
With eyes so full of madness, my thoughts I cannot hide
I fall over the great divide
Talk to me, you can talk to me
Open up to me, don’t look right through me
They’re feelings, only feelings
Hidden meanings, constant dreamings
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11. |
The Distant Sunrise
10:52
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In their forties they met
Both had been there before
Constantly rebelling against a system
Living life without regret
Carefree, like the waves upon the shore
Into their world there came another
A beautiful, defenceless child
Growing together bond upon bond
But the darkness lurked out there
Waiting for the moment
In the long grass, stalking in the wild
A camera angle would shatter this peace
This beauty and all desires
The darkness had come to steal the dream
A theatre of war had begun
Distant at first, subtle, barely there
Then a full cascade of bombs and gas
With very little time to prepare.
“There may be a time when I am not here”
I said with a tear in my eye;
I wanted to convey the love that I have
While I still have an air supply
“You’ll outlive us all”, she said as a joke
Barely believing in it all
But imagining that it would give us all hope
And somehow cushion the fall
And when she smiles that smile
And tells me we will be there in the summer of 2025
Laughing together, smiling at the trivial things
How were we to know what she referred to was so distant
As undetermined
As undefined
As the underside of the moth’s wing
Every day’s a distant sunrise
Never knowing what’s in store,
Every day the time goes clockwise
Glad for what I have but needing more
Every day’s a distant sunrise
Gather your thoughts, live for the day
Be thankful that you are still here to see
The world’s wondrous display
Every day is a distant sunrise
Remember when I was there
Imagine my arms around you
Protecting you as you stare
Into the distant sunrise
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Following a debut album released March 2020, Checking For Echo Project now draws upon the talents of a number of musicians and vocalists to bring the songs to life.
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