
LYRICS
THE SOIL AND THE HAMMERING BEAT (2022)
1. PROPOSAL
Can you drive a little while
To a place, we might see stars
Pass that light, hang a right
If we move now, we might stay in time
Let me lie in your shell
Watch you wait for it to break
I know you are scared
And I can’t explain myself well
But no one else
Knows me this well
It’s not what you wanted
It’s not how you planned it
But we knew it was coming
Can you stop, up ahead
In that shop, a man is selling dreams
Can you please talk now
I’ve said too much
I hope that I
haven’t taken this too far
It’s not what you wanted
It’s not how you planned it
But we knew that it was coming
Now we can never be losing
We’ve lost it all so we’re falling
The light is alright in the forest
We forgave but now we own them
They can’t walk upon us again
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BELLS FELL SILENT (2020)
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1. WHEN WE HIT LAND
We woke a little late

The clouds had rolled away

We hadn’t heard about the storm
The mightiest of hands had left a roar
You said: The best I’ve slept in weeks

I’m glad we went to bed in peace

I said: It was a terrible fight,

I’m not sure that we’ll survive another one
You and the drama, she said
There’s no need to go there again
If we can sleep like this

We might live to see another one
It was the day that we hit land

The storm had teared the roof down
Although we didn’t know it yet

The flood had come to take it all away
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2. BACKLIGHT
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Stay some time
Why would you go away
Right here in the backlight
A black glow on your shoulder
You came back
Only to see
You weren’t gone at all
We’d been looking at the same door
In that door frame
It came to be seen
Diamonds would weigh us down
We were always lightweight
What’s here now
Is all there will be
Here in the backlight
We will start in plain sight
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3. THEY HAD ME BELIEVING
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If I had anything to go on
I would go with you
If I had anything to count on
I would count on you
If the fire was beyond me
If the fire wasn’t true
If I had anything to lose here
I swear I won’t lose you
What made matters worse was
They told me about you
I kept counting them days and
Waiting for it to be true
But it was nothing
It was only words
They had me believe
that I stood a chance but
You wouldn’t come back
You wouldn’t come back
I was just looking
At the wrong someone
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4. COME WITH ME
You’re stronger than you seem
And I have reason to believe
You’re gonna be the beam
That will cut through everything I leave
I cant say who you will become
But who you are is already more
Than I could have hoped for
So come with me
Take it upon yourself
To be no one other than yourself
Lighten up the night
With small steps you will curve time
I can’t know who you want me to be
But who I am is the best I’ve tried to be
So come with me
Believe it when I say
Everything is in your hands
Believe it when I say
The world is doing the best it can
And that world is yours
Now you spin it around
Love is yours
But you must give in to hope
So come with me
So come with me
So come with me
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5. BIG NIGHT WON
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I have not come to see the end of kindness
Stand on a beach with a sinking fleet
I will not drink from the speechwriter’s inkwell
I’m not free if my words are sold
Big night won
Big night won
Big night won
Big night won
It scrolls up and down
paints a hateful message
Hang them high
We won’t reach them again
Our screens are the face
Of one ugly beast
With fingers greased we’re obsolete
Big night won
Big night won
Big night won
Big night won
Who’s left outside won’t get in
Who stayed inside will never get out
I won’t forget you when you forget me
I will question you when you answer to me
Big night won
Big night won
Big night won
Big night won
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6. DON’T LEAVE ME IN THE MUD
Your body moves down the stream River runs in my mind
Nothing here to hold its force
No one here to guard the gate
I hope it stays, the image of the two of us with toothbrushes
Although that one is something I’m still afraid to talk about
You’ll be sailing off to another land

You’re gonna build something there
I don’t want to get left behind
Don’t leave me in the mud
If nothing else is gonna give
The tide may never rise again
I hope you come and shut me up
I hope you steer me pass these rocks
I hope you come and shut me up
I hope you steer me pass these rocks
If nothing else, we’ll give in
I can give you a final rise
If no one’s gonna give in
I can give you a final rise
If nothing else, we’ll give in
I can give you a final rise
If no one’s gonna give in
I can give you a final rise
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7. THE RETURN
Somewhere I
Lost my bearings
I had no clue who
I had turned into
It took me some years
To find out
I wasn’t going
To be anyone else
Every street I walked
Every fight I lost
Now I’m coming back for me
I’m coming back for me
Every bird I heard
Singing my life’s words
Now I’m coming back for me
I’m coming back for me
Wishful friend
and my darling foe
They had me taking
the pill that made you nothing
Feeding off a feed
That feeds from that mighty feed
Is that all there is
Is that all there is
Every street I walked
Every fight I lost
I’m coming back for me
I’m coming back for me
Every bird I heard
Singing my life’s words
Now I’m coming back for me
I’m coming back for me
I used to raise my hand
Saying this is not the end
Now I’m coming back for me
I’m coming back for me
Every song I bring
Are all honest mistakes
I’m coming back for me
I’m coming back for me
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8. NEW YEAR
Come and walk me closer
Now that time is looking down
Before it’s here
You made it all matter
If you cannot move
Then stay where you are
And if I cannot explain
Something that’s already shown
In my face
Please just shut me up
You don’t have to care about us
Anymore
This is the last day
Of the year
And another will come along
It doesn’t have no meaning
It’s just the way we count the days
Before we are gone
Fade before it’s gone
They will know what we want
My love
Let’s make it all count
Let’s make it count
And roll along
Roll along
And if you help me carry
All these words up to the hill
We’ll have a fire
There’s nothing here to keep
No diary to read
I’ll make no claim
We’re just passing through like sound
We bounce from wall to wall
No one left behind
So let’s make up
Let’s make out
We’re gonna be fine
Fade before it’s gone
They will know what we want
My love
Let’s make it all count
Let’s make it count
And roll along
Roll along
We’re gonna rise to a new year
9. BLEEDING INTO YOU
It’s a moment of truth
I’m bleeding into you
Something’s gonna kill us
Let’s be born every day
My dreams are less in numbers
But they linger on much longer
There’s a draft in my heart
You pulled your part
This is where I belong
With a story to my song
Words can only love me
If I turn them into melody
My dreams are less in numbers
But they linger on much longer
There’s a draft in my heart
You pulled your part
And I’ll fight until my head hangs
Soft against my chest
My eyes are finally open
My heart still bleeding
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10. NOT OURS TO KEEP
Keep hearing sounds

You discovered

Every whisper has a power
But it wasn’t mine
Wasn’t yours

Wasn’t theirs to keep
Blame the loss on me
As a child I read Tom Sawyer
He loved an outcast

Claimed a river
But he wasn’t mine
Wasn’t yours

Wasn’t theirs to keep
Yet he left a world in me
Every place has a story
But don’t expect them
To be told again
They were never mine
Never yours

Never theirs to keep
The loss left them free