"Quit Your Job"

Originally by Chixdiggit
 
Quit your job
Screw you around
Screw you around
They screwed you around
Screwed you around

Whatever you do
Don't start a band
Don't start a band
Don't start a band
Don't start a band

"The Ballad Of Wilhelm Fink"

Originally by Green Day
 
Said that I'd meet you
At the Oakfield Marina
3 AM when no one will be found

All I got in mind
Is a Boone's Farm jug of wine
Smash a bottle in the parking lot

But considering our luck
We'll get busted by the cops
Instead of sex, we'll go to jail
Another lesson learned and failed

This Is How The Wind Shifts (2013)



1.   Stand Amid The Roar
2.   On Brave Mountains We Conquer
3.   Massachusetts
4.   This Is How
5.   A Better Place
6.   Hide Your Secrets
7.   Arrivals
8.   In A Place Of Solace
9.   In Silent Seas We Drown
10.   California
11.   The Wind Shifts
12.   To Live And To Lose
13.   With Second Chances
14.   Departures

"Stand Amid The Roar"
 
A side of temperance
An appetite for excess
I’m burning out like your cigarette

You! (You had me cornered)
You had me at goodbye
(I lived to watch you)
I loved to see you slip away
(I enjoyed captivity)
Staring at a car crash

We kill at weddings and live for funerals
We’re taking steps on the water just to show
We do whatever we want to

Oh, did I forget who I was
Did I forget just where I came from
Did I just lose who I am
This is the line I stand
(A feast of apathy, a shot of angst)

(I brought you to safety)
I carried you away
(Taking all your blame)
I dropped you in the gutter
(Hid you and protected)
just to watch you scream

We save with violence and lie with eloquence
We’re turning wine into water with abhorrence
We’ll save whoever we want to

Oh, did I forget who I was
Did I forget just where I came from
Did I just lose who I am
This is the fine line I stand

I’m not so confident
I’m going to be the one who takes the next step
I’m a cyclone, passion overblown
Tied to the tides that pull me in the undertow
Where the wind blows is where my body’s thrown
And I can’t fight it

Maybe we should walk away from this
Take our proverbial walk into the sunset
Maybe we are destined to be different
We were designed for more resilience than this
But we don’t know how and we live in the now
If we were smarter maybe we would try to fake it
Maybe we should walk away from this
And stop being ourselves, just stop being yourself
If you want to be happy

Oh, did I forget who I was
Did I forget just where I came from
Did I just lose who I am
This is the fine line I stand (Amid the roar)
This is the fine line I stand (Amid the roar)
This is the fine line I...

"On Brave Mountains We Conquer"
 
My name is anything that I want it to be
I'm striking chords in a way you've never seen
But I'm a longshot, I fought the fight and lost
I can take it, I won't make it now

I've given everything, I've let you take over me
I'm climbing mountains but drowning in the sea
And I admit it, I don't regret it
You've taken everything and left these broken wings
So here I lay

I never thought you would leave me here
A jaded mess full of hate and fear
I play the victim but I only have myself to blame
I'll rename, restart this game

My name is anything that you want it to be
Your games are endless but I can guarantee
I'll be the last one to ever give this up
I'll take it all away until I get my day
But here I lay

I never thought you would leave me here
A jaded mess full of hate and fear
I play the victim but I only have myself to blame
I'll rename, restart this game

I'm giving up this time
I can't take anymore of these confines
I've become something I'm not
A person who plays it safe, everything I hate

So here I'll lay, you finally got your way

I never thought you would leave me here
A jaded mess full of hate and fear
I play the victim I still only have myself to blame
End my reign, I'll fade away

My name I will not say, you have never heard of me
It keeps reminding me what I'll never be

"Massachusetts"
 
She's cutting out the bruises
Forgetting her excuses for being here again
With a suitcase packed and waiting by the door
In her head convinced herself she hasn't lost enough to quit

But tonight she lays here thinking
What if I just left
In the middle of the night
Back to California
And never look back

She'll fantasize about it
Every single day but she can't find it
In her heart to run away
And no one's listening
With Northern Massachusetts
On his knees to stay
He's begging
"Please, oh baby please, I can explain
It won't happen again"

He's putting out the fires
And he's making her believe
He's really changed
This time
But it's obvious it's just another lie
Lapse and relapse

And again she lays beside him thinking
I'll pretend in the middle of the night
My eyes are closed I'm sleeping
But I won't come back

She'll fantasize about it
Every single day but she can't find it
In her heart to run away
And no one's listening
With Northern Massachusetts
On his knees to stay
He's begging
"Please, oh baby please, I can explain
It won't happen again
It won't happen again"

How long can this last?
The final straw was the hospital
At least she told herself that
But she just can't find the strength to end it!

I just left
In the middle of the night
Back to California
I'll never look back

She'll fantasize about it
Every single day but she can't find it
In her heart to run away (To run away)
With Northern Massachusetts
On his knees to stay
He's begging
"Please, oh baby please, I can explain
It won't happen again
It won't happen again!"

"This Is How"
 
And this is how...
We're fighting feelings again
We're trying hard to let go
We're dodging punches from friends

And this is where...
We forget we belong
We quietly tell ourselves
We do nothing but wrong

I just want to feel safe, again
And I just want to stay calm, forever

This wind changed me
(I used to believe)
This wind changed me

"A Better Place"
 
She said she never believed in the idea of fate
No love at first sight stories, I wasn't her soulmate
When she collapsed (when she collapsed) I thought she was joking
But she didn't get up again, she didn't get up again

A thousand flowers, a hundred cards to say
She's in a better place, she's in a better place

Just face it, just face it, you can't let go
I can't be spoken for anymore
Just face it, just face it, you're on your own
I gave up everything I know
It carries on, it never stops
How could I go on without, how could I go on without
Just face it, just face it, you can't let go
You can't let go

She always said I was way too safe and I never could have fun
I had to make some mistakes and get into trouble while I'm young
So we broke in (so we broke in) to the old train station
And danced away the night until the cops chased us away

It breaks my heart to think she's in a better place

Just face it, just face it, you can't let go
I can't be spoken for anymore
Just face it, just face it, you're on your own
I gave up everything I know
It carries on, it never stops
How could I go on without, how could I go on without
Just face it, just face it, you can't let go
You can't let go
You can't let go

Just face it, just face it

One day, I took off my ring to see if the memory would start to fade
The time I spent away, I wasted all those days
She's in a better place, she's in a better place

Just face it, just face it, you can't let go
I can't be spoken for anymore
Just face it, just face it, you're on your own
I gave up everything I know
It carries on, it never stops
How could I go on without, how could I go on without
Just face it, just face it, you can't let go
You can't let go

You can't let... Go!
Just face it, just face it
If I could, I'd shine with you
If I could, I would

"Hide Your Secrets"
 
The saddest tone was a voice I heard from a silent film you wrote
Loud and clear was a muted song only two people could hear
So I'll go, living through these days acting like I've seen a ghost
A ghost

This place is mocking my passive demise
These walls were safely hiding your lies
Their secret languages everyone speaks
So free except for me

Can I save you?
Will it make me feel like I'm in heaven?
And stay true to me
Will it make you feel the same way I do
And still feel sorrow
But hate you just the same, hate you just the same

Twelve ruthless days of just playing along
I guess you don't feel guilty at all
You've lost your touch with what's right
And you're wrong with me but I can't see

Can I save you?
Will it make me feel like I'm in heaven?
And stay true to me
Will it make you feel the same way I do
And still feel sorrow
But hate you just the same, hate you just the same way

You must hate me (You must hate me)
Sick insecurities take over hope
In the name of deceit
So just put me (just put me) out of my misery
With those hands that I won't trust again

I will confess that in time I gave up planning my revenge
Fate's worse than death when it makes you forgive and just pretend

Can I save you?
Will it make me feel like I'm in heaven?
And stay true to me
Will it make you feel the same way I do
And still feel sorrow
But hate you just the same, hate you just the same
Hate you just the same

"Arrivals"
 
You're killing me kid,
But I know you're not trying to.
It's just that I've crossed out
More than I wrote down for you

And now I'm trying to play it off,
Like, "Oh, I wasn't trying that hard".
What I'm trying to say is
I was trying to say that you should come home.

I know it seems crazy,
But the weather changed as soon as I left
And even wearing a coat now
I think it's too cold to sit in front of Holy Oak.

But I guess you'll be here soon
So you can see for yourself
I just thought that you should know
If this is what happens when you go
Maybe next time don