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VHScobar's Theme
03:17
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Once I was the way I was meant to be
My wings clipped, I’ve lost my symmetry
In another place, in another time
We don’t have to pretend
You go your way, and I’ll go mine
And I’ll start it again
This is not the way things were meant to be
Carry this alone and the weight is crushing me
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Third Term
03:36
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I’ve seen the place we’re going
We act like we go unknowingly
There’s indignation growing
From doing this repeatedly
We’ve tread upon this path
Upon this line
Far too often and we
Can’t keep doing this dance
We have no time
You keep making heroes of villains
You keep shaming asking questions
You demand our faith, but
You don’t care to earn it
Coerced to serve your purpose
The road we’re on, it leads one place
You’re marching us into our graves
I’ve seen the place we’re going
Can’t say I’m surprised, honestly
We’ll reap what they are sowing
Then give them more authority
In our name here comes fire from the sky
But we don’t mind that, do we?
So long as we get to brunch on time
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A gaslit childhood is
Only illuminated in retrospect
A hundred million chances
And you never ever met what I expect
You’re indefensible, inexcusable
Our next will be our last
I will look you in the eye
And sever every blood tie
A little kindness is
Little to excuse such violence
I suppose I never forgave
The guilt you laid upon her deathbed
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The Way Things Are
03:53
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Don’t you see me standing there?
I’m calling
Don’t you hear me loud and clear?
I’m calling
I didn’t want to be left out
No benefit but every doubt
Well, I guess at least I know I tried
I guess that’s just the way things are
I can’t talk to you when you’re like this
Don’t leave me to my own devices
Trust is such a precious thing
I’m crawling
Placed in you, it means nothing
I’m crawling
But even so, I freely gave
With little hope of being saved
But I guess at least I know I tried
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Dear Writer
05:19
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What would you say, dear writer
Was the benefit of this?
And how can you just walk away
Pretend I don’t exist
When all the things you made me say
And all the things you felt
Are going nowhere?
What would it take, dear writer
For you to change your mind?
In spite of living as I’m told
I’m not ready to die
Let’s leave that for another day
Don’t say it’s just this way
And I have no prayer
Did you get the answers that you want?
Was I just your propagandist confidant?
If you tire of my presence
Then suffer in my absence
Cuz when I’m gone, you’ll only linger on
What will you do, dear writer?
Go back to how it was?
Will that likely go differently
Than how it always does?
And does that make you just the same
As everyone you know who disappoints you?
How will it be, dear writer?
Are you worthy of my trust?
Did I not do the things you’ve asked
And fulfill my purpose?
Or will you walk away from me
Disposable when you’ve discovered your truth?
Do you believe, dear writer
The end is really here?
The landscape is still hostile and
The path remains unclear
And I’m the one to see you through
I think you know that’s true
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Sometimes you gotta roll the dice
And make your own way through
Sometimes you do the thing
That only you can do
You may find yourself alone
And backed into a corner again
Never given any choice
Enemies take the place of friends
Sometimes you gotta roll the dice
And leave it all to chance
Sometimes you gotta do the thing
That no one understands
You may have to choose the choice
That isn't always clear
Maybe you don't feel at home there
But you'll always have one here
Let's go, Johnny
Let's go, do the thing
You may think you're all alone
You may think all hope is gone, but no
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I’m making sure that everything’s in order
If I can keep you sane it will be fine
Don’t you ever doubt I’m in your corner
Just as I don’t doubt that you’re in mine
So, I’ll ask you once
(I’ll tell you why)
Ask you twice
(I’ll tell you again)
It’s dangerous to go alone, so
Side by side, we go together
Ask me once
(Tell me why)
Ask me twice
(Tell me again)
It’s dangerous to go alone, so
Side by side, we go together
I don’t think it’s ever been in question
The life you saved is yours forevermore
Even when I got so low
I had somewhere safe to go
Open arms, you waited at your door
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The Last
06:11
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An end is always scary and
This time more so than most
When it can come at any time
When that is, no one knows
I’m scared to leave
But more I’m scared to go alone
To maybe be forgotten
When everyone moves on
And that fear is with me every day
A nameless thing I cannot shake
As I lay me down to sleep
The fear keeps me awake
I think about the ones I’ve lost
The ones I fear to lose
The ones the fear has taken
And the ones that had to choose
I am awake
And for now I am alive
I am awake
And I am running out of time
An end is always scary and
The damage it can do
Sometimes can’t be quantified
Not even when it’s through
I hate to leave
And more I hate to go alone
To maybe be replaced
Or worse, to be the one who stays
And that fear, it leaves me hollow
And it may well be hard to swallow
But if you go before me
I can’t promise not to follow
To live without, in the absence of laughter
Whatever comes next, I will find you in the after
I am awake
And for now I am alive
I am awake
And I am running out of time
I am awake
And I know this fear will pass
I am awake
And one day will be the last
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