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Beyond the Lamplight
04:08
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"Beyond the Lamplight"
Intermission is coming to a close
better run back to your seat
We been biding our time looking
for a rhyme that’ll get you up on you feet
It’s been a rather bumpy ride with people
trying to wear me down
I’ve been hearing it all I will heed the call
To this you know that I am bound
I know we’re just beginning
And while this world’s still spinning
Beyond, beyond, the lamplight,
We will be what you need,
We’ll illuminate the night
Come one, come all, gather near,
You will be what we need,
A sympathetic ear
‘Cause all we need is here
Is it something that you heard before
in your heart or in your head
From way deep down something that you found
That could get you up outta bed
In the middle there’s something stuck
let me help you to get it out
You can trust me dear there ain’t nothing to fear
Was there ever really any doubt?
There was never an ending
Our dreams were just pending
Beyond, beyond, the lamplight,
We will be what you need,
We’ll illuminate the night
Come one, come all, gather near,
You will be what we need,
A sympathetic ear
Was there ever any doubting,
That we’d be here again?
Through the cheer and through the shouting,
It’s made it’s way under our skin
Beyond, beyond, the lamplight,
We will be what you need,
We’ll illuminate the night
Come one, come all, gather near,
You will be what we need,
A sympathetic ear
This one’s for the kid in the back,
The storytellers and insomniacs,
Feeding the fire and keeping the flame,
Standing tall, screaming out their names
This one’s for the sweat on beams,
Blood on the floor and the tear on your cheek,
Leaving it all laying out on the stage,
Singing the hymn and tearing out the page
‘Cause all we need is here
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2. |
Hiding in Plain Sight
03:56
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"Hiding in Plain Sight"
Look in the background something is astir,
Oh look what I found a patch of matted fur,
A rusty ball of tangled up barbed wire,
All packaged up inside a threadbare tire
You'd be surprised what you can find,
Only if you use you're eyes
Hiding in plain sight, putting up a fight all year,
We all know how hard it is to do nothing,
I said I need a break, you said that
I should take what I need,
After all we've seen
we know what it's like to feel something
Do you think we can fit it all the way upstairs,
I believe it'll make it
gonna have to move some chairs,
Stepping over the clutter
for fear of making a sound,
All the way from the bedroom
I can hear your heart pound
You'd be surprised what you can feel,
Can we just make a deal?**
This could have been easy,
We could have made a list,
The weight of the thing has
made you put up your fists,
We're all a bit edgy,
We're all a bit scared,
But it's not all worry and despair
Hiding in plain sight, putting up a fight all year,
We all know how hard it is to do nothing,
I said I need a break, you said that
I should take what I need,
After all we've seen
we know what it's like to feel something
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"The Hill You Choose to Die On"
I think I need one more,
Or two or three or four,
Just something to wind me up and
put me back down in the floor
Can you help me out,
What's all the fuss about,
Seeing double I can't help
but stumble my way on out the door
When cocktail hour turns old and sour,
What are we to do?
We live inside our dark delusions,
never hearing any rhyme or reason
We hide away in our confusion,
living through the lonely seasons
Swat away a helping hand,
draw a line in the shifting sand
This will be the hill you choose to die on
My life is mine,
I could quit anytime,
Sometimes I just need
something strong to ease my mind
I don't need your help,
I can do it myself,
Don't you know that
I ain’t really in it for my health
When fun and games turn into shame,
Is there a way out?
In a gale of your despair
and wretched circumstance,
You begin to falter
Through bloodshot eyes and muted cries,
You can just make out the shape,
A lonely soul floating
right through hells gate
We live inside our dark delusions,
never hearing any rhyme or reason
We hide away in our confusion,
Living through the lonely seasons
Swat away a helping hand,
draw a line in the shifting sand
This will be the hill you choose to die on
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"Shelter" Feat. Frank Turner
It's been an early spring
turned into summer,
Or so everybody thought
The clouds came in with a bummer,
We forget all we’re taught
In a town that's built for sinking,
Where do we go from here?
Let's dig a hole that's fit for dying,
We'll bury all our fears
In the ground hides a sound
that we were meant to hear,
So smooth your dress
with shaky hands and stand
Shelter, shelter hide away a secret,
Will you choose to meet the day?
Heavy weather always will it follow,
If you don't come drink the rain
Your shelter keeps you hiding away
I remember how you held it in,
Every time you had cry
Autumn breeze on your salty skin,
Try my coat on for size
Your eyes they held reflections,
Of something from my youth
My hands had good intentions,
They were made just for you
In your heart lies the start
of something that is new,
Brush your hair with fingers fair and true
Stuck in the eye of a hurricane,
If we’re a match would
you blow out the flame?
There is truth in what I say,
Please don't keep yourself so locked away
Shelter, shelter hide away a secret,
Will you choose to meet the day?
Heavy weather always will it follow,
If you don't come drink the rain
Shelter, shelter don't let us be divided,
We could walk with arm in arm
Together, together
we could break the silence,
No it won't do you no harm
Shelter, shelter
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5. |
Leave It to Us
03:19
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"Leave It to Us"
Fire in the hills,
My life it spills,
Haloed in the embers it begins
It's a rising tide,
Not on our side,
Stand our ground and
we'll be washed away
Alone in our ignorance,
We left all our fingerprints
Leave it to us to ruin a good thing,
Backing ourselves against the wall,
We shouldn't be
asking what went wrong,
We should have been caring all along
Running out of room,
Help will come soon,
Stay right where you are
and say a prayer
I see a broken crown,
I can hear the sound,
A billion hungry people at our door
Maybe just for kicks,
We carry the crucifix
We build the walls to keep you out,
Or are they keeping you in?
Our own echoes to match the shouts,
Bathing in our sins
Leave it to us to ruin a good thing,
Backing ourselves against the wall,
We shouldn't be asking what went wrong,
We should have been caring all along
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"Don’t Forget to Leave It All Behind"
In the midst of hypothermia,
The body starts to flicker out,
Vision blurs as it occurs to you
I never felt that I could turn ya,
From all the things you fussed about,
A deeper thought
a breath that's caught in the blue
The fingers stiffen the the legs give out,
Paralysis is coming now,
You could be spared if
loving care could find you
But after all it's just your nature,
To heave it all upon your back,
Propriety, anxiety as a virtue
Deal with it or lie with it,
Live with it, you die with it
As it stands you are a number,
In a diagram of a life,
Just a brand stuck on the shelf
And we're closed for the night,
Pick up your feet
and get out on the street
We will find you,
Don't forget to leave it all behind
The blood it pumps with paranoia,
Acrid fumes they fill the lungs,
Losing all the things that makes it work
You're the one who is the master,
That keeps the keys to happiness,
Smash the box
that you've been keeping secret
You could, be living proof
That good things come in time,
I would, bet it all to see you clear your mind,
Stand still, let me get a look at you
Deal with it or lie with it,
Live with it, you die with it
As it stands, you are a number,
In a diagram of a life,
Just a brand, stuck on the shelf
And we're closed for the night,
Take a stand, do what you're here for,
you are free to live your life,
Like a brand, wear it with pride,
Gonna open the night,
Pick up your feet
and get out on the street
We will find you,
Don't forget to leave it all behind
Leave it behind
Deal with it or lie with it,
Live with it, you die with it
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7. |
Midnight Sun
03:13
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"Midnight Sun"
Spent time in California houses,
Time on dirty couches,
Holes in my favorite pair of jeans
Chipped teeth on broken 57's,
Couldn't call it heaven,
But it's where
I choose to spend my dying days
Throw a wish in a dried up well,
Keep a fire burning what the hell
Sweat it out in economy,
Is worth it just wait and see,
Working hard at getting this shit done,
Takes a lot to make it happen,
Every ship's gonna need a captain,
Clime aboard we’ll find the midnight sun
Broke down in fucking Arizona,
Drank searing hot Corona,
Woke up and I just did it all again
By now I haven't learned my lesson,
It's far from perfection,
But I'll gladly keep coming back for more
It's easy as it seems,
Sleeping through American dream
Making friends in old Ohio,
Getting robbed in the Carolinas,
Feeling sick pulling into Dover,
I could do this over and over
Crushing beers in a cargo trailer,
Light up the bar
and crank some Slayer,
Full moon on an Italian skyline,
We should do this again sometime
Sweat it out in economy,
Is worth it just wait and see,
Working hard at getting this shit done,
Takes a lot to make it happen,
Every ship's gonna need a captain,
Clime aboard we'll find the midnight sun
Got a song gonna stick with it
One heart buried under the grit
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8. |
Halfhearted Songs
03:24
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"Halfhearted Songs"
Keeping warm ain't easy,
So I'm staying in my bed,
You know I ain't that greedy,
You got it backwards in your head
I'll think I'll take my chances,
Somewhere in the alleyway,
I'm swinging for the fences,
I don't need it anyway
I don't know what I've been sold,
Just a fleeting whisper
I could never hold,
You can keep all of my halfhearted songs ,
To mop up all your bitter tears
When I thought I saw you,
Walking out around the back,
Into the cracks you fell through,
Then you faded into black
Want you to think about it,
Want you to keep yourself away,
Then again I can't be bothered,
I've got so much more to say
I don't know what I've been sold,
Just a fleeting whisper
I could never hold,
You can keep all of my
halfhearted songs ,
To mop up all your bitter tears
I know it's quite a simple song,
Doesn't take too much to say so long,
You could always draw a crowd,
But never said it all out loud
I don't know what I've been sold,
Just a fleeting whisper
I could never hold,
You can keep all of my halfhearted songs ,
To mop up all your bitter tears
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9. |
Death of Me
03:47
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"Death of Me"
I been thinking about it,
Thinking I should just let you go,
Never gave me a rhyme and reason,
Reaping what you sew
You know I don't think I need it,
I put it all on a losing horse,
Walking blind, gonna lose my mind,
I'm wandering off course
You could be the death of me
Maybe let's just wait and see
Your love is more than a shove
it's more like a punch in the face,
I'm on the ropes but
I've got high hopes for the race,
Just a little is enough to go around,
Too much for me to bear,
Keeping me afloat with a hole in the boat
I swear
Some kind of contradiction,
Needing someone to pick me up,
In a pile on the kitchen tile,
Somebody get a mop
I've never felt such a sickness,
I've been stuck in a fever dream,
Gimme something I can hold on to,
I've been walking a balance beam
You could be the death of me
Maybe let's just wait and see
Your love is more than a shove
it's more like a punch in the face,
I'm on the ropes but
I've got high hopes for the race,
Just a little is enough to go around,
Too much for me to bear,
Keeping me afloat with a hole in the boat
I swear
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10. |
Punch Drunk
04:17
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"Punch Drunk"
An ocean of time,
a child's nursery rhyme
I speak to you, saying you're still young
you know you're in your prime
On and on, though the fire may be gone,
I won't believe, what you had wasn't
something you were meant to keep
Be my guest, better than the rest,
Write me a poem,
I could keep it in my pocket
I could do my best
To see the lines, staying in 4/4 time,
What's in between,
is something only you could've set to flame
You always beat me to the punch,
Spike it with a drop of blood,
Keep me drunk my love
Pull the shade and count your stars,
Put my weak heart behind the bars
Lock me up for good
Rip the page, is it really all that strange,
No consequence, for a life unchanged at the palace gates
Me in rags, you're heels they drag,
The river bed, the ships they weep for their fallen prey
Good things come,
To those who never,
Learn to wait,
For things matter,
You're too late,
To make me see
You always beat me to the punch,
Spike it with a drop of blood,
Keep me drunk my love
Pull the shade and count your stars,
Put my weak heart behind the bars
Lock me up for good
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11. |
The Current
03:55
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"The Current"
Tears flow in the winter snow,
I never meant to be this way
Broken man with his heart in his hand,
Like he's never seen the light of day
There's no more wishing on a star, for me
Only a seasick elegy
The current flows one direction,
Never turning back the tide,
We all can see what lies ahead of us,
But we never wanna die
Slow flame when summer came,
You couldn't bear to see my face,
Deep wells the toll of the bell,
You knew the wind would
blow me away,
There's someone wishing
on a star, someplace,
I'm not the one in your embrace
The current flows one direction,
Never turning back the tide,
We all can see what lies ahead of us,
But we never wanna die
Turn the lens you will
reveal the sorrow,
In the cracks you're gonna find the pain,
In the end there's not a new tomorrow,
Will you ever stake your claim?
The current flows one direction,
Never turning back the tide,
We all can see what lies ahead of us,
But we never wanna die
Are the winds still in your favor?
You're left adrift upon your soul,
Will you win or will you sink below?
I know you have control
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Beyond the Lamplight Bend, Oregon
ABOUT:
Lead singers of Larry and His Flask, Ian Cook and Andrew Carew, continue the fun and songwriting
alliance together in their new project Beyond The Lamplight. Soaring harmonies meld with deft lyricism and lightning-fast banjo-picking all against a double-time backbeat to form a quintessential electric barn burner.
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