Lies

V1

I’m self sufficient, I’m so secure

I got everything I need, no need for any of yours

I won’t call any favours,  yeah i’m fine on my own

You say this kind of behaviour, is why I feel so alone

Ch

All the lies I tell myself help put me to sleep

All the times I should of stopped to listen and not speak

Could of spared me from my 'self' and saved a lot of grief 

And in turn allow myself to finally just be

V2

Everything's working, everything’s sure

I got no doubt that i’ll make it, so just give me the floor

I don’t need your approval, a trophy on your shelf

I don’t need to be famous, doing this for my health

Br

Find refrain, say it’s name 

Hold this space, make room for the truth and all it's pain

Ch

All the lies I tell myself help put me to sleep

All the times I should of stopped to listen and not speak

All the lies we tell ourselves won't help us to sleep

All the times we should of stopped to listen and not speak

Could of spared us from our 'self' and saved a lot of grief 

And in turn allow ourselves to finally just be, just be

Keep Trying

V1

Flipping through the messages, dissecting every word

Wanting to be gentle yet heard

Did I say it well enough, did I get it right this time?

Maybe we’d be better off if you could simply try and read my mind

Read my mind

Ch

All our fears that we’ve felt we’ve dealt with oh so well our whole lives

Now rush back into the light

Say what they will, every fear that seeks to steal, destroy and kill

Oh love has it’s reply… 

"Just keep trying"

V2

Tomorrow steals my confidence, it’s worries manifold

But today is but a vapour, so we’re told 

Projecting past the present tense, a place we’re less alone

Baby we’ll better off embracing everything in the unknown

Ch 2

All our years shaping every moment, every thought in our minds

Now try to harmonise  

Bend as they will, every note and word, where melody stands still 

Hear love and its reprise…

“Just keep trying"

Here We Go Again

V1

Here we go again, another poor connection

I want to see you but not through this frame, I want to see all your pain

I want to see all of you

V2

Here we go again, another awkward silence

I hope that it's filled with some truth

Not my need to pretend or my need to defend

Cause all I want is you

Ch

If this is falling in love, give me every second of all this, all of you

I think (I've surely) i've fallen in love, you're all that I can think of

My heart belongs to you

Bricks

V1

I’ve got the money, clutching it so tight

hoping to keep some in the afterlife

I’ll pre-order a fancier coffin

So maybe i’ll feel less empty less often

I’ve become my very own pharaoh

storing up treasure while avoiding the narrow

So build me a house, make it a tower

The fruit of your labor, is the source of my power

Ch

All these bricks, built on sand built with blood

They cannot fix all the shit that we’ve dug up

All these bricks, have we asked where they come from?

From little kids, digging cobalt from the mud

these little kids, empty lives fill our cup

these little kids, let their eyes interrupt 

V2

So we just keep moving, no time for questions

who could bothered with your introspection? 

do what we have to, to live a bit longer

I’m pointing the finger, cause it makes me feel stronger

Our ‘great’ empire, rests on the weary

so we avoid all that makes us feel dreary?

So I’ll turn away, I’ll keep on pretending

pretend that my comfort is the thing worth defending

Br

All this time, we’ve just dug in, calling it freedom never calling it sin

I wanna build a better me, a better world free from slavery

But it’s not just ‘them’ that are in need, I need someone to deliver ME

From my sin, from my greed, from the idolatry that is ‘ME'

Neighbour

V1

They built some prisons in redfern

Drive by them everyday

They call it social housing, looks exactly like Long Bay

You've seen the towers on Morehead

Or do you look away?

"They should clean up this area" is such an easy thing to say

I wasn't built for this burden

Not used to suffering

If my neighbors hungry whats that got to do with me?

Does that make me complicit?

What does that even mean?

Surely I'm a good person, I just can't fix everything

C

When all is said and every song is sung

With who will I be counted as among?

What power(s) and what Kingdom(s) of to speak?

What strength there is among who we've called 'weak'

V2

I want a trendy apartment

Near all my favorite cafes

Yah I want that status, ready and willing to pay*

You call it gentrification

What does that even mean?

I worked so hard to get here, don’t go fucking with my dreams

Who really sees the price tag?

Who doesn't look away?

Who's gonna stare down the barrel of all of our wicked ways?

I ain't got time for questions

To take a look in the mirror

I don't think I could cope with seeing things so crystal clear

Outro/resolve

This is an ode to suffering and all it has to teach me

what riches could I seek? a part from those beside me

a lie that runs so deep,  scarcity economy

theres enough for you and me, the land provides abundantly

creations turn to speak, the quelling of idolatry

this is an ode to suffering, and all it has to teach me

Bloom

V1

We all have our seasons to feel alive

We’ll be searching for healing till the day we die

Life can feel like treason, betrayal and lies

Still hope keeps on teasing us all the time

Pre Ch

I’m so tired all the time

From trying to escape the dark night and how it’s coming

I can do this one more time

If you remind me of the springtime and how it’s coming

Ch

I’ll rise up to my feet again

Though bruised this heart will start to mend

The leaves will fall unto the ground again

And there remain until the winter’s end

You can’t rush the bloom

Pre Ch 2

I’ve been lied to all my life

From friend and enemy alike, but the one that’s stinging

Is the lie within my mind

That tells me I will not survice another season

Outro/Resolve

You can’t rush the bloom

You can’t rush the bloom

Don’t you rush the bloom

Shaken

V1

Can I find some relief? Been looking for that peace

Is it found in the soil, or the tops of the trees?

I reach out to friends and family

They don’t bring no joy they just pile on the grief

Pre Ch1

Now this ache has found it’s way through every bone

And my mind is racked with doubts i’ve never known

Ch

It’s like i’m being shaken, pruned on every vine

Forsaken, hollowed out inside

Mistaken, believing every le

A slave in a house that I despise

V2

I got nowhere to run just new places to hide

No destination for the questions on my mind

I reach out to hope, reach out to belief

Will they answer the call or will I get the machine?

Pre Ch2

Now the places that i’ve found in you before

Feel so vacant and so empty and so poor

Will my weariness persist forevermore?

Are there answers locked behind any door?

Bridge

Dream of a better home

Live through the bitter cold

Rest in the great unknown

Just be, you are more than you know