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Converging
02:35
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Once, you were nineteen, drinking a pop and thinking about how things so different
as air, and sugar, and water, can exist so close together.
Now, you understand being more than the sum of your parts.
Then, when you looked out at the horizon and saw parallel lines converge,
you thought that the lines longed to reach the point of touch.
Now, it’s clear those lines are perfect circles, and they’ve found their infinity running side by side in an endless loop.
Back then, you’d look up at the leaves and marvel at how everything changes.
Now, you look out at the mountains and marvel at how everything stays the same.
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Feeling, falling
In and out of dream
Whispered sensations
Exploding in and out of me
:: chorus ::
High voltage
Overpowered
Short circuit
it can’t contain our surge
Climbing up to the highest tower
Catching lightning in the palms of my hands
Drive with me through the streets below
(headlights turn the rain into liquid gold)
We’ll shock the system
(cause a citywide blackout)
Love so hot it causes a heart surge
(love so hot it burns it down)
Floating, weightless
Above the stormy skies
Anticipation
A fire in your eyes
Reeling, yielding
Passion burning bright
Striking, crashing
My lips on yours and yours on mine
:: chorus ::
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3. |
The Fear
05:56
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Escape your fright
Soon it’ll all be over
We’re keeping it light in the darkness
it’s colder now
Into the night
an eternal winter
It’s worth the fight
all that we need is closure
We’ll find our peace
What’ll it be? Cause it’s now or never
It’s hard to see through all the tribulation
we’re bogging down
Wanna be free, but are we asking too much?
We hold the key but the lock ain’t turning
We’re trapped again
:: chorus ::
It’s closing in and moving fast
We should’ve seen it coming
We know it wouldn’t last
It’s better to let go
Wondering what could’ve been
as if it ever mattered
it’s coming back again—
the fear we used to know
Who would’ve thought
that it could end this way
It’s all for naught
wishing that we could stay
We’re out of time
It’s worse than we thought
the window was quickly closing
At least we fought
there’s nothing more to say
It’s over now
:: chorus ::
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4. |
Blood and Whiskey
04:43
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There’s a man who has seen the end of the world
and he says there’s nothing to fear, no,
He says we’re all there with a light held tight in our fists
and yours is the one I will follow there
With the glare of a billion lights in our eyes
yours is the one I know I’ll follow there
:: chorus ::
Through all of the years
they have left us gasping out in limbo
All our souls eroding
You’d better believe
We’ll be riding in on our white horses
With blood and whiskey on our breath
There’s a man who has seen the end of the world
And he says we don’t make it there easy
Every back has a knife
Every knife has a fist
Every face, a look of betrayal
And they won’t hear us cry when they cut off our hands
For stealing the time that’s always been borrowed
If our scars are all we carry
Then let them never fade
:: chorus ::
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I have to say I’m sorry
You’re wasting your life getting used
Oh, because I know you’ll just turn around
And do what’s been done to you
You might think the path you’ve taken
Grants you elevation
Boy, your vantage point betrays you
Belly up while you’re punching down
Belly up while you’re punching down
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It’s the tragic beauty of youth
The way the night obscures the truth
It calls from the static radio
It brings a feeling that rises from below
I’m drinking all my faith away
I’ve lost control of all I do and say
I’m holding onto sentiments
Of broken hearts and recklessness
:: chorus ::
We’ll spend the rest of our lives
Picking up the pieces of midnight
Counting passing satellites
Broken glass reflecting in your tired eyes
Setting sun and burning lights
Rising under cover of night
(we are vultures feeding in the night)
Liquor pouring from the skies
Feed the devil at my side
(we are creatures only drawn to spite)
Dilated, twisted eyes,
Feeding frenzy on our lies
(we are monsters teething in the night)
I won’t go quiet into night
I will rage against the dying light
:: chorus ::
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8. |
Another Summer
05:30
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Another summer’s come and gone
Had all these plans and dreams of romance
It’s like a fairytale
You’re holding on
Another night, another dawn
And now you’re all alone, and it’s getting cold
Get the feeling it won’t be long
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Well this is great
And isn’t she a stunner?
But it’s getting late, by now you thought you’d hear from her
Baby this’ll have to wait for another summer
It goes by faster every year
It’s too wet, too hot
And it seems like all your friends forgot
Now autumn’s here
Another song, another beer
Had all the time in the world to stay up late chasing girls
I’ll be here
:: chorus ::
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Confidence of Youth
04:57
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In the back of a club
there’s a ghost of a look we exchanged long ago,
We were only half our age
While we danced to distorted guitar
Playing four sad chords
To eternal looping bass
:: chorus ::
I liked the way you stood for something
Picked up your call to come and bail you out
We were going to break
The sky wide open
But in the end
The confidence of youth would take us down
In the back of a Chevy sedan
there’s a ghost of a ray that we stole from the barely breaking dawn
And it’s caught in the fabric of time
like the strand of a hair on the seat back that tells on us
:: chorus ::
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10. |
Getting There
06:17
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Sooner or later time catches up with you
And no matter how fast or far you run
it’s always there
Watching the years slip by
There’s so much left to do
Does it ever get any easier?
Do you even care?
And before you know, it’s gone
But it’s been going all the while
It should come as no surprise
at least not this time
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And before we said goodbye
you were on your way
And it’s no word of a lie
It never seems fair
It’s a long road up ahead
But how long’s hard to say
All we can do is try
We’re getting there
Stumbling over thoughts of what we could’ve done
Well they say that hindsight’s twenty-twenty,
but we still feel blind
It never did work out
You never found the one
You were always dwelling, feeling like hell and they haven’t been kind
And you never found a reason, you never found cohesion through all your years of searching
So sooner than later time,
well it caught up to you
:: chorus ::
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Night Protocol Burlington, Vermont
Night Protocol was created to unite the sounds of the past, present, and future with a cutting-edge style of electronic music. Fueled by synthesizers and a devotion to the sounds of the 1980’s, Night Protocol performs their own blend of synthwave as a live band with live analog synthesizers, syncopated drum machines, pulsing basslines, ripping guitar solos, saxophone leads, and harmonized vocals. ... more
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