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Unknown Songs

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by Jimmy Byrum

 
1.
Gladstone 04:34
2.
Battles 02:40
3.
A Bad Script 03:18
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Droubt 03:45
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Rebirth 05:12
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Two 04:00
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released 30 January 2010
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Track Name: Gladstone
You call it a gift
The ways that I remember
You don't have to miss me
'Cause now we're together

You won't understand
What I'm about to give
You won't understand
But now you've got someone to blame

Nothing's forever anymore
The river flows evermore
Time won't stand between
The places I want to be

You won't understand
What I'm about to give
You won't understand
But now you've got someone to blame

It happened out in the open
The breeze runnin' through my hair
The defenses now are broken
For freedom, my life ends here
Track Name: Battles
what day finds it true
to be what it always knew
in youthful age and wonder
all mysteries unproved

internecine battles
fought further inside
the rumble and rattle
from which we hide

what day finds it true
to forgive and begin anew
with aged eyes, atavistic heart
fain to relive, fain to restart

incomplete battles
further fears arise
the prize and prattle
from which we hide

what days finds it true
in the vagaries of what we knew
to complete itself with pride
to live before we die

beatific battles
motile as we are two
this love does addle
but we continue
Track Name: A Bad Script
I know all too well
what will happen next
is it just my imagination
or remembered pretext

just last week you and me
were here and you looked at me
like you are now, and I didn't
like what you said, so please

don't let it follow script
I know I can't be what you want
and you can't make me fit
these are the words that haunt

my memory. what did you say
about being let down
can't you find a way to love
someone else

locked away under blue-gray skies
when the morning awoke and left me to die
waiting for someone to tell
me you'd already left

and now I crush and sere inside
it doesn't matter where I hide
I've got nothing left
just a pithy reply

don't let me follow script
I know I can't be what you want
and you can't make me fit
these are the words that haunt

my memory. what did you say
about being let down
can't you find a way to love
who you are now

I know all too well
what will happen next
I've seen this part many times
but always in my head you decide

that you'll stay with me
why in matters infinitely
more than words could say or be
I'm living life in front of me

as now we follow script
I know I can't be what you want
and you can't make me fit
these are the words that shunt

my memory, what do you know
about being let down
I can't love someone that can't
love themself
Track Name: Long Gone Days
I'm trading my pain
for a sense of relief
now that it's over

I'm taking my time
to sort it in my mind
what I've discovered

Now that you've left me again
we see in the end
that we're better off for it

No, I'm not trying to mend
just remembering when
you sang your song to me

Long gone days
So far away
Take me away

I always left you your pride
never forced open your eyes
we both always knew it

I traded raging on you
for my own solitude
we never talked about it

Now that you've left me again
we see in the end
that we're better off for it

No, I'm not trying to mend
just remembering when
your song could set me free

Long gone days
So far away
Take me away

I won't apologize
for the ways of my life
We had to endure it

I won't liberate
you from your fate
You'll die with it

Long gone days
So far away
Take me away
Track Name: Droubt
the blinding light from a memory past
is casting shadows for an obvious chance
to steel a glance into a world that I don't know

through starving eyes I now surmise
that I won't be back in this disguise
waiting for a moment that will not show

someday
faced again
with all that we've been
someday
we'll choose the same again

with hollow feelings and tired bones
we sit around fires to warm our hopes
but is there anything else out there I don't know

caught in mires of continuos desire
a prelude to our living satire
when will this end and will I even know

someday
faced again
with all that we've been
someday
we'll choose the same again

arduous halves in perpetual dance
to bring rain to these fields perchance
the river could bring them home

someday
faced again
with all that we've been
someday
we'll choose the same again
Track Name: Filling the Mold
a less cynical ground
fresh with new earth
a more natural sound
hearty but dearth

a soft feel underfoot
fresh soil for journeys
for the path you must look
but you needn't hurry

and what of the concrete
and markets for gold
what of the falseness
of filling the mold

what of the numbers
yeah what about that gold
has it all gone asunder
am I new or am I old

a less natural ground
covered up the earth
a more cynical sound
disguised as mirth

what's not understood
is faked and hurried
it's not a path it's a hook
into a life that's lurid

and what of the concrete
and markets for gold
what of the falseness
of filling the mold

what of the numbers
yeah what about that gold
has it all gone asunder
am I new or am I old
Track Name: Settle the Score
in the absent, longing for a better truth
weighted down with innocent youth
I wake alone before the judgements pyre
to feel warmed by the eternal damned fire

We walked alone through soulless rooms
Backed upon another. Endless tombs
With what wont we wait and waste
She stirs up fears and steers our haste
(It'll all be erased)

Hope in me found before time ran out
Stops me now but leaves a doubt
I've wandered below and gone mad about
leaving my home with questionable route

two and two times, but not enough
I pack my suitcase for another bluff
Walk with me now for a minute more
and betray the purpose we're here for
(to settle the score)

Change in my being for a life of believing
in water and blood and timeless deceiving
I can't go on now, I can't be anyhow
Where there's hope, there's always doubt

can you let go of this heavenly scowl
myrmidons just hold you down
without regret you go amain
to find the light and leave this pain
(it's never the same)
(you'll never awake)
Track Name: Rebirth
Do you hear god in her tears?
Is the apology sincere?
For all that's past
when all love was spent
on surviving

Do you know where we're going?
Will you see it and show me?
When we find a place
where we can love
without trying

I'm not going home again
Do you think we'll ever be the same again?

Do you see love in her eyes
how they always simplify?
Now with life in our hands
we can understand
our beginning

Do you fear when it's over
that you'll never recover?
when life returns
in the same way that it started
we're running

I'm not going home again
Do you think we'll ever be the same again?

never the same, never again
never alone if this never ends
never the same, never again
never alone if this never ends

I'm not going home again
Do you think we'll ever be the same again?
Track Name: You Can Learn How To Love Someone You Hate
You can learn how to love someone you hate
Just ignore the lies and never debate
'Cause arguments only illuminate

You can learn how to fake anything
Just close your eyes and walk blindly
Live long enough to run away

Problems larger and people smaller than you and me
make it harder for me to be
part of this. Life is meaningless
if there's no more than this

You can learn how to live in the dark
Hold your head up high and trust your heart
Keep your mouth shut and play your part

You can learn how to hide what you feel
Just keep smiling until it's real
And hold up your end of the deal

Problems larger and people smaller than you and me
make it harder for me to be
part of this. Life is meaningless
if there's no more than this
Track Name: Two
Amber light shining through to your hands
A quiet night seeping into madness
You thought you lost it all, but you never had it
You thought you found a way to stop the damage

One is ending and one has just begun
One is trying and one has had enough
Once is all it takes to make the other run
One is dying and one is giving up

Tired skin hanging down from your face
A hollow din echoing through your brain
You thought you knew it all, but you knew nothing
You thought you found a way to make it easy

One is ending and one has just begun
One is trying and one has had enough
Once is all it takes to make the other run
One is dying and one is giving up

All these days dripping off of your life
You can't delay the inevitable strife
You thought you had control, but you were loosing
You thought you found a way to keep from choosing

One is ending and one has just begun
One is trying and one has had enough
Once is all it takes to make the other run
One is dying and one is giving up
Track Name: A Country With Eyes
In the longest winter of my life
spent in a land rolling flat and bare
The beaten earth kept in disguise
sweet mystery and love in the air

Each day it gave me questions
like how long will it take
to forgive my demons
and accept my fate

In the most barren country of eyes
feet padding gently upon the earth
Once ruled by giants my size
I feel like I've known it since birth

Each day it gives me questions
like how well do you know
the life that's inside
that wants to grow

Now it's almost over
Where can I run from here
There's no shade for cover
and the sun is growing near

Each day it gave me questions
like how long will it take
to forgive my demons
and accept my fate

Each day it gives me questions
like how well do you know
the life that's inside
that wants to grow