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Songs for the Shadowman Vol. 1

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1.
Drive 04:30
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Night all around you you’re still waiting for the sun and so you drive and so you drive away Nothing ever seems right doubting that the day will ever come and so you drive and so you’re driving me away I know where you are ‘cause I’ve been there, too think it’s gone and there’s nothing you can do like you’re all alone but it’s not true ‘cause I still love you Whenever you are feeling low look in your heart there’s still a glow protect that light and let it grow fight for your life, don’t let it go Stuck in the shadows nothing left to save or defend and so you drive and so you drive away Don’t believe a word but I’d stay with you to the end and still you drive and still you’re driving me away I know where you are ‘cause I’ve been there, too think it’s gone and there’s nothing you can do like you’re all alone but it’s not true ‘cause I still love you Whenever you are feeling low look in your heart there’s still a glow protect that light and let it grow fight for your life, don’t let it go Night all around you you’re still waiting for the sun and so you drive and so you drive away Nothing ever seems right thinking ‘bout the world to come and so you drive and so you’re driving me away ©2008
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Surrender to the Beat 04:40
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Know what we got, know what we got it for We got the music, got it down to the core We take the rhythm, take it to the street Get on the pulse and then we ride the beat Fire up the current, see what’s in store Follow the flow as we start to explore We’re gonna say what we want to say And all our troubles gonna fade away This song parade Is for friends and lovers Sisters, brothers A sound arcade You can come inside Surrender to the beat Spin up the melody and break it on down Fill in the harmony and turn it all around So let it move you, make you feel the heat You move your body and you move your feet This song parade Is for friends and lovers Sisters, brothers A sound arcade You can come inside Surrender to the beat This song parade Is for friends and lovers Sisters, brothers Color and shape When you close your eyes Surrender to the beat Surrender to the beat ©2008
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And the Moon Comes 04:28
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The battered leaves are falling free surrendered by the broken tree they fly in tatters over me when the moon comes, all will flee when the moon comes, all will flee The night-bird cries inside my head longing for its starry bed and grieving for the life it's led and the moon comes, bloody red and the moon comes, bloody red And the moon comes on a black sea And no one can save me now The clouds retreat and come apart but leave a shadow on my heart a gray tableau of bitter art when the moon comes, the end will start when the moon comes, the end will start And the moon comes on a black sea And no one can save me now The heavens glide across the span set adrift without a plan blinded to the plight of man but the moon sees all in its scan but the moon sees all in its scan And the moon comes on a black sea And no one can save me now ©2008
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Green Light / Blue Sky 03:44
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Standing in the Cold Rain 03:08
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What's your number? What's your name? Why did you come here? To stick your fingers in the flame? You stand around now You wait all day You wear it on your sleeve But patience doesn’t always pay And then she turns To face the lamplight You feel the burn And then she fades into the night You want to play a part in someone else’s game And now you’re stuck there standing in the cold rain You try again and in the end it’s all the same And now you’re stuck there standing in the cold rain And now you’re stuck there standing in the cold rain And now you’re stuck So what's your number? So what's your name? Why do you come here? There’s nothing for you anyway You want to play a part in someone else’s game And now you’re stuck there standing in the cold rain You tried again and in the end it’s all the same And now you’re stuck there standing in the cold rain And now you’re stuck there standing in the cold rain And now you’re stuck there standing in the cold rain Standing in the cold rain Standing in the cold rain In the cold rain ©2008
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Free 06:03
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The light of day is failing fast The veil of night will fall at last A heel to crush the glow A spell of darkness cast And I am free A firefly trapped in a jar A memory in bone and scar The morning sun collapsed Into a shadow star And I am free And I am free Free Over the moon I'll be Full of heaven, full of hell Open sky and prison cell Release the heart's desire Shake off the fractured shell And I am free And I am free Free Over the moon I'll be Rise through the air, you'll see Now that I'm free And at the bottom of the well Are secrets that no one can tell I'll mark the hours by The tolling of the bell But I am free Now I am free ©2007, 2009
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Hole in the Sun 04:40
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Sometimes the four walls really close in on you Sometimes it all comes crashing down Sometimes your direction is no longer true Sometimes you’ve lost all that you’ve found Sometimes your uncertainties loom over you Sometimes you are crushed to the ground Sometimes you will doubt all the things that you knew Sometimes all your thoughts are unsound Sometimes all your thoughts are unsound Cracked up and shaking Shut out and coming undone Blocked in and breaking Fell through A hole in the sun Nobody can see what you most want to show Nobody can miss what you hide There’s no one to help when you stagger from blows Nobody to stand by your side Nobody recalls anything that you say Nobody remembers your face There’s no one to hold at the end of the day Nobody to fill in the space Nobody to fill in the space Cracked up and shaking Shut out and coming undone Blocked in and breaking Fell through A hole in the sun So now the four walls really close in on you and now it all comes crashing down The things you believed in were clearly untrue Rise up to the beat and the sound Rise up to the beat and the sound ©2009
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Big Storm 03:33
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Hold on Be strong It’s comin’ around A big storm About to blow Gonna knock you to the ground When it comes And explodes Blow so hard Gonna flatten this whole town No place Will be safe I’m not foolin’ around Like a devil In your head Well, you never heard such a sound When it comes And explodes Blows like hell Gonna cut everybody down So hold on Stay strong ‘Cause it’s comin’ around A big storm Got to blow Just might put you in the ground ©2010
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In a Bubble 04:54
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Living underwater In my little bathysphere The strangest kind of being That ever ventured here Peering through the window At the lights that glow and fade Sinking ever deeper In the quiet world I've made Save me Save me Save me Help me use up my bubble of air Memories of the morning Longing for the day All I've known is endless night In the time I've been away I've broken all the levers And still the rotors spin Gauges, dials, and ticking clocks Just take up space within Save me Save me Save me Help me use up my bubble of air Raise me Raise me Raise me Though I wonder if anyone's there Is anybody there? Send down a beacon A sunshine souvenir Oh, won't you give a signal That you know I'm stranded here Can you hear? Can you hear? Save me Save me Save me Help me use up my bubble of air Raise me Raise me Raise me Can I still hope there's somebody there? Love me Love me Love me Every last breath I will share ©2011
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A Still Life 05:58
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All is well tonight Soon be sleeping tight Hold you close forever Done with everything Our completed ring Binds us to each other Captured in a still life All is calm tonight Coals are still alight Warmth amid the cold ash Captured in a still life All the love we bring Saves us as we sing Take us to a new dawn Wake us to a new life Wake us to a new, still life ©2010
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Bonus Track: Ball and Chain 03:34
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Endless years a sorrow I’ve sustained sorrow I’ve sustained Cursed by the light I bear the mark of Cain bear the mark of Cain Hear my story One baleful night I was restless and strange restless and strange I heard a voice from somewhere in the rain somewhere in the rain Raised my lantern Through the trees saw a figure bent with pain a figure bent with pain A man like me And his eyes were pools of fire but my mind was profane my mind was profane Swung my rifle Saw him fall but I swear I’m not to blame I’m not the one to blame Washed my hands but I couldn’t clean the stain couldn’t clean the stain Blood on my head Came the light, was the light of the world it was calling out my name calling out my name Saw the flash, heard the crack in the sky and it all went up in flame all went up in flame Burned my vision Now hear my voice as I whisper through the rain whisper through the rain I walk these hills weary, with a ball and chain weary, with a ball and chain weary, with a ball and chain weary, with a ball and chain ©2011
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Bonus Track: Forever Days Gone By 05:18
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In the summer Of our happiness The time flowed ever onward Treasured moments Of impermanence That brought us together Never promises Just things we’d try to hold to In the autumn Gathering small regrets We tended the garden Petals falling Always coloring Our vision in endings Didn’t know what made you cry Just a memory now There’s nothing I can hold to But I wonder why As I keep on getting older It’s forever days gone by In the winter Drawn in loneliness You stood at the window I could see you Your fading silhouette And then it was over I was calling out your name And it’s all gone now There’s nothing I can hold to Did I really try? Were there things I should have told you? Yes it’s all gone now All I want to do is hold you And I wonder why As I keep on getting older It’s forever…forever days gone by In the springtime Crouching in the rain Among all the flowers Beds of violets And blooms of hyacinths Recalling forever days gone by ©2010
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Bonus Track: It Was Always Goodbye With You 04:48
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You carried a look like a beaten-up stray With an end-of-the-line point of view And a head full of secrets you’d never betray From that troubled debut It was always goodbye with you I tried to reach out in a genuine way Though motives are hard to construe I wanted to hear what you needed to say But I failed to see all the clues That it was always goodbye with you Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to you I fell in love with the songs that you’d play With a voice that could cut me in two From the very first tone to the final decay Every last note of it true But it was always goodbye with you So goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to you Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to you I realize no one is here to stay We’re all just passing on through We stumble through life on our feet of clay Then spirit off into the blue And good friends are precious and few ‘Cause people may come, but they’ll leave you, too And it was always goodbye with you Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to you Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to you So make your departure without delay There’s nothing more that I can do Go on as the darkness eclipses the day No need for another adieu Or hear my last goodbye to you When it was always goodbye with you ©2010
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Bonus Track: Save Me, O Superman (demo) 05:20
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Superman gets up and he puts on his clothes Leaps buildings, but what does he know About the dreams and plans of the ordinary man? But he was let go from his newspaper job Crawled inside a bottle and sobbed Cursed those who gained from causing him pain for profit’s sake And Superman is starting to look more like me Gets run down continually By life’s frequent trials until he can’t see What little light’s left in the land of the free Can you save me? Can you still save me? O Superman Well, Superman walked home through three feet of snow In a blizzard wind twenty below He’s stiff and he’s tired, sits down to the fire Then the neighborhood became quiet and calm all around And the driveway still buried in mounds All he had done was coming undone and the universe might yet make it worse And Superman is starting to sound more like me Gets discouraged so easily By life’s frequent heartbreaks until he can’t breathe So little sense left in the land of the free Can you save me? Can you still save me? O Superman And they make Ignorance an object of pride And difference they just can’t abide Go back to your planet, we don’t need your kind! Like a good man, he tried to do everything right To see colors, not just black and white But now fact’s become fiction, and truth a dereliction from ideology and political purity And Superman is trying to be more like me Only certain of uncertainty Clearing out all false clarity And though life’s beat me down I’ve got to believe If you give what you can, you may find what you need A little compassion in the land of the free Can I save you? Can you save me? Can I save you, and can you still save me? O Superman ©2010
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Bonus Track: Mother and Child (demo) 03:31
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Find me cast aside Give me a place to hide Take me from this hell Soothe me ‘til all is well Both of us unloved Braced against the future We can help each other Find the grace we long for And belong for a while Like a mother and child Love me I’ve been lost Shelter me Don't count the cost Reach out your hand I’ve only mine to give In these fragile fingers Is the grace we long for If just for a while Like a mother and child Hold me Cold and small Give nothing less than your all ©2010
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Bonus Track: A Still Life (a cappella) 05:42
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All is well tonight Soon be sleeping tight Hold you close forever Done with everything Our completed ring Binds us to each other Captured in a still life All is calm tonight Coals are still alight Warmth amid the cold ash Captured in a still life All the love we bring Saves us as we sing Take us to a new dawn Wake us to a new life Wake us to a new, still life ©2010

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Selected tracks 2008-2011

This record is pure passion. Raw, noisy, gentle, tender, harrowing, transcendent. Above all, melodic, hook-laden, and lyrically evocative. No slick package of super-produced technical gloss, this is a human album of human invention. Reaching, soaring, grinding, roaring. Hi-Fi/Lo-Fi. Listen, think, and feel.

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released November 4, 2011

Scott Villard: Words, music, guitars, vocals, keys, programming.

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