Matt and I wrote this song together in my garage. Jeff was recently out. This and Fire were used to audition Chris. In fact, the chords to the last verse were just weird chords we had him improvise over. We used them because he sounded so good singing them (can you spare my time).Aimee slays the flute solo.
lyrics
Lyrics by Matt Seelye, Derrick Faith and Chris Leavell
Stretching out over a blighted road,
Under the voiceless bake of the sun
No respite from the blistering heat
No shade in a land so shunned
One strike
Irreverant whatever the
Source
Two times
Blink into shattering swords
The third one you call it a charm
Fell knight,
Bitten by a ravenous
One
He's closing around your throat
Straining you feel it close
Be, it all
Through the pain
And fall
(You've got to get up, on your feet, it's time to run)
Shrug off the shame
Begin to see
(What you've begun)
Fortunes waned
Resides in days
Recalled
(Restless in heart, don't wait, just get it done)
Furious psalms riddled in anguish
Help.......
Forward bleak but behind a vortex,
You either get sucked back or you run
Hammer's cocked and trigger must be pulled
Fire out or back into the gun
Jet black,and
sunk down low
Under surface, depths few know
No way to fathom the fathoms
Pressure twisting, silent spasms
Suspension to discord, progression and tension
Release is remission, contort to distention
Now worlds apart, shifted dimensions
Undertow churning, ceaseless descension
Tossed in brine and salted dry
No cries heard even while you’re drowning
Reborn
See through nevermore
A world
Suffered through the score
Spurned, without a hope
Do you know?
How hard it is to wake up,
Would you stay?
And see,
What happened
To me?
Helpless
Trying to comprehend the pain
I close my eyes
Try to find the light inside
Can you spare my time
What is it worth to know
The battles you never see
On the outside
credits
from The Box Set 2007 - 2019,
released March 23, 2019
Music by Derrick Faith, Matt Seelye, and Chris Leavell
Chris Leavell - Lead Vocals
Derrick Faith - Guitar/Vocals/Keyboards/Drum Programming/Bass
Matt Seelye - Guitar/Vocals/Slide Guitar/Bass
Tom Howard - Keyboards
