1. |
Binary
03:48
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Raging like a ghost in your machinery
Flailing useless arms against your strategy
But in my boardroom
In my corporate corridors
I am not here
I am not here
Here's another welcome change of scenery
Disappointing swathes of mediocrity
I could count them
Cos my single figure binary suffices
For all of my friends
But if I saw you on a railway platform
Would I walk right through you?
Sympathy don't mean too much to me
If I saw you on a railway platform
I would walk right through you
Autumn falls and nothing makes a difference
Secretly I turn unto the one that I adore
Who says 'Help me out here
It would be so good to never see your face again
No, never, never, NEVER'
But if I saw you on a railway platform
Would I walk right through you
I'M INFECTED BY MY DREAMS
And I believe that if I saw you
Years from now
On a railway platform
I’D FALL TO MY KNEES
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2. |
Belong
04:49
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Was that the sound of a heartbreak
Or the yawn of a brand new year
Or do they sound the same
If it was an illusion
The journey had gone right
It helps to look again
If there is nothing left to do
And all your hope is gone
Voices whisper fields ain’t no greener nowhere
Eclipsed by noon
Unstruck by song
It’s time for you to face up and be strong
The growth of your heart
Is taking too long
You only need to wake up and belong
It’s time to wake up
Wake up and belong
There is a total seclusion
Internal barricade
Completion all alone
Failure’s a narration
That’s set to endless play
It bores me to the bone
If there is nothing left to do
And all your hope is gone
Voices whisper fields ain’t no greener nowhere
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3. |
The Day That Never Ends
03:51
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Don’t fall asleep, my heart
Cos I fear that it will tear us apart
I’ve been fighting just to keep the flame alive
But it flickers if I tend it alone
Don’t take that flight, my love
Though there’s places and people you love
I’ve been working on a shift that never ends
Just to satisfy your infinite need
I’m left, I’m lost
I’m searching in the mirror to find myself
Now G, QE
And 401 entangle to keep me here
I’m working on the day that never ends
I meant to call you
But I’m working on the day that never ends
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4. |
Waging War
03:54
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This numbing routine gets to me
And I feel my conscience slip away
As forces of life pull at me
Breaking down
And I am my worst enemy
Sometimes I wonder how I sleep
Angelic voices fade away
Further now
I’m waging war
I can’t ignore
The light you shone for me
This numbing treadmill gets to me
And takes away my vibrancy
And if you don’t change from what I see
I must jump now
Control what takes control of me
Alter my reality
Delete the past with memory
Restarting now
So pray for me
I’m flying free
I’m running to a new version of me
Where I love myself so I can love you too
Reach for me
When I get home you know I’ll reach for you
Pray for me,
I’m waging war
I can’t ignore
The light you shone for me
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5. |
Male Order
05:09
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I caught up with this guy at the weekend
A good friend of mine
He's a marketing genius
Just waiting in line
In the ring of confusioneering
He did what he could
It was a helix of Moebius, fashioned of wood
But now he's out with the partying people
He's out every night
After 18 months hard labor, he's doing it right
And he says 'Buy me on male order
Freud and Fromm knew the words that I sing
'Isolation will kill you,' they said
But there's no one was listening
Is there life online? Or is it in my head?'
I have trawled through the hearts of survivors
Up on the shelf
I am wasted and weary and wounded and bored of myself
This one's burned by the heat of experience
And there's another one green
But I still can't find one person who knows what I mean
So as I run through the city of angels
You swim through the sea
I have joined the doomed Armada
I know what I need
And I say 'Buy me on male order
Freud and Fromm knew the words that I sing
'Isolation will kill you,' they said
But there's no one was listening
Is there life online? (Buy me on male order)
Is there life online? (Strip me of my skin)
Is there life online? (Love me till I'm senseless)
Or is it in my head?' (Catch and reel me in)
(Meet me at the border)
(Wash me with your tears)
(Feel me through the airwaves)
(Cleanse me of my fears)
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6. |
Home
04:48
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I once had a dream about the end of the world
We were the sole survivors
Weight of the silence struck me dumb
Till we learnt to thrive on it
Witnessing ochre eerie dawns
Like a third eye opening
Stop to look down it’s no surprise
We’re floating inches off the ground
But then we wake and realize
Horizon stretches endless grey
And lingers aching till we’re down again
Drive us south to the sunlight
Draw us close till we get right
Night and day, Run nor stray
All the way home
Chasing a spectre of a beautiful girl
One I can’t quite remember
Sure there’s a key to turn back time
And I have to fashion it
I’m scoping through static channels for
Just a glimpse of history
But focus obscures periphery
You’re standing right beside me now
And when we wake we realize
That we’ve been laughing in our sleep
And there’s a thousand miles of open road
You drive, I’ll be the navigator
We can turn this van round
You call me now don’t call me later
We can turn this thing round
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7. |
Sandslide
03:51
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Why should I wake up?
Can’t taste no country air
Why should I wake up?
City’s never fair
I’m a small-town dumb blonde scum ramshackle
But I feel a jam in the air
Why should I face up?
And force combs through my hair
Why should I chase up
Some job that goes nowhere
I’m a low-down low-born dumb-funk born loser
But a melody hit my ear
Now my eyes are shining like I’m diamond mining
And I can’t help myself
The music’s got me
The guys are chiming and the words are rhyming
Like a sandslide
I’m getting deeper in
So why should I make up
Some story that ain’t real
Why should I fake up
Some words that I don’t feel
I’m a chord-born live-wire Mozart from TO
And I‘m gonna sing what I feel
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8. |
Our Song
03:46
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Somewhere in the universe
A version of the two of us
Has seized the day, and stayed,
and held on to the light of day.
Somewhere in the universe
We've broken through the curse if Love
Gone astray, and stayed,
And ride upon the endless rays of sun
Hold on, to this - "Our Song"
We breathe, as one, and journey from
The place we let it slip away...we run!
Somewhere up in skies above
We fly away from broken Love
With stolen hearts, we swear that we'll never part.
There's too much love here in the stars
And we're not coming back from where we are,
And here we'll dance, and we'll play 'til we feel the warming of the sun
We ride! We run! We dance upon the rays of sun!
And you - my moon
You revel with me long enough
To see our stars be born, and
We're never coming back from where we are!
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9. |
Dreamtime
03:21
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I’ve been sitting and drinking all night
Blanking out about a song that I can’t write
Staring at the paper like a well-worn friend
Scratchin’ on my brain, and smokin’ up a storm again
Mamma used to tell me “Don’t be so funkin’ lazy”
Now all the band tell me “Man, you’re so funkin’ crazy!”
Pictures spinnin’ round my brain, stuck behind a dam wall
Look at my lyric book – still no words at all
NOISE IS GETTING’ LOUDER
THE BEATS ARE GETTING’ HARDER TILL THE…
Dreamtime coming
From up in the sky
A feeling so sweet
Like blueberry pie
I’m a spaceman falling
Down to the earth
Looking for a melody
And trying to find rebirth
I get a buzz from this girl from the other day
She says she bad, says she want it in the worst way
She could be crazy, or maybe she high
I put it down cos you know I’m not that kind of guy
Some call me old skool, cos I don’t want no Snapchat play
Stupid bunny ears, comin’ at me every day
I’m on a spiral headed up to where the rainbows shine
Gonna bliss me out, get me some Dreamtime
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10. |
Falling Forward
05:19
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Awakened by the light of day
And all our dreams have gone away
Break into the world to find a way forwards
Winds of change are warm today
They carry me to that special place
Inside myself that finds a way forward
And I’m falling forwards
I’m falling forwards
There’s an inner light that shines the way
It’s there inside us
You just have to find it
Let your spirit roam the canyon’s edge
That’s when you’re falling
That’s when you’re floating
Higher
That’s when you’re falling
That’s when you’re floating
Feels like you’re falling
You’re actually floating
Ascension comes when ego falls
Exists beyond the physical
Enlightened to the spiritual, forwards
And I’m falling forwards
I’m falling forwards
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11. |
Halflife
04:27
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It's thoughts like these are taking me over
It's thoughts like these are bringing me down
Do you dance through the night
To a tune that's neverending
And do you sleep warm and tight
And look so condescending
Now it's over
All books I have are burning to cinders
All knowledge I have bleeds out of my ears
On a day like today
I thin my blood to water
I'm nailing up my brain
To send it to the slaughter
Of it's over
This is halflife, this is reality
This is what you wanted
This is how it will be
In a halflife
Things are always the same
You make your own decisions
Now extinguish your flame
Do we all seek inside
The places that are hearts go
Never to divide
For love the game is over, it is over
It's like life, but it's not living
It's like life, but it's not living
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12. |
Let Go
04:40
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Take you for a ride
Slide… slide…
Delving into your mind
High… feelin’ high
Whoever said you were impenetrable
Never tried… never tried
To learn the secrets that you cling on to
That you hide… inside
Let go
Let me see into your eyes
Let go
‘Cause I want to free your mind
Take you for a ride
Slide… inside
Running down your thighs
High… feelin’ high
Nobody knew you were insatiable
But I tried… and I tried
And freed the animal that comes to life
When your eyes meet mine
Let go
Let me see into your eyes
Let go
‘Cause I want to free your mind
Let go
Let me feel the weight of your soul
Let go
Relax and let me take control
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13. |
X-file 1
04:21
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I know the truth is out there
I know that one day they will arrive
They try to hide it inside
Today’s the day
That I am gonna have to run away
But don’t you know
I’m holding on to you
There’s nothing left to do
I’m holding on to you
There’s nothing left to do
I’ve seen the truth and it’s real
We’re gonna find out some time
I try to stay onside
Today’s the day
That I am gonna have to save mankind
Well don’t you know
I’m holding on to you
There’s nothing left to do
I’m holding on to you
There’s nothing left to do
I try to save mankind
Well don’t you know
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14. |
In A Perfect Circle
05:04
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I listen to your songs to hear your voice
Close my eyes and it could be you and your guitar
But it doesn’t bring me closer to you
Can’t bring you here
Do you remember standing in a perfect circle
Remember crying for the priest
In a perfect circle I feel you tears
Feel you itching for release
Did you have a hard life
The priest knows
Oh but god know, god alone knows
Feels like everybody knows
Everybody wants to know
Even in a perfect circle
You feel alone
If I call you my brother
Can I call you my friend
Can I call upon the time we were together
Start it over again
Do you remember standing in a perfect circle
Remember crying for the priest
In a perfect circle I feel you tears
Feel you itching for release
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15. |
The Things You Say
03:24
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When you come round on a weekend night
And you say you’re gonna hang about
Then you’re giving me the easy eye
Are you calculating your way out?
You got a strange internal narrative
And decoding it’s an awful hack
So navigating conversation is
Like being tied to a railroad track
I’m gonna get wise to the wires of the traps you set
To get so emotional
I’m gonna be aware of the snares that you toss out there
To drag us deeper in this hole
I’m gonna get free just to see what my choice might be
Hey hey hey - I’m getting tired of the things you say
I don’t know who I’m sleeping with tonight
Miss Jekyll or Mrs Hyde
It’s like some classic schizophrenia
Between the angel and the beast inside
Doesn’t take a lot to set you off
Then you paint a room in shades of black
And every time you wanna lose your shit
Well you kill something that we can’t get back
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16. |
Stars
04:32
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As I look at the starlit sky
As worlds explode
Before my very eyes
It makes me question why
We’re in such a rush
To let life pass us by
As I look out across the sea
The moonlit water
Beckons me
To taste the refreshing air
Of worlds unknown
An existence that’s rare
I hear you call to me
Shine your light so I can see
Let go
As I look where the sea meets the sky
The horizon’s hues
Exist in your eyes
Where fluid and the fire collide
Time stands still for the moment
As day becomes night
I hear you call to me
Shine your light so I can see
In the sky
We’re sure to meet
To blaze towards our destiny
Let go, be free
Shine on, with me
We’ll be stars
Light the night sky, with me
We’ll be stars
We’ll be stars
We’ll be stars
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NEW ROW Toronto, Ontario
New Row are a powerful young, guitar-led, rock-pop band from Toronto. Fusing weapons-grade melodies and harmonies, catchy
pop hooks, and a hard rock edge.
Five supremely passionate musicians from distant geographic and musical backgrounds came together in early 2015 in the cultural melting pot and rock music haven that is Toronto, Canada--a fitting backdrop for the formation of New Row.
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