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Northern Fires
05:45
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Trying for nothing to stop the rising sea
We can feel the air building energy
Black carbon ashes, we can feel the heat
Give our god of smoke an offering
Humid and hotter, sweltering summers (won’t)
Reflect the sun back into space again
And now we falter
The fault’s ours
Downpours
Won’t put out our fires
There’s no place for us, creatures of the cold
Reddened sunlight through the smoke
We could turn to face this but we can’t stem the tide
Hard enough to stay upright
Humid and hotter, sweltering summers (won't)
Reflect the sun back into space again
And now we falter
The fault’s ours
Downpours
Ebbing river
The pines all wither
(In the) Warmth of winter
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2. |
Better Years
04:37
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No longer young
We can’t pretend to be
Been here times before
Still everything ahead of me
What has gone before
And brought you here
It’s all with you now
All your hope for better years
And luck to turn around
Want to finish something
Just to feel okay
Learned things we’ll not remember
Words we don’t want to say
Glassy eyes from sleepless nights
What has gone before
And brought you here
It’s all with you now
All your hope for better years
And luck to turn around
In the last little light on the longest day
We saw new colors that couldn’t stay
Those better years may dissolve and fade
I won’t forget the light upon your face
We’re here now and it won’t stay this way
Better years start with ever better days
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3. |
New Normal
05:15
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This all comes at a bad time
When that’s all there is
Just one more catastrophe
To add to the list
It's hard to think that anything could work
You’ve been tough for so long
Believing for some time
That you’d be all right
It’s been a hard fight for you
And believing it’s in sight
Relief from the hard times
It may never be easy
The doubting glances and hard decisions
The waiting, and the phone calls, and the forms
Fragile creatures
In an unforgiving world
Believing for some time
That you’d be alright
It’s been a hard fight for you
And believing it’s in sight
Relief from the hard times
It may never be easy for you
This all comes at a bad time
When that’s all there is
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4. |
The Peregrine
03:20
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Alone up here above the riverside
Scan the ground to see what prey I find
I will dive
How'd you get so far from cover now
You cannot hide
See my shadow, hear it all go quiet
You had no time
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5. |
Pretty Soon It's August
04:43
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Pretty soon it's August, then again it's June
Time may heal all this if they could heal you
Needed something more than this could ever do
All I wanted to be your man
I wanted to see a smile on your face again
Everything it hurts but still you gotta try
You gotta put up a fight
Pretty soon it's August and I met you in June
I'm ready to get over it, but my eyes won't forget you
Needed something more than I could ever do
All I want to be an honest man
That don't mean I want to see you again
Everything is broken but still you gotta try
I just don't want to lie
Needed something more, needed so much more from you
Never want to be an angry man
But I don’t want to see your face again
Everything is broken but still you gotta try
Now I've gotta fight
Pretty soon it's August, there's nothing I could do
Time won't heal all this if nothing heals you
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6. |
Cloud Ocean
07:06
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I don’t need you to look at me that way
I tried to memorize you because I knew this couldn’t stay
I’ve split myself in two and I’m sinking either way
I am gone
You’ve disappeared
I see no sky and I see no ground
I walk through the fog like I pass through the clouds
Will I find transcendence if I just don’t care at all
Maybe comfort in sadness, let it roll in like fog
Still, I want you, all I’ve wanted all along
I am gone
You’ve disappeared
I see no sky and I see no ground
I walk through the fog like I pass through the clouds
I’m really gone
You’ve disappeared
Let it all surround me
I’m seeing clear
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7. |
One Hundred New Suns
04:23
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I need to be in my own head for a minute
Need to say goodbye to this place
Bid goodbye to who I was
All my faults and fewer virtues
I can now change all of this
I can be something different
One hundred new suns
I was under a kind of spell
In a moment you broke it through
In a moment I was something new
To make time of my own
To cast shadows in all directions
One hundred new suns
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Better Years Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brian Perry - guitar, vocals
Jim Schloemer - guitar, vocals
Soren Tryggestad - bass
Robb Lauer - drums
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