1. |
Everyday Is Yesterday
01:53
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Skies will fall, Seasons change
And we wake up just the same
Days break and I lay
With all the words that I don't say
Breaking bones, calling names
Everyday is yesterday
Stealing breaths in the rain
And everything is washed away
And the world just runs away
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2. |
Damn The Light
03:39
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White noise bleeding through my head
Snow under my feet where I tread
A strangers voice in my ear
Shifting me through the gears
A ghost in my tracks a phantom over me
Swimming in these old memories
Everywhere I go it follows me
I don't think I'll ever be free
And I feel like a dead man walking
Dreaming in a grave
And one day the dams going to break
And I'll be washed away
Damn the light, breaking the dark
Washing over me leaving these marks
Water spilling into my lungs
I won't be here when the morning comes
And I feel like a dead man walking
Dreaming in a grave
And one day the dams going to break
And I'll be washed away
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3. |
Pins And Needles
03:27
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Slipping past the night's edge and all these whispers in my head
Pins and needles run in my chest, lighting me up like cigarettes
Salt in the wound, my eyes red, it's all this skin that I can't shed
Holding me inside
Sugar sweet, rotting my teeth the wind screaming hell running round my feet
Holding me up, holding me down, ripping off the thorns from my crown
Come what may I lost today, there's always something in the way
Taking the edge off of me
Hang me high, shake me down
Tip me up and spill me out
Moving on, falling back, kick me down like I'm made of glass
I still ache, I still hurt and every love just tastes like dirt
I don't know was I asleep, how did you get a hold of me
And get your teeth in me
Hang me high, shake me down
Tip me up and spill me out
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4. |
A Deal Gone Wrong
03:47
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All I ever want to do
Is put some miles on the soles of my shoes
Looking back down that track
We lost something we can't get back
And it's starting to show
Like there's rust in our bones
Eating our hearts and making us cold
And it never sleeps
Sows it's seeds then it reaps
Steals from me things I want to keep
And it ain't through with us
The screen fades to black
I feel like a needle in the haystack
But there's no love to find
All I ever want to do
Is put some miles on the soles of my shoes
But everyday the lights fading away
And I can't keep my girl safe
Looking back down that track
We said things we can't take back
And they lay with me
I taste her parting kiss
It's this bitter sting tracing my lips
As she loosens her grip
All I ever want to do
Is put some miles on the soles of my shoes
But everyday the lights fading away
And I can't keep my girl safe
Days are long
Tired some
Our love tastes like a deal gone wrong
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5. |
Reaver
04:07
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Stepping out in the cold air and I put on my winter coat
I light up a cigarette and exhale smoke
The words in my mind never reach my throat
I feel like the ghost of someone I don't know
Just drifting through my days living on borrowed time
This constant bleed is just the slow fade of light
Love has sold out the last stake she held in me
It's this feeling that won't ever let me be
Everydays like waking up in a strangers house
With yesterday's child still hanging around
He burns his days drinking from a poison well
He makes his money from the secrets he sells
I don't know why I seem to feel the cold so much
It's fingers over my skin like a lover's touch
Love has sold out the last stake she held in me
It's this feeling that won't ever let me be
With my tired feet and dirty hands
All I want to be is a peaceful man
Oh lord can I be a peaceful man
Oh lord let me be a peaceful man
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6. |
Conduit
04:04
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Time won't hold anything for me
It spends my promises on things I never see
In the mirror is someone I don't know
I don't recognize his voice but he's wearing all my clothes
Now I'm just feeding my demons while they starve me
Now I'm just haunting my dreams while they leave me
Dust covers me as the flames start to take
Through the smoke I'm losing my shape
Now I'm just feeding my demons while they starve me
Now I'm just haunting my dreams while they leave me
I'm watching the sky waiting for a storm
Because I don't know how to run anymore
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7. |
Actor
04:03
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I've been caught with my hand in the register one too many times
Selling five dollar lies to strangers late at night
So i go outside into the street lights with no direction home
And I wonder why every Friday night feels like calling an empty payphone
I'm lost somewhere in between the nights song,it's bitter melody
And the stars are the only thing
The curtain comes down and the actors still in character and the houselights don't come on
The rain beating on window sounds like a distant applause
Raise my glass and throw it back and I can taste the rust
Eating my skin from within and there are no roads left to run
I'm lost somewhere in between the nights song and it's bitter melody
And the stars are the only thing
Holding onto me
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Halloween
03:47
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Sitting home on Halloween
Ghosts running up and down my street
There's a stillness in the air, the light hangs by a thread
Everyone I know left me for dead
The night rolls in and bares it teeth
Fears the only thing left talking to me
The days roll on and won't let me be
Everyone I love seems to leave me
Time holds on like a wreath
A phantom limb grabs my throat and pulls me underneath
I'm slipping down this ravine, where the devils scream
And Codeine dreams have got the best of me
Codeine dreams have got the best of me
Everyone that I love seems to leave me
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9. |
The Dog Days Of Summer
03:34
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Waking up in wreckage with resolve on my tongue
Coming out swinging like a son of a gun
Trees seem to shed their leaves easily
I wade into the muddy water trying to get free
Tired of coming to these dreams in my head
Powder in my pocket echoing words she said
I tripped out the back door where they fear to tread
Holding on to me barely hanging by a thread
And silence is the one thing that I just can't seem to buy
Digging through my pocket trying to make a call
But the voice on the receiver barely says a word at all
The dog days of summer have gone up in smoke
December's creeping up on me with it hands on my throat
Now I'm waiting on a shot that was going come my way
And I guess they just need somewhere to hang the blame
So when all these sirens come calling my name
I've dulled all my senses and everyday bleeds the same
My halos slipping down, there's ash in my eye
I'm waiting for the hangman telling me it's time
And silence is the one thing that I just can't seem to buy
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David Backshell Toronto, Ontario
Born in Montreal, raised in England, settled for Toronto, David Backshell is a machine that turns coffee, cigarettes and long nights into songs. Distilling struggle, debts, a lost home, nameless faces, he constructs delicate songs that stretch beyond the confines of conventional pop. ... more
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