Amok Recordings - Justin Gray & The USB Orchestra - Slaves - Lyrics


1. 'The Fade.'

You can belong here,
And we won’t stare.


You can’t see through this, you’ll lose focus.
But wander around, you just might hear the sounds.


And now I laugh, I read, I float.
I need, I breathe, I am this joke.
I seek, I teach, I hold my ground.
I split my chest with what I have found.


So believe this is your sequence.
Forever, needs the widest eyes.


And now I laugh, I read, I float.
I need, I breathe, I am this joke.
I seek, I teach, I hold my ground.
I split my chest with what I have found.


Now I can believe.
Now I can go all the way in.


They won't see me, they don't matter;
Yet I fear their constant chatter.



2. 'The Tower'

What will we be allowed once they’re in the tower?
How can they shake the ground that holds you?


I see out there.
Will I become one of them?


On…
I hold on.
I hold on to this…


Their tower is over you but the markets are falling soon.


3. 'The Crease'

You’re the same.
You’re folded up tight.
I play your game.
We don’t fight.
I lose sight.
Now you seize the day,
Each back that you stab at…

With fear out the way,
and no more debt to pay.
Just one barricade.

You seem happy,
to meet them,
to greet them.
But I know you’re two-faced.
You’re selfish.
A head-case.

With fear out the way,
Just one more barricade.

With fear out the way,
and no more debt to pay.
With fear out the way,
unfolding you today.


4. 'The Center'

I’m alive.
I am here.
I’m wide awake today.
In the center, I can’t lie here.
I know it’s my mistake…

Send a light!
Send a light!

Even when we’d reconcile.
I knew I’d have to give it back to you. [I fell away too]

We all took part in it.
I never lost your eyes.
But when I reached behind me, you came back again.
We only felt it for a little while and then I lost my mind.

Why won’t you let me sleep?
I can barely breathe without you on my tongue.
Why won’t you fall asleep?
It’s easier than watching the two of us come undone…


5. 'The Belief'

Oh, the fire.
Oh.
To get you through…


6. 'The Memory'

Fire along the shoreline.
Smoke pours down on me.

Pull me down.
I want to fall.
Hand me around
I’m your thrill of hope.

And give me
The hands
To sift through.
Give me
Your hands
To guide/hold you through.

Pull me down.
I want to fall.
Hand me down.
Against your
Thrill of hope.
I want to fall.


7. 'The Dryout'

YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CAN SEE!


8. 'The Wake'

This one’s meant to rise.
To help to show you lies.
Or help one lose their mind.
I know you’ve taken mine. [And you can keep it]

Well it’s time to be here.
It’s time to leave there.
It’s time to be.
It’s time to see.

So don’t look upset, and don’t lay your head down.
It’s not the end.
It’s NOT the end.

Now I’m far away.
Now I’m the one to say…
Goodbye.


9. 'The Need'

Flesh for favours, I need to keep you for my fall.

Beneath my face, my blood regrets.

My smile means nothing inside of this.

I dug myself out to sink inside of you.

‘Cause I know you know this too,
But will we ever arrive at the gate,
And hold ourselves down,
For never becoming the truth,
Or always exploiting our muse?

So you will see what I don’t,
Then we may leave all our needs…
Our needs… Our needs.

Let’s leave our needs behind.
Let’s find a home for us to hide.
Let’s plunge our spears into it’s side.

So you will bleed but I won’t see,
And you may dream but that won’t be…
Won’t be… Won’t be your loneliest need.


10. 'The Divide'

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11. 'The Approval'

There ain’t nothing to save.
Everything you are I’d throw away.
And I can feel it again.
The way your pulling it draws me in.

I can leave you afraid.
I can watch as you turn your head.
I can make you my s_l_a_v_e.
But it’s me who is still depraved.

I cannot belong to you.
I cannot rehash the truth.
I cannot respect your noose.
For I am gone…I cut you loose.


12. 'The Last Stone'

(instrumental)


13. 'The Fever'

We give you our hands.
You tear us down.

Recite you our plans.
You cancel them out.

I’d give you our hands…

Give you our hands.
To choose.
To tear us all down.
To ruin the truth.

I give you our hands…
Give you…
I give you our hands…


14. 'The Shelter'

Just when it’s safe,
That’s when they’ll take advantage of you.

All hope is scathed.
We mine to separate from the truth.

But this is clear.
I have nothing left to keep me blind.

Now I can never put anyone aside,
Who has what I keep trying to hide.

How can I sleep?
How can I just be a passer by?

I don’t want to feel.
‘Cause you know I would lose myself in your eyes.

Now I can never put anyone aside,
Who has what I keep trying to hide.


15. 'The Release'

We fought the wars,
but nothing favoured in our way.
I could not control my release,
and I cut you with my needs.
You had me for the rest of our days,
but I couldn’t save our place.

We were always s_l_a_v_e_s.
We were always s_l_a_v_e_s.
Somehow we felt like we were ok.
We were always s_l_a_v_e_s.


All Lyrics By Justin Gray.






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