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Cheers, Sound, Good Luck

by Son of the Hound

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1.
Tonight, Tomorrow Taxi lights flash by in the winter rain Back in my hometown drinking again The boys of summer Now men with lives and sadness Let’s finish these cans on the courthouse steps This is the place Paul and Mary met She’s three years dead He’s two years in Australia We’ll go to that pub beside the church Even though seeing that empty stool still hurts I tried God and drink In the end both will fail you Still it’s good to drink with you today There’ll come a time when life gets in the way And when we’re gone this town will stand as a stage We’ll take our bow as the new players come of age To see the same sad scenes we already seen The ghosts of big knuckled nuns and long dead priests Who got to your mind Before your mind even came to you You spent your uni years drinking yourself to death In Liverpool and London they toasted your health Those days are gone What are you gonna do? Start a band, when everyone’s starting a family Stare at the sea wondering if it took her kindly Maybe settle down and find a girl Live a little life on the edge of the world but Tonight it is hard to see tomorrow Meet up at the bar, have nothing much to say So we drink our fill, we embrace and walk away Stuck in silent desperation with nowhere to turn On a broken island nation at the edge of the world Tonight it is hard to see tomorrow
2.
I wandered through the snows of march Curdled red by bleeding hearts Dogs bark at the end of the street With the sound of my echoing feet Above the sound of an ambulance siren Hear the sound of a young girl crying ‘I am alright I am okay’ Beneath the light of a neon screen Blood on the road where the brawl has been Litter lights shimmer on the broken glass Stars shine down on all that’ll pass This too shall pass Nothing lasts Those words they tore strips right through me They used to leave me feeling lonely but now I Remember now that I am alive Where they lie so to will I It is alright It is okay Remember now that you are alive Time is short, cast a cold eye It is alright It is okay Rain washes the night into day Drains take the sins to the bay Shutters rise and the car horns sound Sun comes out dries the blood on the ground These lives all orbit the same thing And spiral out in a chaotic ring This too shall pass Nothing lasts Those words they tore strips right through me They used to leave me feeling lonely but now I
3.
Shadows 03:34
We’re not that young, but we are alive Friends that we buried, too young to die Put in the grave, blessed by the church All of their pain, all of their hurt Men on alters preach spirit of giving Then follow it with words that would guilt you for living A woman who fucks is nothing a but a whore As another dead body washes up on the shore Another drink, another song, another feeling An emotion that you never let on And now you’re reeling, all this time you were so blind Look at all your friends and find that We’re all shadows of what we could have been We all have photos of a place we’ll never be We’re all dreamers who sleep outlast our dreams We’re half of who we wanted to be You and I my friend act like we are removed But we both lost count of when the drink has been used To smother the shakes and quell down the fear Another one down just to hold back the tears Everyone has sadness it’s just who we are But everyone had hope, a light in the dark The light has gone out, the chances have past The ghosts of old friends breathe their breath on the glass
4.
All I have left reminds me of you is a pair of old red shoes Tomorrow’s not a long time when you are young And the heartache doesn’t shake you up Whenever the song is sung But I wish for all the best for everyone I used to know We had fun and shaped each other’s souls Didn’t think about the future or how you done me wrong Even though the time has come I’m ill, I’m sick, I’m not well All those who turn up their noses can all go to hell I’d rather earn the pain inside Than give way to foolish pride I wanna live I wanna give I wanna give myself to you I wrote a sad song about when we were kids And pushed my fingers into my eyelids The tears came through, the signs became blurry Red light above the track says my trains in no hurry Bad times together better than bad times alone Scroll through old photos find your number on my phone Then I pause for a minute and put it away Today is not the day I saw you on the street just the other day You saw me we both looked the other way I wasn’t sad for the future or nostalgic for the past I just thought we would last
5.
If you think growing up is tough Staying young is tougher The days are long and The nights are getting rougher The rain beats down like a marching band You’re too afraid to make a stand The kids that shaped you Might laugh when you do Feels like years ago We pitched tents in muddy fields Through sleeping bags and foggy drags Planned out what we’d be Nothing could ever match How little it used to take To skip through life like Stones across the lake Empty guilt is nothing new It’s your cross to bear your country’s too The mark by which They’ll nail you to your craft If you could choose to live like this The other being ignorant bliss We both know which Would make you feel alive Light pockets weigh heavy Dockets they don’t come through Tried calling twice you were working nights It’s just what you gotta do Nothing could ever match How little it used to take To skip through life like Stones across the lake I see you lonely in the crowd Throw your drink back as the music plays so loud Tell me are you having fun Or when your own do the tears start to run You once said before we’re dead A parody of our best selves Would march our bodies Sadly to our graves Don’t tell them our secret Tell them we’re doing fine Living life below the radar Moving on down the line And when they get the chance They’ll ask what does it take To skip through life like Stones across the lake
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True Romance 03:18
I’m so tired of desperation Let’s slip on the shades and drive into the sun We’ll burn as brightly and burn as one We’ll do like Del did and follow the sun Alabama, let’s go to the place Where the losers love Alabama, true romance has nothing for me Let’s go to the place where the lovers go When the movie ends and the credits roll Mary’s there and little runaway too Crazy lovers and heartsick fools Alabama, let’s go to the place Where the losers love Alabama, true romance has nothing for me You’re all by yourself in a house that’s not your home Wandering the streets at night, streets that aren’t your own I’m lonely too and there’s something I was told It’s that too shorten the road Let’s run away before the tears you cry Will blind you Let’s leave today it’s the fear and desire That drives you
7.
I’m always playing catch up with myself I’m strung out, put me back on the shelf No sound will you hear from me today No songs I wanna play It’s summer and it’s raining Just like it always is Music doesn’t sound like it did When I was sixteen When we were believers, daytime dreamers Just a couple of fish trying to swim upstream Oh we were the also rans playing guitars in bands Mama said don’t throw your life away All the dreams are dead and gone All that’s left now are the songs They’re the only thing I ever knew how to do The mirror’s strange not a friend to me anymore All changed turn the light off and close the door Smiles are hard to come by these days When they come they fade away Oh we were the also rans playing guitars in bands Mama said don’t throw your life away All the dreams are dead and gone All that’s left now are the songs They’re the only thing I ever knew how to do Remember the good times we were so wild and free Remember the good times maybe I should let them be Before I see it’s just me alone Me and my memories Oh we were the also rans playing guitars in bands Mama said don’t throw your life away All the dreams are dead and gone All that’s left now are the songs They’re the only thing I ever knew how to do
8.
Angie your famous red lips are trembling when they talk to me Angie what’s clenched in your fist, is it the date that I’m leaving Angie come out of your room the truth is so daunting Angie I’m leaving you soon because that’s what you be wanting I’ll say I will be far away But you’ll see me in a million different ways Angie my coat that you love is in a bag by the bedside Angie there’s a note in the glove I meant everything I said in it Angie why’s there tears in your eyes when you’re sick of the sight of me Angie it’s not the love I despise it’s that you don’t feel the same To be lonely, you don’t feel lonely Am I the only fool in this play Angie where did your love go It just trickled right out of your heart Angie if I could I’d go back to the start
9.
Sing 03:34
Wide awake from a night of dreaming So scared I feel like leaving Then I turn and I see you Then you smile and say baby all our friends have gone They’ve grown up and moved away But if you stay with me we can Sing, sing because you feel alone Sing to rise above the drone of life That always gets you down Walking through the streets of strangers Never felt so far from danger Hand in hand I near cried You told me honey I am so sad And so in love with you But if you stay with me we can Sing, sing because you feel alone Sing because you’re on your own Sing to rise above the drone of life That always gets you down Others may tear up the sky While you just strum along Sing your song even though No one’s listening Sing, sing because you’re on your own Sing because you feel alone Sing to rise above the drone Of life that always gets you Sing, sing because you feel alive Sing because you’re gonna die Sing because you’re gonna dive Right first into the rest of your life
10.
All But The Road I hear the sea calling out my name I think a new town will hide my shame All but the road causes me pain Though all of this is true I’m still in love with you I’ll keep your smile In my heart for a while I will walk that lonely mile Though all of this is true I’m still in love with you I will be getting on As the night meets the dawn You will hear this song Sorry I could not stay long I see the sun cast a shadow down the line The bell beneath the clock rings it’s ring to call time In your eyes a sadness begins to shine Though all of this is true I’m still in love with you I will be getting on As the night meets the dawn You will hear me say the road just Called my name with its secret song Sorry I could not stay long
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released February 4, 2019

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Son of the Hound Belfast, UK

I was born with a silver spoon lodged in my throat. The doctors have no idea how it got there and it was a struggle to get out. They successfully removed it, but took all gravitas from my voice when they did. It was when I saw my beloved spoon, the spoon that that I'd had since birth, thrown into the bin with the half chewed umbilical cord that I knew I wanted to be a singer. ... more

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