1. |
Tonight, Tomorrow
04:51
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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
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2. |
You Are Alive
05:06
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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
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3. |
Shadows
03:34
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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
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4. |
Pride (I Wanna Live)
03:56
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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
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5. |
Stones Across The Lake
04:40
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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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6. |
True Romance
03:18
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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
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7. |
The Also Rans
04:23
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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
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8. |
Where Did Your Love Go
03:21
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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
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9. |
Sing
03:34
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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
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10. |
All But The Road
04:34
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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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11. |
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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