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Come Out Fighting
04:23
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Do you ever want to look inside, just to say you know?
Do you ever want to change the lines, or rewrite the code?
I used to think that I did one time--yeah, I remember. I remember,
Lots of things, I could tell you things, and yet, I decline.
(CHORUS)
So, what are we waiting for?
So, what are we waiting for?
Some days, it pays to come out fighting,
Some days, we wait—unconscious and unfazed.
On the days we say, “We should have come out fighting,”
We leave the fools to take the nothing that remains.
(Again.)
I would never want to change your mind, or take control,
But, maybe now you will decipher these signs, and rewind your show.
I hear a signal on the air, out there—yeah, can you hear it? Can you hear it?
“Mainsail to Skyking calling . . . Skyking beware . . .”
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My Mercenary Ways
03:05
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I will stand beside you, sight unseen,
If my motives match your means,
But don’t expect a sense of loyalty,
If I think your cause is weak.
(CHORUS)
Will you ever see the final phase of my mercenary ways?
This is not about economy,
So I think I’ll stay for now,
But if you’ve somehow found my currency,
Don’t let word of it get out . . .
What excites the mind like spite?
It’s the victory of the vulgar . . .
I know.
Have you now come to despise,
(As the need becomes endeavor)
That you weren’t as clever?
May you live to see the final phase of my mercenary ways.
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I never wonder who’s going to let me,
I only wonder who’ll try to stop me.
I face the day like it’s a fight.
And the day makes known its demands . . .
I think that time would wait for the right man,
So I think the least I could do is try.
(CHORUS)
Tomorrow, remember the stand,
If this ends tonight,
Tomorrow, tell how it began,
If this ends tonight . . .
As I set shoulder to stone,
I claim this burden as my own.
I’ll work these hands ‘til there are hands no more.
And the stone will start its descent . . .
Tomorrow turns to face us all again,
And it’s same scene, same teams, same score.
(CHORUS)
Tomorrow, remember the stand,
If this ends tonight,
Tomorrow, tell how it began,
If this ends tonight . . .
Tomorrow, we’ll stand in the light,
If this ends tonight,
Tomorrow’s the rest of our lives,
If this ends tonight,
This ends tonight.
It’s in the darkest of hours we all find strength,
But remember,
In the mundane, we find the struggle.
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Local Honey
03:54
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Remember when we met?
That night, that show,
When they had to beg you to go?
And what happened next,
We’ve lived the rest,
But what I should have said was,
“You walked across that room,
Like the sea upon the sand . . .”
I still see fate as doom,
But there were plans . . .
It’s why you never send to know
Who’s creeping through your window.
Somehow things begin,
And never end,
Just like we knew then,
When you walked across that room,
Like the sea upon the sand . . .
I still see fate as doom,
But there were plans . . .
(CHORUS)
Make no mistake,
Girl, you’re my local honey.
Yes you are,
I’m your dark star,
But you seem sweet to me.
Hey, it’s getting late,
Oh where’s my local honey?
There you are.
I’m your dark star,
But you seem sweet to me.
All the things we’ve seen and dreamed,
No one would have ever believed,
But let’s set this right, we’d have missed this life,
If you stayed home that night . . .
But, you walked across that room,
Like the sea upon the sand . . .
I still see fate as doom,
But there were plans . . .
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Our Way West
04:30
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The flowers faded fast out here this year,
And all along this path, the left hand way becomes the line,
That much is clear.
Whatever seems to guide these steps tonight,
That horizon calls from setting suns the last light on the day we won.
(CHORUS)
Another day gone, another mile on,
We’re silently working our way west.
Another year gone, a thousand miles on,
We’re silently working our way west.
Silently working our way west.
I think the perfect maze is a straight line—
When you think you’re doing fine,
The shots come at you from the sides, and from behind . . .
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