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Courage For Pioneers
03:12
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And so, it starts
As founders spearhead to open up
No broken parts preventing me from harm
Into a place misunderstood
It’s all for good and if I could
Encourage something from this spark yet
All I have will live amongst these stars
Never expire
An idea not vacant of open arms
Encourage those who formulate desire
To anyone who appears lost
And the drive that moves us to feel at most
The pioneering feeling is that
All I have will live amongst these stars
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Pilotwings
03:34
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Who takes the reigns
When no one else is trying
To make their way back home
There’s nothing wrong
To find meaning in a song
When feeling all alone
Into the night
As light falls from the sky
If seeing is believing
Then I can take your word
The weather can never
Withstand and be a failure
It’s time to go
So, always be full of heart
Blind guidance to depart with you
Running away is not fleeing
It’s seeing
To carry the moon and feel as new
Ascending into the unknown
The cornerstone
Depending on me along with you
The timings still sliding
A dwelling that’s unknown
No hiding, subsiding
It’s time to find a home
It just can’t fail to start
Take my hand and board with me
There’s still so much to see
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Blueprints
02:52
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This centrefold will make
And leave my bones to ache
Repair, waive and be fair
The technical will take
Materials in despair
A moment to care
It’s all yours
And I will feel so alive
As this milestone begins a new tome
No purpose without care
No action without control
With plans to unroll
Designs to make with heart
A vessel built to depart
To become a part
Created a moment
Devising a future
So, take me anywhere
As we ride and stare
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Every plan will need a motion
Until it’s time for breathing in
Although this path still needs a notion
There’s no time for giving in
Create the plans
Call out the troops
Prospective hands
This dream’s desire
On your command
To fly much higher
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Field Notes
02:59
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The time to test is here
Let’s try to make it worth it
Resolve can’t be so clear
So, pilot with more purpose
Surprised, results will come in time
The more you see then you’ll believe
This modern paradigm
The confidence to start it off
Don’t leave me empty handed
To engineer means disappear
Measure and give way
Our lives cannot be stranded
Jet to another place
With no chance to postpone
Uncertainty so near
New landscapes to be roamed
If you had an opportunity to escape, would you take it?
To explore the stars and see new worlds
To disappear and never look back
This is what we’ve always deserved
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6. |
Exit Tapes
03:21
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Twist and turns. Exits
Time to run. Failing
Who got caught? Deny this
So distraught. Bailing
With fighting fists at hand
The breaking song begins
A perfect portrait of
A party with no sins
Believe me…
Still talking but not saving us
These bruises have no bite
Blood smiles still appraising and failing
Help me get through this night
Confess to crimes to win
The stitches won’t stay in
For yesterday has been
Tomorrow has to sing
Believe me…
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Mountaineer
03:18
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I try not to think about it
Not to think if the candle is burning on
If you call on me to talk about it
Try to talk and I’ll tell you something’s wrong
And the fires are burning
And take from your stride
As the demons are cursing
And hurt you inside
In the storm as you climb
And hold on for your life
You failed to let go
You broke down and sold it all
Intentions that got left out in the cold
No time to turn around
A place to feel so sound
Fall down and think of riddles to be solved
So desperate with indecision
Get back up and walk the trail passing on
Gather up all these old belongings
Find the means to be starting something up
Start again
Take this somewhere new
Focus on the view
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And now we find ourselves apart and lonely
In shallow water
Put up disguises but in your name only
Proposals for shores
A means to stay on track avoiding changes
Wherever they roam
Taking stands that call for rearranging
Ignite and go
So, we run and gun these forces
And design a life distorted
Who we are is always changing
Ideas we are exchanging
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Old Masters
02:57
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The distance travelled takes a twist
Now winding forward proving something I had missed
With elders wondering what to do
A chance to memorise and practice all you prove
There must be so much more than this
Now we endeavour for our goals
So, give me guidance to assert myself a role
Commit to memory all I have learned
For all you have shown me all this knowledge I can turn
This city will stand forever
As I pass through the ether
These masters who I see clever
Won’t leave me alone
There must be so much more than this
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10. |
New Harbours
03:20
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You pulled me out of harm and used my guidance
You gave me honest answers for a time
Use my poet’s heart to store the violence
The outcasts will not toe the line
The locale comes together
And protects us from the weather
As illusionists protect us from the world
And can be twirled
Distractions will not bother
As this light becomes another
An establishment to raise and build these stairs
Within our cares
With a lighthouse raised to find a placement
Throughout a foreign land where I can’t hide
So, let’s build this craft as our replacement
All these purposes identified
All borders in the way
No reason I should stay
The folly sets in stages
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11. |
The Retreat
03:05
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Watch the world as passengers in voyages
The tension like tin cans set on string
So, let’s fly like archery as new alumni
These glimmering stars around me as I fly
Kill the sky and head for the night
As dust moves around me
Take the force with no remorse
Letters sent by code
Letters sent by mail
And diamond lights that shine
A ship that has set sail
Kill the sky and head for the night
As dust moves around me
Take my time, visit and rewrite
If you could foresee
Take the force with no remorse
Through all of our adventures
Through all of these games
All the hardships and the truths
A new world awaits
Not just for me
But for you too
The excitement and the joy
No amount of sand could extinguish these flames
For this new place will be ours
Together let us walk amongst the stars
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Modern Capitals Tauranga, New Zealand
Modern Capitals is the solo outing of John Hayler. Current guitarist in Pacer, The Attika State and formerly of Twofold and The Don Ramos Players
Modern Capitals recommends:
Making punk rock music with my Pacer brothers
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Making the sweet sounds of rock with my Attika brothers
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Making short, fast hardcore punk with my Pacer brothers
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