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Third Time's A Charm
02:19
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For all I’ve done by you Left out the inside
Pull off this skin from bone Just like I’m cast aside
And as the years go by I’m left alone Never part of this unusual home Build me up so you can watch me fall What did I mean to you at all?
Take the steps to forget the past
And I’ll hide you from afar I won’t be last
You said I talk too much
I didn’t talk enough
To leave me all alone
You’ll be the ones who cast the stones
Yet they’ll skim across the ground
Douse the fires, recede the flames
I’m not a part of your game
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2. |
Song Ends...Story Begins
03:54
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Here in my own world
Surrounded by terrible moments
A union departed
So offer me up your condolence
With scars formed in April
Forgotten the chords and the meanings
That made it all worth it
No loyalty
Removed from this empire
All at the cost of a better time
That provided no essence
And act like some kind of novelty
And I will find the words to call you out
And I will not stay
And face this bitter herd
With declarations of old confidants
So goodnight, dear cardinal
We’ll welcome the crows
The lies formed by time goes by Stories told
Young and old
To stand on these old shores
Bounded by books to inspire
And notebooks of purpose
Positions that I can admire
To hide with false idols
Avoiding the curse of this apathy
Not surrounded by liars, cheaters, betrayers and cowards
Through all the sketches that we reminisced
And all the skits that we rehearsed
This title holds these memories
And I will struggle to forget
Goodnight, Dear Cardinal
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3. |
Great Divides
03:29
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This lonely road won’t stop this from hurting
Reminders of a time once deserving
Now lies behind a place filled with nothing
And the pictures playing a part
A party of and not just a party to
On and on until I feel something new
Assumptions that cause much apprehension
And a feeling that knows no bounds
The beating of my heart
It echoes through my chest
And pulses down my arms
This beating of my heart
It's such a sad, sad world
That I've been living in
And if I take these words
And build them around me
This house will move
Just like shadows on the water
As I feel no love in my heart
Divides that conquer everyone
Has left me scared of these strings
To overcome and start off with something
The strength to carry on
And the knives will rule in this house
And your lives reside in this town
Isolated, so frustrated
In time you’ll play this down
And all along you never really showed
Your colours speak much louder than these words
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4. |
Antidotes
03:27
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Smiles and halos sign me off
And tear these pages from books you know
As it all comes back to you
Pass the bottle when clarity returns
The counterfeit relief.
A sleep to earn
A rest that’s overdue
These sticks and stones will break my bones
These hidden scars will show
Headlights. Fractures
Fix me with steady hands, with confidence
Recommend to take. Be normal for a day
Relieve you from this game
Drown this wreck in a sea of cures
Letters from medics, melodies assure
The colours change
Tablets make way around my veins
Pills can leave me feeling strange
It’s better this way
To fix this life, to be approved
I promise I won’t let you lose
These antidotes stick in my throat
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5. |
Ghostwriter
03:16
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A feeling less deserving for anyone else
A hard life to take
The coldness is swerving into myself
A mess you couldn’t fake
These chords were mine
You took them all from me
Nothing will save this
Hope is a liar, your friendship’s a cheat
The little things betrayed
Empty lines, the honesty
The ship that has sailed you stole from me
You are the thief. I just can’t believe
This journey is tainted for the least
Never returning. Just been replaced
Tensions are burning. Words have been laced
Turning misdirection in on itself
Stop being played
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6. |
Interlude
01:47
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7. |
Luminesce
03:17
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This door is bleeding memories
They're all I see before I sleep
I never wanted to remember
But I can't forget the breach
And the fractures still remain
I can begin again
Hold these cards so close to me
Avoid the old mistakes
Can't break this silence of all I know
The past has come to face me. It hates me
And it breaks my heart in two
Never running back for you. I'm luminesce
The words that try to change me
Will change me for the best
Great mistakes won’t bring me down
Just like a ghost that haunts this town
To end the great adventure
Let the acrimony cease
A story that’s sedated
Is not as bad as people think
To take this all away. Expect me to obey
Take the right direction
Make the great escape
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8. |
Paper Foxes
02:59
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Through all the burning pages
Forgotten this old name from this memory
And scattered ashes will remain
And so, good Captain, tell me
Why did you give your all and then take it away?
It’s got you hurting
And trapped inside the porcelain display
With my head down in these books
And my feet stuck in the sand
It’s never been too late to say
This town I know
Tried to leave me feeling low
It’s taken all the care away
And go through open windows
Leave me to escape with conviction
And learning not to be afraid
And all these paper foxes
That bite the hands that feed them to lead them astray
Through all these places
Marching through the new parade
A time to shake this fear
That’s had a hold on me too long
No longer be afraid again
This town I know
Tried to leave me feeling low
It’s taken all the care away
The thoughts I’m bleeding still receiving though
A time to finally show
A slow return to the unknown
Until the fire starts
Says who we are
To everyone I know
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9. |
Soda Lake
03:46
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The still waves of this hole
Will slowly take a hold
The tables turn and lies will burn
Relieve me of this goal
And raise these arms like towers
Act out this old play
That authors wrote of this false hope
Ashamed and locked away
The wolves at shore have been before
With keepsakes set to burn
And lessons left to learn
Take my hand and walk with me
Drag me to the lake I know
No one else will show
To disappear for just another year
This false front leaves me cold
And the stories have been sold
And those who gloat from lands away
Find a reason in this name
Content in jacket weather
Wrestle me away
The pocketbooks of those that took
A life that can’t be played
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10. |
A Speculative Winter
03:36
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The patriarch who’s guilty
With momentum in full swing
The idea seems so painless
With no sense behind the means
Demolish hope through constant melodies
These old ghosts
Have slowly forgotten their old dreams
And the oldest son
Slowly coming undone at the seams
The magnificent persuading
The extortioner supreme
This Duchess will not rule me
She can be a dangerous thing
All the words repeating as you sing
These old ghosts
And talk of the curses they’ve betrayed
And the oldest one
Slowly turning around in her grave
These old ghosts who scare the most
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11. |
Tiny Manticore
03:27
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The coldest home away from home
To those who hide the shame
Best laid plans in guilty hands
And broken picture frames you stole
The ones who go
Familiar strangers leave
Wrapped in the arms of those who see
The ones that fall
This roulette plays us all
The crimson words of saints you heard
Just like the times before
Singled out, left without
Walk through open doors and go
Scars are sore
To those who can’t withstand the fall
And those who can’t break through this wall
Together or not at all. We stick together or not all
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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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