1. |
Prone To Misery
04:07
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VERSE
You always felt prone to misery
Ah tell me someone like you how could that be?
They got you out of you out of your head and left you facing the dead
for so long your spirit's wandering.
You carried the weight from coast to coast
I swear the burden you bore would bury most
you took one step then the next, you took no time out to rest
but I must confess I'm just recounting a ghost.
CHORUS
But every person you fed,
every word that you said, it was good and true.
And when the light pierced the dark
it would open their hearts, but it was killing you.
There's a place you went
where the souls were spent, but we can't recall,
If that spark from our youth
was a myth or the truth, it's a miracle.
VERSE
The people you met were good enough
but they just wanted to offload all their stuff
All the guilt and the shame and all the praise and the blame
but it's all the same when you speak only love.
So steady the ship boys if you can
every storm that we face was placed and planned
to test the plight of your course and lead you back to the source
and leave a ghost where a man once did stand.
VERSE
So tell me the story once again
about the spirit at stake within a man
it's still a hope that I hold, it's still the fire in my soul
I still feel like I did when we began.
Steering your heart with brutal force
You overloaded the cart but left the horse
the creature comforts of home, the senseless reasons we roam
all we should be, will all soon be restored.
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2. |
Kicking Goals (Single)
03:37
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VERSE
Careful what you stand for, answers at your own backdoor
Cattle herding headlights, can't resist the late nights alone
Stumble through the next few years I bet you can't wait to spend
You could go get yourself together, but you worry how the story'd have to end.
CHORUS
It's a fine line babe, between chaos and complete control
But don't worry bout me mama, cause you know me I'm out
just kicking goals
VERSE
Harbor all your goodwill, shoved inside a small pill a day
Wishin' you could stop it but your willingness just drops and rolls away
and lately you've been thinking, your sinking into some kind of hell
and all your friends could reach and save you, but it's bon voyage as they all wish you well
VERSE
Try to be transparent but apparently it's not always nice
But there's a purpose neath the surface and you're hoping that somehow it will suffice. Don't stress your sleepless skull as you wait for the weight to be too much. You can't explain away the pain or why you still recoil at her touch.
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3. |
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VERSE
Gone are the days, those incredible days
You wandered round in a chemical haze
and you portioned out death into brief essays.
You're up in the air but it's painfully clear
you cling to youth like a cheap souvenir
and the first fruits have rotten and the end's now near.
VERSE
Heartache it hies in the crease of your eyes
You've seen it all in your piece of time
but the spirit's don't hear it when you start to cry.
I punch the clock and I wait for my break
how many hours can this body take
til the lights go out and my soul awakes.
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4. |
Lost at 29
04:54
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VERSE
Buried inside, out of sight, it's my secret
I keep to myself so nobody critiques it
I know it's so dumb, incredibly weak
to be all wrapped up in this
Riddled with love I retreat to my furnace
where burning alive feels like my only purpose
I hope that some day I'll earn and deserve
what I've always seen as my birthright
VERSE
Feeling like I've only just scratched the surface
in terms of my life and discerning my purpose
but a third of it's gone, what have I done
I can't help but wonder if the
joy from my youth has been squandered for choosing
to cling to the light when the darkness was looming
now a god-shaped hole I've shoved with excuses
is feeling just a little too full
VERSE
Does each generation always feel this despondent
when youth starts retreating along with its options
and the vision I had, well somehow I lost it
but you know we still
we carry our grief to some far away places
and wipe clean the tears of those clandestine faces
and do what we can and hope it erases
the years of guilt we've held inside
VERSE
I'll go out as I came in a kicking and screaming
scratching my way to the end for some meaning
to the mountain of god the fraudulent snobs
say I can't quite climb up
I don't care what they say what they do if they hurt me
the spirit of hope, god, I hope won't desert me
as I've waited to find a spark that might light
and illuminate the world through me
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5. |
Monochrome Magnate
04:05
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VERSE
It’s a turbulent war
My mind’s a dull-bladed sword
It’s been rattled in battle too long
but maybe it’s still got a song
I’m not an entrepreneur
I’m not a conquistador
I’m just a fool that wants more
And so I languish in language
My bridge through the ages
VERSE
It’s not a bad place to start
a chance to kick-start your art
a patriarch with a soft-boiled heart
to finance the chance to impart
some of that wisdom at last
but it’s a bleak forecast
at least for those who can't last
oh they're forced to turn back as a matter of fact
CHORUS
So go and spread your wings
Go and let your hair down
And find you can’t change a thing
you've waited a lifetime darling
hoping to find
a bright shining star
to lead and to guide
VERSE
I get along with my ghost
Perhaps much better than most
a towrope to my intangible hopes
And a nightmare to keep me afloat
But I don’t get what you see
You said I’m bourgeoisie
But babe I disagree
I’m more of a monochrome magnate
Too much trouble to translate
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6. |
Leak These Hopes
03:50
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VERSE
Long lost secrets I can seek out and cling to
I felt a little tug into the world above
no one left to taste the grief of the ages
I need my medicine, I need my medicine
VERSE
Leak these hopes into a new generation
of disappointed souls, of damaged animals
Cold hard cash you know it's there for the taking
your means'll justify, the ends'll testify
CHORUS 1
Hold me up,
I can't believe what I am seeing right in front of me
Wake me up,
it's just a dirty dream, the future beckoning
VERSE
Well out it comes just like a shot from a cannon
the truth is on it's way, it's weary, worried way
I can't hide the fact I'm filled to the brim with
a certain kind of joy, I can't explain at all
CHORUS 2
Oh! oh no,
there is a reason to it all I hope and
fake your way,
up to the very top, just pray it never stops
VERSE
well shake those sounds out for the next bit of anguish
to exit from your tongue, my heart is tightly wrung
loud and clear until I no longer need you
it's just the way it goes, it's just the way it goes
CHORUS 3
How on earth,
are we expected to be clear and conscious
Hey, oh no,
I've got some home-spun truth, I'll serve it up for you
VERSE
Cut your teeth on every wide-eyed sensation
what's up ahead and next, look at the state of it
I can't hide or run away from my anger
it boils inside of me, like electricity
CHORUS 4
Hey, I'm here
somebody notice what my strengths could do and
hey, I'm alive
just for a little bit, I need a cigarette
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7. |
Plain View
04:13
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VERSE 1
Straight to the heart of what you want to do
you can savour, spoil, or save, you're hidden with the brave
it's a dense dream that you can't abort but can't believe
you can feel it passing by, just trade or sell or buy
led by grace to take your place in some far-flug exciting life
where nothing’s ever wrong and the choir sings along
repeat right the reflex words that could carry you through the gates
if only you were great, if only you could wait
VERSE 2
bank rolled, the path to hell is paved in gold
but you're too afraid to stray, so you're on your merry way
your smile's a blank check but you haven't even cashed it yet
though you're thinking that you might, just try it out tonight
keep our hearts compact politely hidden behind our ties
and in the silent dread of the finest woven thread
lack for nothing so serenely, you've taken the best from me
but there's so much more at stake, if only I could wait
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8. |
Sweet Cold Comfort
05:34
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VERSE
Sweet cold comfort calls to me at night
Across the town and I will go and find it
The only good thing you're leaving brings
Is knowing that I’ll no longer have to hide it
As we hide…
CHORUS
It's not a flaw in design,
it's not a fault we can find
if we leave it all up to your love
There's nothing else we can do,
when you've invited us to
step out from behind, where we hide
VERSE
Heaven held hostage I could choke with joy
If only you were here to stand beside me
A tiny taste of love held under your tongue
For the future you’ll enjoy tonight with me in the side street
As we hide…
CHORUS
VERSE
Vilify lullaby it's all the same
there’s nothing you can do to break the chains that bind me
The seed’s been planted in my drunken mind
and the whole world works as one when you're prepared to fake it
and we hide…
CHORUS
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9. |
Lake of Fire
05:16
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VERSE
I could stand my ground, I could stake my claim
to the ruined skyline, to the perfect place we came from
but there's a minor chord, holding me to you
and it's sad and breaking, saying that we're almost through
I know it's only time
oh oh oh, let's take it slow
I've been holding on, but you're letting go
CHORUS
Wide awake in the pre-dawn silence
the sleeping sea we're just two lost islands
I've been reading books to get us
where we were when we weren't so careless
I know the future is ours for the taking
so let's just start again cause baby
everything is so complicated
VERSE
I can see myself, in a lake of fire
and there's no one there to tell me it'll be alright
and then I leap and dive, through a burning hoop
and it's a 9.9 for the minimal splash into
my darkened future
oh oh oh, let's take it slow
I've been holding on, I should be letting go
CHORUS
BRIDGE
every night I close my eyes and I pray
that something will happen
I can change, I can reclaim who I am
every night I close my eyes and I see you
CHORUS
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10. |
Reset
10:50
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VERSE 1
I'd like to go back and press reset
but I'm not through being broken yet
The building blocks of happiness
are at my feet in a crumbling mess
The leaves are changing and so am I
for better or for worse
The muted hues of the afternoon
they seem to know that the night's gonna hurt
VERSE 2
I can feel you watching me
that burning guilt that you built in me
But I need a blessing first, I guess
oh heaven help my insolence
Cause even if I run from you
or fall into your arms
I'm still the same mess I've always been
I just wonder if I've wandered too far
VERSE 3
Suburban desert wanderings
my late night drunken pondering
The rulers prefer flattery
but I myself I like certainties
I need to know what I cannot know
that I'm good enough
I'm still a kid though I'm now a man
I never knew it would be this tough
VERSE 4
She treats me oh so very well
but I turn it into a living hell
I guess it's too hard for me to hide
this heavy heart that I hold inside
Every night I reach for you
but I still feel alone
It's nothing that you've done my love
it's just the only state I've known
VERSE 5
With nothing left to give to you
I bowed my head and I left the room
Came home and had a panic attack
no one can ever hear this track
How I wished I could run away
back to your arms
How many hours I've felt that way
I count the highway lines and the stars
VERSE 6
I'll carry on til they bury me
there is no rest for the best of me
I wish to God I could make it right
it's in your memory I drink tonight
Burning through my rent money
in some downtown try-hard bar
A keen sense of my emptiness
I just can't tell where it ends or starts
VERSE 7
No one here could ever know
the burning panic that won't let go
There's nothing there but I'll hold on tight
for all I know you'll still make it right
From a child I have felt your pull
but then I pulled away
I worked so hard to feel nothing at all
but I've learned I prefer it your way
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The Atlas Mountains Perth, Australia
A 5 piece rock outfit formed in 2009 in Perth, Western Australia. The band has released three full length albums, with their third full length album – Stuck in Hope Valley – released on the 21st of November, 2015. The bands straight up rock persuasions have just a hint of alt country thanks to Taylor Smith’s native Tennesseean twang and enduring love of country and gospel music. ... more
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