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Stuck in Hope Valley

by The Atlas Mountains

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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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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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Gone Are The Days (Single) 02:40
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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released November 22, 2015

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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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