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Mayday
04:42
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Best made plans are paper all the same
Igniting when subjected to the flame
It wasn’t that you didn’t give it all
And yet you stand in rubble
But I still refuse to give it up as lost
And I couldn’t care about cost
And I answered all the questions
And I came prepared for tough ones
And I sweated blood and played my part
And now I watch it fall apart
Mayday
Now everything is spinning
Mayday
This time I won’t be winning
Mayday
Will someone find this message
Or just the burned-out wreckage
It never hurts so much as when it aches
For all the hope and passion that it takes
The lights you saw in tunnel openings
Just another freight train coming
But I’m damned if I’ll sit back and watch the fall
Come crashing down around all
‘Cause I bet my life on this one
And I’m sure I didn’t miss one
And I paid it all in great amount
So can you hear me calling out
Mayday
Now everything is spinning
Mayday
This time I won’t be winning
Mayday
Will someone find this message
Or just the burned-out wreckage
And now I’m running out of light
But I won’t go without a fight
If you can hear my voice somehow
Well I need you now
And I answered all the questions
And I came prepared for tough ones
And I sweated blood and played my part
And now I watch it fall apart
Mayday
Now everything is spinning
Mayday
This time I won’t be winning
Mayday
Will someone find this message
Or just the burned-out
Mayday
Now everything is spinning
Mayday
This time I won’t be winning
Mayday
But no-one found this message
‘Cause I’m just burned out wreckage
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2. |
Drive (Ash Code Remix)
04:20
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Tangled in life and all you feel is alone
Spirit’s just like your tone
Thin and lifeless
Despondence is rife and all you’ve got is your will
You could get out of this still
On the right list
Start chopping away at all that’s blocking the light
Strip out distractions so you’re lean for the fight
Now you’re focused
Reroute the signal going straight through your heart
Check your connections and you’re ready to start
Your magnum opus
Tune in
And turn up your drive
’Til you’re racing ahead of the noise of life
Just shut up and drive
’Til you’re shaking and you’ve got to let go tonight
Losing all power and now the throttle has gone
No acceleration
Just ticking over
Drifting in slow lanes where all shoulders are cold
And you start to feel old
Wishing it over
Got to pull in and just get out in the air
The same old horizon’s going to take you nowhere
’Til you change it
A different direction and you’re back on the map
Polish and detail and your sparkle is back
So now use it
Get in
And turn up your drive
’Til you’re racing ahead of the noise of life
Just shut up and drive
’Til you’re shaking and you’ve got to let go tonight
Are you ready?
Let’s go
Dial it, tune it, focus
And turn up your drive
’Til you’re racing ahead of the noise of life
Just shut up and drive
’Til you’re shaking and you’ve got to let go tonight
Turn up your drive
’Til you’re racing ahead of the noise of life
Just floor it and drive
’Til you’re shaking and you’ve got to let go tonight
Shut up and drive
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Walking down the side streets
Planting seeds of hope to flower
Kicking out with cold feet
Making sparks to start the fire
Escape the void no-one’s living in
It’s what you do that’s speaking truth to power
Clench your fist and punch straight
Tide is turning by the hour if you go
Swimming in the blue sea
Swimming in what you see
Swimming in the blue sea
Swimming in what you see
Swimming in the blue sea
Feel like drowning
Waking up in cold sweat
Haunted by your lonely ghost
Grit your teeth and push back
Fear is what you fear the most
And all the pain that you’re suffering
You chose to barricade the open roads
Safety nets are handcuffs
Binding you from coast to coast ’til you go
Swimming in the blue sea
Swimming in what you see
Swimming in the blue sea
Swimming in what you see
Swimming in the blue sea
Feel like drowning
Pressure is your best friend
Wringing out a thirst for more
Take it ’til the walls bend
Push it all towards the door
But nothing’s won ’til it’s happening
And nothing happens ’til you light the fire
I can see the smoke rise
Drifting down towards the shore
And we’ll go
Swimming in the blue sea
Swimming in what you see
Swimming in the blue sea
Swimming in what you see
Swimming in the blue sea
Feel like drowning
On and on and on...
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4. |
Sleepers (Traitrs Remix)
05:28
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Remember the feeling you were overcome
The pain left you reeling and the day was done so soon
The tremors you noticed were the ones I sent
A moment of genius from a madman’s dented stool
A sizzling crack, another victim taken
No going back now that your world’s been shaken out of its throes
And you know
It’s just the turn of the likes of us like before
’Til we jump off the ride and fight
There won’t be a goodnight
And we go turning out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights for the sleepers
(The darkness won’t leave because the morning finds you
What you believe is just a shield around you)
Turning out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights for the sleepers
(The darkness won’t leave because the morning finds you
What you believe is just a shield around you)
The colours keep changing in a world stood still
I caught you arranging for the same until you die
But fire is theory ’til you bring the spark
And I’ll keep you here until I hear you asking why
A light in the haze and now you have direction
The way through the maze is just determination not to forego
And you know
It’s just the turn of the likes of us like before
’Til we jump off the ride and fight
There won’t be a goodnight
And we go turning out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights for the sleepers
(The darkness won’t leave because the morning finds you
What you believe is just a shield around you)
Turning out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights for the sleepers
(The darkness won’t leave because the morning finds you
What you believe is just a shield around you)
For the sleepers
It’s just the turn of the likes of us like before
’Til we jump off the ride and fight
There won’t be a goodnight
And we go turning out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights for the sleepers
(The darkness won’t leave because the morning finds you
What you believe is just a shield around you)
Turning out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights for the sleepers
(The darkness won’t leave because the morning finds you
What you believe is just a shield around you)
The darkness won’t leave because the morning finds you
What you believe is just a shield around you
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Wires & Lights Berlin, Germany
Wires & Lights is a 4-piece English/German band from Berlin, comprising Justin Stephens (Vocals/Guitar), Ralf Hünefeld (Guitar/Synth), Gabriel Brero (Bass) and Sebastian Hilgetag (Drums). Signed to Oblivion/SPV, their debut single "Drive" was released on May 31st 2019. Further singles "Swimming" and "Sleepers" followed and the debut album "A Chasm Here And Now" was released on September 13th 2019. ... more
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