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lyrics

please give me one good reason
for me to keep around here
because I've been feeling nothing
it’s the most that I've felt all year

it’s a fucking sinking feeling
a broken cogwheel motion
a lack of true direction
and I kind of get the notion

that what I really need is prayer
please make me a goddamn good believer
and shed some light to layer
on the miracle hereafter

it gets so dark and lonely
a haunt that keeps in sunlight
I am the living dead sea
buoyant supporting no life

I still get a cordial head nod (hey, hey)
a gesture with no backbone (spineless)
I’m tired of these favors (get lost)
just hard pressed expectations with no home

despite my strong points
your hell kept coming
I was scared you’d actually found me
despite your weakness
your heart kept thumping
you were lost and you were lonely

I haven’t won at all
in fact I've earned these losses
wind knocked out I fall
across these eyes inverted crosses
the streets they glow at night
and the sidewalk it keeps spinning
like my head and this whole life
and the world that I've been living

a casual reminder
like a clipped winged bird with no cage
just one ember from this fire
is enough to set me ablaze

we’re like a cloudless skyline
rest assured it’s coming
from a volatile siphon
gas mouthed hard truth spitting

reeking like a train wreck
an unfortunate disaster
kind of like my mother said
no we can’t forsake the future

a duty unmistaken
carried out by lovers
sang out from the heavens
and forgotten by the sinners

it doesn't take a genius
to see where we went so wrong
so soon I will be leaving
going going gone

despite my strong points
your hell kept coming
I was scared you’d actually found me
despite your weakness
your heart kept thumping
you were lost and you were lonely

I’m so tired of the headaches
I’m so tired of the stress shakes
I’m so tired of no results
and I’m tired of the bad breaks
I’m so tired of the lonely
I’m so tired of the sadness
it’s about damn time I ready
and take back those things that I miss

the close friends I've been losing
the time that I've been wasting
the hope that I've been missing
and the love I've never tasted

blinded by the morning
hiding from the sunlight
worn out from the courting
and drowning in the lowlight

credits

from In The Fire Of My Youth, released June 15, 2013

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One If By Land Meadville, Pennsylvania

One If By Land is a 4 piece rock band from Meadville, Pennsylvania. The band includes ex members of The Twirpentines, Signal Home, The Walnut Street Project, The Caddies, and Waiting for Never.

The band consists of members Fred Oakman (guitar/vocals), Paul Dean (bass), Troy Messerall (guitar/vocal backups/keyboards), and Jim Stone (percussion). ... more

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