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1.
Walking round’ corners 
the streets getting bigger
 surreal doused surprise
 as the street lights get dimmer
 oh welcome you new word 
I’ve heard much about you 
I’m glad to have met you
 but I can’t get out of you

 people parading their wares to the landscape
 dream riches ascending
 like buildings that sky-scrape
 oh please Mr I’m not prepared for your notion
 a plastic bag goldfish I am in the ocean you swim

 models on taxis
 and cameras and flashes
 the men strike a pose 
as she beats her eyelashes
 my compass the empire
 I left undiscovered
 the magnets distracted
 no time for another one 

oh where is my north star
 I long for my manger
 once straw to a stable 
but now I’m a stranger
 the looks on their faces shows I am misplaced
 but it’s just my reflection
 of what I’ve been showing them

 out to the highway where man stops for no one
 my memory replaced of the land that come from
 the buildings that sky-scrape
the landscape familiar 
hello to the door
 farewell to that other word

2.
Warning Shot 04:05
I know it’s hard to see 
that we are sometimes wrong
 the warning shot’s gone off
 so if I let you down
 no I won’t go with you
 but I’ll see you on your way 
it’s time to set the arms down
 you can’t force change 

I got a thing about winning everything
 you just look up and shake your head
 and let me get on with it
 oh my days of discontent
 to satisfy my will
 and it’s ever-changing role
 that you could never play 

we both know each other well
 won’t raise our hands
 each stubborn as 

it’s easier to lie 
than it is to ignore
 maybe just try them all
 and see who surrenders
 there’s a battle up ahead
 and we could just retreat
 but we won’t move our feet
 till the other goes first 

you go 
I’ll stay
 we’ll carry on that way

3.
The Calling 05:38
It came out as a warning 
as a sound you could almost hear
 but I could hear you calling
 I could tell you were almost there
 and I can feel it
 though you never were my twin
 and I’ll stop breathing
 give you life as the air gets thin

 and if all the doors were closed
 I’d be the hole that you could crawl through
 outside the wolves are calling for your blood
 I will protect you
 go on 
you must go on

 we came out of the water
 and slowly we turn to sand
 right now we’re walking
 somewhere above dry land
 can we make it
 in hope as a boy
 as a man in doubt
 stop falling 
it’s deep but we can make it out

 you and me
 we can be
 we can bleed 
we can heal
 we can wash it away
 but you must go on
4.
Cold War 04:15
may I wear your coat
 as the chill sets in 
numb as the sun burns through me
 speak those words again 
oh what of all the things you’ve done
 what did you win once you had won

 bridges once were built 
often to decay 
I won’t hold up much longer
 crush and waste away
 oh did you spit in to the stream
 dust in the well is all I see

 sharpen up your claws
 my ears are the prey 
leave any scraps behind
 in case I pass this way
 fair-weather friend the wind has changed
 so many flakes fall down the drain
5.
you only wanted a free world no one would want us to take over you want to gown a familiar how immaterial of us shifting back into the night sure we can’t endure in the light hiding but we’re still in sight take freedom away from our rights you have a fear of the phantoms declare a war on your notion you break us out of the prison but still the bars are between us don’t worry walking beside me masking the eyes of your children this is the grandest unveiling you bring the cross and pitchfork stones are in the mode again queue out to the west gathering sin now a material thing penance in the showing of skin cage of gold, cage of lead still a cage, my friend cage of gold, cage of lead still a cage, my friend your face it hides an ulterior my mask it hides apprehension confuse the cloak and the dagger and fear I thwart for ascension
6.
that’s about enough for me 
I want to go home 
I’ve seen all that I have to see
 and I want to go home
 why am I always spotted by the light 
illuminating all my faults for you

 but what do I know
 I am just a shoulder
 whatever I proclaim is like air to the dead
 so this is where it ends 
the same place each time

 what more do you want from me
 because I’m all out 
I traded for the company
 and now I’m all out 
 it’s too easy to pretend it all a game 
when your reflection beats you every time

 So what do I know
 I am just a shoulder
 whatever I proclaim is like air to the dead
 and how to I proceed this vertical dilemma
 when you have tied your rope
 and hung it on me 
every day’s a climb
 we’re searching for that something
 that they always tell us
 we need to survive
 still I don’t see a change 
just same each time


7.
If you ever shut up for a minute
 you would know what’s up with me 
when I sit silently
 don’t say a word 
don’t look at me 
If I ever shut up for a second 
 I would’ve heard 
 what you’ve been saying for years 
guess stubborn works for me 
choose your pain over my fears

 you say a word
 and so I threw a pebble
 and you threw a stone and so on 
go on this way
 till we’re both washed away 
in the rubble
 of your right I’m wrong 
I’m right your wrong

 hey can I borrow your time
 I’ve got something on my mind 
that I have to say 
you see your way is my way
 or you can take the highway 
and all of the byways
 and gods law
 but what for 
it doesn’t work 
it doesn’t work for me 
doesn’t seem much better to me
 your word is yours 
and you like what you see
 but it doesn’t seem much better to me

 we’ll draw the straws 
if your long I’ll take yours 
it’s the easiest way to decide
 wrong can be right 
if it’s in the good light
 so stand up and bask in my pride
 oh how it shines 

if we ever shut up for minute
 we could hold hands
 walk 
talk
 be like before
 your life was simple then
 it’s much better being ignored

8.
Seven Hours 04:06
seven hours all I own
 I spend it every night before
 my debts through blood-shot eyes
 never paying it off

 get there at the same time 
no matter when I’m leaving
 time rush to destinations 
I don’t wanna be 

countdown
 it’s the countdown
 get back before you feel it
 the world is in your way
 on a ball and a chain 
you're thinking
 just stop thinking 
that’s how you know about it 
listening to what they say 
always did every harm

 embrace deprivation
 delude and just don’t see it
 get out and just pretend 
that you’ve had enough
 here come the bells again 
ringing me to realise that
 seven hours all I own
9.
be this for me
 someone else
 someone I trust in my room 
lay on the floor
 memories weigh you down 
heroes gone home
 saviour stranger 
playing dress-up in the armoury 
what I’m trying on never suited me 
if I time it right 
you might never even notice 
 take a trip and tumble to the ground 
always hurt the ones you love 
forever asking
 where are the roses 

worship your ground
 lift me up 
learn from my fears
 my A+
 took to the wheels
 learned the language well
 recite silence 
raise your fists

 ignorance is not the remedy
 but administered to me daily
 now the side-effect is the normality I’m under
 take a trip inside the looking-glass 
if the role reversed would you still be asking
 where are the roses
10.
I Claim You 04:16
I claim you my flags laid down from here to the horizon here to the horizon I build my house out of matchsticks tonight keep one spare for the striking
 under the foundations.
 where giants roamed now only bones of those who came before decorate their ground so how will I know to keep you safe by building walls so you can’t see outside 
and I can’t fear what comes.
 you will erode you will erode now so it will come It will come down let it erode let it erode now
 I claim you my flags laid down there’s nothing left for sharing nothing left to share so I’ll take my spade and dig under the ground for something to discover something to keep me here 
 for I could go and stake my claim on someone else’s land, as history’s foretold but what have we learned I see but desolate that no one now can occupy let it live to let it truly die

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released July 4, 2014

Produced by Michael Chorney and Adrian Roye and the Exiles
Arranged by Adrian Roye and the Exiles
'Pebbles & Stones' arranged by Adrian Roye and Simon Lewis
'I Claim You' arranged by Adrian Roye and the Exiles and Oli Rockberger
Recorded and Engineered by Michael Chorney at Goose Coop, Lincoln VT
Mixing assistant- Bennett Shapiro
Artwork by Cameron Steward

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