Encore / Death by Camera / Lights Out

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Encore


Lost in a world with dead friends
Friends who take lives take their own
Life must move on but to where?
Is this life to lose song or to share?
Pain in the heart hard to bare
Hard is the night when I’m scared
And tonight as I sing just for you
I pray that I don’t lose you too
As much as I love not to hate
I can’t stand the false walls you create
A gun to the head isn’t fate
Don’t tell me you’ve burnt and I’m late
Your hearts on your sleeve and my chest
Emanating inspired intent
Thousands of hearts and their friends
Have drained more from yours than you lend
They say ‘Living is the best revenge’
A wise man once said after death
So tonight while I sing for you friend
I pray your show in the sky never ends

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Death by Camera


Death loves company
Standing, waiting patiently
Eyes in the back of a moving crowd
Follow your thoughts with intent on the brow
You wonder how you will survive this dream
With nowhere to hide and air harder to breathe
It’s only a matter of time before your life is to greet
Death in the eyes and your soul to keep

I know heaven has no place for me
No name at the door but that’s fine with me
Because I’ve broken in and I’m finally free
Unless this is death dressed as paparazzi
Plush is the carpet that graces my feet
Grand is the Garden of Eden I cheat
The Queen hasn’t even walked down these streets
The cameras that flash sell their stories for weeks

Death must love my company
He has just gone and infiltrated my sleep
The harder I try the closer his reach
The kiss of death ends a man and his dreams
I'm all set to run but my mind is weak
I’ve just beaten the life out of myself with my fists
With no will to run its now back on the streets
But this time on my own, in the dark, without heat

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Lights Out

Walking blind into shadows
A deteriorating dream
Left only with memories
That change with the breeze
You’ve just walked straight past me
Did you pretend not to see?
I can’t see for myself
But can feel my heart bleed
Surrounded by darkness
That grows darker each day
I would see through this colour
But I’d only see gray
As slowly it eats, digesting away
The visions I’d keep, but my memory fades

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Matt Grantham