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Carry It with Me

by A Deathbed Promise

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Drown with the World 03:46
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Verse 1: Dear Shepard, I am the sheep who's gone astray The others led me to the water Where you anchored a heavy price to pay For your wretched sons and daughters And now I'm sinking And now I'm sinking Chorus: (Don't let me drown with the world) I'll accept anything you have to offer me (If my salvation's unearned) Leave me lying at the bottom of the sea Verse 2: I am the wolf treading your tides Speaking in tongues, leading your blind Wasted away pulled by the waves Misunderstood, trying to change Chorus: (Don't let me drown with the world) I'll accept anything you have to offer me (If my salvation's unearned) Leave me lying at the bottom of the sea Bridge: I see you in the distance Won't you take my hand Reach down here and save me
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'92 04:07
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Verse 1: Hold my hand I need to take another breath My words were ripped from my throat And driven through my chest They don't understand I recall the burning of my lungs From breathing in the violent fumes Jumping off their tongues Breathe it in Chorus: For tonight I'm going to pick myself back up Brush it off and tell them of All that they've undone And for tonight I'll make them clean this up I'll brush it off I'll brush it off Verse 2: They're not listening They'll put up a fight and shut me out They do this over and over again They do this over and over again I'm coming out of my skin This tension wearing through the seams I can't make out where it belongs Or exactly what this means Breathe it in Chorus: For tonight I'm going to pick myself back up Brush it off and tell them of All that they've undone And for tonight I'll make them clean this up I'll brush it off I'll brush it off Bridge: So hold my hand They don't understand They're not listening They're never listening No, they're not listening They never listen Chorus: For tonight I'm going to pick myself back up Brush it off and tell them of All that they've undone And for tonight I'll make them clean this up I'll brush it off I'll brush it off All that they've undone
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Beautifully Unplanned 03:30
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Verse 1: I'm picking up the pieces From the clutter in my mind Finding answers to questions Of a life confined Chorus: So save yourself I can't bridge the gap Between heaven and hell I wanted this for so long But I can not carry the weight Beautifully unplanned But you were never a mistake Verse 2: I'm cleaning out the skeletons Isolated from the outside And exposing the demons That cower and hide Chorus: So save yourself I can't bridge the gap Between heaven and hell I wanted this for so long But I can not carry the weight Beautifully unplanned But you were never a mistake Bridge: I didn't mean to hurt you Just getting my head straight My apologies are worthless When they are just too late Chorus: So save yourself (I've failed you before and I'll do it again) I can't bridge the gap Between heaven and hell (Just leave me here) I wanted this for so long But I can not carry the weight Beautifully unplanned But you were never a mistake
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Puppeteer 04:05
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Verse 1: Well hello puppeteer What fun games we'll play today You be the tortured soul I'll be an object in the way If your illness is your excuse For the way that you behave Know I'm just like you The black dog follows me too Though I can't seem to spare your attention Tangled up by your expectations Hung up, pushed to the side Trimmed face, but we're dead inside Your mistakes are the gasoline That flood my dependency I'll light a match just to draw your eyes Now watch me ignite Chorus: So yank me around, yank me around Tie me down, tie me down Then when I finally stand up for myself In the midst of everything You walk out Verse 2: The scenes always change But my place remains the same In the truth you try not to see And the only one left is me I singed the strings and lost control I'm going to watch it all unfold No turning back now This is the way Things will have to stay Chorus: So yank me around, yank me around Tie me down, tie me down Then when I finally stand up for myself In the midst of everything You walk out Bridge: All I wanted was you to see me Burning bright Instead you up and left us Without a fight So you just throw me away Just like the coward you portray But stand still because here's the page turner I'm putting you on the back burner And it will Tear you apart, tear you apart Little remorse from your work of art So don't even try to stand up for yourself In the midst of everything I'll feed you to the sharks
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Within Me 04:40
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Verse 1: I'm walking away from the gate I know this won't be the last time we see each other 2008 was just a bad year And I still feel like I'm the one to blame For that early morning When I saw you for myself Chorus: I've come to see clearly You will always be near me And there is hope in the middle of the storm So hold me close now I'm going to get to you somehow I'll come knocking at your door I'll come knocking at your door Verse 2: You know, I wish it was me laying in that hospital bed Eight damn years with nothing to show But within me is the promise I made I carry it with me the promise I made For you Chorus: I've come to see clearly You will always be near me And there is hope in the middle of the storm So hold me close now I'm going to get to you somehow I'll come knocking at your door I'll come knocking at your door
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Strangers 03:39
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Verse 1: Straps on her heels For some crumpled dollar bills A body full of pills So she doesn't have to feel The still eyes that sit in silence And the hands that are prone to violence Beaten down by the men that she trusted Chorus: She's running away from her life No longer to be the victim She says "I'm carving myself out the picture, but leaving a stain only you could remember I'm putting this all behind me, but leaving a stain only you could remember." Verse 2: The fingerprints of kin Draw the stories in his skin Revulsion latches on And worms its way in It worms its way in It's so disgusting It's so disgusting Chorus: He's running away from his life No longer to be the victim He says "I'm carving myself out the picture, but leaving a stain only you could remember I'm putting this all behind me, but leaving a stain only you could remember" Bridge: We could be the change (Change) We could be the change (Change) We are the strangers That you don't see We are Running away from our lives No longer to be the victims We say "We're carving ourselves out the picture, leaving a stain only you could remember And putting this all behind us, leaving a stain only you could remember." (You could remember)
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S.S.D.D. 04:04
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Verse 1: Spiraling Down Is this all I have to look forward to? A mirror's image of a boy who hasn't got a clue What to do next What's to prove next Chorus: Soft spoken words Fail hard To produce a message I want to go back Restart Erasing all the damage Burnt out on being alive I'm ready to start living Verse 2: Looking up My ideals clouding the airspace While self-doubt reigns me down Into the same place Of what to do next What's to prove next Chorus: Soft spoken words Fail hard To produce a message I want to go back Restart Erasing all the damage Burnt out on being alive I'm ready to start living Bridge: Same routine on a different day I'm just a time bomb ticking away The closer I get to the end I find I don't want to fall inside the lines

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released May 23, 2017

Music by A Deathbed Promise
Artwork by Sergeo Gutierrez
Mixed and mastered by Evan Morrison
Recorded at LyonHart Studios

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