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Alaska
04:46
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As the winds begin to rise
And the calm turns to the storm
Stay by my side and I’ll keep you warm
As the tides begin to change
And everything’s left unarranged
We shut the door, but it opens more and more
My skin pale as moonlight, dying from frostbite
With nowhere left to go
On this freezing winter night, I won’t make it inside
So bury me under the snow
Bury me under the snow
So my fingers dance and my body twirls
As I start to lose my grip on this world
When my spirit lifts and my laurels furl
I’ll melt the seasons down, so watch me swirl
As I sink into the whorl
One of these days you’ll look back and say
“I wish I would have walked the other way”
And one of these nights you’ll run and hide
In this cold dark world you’ve made
To cut me down inside
Leave me to lie in the snow ‘til die
And I’ll watch it fall out of view
So you take what is mine
When the sun won’t shine on you
Won’t shine on you
In our Alaskan homes we weather the cold forever
Trying to ignite a spark with sticks and stones together
Never having much luck, we just seem to be stuck in the cold
Now the blizzard advances, we never got our chances to grow old
One of these days you’ll look back and say
“I wish I would have walked the other way”
And one of these nights you’ll run and hide
In this cold dark world you’ve made
To cut me down inside
To cut me down inside
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Time is such a fickle thing, it burns through everything
But it stops when machines fall in love
Life is such a simple thing, gears and trinkets spin in sync
Then we rust and we fall from above
And like a comet falling to the earth
I’m burning up
Wildlife, you’re burning bright
Like a phoenix from the ashes, you’ll be born again tonight
Wildfire growing higher
In a forest burnt to cinders there lies a city made of tinder
Now we’re lost in this never ending odyssey
Our journey vast and endless in this starry sea
An infinite blackness, a hastening madness is all I have to comfort me
And I will bare witness to this narrative illness
That’s been plaguing my memories
Alchemist, give me a vessel made of gold
I’ll set off in the morning on this voyage to uphold
The warmth in the freezing cold
The freezing cold
Wildlife, you’re burning bright
Like a phoenix from the ashes, you’ll be born again tonight
Wildfire growing higher
In a forest burnt to cinders there lies a city made of tinder
Take my hand, we will walk to the edge of the earth
Where constellations overflow, we wonder “what is each star worth?”
I will wait at the edge of the world and take it all in
Above a sea of clouds where the air grows paper thin
I’m filling my lungs with cosmic dust, cus there’s no breeze or wind
And I get lightheaded when the altitude sickness starts to set in
Halt and catch fire, it’s a balancing act, we ignite, we expire
Halt and catch fire, each second I’m gravitating, in orbit I’m levitating
And I will find you in the dark, in chaos we resonate
In chaos we resonate
Wildfire burning away in my heart
It’s here to stay until death-do-us-part
And this is how the fever starts
We go up in flames and light up the dark
Wildlife living in harmony
When the flowers bloom they’ll sing their melody
The seasons bring serenity
I’m wilting away endlessly
And like a comet falling to the earth
I’m burning up
Wildlife, you’re burning bright
Like a phoenix from the ashes, you’ll be born again tonight
Wildfire growing higher
In a forest burnt to cinders the ashes linger
I will not evaporate, I’ll burn brighter everyday
Like a moth to a flame, I found life in the light and comfort in shade
I’m not one to hesitate as wildfire floods the way
We learn to swim but it’s too late
And in the end we all evaporate
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3. |
Mesmer
04:41
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I just want to close my eyes and fall asleep again
I’m still wandering
I’m restless through a world so endless
I’m empty, i’m shapeless
In the end i’ll be timeless
And in the end you’ll be antiquated
And severely outdated
We’ll sail until we see the outside of our galaxy
It looks so serene, that’s where I need to be
Myth and legend both collide
As I turn old and grey on the outside
Burning into particles of light
And this is where space and time
Open up to create a new divide
Right before your very eyes
At first the particles rose high into the sky,
Created all the deities for us to live and die by
Then be reborn in another life
They tried to be formless and let the matter lie
Sunken in silence, we’re stuck in the density of reality
Particles begin to dance and play
In their very own way
‘Cus everything they make
We’re a part of in some way
This is where
Myth and legend both collide
As I turn old and grey on the outside
Burning into particles of light
And this is where space and time
Open up to create a new divide
Right before your very eyes
But your vision starts to fail you
Blurring the line between fact and fiction in your dreams
Now we’ll never know if all is as it seems
So come and take a leap of faith
And get lost with me
It won’t matter if we sail out tomorrow,
Swallowed up by the great abyss
Fact is this fantasy is the realest thing I’ll miss
Run away with me to a place, to a place beyond eternity
We’ll be with them waiting, be with them waiting
To finally see
Myth and legend both collide
As I turn old and grey on the outside
Burning into particles of light
And this is where space and time
Open up to create a new divide
Right before your very eyes
We’ll sail until we see the outside of our galaxy
It looks so serene that’s where I need to be
We’ll sail until we see the outside of our galaxy
It looks so serene that’s where I need to be
I just want to close my eyes and fall asleep again
I just want to close my eyes and fall asleep again
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4. |
Adventurer
04:15
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Let’s keep the magic alive
Don’t leave your sense adventure or wonder behind
Hold your breath, my dear, or you could disappear
We’ve already left the atmosphere
Let go of all your fear and listen close, my dear
There’s so much room to breathe up here
If the walls could talk, tell me darling what would they say?
I’m speaking in tongues while I’m running through the hallway
Hold your breath, grab the keys, get the car
If you try to escape on foot, I promise you that we won’t get far
Lest we lose who we truly are
Keep the magic alive (keep it alive)
Don’t leave your sense of adventure or wonder behind
From a satellite above the northern lights
We can see how far we’ve come
Have no fear, cus baby far up here
Our love can’t be contained by no stratosphere
Pocket full of stardust, like a dying sun, we combust
Floating in the open air
If the cosmos could talk, tell me baby what would it say
‘Cus i whisper sweet nothings to it all day
Our hearts beat in time, just two of a kind
But they say love can leave you blind every goddamn time
Don’t wait for the stars to align
Keep the magic alive (keep it alive)
Don’t leave your sense of adventure or wonder behind
From a satellite above the northern lights
We can see how far we’ve come
Let’s keep the magic alive
Don’t lose your sense of direction, you’re wandering blind
From a satellite above the northern lights
We can see how far we’ve come
Never ending, time and space both go to waste
Not pretending, we’ll be erased
So don’t go out of phase
If the walls could talk, tell me darling what would they say?
I’m speaking in tongues as I’m running through the hallway
Hold your breath, grab the keys, get the car
If you try to escape on foot, I promise you that we won’t get far
Lest we lose who we truly are
Let’s keep the magic alive, don’t leave your sense of adventure or wonder behind
Keep the magic alive (keep it alive)
Don’t leave your sense of adventure or wonder behind
From a satellite above the northern lights
We can see how far we’ve come
Let’s keep the magic alive
Don’t lose your sense of direction, you’re wandering blind
From a satellite above the northern lights
We can see how far we’ve come
Time eludes us all
Look how far we have come, with so far still to go
Time eludes us all
Look how far we have come, with so far still to go
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5. |
Like Ships in the Night
04:20
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We’re passing by
Just ships in the night
Never turning on a lantern or a light
After all this time your violet eyes are still
Burned into my mind
So plant your flowers deep out in space
And watch them bloom for all the human race
Drag me down to earth, I need to touch base
I feel surreal and out of place
It’s been so long since I’ve seen a familiar face
It gets so lonely up here in outer space
I feel so wrong fitting in yet being out of place
Maybe I’ll drift ‘til I shift into another state
And don’t you dare relapse
You’ve fallen into fiction with science at your back
We’re passing by
Just ships in the night
Never turning on a lantern or a light
After all this time your violet eyes are still
Burned into my mind
Now all I’ve seen will come to be
But it is still yet to pass us by
Now count your sheep and go to sleep
It’s time to say goodnight
I’m afraid that if I step out into the sun
(Time to say goodnight)
I will fade, disintegrate and I’ll become no one
(Time to say goodnight)
Another state
Oh, Another state
We’re passing by
Just ships in the night
Never turning on a lantern or a light
After all this time your violet eyes are still
Burned into my mind
Look in between all that’s seen and unseen
Let your body oscillate uncontrollably
So iridescent, what a vibrant gleam
My eyes dilate deep into eternity
I’ve grown numb to the sound of the city and the cars
I wish we could go back to how it was before
I travelled far away and deep into the north
Oh, son don’t wander, no
Stay your course
Oh, son don’t wander
No, stay your course
For you I’d tear the moon out of the sky
Oceans will swell and the seas will run dry
Water is falling up into the night
But gravity is like a tide
Weightlessness is on our side
We’re passing by
Just ships in the night
Never turning on a lantern or a light
After all this time your violet eyes are still
Burned into my mind
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6. |
Colourwave
04:16
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Don’t you wish that you could see in colour just like me
When it all turns grey and your vision starts to fade
Well, we roamed the seven seas
Mapped the lands with old cartography
Tell me where’s left to go but a place unknown were we can’t breathe
Oh, we’re running far away from all that we hold dear
All our worries melt away and vanish in thin air
Looking out to the distance, we stare
Where do we go?
Where do we go from here?
Paint the world in vibrant hues
Let the colours sway, let me be your muse
You paint the ocean the deepest blue
As the colour wave washes over you
Well I’ll be waiting on the dark side of the moon
While serenading all these stars I’ve caught for you
Been thinking lately that I live in a cocoon
A chrysalis lonely, waiting to be born anew
Born anew
Where do we go from here?
Paint the world in vibrant hues
Let the colours sway, let me be your muse
You paint the ocean the deepest blue
As the colour wave washes over you
Oh, my radiant and colourful star
I’ll never get tired of just how beautiful you are
Oh, no I won’t
Just how beautiful you are
Paint the world in vibrant hues
Let the colours sway, let me be your muse
You paint the ocean the deepest blue
As the colour wave washes over you
Don’t you wish that you could see in colour just like me
When it all turns grey, you’ll see the forest for the trees
Don’t you wish that you could flee to a place so far out to sea
Follow the compass and you’ll be free
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7. |
A Thousand Years
03:26
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I’ve waited a thousand years
But it’s still not enough
I want to retrace all my steps again
To find out where we grew up
Where we grew up
Tell me, is this all a dream?
Tell it was all a dream
Just wake me if I fall asleep
‘Cus I’ll never know if i’m sleepwalking
Time’s a virtue we don’t know
A fleeting moment like falling snow
A drop in an ocean that overflows
I’ve waited a thousand years
But it’s still not enough
I want to retrace all my steps again
To find out where we grew up
They say this story is never ending
But we’ve only just begun
And this journey is far from done
Sweet child, you’ll melt in the sun
In this crescent wax ship the moonlight carries on
Time’s a virtue we don’t know
A fleeting moment like falling snow
A drop in an ocean that overflows
I’ve waited a thousand years
But it’s still not enough
I want to retrace all my steps again
To find out where we grew up
They say this story is never ending
We’ve just begun to witness the fragile nature in our lives
A sunset getting dimmer with the rising of the tide
We’re distant, we cut the strings that tie and bind
Our porcelain bodies get left behind
And every time that you look back
You waste the moment we could have had
We waste the moment we could have had
I’ve waited a thousand years
But it’s still not enough
I want to find the pages left undone
And tie all the loose ends up
No, this story isn’t over
It’s only just begun
It’s only just begun
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8. |
Medusa
03:42
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We dance around the fire, at night we all dream
Of angels in a chorus that lull us to sleep
In tangled tongues spoken between gritted teeth
From silver tongued devils that lie as they speak
The snakes in her hair, they turn me to stone
She sees her own reflection going cold to the bone
Enlighten me, siphon me of creativity
Wither me out like a husk
Frightening, tightening grip on reality
Sun’s getting low, now it’s dusk
Sweeter than honey yet slippery as a snake
All your words are poison in my veins
Isn’t it funny, in a mirror we’re the same
Haunting ourselves through reflections every day
Wake up, your dreams have come undone
The nightmares plague us until the morning comes
All is said and done, but ghosts still haunt us in the sun
Believe me, i’ve seen the trials that you have deemed
Worthy of taking the task
All that I ask is that you don’t hold me back
When the time comes to act
Oh, pariah we’re soaring higher
And we can’t come down
Lighter than a feather drifting down
Lighter than a feather drifting down
Wake up, your dreams have come undone
The nightmares plague us until the morning comes
All is said and done, but ghosts still haunt us in the sun
We danced around
We danced around the fire that night, holding our candles high
We wait to float off into the sky, like lanterns burning bright
Oh, how the tables have turned
We’re running out of time
I can see it in the twinkle in your eye
You want to take my life
Take my life into your own hands
And claim it as your own
Mind your own, mind your own business
Let me sink like a stone
Take my life into your own hands
And claim it as your own
Mind your own, mind your own business
Let me sink like a stone
Wake up, your dreams have come undone
The nightmares plague us until the morning comes
All is said and done, but ghosts still haunt us in the sun
Wake up, your dreams have come undone
The nightmares plague us until the morning comes
All is said and done, but ghosts still haunt us in the sun
(In the sun, in the sun, in the sun)
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9. |
Everchanger
04:08
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I’ll feed your soul if you’d just let me in
But I know you won’t
You take pride in cutting out everything we’ve ever been
Well I’m up in the stars, without a single care
And held in my arms is true love and true despair
Tell me why we walk ourselves in circles
Tell me why we talk in twisted tongues
Carry me away to a place that’s equal
Married to the thought of what’s to come
So I’ll be your ghost if you’d just let me in
What you need most
Please don’t cast me to the wind
‘Cus no, no matter where you go I’ll follow
I’ll follow
Tell me why we walk ourselves in circles
Tell me why we talk in twisted tongues
Carry me away to a place that’s equal
Married to the thought of what’s to come
Oh, how I know
That this ache in your heart tears you apart, my dear
I know it’s not fair, ‘cus escapism is hard when I used to be there
Hold me while I drift off to sleep
Then let the current swallow me
Now that I’ve sunken so deep, there’s no escape and no reprieve
No, no matter where you go I’ll follow
I’ll follow
Tell me why we walk ourselves in circles
Tell me why we talk in twisted tongues
Carry me away to a place that’s equal
Married to the thought of what’s to come
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10. |
Dear Astronomer
04:29
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Dear astronomer, can you teach me to read the stars?
These patterns we decipher, set adrift and set out so far
So far
All my life I’ve asked for a miracle
Always acting so cynical
To see a place that I’ve never seen
Wouldn’t that be magical?
My soul is insatiable
Dear astrology, I need you here with me
To navigate the sky
Somewhere gravity can never follow me
Dragging me down like a kite
Dear astronomer, can you teach me to read the stars?
In the patterns we decipher, set adrift and set out so far
So far
All your life you’ve ignored the miracles
Maybe now you’ll see you’ve reached your pinnacle
And right before my eyes appeared something magical
Dear astrology, I need you here with me
To navigate the sky
Somewhere gravity can never follow me
Dragging me down like a kite
I feel taller than a mountain, lighter than the air
Cascading like a fountain, I’m the wind in your hair
Silver linings shatter on a shore far from here
The crashing of waves is all we can hear
Dear astronomer, can you teach me to read the stars?
In the patterns we decipher, set adrift and set out so far
Dear astronomer, can you teach me how to read the stars?
To understand and follow them, ‘cus I fear we’ll lose who we are
I wonder what could lie beyond infinity
Far and gone as time marches on, in the nothingness we’re free
I wonder what could lie beyond infinity
Far and gone as time marches on, in the nothingness we’re free
I’ll think of you, I’ll think of you always
I’ll think of you, I’ll think of you always
Dear astronomer, can you teach me to read the stars?
In the patterns we decipher, set adrift and set out so far
Dear astronomer, can you teach me to read the stars?
In the patterns we decipher, set adrift and set out so far
Dear astronomer, can you teach me how to read the stars?
To understand and follow them, ‘cus I fear we’ll lose who we are
I wonder what could lie beyond infinity
I’m lost in the pursuit of our finality
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Well, every step I take feels hollow
And I end up looking back
At the road that I have followed
And the courage that I’ve lacked
Won’t you take me somewhere I will never go
A place just for us, buried under Ice and snow
We walked all night, we never tired
Our feet burn bright as the flames keep rising higher
And higher and higher
There’s no place for us to sleep at night
Doors are locked and there’s no light
Pull the wool over my eyes
Take me home and tell me lies
Under winter solstice skies
Where our worlds will both collide
Tell the wolves I’m on their side
Roam the earth with me for life
Now my body succumbs and it weighs me down like led
I grow pale and numb as the blood runs to my head
Won’t you take me somewhere I have never seen
A place just for us, buried under everything
There’s no place for us to sleep at night
Doors are locked and there’s no light
Pull the wool over my eyes
Take me home and tell me lies
Under winter solstice skies
Where our worlds will both collide
Tell the wolves I’m on their side
Roam the earth with me for life
Sometimes I start to wander, sleepwalking underwater
Sometimes I start to wonder, if it all makes sense to others
All night spent thinking of you
I tried to take your point of view
You know that I just can’t abide
When your true colours come to light
True colours come to light
Right through my soul, I know
I’ll never make it home, oh no
There’s no place for us to sleep at night
Lights go on but there’s no one inside
There’s no one inside
There’s no place for us to sleep at night
Doors are locked and there’s no light
Pull the wool over my eyes
Take me home and tell me lies
Under winter solstice skies
Where our worlds will both collide
Tell the wolves I’m on their side
Roam the earth with me for life
Sometimes I start to wander, sleepwalking underwater
Sometimes I start to wonder, if it all makes sense to others
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12. |
Make Contact
03:39
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The first time that I talked to you
I’d felt like I already that I’d known you all my life
So quickly I fell head over heels for you
So sweet are the words that make our love ring true
Our love ring true
Someday soon our fates will meet
I’d cross the ocean to sweep you off your feet
And make your heart skip a beat
You’re the moon to my stars and we compliment each other perfectly
All I want is to make you happy
Believe me when I say that it’s in the past and I love you just the same
I’ve been waiting for the day
Just to hold you and to say I’ll never let you slip away
Contemplating all the ways that our romance could take shape
I’ll always feel your heart from a world away
Think of everything that’s happened just to bring us where we are
One step out of place and I might never have held you in my arms
I’ve gotta learn to be patient and let things go
All of the hurt is ancient, from here we grow
Believe me when I say that it’s in the past and I love you just the same
I’ve been waiting for the day
Just to hold you and to say I’ll never let you slip away
Contemplating all the ways that our romance could take shape
I’ll always feel your heart from a world away
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Valiant Hearts Australia
Valiant Hearts are a progressive post-hardcore band based out of both Australia and
Russia.
2017 - Nu Soul EP
2018 - Wanderlust LP
2019 - Odyssey LP
FFO:
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