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The Grass Tracks

by The Grass Tracks

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1.
Stay in Play 03:45
Hey my girl, I guess we’re going to roll the dice Kind of strange to dream then finally do Hope that it will put my life on ice For all that I have paid my dues You’re always worth the time and sacrifice As long as I can stay in love There’s nothing that I won’t do, that we can’t do, yeah I just can’t explain what it means to me, you’re the place I play I just want to celebrate my love, give it all but more comes back to me Feels like we’ve been dancing for so long, we improvised a tale I just want to play Hey heart song, I’m learning every day to sing along Colours I can paint lie in you It takes a lot of will to find your truth Learning to embrace you open armed Unafraid to bare my hopes and scars The only way to stay in love Maybe we can make it, but we’ll break through anyway I just can’t explain what it means to me, you’re the place I play I just want to celebrate my love, give it all but more comes back to me Feels like we’ve been dancing for so long, we improvised a tale I just want to play
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Look back there goes the weekend As always it slides away My memory a broken mirror in pieces Not always loving how it looks that way We spit whisky in the face of danger Called on the fire till it blazed away I got my people and each one is a reason To take it higher if I can today Love is an ocean Enjoy the motion as it dips and sways Your head is swimming but your heart is floating Just keep it open as you ride the wave Set it spinning and the rest is easy We’re not sleazy we just act that way Tattooed a trail across the back of Behemoth Stuck in the middle till we found the fray We drink deeply and it tastes like danger Called on the fire in that frozen place I got a reason to call all of my people And keep it wired so the boys can play Love is an ocean Enjoy the motion as it dips and sways Your head is swimming but your heart is floating Just keep it open as you ride the wave We ride upon the wave We ride upon the wave We tried and we failed and we tried again, we can’t keep it in Because we feel it Yeah we feel it Look back there goes the weekend As always it slides away My memory a broken mirror in pieces
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Stand to reason, to face the times The wind blows the tracks away Now it’s treason to spend nought but our last dime For to make our shadows pay Can’t tell them but teach them, if they’re to break the cage I hear Saint-Exupery No drums, boards or nails, the only way to sail Is if they’re longing for the sea The endless immensity Once we flaunted, never looked beyond it Mars is dying, Jupiter awaits Same old problems never gonna solve them We better find a way Cold War baby, left to slide Glory dies as memory fades Only traces of what was once our pride In the desert time erased Can’t fail to reach them, if they’re to break the cage Collective fate is in their dreams No drums, boards or nails, the only way to sail, Is if they’re longing for the sea The endless immensity Once we flaunted, never looked beyond it Mars is dying, Jupiter awaits Same old problems never gonna solve them We better find a way
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Don’t leave me dying on here, a bird upon the glass Don’t leave me crying for you, haunted by the past If we try to fight it, you might find we’re stronger than we’ve been You say our best’s behind us, I don’t know what that means Don’t leave me tired & lonely, terrified & free These words are death and I won’t keep the killing clean (When we die) Don’t leave me! (When we die) Don’t leave me! (When we die) Don’t leave me! (When we die) Don’t leave me! (When we die) Don’t leave me! (You’ll be fine) Don’t leave me! Well I don’t know where I’m going Guess I’ll just wait and see Only one thing’s for sure That you took my life I don’t what was driving Maybe it’s a rare disease Only one thing’s for sure It’s gonna take my life My ears hear California, my brain just can’t believe Mined deep and laid it on ya, but you’re still gonna leave I’m losing will to fight it, already this death creeps (When we die) Don’t leave me! (When we die) Don’t leave me! (You’ll be fine) Don’t leave me! Chorus 2 I don’t know when I’m going Guess I’ll just wait and see Only one thing’s for sure I’ve gotta save our lives I don’t know what has kept me Maybe it’s a rare disease Only one thing’s for sure I’ve gotta save our lives Heading out to California See if I can’t get free Maybe in time might check up on you, something in my heart says maybe not I don’t know when I’m going Guess I’ll just wait and see Only one thing’s for sure I’ve gotta save our lives When the moon is darkest And all the paths seem farthest The light is there although it can’t be seen For the broken hearted I swear the hardest part is Granting permission to yourself to dream (x2) When the night is finally done You’ll learn to love what you’ve become The heart is stronger, wiser, surer having known its limits You burst into the day alive Because what emerges from inside A broken heart is a soul stripped clean, cut free from need (x2) Chorus 3 Well I don’t know where I’m going Guess I’ll just wait and see Only one thing’s for sure That you saved my life I don’t what was driving Maybe it’s a rare disease Only one thing’s for sure That you saved my life I heard you got to California I hope you find what you need Maybe in time drop in on you, something in my soul says better not I don’t know where I’m going Guess I’ll just wait and see Only one thing’s for sure That you saved my life
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Golden 03:54
Wake up, twist the blinds, sun’s not out but it’s on your mind Step out, test the air, it’s not quite hot but it’s almost there, yeah Wake up, twist the blinds, sun’s not out but it’s on your mind Step out, test the air, it’s not quite hot but it’s almost there Soon we can go down Straight to the water Baptise our feet Just robe me I golden light my sultan, my priest Sun’s out, time moves fast, make your plans it’s never meant to last Just have a blast Dig out the camping gear, head to Sooke because the summer’s here, yeah Sun’s out, time moves fast, make your plans it’s never meant to last Just have a blast Dig out the camping gear, head to Sooke because the summer’s here We’re sharing rides for beer Straight to the water Baptise our feet Just robe me I golden light my sultan, my priest Time just slips away, can’t be carried past today Time just slips away, can’t be carried past today Time just slips away, can’t be carried past today Time just slips away, can’t be carried past today Time just slips away, can’t be carried past today Time just slips away, can’t be carried past today
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Joker 03:19
Call me the Joker, throw out the rules to the game Win, lose or draw, well it’s all the same Top of the deck now so I can’t defeat myself Though I keep trying and trying No money, go nowhere, like the boatman says Got your reasons but you pay to play Nothing but aces still I can’t complete myself Though I keep trying and trying baby Call me the Joker, throw out the rules to the game Win, lose or draw, well it’s all the same Top of the deck now but I can’t defeat myself Though I keep trying and trying Top of the deck now but I can’t defeat myself Though I keep trying and trying (x6)
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Dub Cowboy 03:42
Pirate radio Pirate radio, can you... Pirate radio, can you hear me? Can you hear me? In a sea of lights on a Saturday night Feel it rising up For every face there’s a memory and place The power goes up Then we step on stage, every doubt is erased Power goes up Just plant my feet and let my soul meet the beat The power goes up It goes... Well the moments past, it's tracing me back to When the power came up I'm on a riverside and I got tears in my eyes Power goes up Hold your eyes, said our vows, more than words could endow Power goes up Just plant our feet, let our souls cross the stream Power goes up It goes... In a sea of lights on a Saturday night Feel it rising up For every face there’s a memory and place The power goes up Then we step on stage, every doubt is erased Power goes up Just plant our feet and let our soul meet the beat The power goes up It goes...
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Broken Truth 03:13
Long ago from ancient skies there fell a burning star Came to Earth and broke apart, two where once was one The intent was to enlighten but the truth broke with that part So without that ancient wisdom have we come to where we are And it said... We are loved but so are they, we are all the same Around the world is just one day to Ra's chariot What you've got here is the change from a life spent on the run Shout the good news to the rain My life's just begun! In the morning when the birds are crying That's the sublime time to find your peaceful beat You get that perfect kind of natural silence That can just erase a city We are loved but so are they, we are all the same Around the world is just one day to Ra's chariot What you've got here is the change from a life spent on the run Shout the good news to the rain My life's just begun! In the morning when the birds are crying That's the sublime time to find your peaceful beat You get that perfect kind of natural silence That can just erase a city Oh, oh, oh yeah Feel the love, feel the light Feel the light, feel the light Oh my We are loved but so are they, we are all the same Around the world is just one day to Ra's chariot What you've got here is the change from a life spent on the run Shout the good news to the rain My life's just begun! In the morning when the birds are crying That's the sublime time to find your peaceful beat You get that perfect kind of natural silence That can just erase a city (x2)
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No Friend 03:53
In the yard I can see the heat, you learn to fear the day For some men the sun breathes life, not for men like me I am nobody’s sunbeam, hold no love for me I’ll be in this stinking hole till my dying day because I’ve done wrong I’ve done wrong I’ve done so much wrong And I’d do it again They sent the Reverend around, like he could comfort me He said I ain’t got no friend in Jesus unless I kneel and pray But no lord worth mine would ask that, no quarter asked nor gave And even if I lay prostrate I think they’d shut the gate because I’ve done wrong I’ve done wrong I’ve done so much wrong baby And I’d do it again I'd do it all Yeah I'd do it again In the yard I can see the heat, you learn to fear the day For some men the sun breathes life, not for men like me I am nobody’s sunbeam, hold no love for me I’ll be in this goddamn hole till my dying day because I’ve done wrong I’ve done wrong I’ve done so much wrong And I’d do it again Yeah I'd do it all I'd do it again
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Arcturus 05:28
In dreams we rule the heavens although we know Can't stop the sky from falling, can't stop the stars from burning out Imagine to surf across the cosmos, staged within our mind Nothing beyond our capture, that's the beauty of our kind Now I know that we grow tall We dive into the falls Through airlessness we still smell roses in space Familiar mythologies mingle with dated astronomy Paint for us vivid ecologies, so strange, they're human To bend the laws of nature, build up break down The stars are all projectors but we reflect their light as dreams Imagine to skip across the planets, a stone upon a pond Not knowing what we're after, open mind to what we'll find Now I know that we grow tall We dive into the falls Through airlessness we still smell roses in space Cryptozoology chases the children of fantasy Flexing our mental autonomy, we know tomorrow's boundless Tapping the fire encircling, Djinn shaped like moral uncertainty Opening Solomon's bottles we crave them, so human Trace familiar mythologies painted on dated astronomy Take from our failing technologies new worlds born for tomorrow Chronosynclastic infundibulum, Ice-nine and Tralfamadorians One mind, a holistic continuum, shows me tomorrow's boundless Star captains battle despondency, transit from cortex to galaxies Arcturus glistens in front of me, so real, it's human
12.
Fugitive 04:04
He looks to the east, he looks to his friend and looks to the sky He’s wondering if today is the day that he will die He just wants to rest, lay down his head, but he must make it far Far away from those who give chase before the morning light Will you be my friend? Will you be my shield? Will you be my shade? When the daylight comes... A light in the trees brings him up dead, please don’t be the dogs Scramble around digging the earth looking for hollow logs Oh thank god it’s the moon, a sigh of relief, behind him a crumpling man Rush to his side, cold skin, no pulse, no hope He looks to the east, he looks to his friend and looks to the sky In a guttural scream he’s cursing the world, a world where good men die He just wants some peace to sleep and to grieve but he must make it far Far away from the pain and the flames before the morning light Will you be my friend? Will you be my shield? Will you be my shade? When the daylight comes... He's up from his knees, starting to run, just push it aside No time to feel, not until he's safe, there'll be no time to cry A stuttering step, he's reaching his end but then the end finds him Collapse on the beach, sees boats, his out, sweet hope The money he's got from the jacket he stole just covers the cheapest ride A silent goodbye, to the world of his birth, a world where good men die Never looks back, the shore fades away, quick to sleep below He'll awake to new worlds, new friends and new girls with the morning light Be my friend Be my shield Be my shade When the daylight comes
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Carnival 05:25
Say goodbye to everything you’ve known The carnival has come and passed you on Yes this train has left but I’m still clinging on Won’t be long before the grass tracks turn to stone I think I’m dragging Trapped in a bottle my thoughts and words echo In the carnival where I finally belong When the beer in your hand is the only blonde you know In this lake of booze it grows harder to float I think I’m drowning In the days gone by the dream of rock & roll To a hungry youth it seemed all I could hope But you can’t hang on when a rock really starts to roll Soon you’ll realize that there’s much to praise for slow I think I’m out of control I think I'm out of control Out of control Then she came along, in a blink my life was gone My sandcastle dissolved When she came along, showed me I needn’t be strong All the time if we form a bond Let me bear your weight, let me bear your weight Let me bear your weight, let me bear your weight Let me bear your weight, let me bear your weight Let me bear your weight, let me bear your weight Let me bear your weight, let me bear your weight Let me bear your weight, let me bear your weight Let me bear your weight, let me bear your weight Let me bear your weight, let me bear your weight
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I will leave a light on partner so you'll know that I'm home If you need an ear to hear you just pick up the phone, never withhold I'll be there if you need me child, I hope that don't but you know Sometimes we can't get there on our own, if you're too low you can come home My home is your home, you can come home Wherever you go, wherever you roam Just want you to know that you can come home And if you're too far to reach me, just write me a note Let your mind pour like water until you gain control, let your thoughts flow Because if your stress is building pressure with nowhere to go you can explode You've always got a place in my heart where you can unload your soul, baby c'mon You can let go, I won't let fall If you bite off too much, I won't let you choke Wherever you go, wherever you roam Just want you to know that you can unload I will leave a light on partner so you'll know that I'm home If you need an ear to hear you just pick up the phone, never withhold I'll be there if you need me child, I hope that don't but you know Sometimes we can't get there on our own, if you're too low you can come home My home is your home, you can come home Wherever you go, wherever you roam Just want you to know that you can come home My home is your home and you can come home Home, home, home, home

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released March 31, 2014

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The Grass Tracks Victoria, British Columbia

Homegrown band from Victoria, BC, doing it for the love of music. Essentially an alternative rock band with bits of funk, California rock, blues and even hints of folk mixed in, our songs cover a range of styles and themes that reflect our personal tastes and passions. We strive to make you feel, think, and have fun all at the same time. ... more

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