1. |
Majority Rules
02:39
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A mask for tomorrow
A mask for tonight
We may show our faces
But never who we are
A mask to show you friendly
Another to show you cold
If everything is just an act
Then what are feelings for?
Everyone has to cover up
Everyone has to lie
No one ever shows what's inside
A mask for every party
A role to keep you sane
When everyone's a hypocrite
The play becomes for real
Ways that you must follow
People you must obey
A mask that keep you captured
in this staged-up happiness
Everything's a part of the game
But nothing's feeling right
Did you ever follow your own way?
Everyone has to cover up
Everyone has to lie
No one ever shows what's inside
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2. |
Reflections
03:41
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(instrumental)
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3. |
Summer of Tears
03:10
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This is no summer of love
This is no summer for running round
This is the summer that comes to an end
Before you feel it's begun
This is the summer of broken dreams
This is the summer where it falls apart
This is the summer we sold ourselves
to a purpose we'll never know
This is the summer of tears
This is the summer you won't know me anymore
This is the summer we forget our dreams
This is the summer that will leave us changed
Forever more
They say it's summer but I'm cold inside
They say it's summer and I want to hide
This is the summer I wished we'd never know
This is the summer of tears
They say it's summer but I'm cold inside
They say it's summer and I want to hide
This is the summer I wished we'd never know
This is the summer of tears
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4. |
I'll Be Right Here
03:56
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Sorry if I wasn't very much fun
I tried the best I could
Seems like it wasn't meant to be more than this
Sometimes it's there, sometimes not
Am I even as much as a friend?
I guess I hope too much now and then
I'll be right here
Even when you're gone
I'll be right here
like I've been for so long
In the end there wasn't as much as a hope
a future that I dreamed up
and so I'll make the best of it
but do I feel needed?
do I feel needed?
do I feel needed?
I'll be right here...
At least I hope your memory
of me won't be your worst
That everything still seemed worth the while
Sometimes I'm good, sometimes I'm not
Never claimed to be smart
Still we never seemed so far apart
In the end there wasn't as much as a spark
barely a fleeting glimpse
and so I'll make the best of it
but do I feel needed?
do I feel needed?
do I feel needed?
I'll be right here...x2
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5. |
Keep it Away
03:04
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So now he's dead
Tried the needle one more fatal time
And you say
It doesn't matter
But I don't need it
I've seen enough to believe it
Trust me I don't need it
So keep it away
You say they haven't got proves
I've seen more than enough
Too many lives wasted
For a lack of thought
And I don't...
You know it messes you up
And it suits you fine
Only fucking thing
that's on your mind
But remember this my friend
You'll never hear his voice
again
And I don't... x2
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6. |
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The lady of the low-life
Raised her eyes
To find that there was nothing left to love
The lady of the low-life
Took a walk
Among the people she knew and found she didn't like
A Razorblade cure for sadness
A Razorblade cure for life
A razorblade to cut away her pain
The lady of the low-life
Drew her blood
Dreaming of a better world she never met
The lady of the low-life
Took the bait
And left a trail a grief they felt
A Razorblade cure...
They never knew she felt unloved
And didn't ever ask
But honoured her in dead like they didn't in her life
A Razorblade cure...
The low-life lady died
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7. |
Hanging Low
03:43
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This second sight on fire
This beauty given wings
Concrete walls talking
the only way they know
A shadow by my window
A voice never heard
They drive you through this masquerade
The never ending run
Chorus:
Your halo's hanging low
And I'm letting go
So you can be free
The whispers of the unknown
Fire given life
Hopelessness and bleeding hearts
still go hand in hand
Future's never written
If you believe in one
Whatever keeps me captured
It's too strong for a lifeline
Chorus... x2
interlude
Chorus x 2
So you can be free x 3
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8. |
Midnight's Coming
03:16
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Restless
Slipping Away
Consciousness
Gone for good
This is my mind
Do you recognise?
Everything's
Losing focus, losing touch
Midnight's Coming x4
This is my universe of silence
This is a universal truth
Watch it dripping from my hands
Watch it slipping away
Midnight's coming...
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9. |
Keep it Creepy
03:22
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You gotta keep it creepy
You gotta dig up dirt
You gotta dance with the devil 'till the sun goes up
and you fall apart
You gotta keep it dirty
Keep dreaming
Keep dreaming it's over
Keep dreaming
Keep dreaming (fill)
You gotta keep it creepy
You gotta fill 'em with lies
You gotta drive down the alley with the lights out
and cut off corners
You gotta keep it crazy
You gotta roll em down before they get to you
There's only one way out and it's past your life
Keep it creepy
Mommy's in the backroom
Daddy's on crack
You know your daughter's never coming bac k
Ten feet down from the end of the rope
and monsters by your bed
You gotta keep it creepyx3
You gotta keep it dirty
Keep the flies on their wings
Gotta set fire to the beast from dreams
and run like hell
Keep dreaming...
You gotta keep it creepy
You gotta up dig up dirt
You gotta dance with the devil 'till the sun goes up
and you fall apart
You gotta keep it creepy
You gotta fill 'em with lies
You gotta drive down the alley with the lights out
and cut off corners
Mommy's in the backroom
Daddy's on crack
You know your daughter's never coming back
Ten feet down from the end of the rope
and monsters by your bed
You gotta keep it creepyx3
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10. |
Life in the Headlights
02:41
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And if my eyes decieve
Sometimes I hope they do
There wouldn't be no questions
No fabled side of you
If my voice grow weaker
If my conscience fail
There's a growing gap inside me
A void that fills the hate
Life in the headlights
Dreams gone like dew in the sun
I know I took a beating
Probably took a few
This voice it keeps me going...
This sweet taste of friendship
You kept it to yourself
Your fictional dream of unity
I must have missed the beat
I hoped my ears decieved me
When the words came from you
I never did believe it
but it seems to be the truth
Life in the headlights...
...on
Let the show go on
Another match that must be won
My heart keeps beating on
But I'm gone
Life in...
The voice that keeps me going
is you
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11. |
Slipstream
01:50
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Caught in the slipstream
Wonder where it ends
Wonder where it takes me
Guess you never know
Guess you never know
Caught in the slipstream
of wasted hopeful thoughts
Everything's just sick and deranged
Guess you never know
Guess you never know
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Coda Copenhagen, Denmark
Coda is a band that never formed and instead became a one-man army. Coda likes noisy guitars, groovy synths and... noise!
And there is usually a pop song hidden in there.
For early versions, sketches and one-offs go to soundcloud.com/coda-official
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