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Searching (demo)

by rooFTops

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The Show Must Go On... (demo) 03:21
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I flew too close to the sun cos it was warm I tried to fight for love but I was warned the game was rigged there was no way I could win and I know nobody can have it all the higher we fly the further we fall but each we get burned the more we can learn from ourselves but the show must go on and the wounded carry on or embrace defeat and lose the beat of all we've ever won and there's no right and wrong once the passion gets too strong sometimes life builds walls between us and having it all and despite what they say some aren't ready to be caged is it worth chasing after someone that's running away at the end of the day it didn't go your way it's a tough pill to swallow sometimes we need to feel pain I flew too close to the sun cos it was warm
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To The Wolves (demo) 03:54
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After his father led the way he passed it down through DNA and down through every family dinner that we ever sat to eat an escape I tried to shake the only way we could relate he said, "There should be two more in the fridge." "Come back with one for me." forever wet and drowning with the fools he never knew he threw me to the wolves with no way home but my two feet she left me stranded in the street I begged: please don't cue that pouring rain 'til I admit defeat with no warm body next to me I found new lows to crawl beneath and I buried myself deep so they could walk all over me breaking down and running out of fuel seeking out protection with the fools waiting on affection from the cruel she didn't know she threw me to the wolves they didn't know they threw me away are all these substances we seek the only way to spell relief where the strongest cures are buried at the bottom of this heap still my path is up to me and passing blame is for the weak and the view here at the bottom shows the blame lies at my feet breaking down and running out of fuel seeking out protection with the fools waiting on affection from the cruel forever running faster to the wolves
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Searching (demo) 02:33
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No expanse of dry land is a mystery, no mountain peak high remains out of our reach soon no depths of the ocean be foreign to us but this world alone conquered just isn’t enough we'll send rockets to the stars searching for answers beyond the light of our skies still trying to solve the mysteries of nothing at all still refusing to accept we could all be so small so many questions that had to be answered before the question of why? of why we are asking? another distraction? our dissatisfaction? and when we find what we were looking for it may come a big surprise to you that all we were looking for was what we hadn’t found just yet and what we find soon seems like nothing new ... So we build machines to build the walls of the modern convenience that and on these towers we stand a hundred feet tall but a man made eyesore don’t mean nothing at all the rich and the poor the young and the old all buried in dirt cause we were digging for gold the meaning of life that you better learn: we won’t find nothing without looking for love
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High on Hope (demo) 02:24
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I ate every single drug at the party then that buzz hit my pocket and the high left my body to think I thought I had hope out of my system nope still a dope like the one she keeps kicking but hope will never lift me no hope won't ever give me the lie I've been so desperate to hear guess I'll wait... I got as good as her at saying I kicked it I sold the lie so well that I almost bought it but an honest broken heart that's addicted can turn a broken man into the afflicted but hope will never see me the way she sees what I see as her own demon version of what she is to me I've lost hope Hope has left me behind still I chase hope each and every time promised we would have a date with no party but we lied and I didn't feel sorry we were strung out from the moment I walked through the door just the same as the last time and every other before but hope is just a fantasy hope is always taunting me hope is always warning me somehow hope protects me… hope rejects me my hope crush crush, crushes me face forward the backwards ups that down you tried to convince yourself your way too good for them ignore the love that's all around you
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Cold War Isolation Blues 03:39
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Self inflicted morality a self administered Ludovico technique what redemption? can't stay proud forever if forever is a finish last chasing a tail is that tail still attached to me chase fairytales without ever learning how to read gimp limping around circling back to mediocrity Is there a will to cool the cold… war when feeling warmth would be the victory what if the other side  was never at war what if the other side was never in it for one bit not from the start of the rift or the beginning of this ally-ship never dosed with a fear of ghosts overdosing on the fear of becoming one just a witness to a world that didn’t skip a beat dig the pit it doesn’t need to be six feet deep embrace the dirt, out of sight, let the living be just an imprint  … filled in under freshly poured concrete it’s your turn sing where it hurts I’ll shut my trap the rest of this track sing it back or attack grab my soul keep it-whole lead-the-way outta outta cold war
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Rebuild Me (demo) 01:39
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If you don't get this it's cos you're reckless it breaks me that they broke you down before my time you shut your eyes, resigned as I was reaching for the light rebuild me somebody killed me they had to borrow some parts that were taken away from them they had to scar some hearts before their own could mend I tried to be that rock the hardest skin went soft I'm no heel, I suppose my heel was exposed and you found a way to get blood from this stone you didn't want to no you weren't even trying sometimes it feels like you were never even trying but I trust you did your best and maybe it's time I did better than mine

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released December 2, 2020

rooFTops: guitars and vocals
recorded by smartphone at: The Top of Tops

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