Awakener

Liner Notes

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Tracks

Track 1: Scars

Track 2: Home

Track 3: Almost There

Track 4: Hotel Room

Track 5: Distant Calling

Track 6: Sirens

Track 7: Thin Disguise

Lyrics

Scars

I want to believe in something
Believe in it before I die
Break open the seal watch the sun rise
Break open the seal hear the earth sigh

Help me believe in you

I want in beneath the skin
Wounds heal shut won’t let me in
You’ve gone and brought home
A new stray
You’ve gone and you’ve thrown
Me away – away…

Help me believe in you

I won’t take your second-hand excuses for devotion
And I won’t let your helping hands lead me to destruction
Oh no…

I want a brand-new scar 
To wear to show to prove 
Exactly who we are

Break open the seal watch the sun set
Break open the wounds never forget

Home

I wish I had a place that felt like home
I wish I had someone all my own
I’ve been waiting for the day I would find a way
Until that time comes I’ll be on my own

I’ve had knockdown drag out rebound fights
I’ve known long cold winters and hot summer nights
I’ve had women on my arm the envy of the pack
They were all on loan and they all went back

I wish I had a place that felt like home
I wish I had someone all my own
I’ve been waiting for the day I would find a way
Until that time comes I’ll be on my own

I’ve been called a cad and a gigolo
But I’ve been places you’d love to go
You get a one-way ticket to heaven they say
But if I could be with you – I’d give mine away

I learned late in life if I play catch and release
I better dull my hook or I’ll make someone bleed

I’ve had knockdown drag out rebound fights
I’ve known long cold winters and hot summer nights
I’ve had women on my arm the envy of the pack
They were all on loan and they all went back

We always go back
We’ll never come back

Almost There

I must have you I must feel you
If I can't have you I would steel you
Steel you steel you just to feel you.    
Feel you here

I wake up with the fear in my heart
My dreams have fallen apart
I wake with a crack in my brain
Thinking I’ll never see you again

Living on hope’s like a knife to the throat 
One wrong move and it’s the end of the rope
One wrong turn and it’s the end of the road
It feels like fear, when you live on hope

Holding me down to the bottom
Holding me down in the well
Down with the coins and the wishes
The ones that you cast off with your spell

Almost there
Don't hold your breath
Almost there
Just keep coming 
Almost there
Don't hold your breath
Almost there
Don’t stop breathing

Holding me down to the bottom
Holding me down in the well
Down with the coins and the wishes
The ones that you cast off with your spell

Hotel Room

She’s not at home and she’s all alone
A hotel by the sea
She’s not afraid of another day
With her favorite book to read

She packed her bags when he said goodbye
Because she knew that she was free
Now she spends her days turning the page 
And dreaming of who she will be

Her suits not wet 
She won’t go outside
She’s too afraid if it makes her cry
Then everyone will know why

She stays alone in her hotel room
Not wearing her hat or her shoes
Her favorite dress that she always wore
Just gathers dust on the floor

She’s turned her back on the ocean view
The seagulls the sand and the truth
Now she spends her days turning the page 
And dreaming of what she will do

Her suits not wet 
She won’t go outside
She’s too afraid if it makes her cry
Then everyone will know why

Distant Calling

If I could cultivate your attention
 I’d like to show you my affection
You must believe this is not pretention
It is my 	heart felt reflection

Well we struggle with projection
When we’re looking for connection
You can make the right selection
If you forget about perfection

Find the guidance – hiding
Hear the voices  - deep inside

You want to find a way to ease the tension
And maybe find yourself protection
You can make the right selection
If you just trust in your intention

Find the guidance – hiding
Hear the voices  - deep inside

Hunger growing – Longing building – Desire swelling
On and on and on and on now
Temptation rising – no more sleeping – nervous searching
On and on and on and on now

If I could cultivate your attention
I’d like to show you my affection
Well we struggle with projection
When we’re looking for connection

Set the focus – accept the closeness
Prepare for nothing - every door will open
From the center – burning brightly
Find your balance and the door will open

Sirens

Where in the world is the beauty I see in dreams
In the trees in the saline wave’s riptide
Tears swallow my pride
I’m frozen in time tonight

The sirens are calling - Hear them calling 
They’re calling for me
The sirens are calling – calling for you
They won’t ley me be…

Taking my time  to try to get to town
My mind won’t stop doing the endless run around
Say please when you break my heart
I’m more lovley than blind

The sirens are calling - Hear them calling 
They’re calling for me
The sirens are calling – calling for you
They won’t ley me be…

Say pretty please can you see I’m on my knees
So dirty no soap can clean
In the mean time ya know I’m ever so wise

The sirens are calling - Hear them calling 
They’re calling for me
The sirens are calling – calling for you
They won’t ley me be…

Thin Disguise

we fight a naked dual
we lie about guilty truth
it bring the church alive
but it has a sodden roof

the ruler is a crooked tool
it measures only half the truth
between the unseen and the everything
lies the hidden proof

all the lights up in the sky   add up to a thin disguise
all the lights up in the sky   (they) add up to a thin disguise
(yet) we can’t help but look with blinded eyes
yes - all the lights up in the sky   (they) add up to a thin disguise

all the time we waste on words
we could be singing with the Birds
holding hands and skimming stones
entwined again in passions bones

our heaven comes our heaven goes  	
we’re driftwood on a distant shore
the waves will wash our track away   
erasing any path we’ve made

all the lights up in the sky   add up to a thin disguise
all the lights up in the sky   (they) add up to a thin disguise
(yet) we can’t help but look with blinded eyes
yes - all the lights up in the sky   (they) add up to a thin disguise