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		LEVELER 2013 1. Silent Sunsets 2. Forward/Reverse 3. The Loss Of Feeling 4. Diamonds 5. Signs Of Life 6. The Meadow 7. Prologue (Instrumental) 8. Awakened 9. Leading Lines (A Modern Lesson) 10. Echoes 11. Illumination - BONUS TRACK Lyrics by Greg Vanderpool SILENT SUNSETS Solitude and violence A meeting of the minds Manifested in grain and black and white The sinners stand confounded Left to paint the pulsing light Our pilgrimage is plotted on the last rural frame In silent sunsets The shores of the defected, still Converging in the midst Rekindled and bewildered and betrayed There are fears of the exterior There are shadows in the shade Played out in timelessness, in haunted heavens And silent sunsets They disappear and reappear... Where the leading lines lead, I don’t know And where the autumn leaves you, I don’t know No monitored reaction, less to show No weathered strands to bury, away we go In silent sunsets, silent sunsets... They disappear and reappear... All just moving to fade away... In silent sunsets FORWARD/REVERSE In Avalon On a distant wind I came to see where everything begins Where we had it all Some kind of super state A near heaven in a dream that lives to wake Never had a feeling that I couldn't feel Never held a sword that I couldn't wield Never saw a sun set and never return until we killed it Everything went white A fever chill within And the winter with it almost did us in But we were hangin' on A blind faith in hand We turned to see our fortress, sinking sand Never had a fight that I couldn't fight Never saw a reason why we couldn't fly Never had the mind of a man that is moving in two directions I see it all now I can see it coming down with your heart to the ground You had it in your heart all along… Time abandoned. System failure. Shrouded dealings. Sideways speak. Gradient fading. Communiqué. Talk is talk. No word on the street. Of certainty. Where lines are drawn and no one knows what side they're on. Can you feel it? THE LOSS OF FEELING The loss of fire The loss of feeling lingering 'round Tied up in wasted hours Loss of feeling Your fingers have nothing Void of substance and meaning and presence of mind And now, that you've lost yourself In tunnels that wind through your head, Will you make it out? You've lost it. A cloud, leaves you staggered and reeling The more you come down to escape it the less you know In ice that floats on the Arctic Frozen and weightless in white till they take you out Take you out A sight, still-captured, no motion Dusted aside and cast off to another time And now under our loss of power Does any hand under the sun have a handle at all, at all? We're hanging on... DIAMONDS We rise we fall We take it to the street again And no one seems a bit concerned about the sirens screaming The frame at last Our moves forever come to pass And the shutter takes light while our whereabouts go undetected For the sights that sent you running And the chimes of engines humming Dissipate in line with every word they said Chorus: You weigh the cost but your diamonds only last so long And we're bright enough to double-down when we're down to nothing Well you say it's lost and this light can only shine so long But you've got a mind to heed the sound of a storm that is coming With hands and lips With every breath we can take in We wake to see her beauty shining like a newly skinned morning While the weathermen ignore us And the clouds laid out before us Dissipate in line with every word that calls out from the dead Chorus: You weigh the cost But your diamonds only last so long And we're bright enough to double-down when we're down to nothing And you say it's lost, that this light can only shine so long But you've got a mind to heed the sound of the storms that are coming Storms are coming…and they come… SIGNS OF LIFE I want the signs of life I want the pangs of night I want the blinding sight I want to feel the fight I've got a race to run I hold the smoking gun I shun the velvet veil I fly the dark star sail I want my heart set free I let the rain wash me I watch the fire subside I watch the fading light I want the signs of life I want the signs of life... THE MEADOW I turn my heart to you In the meadow That shimmers with the weather And basks in the glory of the sky All things come into view In a single light It only took surrender An answer to our broken world I was searching for truth When the rug was pulled from under To navigate and compromise The overpass of fate Ever-reaching intangible As we feed the fire to die Untied, our fastening The chord unwinds All things come into view In a single light It only took surrender An answer to our broken world again I turn my heart to you In the meadow That shimmers with the weather And basks in the glory of the sky AWAKENED A waking love, awakened with us Into a heart of doubt and dust What of the boy who squandered his lot When he returns to find A burned-out love, mistrust Come break it up A waking love, awakened with us Into a heart of doubt And walled with dust Come break it up Come break it up Do what you must LEADING LINES ( A MODERN LESSON) At the fall of night You're feeling the fall You're offered by the collide And you're seeing it fall apart You're senses dissolve You're leaning to learn a modern lesson You fall from love, you fall from love You feel it all and you feel the fall And you drift along With windsongs that wither to dark You drift and you hover You bleed and you wonder, oh what is to come Framed in the fire of a distant heart You're moving to fade away, moving to fade away Discovering… Where the leading lines, the leading lines Of the lost ones, the lost ones Will answer the mystery No one knows at all for sure Who’s standing behind the door Holding this world together Holding us together Or you're on your own Tell me i'm wrong ECHOES Life, like a wave, echoes back from the shore It finds you as it vanishes in the sky It hits you, unexpected, where the side becomes the center Then rolls along and starts again Seeking all the while Red, torn away before they ever knew what hit 'em Poured out at the mercy of a knife (of a knife) No pondering. No telegraphed foreshadowing remarks Waiting in the dark to force your hand The only bit of comfort I can extract from this scene Is a vision of a light never seen So for all who will bear witness to the closing of the doors May you hear us in the waves that echo back from the shores ILLUMINATION Every place I've seen I've set the motor down Rolled up on pastures green Plowed through the underground Underground, with thunder down Doesn't this bell ring Medallions on our eyes so long A resignation screams Rattling the catacombs' endless song We got it wrong Lumination, illumination There's a light that's elusive Can you find it? Can you find it? There's a light that's elusive There's a light in a lonely world In the mines of your mind

		ROAM AN EMPTY SPACE 2013 1. Roam An Empty Space 2. All In Love 3. A Memory Of God 4. The Sun Ship Game 5. I Break The Silence 6. We Tremble 7. Template (Instrumental) 8. Beat Of A Thousand Drums 9. Quell 10. Seabirds (with Sinead O' Connor) - BONUS TRACK Lyrics by Greg Vanderpool ROAM AN EMPTY SPACE Someone said they heard it in the distance humming Moving along at a hollow pace, a hollow place And tommorrow we go crawling along To all the cities Into every land With a blind devotion on a one way road Four in the morning No diverted sting Noone to give her shelter Led by an unguided wing Go on a tirade with a destination unknown Who's gonna man the bridge when they kill your engine It's inconsequential You're helpless and restless In a flawed system traveling down light A poignant discussion Further distance apart Danger life surrounding Only some will survive Vague perception Fall into the order How long can it last...How long can it last All day till you give up Void of marrow or sound and the unspeakable stuff And it's all a game to the end Falling and calling Waiting to turn it around ALL IN LOVE Alone While we waited for the time to arrive Like I hunted for the the tide in the moon glow The dispersion of the stars in the night I looked for you All in love Love When the hundred hour flood came alive Like the thunder-hearted crash in the sky lit Through the pulse of every foot to the grave The moment framed All in love A MEMORY OF GOD The sky was painted like a desert With clouds that faded into land With tinted eyes the sun reflected We take the daylight while we can A beacon brought me to the weather I wallowed in the angry flood Guide me to the epicenter Where canyons break the light above Always say the days are passing Always played that cycle down Ascend with every crest to heaven And turn the weary world around And there's a fleeting chance you might see A fleeting chance you might see coming And so we rise to revelations And see our fate cut through the fog I held a torch in search of spirit I dreamed a memory of God I dreamed a memory of God THE SUN SHIP GAME I was seeing everything for 80 miles in every way We were riding on a wind. We never thought we'd see the day would it break Across the wing I saw you facing the clouds. Everything was alright But somewhere along the silver sky that wrote our path We hit headwinds doing 60 knots and threw us on our backs Pulled the rug out from our feet and soon after that we lost all control Riding thermals higher hoping for a second look The chance that someone may be looking through the glass back at us Or maybe this game in our hand just had us circling for years and years and years... I BREAK THE SILENCE If the weight won't roll over then we might as well just pick up and leave With a loose cannon operative eye and a one-trick machine Found a way to blaze a travesty in Eden even as we're speaking Bite an apple to the core you'll find it burning under Wounded Knee I break the silence...You break the silence I break the silence...You break the silence Mark the difference on the grid as you try to draw the perfect circle Deadline dependent stack of papers burn without a sound I break the silence...You break the silence I break the silence...You break the silence The closer to the line the harder you will hear your heart pounding Roam the empty roads at dawn and take a picture of the swirling wind WE TREMBLE Someone is always racing With a dagger for the heart With a handle on a loaded gun For the spirit moving with you The lighted world, so distant And you're so far from the one who lifts you up And you stand from falling Giving a life of your own Vested and withered They bested you right to the bone So sure you fall The light of all So suffered a great expense It weighs in your mind It lays in your mind...your mind Your eyes see the end Ooh, We tremble BEAT OF A THOUSAND DRUMS On a mountain Chiseled out by a hammer We mine the earth with a motion Down in the valleys we lie In the towers We masquerade in the present tense We did away with the evidence And still look to the skies Still we rise and still we run... From the riots That heard the beat of a thousand drums We left em ringing for everyone Without making a sound Still we rise and still we run... So it all comes down to this No more unravelling How do I see your heart? When we're left alone QUELL I would run for hours I could hold the rain I would be the master If I could quell the flame In a frantic moment Intermittent white In the tears awoken In the flashing light I took to the desert I set my past free I could see forever Running after me... after me SEABIRDS We utilize and summon it The danger life, the common thread Anticipated bated breath Left for hollow, left for dead The facts give chill, our waves of ice They break me up. austere the eyes In boroughs, cities, born to rage On their marks, age to age Someday we might get it right We might get it right ... Over water, under skies Then from the haze, on second winds We flutter til we find ourselves again In powerlines and webs of wire Wielding earth's speaking fire Someday we might get it right We might get it right ... Over water, under skies

		SAD ACCORDIONS + MONAHANS (SPLIT EP) 2011 1. Denial Takes the Train - Sad Accordions 2. Stationed (Instrumental) - Monahans 3. Bridge Commander - Monahans 4. Sweet Cocaine - Sad Accordions BRIDGE COMMANDER (Lyrics by Greg Vanderpool) Long the days of wanderlust Hold the bridge commander bound Anxious and insidious Rattled ears, torrid sound And the sooner come, the sooner goes the sun So call the bells and start your cars Fire launch the rockets as you will Beyond all we envision still And in our palm's bitter pill And the sooner come, the sooner goes the sun

		DIM THE AURORA 2009 1. It's Enough To Leave You... 2. Slow Burn 3. Night #3 (Instrumental) 4. I Run To You 5. Dim The Aurora 6. The Low Light 7. Over Fields (Instrumental) 8. Fit For Fire 9. Into The Expanse 1849 10. Terrene (Instrumental) 11. Distorted Signals Lyrics by Greg Vanderpool IT'S ENOUGH TO LEAVE YOU... The calculated risks are approaching With your mind at its logical end Some frequency like lightning is calling you So engaged, lasting remorse your defense On display and so brilliantly rendered Traversed by insufferable waking up Blown back by the force building under All things, all sounds, all you covet All the times there were no repercussions When the bellowing first began Like a time they could not have been wasted...like a time Shot through by science and reason And a tangible need left to quell Like a word that came in on a cloud...on a cloud It's enough to leave you holding out It's enough to leave you holding out It's enough to leave you holding out and it hits you like never before Submerged in your own vast interior hold the reins, key to enter, key to ask Night moves in and so our days are arrested Blue haze and a cuff to the wrist The iron grip of winter, the towering fear To the surface we all fight for air Blown back by the force building under All things, all sounds, all you covet All the signs for your deliberation When the questioning first began Like a time they could not have been wasted...like a time Shot through by superstition And a tangible need left to quell Like a word that came in on a song...on a song It's enough to leave you holding out It's enough to leave you holding out It's enough to leave you holding out and it hits you like never before and it's all you can do to ignore in this primitive state, the instant that brings you alive It's enough to leave you holding out... SLOW BURN I wore a prince's robe I watched the spiderwebs grow I saw the dust implode I held the wind's command Sold it for magic sand I felt the slight of hand We held our days in a jar Slept through the sun's alarm We felt the burning scar And now I see the tracks Hear almost every tap But we're not over that...over that... I RUN TO YOU Great unveiling, night for rain Suits in waiting, down for days I run to you, I run to you Summer's breach, the young parade Play the boxes, gone astray I run to you, I run to you Sun in grey skies For the record we were always free Cuts through twilight Holding out 'til it turns over The path of our resistance And it comes to view All that's left to do is run Pass the order, half the stay A soldier's refuge, blood's restrain I run to you, I run to you, I run to you DIM THE AURORA A guarded heart won't give a beat without a reason; Holed up and shallow ready set and set to leave Some kind of perfect revelation has a purpose on the other side; And if it's all an apparition let it kill us so we feel alive Still we long to vanish into the air on two black wings, our souls we bear Still we long to dim the aurora and flood the tracks Left in the wake, no looking back Under all that ever was Long lay awake the times to loneliness is given Break for the tempest in the teacup where you're livin' There was always something better but it never took a shot in the dark In halls that stand without the faintest recollection we were here at all Still we long to vanish into the air on grievous wings, our souls we bear Still we long to dim the aurora that lights our way No looking back, Left in the wake Under all that ever was THE LOW LIGHT Everything you said would never happen has come Destiny breathing like as if it had lungs A presence fills the room Insulated from all I do I want to know you in the low light Dead, still, and clear like a star in your hand A heightened sense of how we arrived Close the station down Hold the moment in tune I want to know you in the low light I want to know INTO THE EXPANSE 1849 Tell me what to do my friend Or say nothing at all These matters are no matter's end No mind can turn me on From Texas into Oregon Thrown into the expanse So better left to circumvent And get out while you can Let go of me When I am skidding alive When the ground is rough and I'm left to die When it's taken a toll When the border is won And remember me when my time has come My love don't say where you have gone Be Summer, Spring or Fall An all encompassing remorse Where the grass is growing tall We may never have enough Our cup will never run But if I live to see the day I pray her will be done Let go of me When I am skidding alive When the ground is rough and I'm left to die When it's taken toll When the border is won And remember me when my time has come FIT FOR FIRE We are fit for fire We are poised to roam We won't see it coming til it comes Calling out the drivers Stop them on a dime Turning wheels that sink into a vanishing quick They won't see it coming 'til it comes We are fit for fire We are poised to roam The wind gives flight to any song before its sung We won't see it coming til it comes DISTORTED SIGNALS Turn it down while I'm thinking here Pray that I can remember so maybe I'll know... Iπ'll know again Give yourself to me darlin' Let's break away from the noise so maybe I'll know... I'll know again Distorted signals, uneasy minds undone Let go of this heavy ceiling Sink to the depths with me down Down to the floor with some part of me... Again Give yourself to me darlin' Let's take the slow motion turn so maybe I'll know... Iπll know again Distorted signals, uneasy minds undone

		LOW PINING 2007 1. Across The Waves 2. Undiscovered 3. Low Pining 4. Along My Shores 5. When You're Down 6. Traveling Song 7. Blind Tide Sails And Weather Vane Hearts 8. The Answer To All Our Prayers 9. End Of Night 10. Dissonance (Instrumental) Lyrics by Greg Vanderpool ACROSS THE WAVES Send the news across the waves My sweet promise there is song A momentary stay, only pushed away for so long There is a voice in the storm Between two worlds come to me The dream of a retreat being switched on Sounds of labor no more Southern temperate and alive A vast chorus sings In the distance, a crescent low rise UNDISCOVERED We toil the broad side for any conclusion with dim emotion as we go And all the while we hold the illusion of terrain unspoiled, a silent plea for home Undiscovered, commonplace, quiet, tranquil and alive Rolling lands laid out like a linen No transgressions under the mud See it all so concise and vivid See night falling where we set fire The days of recourse and end of worries. The restoration we're seeking And sunken-eyed we hold on to reason and ways manufactured A time of doubt and killing for it Undiscovered, commonplace, open, placid and alive Casting out all wasted moments Listen to the language of birds Exceeding all due bounds and limits Moving past the weight of our words And all the while we hold the illusion of terrain unspoiled leading as we go Undiscovered… LOW PINING Grey land, rise and demand, circling pattern, idle hands Panoramas and runaways like ghosts, suspended, left out in the haze When i was a boy i had a sense of awe and presence felt Discovery accounts and summer days with texture live to tell I am crawling, feeling ground, mobilized and riding my sound Under heaven, into earth...a golden age for what it’s worth Staying low at caution rate. follow lines that hold their weight Overrun, overdrawn. interstates all winter long ALONG MY SHORES What pulled you out of the burning house and spoke to you along the road? Should we stop it in its tracks, to contemplate the reasons? Along my shores, Along my shores If I had not missed the wind. If only someone held the wheel An engineer comes riding in, and on his cloud, forecasting it Along my shores, Along my shores I just want feel the sand washing over my hands Put away the world demands, to drift along on my shores Along my shores, Along my shores WHEN YOU'RE DOWN Someday when you're looking back on what you've done Never certain if you ever took it far enough The eyes staring back at you tell the answer When you're down, When you're down Played it off and held it in for ransom Burned it seven ways and held it to the fire If the autumn ever comes you'll have a reason When you're down, When you're down Checking out. Signing off. Race away with the promise of another summer. Tall shadows, long gone When you're down, When you're down... TRAVELING SONG We hold our way like a metal to stone Moving with ears to the ground Living outside the candleflame glow Unmarked, with traveling song Where do you go? Where do you go? Where do you go when you're going alone? The saving eyes and the deep, steady drum Anchoring down as it turns If they should ever solve gravity's pull The big question hanging around... Where do you go? Where do you go? Where do you go when you're going alone? BLIND TIDE SAILS AND WEATHER VANE HEARTS Blind tide sails and weather vane hearts We stopped to watch the Arcadia burning And the smoke that soon filled a summer sky blows by the motorlines THE ANSWER TO ALL OUR PRAYERS Nothing wakes you like a sunrise Nothing breaks you like a song You had your Spring. Was that your season, or an unforeseen divergence to the fall? No barrier, no hesitation A pulse in heavy beating A fire on the plains out there Something we were missing The answer to all our prayers You miss it when you're seeking All the while it was everywhere A reconciliation The answer to all our prayers Oh great disorientation Oh deep hollow in the hills The scars of home our navigation Open out to our great withdrawal from the world Wrapped in reverie and shadowland A pulse in heavy beating A fire on the plains out there Something we were missing The answer to all our prayers You miss it when you're seeking All the while it was everywhere A reconciliation The answer to all our prayers It's everything you wanted The answer to all our prayers... END OF NIGHT Pulling my weight out of the ground Nothing in earshot No one around, or for now I'd never win I'd only fail if i had contact. Leaving a trail unturned...Watch my world burn Crossing the sky, over the bow End of the night Highways they follow me now Loosen my mind Open the gate Lord, ease my conscience Pull me away, away...Never to fade