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Crows Into Swine

by Pheroze

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1.
I'm feeling fine Turned blood into wine The whispers in my mind Won't let the surface die Old man stay your hand Turn your youth into sand Soul scion keep fighting Save me from falling I stay divine Turned crows into swine A knot forms in my mind Too strong to be untied Old man stay your hand Turn the children into sand Soul scion keep trying Save me from falling I'm stopping time Turned earth into brine With one hand on the sundial I'll stand before your kind Old man stay your hand Turn the children into sand Soul scion keep trying Save me from falling
2.
Kingdoms (free) 03:04
I met a man whose dreams got sold He held a kingdom in his woes He said Brother, I've got a story for you and he began to spill his soul He said I've suffered through this life I killed a man for a lie I shot him down because he had no name and I refused to watch him die There's no meaning to our new frustration That's the secret of a failing nation Dark shadows masked in celebration of our fears Then my brother closed his eyes The searing calm ran his mind He said You're free to seek the past you choose If it will help you live your life There's no meaning to our new frustration That's the secret of a failing nation Dark shadows masked in celebration of our fears Believe what you're sold that's the hard way to pay the kingdoms will fold but the castles will stay There's no meaning to our new frustration That's the secret of a failing nation Dark shadows masked in celebration of our fears
3.
Lay your sentence on me, my judge I shot the goddess in the knees I waved my gun right between her thighs and now she doesn't have to kneel and she's free from herself but I'm caught in the wheel The tears I shed were diseased to touch meant for her sterile world to heal I tore each string right off her box but there was nothing to reveal and she's free from herself but I'm caught in the wheel She's free from herself but I'm caught in the wheel
4.
God forgive me if I spit in your face You feed the fire while I lay in the flame Their blood's in the corner where I opened my eyes A soft reminder of the reason I try You teach me to live so I ignore all my dreams I learned how to sing so I could drown your screams Constant echo in the back of my mind is that you want me to fail but still I stand through your lies God forgive me while I even the score They're screaming for justice but I've given them more There's blood in the corner where I made my mistakes A soft reminder of the reason I stay
5.
I feel the night cold inside a gun killing what I've done to keep hope alive I seal the light tight inside my eyes fearing no surprise to keep hope alive I listen to sighs and the royal highs move with the sunrise to keep hope alive I stay on the run losing all the fun the change that I've become to keep hope alive Every time I feel their anger there's that old sad laughter mocking me And every gaze into their eyes is the old sad laughter watching me I search for my highs in my chemical prize making all things right to keep hope alive I look to a science, the theories of our lives staining all our minds to keep hope alive I pray to a god to make sure there are no rights for those that I don't like to keep hope alive I swim in the sea to wash away my woes and call in all my ghosts to keep hope alive Every time I feel their anger there's that old sad laughter mocking me And every gaze into their eyes is the old sad laughter watching me Flying high, up above the clouds the songbirds sing aloud to keep hope alive Maybe they'll dive and crawl inside our minds Remind us what it's like to keep hope alive
6.
Anthem 03:44
Listen all you people It's time to disintegrate time to remove us from the life you face Don't let their pieces fit we'll go another way We are the front lines for those that give a damn Dance the fault lines down in the hive mind home An anthem for the souls who try to keep us whole This is for the people that choose to find a way to mime the message they're not allowed to say I know the sun won't set in the lives we've painted red Let's burn the steeples so they can find their way Dance the fault lines down in the hive mind home An anthem for the souls who try to keep us whole An anthem for our future A siren for this illusion Hey lovely people it's time to ignite the world let's live our new lives inside the mother's soul Let's reach to take her hand in time to help her stand We are the front lines for that give a damn Dance the fault lines down in the hive mind home An anthem for the souls who try to keep us whole
7.
The Stolen 03:30
We are the sunflowers dreaming through the night We are the stolen that scream for all mankind and we say don't run, don't run they know you're here We wake the fallen and lead them to your fight Down through the madness that hangs your head in shame We still the chatter that tells you you're to blame and we say stay calm, stay calm they know you're with us We are the stolen that hold you to your name And we say don't cry, don't hide it will be alright And we say sleep tight, just try it will be ok We were stolen from you We were stolen from youth We are the wounded who never could take flight We are the lightning that charges through the night and we say find us, find us we need you here We are the stolen that scream for all mankind
8.
Maybe I've found my way on the backs of the strays Alone in the gutters with a life that still stutters through all I've said I drown in my ocean of mistakes a shot glass healing through the stone deaf ceiling that hears what I say But I can't help myself No I won't help myself from waiting for a song that's playing for us all And love she's dressed for the one searching for my shoulder while playing with a gun And love dreams of all she's wronged and love turned and fled but she never left she's still right here in my head But I can't help myself No I won't help myself from waiting for a song that's playing for us all Lifetimes stolen from my lips Moments that dare me to exist But I can't help myself No I won't help myself from waiting for a song that's playing for us all
9.
Where are our leaders now? Where are their guns? Where are the saints? Who are the lords? Why don't we need them to kill with our thoughts? We are the slaves We are the gods We are tomorrow that the Earth has forgot We are so sentimental for our failed ways It's time to clear the picture so they don't keep us saying end our pain Where are the screamers now? Who took their songs? Where are the seers that watch over our wrongs? Where are our teachers? What have they learned? Why do they steal from the truth that we’ve earned? We are so sentimental for our failed ways It's time to clear the picture so they don't keep us saying end our pain Show me tomorrow as I climb through today Show me tomorrow before it’s taken away We are so sentimental for our failed ways It's time to clear the picture so they don't keep us saying end our pain Some see salvation Some see the theft Why can’t we all see that we’re all we have left? We are the hopes We are the dreams We are the future that is already seen
10.
Standing on the wire I can feel my heartache sway Leaving my desire to the wind that blows our way I search the pain For our names Unleash the fire that will melt us all away The wreckage of liars that keep our souls in chains Show me the fight How it screams through our lives When we win will we lose the lies? Show me the fight How it screams through our lives When we win will we lose the lies? Untie my hands and let them feel the weight of our world I don't understand how the surface reached the core Show me the fight How it screams through our lives When we win will we lose the lies? Show me the fight How it screams through our lives When we win will we lose the lies? Standing on the wire I can feel my heartache sway Leaving my desire to the wind that blows our way I search the pain For our names Show me the fight How it screams through our lives When we win will we lose the lies? Show me the fight How it screams through our lives When we win will we lose the lies?

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All songs © & ® Pheroze Karai 2011
Published By Lemme Wilson (ASCAP) - All Rights Reserved
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released November 1, 2011

All songs written and arranged by Pheroze Karai
Vocal, guitar, and bass performances by Pheroze Karai
Drum performances by Joe Renaud


Produced by: Pheroze Karai and Clay Wells Holley
Mixed by: Clay Wells Holley
Track 4 and Track 10 Mixed by Nick Cohen
Recorded at: The Kennel and 75
Recording Engineer: Clay Wells Holley
Additional Engineering: Nick Cohen
Assistant Engineer at Kennel: Billy Polo
Mastered by: Adrian Morgan

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Clever, versatile singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer Pheroze makes intricately-crafted music that illuminates life’s mysteries and provides a window into a world infused with lush and inventive melodies and harmonies.

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