Manic Bloom Lyrics

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In Loving Memory EP (2010)

1. La Naissance (Instrumental)
2. Never Back Down
3. Death & Conversation
4. A Thousand Angels
5. Toynbee
6. Push Off the Ground
7. In Loving Memory
8. Au Milieu (Instrumental)

Self Titled EP (2008)

1. To The Edge (Instrumental)
2. What Scares You Most
3. Running From The Scene
4. Tonight's When I Say Goodbye
5. Betrayer
6. Everything I Saved You From

Unreleased

Answer
One More Chance
Start A New One

A Thousand Angels
Manic Bloom
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A passing thought
Some apparition dancing in my head
Of what's not to come

Where would I be
If morning had never broken
If you were never here

Give me one more touch
Because my body, it screams
To be replaced by you

Give me one more word
Cause everything you say
Feels like a thousand angels singing

I'll admit that I'm still afraid of the dark when
I can't see you and
I confess that your flame is the only way that I'll
Stay warm

Please don't take away your eyes that
Resurrect, that bring me life I
Don't know how I'd live without your
Live without your face

Chorus

Answer
Manic Bloom

Take a look inside and tell me what you see
If you can open up your eyes
When everything you know is stripped and torn away
Will you still clutch your precious time

What is life if there's nothing worth dying for
What's truth if you're satisfied with lies
What's the way if you're comfortable just standing still
Believe it or not, the answer stays the same

Sit and smile about everything you've gained
And all the trust that you've abused
When your flesh and bones have rotted and decayed
Will that be all that's left of you

Chorus

Betrayer
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It was too much for my eyes to take when I stepped onto the scene
But something drove me deeper still with this band of angry screams
"Friend, finish what you came here for," when I kissed his tear stained cheek
And though I sparked this catalyst I was too afraid to speak

And nothing I coud ever do could take away this pain
And I just stare at these bloody hands

I was finished with my duties then when I turned to walk away
But I shuttered at the work I'd done when I saw his broken face
And the clouds took over everything when his breath escaped no more
The others had deserved this fate, but surely he was something more

Chorus

Some would say it's not our fault
Hell, we weren't even born
But I know I'm the reason that the thorns and nails were ever worn

There is only one thing that could take away this pain
And I just stare at his bloody hands

Death & Conversation
Manic Bloom
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I'll put my heart in a box for you to
Lock it and put it away
You can keep tabs on the beating and the blood
You can inform me of change

Just tell me what it would take to be your everything

So pretty, pretty the way you say my name
Makes me go weak in the knees
You crawl across all the spaces in my head
Like you're some kind of disease

Tell me what you're wanting from me
Should I even try to breathe
Don't want to wake up at the end only
To find I'm incomplete

How can this be ordinary
Waking up inside a dream
Prove that the overall point of it
Is something more than inside of me

You feed me like an injection with the way
You keep me close to the ground
I'm well aware of the games we're playing, you
I've got you all figured out

Chorus

How beautiful
You give me everything
Then take away

Chorus

Everything I Saved You From
Manic Bloom & Brett Aplin
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Wasn't I always by your side
When you tried to hide
When your heart had died
And didn't I take away your pain
Take on all the blame
Even change your name

So how can you throw everything away that you knew
In spite of all the things I've done for you
Don't you care about what you've become
You're going back to all the things I saved you from

It used to be you never looked away
You were so unafraid
No matter what they say
But now you're drowning on dry land
I can't seem to understand
Why you won't take my hand

Chorus

In Loving Memory
Manic Bloom
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Take my hand and tell me that you love me one more time
Remembering the past we leave behind
Steal a breath and whisper your goodbye

When my heart won't beat hold me as I'm falling fast awake
Find a wooden box where I can lay
Briefly cry but then just walk away

It won't be the same
This moment beyond will set us apart
We change who we are to who we should be
I don't know what this is, but it's not the end - it's only the start
Just open your eyes, see how this compares to the day I was born
Not in loving memory
This could be the life of me now

Never Back Down
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It's said a million ways
Just give up while you can
But you can keep your feeble phrase
And you can have your connections
I'll just take my time
Let em wonder what I'm up to
Just keep waiting
But I never

Think you always get your way
Don't waste my time
Try to tell me what to say
I'll say what's on my mind
If you want to give me hell
Then just get in line
I don't care how much you yell
No I never will back down

I see the hunger in your eyes
The way you prowl around my skin
But I can see through your disguise
Don't want it, don't buy it
I know what you fear
But you'll never admit
Just keep pushing
But I never

Chorus

One More Chance
Manic Bloom

Suddenly I'm hiding here
Completely covered in your eyes
I don't know why you even came here

I can't believe the words I know
You never heard me try to speak
It doesn't make sense why I would choose this
Over something real

I never thought this simple thing could take your place

Now we know how this goes
It keeps us separated
Now and then I'll admit
I know my life has faded
And it feels like we can't ever get this back
To how it was
Promise me you'll give me
Just one more chance

I know I had everything with you
But somebody told me there was more
Now what I wouldn't give for me to
Be right back inside your arms

Prechorus
Chorus

Push Off the Ground
Manic Bloom
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Tick tock, my mind moves slow
All I can do is simply stare at the sky
We pray it's far from morning
Cause it's easier in cover of night

Can you rescue me
Can you save my life

So I scream your name
And take a moment to clear my mind
Forget the thought of accomplishment
And just push off the ground and run

These numbers overwhelm
Like sifting dust inside a hole in the ground
We break the glass, these few
And spill the fire as it's all rushing down

Don't talk to me about letting go
I've walked a thousand miles
Trapped in this burning skin

And after all this time
I need you to say it

Can you rescue me
Can you save my life

Chorus

I use this pain
And trust it all will make sense in time
There is no stopping for consequence
I just push off the ground and run

Running From The Scene
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Guitar Tabs

My hands are covered with the blood of all the
Thoughts that flood my aching mind
And I know that when left alone I don't find the time
To match your desires up to mine and see what's right

Running from the scene of the crime
The last thing I need is to do what I've already done
Wish that I could rewind and start over
These thoughts still dwell in my mind
I'm losing a battle I thought that I had already won
Wish this part of my life could be over

Sometimes I feel the sin rage inside my soul
Sometimes I feel like just letting it take control
And then the pain I feel, the times I stray,
Would be the slightest regret that I just push away
And as I try to stand my heart is filled with nothing but hurt
My feet are heavy as they're pushing me down in the dirt
And all I ask is you don't give up on me
Someday I'll live like you died for me

Chorus

Start A New One
Manic Bloom

Sit down, shut up
Got so many rules to keep you warm at night
Or do you think they might

(Yeah, tell me)
Fast, slow, let's go
When is the last time that you heard a song
And you just sang along

Don't get too comfortable with keeping control
If you want to lose yourself you've got to let it go (you gotta)

Chorus
Take it from me
There's nowhere you'd rather be
Don't want to waste the only chance that I've got to tell you
Bring all your friends
You know this thing never ends
Yeah, you'd be stupid not to give it shot

I don't care what they say
You don't have to wait until you're good enough
To be apart of this

Sit back, relax
And you could partake in something glorious
Maybe mysterious

Bridge
Don't like your old life?
Let's start a new one
Just look around you it's already begun
Don't like your old life?
Let's start a new one
In this family we're all daughters and sons

Tonight's When I Say Goodbye
Manic Bloom & Clayton Shepherd
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It's not exactly breaking news, but I know all about your little rendezvous
With far too many "I miss you's," and "I want you back's" in full verse-chorus boo-hoos
But I won't sleep til I drop off the kind of words that summarize all I've ever thought
With so many subjects overdue, why would I waste breath immortalizing you?

So let it out, let it out
Doesn't matter what you say
Doesn't matter much you can see your mistakes
Never offered me apologies, thinking you were covered all this time
Tonight's when I say goodbye

I hate to say I told you so, but you know I told you so
You're not the type to keep promises
I've always known of what you were capable
Try to push the envelope until you're faced with the consequence
Then you come crawling back expecting me to
Cover up your latest crime

Chorus

I don't really care when you tell me that you love me
It's just become something you say when things aren't okay
Making sure that people see everything you've done for me
You're so impressive to clean up the mess of the
Blood that I still bleed for you
Just keep the stain from showing through your skin
Is the sacrifice worth all the pain if you can't remember my name

Chorus

Toynbee
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I saw the future, it was dirty
But I told you it's clean
I had a vision we could change it
With a twist to the human machine

With blood and water, wood and fire
I perfect the scene
Joy electric, live forever
Now this completes the measure of my scheme

(Take it back forward)

I see utopia where skeptics see
A tick of the clock
Your chains will keep you far from freedom
Unless you rise above the streets that you walk

Get past the lies that paint the skies
Until you're left with just rock
Begin the change already done
Convection won't wait for the current to stop

Let's take back what we've fought so hard to create
We won't be remembered for waiting
There's no turning back when your fist hits the air
Cause tomorrow begins starting now

What Scares You Most
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Watch the hand connect the dots
Between the lines inside your thoughts
Even in your dreams it still takes hold of you
Menne, Menne, Tekel Uparisin

Keep the words under your tongue
Feel the air fill up your lungs
Don't let anybody know in spite you clinch your fist
Cause you can't control what's wrapped inside your skin

Listen to the voice inside your head
You can't get away until your feet have left the ledge
Scraping the dirt off of who you never thought you would be
This is everything that scares you most
But it's everything you need

Did you really think that you could walk so close up to the edge
And you could get away without your body falling, screaming
It doesn't matter how you got here, just that you stay

Chorus