Soon Enough, We'll Be Gone (2012 E​.​P)

by Oscar Lush

/
00:00
00:00

  • Digital Album

    Immediate download of 6-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

    Free Download

1.
04:12
lyrics
download
2.
02:45
lyrics
download
3.
03:32
lyrics
download
4.
04:34
lyrics
download
5.
03:58
lyrics
download
6.
05:00
lyrics
download

about

Recorded by Jordi White at Fire Ant studios.

© Oscar Lush, 2012

credits

released 03 February 2012
CAMPBELL UMBERS: Slide Guitar, Hammond Organ
OSCAR LUSH: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, Percussion

tags

tags: acoustic easy listening folk lyrical piano Sydney

license

all rights reserved

feeds

feeds for this album, this artist
Track Name: The Weatherman
I pray to the weatherman,
That he brings my love home
Lays her back in her sleep
Leads her out of this storm
For she walked into the night,
Into the arms of faceless shadows,
When I turned away towards the street
To catch the fleeting light

For these people, they don’t talk anymore
They just come and go like silent birds at forgotten funerals

And radios blare
In the corners of white houses
While outside the children scream at the sky
And ask “where is my love?”
For all the men dressed in their black
Hide it inside their minds
For fear it will consume our hearts
That peace will turn us blind

For these people don’t ask questions anymore
They just come and go like silent birds at forgotten funerals
They’re just sleepers and dreamers trapped in raining parks
Waiting for their kings and statues to finally say goodnight

So fill your head up with all your useless lies
That god was here to drive us home, return the coming night
Fill your growing hands with silver dollars and golden dreams
Leave the lights on at home, find happiness in nothing

Leave the lights on at home, find happiness in nothing.
Track Name: Heavy Tides, Lonely Nights
I hear the cry of the laughing wind
As it shatters any hope I once had
And I fear the things I love will leave
So I whisper to the dark “come back to bed”

No one calls out, no one returns
But the dreamers whom I lost on the way
My clothes are cold, my body’s torn
I stand naked with nothing left to say

It appears I’m older than I thought
Time is slipping through my hands
I still need to question who you think I should be
Is it violence that makes you a man?

Or is it the heavy tides?
The lonely nights?
Which wash my desires out to sea
Which wash my desires out to sea

Then the veil of night, like a suffering arrow
Well it pierced my heavy heart
Any grip on love I thought I once had
With my mind, I let it fall apart

Oh but what does it matter?
Trapped in this disappearing time
Too many places to flee,
Too many times I’ve tried
And I’ve now accepted
That I may only ever fall
I might live to see tomorrow
But maybe not at all.
Track Name: Day Fades Out
I watch the afternoon disappear into the dark
As the heaving birds decide to stop calling out
There ain’t nothing left, but the sound of loneliness
As I converse with shadows of self doubt

I look through my mind to try and find who you are
Yet, like always, you’re nowhere to be seen
Will I stay alone for the rest of my days?
Do the eyes of the blind dance inside their dreams?

I know I can’t promise to be waiting here tomorrow
Cause when the day fades out, somebody’s gonna lose
Just give me the chance, to love you for a while
And I’ll try my best not to let you down

And even if I might continue to believe
You’ll only love me if your lonely eyes do lie
I can hold onto to these empty hollow words
To the sound of this song as it disappears and dies

I was told “once on paper, it’s out of your mind”
But I don’t know If I’ll ever watch you leave
I think you’ll stay there in the back of my head
While I try to keep my thoughts from dying

I know I can’t promise to be waiting here tomorrow
Cause when the day fades out, somebody’s gonna lose
Just give me a chance, to love you for a while
And I’ll try my best not to let you down

And you might decide one day you don’t need me any more
And I swear I’ll never get into a rage
I’ll just know you were a figure, shifting in the dark
Just looking for warmth in the dawn of a lonely age

I ain’t gonna bother to be waiting here tomorrow
Cause when the day fades out I’m gonna lose
Track Name: The Sun King And Our Past
Down through sky-lit valleys
I follow the twisted figures of my dreams
Through the streams of time I pass
As I close my eyes and bow before the sun king

And I ride the open sea
Where sailors they cast their eyes down
I'll carry my regrets down the coast
Where hopefully my sorrows can be found

I'll travel the land of the broken past
And wind up with a crying woman
We'll spend the auburn summer alone
And wait for our hearts to give in

Roaming with no time to guide me
Through streets whose faces I need not know
Past the Earth's many children, without any purpose
But to run from the wild and build a home

I'll travel the land of the broken past
And wind up with my dying mother
The sun will cast shadows on her fading memory
As we wait for our voices to surrender

And I'll see many things in my short life
I'll wake, I'll sleep and I'll laugh
Wait for the day where my body meets the water
Where my future finally meets my past

I'll travel the land of the broken past
And wind up with blood all over my hands
And I'll burn down the forest where I hide my dreams
And wait for my soul to surrender at last
Track Name: Now At The End
Don’t you know the sunset’s only young
We've still got a long way, a long way to go
Pass the murderers in my sleep
And the city streets, crowded with autumn trees

I told you I ain’t running from something I can’t stand
No I told you I know I ain’t afraid
I just can't see the point in walking through the fire
With empty, tired hands

For we are all but one
So mighty underneath a dying sun

And our violence became our ideology
The old woman without a home
Asked me what happened young man
To all the beautiful things I once owned?

For I prayed to all the right Gods
Who I was told hailed from grey skies
But the sun taught me to stay in the shadows
In the places my fate wouldn’t ever find

For we are all but one
So mighty underneath a dying sun
Looking on to a fallen sky
Out onto our unborn dreams

So don’t cry little one
Your life’s just as meaningless as mine
For I’m nobody but a face on a train
Just another waiting in line x3

So don’t cry little one
Your life’s just as sad as mine
For I’m nobody but a face on a train
Just another waiting to die
Track Name: To All The Dancers In The Dark
To all the dancers in the dark
Dance upon our souls in the night
Dance for all the lost hearts
Which inhabit all our dreams

For the ghosts who wait in eternity
To feel the light of the sun upon their face
Only to realise that they’re nothing but shadows
Just wanderers from out of space

A closing eye, a trembling hand
Wait to wake once more in the shadow of a man
We’ll catch a glimpse of ourselves in the passing rain
See all our wrongs and wait for life to start again

For I refuse to hand over my heart
Once a child’s diamond now a hardened black coal
Who was I ever kidding? I’m really no one
Just like my heroes, I’m destined to grow old

For our hearts have softened disappeared or died
These figures from our dreams turn back into night
When I wake in the morning I’ll still be the same man
You know where I’ve been but you still question who I am

The hour is endless now,
The day disturbs my mind,
I’ll close these thoughts for a while
Till the time for dreaming is right

Till the time for freedom has arrived
And I’ll know the hope I lost long ago
I’ll feel your smile penetrate the dark
In the room where the dreamers come and go

For our hearts have softened disappeared or died
These figures from our dreams turn back into night
When I wake in the morning I’ll still be the same man,
You know where I’ve been but you still question who I am

When I wake in the morning, what if I’m a different man?
You’ll know my face, but you’ll forget just who I am