Band in the Box

by Matt Finn

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You've been through more than Anyone could have Anyone should have, more than you deserve You've been let down by The ones who claimed to Really love you, but never really did And I guess the only thing That you really need to know Is do I love you enough To never let you go I wonder why they Wanted to hurt you Their love really bruised you, I see the scars It's really been hard to See you go through this But all I want is, to be in your life
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Hes a man of few words But his face tells the story Of the world he knows And the things that he's seen He stays on his own But he doesn't feel lonely He feels he's comfortable In his own skin And he writes his own laconic Symphonies The words are short but the stories they tell He writes his own laconic Symphonies They started bad, but they end so well When he opens his mouth Who is going to listen Will he play his song To the audience of one And he knows That it really doesn't matter Because the song Will play forever in his heart And he writes his own laconic Symphonies The words are short but the stories they tell He writes his own laconic Symphonies They started bad, but they end so well When the time has come to write another story X3 Who will hear? who will hear?
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What do you do when the world pulls you one way But the other way's the one you want to go When the need to grow up and be normal Isn't quite the way you know But why should we be normal, when we don't know what it means To justify our place on this earth Don't be what they tell you, don't fit into the box In the end, just be you I know that I should get there some day But right now I want to swim against the tide The songs are in my blood, they keep me moving To sing them isn't all about the pride You'll have to prise my guitar from my cold dead hands Because I will sing until the day I die I won't be what they tell me, I won't fit in the box In the end I will just be me This is for the misfits For the ones who don't belong Don't lose sight of what you can do We won't be silenced We will never fit in So look out world here we come So look out world here we come Look out world here we come
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The smell of the greasepaint The roar of the crowd The feeling that only your heart can allow And I wouldn't be anywhere than I am right now But I sure miss the sights and I sure miss the sounds The world keeps on turning At a glacial pace The people move quickly, like it's all some race. I can't seem to fathom how they take so much space And so I'm left behind and I'm stuck in my place Under the spotlight where I long to be Will you wait for me darling Will you wait there for me Under the spotlight where everything changed Will you say that you love me Forever the same.
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Started in the south, when I was just 18 Time and tide has changed my point of view Looking back on all the time I never thought I'd have Never thought this road would lead to you Past the 25 and up past the places I know I guess I'm now a southern boy in the north Strange as it may seem I've found my home, it's right where I belong Let's hear it for the southern boy in the north People come and people go and places change around me This life has changed my jet black hair to grey But I know now what I didn't know then, that the show it must go on It's made me into the man I am today.   Past the 25 and up past the places I know I guess I'm now a southern boy in the north Strange as it may seem I've found my home, it's right where I belong Let's hear it for the southern boy in the north No regrets, no turning back Let's hear it for the southern boy in the north I'm moving on, I'm changing pace Let's hear it for the southern boy in the north....
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Walking out upon the waves as they crash upon the shore Looking out to the horizon I can reach it I'm sure Listening to the sound of the people rushing by Never stopping to think never wondering why Still I find my way Still I find my way Still I find my way Back home Many miles from the start, many years have turned me grey Decisions made, plans change, closing chapters, losing days Beginnings end, ends begin and I finally know my mind Got to mend the shattered past, got to seek until I find. Family story, family history, the choices that we make. Turn my back on what I knew, find the new in what we forsake. Never knowing that i could find the home I never knew. Finding home was what I found when I found you.
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My ears are burning as I predict your mime Centrefold gossip column gibberish between the lines Backed up along the Jubilee Line Trampy indie boy, down to his last rhyme You better pipe downn open the window, get loose off your selfish game Don't know how i became the man in the middle I will reign, I will reign. Step back, out of the shadows A garden of stones waits for you Lay down stare at the skies 7 of them, we gotta get it right You better pipe downn open the window, get loose off your selfish game Don't know how i became the man in the middle I will reign, I will reign. The black cape is taking your hand God know's you've been a greedy man You never listen to wise old me Head to the ground get on your knees You better pipe downn open the window, get loose off your selfish game Don't know how i became the man in the middle I will reign, I will reign.
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Heartbreak Headache Enough to make the earth quake Never knowing What is here This is what ive grown to fear I want to climb inside Your red wine mystery Tomorrow is history Give me another day To see the world before my eyes Reality is my disguise Moving out Coming in Another day my world begins You want to feel My pain There is nothing left to fear I want to climb inside Your red wine mystery Tomorrow is history Give me another day To see the world before my eyes Reality is my disguise You don’t know me On the inside Im now two men Hiding my lies I want to climb inside Your red wine mystery Tomorrow is history Give me another day To see the world before my eyes Reality is my disguise I want to climb inside Your red wine mystery Tomorrow is history Give me another day To see the world before my eyes Reality is my disguise
9.
Can we go back to the start? Pretend like things were before Take back the love that we had Can we go back to the start? Don't tell me everything's changed When my love remains When all that I want is you Don't tell me everything's changed Why can't we talk about it Admit we were wrong Admit that it always was us all along Say all the things That we wanted to say Just stop pretending that we are ok Why can't we talk about it? X3 Can we just stop this pretence Take off the masks and stop talking around the things we should talk about Can we just stop this pretence Don't make me out to be wrong Or the last one to speak Help me to get back what we had. Don't make me out to be wrong Why can't we talk about it Admit we were wrong Admit that it always was us all along Say all the things That we wanted to say Just stop pretending that we are ok Why can't we talk about it? X3 Now's not the time to throw stones Just let me hold you close Bring back the memories of yesterday Now's not the time to throw stones I want you to say this mans mine Tell me that I can be yours Let's tear the world apart I want you to say this mans mine Make this a brand new start I want you to say this mans mine Fulfill the promises we made. I want you to say this mans mine
10.
Sit back Poor another drink Forget the moment It's time to stop the thinking About the things We'd like to do If the world has gone to hell We might as well go with it Singing Pour me another one my dear Let's not waste another moment Raise another cheer For the end of the world is nigh they say So let's go out with a bang Let's drink for tomorrow never comes On the corners The doomsdayers say That world is gonna end We're going down in flames In a blaze of glory so they say So we can either be sad or go with it til the end Noone told me it would end this way. I always thought that it would have more time But if this is the end of it all Then I guess I'll make it min
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When you dance with the devil and his silver spoon it appears you pay the price If he leaves you torn he can always return just to take another slice When I met you, I never really knew, the road that you had walked But as the crack opens wide and he drew you inside, I could tell how the devil stalked With the evil sewn and the damage done, will you ever get close to anyone again? With the evil sewn and the damage done, you say you'll never get close to anyone again. Will you ever get close to anyone again? When you've opened your heart and the healing starts why do you shut it down With every cross word and the feeling its caused are you surprised I'm hurt I'd hoped by now you'd have figured out how to let somebody in But I guess that you've decided you'd rather hide it, or that I am not him You say that you don't belong Tell me I'm wrong There's two sides to every story Tell me yours, tell me yours
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Over and again I ask the same old questions Will this be the time, these feelings change But the more I ask The answer moves further away And the monsters don't ever fade Will you hold my hand Will you see me through the night Will you comfort me and bring me through the storm. Never let me go Pull me close to you Say that you are mine and I am yours. I am yours. Every day the clouds roll in The days grow ever darker I wonder if I'll be ok When I know that I am weary And the thoughts get dark and scary you help me see another day. Will you hold my hand Will you see me through the night Will you comfort me and bring me through the storm. Never let me go Pull me close to you Say that you are mine and I am yours. I am yours. There's a black bird coming On to my shoulder today And he tells me all the things That I believe in anyway And those angel voices are Demons in disguise. Help me to find another way.
13.
Two worlds collide, Rock n Roll Spies At the window, Ghosts of shadows, Give me this, give me this, give me this, give me this, give me this, Judas kiss, lemon bliss, heart tardis, give me this You're miles away, and i can't help wandering To the other side of the bar, where shines a bright star Im in love, and I didnt feel I could control it My heart tardis is leaving tomorrow, but yesterdays another day Three hearts collide, Rock n souls fly At the window lies a teddy bear, now i know its safe Give me this, give me this, give me this, give me this, give me this, Judas kiss, lemon bliss, heart tardis, give me this You're miles away, and i can't help wandering To the other side of the bar, where shines a bright star Im in love, and I didnt feel I could control it My heart tardis is leaving tomorrow, but yesterdays another day ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh but yesterdays another day x4
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Swimming, through the fog of my own desire No insense, make sense, take me higher Coming from a place, I have never been People, faces things unseen. Take the time, make it real See what I see, feel what I feel Visions haunt my waking hours Time to wake these friends of ours. Walk a mile, in my shoes Live a day in my skin Just to let you know where the fun begins Just to let you know where the fun begins

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released April 19, 2024

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Recorded at Sixt3en Studios
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The home of Matt 'Sharky' Finn, singer-songwriter, guitarist, ex-the JaRs, ex-All My Ghosts, and ex-Another Acoustic April...all me. #southernboyinthenorth
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