Coming Up Lyrics – Brendan James

Out on the roof overlooking the bright lights of Brooklyn
Thinkin’ ‘bout what I could lose and what I should save
I’ll be the first one to say I was caught up in something
Something so bad it was wasting our good life away
And it really broke me down but it’s getting better now
I’m coming up
Out of the wreckage
To show you this love is still good enough
It’s there if you let it
I’m coming up
I hope you can see it
What held me down is leaving me now
Say you can feel it
Down to the courtyard below I decide to start walking
With the sun on my face and a light in my heart again
I get to your door and I stop just before knocking
I take a deep breath and I say “this is where we begin”
Yeah I’m feeling better now
I’m coming up
Out of the wreckage
To show you this love is still good enough
It’s there if you let it
I’m coming up
I hope you can see it
What held me down is leaving me now
Say you can feel it
Try as you did, love, the course we were on was unsteady
Love’s hard to do when one of the two falls apart
I’m coming up
Out of the wreckage
To show you this love is still good enough
It’s there if you let it
I’m coming up
I hope you can see it
What held me down is leaving me now
Say you can feel it
Say you can feel it
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"The Day Is Brave" (2008)




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All I Can See Lyrics – Brendan James

I want to walk through this doorway
I want to open my mind
I want to pledge my allegiance to all I can find
I want a car that will crash trough the barrier
To a road no one knows
I want to feel less control on the bend and I
Want to land far from home

The revolution of the earth around the sun
Is the perfect lesson of how it should be
So if I cannot learn to journey and return
To never rest till I've seen all I can see

I want to learn a completely new language,
One I don't understand
I want to help someone lost, someone helpless
With the strength of my hand
I want to come to the base of a statue built
Before they counted the years
And there I'll fall with my face in my hands
And cry and feel their hope in my tears

The revolution of the earth around the sun
Is the perfect lesson of how it should be
So if I cannot learn, to journey and return
To never rest till I've seen all I can see

Train rides and pastures colliding
Colors and customs I've never seen
I know I, yes I know I,
I know I will stumble, but,
Time is precious my friend

Those who journey can easily understand
The more they see, the more they'll learn,
The more that they will be
So this I swear to you, and this I swear to me
I'll never rest till I've seen all I can see
No, I'll never rest till I've seen all I can see

I want to know where the stength of a person lies,
In their past or their future
Is it in the way that they hurt
Or they love themselves, or is it all an illusion?
I want to crawl from this skin that I'm painted in
Body, please let it give
I want to find the creator of all good things,
Ask what it means to live
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Hero's Song Lyrics – Brendan James

Here I am
In the desert again
A compass and a weapon
A lost American
I started out with a simple plan
And a locket in my hand
But the sun so unforgiving
And the wind so hard to stand

Fall out, fall out
With the rest of your brothers
With the rest of your sisters
Heroes on the line
Carry out what your leader says
For what his leader says
Is that his leader says
This is right for the people

No one will ever understand why
Thousands of beautiful, healthy,
Young statues must fall
Smoke and explosions surround me
A flood of hate, it drowns me
I cannot live this way
No I cannot live

Doubt and confusion
They find me
They run up right behind me
I cannot die this way
No, I cannot die this way

In the water, in the sand
Is the blood of a culture
Is the blood of an ancient people
In whose holy war I stand
I hear the world like a cannon roar
Say I can't win this war
I promise them this is
Not what I signed up for

No one will ever understand why
Thousands of beautiful, healthy,
Young statues must fall
Smoke and explosions surround me
A flood of hate, it drowns me
I cannot live this way
No, I cannot live

Doubt and confusion
They find me
They run up right behind me
I cannot die this way
No, I cannot die this way

No one will ever understand why
Thousands of beautiful, healthy,
Young soldiers must fall

Smoke and explosions surround me
A flood of hate, it drowns me
I cannot live this way
I cannot live
With your doubt and confusion
They find me
They run up right behind me
I cannot die this way
No, I will not die this way
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Early April Morning Lyrics – Brendan James

There used to be nothing in common
There used to be nothing to share
It used to be sit by the window
And stare at what used to be there

It used to be lonely in numbers
Impossibly weak on my feet
When the game starts and one person's left out
It used to be me

But that was then and she is now
I once was lost, with her I'm found
On this early April morning
Water falling from the sky
The sun that's breaking fills my eye
Life has changed without a warning

Said there used to be nothing in common
There used to be nothing to share
It used to be sit by the window
And stare at what used to be there
Like a king in his court at his table
Who is blind to the power he holds
I could never come to understand
All the powers I had of my own

But that was then and she is now
I once was lost, with her I'm found
On this early April morning
Water falling from the sky
The sun that's breaking fills my eye
Life has changed without a warning

I trust my love, I trust myself,
I trust the love of someone else
I trust that I will get
I've been hoping, waiting for
The prison walls are crashing down
As winter dies without a sound
On this early April Morning, now

Let the struggle end, the joy begin
It's true, it's love I'm falling in
And it came without a warning, now

And that was then and she is now
I once was lost, with her I'm found
On this early April morning
The water falling from the sky
The sun that's breaking fills my eye
And it came without a warning, now
Without a warning, now
Without a warning, now
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The Other Side Lyrics – Brendan James

I was a child once
The fear of the world in my eyes
Far from the safety of the other side
I colored by numbers
Learned how to tie my own shoes
Like all the others I was just
Prayed I'd make it through
Prayed I would make it through

Oh mother look how your boy turned out
Three hundred miles from that small town
You never stopped believing
Oh daddy, it hurt to watch you walking out
But understand it made me stronger now
And so satisfied, so full of pride
Thank you here from, from the other side

I'll always remember
The kids and how'd mean they'd been
Eleven years old and I could, could not fit in
But I made it through high school
And college according to plan
The pressure was never greater to become a man
Would I become a man?

Oh mother look how your boy turned out
Three hundred miles from that small town
You never stopped believing
Oh daddy, it hurt to watch you walking out
But understand it made me stronger now
And so satisfied, so full of pride
Thank you here from, from the other side
Thank you here from, from the other side

Mother look how your boy turned out
Three hundred miles from that small town
Dad it hurt to watch you walking out
Hear the piano do the crying no

For all the preachers and the teachers, now
For all the ones who never let me down
I'm so satisfied, so full of pride
Standing here on, on the other side
Thank you here from, from the other side
Thank you here from, from the other side

Here on, on the other side I'm taking my time
There's nothing to fear
There's nothing to worry about
On the other side
I remember when I thought I'd never find
The other side
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Run Away Lyrics – Brendan James

Can you feel the room spinning
Can you feel what's happening
Walls are caving, colors change
The red you're wearing turns to gray

Oceans rise and oceans subside
Seasons give up and so have I
Holding you is holding you back
From what you could be
What you could have

Run away, run away before it's too late
Run away, before it's too late
Run away, run away before it's too late
Run away, before it's too late
You never know what you're gonna find out there
No, you never know till you look

Memories as sweet as these
You cannot take them, they belong to me
Don't you worry, worry about me
Don't make this harder than it has to be

Run away, run away before it's too late to
Run away, run away before it's too late
Run away, run away before it's too late
Run away, before it's too late
You never know what you're gonna find out there
No, you never know till you look

Run away, before it's too late, run away
Run away, before it's too late
To run away before it's too late

Run away, run away before it's too late to
Run away, I want you to stay
You never know what you're gonna find out there
No, you never know till you look
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Begin Lyrics – Brendan James

Become the champion of the known and the trust
Embrace the strength of one
Decide what can be done

Corrupt the worst of us
Capsize the sinking love
Forgive them from the start
Commend with a melting heart

Begin, be not afraid
Fall in, the day is brave
Remember what has happened in our past
So much is happening right now
So much can come
So much will come
So much can come
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The Sun Will Rise Lyrics – Brendan James

The sun will rise, the sun will save me
The sun will change me, change the way I feel
The day will make this heart a fortune
From the fruit of a hundred orchards
From the water river's break

The sun will rise, the sun will save me
From the night, the sun will change me,
Change the way I feel
I've had enough of the hard and harder,
Times are tough
I've drifted farther, farther from myself

I won't dwell, baby, on my failures
It won't help, baby, it won't bring changes
I won't run, baby, when all I want is to run
I won't forget the morning sure to come

The sun will rise, the sun will save me
From the night, the sun will change me,
Change the way I feel
The love I want, the love I need is sure to come,
Is sure to lead me, lead me home again

The light is low, the night is burning
My head is still, but my mind is turning,
Turning round again
If only I could make it through this lonely night,
If I can do this, if I can drift away
Then the sun will rise, the sun will save me
From the night, the sun will change me,
Change the way I feel
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Manchester Lyrics – Brendan James

Plains and painted trees
The long south willow street
A raging river turning
Feelings never change
And the names remain the same
As children go on learning

Like all the town she fights
She prays she'll do it right
With nature's sounds to guide
Her safely through the night

All of Manchester together
To carry on the weight that is life
That has changed over night
Let the good lend their hands
As the old teach the young
This is all of Manchester
Together, to carry us on

Shades of red and white
In the blinking of an eye
The blues not far behind
Free to live for the price
Of the cold November night
A chill that never dies

Like all the town she fights
She prays she'll do it right
With nature's sounds to guide
Her safely through the night

All of Manchester together
To carry on the weight that is life
That has changed over night
Let the good lend their hands
As the old teach the young
This is all of Manchester
Together, to carry us on

Father Roger speaks,
he brings us to our knees
It's beautiful

All of Manchester together
To carry on the weight that is life
That has changed over night
Let the good lend their hands
As the old teach the young
This is all of Manchester
Together, to carry us on
To carry us on

So let the good lend their hands
As the old teach the young
This is all of Manchester
Together, to carry us on
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Let Your Beat Go On Lyrics – Brendan James

If he came down from heaven
And cleared the lines from your face
Said so long to your mistakes
And questions and start over again
Look in his eyes,
You'll find your own reflection,
A face of hardship and pain
Your money saved and spent,
Your loves and losses,
They're not worth it again

Let your beat go on forever,
They say we're made to live as one
Let this need to fear each other
Not be passed on to my son
Let your beat go on forever,
Let your fears down rivers run
Let the silence be the music,
When their words are said and done

Now fate lands you out in the open,
A slave to the man inside your head
Your second chances,
They're buried deep in rock canyons
As you lie here in bed

Let your beat go on forever,
They say we're made to live as one
Let this need to fear each other
Not be passed on to my son
Let your beat go on forever,
Let your fears down rivers run
Let the silence be the music,
When their words are said and done

I feel like as people,
We're afraid to question,
Afraid of our heavens and our hells
My mother raised me with strength and measure
My father raised me too late

Let your beat go on forever,
They say we're made to live as one
Let this need to fear each other
Not be passed on to my son
Let your beat go on forever,
Let your fears down rivers run
Let the silence be the music,
When their words are said and done
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Take The Fall Lyrics – Brendan James

Forget about Norman 'small town' Rockwell
Scenes of simple life
Forget about savings and poignant phrasings,
Cigarettes and schoolyard fights
Let us out now Lord of our speed and fancy
Of our 'can you hear me now''s
And our techno loves
Drop us off on 55th and keep us reading Vonnegut
Point out now what we're careless of

My chance in life is worth letting go
Of all the trends they're setting so forgive me
If I'm so ordinary with
Extraordinary reasons to live
It's just like a boy to save his
Honor and his money
It's just like a girl to feel
It's just like a child to stand
And interrupt us all
And say I'll gladly take the fall for you

Now love, love, love, yes
It's all you need
John and Paul, Ringo, George profess
If I've got love
I can feel I can remember every meal
But like a gift it can be taken all away

My chance in life is worth letting go
Of all the trends they're setting so forgive me
If I'm so ordinary with
Extraordinary reasons to live
It's just like a boy to save his
Honor and his money
It's just like a girl to feel
It's just like a child to stand
And interrupt us all
And say I'll gladly take the fall for you
I'll gladly take the fall for you
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Dirty Living lyrics - brendan james

I said to my brother
Life is not free
He said call me weak,
But for once I'm proud of me
What you proud of, who you stand for
Not the Lord above
Dirty living got you giving never enough

My sister named Maria
She caught a bright, early sun
With sin, and with love
Like a tattoo on her arm
She couldn't find no separation
Between loving life and love
Dirty living got her giving never enough

Blame it on the doctor,
He never healed your pleas
Blame it on your mother,
She never saw your needs
Looking up to heaven, I tell you
Sinner, you've got to believe
Live like a fool,
You'll get what's coming to you

Like an angel, came his mother
She said one more second chance
She pleaded with Jesus said,
Make my boy a man
Though he loved her, he abused her
Stole her wallet, jewels and used her
Dirty living got him digging for a resolution

She walked with less pride
Than one tiger, no stripes
She cried like a baby
On the first of newborn nights
She never let nobody tell a girl
More loving brings more pain
Dirty living got her breaking
Hearts and souls the same

Blame it on the doctor,
He never healed your pleas, yeah
Blame it on your mother,
She never saw your needs
Looking up to heaven, I tell you
Sinner, you've got to believe
Ya live like a fool,
You'll get what's coming to you

In in the back streets of their broken town
On a corner with no name
These two, unworthy, two unfaithful wanderers
Meet face to face
They fall in love, they run away
They find they're both one in the same
But it backfires, with their lying and
Unwillingness to change

Blame it on the doctor,
He never healed your pleas, yeah
Blame it on your mother,
She never saw your needs
You looking up to heaven, I tell you
Sinner, you've got to believe
Live like a fool,
You'll get what's coming to you
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