Simplify (2013)



The Skeptic lyrics - Brendan James

Once there was a man
A good and honest man
He came home one day to his loving family
He said you’ll never believe 
We have got to leave
Daddy wants to make a toast
We’re heading out for the west coast

Driving US 1
Counting the stars and sun
Turns to his wife and says 
“How could I of believed em
I got the call today
There’s no job waiting for me”
He was fooled by the man and the thought of wind rushing through the palm trees

Now I see holes in Noah’s Arc
I see dirt in the reservoir
I see struggle in the architecture
I see sorrow in the family picture
But I see you and it’s enough
I’m a skeptic but I see love
I see love, yeah

Once there was a woman
A young and trusting woman
She believed in the institution
The marriage of revolution
She was an old school girl
From the old school world
But the man that she chose 
Had other ideas I suppose
Could have been an easy street
Could have been a dream complete
Instead it was a mournful day
Had to turn her love away
And give it to her boy and girl
Pieces of her broken world
All the things that he took
She got back from her kids with one look

Now I see holes in Noah’s Arc
I see dirt in the reservoir
I see struggle in the architecture
I see sorrow in the family picture
I see you and it’s enough
Yeah, I’m a skeptic but I see love
I see love, yeah

When it all goes wrong
When I’m down and out
When the bad things happen
And I just can’t count
When the hammer falls
And the clock strikes two
When I’m the only one 
I think of you

I’m a young believer
With a cranked receiver
I live without a home
Me and my busted phone
I got no guarantees
I got no proof to see
This life is a game that I play
I could win, I could lose, I could fade away

Now I see holes in Noah’s Arc
I see dirt in the reservoir
I see struggle in the architecture
I see sorrow in the family picture
I see you and it’s enough
Yeah, I’m a skeptic but I see love
I see love
Yeah, I see love
Yeah, I see love
And it’s enough
It’s enough
It’s enough
Ooooh
It’s enough

Where You Started lyrics - Brendan James

Yes I hear New Hampshire in my thoughts tonight
Waking up to dream about another time
Yes I left when I was young I needed to
I think about you, I think about you

Yes I feel the water crashing under me, 
flying off that railroad bridge on 93
How I jumped so high I'll always wonder that
I wanna go back, I wanna go back

Separate yourself from the kind that made you
Walk a thousand miles in your own shoes
Meet another dreamer, and dream about your peace of mind
Treasure what you find, words and shapes and signs
Treasure how you live
And treasure where you started

If you should fall keep your hands out before you
It's good you feel how it feels to fall
The body yearns for that moment on the ground
For that moment with no sound

Now and then I lose my sense of company
Highway men and beggars bent on broken knee
Counting steps I'm less impressed with fame and show
They're nothing I know, they're nothing like home

Separate yourself from the kind that made you
Walk a thousand miles in your own shoes
Meet another dreamer, and dream about your peace of mind
Treasure what you find, words and shapes and signs
Treasure how you live
And treasure where you started.

"Hope In Transition" (2012)




None Of Them Are You lyrics - Brendan James

Black blue yellow white red striped scarred and bruised
Old young weak strong overconfident confused
He can run, she can jump, they can sing higher than you
Make you hurt, make you cry, make you forget the truth
Never gonna get it for yourself
If you keep your eyes on someone else

Nobody started from the place that you started from
And nobody hopes to go
Where you're hoping to go
And nobody out there wants the life you do
'Cause none of them are you
None of them are you

Look around in the crowd wish you could have some fun
Look at them how they win how they beat everyone
Blue skies in your eyes under the brightest sun
Still you hurt, still you cry, still you're the lonely one

Nobody started from the place that you started from
And nobody hopes to go
Where you're hoping to go
And nobody out there wants the life you do
'Cause none of them are you
None of them are you

The day will come, the year will pass
The way you feel it never last
You're treading water now and everybody else is swimming past
You walk a line, a line that no one else could ever find
A billion lines are crossing at a time
Ohhh

Nobody started from the place that you started from
And nobody hopes to go
Where you're hoping to go
And nobody out there wants the life you do
'Cause none of them are you
None of them are you
None of them are you

Younger Days lyrics - Brendan James

Running like hell through the trees
Nobody pressuring me
Younger days

Getting out after school
Playing a bunch of fools
Younger days

I see the sunset, I see the stars
I see the future, oh my god, like a train approaches
It's coming for me

Slipping my Jordans on
Playing some one on one
Younger days

Telling my sister I hate her
Knowing that I'd never trade her
Younger days

I see the sunset, I see the stars
I see the future, oh my god, like a train approaches
It's coming for me

Oh these younger days
I'll take to my grave
For carving me out of a stone
Oh these younger days
I'll never replace
Oh if only I'd known

Hearing my fathers joys
Cracking my mothers voice
Younger days

Filling my pockets with papers
Smoking em deep in the woods
Younger days

I see the sunset, I see the stars
I see the future, oh my god, like a train approaches
It's coming for me

Oh these younger days
I'll take to my grave
For carving me out of a stone
Oh these younger days
I'll never replace
Oh if only I'd known

I see the sunset, I see the stars
I see the future
Ohhh my god

Carriers Of The Light lyrics - Brendan James

Went to a party just the other day with all of you
Fresh off the road and pretty tired
Didn't have to worry cause the ice is always broken
As we catch each others eyes across the fire

Had a couple of drinks and a conversation
About what's going on beneath the surface
Told you how hard it was and I know you really listen
And you make me see it's all worth it
And once again it feels so good to be with friends like you

You are the ones
You are the reason I'm not scared to step into the fight
You are the soul you are the hope
You are the carriers of the light

I'd never write a song this true
Never be me without you

Walked down the hall past the kitchen with the slate blue walls
More going on than meets the eye
Things were transforming
There was smoked and I passed through it
When it cleared I could hear the dance music
The dance music the dance music

You are the ones
You are the reason I'm not scared to step into the fight
You are the soul you are the hope
You are the carriers of the light

I'd never write a song this true
Never be me without you

You are you are you are carrying the light
You are you are you are carrying carrying

You are the ones
You are the reason I'm not scared to step into the fight
You are the soul you are the hope
You are the carriers of the light

Youuu yooouuu
I'd never write a song this true
Never be me without you

NightLife lyrics - Brendan James

It's the nighlife calling
Can you hear it in your mind?
It's the daylight falling
Can you leave it all behind?

It's the nighlife calling
Can you hear it in your mind?
It's the daylight falling
Can you leave it all behind?

Dance if you got no money
Dance if you got no luck
Dance if you got that feeling
Always gonna have enough
Dance if you're someone special
Dance if they wish they knew
Dance if you got a good life
A life you never wanna lose!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

It's the nighlife calling
Can you feel it in your soul?
It's the daylight falling
Can you lose all control?

Dance if you got no money
Dance if you got no luck
Dance if you got that feeling
Always gonna have enough
Dance if you're someone special
Dance if they wish they knew
Dance if you got a good life
A life you never wanna lose!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Dance if you drink that whiskey
Dance if you drink that wine
Dance if it makes you happy
Happy just to be alive!

It feels good to be here
Lost in the dark!
It feels good to be here
Lost in the dark!
Lost in the dark!
Lost in the dark!

Heavy Lifting lyrics - Brendan James

I sing for you, your broken hearted
I sing for everything to go back where it started

Oh Oh Ohhhhhhhh

Life is love and both have got you blinded
There's no rest for the few who want it all
And I know you've got it in you
The fire burning inside
Fate, she's really testing you this time

I sing for you, your broken hearted
I sing for everything to go back where it started
You've lost the way, you started drifting
You look ahead and all you see is heavy lifting
I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you

One tree falls for the times you never get back
Two suns rise for the days that lie ahead
And you'll never be alone here
There's always somebody else
And they know how it feels to cry for help

I sing for you, your broken hearted
I sing for everything to go back where it started
You've lost the way, you started drifting
You look ahead and all you see is heavy lifting
I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you

Oh oh ohhhh
Sing it like you mean it sing it like you mean it
Oh Oh Ohhhhhhh
Oh sing it like you mean it sing it like you mean it
Starring in the mirror talking to myself
Saying everyone's the same as everybody else
Scream, what you gonna do and how you gonna fix this
Time to get over yourself

I sing for you, your broken hearted
I sing for everything to go back where it started
You've lost the way, you started drifting
You look ahead and all you see is heavy lifting
I sing for you

You've lost the way, you started drifting
You look ahead and all you see is heavy lifting
I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you I sing for you
I sing for me

Here For You lyrics - Brendan James

Hey,
What's on your mind?
What's got you down this time?
Please,
Don't hide your tears
I've seen you sad before my dear

I'm here for you
I'm here for you
I'm here for you
Here for you
Here for you
Here for you
Pulling you through, because I want to
I'm here for you.

Sit,
Let's talk it out
Tell me what happened, I'm with you now
Come on,
Can't you look at me?
I'll help you through this
It's not easy

I'm here for you
I'm here for you
I'm here for you
Here for you
Here for you
Here for you
Pulling you through, because I want to

Nothin' But Love lyrics - Brendan James

My biggest fear is I'll let people down and then maybe they'll think less of me
Especially you, you're the jewel in my crown and I don't wanna mess this up
Am I a good enough lover, good enough friend good enough at giving you what you need
Will someone else come along with a much better song and a smile that you wanna trust

You say, "Whatever"
You say, "Who cares?"
You say, "Baby there's no, there there"
You say, "I can"
You say, "I'm gonna, I can do anything I wanna"

Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it
Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it
Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it
She says "Look at me, just look at me"
Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it
Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it
Nothin' but love, even when you can't see it
She says "Look at me, just look at me"

My life was a stop light, didn't know it turned green, you still didn't honk at me
You waved and I waved and we went on our way, and I knew you were just my type
And now we're under the gun in another recession, are we gonna be alright?

You say, "We can"
You say, "We're gonna, we can do anything we wanna"

Nothing but love, even when you can't see it
Nothing but love, even when you can't see it
Nothing but love, even when you can't see it
She says "Look at me, just look at me"
Nothing but love, even when you can't see it
Nothing but love, even when you can't see it
Nothing but love, even when you can't see it
She says "Look at me, just look at me"

I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love
I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love
I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love
I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling, feeling

Nothin' but love
Nothin' but love
Nothin' but love
Nothin' but love
I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love
Nothin' but love
I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love
Nothin' but love
I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love
Nothin' but love
I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love
I was down, but I will get back up, yes I'm feeling your love

Charleston lyrics - Brendan James

Taking my camera out again for some photographs I won't forget
I go for a walk along east bay
It's so beautiful today
Happiness hanging in the air
And it's only real when shared

Remember the night at the gallery
The back of the roon and she smiled at me
I knew right away I could never be lone,
How could I be lonely

I always wanna feel like I do in Charleston
I tell you thats the way that life should be
I always wanna love like I love in Charleston
Oh how I love you Charleston
Your secret's safe with me

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Counting the cobblestones and bricks
That the fathers built the city with
I might be a Yankee born and raised
But it's here I wanna spend my days
A sandwich a pose and a bunch of friends
The fourth of July, out on Sullivan
I gotta get back to a place so real, it's so real

I always wanna feel like I do in Charleston
I tell you thats the way that life should be
I always wanna love like I love in Charleston
Oh how I love you Charleston
Your secret's safe with me

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

Got rid of the old bridge and put in a new bridge
Everyone knows that things must change
We know what we were and we know what we can be
Change is slow this I know

I always wanna feel like I do in Charleston
I tell you thats the way that life should be
I always wanna love like I love in Charleston
Oh how I love you Charleston
Your secret's safe with me

Na na na na na na na na
Your secrets safe with me
Na na na na na na na na
Your secret's safe with me

World On The Streets lyrics - Brendan James

You saw the truth and it made you sad
You saw a life that you know you never had
And your frozen blood started warming up again
Love was lost in the indecision
Pacified by your television
And you hope the chance remains to live with a beating heart again
And heaven knows I'm on your side

The world is on the streets tonight
Calling for a sacrafice
Like all we ever had was nothing
Like all we ever were was right
The world is on the streets tonight

Nevermind what you never had
Never trust what's afraid to trust you back
It's a sordid race we run under one relentless sun
Like a spark in a dying engine
Beaten down for your good intentions
You are the face of what's to come
More than any single one
And heaven knows I'm on your side

The world is on the streets tonight
Calling for a sacrafice
Like all we ever had was nothing
Like all we ever were was right
The world is on the streets tonight
Every love is on the line
Everybody's feeling something
Don't you wanna feel alive?
The world is on the streets tonight

The world is on the streets tonight
Every love is on the line
And Everybody's feeling something
Don't you wanna feel alive?
The world is on the streets tonight
Tonight I feel alive
The world is on the streets,
I don't wanna sleep,
I don't wanna leave your side

"Brendan James" (2010)




Nothing For Granted Lyrics – Brendan James

Leave your worries, leave your fears, leave the doubt you’re holding dear
Leave them there love, by the door, they’re no good anymore
Tell your friends you’ll see them later, tell your family they can wait your
only young once and only dream of the day that love will steal you away
Run with me down these midnight streets, we will take
Nothing for granted, Nothing for granted
Come with me life is short and sweet, we will take
Nothing for granted, Nothing for granted
Stop the seasons drifting by, stop believing there’s no time
Stop your heart from closing off, I think you deserve it all
Love your future, love your past, love your body it’s all you have
Love your secrets bottled up, but love them more when you give them up
Run with me down these midnight streets, we will take
Nothing for granted, Nothing for granted
Come with me life is short and sweet, we will take
Nothing for granted, Nothing for granted
You gotta get outta your mind, there’s so many wonders to find
There’s so many words they could write across your early grave
So come on and open your eyes, I will be right by your side
And we will see love lies in everything
Run with me down these midnight streets, we will take
Nothing for granted, Nothing for granted
Nothing for granted, Nothing for granted
Come with me life is short and sweet, oh
Nothing for granted, Nothing for granted

Take The Fall Lyrics – Brendan James

She is packing in slow motion the sun is coming up
I am sitting in the next room staring in my coffee cup
Now we are driving down the shoreline, this car is cut in two
I am quiet, she is humming, When the Stars Go Blue

And pulling up to JFK, there really isn't much to say

Don't tell me you'll write me, don't tell me you'll call
Just tell me you'll see me in the Fall
Don't give me a promise you know you'll never keep
Go and find it all and I'll see you in the Fall

Now I'm back at our apartment and nothing feels the same
Her coat is gone, her toothbrush is missing,
all the flowers start to fade
And September feels so far away

Don't tell me you'll write me, don't tell me you'll call
Just tell me you'll see me in the Fall
Don't give me a promise you know you'll never keep
Go and find it all and I'll see you in the Fall

Let you fly away from me, fate will bring you back to me
And darling that's all we have

Don't write don't call I'll see you in the Fall
Don't write don't call I'll see you in the Fall

Anything For You Lyrics – Brendan James

I woke up early from my bed
With a secret in my head
In the back of my backyard
I keep a spaceship in the shed

I lit the engine and took the sky
From up here it looks so nice
I didn't stop until the moon, where I
Picked a flower just for you

[Refrain:]
And I fell down to you in a parachute
of newspaper rubber bands, tape, and glue
So you would see I would do anything for you
Anything for you

I didn't want to wake you up,
so I put the flower in a cup
On the floor next to your bed
Without a sound I laid my head

Drifted off into a dream
Of what has been and what could be
I saw your tears, I saw you fall
But I saw us rise, I saw it all

[Refrain]

And I never want you to know
All of the lengths I've gone
To find where the flowers grow

Love is never supposed to be
A present under our tree
I do it because I believe

[Refrain]

The Lucky Ones Lyrics – Brendan James

On the edge of a moment,
In the land that we love,
In the time that our best has to be good enough,
Like all those before us, we start out alone,
We race from our schoolyards, into the unknown
City lights, as far as the eye can see,
You and I, we will live differently
With our hearts in our hands,
Like loaded guns,
We’re taking a chance,
We’re the lucky ones,
This moment is yours,
This moment is mine,
And we’re gonna be fine,
Oh oh oh oh ohhh
Oh oh oh oh ohhh
Searching for love,
Counting steps as we go,
Our parents they taught us there’s no way to know,
I still hear their voices in the back of my head,
Saying, “You’ll do better than we ever did”
City lights, as far as the eye can see,
You and I, we’ll do it differently
With our hearts in our hands,
Like loaded guns,
We’re taking a chance,
We’re the lucky ones,
This moment is yours,
This moment is mine,
And we’re gonna be fine,
Oh oh oh oh ohhh
Oh oh oh ohhh ohhh
Oh oh oh oh ohhh (We’re gonna be fine)
Oh oh oh ohhh ohhh
City lights,
Stretching from sea to sea,
You and I,
It was meant to be,
Meant to be
Yeah
With our hearts in our hands,
Like loaded guns,
We’re taking a chance,
We’re the lucky ones,
This moment is yours,
This moment is mine,
And we’re gonna be fine yeah,
We’re gonna be fine yeah yeah oh,
This moment is yours,
This moment is mine ohhh,
And we’re gonna be fine,
Oh oh oh oh ohhh
We’re gonna be fine,
Oh oh oh ohhh ohhh
We’re gonna be fine,
Oh oh oh oh ohhh
We’re gonna be fine,
Oh oh oh ohhh ohhh

Stupid For Your Love Lyrics – Brendan James

I'm smarter than your average Jonathan or Joe
I could fill a hundred suitcases with everything I know
But I am stupid for your love

Aurora borealis makes perfect sense to me,
Its light particles and magnets
I'm smart enough to see
But I am stupid for your love

I still remember 30 numbers after 3.14?
Don't ask me why

And with a Rubix cube I'll make a fool of
Anyone who tries to beat my time
But I am stupid for your love
I am stupid for your love

I love to read the classics
They're not too long for me,
I read 'em in one sitting
Like I did with War and Peace
But I am stupid for your love

And I got a lot of street smarts
From years of looking out,
I've seen the biggest cities
And I know what they're about

But I am stupid for your love

I still remember 30 numbers after 3.14?
Don't ask me why

And with a Rubix cube I'll make a fool of
Anyone who tries to beat my time

But I am stupid for your love
I am stupid for your love [4x]

Different Kind Of Love Lyrics – Brendan James

Driving in a trance through your lost and lonely town
Something in the air that could blow your whole house down
Something like a tragedy
Something that you think you need

Turning on a dime you pull into your local store
Aisles going by and you forget what you're looking for
Maybe it's a pot of gold
Maybe you're too lost to know

Maybe what you need is a different kind of love
One that you have never seen
Maybe all you are is a part of a star on a long journey

Maybe what you need is a better kind of love
One that you could only dream
Maybe it will take all the sorrow away
And let you feel free

Nothing like a storm in your heart to wake you up
Someone by your side and you know their not enough
Maybe you should try and stay
Maybe you should walk away

Maybe what you need is a different kind of love
One that you have never seen
Maybe all you are is a part of a star on a long journey

Maybe what you need is a better kind of love
One that you could only dream
Maybe it will take all the sorrow away
And let you feel free

Maybe you wake up to a brighter sun
Voices in your head screaming now the change has come
With a different kind of love

Maybe what you need is a different kind of love
One that you have never seen
Maybe all you are is a part of a star on a long journey

Maybe what you need is a different kind of love
Maybe all you are is a part of a star on a long journey
Maybe what you need is a better kind of love
Maybe it will take all the sorrow away and let you feel free

Different Kind Of Love Lyrics – Brendan James

Driving in a trance through your lost and lonely town
Something in the air that could blow your whole house down
Something like a tragedy
Something that you think you need

Turning on a dime you pull into your local store
Aisles going by and you forget what you're looking for
Maybe it's a pot of gold
Maybe you're too lost to know

Maybe what you need is a different kind of love
One that you have never seen
Maybe all you are is a part of a star on a long journey

Maybe what you need is a better kind of love
One that you could only dream
Maybe it will take all the sorrow away
And let you feel free

Nothing like a storm in your heart to wake you up
Someone by your side and you know their not enough
Maybe you should try and stay
Maybe you should walk away

Maybe what you need is a different kind of love
One that you have never seen
Maybe all you are is a part of a star on a long journey

Maybe what you need is a better kind of love
One that you could only dream
Maybe it will take all the sorrow away
And let you feel free

Maybe you wake up to a brighter sun
Voices in your head screaming now the change has come
With a different kind of love

Maybe what you need is a different kind of love
One that you have never seen
Maybe all you are is a part of a star on a long journey

Maybe what you need is a different kind of love
Maybe all you are is a part of a star on a long journey
Maybe what you need is a better kind of love
Maybe it will take all the sorrow away and let you feel free

Get It Right Lyrics – Brendan James

Deep is the water under my bridge, flowing
And short is the lifetime that I’ve lived, knowing
Messing up and starting over again
Maybe all the breaks and the young mistakes were supposed to carry me here
This time I gotta get it right gotta get it right now gotta get it right this time
Lord knows I’ve let myself down too many times, many times
This time I gotta get it right gotta get it right now gotta get it right this time
My life is passing me by gotta take a deep breath, and get it right
Looking for answers what have I missed, someone
I want to be so much better than this, in the long run
Stepping forward and falling backwards again
When I get the breaks will the young mistakes be the ones to carry me on
This time I gotta get it right gotta get it right now gotta get it right this time
Lord knows I’ve let myself down too many times, many times
This time I gotta get it right gotta get it right now gotta get it right this time
My life is passing me by gotta take a deep breath, and get it right
I know I’ll get there, things will get better
Better with every day
And what lies behind me will not define me.
I tell myself nothing can stop me now
This time I gotta get it right gotta get it right now gotta get it right this time
My life is passing me by gotta take a deep breath
This time I gotta get it right gotta get it right now gotta get it right this time
Lord knows I’ve let myself down too many times, many times
This time I gotta get it right gotta get it right now gotta get it right this time
My life is passing me by gotta take a deep breath, and get it right

Changing Us Lyrics – Brendan James

We’ve come closer than we wanted, we’ve seen what we never should
And we will not be the same. We’ll never be the same, no.
Like steel we are so resilient, but too much and we’re weak as children.
We were not meant to be made witness to these scenes, no.
Gunshots in a broken palace, planes crashing and burn around us
It’s different than it ever was, darker than it’s ever been
Three shouts and thank God I found you
With the crowd and the fog around you I’ll never let you fall, I’ll never let you fall
Oh Heaven can you hear us
Right now we are not sure
But I hope it will get better
These times we’re in together, they’re changing us forever
Two kids in a crooked alley, school canceled again
And now they won’t learn a single lesson except how to load a weapon
And right here on this old soil we hope for peace and we pray for joy
But like everybody else we’re still fighting with ourselves
Oh heaven can you hear us
Right now we are not sure
But I hope it will get better
These times we’re in together, they’re changing us forever
Oh heaven can you hear us
Right now we are not sure
I hope it will get better
These times we’re in together, they’re changing us forever
Oh heaven can you hear us
Right now we are not sure
But I hope it will get better
These times we’re in together, they’re changing us forever

Emerald Sky Lyrics – Brendan James

So we boarded up the windows and we’ve taken down the lights
From the streets I hear the echoes
Yeah we’re leaving town tonight
We don’t need no medication, we’ve got all our vital signs
All this noise and light pollution, I just wanna see the stars tonight
We’re gonna walk out of this city, leaving everything behind
We can sleep the days and cover ground at night
Until we find that emerald sky
Now there’s plastic in the valley
There’s still heartache in the ghetto
I need to talk to someone face to face this place
No it doesn’t feel like home
We don’t need no medication, we’ve got all our vital signs
All this noise and light pollution
I just wanna see the stars tonight
We’re gonna walk out of this city, leaving everything behind
We can sleep the days and cover ground at night
I hope we find that emerald....
I’m gonna find that place that we forgot
Where I don’t care about the money you’ve got
Where I don’t need much cuz it don’t take a lot
We’re gonna go…
We’re gonna walk out of this city, leaving everything behind
We can sleep the days and cover ground at night
Until we find that emerald sky
We’re gonna walk out of this city, leaving everything behind
We can sleep the days and cover ground at night
I hope we find that emerald sky
Look up look down, oh, from the heaven to the ground…

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

"The Day Is Brave" (2008)




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

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

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

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

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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