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Somewhere To Be
03:08
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I don’t care about the money
It’s all just paper to me
I don’t need the finer things in life
I just want company
I need a serious way to spread some joy
but all you do is bring me down
What do you want me to say?
“It makes no difference to me”?
What do you want me to say?
We’ve all got somewhere to be
How can I join a march
if I won’t get off my feet?
I don’t want a cross to bear,
but I’ve a truth to speak:
You’ve got a curious way to show your love
when all you do is hurt me
What do you want me to say?
Things cannot be this way
What do you want me to say?
We’ve all got somewhere to be
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2. |
The Comeback Kid
03:38
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Ain’t waiting on no semaphore
Can’t mesmerize me no more
Don’t tell me when to go and stop
You gonna choke on all that shit you talk
Standing still, my mouth keeps running
Now my gun seems to keep shooting
Feet don’t run off now don’t fail me
Ain’t no one here gonna bail me out
I get up at night in sweat and doom
cos the dread inside can posses you
Well the cement in my soul it stays
and it weighs me down
my phantom anchor
Standing still, my mouth keeps running
Now my gun it seems to keep shooting off!
Feet don’t run off now don’t fail me
Damn my soul, don’t come bail me out
You’re a two-bit man in a two-bit world
Cheap champagne running down your nose
Oh yes you are
When the books get writ
and you seal your fate
no one here will know your name
You’re gonna believe in the comeback kid
You’re gonna believe I'm the comeback kid
You’re gonna believe I'm the comeback kid
Come back!
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Miles and miles of country where I go
Miles and miles of country filled with snow
High flying bird in sky
Wave as you pass her by
Miles and miles of country where I go
Sky is big and blue and so am I
Sky is big and blue and so am I
Space between it and me
Feels deep and heavenly
Sky is big and blue and so am I
Close your eyes you can picture it
A memory you have not made
Anytime you may run to it
You can stay all day
Leave the past on a shelf
The future it can wait
Step inside any time you like
We can stay all day
Miles and miles of country where I go
Miles and miles of country filled with snow
Miles and miles of country where I go
Treat your mind like a holy place
That ray of sunshine in the shade
When the clouds come a-rolling in, say
“We could use the rain”
Leave the past on a shelf
The future it can wait
Step inside any time you like
We can stay all day
I imagine what would be
If we were standing by the sea
And I resolve my will to find
The peace within I must reside
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4. |
Morning Moon
03:37
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I don’t want to be a morning moon
Lost in time and out of place
Desolate and fading soon
Nothing useful to illuminate
To be lost inside the scrum
We are nothing and no one
beyond the orphan children of the sun
(No one wants to be a morning moon
No one wants to be the rain in June)
The sweet scent of petrichor
reminds me of a time with no control
Oh, oh, oh
But the music was still there!
To be lost inside the scrum
We are nothing and no one
beyond the orphan children of the sun
No morning moon
No rain in June
Elevating cosmic pedantry
Awaiting the next syzygy
Confederates of shared hypocrisy
No one wants to be a morning moon
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5. |
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Time can slip away at a moment’s notice
Time can slip away when you lose your focus
It’s all been slipping away, yeah
Time can make you feel like a fading specter
Make you lose your mind is no place of shelter
You keep on slipping away, yeah
Whispers distort their cadence every hour
Revelers linger by living room flowers
Time can slip away at a moment’s notice
Time can slip away when you lose your focus
It’s all been slipping away, yeah
We like to ask where do the summers go
No one knows
Another year a bit more weight, oh, oh
The DJ plays a worn out tune
The needle sways in the groove
Darkness looms larger as day begins to break
Light seeps through cracks of a turbulent wake
Are you the Easter egg on the 4th of July?
A life of fits and starts and getting by?
It all keeps slipping away, yeah
Time can slip away at a moment’s notice
Time can slip away when you lose your focus
It’s all been slipping away, yeah
It’s all been slipping away, yeah (slip, slip, yeah)
It’s all been slipping away, yeah
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6. |
Big Blue
03:21
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Big blue machine, it tells me
everything and nothing’s fine
Its ones and zeros natter on
but no one minds
I get a buzz whenever
something happens in the world
Another dilettante reports
on grave concerns
till we see nothing,
nor are we really seen
But I’m scraping by on all the bits of hope I’ve found
though I’ve never felt this close to the ground
But there’s still a long, long, long
way down
I can’t believe the thoughts
I feel compelled to express
They wither under faint
attention and duress
Overwrought on trivia
I’m lost to myself
I’m scraping by on all the bits of hope I’ve found
though I’ve never felt this close to the ground,
there is still beauty all around
There must be something real to be found
cos there’s still a long, long, long
way down
(Fuck this machine!)
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7. |
Ride On!
03:09
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Regret, regret
He had a mountain of debt
Detect, detect
He’s running out on the check
He had a pic of T. Rex
Painted on his chest
And you would never believe it was a good likeness
Oh, he’s into hyperdrive
Oh, it’s gonna keep him alive
Ride on! (Ride on!)
Watch out, watch out
His purpose makes him devout
Revolt, revolt
He got brought up in a cult
They made a pretty strange pair
So medium rare
They had the whole universe reclining in their hair
Oh, they’ll open your third eye
Oh, they’ll make a despot cry
Ride on! (Ride on!)
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8. |
Apollo
03:29
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I was always born out of time
hoping I did right
by those who gave me love
And when I
become mist and dust
you’ll go on within and without me
Always
Under the windings
of the sea
Please don’t be so consumed by the unsaid
or let the dread of
regret in your heart
I see you
and when our luck breaks free
I’ll carry you the way you carried me
Always
Under the windings
of the sea
All will
be right
We relay light
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9. |
Stranger in the Alps
03:17
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Stranger’s in the house
and it’s clear
it’s going off the rails
Confident in speech
you detail
someone-fucked-me-over tales
Whispers in the ceiling
say things
I don’t want to hear
until it starts to feel
so real
and like a second skin
These new relationships to truth,
I don’t know what it means
Cos it's strange
It's strange
Stranger still…
Cruelty becomes ballet
and we play
all our choreographed parts
when you believe contrition
is conditioned
and more science than art
Oh, you can hold your own parade
but it's still gonna rain
Cos it's strange
it's strange
Stranger still…
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10. |
Stoned Ape
02:58
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Expect not a theory
Expect not a joke
It’s more like a story
meant to provoke
I’ve got a wandering spirit
boundless and free
and though you will not admit it
you’d like to be more like me
Standing on the edge of something new
Climbing up for a better view
Open to the wide with no defense
I’m a stoned ape
Stoned ape
Go on shake your own snow globe
Luminous, a lightning bolt
With your rich kid blues
and my hand to mouth
you’re trapped inside,
but I’ll spit you out
Standing on the edge of something new
Climbing up for a better view
Open to the wide with no defense
I’m a stoned ape
Stoned ape
All your life
you’ve been searching for a place to be
All this time
you’ve become a newborn devotee
A major psychic
an expeditious trip
Come get enlightened
on this judicious slip
No, don’t be frightened
Your senses heightened now
Standing on the edge of something new
Climbing up for a much better view
Wide open and with no defense
I’m a stoned ape
Stoned ape
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Aloud Los Angeles, California
Aloud is, in the parlance of our times, a rock n’ roll band. Since our founding in Boston in the early 2000s we’ve released
5 albums, toured coast-to-coast several times, and even landed music in a few films. We’ve called L.A. home since 2017.
Aloud's latest album Apollo 6 is out May 19, 2023.
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