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Friends For Hours

by Citylake

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1.
INTERROGATION This is an interrogation And you’re on the wrong side of the desk Suddenly you feel the weight Of every word that’s ever slipped your tongue Each mistake you’ve ever made Builds a world on your back All that you see in this room Reminds you you are here and There’s no way to escape What’s been done is done A dull voice on the airwaves Awoke you from a stranger’s pillow Smell the trail of guilt; you’re a paranoid wreck When the smokescreen starts to clear Now it’s harder to walk Looking over your shoulder All that you see in this room Reminds you you are here and There’s no way to escape What’s been done is done It may not amount to much But it seems like more than enough You might only live once But it feels like more than enough Every eye you read strips you bare Just as if your soul had been exposed Every footstep strikes closer behind Ever so close
2.
CHINATOWN GATES I walked across this city Alive with flashbacks from east to west Main Street glowed with Christmas lights Shimmering through a blizzard As a century stood still My life rang like a countdown Misused days and glorious nights with friends Lovers and in-betweens come back Some things only make sense when you know it’s the last time Thinking of you past Chinatown Gates Wide-eyed with a smile on my face I stumbled through Sun-Yat-Sen Square My head full of wishful thinking A past I just tried to rewrite Is it the alcohol speaking Or am I way too sane for my own good Misused days and glorious nights Wasted clinging to the wrong dreams Some things only make sense when you know it’s too late Thinking of you past Chinatown Gates Screaming your name in my head Facing the world with my heart on edge Could it all mean something new now? Thinking of you (…) my heart on edge And as the snow kept falling My spirits sank and rose again Back home, old songs playing on I watched a thousand years wind down live And I thought of everything That came before, that’s coming soon And the world got up on the same old land One time zone at the time But I only wished we were in the same one That your soul was here, Right now, Now………..
3.
NIGHT REVERIE Between the stars above And the garden below My feet firmly grounded My head wandering off I surrender myself To thoughts from the unknown Vast as space and imagination Beyond sight and sound Beyond Earth’s cocoon Streaming from an ocean of green and blue In this Nocturnal reverie Staring at infinity I’ll follow my still body To another reality Stretching itself To life from the unknown Beneath my feet, up in the Milky Way Between shadow and light Beyond earth’s cocoon From the microscopically small To the telescopically big Where everything travels at the speed of light I’m ready to land back home
4.
END OF A DECADE It's something I can feel in the air Nothing visible but it's there Cars got small, life runs fast For the fashionably bored There's an edge to all I see I can't quite define it just yet If it's on everyone's mind That makes it real Give old ideas new names Write rules on the fly In this end of a decade New nations on the rise, recycle your maps We'll need new books tomorrow Writing's out, action's in One thing at the time is dead Stop living life in sepia Just be within reach at all times Privacy is a thing of the past Don't we get our kicks Act first, think later The future is televised In this end of a decade An angry young man is on his way He just crossed the bridge into town Remains of the dreams that the city has sown Flash before his eyes Time to change the Guard Tonight is the night he'll remember Next end of a decade Come to me, we'll be friends for hours Come to me, we'll be friends for hours
5.
A NOTE ON THE TABLE The twilight sun’s sinking down Slowly fading behind the see-through drapes Dusk moves your shadow While you’re still as a corpse Eyes are red from all those bitter pills Moods spin on dimes Guilt cut my spine Before one of us Leaves a note on the table There might be one last song, one last silence See murder in your eyes but I can’t die again I knew all along, yet I wished I was wrong Sinking low, we’ve outlived the high Too strained to sleep but it’s too late to go home Nerves are on edge knives are out You can’t be one so you hurt apart No sideshow or fight it’s all been cried for inside No secrets left The jukebox will do the rest Before one of us Leaves a note on the table There might be one last song, one last silence See murder in your eyes but I can’t die again I knew all along, yet I wished I was wrong

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Recorded in the summer of 2011 it's a collection of new songs as well as oldies the band had been performing live for a long time. Crank-up the bass frequencies on your EQ settings. This music works best with headphones

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released August 22, 2013

Martin Saint: Voice-Guitar-Keyboards
Lewis Handford : Drums, Percussion
Alec McElcheran : Bass

Recorded and mixed at Mixart Studios, Montreal by David Sturton and Francis Belanger Lacas.

Self-Produced.

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Citylake Montreal, Québec

A Montreal-based quartet active from 2009 to 2019. After a few lineup changes, only bandleader Martin Saint remained from the early days. After the release of their 3rd E.P, To Love or Not to Care, they opened for BC's shoegaze band Did You Die and performed on Concordia University CJLO's Pancake Party show. Here are their three studio E.Ps, as well as the mini live album of their radio set. ... more

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