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Sons of The Soil
03:54
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SONS OF THE SOIL
It’s a long road to city limits
When crawling up from the pits
It’s long climb up the mountain
For the outlawed and forsaken
They learned how to crawl
Over high, invisible walls
Where few stand tall and proud
Among the staring crowd
Breaking ties that bind
Never looking behind
New sons of the soil
New daughters of the earth
Held in fear since birth
Taught how to recoil
They’re longing to escape
From parasites in wait
Trying to break free
From hometown casualties
Breaking ties that bind
Never looking behind
Walk the longest mile
On a tightrope so high
Watching spirits die
It’s a long road to city limits
When crawling up from the pits
It’s a long climb back down
For strangers in a ghost town
They learned how to crawl
Over high, invisible walls
Seeing their world fit
Only beyond city limits
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2. |
My Eyes in Your Room
03:29
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MY EYES IN YOUR ROOM
My eyes in your room
My eyes in your room
I'll keep my life and my eyes in your room
My eyes in your room
My eyes live in this room
They consent then they repent in your room
Hypnotized
By a new lover's eyes
Moving shadows
In the T.V. glow
My eyes in your room
I left my eyes in your room
There's a big elephant in your room
Acting out
Hiding under the bed
Waiting to shout
And spill the unsaid
We're killing boredom
And chasing wisdom
Tasting freedom
In a lover's venom
Where time burns
And much is learned
There lies horror
Behind the mirror
My eyes in your room
Feel my eyes in your room
I left my life and my eyes in your room
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3. |
The Ugly City
04:41
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THE UGLY CITY
I took a trip, I took a trip, I took a trip to the ugly city
I lost my soul, I lost my soul, I lost my soul in the ugly city
Where love is a dish
Revenge served in bed
Where thoughts light fires
In vicarious killers
Where Jesus lives at the end of a glass
And God's been run out of town
And there's no one else around
No one else around
To witness the death of love
From the frozen backseat
Of a Saturday night cab
Neon sleaze, black satin-sheets
bring back the seventies
You're the only one left inside
When the party's over
And love is asleep
Too tired to try
Too tired to try
In the ugly city
To love or not to care
I ask the question
In a sea of oblivion
In need of a vision
Waiting for pain to kick-in
To love or not to care
I must decide
With or against the tide
When love has died
By media-suicide
What is here stays here
What is here stays here
In the ugly city
In the ugly city
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4. |
Endless Bridge
05:18
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ENDLESS BRIDGE
A first kiss on a broken sofa
Sweet as a new era
Then we waited for your bus
Under the falling snow
While God smiled upon us
And the road left to go
Catch love out of thin air
Learning not to be scared
Then I learned to walk to you
The way old stray cats do
There’s a sacred love growing wild
From your hand to mine
Can you give time a chance
A chance to make amends
Until I’m done, until I’m done,until I’m done
Crossing my endless bridge
A last kiss in a doorway
Helpless and in a daze
The I had to watch you go
Under the falling snow
From where we once were
To where we will be
I can see my guard go down
Like a gambler’s one last hand
I stand with an olive branch
As your plane hits the ground
There’s a sacred love to repair
In a secret room somewhere
Can you give time a chance
A chance to make amends
Until we’re done, until we’re done, until we’re done
Crossing our endless bridge
Please see the road I now see
Where love is at last free
Please see the love I now release
Like an offering to the sea
Please see the road I now see
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5. |
Late
03:19
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LATE
Freeze-frame the end of an age
While eternity lingers
No sense lamenting today
Sound-asleep in a borrowed world
But now it's getting late
It's getting late
Back when the Earth was young
We enjoyed the ride
Carefree times, flying high
Dismissing the warning signs
But now it's getting late
It's getting late
To rise, rise
Is there any life
Still breathing
Anywhere,anywhere
By the side of the road
The last elder's gone from beneath the last tree
The last dove's gone flying with nowhere to fly to
It's getting much too late
For the sun to rise, watch the water rise
After all's gone dry
Everywhere, everywhere
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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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