Our Shadows Will Remain

Joseph Arthur Our Shadows Will Remain Lyrics
1.In Ohio

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

In Ohio
You were born
You will die alone

I'm gonna wait up
(I'm) gonna wait up
(I'm) gonna wait up
For you


2.Can't Exist

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

Well I can't exist
When you disappear
Disintegrating eyes
Swallow everything

Oh sister don't be scared
A thousand times or more
I've walked away alive
On my feet again

(Kill your light/life/lie?)
I will wait for you mother
I will wait for you father
I will wait for you sister
I will wait for you brother

Well I can't exist
So I can't explain
How I lost a thousand dollars
On the street again

Sister don't be scared
A thousand times or more
I've walked away alive
On my feet again

Sister don't be scared
A thousand times or more
I've walked away alive
On my feet again

(Kill your light/life/lie?)
I will wait for you mother
I will wait for you father
I will wait for you sister
I will wait for you brother


3.Stumble And Pain

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

All your gifts come out of hell
You brought them back for love
Throw a bucket down into your well
You fill it with your blood

And you let it go
With the greatest ease
Cause something always stays the same
And always seems

With the need you never fill
Try to leave before it come
Like a man you've paid to kill
Asking you what should be done

And you let it go
With the greatest ease
Cause something always stays the same
And always seems

Sun down on a shady grin
Shaking hands on a sinking ship
Prostitute and a poison friend
Telling you you'll never quit


4.Devil's Broom

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

In a time when I can't get enough to make it
Give me back half the sense that I used to have
Waking up in the sun face down on the pavement
Everything I own in a garbage bag

Where are you?
What did I do?
Why can't you see?
You mean everything to me
To me

Waking up in the tank, disorderly break-up
And no one here will even tell me what I did
With the guilt and the shame completely vacant
It's hard to stay alive when you don't know how to live

Where are you?
What did I do?
Why can't you see?
You mean everything to me
To me

(?Aren't you coming back, I'll never/won't make it alone?)

Since you gone ain't nobody else gonna save me
Cause I can't trade a bottle for an empty room
I just pray that the lord is gonna come down and take me
Sweep me off this floor with the devil's broom

Where are you?
What did I do?
Why can't you see?
You mean everything to me
To me

To me
You mean everything
To me
You mean everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
You mean everything


5.Echo Park

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

Walking with you down through Echo Park
The ghosts fill in the tree
A fire never understands the spark
The way it is with you and me

Freedom
Freedom
Our love won't fade away
Freedom
Freedom
Our love it won't fade away

The children running through the greenest field
The light of love pouring down
And only you and I know how it feels
When no one else is around

Freedom
Freedom
Our love won't fade away
Freedom
Freedom
Our love it won't fade away

Freedom
Freedom
Our love won't fade away
Freedom
Freedom
Our love it won't fade away

Walking with you down through Echo Park
The ghosts fill in the tree
The fire never understands the spark
The way it is with you and me


6.Even Tho

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

I'm getting cold
You used to have a heart
Now I guess there's just a stone
You said leave me alone
But even tho I'm here
You know that I'm already gone

Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone

We've got some time
So let's walk hand in hand together
And hold our heads up high
Since I can't read your mind
You've got to tell me what you're thinking
I won't write in the sky
I won't write in the sky

We're getting old
We've planted our seeds and now we wait for them to grow
You say I never show
You how I really feel or which way I'm gonna go

Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone

We've got some time
So let's walk hand in hand together
And hold our heads up high
Since I can't read your mind
You've got to tell me what you're thinking
I won't write in the sky
I won't write in the sky

No one to hold
The world will make a dream
And a prayer out of our bones
To find where we belong
Our shadows will remain
Even after we are gone

Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone
Gone baby
Even tho I'm here you know that I'm already gone


7.Puppets

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

Give less than I take
Genuine as any fake
I have no memory
Every moment eternally

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else

I cut myself
But no blood came
And no one helped
Strings that we can't see
Puppet you
Puppet me

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else

And you don't know
What it's like to try
To change where you go
And break the lie
And you never show
What it's like inside
To raise your low
And break your pride

Hearts crack like eggs
As children pull the spider's legs
Strays out in our yard
Of buried bones and boulevards

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else


8.Wasted

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

If you're not sorry for who you are
Why are you sorry for where you've been?
I know you carry a secret star
The one you got from your invisible friend

I met you walking in the New York night
I said 'Why are you walking so slow?'
You said 'I'm looking for a book I can write
And after that I ain't got nowhere to go.'

(I'm)
Wasted
I need to find a place to cry
Wasted
I need to find a place to cry

We stayed connected underneath the stones
You told me all the places you come from
I had a feeling I was being born
Inside your world where my heart could never be more

Wasted
I need to find a place to cry
Wasted
You need to find a place to cry
Wasted
We need to find a reason why
Wasted
We need to find a place to cry

If you're not sorry for who you are
Why are you sorry for where you've been?
I know you carry a secret star
The one you got from your invisible friend

(You're)
Wasted
You need to find a place to cry
Wasted
I need to find a place to cry
Wasted
You need to find a place to cry
Wasted

I need to find a place to cry


9.Failed

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

Now you're gone and I don't know why
You removed yourself in the blink of an eye
When the seasons change all you can do is cry
Now you're gone and I don't know why

Maybe I failed
Maybe I failed
Maybe I failed

(What's it like where you are?)
(What's it like to fall that far?)

Now you're gone and I don't know why
You removed yourself in the blink of an eye
When the seasons change all you can do is cry
Now you're gone and I don't know why

Maybe I failed
Maybe I failed
Maybe I failed

(What's it like where you are?)
The way you were I loved you
(What's it like to fall that far?)
The way you were

The way you were I loved you
The way you were


10.I Am

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
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Arranger:Joseph Arthur

You live in a darkness
Made out of your fear
Look into the future
Never are you here

You are not a person
Nor are what you see
Beyond this world you live in
Beyond your memory

To find out what you really are
You must wake up from this long night
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am

Your world is in danger
But your world isn't real
You see what is imagined
Dreaming what you feel

To find out what you really are
You must wake up from this long night
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
I am
I am
I am

You are beyond the sun and the stars
You are the ever present light
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
Repeat the words I am
I am
I am


11.A Smile That Explodes

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

Too young to fall
For a light I think I see
Can't say for sure
The plants have died
My hair has grown
From the thought of you
Coming home

Cause it ain't easy, uh
Waking up at dawn
To find I lost my crown
If I found you there
With flowers in your hair
I'd hold you in my arms
Till we came back down
A smile that explodes
I could never understand

My room too small
To get by without the help of alcohol
Pin my arm to the wall
Now I'm too gone to fight
Not afraid to fall

Cause it ain't easy, uh
Waking up at dawn
To find I lost my crown
If I found you there
With flowers in your hair
I'd hold you in my arms
Till we came back down
A smile that explodes
I could never understand

I write one more
Letter I won't send
Except for across the floor


12.Leave Us Alone

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

He was cut and then there was no fear
The dogs of hell were then unborn
And like a ghost without an atmosphere
His voice sang without a song

Singing to the ships as the foghorns blow
Shipping light where darkness hides
The night was blind but it could see him go
For in this dark his light survives

Go away
Leave us alone
We don't know yet
Who you are
So far
From home

He stands before them as they judge his life
His shadow reaching underneath
He will fight he will reveal his knife
They will question his belief
They will shatter all his teeth

Blood from his mouth and darkness he can see
His suicide is love reborn
And hanging from a noose in secrecy
His mind and spirit will divorce

Go away
Leave us alone
We don't know yet
Who you are
So far
From home

Don't run away

Go away
Leave us alone
We don't know yet
Who you are
So far
From home


13.All Of Our Hands

Lyrics:Joseph Arthur
Music:Joseph Arthur
Arranger:Joseph Arthur

Until we feed the starving, blood is on all of our hands
Babylon is burning and there is no promised land
Until we clothe the naked all of us are damned
Dreams are just for savages calling themselves men

And in time fire will rain down
On our head
The sky will open up
And life will be bled
We are all the same spirit, we are all the same love
And still somehow we've chosen to slaughter the white dove
There is only one energy just different sets of clothes
For human being is to dress up and protect what no one knows

So in time fire will rain down
On our head
The sky will open up
And life will be bled

All of us will fall into the same hole
And all will reunite into the same soul
The death that we allow is the death that is our own
The murders we commit are committed in our home

So in time fire will rain down On our head
The sky will open up
And life will be bled

Murdered by indifference, murdered by our greed
Murdered by our riches taken from the ones in need
Murdered in our churches and murdered by belief
We who just do nothing shall be murdered in our sleep

In time fire will rain down
On our heads
The sky will open up
And life will be bled

Truth is just a word said to the ones who plead
What will we get back when we plant a poison seed?
Consumed by our consumption that can never be enough
The hungry are attacking, they are swallowing our blood

And in time fire will rain down
On our head
The sky will open up
And life wil be bled

The victims are now victimized and the world is inside out
Everyone is terrified the faithful are in doubt
Religion is a gimmick we want back the god they stole
But everyone is fighting to go deeper in the hole
Some believe salvation comes when the world is gone
But we have been forsaken, there is nowhere we belong

So in time fire will rain down
On our head
The sky will open up
And life will be bled