Albatross

The Classic Crime Albatross Lyrics
1.The Coldest Heart

Lyricist:Matthew Mac Donald

A couple of years and I'm a silhouette
My halo is broken now and I'm all that's left
I hate to disappoint but it's the way things went
I was bound to the things I did and after what was said

Tie up these loose ends
These voices are calling me out
I've got the solution
You can feed me to something
That is leaving this doubt

Whoa, I'm losing hope
There's a hole in my heart
That's been cut out of stone

Whoa, cold comes cold goes
Could you fill this hole?
'Cause I can't do it alone

A couple of tears and I'm a broken mess
The sadness has taken me far too deep in regret
So sing me a song about something good
My heart's on the thrashing floor
And I've done every single thing I could

I use to believe in some kind of feelin'
That could change everything I thought I knew
But that door is closed and
My heart feels like it's frozen
If you hear me I can feel you

Whoa, I'm losing hope
There's a hole in my heart
That's been cut out of stone

Whoa, cold comes cold goes
Could you fill this hole?
'Cause I can't do it alone

The coldest heart can be brought to life
When it's thrown into the fire of goodbyes
The coldest heart can be brought to life
When it's thrown into the fire of goodbyes

The coldest heart can be brought to life
When it's thrown into the fire of goodbyes
The coldest heart can be brought to life
When it's thrown into the fire of goodbyes

Whoa, I'm losing hope
There's a hole in my heart
That's been cut out of stone

Whoa, cold comes cold goes
Could you fill this hole?
'Cause I can't do it alone

Whoa, I'm losing hope
There's a hole in my heart
That's been cut out of stone

Whoa, cold comes cold goes
Could you fill this hole?
'Cause I can't do it alone

I've got the coldest heart
('Cause I can't do it alone)
I've got the coldest heart
I've got the coldest heart
I've got the coldest heart


2.All The Memories

Lyricist:Justin Duque, Matthew Mac Donald

I can't stop killing songs you like
You look at me with eyes
Beat the sunrise in a contest, no question

Well, talk to all the others
And bring me back to earth
I'm thankful for your mother for what it's worth

Oh, all the memories we had
Framed in our minds like photographs
Take a second, take a second and make this last
Here where the future meets the past

I can never fall in love again
I can never fall in love again

I can't stop moving 'cause I'll feel dead
Give me a second
And I'll turn into a year that you won't forget

We'll make them read our stories
And we'll make them eat their words
We'll make their lives seem boring for what it's worth

Oh, all the memories we had
Framed in our minds like photographs
Take a second, take a second and make this last
Here where the future meets the past

I can never fall in love again
I can never fall in love again

I'll drink your poison and say
I'm still not going away
I'll swallow all your bombs and grenades
And love you like a tsunami wave
Wave, wave

Oh, all the memories we had
Framed in our minds like photographs
Take a second, take a second and make this last
Here where the future meets the past

And I can never fall in love again
I can never fall in love again

Oh, all the memories
Framed in our minds
Take a second, take a second and make this last
Here for a while

I can never fall in love again
I can never fall in love again

Oh, all the memories
Framed in our minds
Take a second, take a second and make this last
Here for a while

I can never fall in love again
I can never fall in love again
Again


3.Blisters & Coffee

Lyricist:Justin Duque, Matthew Mac Donald

A showdown at dusk
This old town is lost
I'm flat on my back
And I can't see through the dust

But you never told me
That I was worthy
You didn't let me live
Just to hurt me

Desperate, we will lift up our hands
Stronger, we will rise up against
Freedom is a part of us all
It's time to let it go

Desperate, we will lift up our hands
Stronger, we will rise up against
Freedom is a part of us all
It's time to let it go

What happens now when I walk out of town
And the enemy surrounds me bent on hunting me down?
I'll be moving silent while the enemy sleeps
I'll show no mercy like the first time when they came after me

You'll never catch me
You'll never own me
Out on this lonely landscape I am free

Desperate, we will lift up our hands
Stronger, we will rise up against
Freedom is a part of us all
It's time to let it go

Desperate, we will lift up our hands
Stronger, we will rise up against
Freedom is a part of us all
It's time to let it go

I guess we figured it out
One by one we're picking them off
I guess we figured it out
One by one we're picking them off

I guess we figured it out
One by one we're picking them off

Desperate, we will lift up our hands
Stronger, we will rise up against
Freedom is a part of us all
It's time to let it go

Desperate, we will lift up our hands
Stronger, we will rise up against
Freedom is a part of us all
It's time to let it go


4.The Fight

Lyricist:Justin Duque, Matthew Mcdonald

Would you go to war for me, baby?
Would you cry for the weak
And die for the peace of men?

Oh, how can we know?
You and I both know
So let's make this boatload
Of excuses burn and sing

One day it all comes down to this
You can sink or swim, you can handle this
One day it all comes down
One day we all go down

I'll take my heart back
And set the people free
I'll leave the dead to die
And take what's coming with me

I'll take my heart back
And set the people free
I'll leave the dead to die
And take what's coming with me

Step back for all the world to see
Your life means all the world to me
I'll take your pain and suffering
But I'm such a sucker sometimes

Sometimes we don't know
So plug up those bullet holes
Oh, you feel so close
Don't let go until I say

One day we'll drink to this and say
Remember when we died
We went out in flames

One day we'll drink to this and say
Remember when we died
We went out

I'll take my heart back
And set the people free
I'll leave the dead to die
And take what's coming with me

I'll take my heart back
And set the people free
I'll leave the dead to die
There will be blood in the streets


I'll take my heart back
And set the people free
I'll leave the dead to die
And take what's coming with me

I'll take my heart back
And set the people free
I'll leave the dead to die
And take what's coming
And take what's coming with me


5.Flight Of Kings

Lyricist:Justin Duque, Matthew Mac Donald

Twenty two years have passed by as I contemplate
I can recall you getting me out of every scrape
What comes first to my mind was the change
That I so desperately needed to make

Day and night
Frozen silent, blinding violent fear
A song for my fight
Comes spilling the words I so desperately needed to hear

Do you know this song's for you?
My heart goes out to the hurt you feel inside

What hurts more than just dying is living barely alive
After all it's easier than falling short every time
I felt the pain and set fire to the grace
That I so desperately needed to take

Day and night
Frozen silent, blinding violent fear
A song for my fight
Comes spilling the words I so desperately needed to hear

Do you know this song's for you?
My heart goes out to the hurt you feel inside
Do you know this song's for you?
My heart goes out to the hurt you feel

I was brought up through the ashes
Like a phoenix birthing wings
And I will fight for my disasters
I will take the flight of kings

And if your life is ever torched
Or if you know the pain I sing
Then will you sing with me this chorus
And we will cut through people's hearts and free them

Do you know this song's for you?
My heart goes out to the hurt you feel inside
Do you know this song's for you?
My heart goes out to the hurt you feel


6.We All Look Elsewhere

Lyricist:Matthew Mac Donald

Lost sense, direction
Nobody knows my name
Confidence, correction
Don't know how to play that game

Straight line is quicker
Straight line would make me fast
I've burned my nose enough to know
That straight lines never last

Swallow your soul
And drink from this life
As you choke on your pride

We all look elsewhere
We all look elsewhere

It's safer inside doors
Nobody has to flee
Broken vessel
Passed the rocks and out to sea

Waiting, wanting
Mad with purpose
Now we come to talk to one
Who knows the answer to how

Swallow your soul
And drink from this life
As you choke on your pride

Don't waste your time if you've got it
The tides are turning now
You are not alone

They gave you their worst and you bought it
The lie has been exposed
You are not alone

Winter that comes quick in early September
The rain clouds that washed me are what I remember
The stones that I threw piled high like a mountain
Which I had to climb before I reached the fountain

If life is a riddle then riddle me this
The blood tasted sweet as it passed by my lips

Don't, don't waste your time
Don't, don't waste your time
Don't waste your time

Don't waste your time if you've got it
The tides are turning now
You are not alone, liar, liar

They gave you their worst and you bought it
The lie has been exposed
You are not alone


7.Headlights

Lyricist:Matthew Mac Donald

A summer drive away from dying
A broken heart, nothing to lose
I know it hurts so bad just trying
To please the ones you hate to love

And I wrote this note
About someone I used to know
So I'd remember how life can be so short
When your left alone to wonder
How it is someone opens and shuts the door

And I know you're cold but come home
It's a shame how short we all have come

You set your mind on cruise control
Knuckles grip the wheel in fear to let it go
Love is empty, love is cruel
Love, it blindly breaks the rules

How could you have been a fool?
It's something all of us go through
You choke back tears and swallow lies
But those wiper blades won't fix you eyes
Count on having clouded vision for at least a little while

And I know you're cold but come home
It's a shame how short we all have come
And I know you're cold but come home
Please don't face the headlights
Of the oncoming cars along

We won't forget the past
We won't forget the past
And I know you're cold

Say all the answers and I will let you go
I won't look back and I won't look back
Say all the answers and I will let you go
I will let you go and I will let you go

Say all the answers and I will let you go
I won't look back and I won't look back
Say all the answers and I will let you go
I will let you go and I will let you go

(Say all the answers and I will let you go)
You're gone
(I won't look back and I won't look back)

Please don't face the headlights
(Say all the answers and I will let you go)
Of the oncoming cars along
(I will let you go)
And I will let you go


8.Who Needs Air

Lyricist:Matthew Mac Donald

I long to taste adventure like the nature of the sea
Always moving, always hiding, all the creatures from beneath
Singing silent songs of sadness, my heart waits for its chance
To dance upon the ashes of my burned up little plans

And I stand alone before the night
My nakedness is so clear in the glow of the moonlight
Life is old but so short
We are young, we want more

I'm drowning but I don't care
Because when you got what I got, what I got
Who needs air? I don't need air

My addiction too danger like the rush of the sea
Like a wave on the rocks, the lessons crash down on me
I don't need to prove the world to you, only to myself
So step back, look away as I dive into the swell

I'm drowning but I don't care
Because when you got what I got, what I got
Who needs air?

So take me down to the river like a little child
And take my hand and tell me it's okay to be wild
I never knew the world until I saw through your eyes
I never knew myself until I ripped off my disguise

I'm drowning but I don't care
Because when you got what I got, what I got
Who needs air?

I'm drowning
(I have come to the realization that)
But I don't care
(Life is more than what I have accomplished and)

Because when you got what I got, what I got
(Life is more then the realization that)
Who needs air?
(We have accomplished nothing at all)

I'm drowning
(True success is so selfless so drown in the)
But I don't care
(Lyrics of your life and give up the air that you breathe)

Because when you got what I got, what I got
(You don't need anything)
I don't need air
(You don't need anything)

I don't need air


9.I Know The Feeling

Lyricist:Matthew Mac Donald

I know it cuts you inside every time that you try
To take a pathway in life that leaves you so un-obliged
Every promise is lies, every smile makes you cry
Leaves you so un-alive, so un-alive

I wish I could take the fall maybe by that I could solve
The problems we're all having
It's been a while since you've felt like you've been home
Your life's just flesh and bone

Your heart is worth more than you know
The one thing that hurts more than your life
Is to wake up one more time alone
It's to wake up one more time alive

So take us in, we'll stop you dead
We'll show you something you won't ever forget
This life's a road, no place is home
My heart's a hole that needs to constantly be filled with love

This time it's all that I've got
Words hit the page like gunshots
My stomach's left in a knot
My pride is left here to rot

It's been a while since I've felt this restless
By definition it's depressing but I'm alright
It kills to wake up one more time alone
It kills to wake up one more time alive

So take us in, we'll stop you dead
We'll show you something you won't ever forget
This life's a road, no place is home
My heart's a hole that needs to constantly be filled with love

I know the feeling of being all alone
So let's drink to the fact that we're not
I know the feeling of being all alone
So let's drink to the fact that we're not

So take us in, we'll stop you dead
We'll show you something you won't ever forget
This life's a road, no place is home
My heart's a hole that needs to constantly be filled with love


10.Say The Word

Lyricist:Justin Duque, Matthew Mcdonald

I had months to write a song
That captured who you are
But I fear I have done you wrong
Because I've failed you so far

The chord that struck, an angel fell
Skies went dark and it all comes down
The choices made, the lies forgotten
Oh, well

This is the way that I know
This is the way that I know
I would give everything for some hope

Are you different?
Could I be different too?
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you like I do

'Cause there's a song outside my window
And it plays to your tune
And there's a life inside this pencil
And it lives for what is true

'Cause I am lost for words, the cost for her
Was way to much to bear
You're not perfect but I don't care

This is the way that I know
This is the way that I know
I would give everything for some hope

Are you different?
Could I be different too?
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you like I do

Are you different?
Could I be different too?
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you like I do

Say the word, say the word

Are you different
Could I be different too?
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you like I do
Yeah, no

Are you different?
Could I be different too?
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you like I do

Are you different?
Could I be different too?
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you like I do


11.The Bitter Uprising

If you listen to the sound of hope
In the children's voices asking questions
You'll know how blindness is a blessing

But I know your type, you're always right
Your tongue controls your mind
But I guess life's the lesson

If they said forty years I would die before
I let them take the love that I have paid for with my tears
And now the time has come to cut our tongues out
And commit ourselves as you did in your memory

We'll tear down the walls and let them know
We could have it all, we could have some hope
This city could be ours by nightfall

Do you hear the war drums beating?
Are you truly happy doing nothing, darling?
I need to find the center

Because love is something right
It's not cooked up overnight
In sticky situations you try
But less is more forever

If they said forty years, I would die before
I let them take the love that I have paid for with my tears
And now the time has come to cut our tongues out
And commit ourselves as you did in your memory

We'll tear down the walls and let them know
We could have it all, we could have some hope
This city could be ours by nightfall, nightfall

We'll tear down the walls and let them know
We could have it all, we could have some hope
This city could be ours by nightfall

The minute I was born, you stole my heart
The minute I was born, you stole my heart
The minute I was born, you stole my heart
The minute I was born, the minute I was born

Tear down the walls and let them know
We could go all night, we could just stay home
This city could be ours by nightfall, nightfall

We'll tear down the walls and let them know
We could have it all, we could have some hope
This city could be ours by nightfall


12.Warrior Poet

Lyricist:Justin Enrique Duque, Matthew James Mac Donald

Couldn't be more far from the truth
If you could do to me the things you would do
And I know you're on to me, I'm watching you wanting me
You hung down the rebels and punish them wrongfully
You came with fire and weapons to kill

Warrior poet once said
â½You're not dead yet so live like you could beâ
Warrior poet said
â½Have no regrets when you're old
Have no regrets when you're oldâ

I'm not looking for you to be anything
But my ultimate enemy so back off
You're not what I would prefer to see
When my body rots I still won't give you the courtesy
You came with fire for the last time

Warrior poet once said
â½You're not dead yet so live like you could beâ
Warrior poet said
â½Have no regrets when you're old
Have no regrets when you're oldâ

When your body wants to run
But your heart knows you're better than that
The blood you spilled on battlefields
I promise you will not go unspent

Neither will I leave you stranded
The promise rings as our battle cry
You're never alone regardless of doubt
But faith comes so easy to some

Better luck next time, better luck next time
Watch as the teargas burns my eyes
It burns my eyes

Warrior poet once said
â½You're not dead yet so live like you could beâ
Warrior poet said
â½Have no regrets when you're old
Have no regrets when you'reâ