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System

by Hillward

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    4 Pages Mailer. Artwork by Dimitri Lavoie.

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1.
Travelled from miles away The current grows day by day Fuelled by the falling rain Wild as I am As I stand Waiting for the world to change Like a mountain stream Hurrying to the sea The waters are brought to life Bounded to be free Running in your veins The stream is in you A flood at the other end The river is you
2.
It's a long way down To find a cure for our wounded world Lying deep inside The reason for our strange behaviour It's a puzzling lane Like a medicated feast for all There's a fix behind Every action we should take in time We're on our way down below I see dreams are fading Letting the dark clouds gather closer Sparrows hiding behind Earth is dying Dreams are fading Dark clouds gather Sparrows hiding behind Earth is dying
3.
Haven 04:06
Night falls on me Darkness comforts me Here We never close our eyes We hold the cold inside And never criticize There The summer never dies They get to sleep tight No need to compromise But you make feel alive Since I'm losing track of time By drowning into wine I slowly gasp for air Just tell me when we should go I never really cared About the hours that flow And you make feel alive
4.
Hollow 05:51
Fading Beyond the pale Losing All hope in Men As we're lying to ourselves As we feed anger with pain As we wait for the world to change Suddenly life doesn't taste the same As we walk to the sea Stand in line Dive with me Buried In shallow graves Leaders And modern slaves Dreams as they fade in the clouds Demons absolving the crowds The ones who should be the last to die And those with all that money cannot buy
5.
Late at night, he feels alone Awkward mood, no lights on Bitterness surrounds the room He gently asked me to move Neither sad Nor undisposed He made his way up to the phone He's crying on the radio Entry door barely locks Ceiling's low, lighting's dark Shitty bed, no sheets on Tablecloth upon the windows Neither warm and comfortable Nor safe enough to call it home He's crying on the radio First it came rasping at my door It lasts for a moment then nothing more After a while the shutters went wild It seems to last for evermore As much as I can remember There it lied inanimate Then darkness came veiling the skies And wash away blood off my eyes
6.
Flat Light 07:28
Flat light in grey skies Dead as the life she cried As I sit here and gaze At the early morning sunrise Still I do not know where to go Life undenied I see things so bright Shades of light divide Day from night Flat light on hill side Can't tell earth from skies
7.
Fragile 06:24
One last time before it disappears One last walk into the setting sun With no one here to tell me right or wrong Is life itself a reason to be strong? My desires I relieve All my life is but a dream within a dream Promises, broken as they're made Hollow tears falling down like rain Hope must be a figment of my imagination Since our world is nothing but illusion I know I need to follow my heart Fragile, I am a prisoner of time My life is a persuasive illusion I'm torn between dreams and reason It only takes one glance to make me feel fragile How many smiles before I realize I'm torn
8.
I ran the numbers over and over Still the odds were against me, whatsoever My dreams are slowly dying My songs are lost in oblivion As the world keeps on spinning and turning, sadly All day, behind the silence All night, behind the words spinning round and round Over my head like vultures in the moonlight, dancing Okay, again I know I'll be alright I'm like a ghost left here, motionless Forever lost in the system Like a spirit waiting How long yet how many times I tried to take shelter in the arms of isolation? I won't make it through another day I won't fight like a wounded prey I won't deal with tomorrow's mistake Neither be here when the world breaks

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released July 31, 2018

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Hillward Quebec City, Québec

Heavy progressive rock quintet from Quebec, Canada.

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