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Slow Beast

by Old Nick

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1.
Like the long hard winter that whips at our backs rolling across the country and blowing through the cracks we can get through the nights if we think of the past when we lived through some turmoil but it always did pass the sounds of the city are weighing on me honking horns and shouting in the streets there's nothing to see here the police always say but at the scene of the crime you can't look away and take heart my only love there's nothing to scare that I can think of cause nothing in this world was meant to last and these troubling times will surely pass there's an ocean of silence between us these days what's left unsaid rattles in my head going to war is no easy task going it alone is too much to ask we didn't start this thing to lay down our arms when the going gets tough when we're flying toward harm there's nothing to do but charge in the night toward the coming of day toward end of the fight
2.
You ask me for an answer It’s something I can’t give But if I were a gambling man I’d say that I’ll soon be bereaved And everybody wants to be something They can’t ever be Everybody wants to know something They can’t ever feel It’s a foregone conclusion You’re gonna leave me in the fall When the wicked winds grown strong When the seasons change and the leaves turn I’ll watch as all of our hopes and dreams burn And I’ll turn heavy on the bottle To ease my troubled mind I won’t want to leave the house I’ll see your face in crowds all the time It’s a foregone conclusion Our love will ebb like the high of a purchase And we’ll go looking for some new heights Anything for a brief respite From the monotony of our lives And we’ll buy things and watch things and try things And we’ll lie awake in the dead of the night Knowing we’re just as empty As the great black ocean of sky It’s a foregone conclusion
3.
Pleasure teaches nothing But the joy of pleasure The only way we learn Is through pain What moulds us Isn’t our joy What moulds us Is what maims We were just children Dependent on each other With no one to depend On us Playing house with all of Our trinkets and trifles and stuff Close your eyes And depend on trust And the cold night air Smelled of burning leaves And we slept in the same bed But had different dreams In mine I paint a picture With broad strokes of pain Hers left her flush What it was she would not say Like and enemy that just won’t Leave me be Time stole another day Away just like a thief Another day I didn’t make it through Without thinking of us Without thinking of you And sometimes I think It’s better just to die And to go as a hero In people’s minds Instead of limping around Like an injured fool With the stink of defeat Hanging off of you And men dislike it Without knowing why But they think Therefore the grace of god Go I And I’m not Doing to well I don’t feel better At all
4.
Run Away 02:02
There's a long hard road my love hell below and heaven above and a devil in your ear that is preying on your fears can you hear it? Oh no can you feel it? Oh no you can't run away no more in the morning night has fled light is here darkness is dead it brings with it changing wind we can let healing begin
5.
A battered hand that hurts when it rains Pictures on the wall reminders of irrelevant days A nothing job that barely pays The need to improve in countless ways And it was all a sham Nothing left to do I’ve figured it out And I know it’s true What I had going for me was you A dependence on drugs that nags every day A terrible headache that won’t go away A cadre of friends that don’t know me in any way The castle I built was made out of clay My tears on the table A little pools on the wood My thoughts are like knives That just keep drawing blood
6.
Nothing could be more foolish Than to lose your sense of self To tie up all of your happiness In belief in someone else Nothing could be more foolish Than to open up your arms Drop all of your defenses And leave yourself disarmed You made a bad decision You let yourself go Needling thoughts and ideas Sleep won’t come Feebly you will walk out of your cave Shield your eyes
7.
I had a dream About somewhere down the road A winter’s night A call on the telephone A long lost friend A voice on the other end A shattered life A man that’s on the mend I will be there when you turn your life around Been some years now Since I washed my hands of you I think of you often There was nothing left to do You can’t help someone That doesn’t want your help Pangs in my chest Every regret heartfelt Everybody’s gotta cry sometimes Everybody’s gotta feel pain Nobody’s free From the worries of the world But we all feel in our own way
8.
Before I Die 03:12
When the flashbacks come And the time is right For me to leave this life I hope I see my times Before I see the light And I hope you’re the one I see before I die It will jump to the start When I was a child And the road before stretched A thousand lives I can’t understand this life But I sure do try And I hope you’re the one I see before I die You come in to this world alone You leave it that way too I don’t expect to be any different It’s true But I want to take comfort From my mind’s eye I hope you’re the one I see before I die And then I met you And it was good And everything was going As it should Then you were gone Because all things pass And nothing in this world Was meant to last I hope you’re the one I see before I die

about

A central narrative runs throughout this album, though it is not explicitly stated in the lyrics. Slow Beast is a concept album with three distinctive acts. I've titled these acts Crack, Sunder and Surface, and they are separated as such:

Crack
1. Troubling Times
2. Foregone Conclusion
3. Same Bed Different Dreams

Sunder
4. Run Away
5. What I had Going For Me
6. Nothing Could Be More Foolish

Surface
7. Turn Your Life Around
8. Before I Die

If you choose to listen to it, listen to it however you choose.

Thanks,

Nick

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released December 8, 2016

Recorded by Ian Mcgettigan, May 2016
Cover Art by Brit Kewin
Guitar and Vocals by Nick Kewin
All Songs Written by Nick Kewin

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