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The Lightning Tree

by Sam Jones

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1.
There's nothing colder Than facing up To a lack of control These sterile hands Won't ever take The deeper pains away What happens within Rots the wild machines of time And I can't help but dream Of returning to what once was mine Why can't I see What comes next while Waiting on my Heart's arrest and If I grow old What does that mean Is it too late Too be born clean But outside these walls and windows The weather's closing in And I can't bear to take these steps With my form so weak And paper thin Why can't I see the end point Cos I don't know if I've even Woken up But these reflections Hide your face and My fragile heart can't Find its space If we lived forever Would things change Or are we too lost To take the blame
2.
Dark Harvest 04:51
Make them break Let the arteries swim Let it gush away These darkest seeds That twist and turn Inside my tired brain Cos it's been twenty thousand days And though I put my face on I still can't escape It's time to harvest all this pain And let it find Its perfect angry space Curse the sun And howl in pain at the Moon that breaks the dark I stoked these fires That kept the ones I loved most from my heart Because I see you every night And though it's not your fault I'm sick of trying to fight I've never said a thing of worth But I'm not the same man That I was at my birth I just want to be loved I just want to be the one That someone's thinking of Let it rise Thing anger just gets Worse when left inside And help me scream I'm half alive and I don't know what it means And is it still worth holding on Survival of the fittest I just don't belong I'm looking through the other side Cos this place is fucked and torn apart I'm waiting to arrive To arrive
3.
It's not something that can be seen with open eyes The place where all the souls are caught Beneath the muddied silent tides And I can't let these claws wrap around my feet And drag me down into the place Where all these minds can never sleep Please free me If you cared at all Or release me I don't want you to see me fall Below This medication's hurting me again It's not something that I expect The ones I love to comprehend And I don't know if this is all that I deserve But there has to be a line between The heaven's peak And hell on earth I'm so tired Of being the root of others' pain And feeling That I'm the ones who's gone insane But all my instincts turn to dust When I don't know who I can trust But that's not right And that's not fair To think that you have never cared Forgive me Please let me show A place we never Got to know I love you With all my heart I'd walk through hell For a fresh start One more chance Is all I need To show you how bright Things could be Take my love It's yours to keep So it can breathe When I'm asleep Take my love It's yours to keep So it can breathe When I'm asleep
4.
Diazepam 05:58
You're doing fine You're not all that sick Take your true love And banish it You're so defiant Of colour swarms We don't always Get what we want I don't know what we're lying for And I don't believe that this is what We needed all along My heart rate just keeps sinking more And there's just no easy way to bring it back So take this world Let it collapse I risked it all I miss it so much The summer's breeze The gentle touch So rot in this hole When half at ease The results will show My fallacies I know I've seen this all before But that doesn't excuse me from Destroying it all You're just so fucking beautiful But there's just no easy way to bring you back So take this world, let it collapse In the middle of the night I'll think Back to how it started And I'll scratch their names onto my arm To honour the departed But we try to keep an even glance Over their tombs And we will dance For admiration and respect To celebrate the ones who left And later on we'll collapse in To hide away from where we've been Forget that there's a world outside The gaze of one another's eyes And that night we will fall asleep Removed from all the doubts that creep Into our heads in waking lives We can't go back We'll stay till it arrives
5.
Pitch 03:37
It's hard to count how many hours That I sat and waited Just blowing smoke and staying calm From all the judging faces And I knew this was the right place And I had nothing left to risk Because in my head I had shot dead Any right to exist And I saw you out there smiling Making waves with hands and feet Finally in your element in ways I always hoped to meet But we're miles away from home now And though I wanted to be near There's a petrifying word that Just runs circles in my ear There's a part of me that wanted To stand up and meet his gaze Full of anger and bravado and Put my fist into his face But I'm so tired of hurting others In this state of broken health And in these dying dreams And whispered cries I only hurt myself So I waited for the road to clear And saw you walk away Holding hands with someone new who took My frailed hope away But it doesn't fucking matter What I think or who's to blame Just as long as you're now happy I can try to find the strength to walk aw
6.
Break/Build 05:49
What does this silence mean There's no one listening What God did this to me No hole to crawl back in I walked a thousand miles Without a place to roam The only part of me Alive that I could show And what's the difference Between an end and a start anyway But come on What pieces are you so scared of He is everything you said you want And I can't qualify his empty words But it's not about what we deserve Or what we want What do they want from me I've destroyed everything I've lost the whole of me and I Can't rebuild everything I hope I'm bright enough To learn from my mistakes And I last long enough To finally find my place I only wanted you To be happy in the end It's not a test But my friends Things will always work out In the end And they're finally starting To amend But I'm so far away from everyone And I miss you all so fucking much I can't go on But come on What pieces are you so scared of He is everything you said you want And I can't qualify my empty words But it's not about what I deserve Or what I want

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My ninth album. Hope you enjoy it!

This album is for everyone who has been so supportive and caring to me in what has been a difficult year in my life. This record wouldn't exist if it wasn't for you - there are too many of you to name, but you know who you are.

This album is also for everyone who has ever taken the time to listen to my music, given me feedback, seen me perform, written about it or recommended it, and supported me in my creative endeavours over the years - particularly to those of you who have been doing so ever since I started back in 2009.

It's been a great ride. Thank you.


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released December 23, 2014

All songs written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Sam Jones

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I'm a London based recording artist with a habit of oversharing.

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