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It's Better This Way

by Johnnyrook

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1.
The Longing 00:54
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Emotion erased from his mind Like a plot to a story-line And it thickens as he searches to find But he knows he is out of time Last seconds slowly unwind And he manages to survive And if anything he know's he's in another world And you're running scared And there's nothing to fear My cancer, this poisoned disease There's no cure where there's no relief The answers won't come to me There's no chance cause I don't believe That if anything I don't believe I'm in another world So, here we are Stuck under this parallel universe that's left us in the dark We're cutting close Time's wearing thin Our last; we'll lay it down on the line All of our lives
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Slow from your eyes You hold in these tears Slow sink or die While you've wasted these years Passing you by The chance to be cared When you decide You'll find me here No safe surprise When the whole world stands still Looking back on the old Chances are I'm seeing something different Forget the past I've been told hide the scars That are bringing you down Understand there's a point To a spark that's lighting your affliction You have my all my heart Make a decision Out from the old A brand new beginning A love that's untold But the story's written Weep for what you can't Plead your deposition Another waking pass And still you get convicted I see the envy in your eyes And I know what you're thinking Maybe I know something you don't care to know You'll never know how I feel This secret; I'll keep it
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Your hero's on his way Your fate he can't control Heeding his dismay You separate your soul Casting off his cape You've turned him cynical Now it's time to break his hold If you would've...could have Hold me close don't let me go With a light on in the attic And I'm saying my prayers But the truth is I'm ready and waiting to go home From the moment you said it (goodbye) I'll regret it for years Another sleepless night But you can rest assure I will feed the fire We'll watch this city burn While the fire's bright The second hand will turn Further out of sight Now it's time to break their hold And I needed space You needed time I can't bare your face when you start to cry I'm going to miss you love But it's so bitter What do I do now? I can't take all the pain in the whole world for you
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It's a lie, a fake It's the source of waste Picking and choosing what we take In the course of things I've dis-positioned everything But in the taste of sin We will not stop until we begin I don't know who started this game There are no rules but pleasure or pain So you'll leave me But that's all pardon the fall You have not been here long enough So swallow your tears You're a hypocrite Calming the seas then making waves You indulge a bit An endless obsession for what you crave And your lifestyle prey's On the confused and wandering And hold these words in vein This argument turns to tradegy You lucked out you're back again You finally made your way back in Down to a bitter end You'll start to condescend I don't know
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Prelude 01:10
Swim in your sea Seasons of faith Fading light Lay in my head Every sin
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Impostor 03:52
Darling you're different Than anything I've ever seen Truth is I'm anxious, I faked it when I told you those Lies to your face Tried to reconcile but you're gone and lost You'll never love again It's not like I'm sleeping Motions keep me breathing Who cares who tries? We'll just live our lives Someday I'll find my own way But for now I'll stay the same Just the same as right or wrong You try to reconcile but You're gone and lost I'll never love you again Call my name Don't call it out start it the same I'm safe You can try to break me I'm the same as yesterday
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Three Dreams 04:04
Watch the sunrise fade into the day Just one more morning With the only fear I could ever taste I feel the silent breath of glory My hands are tied with the push of fate But what more is important It's not the truth I couldn't face But it's sad to say It was hell when you all fell in And I draw a blank My end is where you'll begin What a shame You have to live your life each day No room to make your own mistakes I count the seconds with an open mind It's a free flowing emotion You have to make what you deserve Change your place This feat looks too far You'll find that you were so lost in the otherwise It's too short to realize That there's no fault in taking time Take a look at where you lie What's inside Where were you when I almost died?
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These pictures black and white No memory of this prior life In a moment it disappears So lost from the get go And I can't seem to let this go This time you're right and I'm out of place To taste what you denied me for so long Without this second chance where will I be Too far down the river You can't save me just by swimming This time I'll stand alone This time I'm on my own If you would've come home There'd be so much more to depend on And the fortunate ones get to go You need the silence to fall tonight I'll wait for the night to last too long It grows but there's no hope You can't show what you don't know Hear what I say Lost in the wings Just let it go Doesn't mean a thing to me You say what you mean And I live to hear you speak I chase the world with you I say what I mean And I live to hear you speak I chase the world with you This time I'm right you're wrong that's how it's got to go You have to find your innocence spilling out
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Broken Legs 03:22
I'm mesmerized by this candle and its' flame It's under control but not always This vacancy of my memory that's a slave To the control of someone else Slow it down to the level I hear To the motions I make Oh well you made a big mistake So what if I did? Who the fuck cares? Couldn't blame me more than you could blame yourself This social disease that harbors me from the same It's got me out of control and I'm so afraid How much farther will I go? This doesn't sound like me Will my conscience know what's real? Is this point I'm making... Is it clear to you? Is it getting through to you? What now? What then? What have I become? Before the end I won't find anyone I'm not just anyone
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A-Frame 03:02

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released January 1, 2003

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