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What You Keep Close

by Riverbeds

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1.
Forth 04:40
Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come for one last dance? Have you ever been deceased? Have you ever walked in Hell? Have you ever been so awake That you could see through the rain, That you could see through my brain? Have you ever been so close? Have you ever seen a ghost? Like stairs that never end Infinite hallways and Dreams of better land You will never understand So go home and mourn the day you were dead Because today this has no end Take a look at yourself It's as good as it will get Have you seen a ghost? Have you been so close? Like stairs that never end Infinite hallways and Dreams of better land You will never understand Desire for the past Finding freedom at last The sea of shades you cast And hope that you will pass You will pass
2.
I don't know where you've been all this time Where did you go? I've been looking for you all along You lost your way. Didn't you care at all? All I hear is the sound of my voice Being taken away Oh how I wish I could stay But this is it for me This is not my place Wide awake on the shore by myself I guess I'll make my own mistakes Sail away, you know what's at stake It's too late And all I hear is the sound of my voice Being taken away Oh how I wish I could stay But this is it for me This is not my place The mirror sea Is staring back at me I needed an anchor but I was a fool to think you'd be Oh how I wish I could stay But this is it for me This is not my place
3.
Homa Lone 06:02
Tearing apart your every ideal They would expect you to stand idle They try to sell you manufactured thoughts And you beg for them to claim your every breath You let them beat you up Yet you apologize and ask for more Your ignorance will be the death of us all You blindly nod, shut up and obey Your world is on fire You fuel the flames and watch it burn Our lives into ruins Is that what you wanted, what you wanted in the end? The freedom you crave, the American dream There's no such thing, it's not what it seems You're but a pawn, no more than a puppet Will you wake up and cut the strings? They fed you bullshit lies, you silently agree You're happy. Are you happy? Your ignorance will be the death of us all And soon we all will fall Your world is on fire You fuel the flames and watch it burn Our lives into ruins Is that what you wanted, what you wanted in the end? Will you wake up and cut the strings?
4.
Hollow minded Cannot find it Pacing slowly For another story to tell And then I think myself to sleep The lights they shatter around me Shallow battles in between the words, only losers A wasteland of a dream that I once had Pieces scattered all over the floor, some are missing I try to make them fit together And then I drink myself to sleep But the bottles betrayed me My mind is shooting blanks I wish that it drew the lines The muse is gone. Will I get out of this mess? The absinthe is not kicking in Waiting for the right time and place, just more ink under my nails It's time to face the facts, the clock is not ticking Repeat and it becomes a disease, I'm just a vessel For the sickness to spread around me And then I give myself the creeps Will burst right out of me? My mind is shooting blanks I wish that it drew the lines The muse is gone. Will I get out of this mess? The absinthe is not kicking in Senses frayed I've been misled I've never been so afraid I've never been so scared Walls unmade Straying away Will you meet me there? The absinthe is not kicking in
5.
Numbers 03:03
Walk away with expectations An appetite for desperation Yet absent minded, adrift in this illusion Of a mere perfection So stay one more minute Don't cross the river yet Stay, give me the strength to break these chains Or move this mountain It's happening again Seasons passing within Days will keep on shrinking Until it's safe Until it's safe to speak So stay one more minute Don't cross the river yet Stay, give me the strength to break these chains Or move this mountain And once again the story ends And once again the record ends Before it even begins
6.
Always More 06:11
We're all doomed From the very beginning Regardless we just close our eyes There's not a thing we can do Not a day that goes by Without destruction to come our way We say we're sorry To what end? We all will die one day And I won't waste my life On fake apologies There's nothing left But I've got a feeling that I should stay And find a better way Cover your ears and look away There may not be another day We drown ourselves in materialistic ways And shiny objects We say we're sorry To what end? We all will die one day And I won't waste my life On fake apologies They took my life from me

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released February 5, 2015

Fred Béland – GUITARS
Charles-­André Chamard – DRUMS/VOCALS
Alexandre Duhamel Gingras – BASS
Vincent Pigeon – VOCALS/GUITARS/KEYBOARDS

Music by Riverbeds
Lyrics by Vincent Pigeon (except "Between Yellow and Blue" by Vincent Pigeon & Liz Labelle)
Trumpet on "Homa Lone" by Denis Falardeau
Mixed by Ben Cardilli @ Road Test Studio, assisted by Kevin Brunelle

Drums recorded at Evermoor Audio by Connor Seidel @ Evermoor Audio
Everything else recorded by Vincent Pigeon

Art installation and photography cover by Emily Desjardins
Graphic Design by Marie­-Ève Archambault

Riverbeds would like to thank:
Dave Mitchell (Confluence), Jo Juneau (Pouzza/L’écurie), Be Astronaut, Dullboy, Tyler Daniel Bean (the man and the band), While Paris Sleeps, Sparrows, Christopher Walken, The Archives (RIP), Parcavenue, Save Ends, Laureate, River Jones, L’Esco, The Andrews at Seratone Studios, Jeff Dee (DEEhindthescenes), Jeff Côté, Harm Duzink (O Patro Vys), Suzanne Painchaud et Alain Chamard, Alexandre Perreault, Neverending Archambault Staff Rebates, and Catherine Brasseur.

We acknowledge the lack of financial support of the Government of Canada.

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