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1. |
Bring The Love Back
04:17
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Verse 01
I don’t gotta like you, like you like me
I pay the right fees.
Glide with my hair in the breeze,
and I get on my knees and pray
when life’s a tight squeeze
to get through the day.
Chew through the fat, I got a knack for
downing a pack four
of beers on the back door
tapping the beat on the floor
gossiping to the possums the bats
about how we been copping the flack.
They try to stop us doing this and that,
twist it back,
they missing the wisdom
we had before the fact.
The fiction of thinking
this world is less
than what we all have.
I’m drinking to forget myself
I wanna help the wombat,
help the wombat.
Help the wombat!
Bring the Love back
(Chorus)
Bring the love back
come on
Bring the love back
to home
Bring the love back.
what time of task is this ?
all I wanna ask is this just.
Bring the love back to home
home is where the heart is.
Verse 02
I love my country although
I cant say much
ashes to ashes and dust to dust
life and love barely staying in touch
and to be fairly blunt
people saying that they are happy
that their day is up
life between fall walls
barely witnessing the fall
life is in your soul, what's all the hate for
be surprised what a smile could make
don’t be wasteful appreciate,
save the world and be grateful.
(chorus)
Verse 03
I’m talking the basics
the trees and earth
the basis
the joy in our faces
the delivery of birth
everybody’s unique, diverse.
This universe the recycle of one verse
exchange of words and actions
accept each breath never over judge
live like everything else does
and bring the love
create more, don’t wear it on your sleeve
but as gloves and be as one
Love.
(chorus)
© copy write Lance Halls 2018
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2. |
The Mainstream
04:46
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Verse 01
So listen up, when they ever
gonna listen to us,
I’d rather live life then switch on
and watch the big brother,
live steaming in fact, the demons
got us day dreaming on our back,
fiending for that lack of meaning
bunch of scenes made to
change the way it seems
and get in the way of how it is
and that’s the biz
and they’re busy at it
flipping scripts, twisted tales
marketing sales bending the truth
and the truth it becomes suspicious too
being put in that polluted vessel
that’s vicious by all means
nothing about it is special
not even the adds in between the shows
and it shows there’s a lot of
hate in this world
believe you me and their taping it all
and edit it what should
be said and censored
its confusing when your conscious
the general consensus don’t make sense
it can mess with your head
watch yourself not
the box and what it sells
(Chorus)
As I sit on the couch and
flick between the channels.
The TV wanna put me to sleep.
Dirty water in them channels
on the mainstream.
Open them eyes and soak it in unwind,
close your mind and relax.
Verse 02
Now as I kick up my feet,
pick up the remote.
Ease back in my seat and
I put on a show
to see what's in it for me.
A lot of this I never needed to know
and time I never needed
to waste or notice.
The doses of hypnosis
aimed to make you docile.
A simulation for the nation
you been numbered for the fun of it
free to air by the government
the media dumbing us down
and telling us who is running this town.
Please I’ve grown wearier
of the so called inferior.
Deliveries of fears straight
into your interior,
Letting junk get to your
brain when your not aware
as you sit and stare and
soak it in and focus
on the sit coms, soap operas,
old shows again and again
a current affair and bogus offers.
The fading trends of fashion
then your clothes aren’t matching.
(chorus)
Verse 03
Buy into it, don’t refrain
its called entertainment
comes with nothing to gain
everybody wanna be famous
and sell their name
but stop look and listen
they got you by the brain
in prison, in a box or a zoo
cause its like this
it’s monkey see monkey do
then they got your attention
an they seeing right through you
cause she smiles and you smile
and she drinks and you drink
the same shit and you think
and you think your normal
cause you act the same way
as they do in the portal
where they take you for a ride
once they break your spirit
like a horse and put you
in the human race course
where they trade in face value
and the lowest common denominator
is being bought by
a real world terminator
shit you think it respects you
don’t get stupid
channel your energy more efficiently
don’t waste it watching the telly
get to grips with reality.
(chorus)
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3. |
Circus
04:26
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Verse 01
I’m a clown and a freak in this circus,
free thinker,
definitely not worthless
and unique under the surface.
I believe in what we got in our hands,
and what we don’t have
we don’t understand.
I accept the greatest architect
that designed land may
have screwed up,
somewhere in his plans
when he created man.
Maybe not? Maybe this is meant to be.
What reality you live in?
Same shit different century,
you gotta stay driven.
what's the balance yo?
I’m feeling like I’m on a tight rope,
no suspension only suspicion.
I need to get a grip
definitely with my cash flow,
I can’t stop. once you hit the break
you're broke, ya know!
(Chorus)
Once pure,
Never was perfect.
I’m a clown, a freak in this circus.
You ain’t ever gonna hold me down.
Never ever gonna control me now.
Live it up! Never ever gonna give it up!
Verse 02
I ain’t one to look up-to,
But I have stuck through,
times when I did some stuff
I didn’t want to.
Call it rough when life goes against you.
If only my friends knew,
what I don’t do when I
spend time with them.
Something I won’t sacrifice
to come out winning.
It sucks! we must play
amongst the bucks,
lay next to the ones we cuss.
we’re all in the system.
It’s all make believe.
Fake goals to tackle.
Keep your eye on your watch.
Keep your hand on your ball
and your mind on the plot.
Ask why and you stop.
Try to get to where you want!
Just do you man,
no matter what the measures you got.
(chorus)
Verse 03
I’m not ordinary, I’m sort of scary.
Wanna pick a bone with me?
Problem is I got too many.
I’m fishing for all the answers
why all the time,
but I picked the wrong jetty.
I’m crazy I’m insane!
A little outta my mind.
At least I’m honest.
Half the world
don’t even know themselves,
so they chasing their tails.
Me? I’m raising my sails!
About to go to sea,
swim among the whales.
Free willy maybe outta my depth.
Not a care if anybody
will ever notice me,
or show some respect, so to speak.
Let me down if you wanna
by being a fake.
But your only killing yourself
being somebody you ain’t.
(chorus)
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4. |
Devils Princess
03:34
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Verse 01
yeah, she’s a naughty girl
an a thorny girl
an a wicked girl
and such a player
pass go pick up 200
she see money on your head
like you wanted
yeah, fine as well
temptation got your mind in a spell
she’s a product of hell
but who don’t like the smell
she only lacking a soul
she's a weapon and she's
cutting it so well
so deep your in trouble
but you don’t wanna leave
got you wrapped around her finger
like a wedding ring
the world love her even if
she never said a thing
she's smoking on fire,
the commercial girl.
(Chorus)
She wanna be commercial,
loved by the world.
She wanna be heard.
She wanna be seen.
She wanna be dreamt about.
One days she's gonna
get what she wants.
Verse 02
A bit of a princess,
product of the beauty queen
for instance her mother
loved the look of her modelling
appearing in magazines,
taught her its wrong
to love anyone to get all you want
you can change anything
treat people like a place to begin
have that taste for blood
if you wanna win
she don’t want another friend
everybody wanna spend her time
but she wants what they’re sacrificing
enticing so sweet, but
bad for your teeth like icing
just a kid playing with what we gave her
a product of her environment,
her neighbours
nothing but favours, smooth skin
hand full of razors,
whose in for this
careful arrangement
(chorus)
Verse 03
Be careful what you wish for
you might get it,
its lonely on top
you never expect it
X marks the spot
and its so over rated
guess what?
Get whatever you want.
what's Guess? a handbag
say yes to whatever your handed
eat with dirty hands
and your gonna turn rancid
we all play a part in the park,
the city, the theatre
one thing, we either acting on dancing
one of each and you romancing
watch what you teach
people might just listen
Hear that? Devils Princess.
(chorus)
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5. |
More We Can Do
04:11
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Verse 01 (Zelus)
This one goes out to the kids
all in a mix in a sense they know
but they are innocent
hey yo there's more we could do
play doh like the stock exchange
lay low cause planes be loaded
up above
news paper says we gotta cover up
but are we dumb enough
to believe the news
gotta laugh it up
what they trying prove
in china the medicine you buy
the diner food
the advertiser for the appetite
its all news
satellites bought by the savage guys
trying touch the sky with money
free energy ain’t nothing
until it can make money
funny
some reason, we all gotta pollute
some people just gotta lose
life is hard, there is more we can do
fighting with what
can’t wash blood with blood
killing who will make what right
this ain’t brain science scratch your head
support the place
where you lay your bead
there’s more we can do now take a step
Chorus (Molly Apirana, Zelus)
In a minuet we can change
there’s more we can do in a day.
Wake up yo whose in a race?
is it too in ya face?
if you can’t see which ways up.
(Molly Apirana)
Can you even see whats odd?
everyone's to blame but its no ones fault
yeah
Verse 2 - Rainman
I was just talking to this dude
the other day man.
He was frustrated, I dunno.
this is what he had to say.
I woke up feeling sick
like I caught the flu.
I wanna quit just forfeit and lose.
I feel small like I’m four foot two.
I feel stuck like they poured on glue.
Seems like they open the door for a few,
and you gotta money to afford the view.
Gotta have time to absorb the truth,
but I don't,
I got a payment on the mortgage due.
I got two kids and two more that's due.
See the wife got fruit that’ll fall in June,
but I think
what world will they walk into.
If there’s a will there’s a way
to find more I could do.
Mainstream TV I’m appalled at the news,
appalled at the rubbish
that they pour onto you.
So I dig deeper, there's more its true,
you don’t stand for me
I wont fall for you.
(Chorus)
Verse 3 - Focus
Yeah lets just chill for a minuet,
and forget about
our views and opinions,
and just be in harmony
and jam under the mulberry tree.
With a soulful beat and a cold VB
with our closest peeps
on the coastal streets.
Faith and hope all up in smoke.
Paper notes rolled up in loafs.
Pass the marge
I can’t believe its not butter.
Its all done up, the cars that are done up
get the girls that are done up.
In the end whose one up?
Where all the same just just some gotta
bigger ball and chain
still we all complain
wheres there’s other cats
in the pouring rain
conform to form a lane
formulate a formulate in a formal way
the formats all crap
some are falling away.
(Chorus)
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6. |
10 Minuets
04:40
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Verse 1
Who am I?
Some lonely ass dude tryna get by.
Don't ask me why cause I dunno
I just follow the road and that's It
I mean who gives a shit
No one is special so don't be a fool kid
try real hard cause your not Mr cool, kid
listen your not in control are ya kid?
Throw away that tool kit.
Society made you this way kid
jump outta that comfort zone
throw away that wet blanket,
one day your gonna be a man
and given a chance
but believing that
only gonna be a mistake kid,
got a lot on your plate kid
lets face it, this ain’t a sandpit
whats the plan kid
are you robbing a bank kid?
People gonna like you more?
Well then who you gonna thank kid?
Save some time for gods sake
don't waste it.
embrace it,
lets brake it down to basics
there's four, five and six
cameras watching
and the clock ain't stopping
heart is pounding
your in the middle of a cue
with what you? and
Five people surrounding.
chorus
Ten minuets of my life
is taking for ever
ten minuets of my life is leaving now
I’ve taken my shots
its time for the chaser,
no time to wait,
will I see you later.
Verse 2
Just seemed this morning
I woke ten minuets late,
had some toast the cleaned my plate,
throw some clothes on, out the door,
then here I am it was 9 AM,
I seen this old man shaking a rusty can
and a cardboard sign it said
I must be board in the state I was in,
this was a sign that was an old man
for heavens sake,
what was I thinking
I dropped everything
and gave him everything
but the kitchen sink
just wanted to risk it all
grow some balls
shoot and see if I score
change my mind
rather than my draws
go outta my mind
and into some stores
gonna take em on
what ever it is I hate most
money the bank and paper notes
take em to war
like a dream
in ten minuets I change the score
(chorus)
Verse 3
Trying get mine
caught in time
there’s a war inside of me
not sure which side I’m on
anxiety grabbing hold
trying to make the most of this life
I’m told
take risks and don't dissolve
exist and hold your own,
a million miles a minuet
thoughts racing
up to the teller I move
I’m shaking
what will I tell her at the booth
she asks are you OK
then I don’t reply
I freeze then fall down to my knees
an think god
forgive me please
I'm so stupid, I’m so human,
we all get days like these
ruined when we follow our dreams
walk through life half asleep
act above it
to end at the bottom of a shit heap
to live in the now is hard to beat
but nothing comes much
quicker than tomorrow,
a decision is easy to make
although hard to follow
the truth is good to eat
but hard to swallow
you got the spirit kid
take the shots
deal to the lemons and salt
and chase forever, whatever.
(chorus)
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7. |
L.O.V.E
06:00
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Intro
Give me love
and I’ll never look back again
into motion I go devotion I spend
hoping something unfolds
what is Love?
Verse 1
Some say its just a word now tell me,
does it sound absurd
if I’m afraid to say it.
If its just a word,
I must of heard it before
and seen how much it can hurt.
I been touched
now who believes in love
at first sight?
Na I believe it is lust
well that's my gut feeling
and I see it like trust.
Give it freely and it ain’t worth dealing.
Its hard work and you gotta earn it.
I love you, I write it down and burn it.
I just gotta get it out I'm nervous.
Do I even deserve it?
My love
if I were for money I’d be worthless.
I got a heart of gold,
some don't want a bar of it, I know.
Chorus
L O V E
they’re just letters I know
but they feed me
I hope one day
love is gonna free me
there's love in us all
it never meant to be easy no.
Give me love
and I’ll never look back again.
Verse 2
Without love in your life
What you got to live for
I know you gotta think twice
You gotta think sometimes
Even love can die.
Love is like chance
Roll of the dice if it gonna treat you right
Could love swallow a lie
Could love steal from your side
Love is within
I heard you gotta make love
to create a new life outta skin
but I know a baby been born before
without a glimmer or any in sight
Money doesn't buy you happiness
but at least it gets you dinner
some place to sleep at night
see the signs
read between the lines
love is it the reason behind
us being stupid sometimes
and is it love that can make you blind
is it something in your eyes
or something on your mind.
Well I L O V E
(Chorus)
Verse 3
Now if I’m a fighter,
and I believe
its apart of this bleeding heart
and it speaks through art
and so in god we trust.
We make each other cross
and whose wrong through
the interpretations
of his son and his followers?
I know theirs only one love
only one we gotta share with someone
we gotta share what we got
but we bomb each other
and break each others hearts
take each others power off em
and leave em in the dark
even rob em
where's the love gone
I don't see it no more
its in the bottom of my heart
its in our soldiers
when we send em to war
fighting for what we adore
killing like we don't care
I got a feeling that it ain’t in the air
I got a feeling that I wanna share
What is love? Dunno?
hen what can make of this then.
It goes L O V E.
(chorus)
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8. |
The Magician
04:17
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(Intro)
You been given opportunity
Time waits for the brew to become food
For you to break on through
and do what you gotta do
Learn them lessons you got
Time is a virtue.
Verse 01
Ha ha the magician is you brother,
Blow em away, we got love for the bank
We got buck all to pay
and a whole lot I must say
here for the tears and
the fears that interfere
fear of death has got a lot
staying in the beware
I been then, let me tell ya a dream
I keep seeing re-appear
each week I got a wand in my hand
and top hat on my peak
millions of people to reach
and gotta bring them outta disbelief
leave any figment of doubt
your winging it now
flying by the seat of your pants
into a city of clouds
with out a chance
but with the answer in your hands.
Bridge
The magician got a trick
under his sleeve
you best believe it,
got a remedy to turn
his enemy into his own
weaponry,
the magician got more
than the power to see it
he got the power to be it
the magician is no coward
just a man of the moment
and the moment happens when
you don't even know it
am I a magician, people ask
no I’m a born poet.
Chorus
Lets make the magic
Oh I wanna make the magic
Yo my heart writes it down
I got magic can you feel me now
and make magic,
I got the heart to please
it’s not the result but its what you see
the magician is apart of me
I make magic, and I want
the world to see
lets make the magic
Verse 02
He’s man that's invested in no frames
got an understanding
beyond his own brain
no limits no end no finish
just a tendency
to mend with his hands
no gimmicks he got fans
people love him to death
his critics got him step
while he’s taking the next
he’s not afraid and
he want’s to move on
whose gone, not noticed
when he’s around too long
like a promise he’s done it
and his work carries
in the air like pollution.
(chorus)
Verse 03
Zelus tell us can you do the math
Well I say its like selling food to the fat
Can you do the math?
I feel guilty
Giving away a key
That can get you filthy
Rich in love happiness
Success and fortune
It's giving away the garbage
The majority taught you.
Lose the fear the doubt the ego
and fly like an eagle be a hero
and save yourself
He’s a magician that gets the point
Life is short, learn early
Bite the bullet, fight to fulfil it
Keep that spirit don’t kill it
I feel it
the real magic in life
is when you see what you believe
and what you perceive things to be
freedom of speech
and what prevents evil to breath
its magic its in love its in life its in me
the magician got a trick
under his sleeve.
(Bridge)
(Chorus)
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9. |
Be Now
04:36
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Let it be now,
just be now,
let it be now,
(Verse 01)
Here’s a story my friend let me tell ya,
about how we deal with life
and what matters.
Gotta be real,
Gotta have intelligence.
You got a free will,
and you gotta be happy.
We got a lot of things,
and don’t let em get to ya.
The futures no far,
So don't race to it.
Monopoly we all got an offering,
But what's for me,
it's my responsibility.
Act don't react,
To what your discovering.
It's a number thing.
You win some and lose some.
Yeah you do the sums,
Maths you gotta be number one
When facing the facts.
Think a plan to be exact
Have a back up plan,
Cause some things don't match.
(Chorus)
Let it be now.
With your energy you gotta set it free,
and be yourself.
Just be now.
Love your memories,
Learn to better yourself,
Don't get ahead of yourself .
Let it be now.
(Chorus)
Let it be now.
With your energy you gotta set it free,
and be yourself.
Just be now.
Love your memories,
Learn to better yourself,
don't get ahead of yourself .
Let it be now.
(Verse 02)
Don’t try and control,
and mess with emotions.
I met men deeper than oceans.
A ripple effect happens if you mess
and swim in it.
A guilt trip can make a man fall.
No matter what,
you gotta get up and walk.
And to a new place,
is much better off.
Choose you’ve got a right to,
the choice is all yours.
Do what you want.
(Chorus)
(verse 03)
Never limit yourself,
to rules you must abide by,
cause you cannot be free.
With the mind I,
Think beyond possibility.
Forget the rest.
Live under your own philosophy.
Just be the best,
See we progress
With the attitude,
That we address.
Show gratitude.
A need to confess,
When no one is mad at you,
Give it some rest.
We all got a lot
and a little bit less
In every avenue.
Its what you have to do,
that brings success.
Let it be now,
you know the rest.
(chorus)
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10. |
Let Go
04:30
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Verse 01
It was a sunny day,
I was up at half past 8.
With the world in front of me,
I wanna go to the beach.
And what's stopping me
I wanna let go and get high and get by.
I wanna be me.
And I ain’t a no one.
Reading me is like reading a poem.
I see the sea and I want someone
to see the same in me.
A tear drops from my lashes
just as a wave crashes,
wondering what really matters.
Chorus
If I could take away my eyes.
leave my mind behind,
and kiss life goodbye.
No time for giving away,
No more, no more,
more of the same.
Verse 2
To fly into the universe
and leave this all behind.
Escape what's wrong and
drop into the ocean.
Swim into the open sea.
Wash away the weight,
that’s pulling on me.
Look into the sunset,
It’s simple as life.
Don’t know why I think twice,
why i care if I’m winning in life!
I’m kidding myself,
I’m digging myself a hole!
I fight the feelings,
I don’t wanna resolve.
I gotta listen to myself
and let it all unfold.
Chorus
Verse 03
I got fire, my hearts desire.
Life the one I got,
I want it to take me higher.
I look at the sea,
and I see the same as me.
Freedom a place I wanna flee.
When trouble raises heat,
I wanna hit the beach.
Let go in a flow
and have a wave carry me.
Times are hard
and my heart
just hungers for a beat.
I got power sometimes,
and I cannot release.
I could let go of the bigger picture,
if it won’t let me breath.
Chorus
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Fringe Mellow Sunshine Coast, Australia
Fringe Mellow represents the rawness of human nature with its flaws and its beauty.
With music that opens the discussion on
mental health and owning our impact to appreciating the unknown.
Henry and Lance have written songs together for close to 15 years. Through these formative years they have performed both festivals & intimate settings expressing their musical and lyrical craft.
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