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October
07:33
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OCTOBER
(Bryan Brophy)
Do you remember me?
Can you feel my pain
Since I smothered the embers
To a perfect flame?
But I was scared
Of what could or couldn't be
That I poisoned
A perfect smile.
It's hard to understand it now...
Please try to understand it now...
It's the third of October, do you really think
That I'd forget
Though you shouldn't, I should, but I can't
Even if I tried.
It'll soon be November, December, the weather
Has grown so cold
Since we've grown apart
Since we've grown up.
It's hard to understand it now...
Please try to understand it now...
CHORUS:
These nights in October
Have grown so much colder now
I wish you could see me
The way that you once saw me
Well the only pure thing in my twisted mind is you
I have this emptiness - that won't fill
Tell me could you still be my friend?
So I head out alone
To the coldest, darkest night
Without a fire, warm and bright
But I'll brave this storm somehow.
So I picked up the pieces of my broken heart
And swept them all away
Deep inside me
But you still come out and play.
It's hard to understand it now...
Please try to understand it now...
CHORUS:
BRIDGE:
Remember those nights we stayed up and listened
To old songs
You were the only one who saw right through
My surface flaws
But we were only kids back then...
It's hard to understand it now...
Please try to understand it now...
CHORUS:
©2006, The Latter Day
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2. |
Powers That Be
03:06
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POWERS THAT BE
(Chris Hludzik)
CHORUS:
Everybody's got their money
Everybody's got their guns
Fat cats keep gettin' fatter
And the poor dogs have to run
From the powers that be...
Because they are not to be
You can't be richer than the first man
You can't be poorer than the last
You can't be slower than an old man
Who's nearly ran his last
Somewhere in a golden tower
The fat cat takes his rest
While you're in the street strugglin'
Just to keep up with the rest
CHORUS:
Neatly-sawed ladder footsteps
Snap as you try to climb
Hanging onto every moment
Trying not to get left behind
Airwaves are gettin' crowded
Keeps gettin' harder to get to you
But try to hear what I've got to say
Hold together and you'll pull through
CHORUS:
Everyone's got a price tag
Everyone's for sale
Everyone wants to be the chief
But just who's gonna hail
To the powers that be...
Because they are not to be
To the powers that be...
'Cause we are not to be.
©2006, The Latter Day
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3. |
Moonbeam
04:05
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MOONBEAM
(Lyrics; Bryan Brophy / Music and Arrangement; Chris Hludzik)
Shining brightly in the sky
O'er the mountains and the trees
She casts her glorious glow
From pastures out to the sea
She peeks from behind a cloud
To see that her children come home
Lights up the countryside
For their safe return
CHORUS:
Oh great bulb of serenity
So many things that she must see
Banish darkness from the land
So natural, happy, and free
All the world's secrets dark and deep
Remain unseen, but she will keep
Them silent and only to herself
As the meadows fall asleep.
On quiet valleys near a stream
Young poets lie awake and dream
Writing verses of their secret loves
Lit only by her shining beam
Wishing of their love one day
To take their maidens far away
With her being the only one
To hear their secret lyrics sung
CHORUS:
Homesteads stand and soundly sleep
Nestled in the woods so deep
Through their window she looks down
But never will she hear a sound
For everyone is tucked away
In their beds they'll surely stay
Dewdrops glistening in the dawn
While her spirit lingers on...
CHORUS:
©2006, The Latter Day
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4. |
As We Speak
03:32
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AS WE SPEAK
(Bryan Brophy)
INSTRUMENTAL
©2006, The Latter Day
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5. |
Need
05:07
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NEED
(Chris Hludzik)
I don't need no big brother
Already got one watching me
From the day I was born, it's the eye in the sky
It just won't let me be.
I don't need no candy
My bag is full to the brim
But the taste so sweet, just can't beat
The bitter state I'm in.
I don't need no friends
I've got one or two of them
But where will they be, when I'm in need?
They'll just run away again.
I don't need no sunshine
I've already seen the light
But the light is dim, and the future's grim
It's darker than the night.
I don't need no tall tales
I've been told enough of those
But they kept me locked up in the dark
From the things I should have known.
I don't need no justice
Never had it anyway
Well they say it's blind, so it might not find
A place for me today.
I don't need no money
My wallet's not what it seems
It can't help you, it can't help me
It can't buy us our dreams.
I don't need no doctor
I already know what's wrong
It's a social disease, brought me to my knees
That's why I'm singing this song.
I don't need no medicine
I'm gonna die anyway
And when I do, I hope it's quick
'Cause I've got to get away...
©2006, The Latter Day
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6. |
On Judgment Day
04:36
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ON JUDGMENT DAY
(Bryan Brophy)
So you're one with who created you
And you do just what he tells you to
Listen to that voice inside your head
When he tells you we're better off dead
Paint him a face and steal his name
Say it will ease your people's pain
While hypocrisy takes it flight
To hungry TV screens tonight
CHORUS:
Just who do you think you are?
Ignorance will get you far
Six feet down with nothing more to prove
Promising with empty words
You will get what you deserve
And I will see you at the end of time...
On Judgment Day
Go and bang that book you know so well
While damning everyone to hell
And twisting every golden rule
Into the backs of innocent fools
CHORUS:
C'mon! Let's start a holy war
That'll show them what we're fighting for
Love and peace in every bullet shell
The blood of sinners is the only way to sell
CHORUS:
©2006, The Latter Day
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The Latter Day Scranton, Pennsylvania
THE LATTER DAY is the side project of two Northeast Pennsylvania natives, original musician and multi-instrumentalist Bryan Wylder Brophy ("An Autumn Sunrise", "Maybe Someday") and original musican and producer Chris Hludzik, where they blend the best of pop, rock, folk and blues in their own way. ... more
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