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Banjo Nelson - EP

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Self Control 03:43
SELF CONTROL YOUR HEART AND YOUR PASSION, WHAT'S MISSING IS RATIONAL THOUGHT. YOU CAN'T SEEM TO REASON AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE BLEEDIN' IN THE DARK CHORUS: WILL YOU TAKE CONTROL, OR WILL YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL TONIGHT? YOU'VE COME AND GONE SO FAR, DON'T LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND YOU SAY YOUR HEART IS UNSURE. DIDN'T YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND? REMEMBER WHAT YOU'RE HERE FOR. PLEASE COME TOWARDS THE LIGHT. ARE YOU PROUD? WILL YOU NOW REALIZE WHAT'S AT STAKE SOMEHOW? VERSE 2: YOUR HEART WILL BE BROKEN WITH WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN FROM YOUR SOUL. OPPORTUNITIES WILL COME SO WILL YOU STAY OR WILL YOU RUN FROM THE COLD? CHORUS TAKE CONTROL. DON'T LOSE YOUR SOUL TONIGHT X2 TAKE CONTROL. DON'T LOSE YOUR SOUL TONIGHT (YOUR HEART AND YOUR PASSION WHAT'S MISSING IS RATIONAL THOUGHT.) TAKE CONTROL. DON'T LOSE YOUR SOUL TONIGHT (YOU CAN'T SEEM TO REASON AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE BLEEDIN' IN THE DARK.) TAKE CONTROL. DON'T LOSE YOUR SOUL TONIGHT. (YOUR HEART WILL BE BROKEN WITH WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN FROM YOUR SOUL) TAKE CONTROL. DON'T LOSE YOUR SOUL TONIGHT. (OPPORTUNITIES WILL COME, SO WILL YOU STAY OR WILL YOU RUN FROM THE COLD?) CHORUS
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TIME IS RUNNING OUT VERSE 1: WILL YOU MEET THE SUNRISE? EMBRACE THE DAY. FIND YOUR WAY. IT WILL OPEN YOUR EYES, AND LEAD THE WAY. IT'LL BE OK IT'S A NEW DAY AGAIN. IT'S THIS SAME OLD TREND. SOON YOUR TIME WILL COME TO AN END. CHORUS: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE NOW. TAKE IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. GAIN FAITH SOMEHOW. YOU NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE LEFT. IT'S YOUR LIFE AND THAT MEANS YOU HAVE RESPONSIBILITY TO BE WHAT YOU WANT BE. YOU'RE GETTING OLDER. VERSE 2: WILL YOU CHASE THE SUNSET, AND ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU MEANT? WILL YOU HOLD WITH REGRET ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU SAID? DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. OPEN YOUR MIND. TAKE ALL THESE THINGS AND LEAVE THEM BEHIND. CHORUS WILL YOU MEET THE SUNRISE? EMBRACE THE DAY. FIND YOUR WAY. IT WILL OPEN YOUR EYES, AND LEAD THE WAY. IT'LL BE OK.
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KEEP MOVING FORWARD VERSE 1: I'VE BEEN CALLING YOUR NAME SOFTLY, BUT YOU WON'T ANSWER ME, OR SO IT SEEMS. HELP ME FIGURE OUT THIS PICTURE OF WHAT MY LIFE IS MEANT TO BE. I'VE COME SO FAR. I'VE STUMBLED, I'VE FALLEN, BUT I KEPT ON CALLING YOUR NAME, AND IT'S STRANGE THAT LIFE KEEPS ON GOING, BUT I FEEL THE SAME. VERSE 2: ALL THE CHANCES I'VE MISSED WITH DOORS UNOPENED. I WISH THAT I COULD GO BACK IN TIME TO TRY AGAIN. BUT THAT'S NOT THE WAY WORKS YOU SEE. ONE SHOT IS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. YEAH, WHAT'S THE POINT IF IT'S ALL THROWN AWAY AT THE END? I WILL STAND PROUD. THE THINGS I'VE DONE, THE BATTLES WON AND JUST TO THINK THAT I'M NOT DONE. THOUGH, I I STILL KNOW. WHEN LIFE GETS HARD I'M NOT ALONE YEAH, THERE IS A POWER BEYOND MY OWN.
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CHOOSE CAREFULLY VERSE 1: THERE WAS A MAN WHO WAS LOOKING FOR A PATH TO TAKE A WAY TO MAKE THINGS CLEAR. HE CAME TO A ROAD WITH AN INTRIGUING SIGN THAT SAID, "DO NOT ENTER HERE." HE QUESTIONED WHY CURIOSITY RAN HIGH AS HE SEARCHED FOR A WHY TO GET IN. AND WHY HE CHOSE, NO ONE REALLY KNOWS, BUT THAT'S WHERE MY STORY BEGINS. HE GOT AROUND THE FENCE NO THOUGHT OF RECOMPENSE AND GOT ON TO THE PATH JUST FINE. THE DANGERS THAT AWAIT AND THE THINGS AT STAKE SEEMED NEVER TO ENTER HIS MIND. HE CARRIED ON THIS WAY THINKIN' IT'D BE OK OBLIVIOUS TO WHAT MIGHT OCCUR. HE COULDN'T REALIZE WHAT WOULD BE HIS DEMISE BECAUSE HIS THINKING WAS ALL A BLUR. CHORUS: OH, REDEEM HIS SOUL FROM THE DEPTHS OF MISERY AND ENDLESS WOE THOUGH HE WILL TRY, HE CANNOT DENY WHAT BE REVEALED ON THE OTHER SIDE VERSE 2: HE WENT DOWN THE PATH WITHOUT LOOKING BACK NOT EVEN A CASUAL GLANCE AND WHAT'S WORSE THE CURSE THAT CAME TO HIM FIRST WHEN HE TOOK THIS TERRIBLE CHANCE. THE NIGHT SET IN AND THE COLD TOUCHED HIS SKIN AND HELPED HIM TO REALIZE HIS FATE. HE WANTED TO GO BACK NOW AND RETURN SOMEHOW, BUT YOU SEE IT WAS ALL TOO LATE. UP YONDER HE COULD SEE THROUGH THE DARK OF THE NIGHT TWO VIBRANT AND GLOWING RED EYES. HE LOOKED CLOSER TO SEE WHAT THIS CREATURE COULD BE, BUT THE DARKNESS HAD IT DISGUISED. WITH CAUTIOUS STEPS AND QUICK SHORTENING BREATHS HE STARTED TO MAKE OUT A FACE. A LONG POINTY CHIN AND A DIRTY WHITE GRIN BROUGHT TO LIFE HIS FEARS OF THIS PLACE CHORUS VERSE 3: HE STOPPED DEAD IN HIS TRACKS AND NEARLY COLLAPSED AT THE SOUND OF THIS CREATURE'S VOICE. A WHISPER A GROWL THAT WOULD MAKE YOUR SKIN CRAWL, IT SAID, "NOW YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE A CHOICE." THE CREATURE WAS STANDING AT A FORK IN THE PATH AND IT GESTURED FIRST TO THE RIGHT. IT SAID," THIS PATH WILL TAKE YOU BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM, BUT NOT TO YOUR DELIGHT." AND HE SAID, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT TO MY DELIGHT?" IT SAID, "I MEAN EXACTLY WHAT I SAID." "THE SHAME THE SCORN YOU'LL WISH YOU WEREN'T BORN. YOU'LL NEARLY WISH YOU WERE DEAD." TEARS WELLED UP IN HIS EYES AS HE CAME TO REALIZE THE CONSEQUENCE OF WHAT HE HAD DONE. THIS CREATURE HAD SPOKEN AND HIS HEART, IT WAS BROKEN AND NOW THERE WAS NOWHERE TO RUN. CHORUS MAYBE OUT OF FRUSTRATION OR FEAR OF HUMILIATION HE SAID, "SIR, NOW, WHAT IS YOUR NAME?" IT SAID, "YOU DON'T REALLY NEED IT AND THE REASON YOU SEEK IT IS TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BLAME." HE CONTINUED, "WHAT IS THIS PLACE? CAN'T IT BE ERASED?" IT SAID, "I THOUGHT THAT YOU'D NEVER ASK." YOU WANT TO BE FORGOTTEN AND YOUR CHOICES THAT WERE ROTTEN? THEN GO DOWN THIS OTHER PATH." THEN EMERGED FROM THE WOOD A MAN SO HUMBLE AND GOOD HE SAID, "SON, THAT WOULD BE A MISTAKE. YOU SEE, THOSE PEOPLE THEY LOVE YOU, AND THEY WANT WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU. THIS IS NOT THE ROAD YOU SHOULD TAKE." "NOW, LET ME TAKE THE BLAME, I'D RATHER SOIL MY GOOD NAME THEN TO HAVE YOU LIVE IN MISERY." AND WITH THAT MAN I WALKED AND WE TALKED AND TALKED ABOUT THIS NEW LIFE I WOULD LEAD CHORUS (REVISED): OH, HE'S REDEEMED MY SOUL FROM THE DEPTHS OF MISERY AND ENDLESS WOE NOW I CAN TRY BECAUSE I CAN CONFIDE IN THE MAN WHO DWELLS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
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A VOICE TO FOLLOW VERSE 1: I SAW YOU STANDING THERE WITH YOUR EYES TURNED HEAVEN-WARD. TEARS UPON YOUR FACE SHOWED ME THAT SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL HAD OCCURRED. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, OR SO THEY SAY. STILL SILENCE WAS BROKEN BY SOME WORDS I WON'T FORGET. YOUR VOICE LIKE A WHISPER FROM YOUR HEART YOU SAID, "I BELIEVE THAT THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. WHAT MORE CAN I DO?" CHORUS: IF YOU HEED THESE WORDS TONIGHT, YOU'LL FIND YOUR HEART WAS TRUE. BUT, IF YOU FORGET THESE THINGS YOU'VE FELT INSIDE, WHAT IF THEY DON'T COME BACK TO YOU? IT'S YOUR CHOICE. DON'T TAKE MY WORDS AS TRUTH. FOLLOW THE VOICE OF LIGHT THAT WILL LEAD YOU. VERSE 2: MY MIND WANDERS THROUGH PLACES THAT I KNOW AND LOVE. THESE EXPERIENCES THAT I DON'T SPEAK OFTEN OF. I HELD THEM CLOSE TO MY HEART RIGHT FROM THE START. IF I FORGET THESE PRECIOUS THINGS THAT I KNOW NOW, I PRAY THE FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS WILL RETURN SOMEHOW. YOU SEE, THEY'RE WORTH MUCH MORE THAN GOLD. THEY COULD NEVER GROW OLD. CHORUS
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FAREWELL FOR NOW I KNOW THEY SAY THAT GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END, BUT IT'S SO HARD TO SAY GOOD BYE TO GOOD FRIENDS AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT GET'S ME IN THE HEART. AND YES I KNOW THAT IT'S MY TIME TO MOVE ON, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE PAIN IS GONE. IT JUST GIVES ME HOPE THAT THINGS WON'T FALL APART. CHORUS: I KNOW THAT I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN SOMEDAY. WHETHER IN THIS LIFE OR IN THE NEXT, I CAN'T SAY. BUT I WILL SAY THIS I KNOW I'LL WISH THAT I HELPED YOU IN EVERY WAY. VERSE 2: WELL, I KNOW THAT IT'S TRUE THAT I'LL REMEMBER YOU, BUT IT'S HARD TO TELL IF YOU'LL REMEMBER ME TOO. AS LONG AS I'VE HELPED THEN THAT'S OK. THE THINGS YOU DO FOR YOURSELF WILL DIE WITH YOU. THE HELP YOU GIVE WILL REMAIN. I KNOW THAT'S TRUE. IT'S WHAT MADE IT WORTH IT EVERYDAY. CHORUS X2 I KNOW THEY SAY THAT GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END BUT IT'S SO HARD TO SAY GOODBYE TO GOOD FRIENDS. SO, FAREWELL FOR NOW UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN.

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released May 20, 2016

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