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The Chronicle Of Stolen Souls

by Freedom To Glide

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1.
THE CHRONICLE OF STOLEN SOULS (Prologue) In time there'll be an easing of the pain We'll share the load that weighs so heavy on our lives In time we'll find the road we used to know Walk in the footsteps of the souls we survived Read between the lines on the pages Of the stories you were told Of the years as they unfolded Read between the lines on the faces And the hands you got hold There's a chronicle of stolen souls In time we'll find a way to write the lines And the words will flow like sand through an hour glass In time we'll find a way to map our lives And negotiate the space between the future and the past Read between the lines on the pages Of the stories you were told Of the years as they unfolded Read between the lines on the faces And the hands you got hold There's a chronicle of stolen souls ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2.
Stolen Souls 06:19
STOLEN SOULS Carry the weight of endless uncertain days You will fall under the strain Casting shadows over broken ground That lies beneath the falling rain Pay the price for those of wealth and power undeserved Digging deep and shoring up what's left of our reserves Brave faces Stolen souls Brave faces Spirits rising as the gauges fall The mud beneath us turns to stone Voices carried over frozen ground And so our thoughts are turned to home A welcome quiet night and all is calm between the lines The chance of peace comes racing to the forefront of our minds Brave faces Stolen souls Brave faces Brave faces Stolen souls Carry the weight of endless uncertain days You will fall under the strain Casting shadows on the broken ground That lies beneath the pouring rain Spirits rising as the gauges fall The mud beneath us turns to stone Voices carried over frozen ground And so our thoughts are turned to home Brave faces Stolen souls ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
3.
SEIZE THE DAY Seems like a lifetime Since we were stood here On this frozen ground Our arms laid down This could be the last time The last chance for hope And to pin it down On broken ground It seems like a good time to seize the day Do it our way Live it our way They should have stood here They could have seen But they're out of range Sheltered from the rain A break in the weather A break in the wave And we're laying down On this killing ground It seems like a good time to seize the day Do it our way Live it our way It seems like a good time to seize the day Do it our way Live it our way And it seems like a good time to be seizing the day To go our way Live it our way Seems like a lifetime since we were stood here On this frozen ground our arms laid down They could have stood here They would have seen But they're out of range Sheltered from the rain They're out of range They're out of range While we're laying down On this killing ground They're out of range Sheltered from the rain While we're laying down On this frozen ground ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
4.
THE WAR CANNOT BE WON The ice is holding fast in the full glare of the sun A dawning moment passed before the pounding of the guns Before I woke you were beside me You whispered in my ear The War cannot be won The snow is falling hard, the coldest winter we have known To test the hardest hearts and turn the whole place into stone We may have lived through Ypres and Verdun We are survivors of The Somme but This War cannot be won From the front line to the rear The cracks have started to appear And I still hear your whisper in my ear... A time to reach for truth face to face on common ground As every soul unwinds the time to live is running down There cannot be a peaceful outcome If there can’t be a peaceful end So this war cannot be won From the front line to the rear The cracks have started to appear And I still hear your whisper in my ear... As the day unfolds it turns to white, the sky to grey For every soul that's sold we'll take another step today A much too heavy price to pay --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE WAR CANNOT BE WON appeared on the covermount of Germany's ECLIPSED magazine January 2023: https://www.eclipsed.de/de/aktuell/art-sysyphus-vol-122 FROM ECLIPSED: With their fourth CD, the English duo F2G does not deny that it developed from a Pink Floyd cover band. Mid-tempo, Gilmouresque solos and melodies that are dark and uplifting at the same time. With the song offered here, one feels pleasantly sucked into a parallel universe to Floyd's "Animals".
5.
PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY Here again how much more can we take? Another year gone by Day on day until the other breaks Steel engulfs this sky Higher ground in a dying sea of mud Our brothers fell in waves Few remain who'd understand this hell Murdered hopes and faiths Set my place and pull out my chair for me Though I won't be home Remember a place in our history And set it in stone From The Pilkem Ridge to The Menin Road Facing Passchendaele Herding lambs to feed the guns The final coffin nail Set my place and pull out my chair for me Though I won't be home I'll imagine a peace without victory That seed has been sewn Set my place and pull out my chair for me Though I won't be home Remember that place in our history And set it in stone It’s etched on our senses and it’s tied to our tongues It lies on our breath as if it hides in our lungs It’s taken our world to be brought to its knees To imagine a peace without victory Set my place and pull out my chair for me Though I won't be home Remember that place in our history Now its set in stone Set my place and pull out my chair for me Though I won’t be home ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
6.
Silent Land 06:37
SILENT LAND We stood beneath the grey sky The day had just begun The sound of liberation crept above The pounding of the guns While we lay to waste this ravaged Earth She'll reap what we have sown The blood red fields will heal this broken land Where once-red-rivers flowed On this quiet Earth I watch you falling from my hand Quiet earth Falling on this silent land Quiet earth I watch you falling from my hand Quiet earth Falling on this silent land You’ve taken everything we had to give and serve a reminder That time can only heal enough of the pain To face that deadly truth, the sum of all our failures Each step by step each frame by frame ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
7.
LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN Blind to the hope and numb to pain Sheltered from the pouring rain The right side of the windowpane Use the left side of the brain They take the reins we take the strain The war is coursing through our veins They take a shelter from the rain And use the left side of the brain The spark that set the world alight The flames of vengeance burning bright Eye for an eye in a lasting light Held in the teeth of history’s bite They take the reins we take the strain They forge the links within the chain They steer the course across the plain From the eye of the hurricane They pull the strings of high command And reason every claim to and They forge the links within the chain And use the left side of the brain Re-write the books they use to teach Designed to fit with every speech Of new ideals to propagate And reconstruct a nation’s faith How will they picture this in time While history sees war as the crime Reframing narratives to sell The truth that only time can tell They take the reins we take the strain They steer the course across the plain Sheltered from the pouring rain And use the left side of the brain ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
8.
THE CHRONICLE OF STOLEN SOULS (Epilogue) In time there'll be a breaking of the chains So tightly bound no room to heal or release With time there'll be a turning of the blame When silence is complacently mistaken for peace Read between the lines on the pages On the faces that you know Read between the lines on the pages On the faces that you know Read between the lines on the pages Of the stories you'll be told In the years as they unfold Read between the lines on the faces And the hands that get to hold This chronicle of stolen souls Read between the lines on the pages, on the faces that you know Read between the lines on the pages, on the faces that you know ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
9.
THIS IS HOW IT ENDS This is how it ends This is how it ends Analyse, criticise, dehumanise, galvanise the lies This is how it ends Criminalise, demonise, mobilise, desensitise, arise This is how it ends Take the seat, no retreat on the street, fatal conceit, delete, repeat This is how it ends Implicate, escalate, deprecate, initiate the hate, dictate This is how it ends This is how it ends This is how it ends This is how it ends This is how it ends Quick to act, fill the cracks, sign the pact, present the facts as otherwise intact This is how it ends ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

about

Our fourth album release “The Chronicle Of Stolen Souls” has actually replaced this year’s intended album release due to the unfolding world events of 2022, not least the war in Ukraine. The current political language is reminiscent of what we thought to be a bygone era of power politics and serves as a frightening reminder of the worst situations of the last century. We can only hope for peace, not a peace that is forced
upon the loser but a peace without victory.

“The Chronicle Of Stolen Souls” is the culmination of a project spanning across the years 2014 to 2019. Each year a track was written, recorded, produced and released within the week leading up to Christmas Day and released FREE to fans as a “work in process” for a limited period. The concept was to honour the memory of the exact week in time a century ago and underline the ever-present futility of war.

These new demo tracks served as an insight to the creative process of Freedom To Glide, the intention being to eventually rework, develop and extend the tracks further to produce a new album presenting the entire collection of songs like a completed chronicle complete with Prologue and Epilogue. We didn’t think for a minute there would be an “appropriate” time to release it but, for better or worse, here we are.

We began in 2014 with the track “Stolen Souls” which centred on the first Christmas Day of WW1, 1914, and the now famous Christmas Truce where soldiers laid down their arms in a spontaneous defiance of war. From that point we followed the same process at the same time each year concluding in 2019 with “Silent Land” covering the 1919 aftermath of the so-called ‘war to end all wars.

Peace to all - f2g

credits

released November 30, 2022

Andy Nixon - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keys.
Pete Riley - Piano, Synthesizers, Organ.

All tracks written and produced by Freedom To Glide
Engineered and produced by Freedom To Glide
Recorded at The Knoll Studios & Spooky Nook Studios
Mastered by Andie Thomson at Gighouse Studios

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