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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
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Stolen Souls
06:19
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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
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Seize The day
05:19
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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
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The War Cannot Be Won
06:54
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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
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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".
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Peace Without Victory
06:52
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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
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Silent Land
06:37
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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
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Left Side Of The Brain
05:24
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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
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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
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9. |
This Is How It Ends
04:36
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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
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Freedom To Glide London, UK
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