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Chase the White Whale (2008)

by Driver Friendly

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1.
Hey angel! Won't you shed your wings and stay a while? I was a reckless total mess completely unimpressed at the life I used to lead and the others around me, surrounding me Selfish and unaware Far from being prepared You took me down to the ocean till I could see That you are in my bones like the salt that's in my skin I know you said don't worry Don't you worry at all I'll be there with broken arms To catch you before you could ever fall But if the water swallowed you in but if the waves dragged your body out to sea I'd be the lighthouse on the coastline with my eyes shining your way home And if the darkness came on too strong I'd get all of heaven to sing you a song Reminding you, you are never alone If you hold on Open your eyes Nothing is as bad as you feared Raise your ears to the skies I'm in the stars wishing you were here Seraphim will sing you home tonight Angel wings will be your guiding light If you hold on If you hold on
2.
Please, please, please don't tell me Dreams they don't come true because I've been casting fortunes into wishing wells and my return is long overdue Possibilities are possibly the only thing The only thing to keep this empty heart beating The only thing to keep this broken corpse breathing Do you believe in luck? In my experience there's no such thing But it's a long walk home and this road is only a shadow We are failures we are kings We are hollowed out memories We are bridges over dirty water We're burning on and on and on… Please, please, please just tell me This is just a dream because I will never wake I'll sew my eyes shut Stitch my lips just in case Use my tendons for thread Hold my breath till I am dead I will sleep till this heart stops beating I will sleep till this corpse stops breathing You know, I'm starting to believe You've got me down on my hands and knees Do you believe in luck? You got me down on my hands and knees I've opened my eyes and I have found Hope in lungs that will never let me down
3.
Suncrusher 03:42
There seems to be inside of me A sense of urgency That my walls are closing in That my time is running out My hands are shaking My hands, my hands are shaking At the sudden realization that I am more than flesh and bone I'm getting more nervous I'm getting more anxious All I am is simple hands dying trying to make amends They are scarred and they are blistered Regardless I am relentless The bleeding never ends I am pressing on, but these are not my hands If there is strength left in these legs to run I'm going to carry my glory to the rising sun Have faith providence will provide All I am is a simple, subtle song Singing into the wind always believing I am much too strong to ever stop repeating Yet I stumble and I fall I am only a collapsing wall My voice fails me I'm afraid to lift it up I hear the silver sparrows singing Tomorrow morning is coming With its own set of troubles But there is light at the end of the tunnel And it will be enough Don't you dare ever give up I don't know what tomorrow will bring From the next to the next day It's starting to get to me It's creeping up my spine If it's true heaven is on our side There is nothing left for us to hide "We will mount up with wings like eagles into the morning sky"
4.
This is my blood These are my veins Do you see what runs through it Don't you ever think I could lose it This is my blood These are my veins I want to trace my life In wet cement At least my footprints So everyone can see this wholehearted misstep legacy but we all know it's too fast to dry my legs are getting tired and old and I, I'm ready to die This is my blood These are my veins Do you see what runs through them Don't you ever think I could lose it This is my blood These are my veins Anthems of hope and misguided fears Is how I'll remember These past few years With bittersweet melodies and desperate dreams Our stories are amazing But we fall apart at our seams (it seems) despite all of my failures I am not afraid of these present times I will rise just like the phoenix, Burn my name across city skies Take your lives, Make your legends, Pass them on, pass them on Open my eyes, Tear my throat, We carry on, we sing our song We're not home yet To all the sharks And all the flames We have taken down your names It's our turn, it's our turn
5.
Alone in a crowded room wondering what everyone is thinking about me And I've second guessed myself to the point where even my own heart started to doubt me So I started running till I couldn't feel my legs Yeah, I kept on running till I couldn't recognize My own eyes in the mirror As they stared right back at the ghost I had become I couldn't remember why I had started to run I gave up… No more running Now everything is different No, let me explain You see, nothing is different It's just I am not the same Oh, if I could make a difference If I could make one change I pray to God just one soul could hear these words So they won't have to feel the pain of waking up every morning fever sick and scared to get out of bed Not knowing if I took in oxygen would it just be one breath closer to death And I've been there before Barely living for a year or more And I've asked myself a million times and I said… "Can I live like this?" "Yes I can live like this?" "No, I must insist I can't live like this" 're there I can't pretend you don't exist Impossible as pretending I don't exist Faith is believing in all the answers even when they tear you apart Bury A Dream Watch It Grow Question everything Let go, Let go, Let go…
6.
Can you hear me? I'm choking on rain clouds coughing up lightning Trembling like thunder The water is coming in It's pulling me under For forty days and four hundred nights With no end in sight I know these clouds will never part ways But sunlight started creeping You came in like the southern wind Started blowing in, started knocking me down I felt alive when I hit the ground To me you are the desert sand To me you're comfort like dry land You're shelter from the storm You are hands that keep me warm So southern wind pick me up and dry me out Take away all my fear erase my doubts I'm a castaway and I'm afraid of dying alone I want to know what it's like to breathe again I want to hear my own heart beat again I'm tired of drowning Now I am not afraid to take on the rain And I won't shy away from these white waves crashing down around my face Set an open course for the eye of the storm I'm ready to chase my white whale So let loose these tattered sails And it doesn't matter if I make it back or if I fail Because you saved me and that will be enough somehow not even an ocean could stop me now No, not even an ocean could stop me now Not even an ocean could stop me now
7.
Standing on the edge of the rest of my life She says, "What are you so afraid of, what are you so afraid of?" I'll drag my heels across this entire town Let the blood run free Let it flood the streets Tonight this city drowns It's going to drown I'm gonna see this path through I'll walk the straight and narrow Till my legs are broken Because there are some things in this world I need to see with my own two eyes to believe Believing is not seeing No to me, believing is breathing And knowing that each breath won't be your last Tomorrow, you wake up and you decide with every glorious mistake you can erase your past I am a ticking time bomb counting down with the swelling of my lungs with the bursting of my lungs I am the roar of a thousand lions strong and tonight I sing my song Tonight it carries on, it carries on This all means nothing If I never make it back I'll retrace every footstep Even if it takes a lifetime to make it back to you I just need to see you with my own two eyes To believe, to believe this is true I'm an open book dying to be read with a broken spine and I'm showing thread My cover is worn and my pages are torn Page after page I'm somehow trying trying to persuade That somehow this ending will be okay But it's hard to believe everything you read The cover's worn and the pages torn Open me up and tear me apart
8.
Stand down! Stand down! Why do you build your towers? My best defenses fall apart at my weakest hours I try and I try to build these walls up to the sky But all I have become is a walking, breathing empire of lies Bury my body, my corpse-shaped seed Start all over, just like a tree My bones like roots my tongue like leaves Will grow back deeper Trees they grow back stronger Hearts they grow back stronger They will grow back meeker and I will grow back stronger Wake up! Wake up We are all on fire We're walking torches fueled by our own desires And I'm am no exception I'm the perfect formulaic, failure combination Too much confidence Three parts desperation I'm going to sever my head to get a different point of view This is the pride before the fall I'm waving my skin like a white flag Tear down your castle walls Speak now the story of us all
9.
Torn up and tattered we fly at mid-staff So hang us halfway up the highest mast Wrecked and abandoned We have lost all hope All faith was gone as the waves swallowed our boat All assurance is gone Our inspiration has run dry Miles and miles of water and not a drop could satisfy I am sorry, for making you think That I would let you drown while our boat sinks I am telling you No, I am promising That I won't let you down Believe in me We are so much more than our past Too afraid to let go Too brave to loosen our grasp The wind in our sails Has been stolen from us And we're not moving anytime soon The ocean is haunting, unforgiving at night So dark and deep it tries to make it seem That we will never see tomorrow We will never see the light of the day But my friend I must say The sun also rises And I will be there by your side To greet it with open eyes Defeated But not yet broken Understated Yet not outspoken Worth more than these shattered bones we carry
10.
Lie 248 03:58
If you're gonna talk You better spit it out Let truth flow, let it flow like water You better bite your tongue and let the blood run So we know Just where to find you (No more hiding) No one moves till I say move No one breathes till I say that it's safe to We need honest air We need open wounds As I cast my gaze across these white waves I see ships that were built to sink Their hulls are weary, their hulls are weak They sail silently to their own graves and there are sharks waiting in those waters They can taste the blood in their teeth They're always moving, they're never sleeping They won't rest till they drag us down into the deep They will never touch me I swear to God they'll never touch me! I won't move till you say move I won't breathe till you say that it's safe to We need broken bones We need open wounds You better pray that it's going to rain Because we'll tear you apart two by two 'Cause a house built on sand will surely wash away

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released April 8, 2008

All songs written, performed, and recorded by Driver Friendly

Andy Lane - Vocals and guitar
Juan Lopez - Trumpet
Jeremi Mattern - Drums
Nathan Parrish - Bass
Andy Rector - Trombone
Tyler Welsh - Vocals, keyboards, and lyrics

Recorded and mixed by Jim Vollentine

Recorded at The Mob House and Texas Treefort Studio

Nanga vs Hongo Publishing (ASCAP)

Fuse Entertainment Management

www.driverf.com
Lyrics can be found at www.driverf.com/lyrics

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Driver Friendly Austin, Texas

Driver Friendly is an indie rock band with a distinct hornline and a touch of synth which combines to create a sound that grabs the attention of listeners and refuses to let go. Intense, energetic performances that produce an unmatched live music experience. What rock and roll should be. ... more

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