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Wicked Weapons

Tempting me again, indecent and serene

Crave your wicked ways, awoken from a dream

I have got a song, it hasn't seen the light

We'll sing it together when the time is right

All the tiny moments soon over and done

All crashing together before they've begun

You would meet me halfway waiting for the night

The rest will go away waiting for the light

Now you broke your promise, leave with whom you please

Take your fiendish kindness far away from me

Lying on the floor telling you to quit

Such a lovely girl but not everyone will see it

Elegance, composure, and confidence beckons

I love your wicked weapons

It's been cold years since back on Broad Street

And you haven't got a clue

Since I was crazed, spending all the days with you

- Mike Ledwith

Feel The Same

Hey am I to blame?

And does everyone around me feel the same?

Am I the sole convicted and ashamed?

Or does everyone around me feel the same?

Cause I can't think of why things are the way

They seem to be and everybody's strange

One gives in while another takes the reins

Wondering of the limits for their games

Working hard to look the other way

While someone's at our pockets every day

Well I wonder why we work so hard to stay

But does everyone around me feel the same?

I work to find a little brighter day

Search the sun to provide a brighter ray

But I'm certain some things certainly never change

Yet the world keeps turning at a steady pace

And I wonder if we ever stop the race

Would all our sovereign trophies be erased?

Where are all our hope and morals placed,

When everything around me's looking staged?

And I wonder if we ever stop the race,

The underdog stop working all his days...

Well I'd love to see a little bit brighter day

But does everyone around me feel the same?

What a world we're living in these days

Our thoughts only as deep as we relate

The cost of leaning on one more escape

The cost of leaving with so much at stake

Well the heart belongs inside its narrow cage

With a mind that keeps on narrowing with age

For a thief to find the error of his ways

He must resign to forfeit all his gains

- Josiah Solberg

Lives We Lead

We pass through the years, today another today

We think we’re so essential, that we have no debt to pay.

Chimneys blow out smoke, the world just groans and sighs,

As buses exhale people, we tell our hurtful lies.

What’s it really for, these moments that we steal?

They pass us by so quickly, made up of things unreal.

We watch the storms roll in, angry clouds puffed out,

Purple skies of rage, and all we do is shout.

Life’s left me broken, our words fall out in emptiness,

But we keep running scared, and wonder at our loneliness.

We find our strength unwavering, but shrouded in regretfulness

We cry out in grief and shame, calling out Your name.

Tomorrow in the next town, we’ll be somebody new.

These many lives we lead, are but wistful dreams come true.

We start our story over, maybe make amends,

But once we are back home again, we’re not who we’ve just been.

I try to be myself, find a good way through

Known for truth and love in life, to share with you and you

Someday our stories will collide, oh what can we do

But live in truth and love alone, to share with you, just you.

Live in truth and love alone, and find my way with you.

- Jenn D'Alessio

Floating Away

The tally is counted, lines drawn in the sand

And all that I've wanted I held in my hand

A simple desire and an easier plan

To be well aware of our dreams

Though life is so vital we hold it to be

The greatest of rivals, the wisest of thieves

And death seems to welcome my health and disease

What else would I then choose to see?

Well I've seen enough now then to know

To know that I'll never be sure

Of anything I've known as I go

And certainly nothing from here

We're floating away...

The warning before us, we went our own ways

The joy of discourse is the curse in our veins

No more do we search, we've accepted our fate

The king laying down his own crown

When mourning of weakness and rage of remorse

Come suddenly deepening our open sores

Stuck in the waves, losing sight of our shores

This anchor is pulling us down

Hey..we're floating away

I try to see what lies underneath

The shallow and the deep

The shadows we believe

The showoff and the meek

The ship of our misery has taken its course

No time to decide what is mine versus yours

Our vessel is breaking, our sails have been torn

And the wind is our master again

With courage we know that to stay is to die

But how can we win with an eye for an eye?

A villainous twist now begins in the sky

And I think we are living the end

- Josiah Solberg

Better Than Whiskey

Let's go, let's go, see they're heading down the road

Following the ticker-tape parade

Seeing old GC, contemplating joyously

Of liberty and the home that she has made

Let's go, let's go, we're headed to Bedloe's

Following the shouts and accolades

They're yearning to breathe free, send them tempest-tost to me

The wretched refuse long since cast away

And you stand for freedom, we're not defeated

It's better than whiskey and it warms my heart

Let's go, let's go on a boat on which we've stowed

Breathing of the freedom of the day

We'll find autonomy on an island in the sea

And liberty and the home that she has made

A whole new life we've found here for us

Opportunity, a people pure and just

And now we see for our home and family

Freedom, sovereignty for us

You're tarnished now and green, and just a bit obscene

A far cry from what once you were for us

Still watching everyday, Our freedom thrown away

Long thrown aside and trampled in the dust

You used to stand for freedom, we've been defeated

Give me the whiskey to still my heart

- Mike Ledwith

Get A Little Irish

If you're tired of the hipster boys and life has got you sour

You need a smile upon your face, you need not feel so dour

You need a celebration of all life has to give

A little Irish inside of you will make you feel festive

So go and read some Oscar Wilde or William Butler Yeats

Or go and kiss the Blarney Stone to help articulate

Or set aside your cosmo glass and try a Guinness Stout

A little Irish inside you will make you jump and shout

If you get a little Irish in you, if you get it in you hard

Pretend that you're a native from Kinsale or Granard

So drop a shot into your pint and then you'll start to swing

A little Irish inside you will make your heart sing

So we can talk of what to do, of all the in and outs

This is something which we should think long and hard about

We'll enjoy a little craic as long as we are here

A little Irish inside you will make you jump and cheer

If you get a little Irish in you your heart will start to sing

We'll talk of fields of Athenry and other sodding things

So drop a shot into your pint and then lay down your guard

You need a little Irish in you you need it good and hard

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- Mike Ledwith

Broken Promises

I'm not the man I was

I don't know what became of him

I think he might be dead and gone

Buried and forgotten

A few too many lies

A few too many sins

A few too many promises

Were broken in the end

I take a drink of whiskey

Tastes of tears and broken hearts

I'd like to try it all again

But I don't know where to start

The blindness, the sympathy

The impotence and rage

The stupid empty ugliness

The battles that I waged...

But how can I begin again

When there's no good way to start?

An old man takes my arm

He asks me for a drop of gin

His broken battered face

I wonder what became of him

He probably had a sweetheart

A son a daughter too

Lost all through the empty years

The things he can't undo

We share a drop of sorrow

Its warmth it fills our hearts

I see my future just lying there

One I thought I could outsmart

His hopefulness, his Godliness

All tattered torn and stained

The persecution, the retribution

The love cast off in vain

But how can he begin again

When there's no good way to start?

The things I've done, the things I've said

The pettiness and spite

I'll let them go, I'll throw them off

All ghosts away in flight

The long and broken promises

I can't fullfil no more

I'll let them go, I'll exonerate

Faith I will try to restore

But how can we begin again

When there's no good way to start?

- Mike Ledwith

Lost In A Cage

Over time I just might lose my mind, my luck is wearing thin

Sobering thoughts and drunken lullabies are now my only friends

You wouldn't see the reasons I am wasted in the end

But it seems that time is wasted hiding places I have been

To see the world through troubled eyes, I'm blind and I can't win

When the trials of error covered by the tidal wave of sin

My comfort's been a lullaby that I've sung in my own head

It's a wonder I'm alive and more surprising I'm not dead

Faced with all the trouble I have made

The struggle only leaves me more afraid

And it seems I only find myself to blame

But it's easy to get lost inside a cage

In a cage time remains

Till my days forever strange

And my gaze a silent rage

Nothing to say, lost in a cage

My mind is being troubled by this life that I can't change

I've tried the drugs and drunk the sludge, but memories remain

The shades of my existence are too many to be named

I fight just for my freedom to remain under these chains

Loneliness, my holiness, can someone take control of this old soul?

My wish, though bold the risk, is never to hold onto this!

- Josiah Solberg

Conversations

We talked about love, we talked about hate

And how after a time they start to abate

We talked about life we don't appreciate

We talked about death and how we can't relate

And all I want to do is stay here with you

Alone in our hideaway we dance the night away

And all I can say is you keep the pain away

We talked about pain, how it can be a gift

And how that's a fact you can easily miss

You told me about joy, I said I don't understand

Then you reached out and took my hand

You asked me about friends and why they go away?

I said its something that I just can't explain

Well maybe it's just life, and we'll never understand

You say I should let it go, it's all part of the plan

We talked about time, how it doesn't care

How it steals away...it somehow seems unfair

We talked about hope, how it cuts both ways

How it can lift us up while on our hearts it preys

And all you want to do we never outgrew

So we'll just chip away, have at least one good day

Maybe we'll meet halfway, let it all die away

- Mike Ledwith

Together

Where is the life that I once led

So innocent and sublime?

We misunderstand, and run out of time

So many words left unsaid

Where is the joy we shared, my friend?

Together we felt so alive!

I know it’s not gone, I can’t say goodbye

Come journey with me to the end

Emptiness consumes my heart

Who are you to tell me

That it’s all okay, apart we will be

More together than at the start?

Every book has words to hide

The stories so cut and pasted

Open our pages, let no time be wasted

Discover what’s written inside

We toil, we laugh, we love ‘til we hurt

Cherish each other, our melodies wander

It’s then that I know what words cannot say

Hold on to each moment, we’ll be alright

These songs we sing, these notes we play

Bring us together each day

Somehow together, we’ll make our way

Knowing our music is here to stay

These songs we sing, these notes we play

Bring us together today

So gather around, sing a tune with us

For tomorrow’s a brand new day

- lyrics Jenn D'Alessio

music Jenn D'Alessio, Thomas D'Alessio

Who I Am

I search for your face in my dreams

'Cause even there I want you next to me

And I sometimes can't even believe

That you found me

I can almost remember the times

Before I looked into your eyes

For that was the start of my life

And it's you and me

And all the weight of the world

Disappeared when you took my hand

You've got all the grace in the world

And you make me just who I am

When you tell me that you love me I know

That it's only from the love that you've shown

'Cause I wasn't the man that you've known

Before you found me

You bring out the best that I am

Even when I'm a mess of a man

We've struggled and tested our hand

But you still chose me

And I can't thank you enough

For being my best friend

And the need to tell you that when life is rough

I'll hold you until the end

Yes I'll show you, my best friend

Forever seems farther away

And my love for you stronger each day

All my faults and my fears fade away

When you are with me

Thank you for taking my hand

- Josiah Solberg

Dear Friends

The evening's almost over, it's almost time to leave you

It's been our pleasure singing for you our dearest friends

The bar they'll have to close down, we have to pack it up now

Before we say goodnight now, we'd like for you to know

We are all good friends now, we are friends and family

We'll finish this last song now

Then drink whiskey, gin and brandy

We'll raise a glass to goodwill, a promise we will fullfil

We're hoping that we'll see you soon

You our dearest friends

You know it's been our pleasure, one which we cannot measure

Drums guitar and violin we've played for you tonight

Everything's so crazy, with all you lovely ladies

Dancing quite delightful, and being oh so fine

It's time to say goodnight now, they're turning on the lights now

We're going back to our town, then we'll start it all again

It's time to say goodnight now, and this it is our true vow

We're hoping that we'll see you soon, you our dearest friends

- Mike Ledwith

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