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The Messenger

by Fabricated Freedom

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1.
The Messenger 03:16
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Don’t shoot the messenger I’ve just come to bring the news The world is crashing down Our lives have lost their use The voices echo clear "Please stay calm and please stay here Emergency is in effect" The end is coming near And the sirens blare their tunes As we gather in the room Counting down the hours Until our doom Don’t shoot the messenger I am standing by your side They’ve come to kill us all There’s nowhere we can hide Grab anything you can And prepare for one last fight We’re going down as one The battle starts tonight And we’ll face them all together As we try to stand our ground But there’s more than we can handle We’re going down Don’t shoot the messenger I will suffer with you all They’ve locked me up for good I’m trapped inside these walls Inject your poison in my skin Make me you but you won’t win I am just the messenger There’s no fight from me within And I see the others suffer As I watch it from my cell This is not what I signed up for I’m trapped in hell
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VHS 04:31
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This is the end of times The final flash of light The tires squealing on the street Spinning out of control The faces of your past The times that couldn’t last Visions of a better time As you drift out of control And the memories fly by Are you happy with your life? They say that when you almost die Your life flashes before your eyes I made sure to record it all on this old VHS And I would watch it all the time Spend every day clicking rewind But I can’t find the footage on this tape A static covered screen The silence filled with screams Empty lies of what you thought Meant everything before The time’s all been a waste The happiness you chased In places you were looking You were never meant to find And the memories fly by Are you happy with your life? They say that when you almost die Your life flashes before your eyes I made sure to record it all on this old VHS And I would watch it all the time Spend every day clicking rewind But I can’t find the footage on this tape Click eject on this blank tape Fill the empty space with all the memories that you make Don’t click rewind on this life They say that when you almost die Your life flashes before your eyes I made sure to record it all on this old VHS And I would watch it all the time Spend every day clicking rewind But I can’t find the footage on this tape
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Only Can Dance 03:52
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My mind is playing tricks on my mind Questioning the motives, but I know I can’t say no or try to hide They say I’m not the mastermind behind all of my crimes But tell me that you’re certain that I’d never tell a lie The feeling’s seeping from my skin and out my toes I’m feeling like I’m gonna end up losing all control ​ Now I can’t shake the thought that everything might not be right I need to know ​ But now I only can dance And now I only can dance And now I’m only a puppet Pull my strings and run my plans And now I only can dance ​ The strings, all twisted up, have led me to my daily mental suicide I'm purging out the pain receptors that my brain prescribed And running from the train of thought that’s thrown me from the trail I’ve gotta find the station fast before the beast derails Now I can’t shake the thought that everything might not be right I need to know ​ But now I only can dance And now I only can dance And now I’m only a puppet Pull my strings and run my plans And now I only can dance And now I only can dance And now I only can dance And now I only can dance
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Lines 05:23
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Scribble on the canvas There’s no reason to the way They say to make it perfect My shaky hands are gonna stay Tracing off the page Their outlines paint a picture What you see is all you’ll find Dig a little deeper Find a spark you can ignite In the dark part of your mind ​ Let’s make something beautiful and throw it all away Crumpled paper galaxies in space ​ My hands are shaking way too much to color in these lines My body’s twisting backwards just to figure out what’s right There’s nothing that I can do to make these colors right I can’t restrain myself to stick within these lines ​ Adventure alone on the outside You can stick within the lines That everyone else will draw you But I’m gonna make these boundaries mine I won’t fall behind A shooting star in the night sky Pouring rain on a summer day Reflections of words from a notebook Depictions of thoughts I must portray Disguised in what I say ​ Let’s make something beautiful and throw it all away Crumpled paper galaxies in space ​ My hands are shaking way too much to color in these lines My body’s twisting backwards just to figure out what’s right There’s nothing that I can do to make these colors right I can’t restrain myself to stick within these lines
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Looking for Yourself 04:03
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Playing catch up with the person who you thought you were Falling back behind a vision of a foreign world Chase your shadow as your past has left you in the dust Making friends with all the ghosts of those that you have lost Maybe all along, what you were looking for was yourself Searching high and low, begging for some help Maybe all along, it was all inside Deep within your soul, covered by your pride Playing catch up with the person who you want to be Contradicting thoughts of what is going to set you free Leave your shadow as you bury your past in the dust Making friends with all the others who are just as lost Maybe all along, what you were looking for was yourself Searching high and low, begging for some help Maybe all along, it was all inside Deep within your soul, covered by your pride Hoping for a promise of a life far away Why live for tomorrow when we’ve got today? Maybe all along, what you were looking for was yourself
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Barmecidal 04:40
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I think I’m going insane I’ve never felt this way before My walls are caving in And I collapse as I head straight for the door Don’t wanna let you in Got too much locked up inside for you to see I know you might disagree But right now I need to save you from me ​ In this moment, you’re all I see, I feel so free I’ve never been more happy, I know this is how it should be I don’t care what happens, as long as you’re by my side Everything that hurts me, fades away when I look in your eyes ​ Try not to let you get close I’ve got my own issues, I don’t wanna make you hurt But you keep drawing me in The words you speak make me think this might work Speak freely what’s on your mind Your thoughts leak out like a perfect poem Hold me and never let go I’m falling fast as my heart beats like a drum In this moment, you’re all I see, I feel so free I’ve never been more happy, I know this is how it should be I don’t care what happens, as long as you’re by my side Everything that hurts me, fades away when I look in your eyes In this moment, you’re all I see, I feel so free I’ve never been more happy, I know this is how it should be I don’t care what happens, as long as you’re by my side Everything that hurts me, fades away when I look in your eyes ​ Please save yourself from me I don’t wanna hurt you, right now I need you to leave Please save me from you I finally realized that your words are all untrue ​ Why did I ever think I meant anything to you?
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Cure-All 04:08
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I swallowed down your pill and I waited for relief Nothing ever changed though, the sickness wouldn’t leave You offered me a cure-all, you said you’d set me free I thought you were my remedy but you were the disease Diagnosis of a lonely beating heart Slowly ripped apart and scattered up inside Medicated, dazed and faded, numbed by you Fix the pieces, mask the symptoms, make me new I don’t think that I can stand to make it through another day without you So pick me off the floor and come and save me from this doom and bandage all my wounds I swallowed down your pill and I waited for relief Nothing ever changed though, the sickness wouldn’t leave You offered me a cure-all, you said you’d set me free I thought you were my remedy but you were the disease ​ Isolated, left alone here since you went Trapped inside with just my mind, my only friend Thought that I could give you more, I gave you all that I had left Drained the life out from my soul Panic in the ambulance, you don’t have too much time to bring me back to life Blood is draining, colors fading; pound my chest and give me air This all ends here I swallowed down your pill and I waited for relief Nothing ever changed though, the sickness wouldn’t leave You offered me a cure-all, you said you’d set me free I thought you were my remedy but you were the disease ​ I don’t think that I can make it through today So pull the plug, take me away I swallowed down your pill and I waited for relief Nothing ever changed though, the sickness wouldn’t leave You offered me a cure-all, you said you’d set me free I thought you were my remedy but you were the disease
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The Storm 02:53
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It’s been nine months now since we’ve spoken There’s been so much that you’ve missed I’ve been craving nothing else besides your lips Since we last kissed Tell me everything that’s happened Since the storm destroyed the house Are you still stuck in that town Or did you find your way back out? ​ Were you happy without me? ​ Did you find a way to forget everything that we once had? Cause ever since I left there’s been no way to keep you out of my head You’ve been rebuilding the foundation of the walls the winds tore down But I don’t know if we can fix all of the damage from the storm ​ Now fill me in on all the promises You promised we would keep Fingers crossed, we couldn’t stop We let our words build up too deep We had everything we wanted Till we flooded out the house Drowning in our own desires Just to find our own way out ​ Were you better without me? Did you find a way to forget everything that we once had? Cause ever since I left there’s been no way to keep you out of my head You’ve been rebuilding the foundation of the walls the winds tore down But I don’t know if we can fix all of the damage from the storm ​ Here we are, two broken parts Surrounded by our fading art Parting clouds and sinking doubts Let’s take it right back to the start
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The Beginning of the End 04:46
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It’s the letters you won’t find The darkness in my mind You will never know The voices in my head They all want me dead How can I go on? ​ Pay attention to these words Cause they’re all that I have There’s nothing left inside this skin That’s gonna make me last The ink flows through my veins My blood is on the page It’s the beginning of the end It’s the beginning of the end ​ Spiral towards the dark The pen has left its mark Leak onto the page Try to stop the pain As the ink begins to drain Save me from myself Pay attention to these words Cause they’re all that I have There’s nothing left inside this skin That’s gonna make me last The ink flows through my veins My blood is on the page It’s the beginning of the end It’s the beginning of the end
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The Glory Daze 03:22
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Mirror image, look at you We both share this point of view In your eyes, I see it’s true There’s no difference between two You have problems, just like me And I wish that we could see This is not the final chapter This is not all we must be This is not the final chapter This is not all we must be Standing on the mountain and you take a look around Searching for the answers that you thought you would’ve found Take a minute, rest your head, live inside the now We’ve made it to the top but sometimes we must go back down Nothing’s ever perfect and it may not ever be But right now we’re on a mountain and we’ve got both you and me So let’s think about the present, leave the future in the past All the pain that we feel now will surely never last All the pain that we feel will not last What’s alive in us? Well, I don’t even know if there’s a living, breathing person in my skin right now We are all just damaged people; motivations wearing thin We are all just moving forward, shattered, broken souls within, singing Should we just pretend that everything’s okay? Lost in a maze, yeah, we’re in the middle of our "glory days" I am missing, someone take me to the lost and found You and I are damaged people, and we’re buried in the crowd now This is not the final chapter This is not all we must be Standing on the mountain and you take a look around Searching for the answers that you thought you would’ve found Take a minute, rest your head, live inside the now We’ve made it to the top but sometimes we must go back down Nothing’s ever perfect and it may not ever be But right now we’re on a mountain and we’ve got both you and me So let’s think about the present, leave the future in the past All the pain that we feel now will surely never last ​ Now we’ve made it to today And we do not need to stay On the path to our demise There’s no need to say goodbye Standing on the mountain and you take a look around Searching for the answers that you thought you would’ve found Take a minute, rest your head, live inside the now We’ve made it to the top but sometimes we must go back down Nothing’s ever perfect and it may not ever be But right now we’re on a mountain and we’ve got both you and me So let’s think about the present, leave the future in the past All the pain that we feel now will surely never last All the pain that we feel will not last
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Brainwash 03:11
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You say to quiet down To listen to you now This is not the time to talk about what we think is right We’ll listen to your words You’ll tell us what we’re worth But we are just the numbers that will make your system work “Purify my brain” You’re turning me insane They told me, “Stop, don’t think on your own This is what you need to believe All the voices in your ears But you need to listen to me” Fill up every corner of my brain As you try to drill a hole into my head so you can drain All the juices in my brain I use to create to keep me sane All that matters in my mind so you can make us all the same Like we’re puppets in your game But you won’t win this time You can’t have my mind I will not give in to what you call a perfect life “Purify my brain” You’re turning me insane They told me, “Stop, don’t think on your own This is what you need to believe All the voices in your ears But you need to listen to me”
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You're Not Alone 03:12
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Look up at the stars and wonder what I’ve done Hoping one day I’ll wake up and see the sun I know I don’t belong here in this place Fueled by imagination, my brain’s made me its slave But I’m not gonna let my mind consume my soul I’m gonna take back my control When you’re feeling lost and you’ve got nowhere to go Look inside your soul and you’ll find your way back home The pain you feel will soon be left behind Spend all of our days trying to fix our twisted minds Moving forward blindly towards the great unknown I promise that you’re not alone
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Break Free 04:49
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Drowning in the sea of self-doubt It seems there’s no way out And you feel the waves crashing on your skull In this big, bad world, you feel so small Constantly pulled down into the water And you think this is the end Suffocating as you fight for one more breath Caught in the battle between life and death In this life, you will find Everything’s not always right It’s not perfect all the time The words I say don’t always rhyme Break free from the pain that’s come and pulled you down Break free from the stress that’s twisting you around Break free from the self-hate that you have inside Let go of your ghosts and move on with your life As you fight the current, going back and forth Remember what you’ve got on the shore Drift away and you could leave it all behind But it won’t let you defeat what’s in your mind Grab my hand and we can swim forever And we’re never gonna surrender Wade the waters as we make our way towards sand Find the path back to the promised land In this life, you will find Everything’s not always right It’s not perfect all the time The words I say don’t always rhyme Break free from the pain that’s come and pulled you down Break free from the stress that’s twisting you around Break free from the self-hate that you have inside Let go of your ghosts and move on with your life ​ And even if you run, there’s nowhere you can hide Try to flee from all your demons, but they live inside your mind This war you think you’ve lost, well it’s only just begun So let’s face this fight together and know that better times will come ​ Break free

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released February 3, 2017

Joey Drees - Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Synth, Bass, Drums
Will Huber - Bass (Track 3)
Natalie Brady, Scott Brown, Conrad Kreiger, Erik Goerler - Gang Vocals (Track 3)
John Frisch - Backing Vocals (Track 6, 7, 13)
Mike Kepko - Drums (Track 9)

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Indie pop contemplations from Cincinnati, OH

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