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Stand Up EP

by Empty Lungs

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1.
Running In Circles Shot down, once again For trying to bring a little progression Shut your mouth, open your mind Embrace a change every once in a while Chorus: We need to breathe some new life In this old dog We could nearly have it all It could be so beautiful Instead we’re running around in circles Seen it before, yea I know how this one goes And it goes a little like this: A stale and ignorant bliss Chorus If we don’t mend our ways I don’t want a part of it If we don’t mend our ways I don’t want a part of it Move forwards not backwards
2.
Until The Day We Die Stop your dreaming Keep your feet on the ground Well that’s not living Just towing the line Never making a sound Chorus: This is our life And as we reach for the sky We’ll be tryin to make a dent til the day we die Our hope lies in our will to try This fight can’t be lost as long as hopes alive I think we owe it to you now To try and turn this world upside down You’re still within us, yea you’re deep inside Screamin: Don’t mourn, organise!
3.
Nothing Left To Lose When you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel And this, and this life seems to suffocate your soul Soul If you feel like the road is getting narrow Get out! Turn it up! And just let it go Go Chorus Speak your mind Yea cut loose Close your eyes and sing like you got nothing left to lose I’m aware that it’s far from perfect And yea nothing's ever just quite what it seems What it seems But if you take it with a fistful of salt yea Leave your baggage at the bar, you can get a release It’s what you need Chorus Speak your mind, yea cut loose You got nothing left you got nothing left to lose.
4.
You worked you fingers to the bone A constant struggle to keep out of the cold They’re cutting you loose now you’re out on your own You’re lost in the darkness, It’s gona be a long road home They left you out to rot Where is your happy ending? You got a new place to call home Sleeping in a concrete hell Beneath the city streets paved with someone elses gold And it’s wearing you thin, yea its taking its toll Desperation flows around you it’s drowning your soul You built a dam to keep it out But it looks like those levy's, they aint gona hold They aint gona hold, They aint gona hold They left you out to rot There aint no happy ending They aint gona hold, They aint gona hold
5.
These words, they spill out of me like blood I cannot help but observe we’re being engulfed in a flood We’re drowning in these waters the tide is rising oh so fast Can someone please release the lifeboats Don’t worry we’ll leave the rich til last Chorus Swimming against the current The most tiresome of tasks Well a little less like swimming More of a panicked doggy paddle And im not so sure we’ll make it Maybe forever lost at sea These are shark infested waters Surrounded by their mating call That greedy selfish shriek Forever beckons us to join them they don’t want us to succeed Sometimes it even appeals to the defeatist inside me But their words and empty promises are nothing but trickery Chorus They’d love to sink their teeth in, drain every part of you that's real But they’ll never get inside of me, this passions not for sale No matter how the weather turns we’ll never feel the cold Cos there’s a million others like us and we’re wrapped in the warmth of hope
6.
Stand Up 03:25
Another day, another lack of the dollar And we’re feeling that old familiar pinch Oh Mr Cameron won’t you please stop your hollerin’ You’ve no concept how it is to live like this Chorus Stand up, If your pissed off and broke And you feel like you’re just about ready to explode Stand up, scream out until you choke Stand up, If your pissed off and broke And you feel like you’re just about ready to explode Stand up, Stand up, Stand up! Another day, another lack of the dollar And we’re feeling that old familiar pinch Dear Mr. Banker id just, Id just like to thank ya For tossing us the crumbs, this trickle down has really hit the spot.

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Self-released in association with Quarantine Collective, digitally 16th February 2013 and physically 23rd February 2013.

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Rocky O'Reilly at Start Together Studios, Belfast.
Produced by Empty Lungs and Rocky O'Reilly.

Keys and organ on tracks 5 and 6 by Stephen Faherty.

Additional vocals on track 5 by Robyn G. Shiels and Steve Toner.

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released February 16, 2013

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Empty Lungs Belfast, UK

Empty Lungs play passionate, angry and catchy music that draws influence from punk, post-hardcore, indie rock and folk.

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