Release The Lifeboats

from Stand Up EP by Empty Lungs

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lyrics

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

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from Stand Up EP, 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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