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Ghosts

by BARRACKS

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1.
Asleep 02:31
I think I've been asleep my whole life Wasted the days, weeks and years passed me by Screaming hopeless songs to a world that won't listen Take back the clock to find out when I went missing. My bones break My teeth shake I haven't I haven't
2.
I've been running for most of my life From something that I can't seem to find I can't remember why I'm so scared But I remember what you said That this is nothing new You said what you said You gave me shit so there's nothing to lose This is nothing new I just hope you've got nothing to lose cos I do We've seen better days All these things that I'm trying to change I showed you my ghosts Then I became your own
3.
Pavement 02:48
Are there ghosts in my house Because lately I've been hearing Gnash teeth marking the pavement Cold bones break in the evening The floor boards are creaking now You should be sleeping now But I keep having the same dream That they're coming to get me Show me the cracks in the pavement Show me the dark in your dreams when you're dreaming Show me your underneath Show me your skin in the sheets I never saw the way out through the cracks in the floor
4.
I walked down the pale corridors Silent shufflers in the streets are Silent shufflers in the sheets And here you are We are ghosts in the windows of homes Show me why you're not afraid anymore Breathe We with colourful throats The words that I write Are the words that I owe
5.
Strangers 03:05
You've got them cold, dead eyes Minutes like razors, hours like knives The places where the day just wore down your spine Sometimes you can live and still not feel alive Watching the sun go down Waiting for the night to come around I know what I said, I know how you felt Now I just want you to come around and Just forget everything Show me the places you won't let anyone else in We could be strangers You've got them cold, dead eyes Your demons escaped and they ate you alive The night comes in cold and it crawls down your spine
6.
Tide 03:33
I can see the sun in your eyes And it burns out and pulls me in at night Your eyelids wane and change with the tide I just want you to know that everything will be alright You left a mark in the sky But we're lost for now Your lips are moving But I can't hear a sound There's ice on your skin Slow-frozen gray I just can't speak I don't know what to say You're swimming through my blood again Hang heavy in the winter rain
7.
Scatter 03:14
Scatter, scatter They scattered your bones from the inside of trees Rings around fingers from years and then leaves Footsteps like roots itch the halls in the summer Words cut like knives from the throats of another I swear he said "throw me to the waves or bury me where I lay" No refuge in sin from blood or red wine I found god in a pill but faith comes with a price
8.
Held Down 03:09
Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my head Every day I lose some leverage Every day I'm giving in Like a rat afraid to take a step Living in fear of breaking my own neck This is where the panic sets in First world paranoia of blood that won't thicken I keep bending my chains but they just won't give In a world where your paycheck says how much you can live We need to break out I won't be held down
9.
Paper Eyes 02:15
Are we afraid of our own voices I'm buried under concrete weighted down by my own vices Are we just clay and dirt, broken down and reinvented This voice is your own, bouncing off the walls Just listen "I am afraid" Everywhere I walk, paper eyes follow me I'm sick and tired of always being told who to be Are we so caught in our own traps Invented disorders keep us locked inside our heads We all need someone to blame But I'm the one responsible for where I am today
10.
Walls 02:59
I feel like I haven't slept in weeks Making maps of this town on the soles of my feet Do you remember we spent the nights indoors Now I've been outside I know How much of this can we bear before we find out We've heard it all before, we spoke it all ourselves It's easy to take the wrong meaning from the words that we say So now I have to speak up and break down the walls that we've made You're worth more than this Don't sell yourself short You're left with nothing except The people that stood on you and left you for dead I'd rather lose this all in exchange for the truth Than be someone like you I feel like I've been asleep for weeks These are my nightmares, can't wake from this dream I'm not fucking blind I won't sell myself short this time In the end we all have the same demons
11.
Closer 02:46
Let me tell you a secret, why they're all so scared Let me let you in, inside my fucked up head We used to jump shadows, tried not to fall in But last night I did and I lost everything So come a little closer Don't come any closer Walked down Caernarvon 'til we were alone I just didn't want him to follow me home The darkness made me believe in the sun You're trapped with me now and there's no place to run So come a little closer Don't come any closer I'm not you You're not real You're not here
12.
Wake Up 03:16
You used to tell me everything would be alright But that never stopped me from lying awake at night The lives I'd never live, the songs I'd never sing Drowning in my own fucking memories Lift your skinny fists, kid The scraping of the city's growing concrete in your skin I won't give in Remember the songs we used to sing Hold on now, keep breathing It still isn't over yet Lift your fists and fight back
13.
Fight Back 02:18
I won't give in Remember the songs we used to sing I won't give in I promise this time it will be different
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credits

released September 1, 2014

Recorded by Nathan Sowter in 2014 at The Lab (Auckland) and his house (Tauranga). All lyrics / music by Barracks. Additional vocals by Nathan Sowter. Produced, mixed and mastered by Nate.

Cover art by Barracks / Patrick Rowe. Logo by Yesterday's Tomorrow.

Re-released in 2015 as a deluxe CD with two bonus tracks (the original demo for Walls and an acoustic version of Asleep with Jennie from Devilskin).

All music written by Barracks and Hunter Branch. Lyrics by Jared Ipsen / Barracks. Jennie appears courtesy of herself.


On this album, Barracks was:

Jared Ipsen - vocals
Martin Mihaka - guitar / vocals
Tom Revell - guitar
Kane Lazenby - bass
Simon Power - drums

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