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If You Have To Ask

by RUNoffthestatic

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1.
So Much 03:11
Standing on the the other side, it looks so wrong The other way is so appealing This isn't working out, can I just start again This isn't working out, nothing's ever made less sense And I can't cope, it's not my fault that someone thought all of this was fair And I try so hard to tune it out So turn around and I won't feel a thing Took the world right now just to have another look The other way is so appealing So much could go so wrong So much could go so wrong And I can't cope, it's not my fault that someone thought all of this was fair And I try so hard to tune it out So turn around and I won't feel a thing So what if I stopped caring So what if I stopped trying cause I won't do this anymore
2.
Never 03:11
Don't belong down here I know It's grim and dark and fucking cold So let's find our way out It looks impossible right now Not sure where when why and how but It won't be long So wait... We'll figure it out So stay... We'll figure it out We'll take away the awful things That make it hard for us to think and we'll see clearly It's been so long, it's been so far but I'll still recognize the scars You don't forget So wait... We'll figure it out So stay... We'll figure it out Let's make it normal Let's make it weird Let make it boring Let's make it scared Let's make this normal Let's make this weird Let make this boring Let's make this scared (You never found it did you)
3.
Kahlimah 05:01
It's so hard to start the right way It's easier to do it wrong And I know we won't fall Nothing hurts at all There only one thing left to trust in now The angels can't save me this time And it hurts to know that I'm alone You taught me how to keep my heart beating. So what if I can't keep it together So what if I didn't even try I can't listen anymore It sounded right before And we'll sing la-la, Kahlimah!
4.
Halcyon Days 02:50
(Instrumental)
5.
Fix It 03:34
I can only pretend to be someone else. I’m not even sure how to be myself. All the hope I found in you is gone as I try to write a different song. So relate me to someone you once knew, And talk to me of all the things there are to do. Refer me to the doctor and the nurse, And tell me how to fix this fucking curse. Now, everything seems so hard, When the only thing that’s easy falls apart. Broken beaten scratched and scared, I don’t even know where to try and find the start. Now it’s caving in, creeping down my throat. Taking everything it whispers to me. Scratching at my skin and I can barley breathe Screaming in my face oh why won’t you just stop? So relate me to someone you once knew, And talk to me of all the things there are to do. Refer me to the doctor and the nurse, And tell me how to fix this fucking curse. I can only pretend to be someone else. I’m not even sure how to be myself. All the hope I found in you is gone as I try to write a different song. So relate me to someone you once knew, And talk to me of all the things there are to do. Refer me to the doctor and the nurse, And tell me how to fucking fix it.
6.
What Are You 02:40
So start again. You’re not even making sense. So go ask your friends, cos this moments far to tense Now the stabbing pain will stop, Just as soon as I've pulled the knife. And the bullet in my heart, made a hole in your life. So what are you, am I, what are we? So start again. You’re making too much sense. I must have no friends. Cos I’m all alone over again. Now the stabbing pain will stop, Just as soon as I've pulled the knife. And the bullet in my head made a hole in my life.
7.
Woke up stood on my feet in the middle of this empty street And it’s changed my head and I feel it's permanent Change in my heart beat. And I found consistency is the hardest thing to keep, It gets harder every time I try to sleep. You can’t see me when I’m, dressed in my Lies. I keep it all behind my eyes were my, My really messed up self can hide. I keep it in behind my disguise. Struck out the world so cold and I noticed what I've been told had, Slipped away from my mind, to give me back my own time, but Will my dreams Kill my soul, I guess only it knows but, It just made me find, the answers to the questions I've never asked. You can’t see me when I’m, Dressed in my Lies. I keep it all behind my eyes were my, My really messed up self can hide. I keep it in behind my disguise. You can’t see me when I’m dressed in my lies. I keep it Locked behind my eyes were my, My really fucked up self can hide. I keep it in behind my disguise.
8.
You know that it’s the truth, cos I couldn't lie to you. Now you’re asking me for proof, but I have thought this though. You’re asking me to lie and I know exactly why, but I haven’t thought this. Through. And I haven’t got that far, and those marks are gonna scar. And it’ll hurt like hell but. I haven’t seen that light, but it’s never seemed this bright. I think one day I. I think one day I. I know it sounds absurd and I know I sound disturbed. And I know it cos you said so. So you’ll take another drink, But I’m drowning as I sink, And it’s further than you’d think. And I haven’t got that far, and those marks are gonna scar. And it’ll hurt like hell but. I haven’t seen that light, but it’s never seemed this bright. I think one day I. I think one day I. I’m through standing on the edge. So I jump now off this ledge. And I’m drowning as I sink and it’s further than you’d think. You’re asking me to lie. And I know exactly why. But I’m drowning as I sink, and it's further then you’d think. And I haven’t got that far, and those marks are gonna scar. And it’ll hurt like hell but. I haven’t seen that light, but it’s never seemed this bright. I think one day I might.
9.
I can't say that And I feel sick I can't feel that And I wanna be alone Now can't say those words, Scream out my throat, Cause I don't know. And I can't sing that song, Those words feel wrong, Can't sing that song. I can't read that I dunno what to say
10.
Castles 03:37
My heart just stopped My chest caved in I am the boy that wanted Out of the world were I fit in No more, no more, giving in and I'll grow up on my own and I can learn it after all My heart just stopped And I can't win I am the boy that needed Out of the world were I can't fit in No more, no more, giving in

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released January 15, 2015

Credits:

William Crompton – Vocals, Guitar
Alex Crompton – Drums
Lydia Palmeira – Bass, Vocals
Edward Logie – Guitar, Vocals

Produced by Matt Davis
Mastering by Stewart Baxter
Recorded at Ricochet Studio in Hornsea

Artwork by Mike Sprout

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We are RUNoffthestatic, but what is the static that we run from? The static is the eerie dead silence, the boredom of a low paid job or benefits, the looming depression and onset of the inevitable apocalypse and filling with it loud noise, chaotic dancing and mohawks spiky enough to pierce party balloons. ... more

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