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How to Stay Afloat in Treacherous Waters

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by Red Beard

 

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Man Overboard 01:07
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Your Words, My Fears 03:39
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Black Widow Kills Kiddo 03:01
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Sea Goddess 05:40
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Cope 02:57
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To The Earth 04:08
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A.D.H.D.L.O.L. 02:51
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We're Going Home 05:45
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released 15 October 2009
Red Beard is:
Matt O'Shea - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synths
Ben Meadors - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Dane Palmer - Drums, Backing Vocals

Album produced by Red Beard

All songs written by Matt O'Shea
with Red Beard

Album Engineered and Mixed by: Ben Meadors
Recording Assistant: Dane Palmer

Album Artwork by Chelsea Atwell

Red Beard would like to thank: Mary Licata

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Track Name: Your Words, My Fears
Your words are my fears
This face I’ve worn for years

We’re slowly learning
How to stay afloat in treacherous waters,
Don’t get cocky.
These tides are very unpredictable
You never know when they’re coming.
Now or never, it don’t matter,
Paranoia will keep you guessing.
Look over your shoulder and tell me what you see is there,
Or are you scared?
I look for you.

You are capsized,
Ocean waves bury you.
Open your eyes,
All you see, sea of blue.
Man Overboard,
Send out search and rescue!
Useless order,
No one saves you but you.

You dream of paradise,
You dream of how things used to be.
You can’t stop dwelling on lost love
And missed opportunities, but let me tell you
If you ever want yourself to be free,
If you ever want to escape the sea
Stop clinging to illusion.

You are capsized,
Ocean waves bury you.
Open your eyes,
All you see, sea of blue.
Man Overboard,
Send out search and rescue!
Useless order,
No one saves you.

Beware of sweet temptation
It tastes so sweet, but it will sink you
Like a bitter stone.
Track Name: Black Widow Kills Kiddo
Tip-toeing on the edge of failure,
Falling off would be a crime.
Front page news: “Black Widow Kills Kiddo”
At all costs avoid the headline.

Be careful Black Widow,
You’re going to kill the kiddo.
He can only handle a little bit of pain at a time.
We beg you Black Widow,
Have mercy on the kiddo.
He loves the taste of your venom,
Though it poisons his mind.

Sticking to your web of lies,
Unable to avoid.
Set the table, it’s time for dinner,
Main course is paranoid.
Yeah, we drove past a burning house,
But never called the authorities.
Forgive us for our being coy.
We’ll do nothing, but please spare the boy!

Be careful Black Widow,
You’re going to kill the kiddo.
He can only handle a little bit of pain at a time.
We beg you Black Widow,
Have mercy on the kiddo.
He loves the taste of your venom,
Though it poisons his mind.

In the end,
We’re judged by what’s within.
Let it out to make up for your poor actions.
In time,
You’ll emit a light that’s so bright
We’ll all be blind.
Black Widow,
Don’t let yourself be defined.
Track Name: Sea Goddess
So many other fish in the sea,
But my hook is caught, can’t seem to be freed.
That sharp-jagged hook is piercing your gills,
Stuck on dead love and old-time thrills.
Part of me wants you to let me go,
Another wants me underwater with you though I know
The dangers and sights I’m bound to see,
Leagues drowned sailors piled down up at your feet

I cannot stop picturing you taking off your clothes
And rubbing your nose on his chest.
A familiar face and a-oh-so familiar smile
I hadn’t seen for a while, you’re showing it to him aren’t you?

The moment you let him take the dive,
Did you think of me or did you enjoy the ride?
Conflicting with rules to which I abide,
Just too many grooms for one water bride.

The more I try to forget you and go,
The less I seem to be rowing this boat.
The more I try to forget you and go,
The less inclined I am to stay afloat.

I cannot stop picturing you taking off your clothes
And rubbing your nose on his chest.
A familiar face and a-oh-so familiar smile
I hadn’t seen for a while, you’re showing it to him aren’t you?

The moment you let him take the dive,
Did you think of me or did you enjoy the ride?
The moment you let him, I lost my guide.
Did you think of me or did you enjoy the ride?
Did you think of me or did you enjoy the ride?
Did you think of me or did you enjoy the ride?
Track Name: Cope
I need another heart,
Another heart that's gonna tear me apart
and figure out the problem,
Figure out what the problem is

Because I don't wanna do it, I'll construe it and confuse it.
I don't wanna do it all by myself.
I just need a teacher, no sobbing Mona Lisa.
I wont repaint her smile, that was Da Vinci's job
left alone.

I think I need a new brain
This one I have is getting hard to maintain
From all this constant heartache
I don't know how much more of this I can take.

This heart is racing, this heart is pacing

They're crying in the church,
They're crying in the steeple
Now open up the doors
Reveal the crying people

They're crying in the church,
They're crying in the steeple
Now open up the doors
Their spirits are looking feeble

These coping strategies are externally flawed.
Internal anarchy; rebelling against your thoughts.
Don't you give up on me,
I hoped you would understand
Coping with tragedy I needed your hand.

They're crying in the church,
They're crying in the steeple
Now open up the doors
Reveal the crying people

They're crying in the church,
They're crying in the steeple
Don't open up the doors
Don't open up the doors
Track Name: To The Earth
I want to find,
We all want to find the way
Down the easiest paths,
No stops ahead until we’re dead,
But that path is a myth.
We’re bound to trip and fall.

Your tainted mind,
It hasn’t been kind
To the truths of reality.
Take it from me, it’s not so pretty
Where everyone lies, everyone dies.
Let go!

Find your way
Before you find your grave.

Forever, Endeavor
Your future begins

Don’t be found six underground

Find your way
Before you find your grave.
Track Name: A.D.H.D.L.O.L.
You’re getting so sick of being dragged through the mud,
Especially when you’ve shown compassion and love.
Can’t hold it much longer, water seeps to your lungs.
A smile pulls the trigger to a loaded gun.

Rise up,
Up above the treacherous waters.
Grab the hands of your sisters and your brothers.
All dying hearts die laughing out loud.
So, come a little closer to sincerity.
Let’s take a trip down the pathway of reality.
Reality is an essential part,
But sincerity will save your heart.
Sincerity will save you.

Destruction it lingers at your front door.
Angelic singers have you begging for more.
A rusty smile, it conceals the pain;
A rusty smile from continuous rain.

Rise up,
Up above the treacherous waters.
Grab the hands of your sisters and your brothers.
All dying hearts die laughing out loud.
So, come a little closer to sincerity.
Let’s take a trip down the pathway of reality.
Reality is an essential part,
But sincerity will save your heart.
Rise up,
Up above the treacherous waters.
Grab the hands of your sisters and your brothers.
All dying hearts die laughing out loud.
So, come a little closer to sincerity.
Let’s take a trip down the pathway of reality.
Reality is an essential part,
But sincerity will save your heart.
Sincerity will save you.
Track Name: We're Going Home
The worst is over now,
But the salt still stings the wounds
And the memories still remain so clear.

It’s been so long since we have touched the land
With open arms and appreciative hands.
Dig those fingers right in the sand.
These sails have prevailed through the gusts of fear and doubt.
No big white whale had the guts to take us out.
The captain at the bow he shout,
“When you have fear, it tends to tear apart a vessel that’s meant to stay!”
“When you have hope and a vision to reach the shore, look to your sky to tell you more!”

All those stars,
They light up the sky
Like millions of eyes
That sit and stare straight back at you.
They’re going to tell us what to do.
Stars and moon,
Light the path where we must roam.
We’re going to make it sailor,
We’re going home!
I see the shoreline. I see sea holm.

This day and this night,
We’ll go down in history
As the victors of failing times.