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Reasons to Exist EP

by Feathers Wood 'N' String

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1.
A Rose for Nothing 04:09
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I wasted fifty pages on mistakes Tore up my thoughts in frustration After all forgot what I set out to make And so I made you nothing Unperturbed you gathered up my tantrum shards And showed me in them a proud reflection Depths unknown to be feared We sail out on black waters not our own But I can always lose my grip you’ll catch my fingers You are the ship that carries me home. I threw away ideas time and time and time again Refused to steer against the waves Wore the ground so thin that it was tearing And so I took you nowhere With grace you took my hands and kept them steady Fought the sails and read the guiding stars Depths unknown to be feared We sail out on black waters not our own But I can always lose my grip you’ll catch my fingers You are the ship that carries me home. You drew me to my feet to measure up And promise something Held a candle to the treasures So I’d find you something But could I ever bring you something on my own? Do I see our value without the mirror that you hold? Depths unknown to be feared We sail out on black waters not our own But I can always lose my grip you’ll catch my fingers You are the ship that carries me home. In seeing treasure you make treasure grow You are the sails that lift me home.
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Rift 03:58
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You've been my compass, proof of everything What the struggle means Other people set us free, in spite of all Always speaking to my soul, your love Strong against the sun Bold and as one, in spite of all. Fingers on the rift’s edge Fingers in my ears Hands tight in each of mine Don’t want to know Stop I Have no other place for all this pride Have to learn to know Not always gonna conquer - why? I don’t know why Yours is mine Don’t know why Why this match is life Teach me to love, no proof of everything Knowing what the struggle means Souls are set free, in spite of all. Always singing in my soul, your love Strong against the sun Bold even alone, you gave your all. Had to touch the rift’s edge Stop closing my ears Squeeze hands in each of mine I had to know Faith, unkind, says never let go If I cannot see you, how will I know? How will I believe if you don’t show? Hold my truth together for me. Tripping on the rift’s edge Met with all my fears Held hands in each of mine And now I know Still I Have no other place for all this pride Had to learn to know Not always gonna conquer And I - I don't know why Like shattered glass in my mind I don't know why This match is life
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Constructs 03:21
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Wake up friend you’ve missed it Did you say it right? Watching yourself trip Did you sleep last night? Grind out your teeth till there’s nothing left Fall till it shocks you awake Chorus: But aren’t they just legends and lies To comfort our minds Yeah they’re just legends and lies Constructs of our kind But we must preserve our minds Hierarchies and borders Can you break in? Roles in the bleak show Where do you fit? You can dress yourself up for the party Better make sure that you toe the line Chorus If we, if we open the black box Won’t we, won’t we lose our minds If we, if we have the map for our lives Chorus But we must preserve our minds With these maps for our lives
4.
The Glass 03:45
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Pictures to aspire to Thrilling games and neon fame Wire across the price for dopamine the glass between us and the fear And the few failed to survive The mass outside their minds They said we couldn’t be sane If we lived with reality Sat gladly in the chains While the glass showed another place “Life is short, experience” Never “Life is short so leave your mark” The inching steps too bleak to see With gilded weariness we paid for dreams When everything real is gone Keep it real, keep it real Open your eyes, shutting them won’t heal won't heal When everything real is gone Keep it real, keep it real Now everything real is gone Keep it real, keep it real Use what you've seen to find a way Keep it real, keep it real.
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Lifeline 04:15
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My hand will be forced Never could have gone your way Your life is just a draft Tomorrow, you will have no say. Life tore the map free From our veins Now you can’t show me Where to go anymore And if I could I’d throw you a lifeline Just to keep you in my mind I’d give you a lifetime To screw up and find me something We had to cut our ties Before I ever saw you jump Your truth choked back, crossed out For all we’d made and all we’d tried I was still numb Life tore the map free From our veins Now you can’t tell me Where to go anymore And if I could I’d throw you a lifeline Just to keep you in my mind I’d give you a lifetime To screw up and find me somehow Couldn’t you Have just Been right And finished Taken me over, taken me under, taken me over, taken me to Make the right mistakes Find the truth in the wrong places Taken me over taken me under, taken me over, taken me under World burned your choices From my heart Now there can be no Escape anymore And if I could I’d throw you a lifeline Just to keep you in my mind I’d give you a lifetime To screw up and get me somewhere I’d throw you a lifeline Just to keep you in my mind I’d give you a lifetime To screw up and make me go there.
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Paper Boats (Remastered) 04:07
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When I first set sail I left some soul behind Your echoes in my gut tugged back at me like ebbing tides But for every step I took a whisper left your lips “She’s gone, alone, she is no longer one of us we feel” And so the spark will wash away It floats away and gently fades It floats away, away away in paper boats The tide will say I wash away I’ll take away it floats away I’ll wash away, away away these paper boats. I loaded paper boats with words and hope Sent parts of me across the sea in paper boats. But for every scribble made your heart to others spoke And said “she hasn't come, her words are false, they will not float.” And so the spark will wash away It floats away and gently fades It floats away, away, away in paper boats The tide will say I wash away I’ll take away it floats away I’ll wash away, away, away these paper boats. These words inside my mind They won’t take me home You won’t wash away The ink on my hands Everything I was was ordinary And everything I dreamed was in clichés Everything I am is not enough For you are all unique and I am same Everything I found was beyond words So nothing that I learned could be conveyed Unless I poured it out on paper boats And paper boats disintegrate. And so your spark will wash away It floats away and gently fades It floats away, away, away in paper boats The tide will say I wash away I’ll take away these words you say But my heart won’t give away these words in paper boats. These words in paper boats (Folded with care) They won’t take me home (Lost at sea) You won’t wash away (You never saw) The ink on my hands On the tide on the tide my dreams Repeat chorus 3 You won’t wash away The ink on my hands On the tide on the tide my dreams

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released December 26, 2018

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Feathers Wood 'N' String Southampton, UK

Alt/indie rock duo playing hard-hitting upbeat tracks fused with meaningful melodic lyrics. For fans of 10 Years, Evanescence, Royal Blood, Hands Like Houses & Silverstein. From Adelaide, South Australia, we are currently based in Southampton, UK.

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