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Dead Before Dawn

by The Skeats

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1.
Zero Hour 01:32
2.
Dead Before Dawn Chorus 10 seconds in you give your life away I can see it in your cold dead eyes Stuck in second when you gave the right away Remember more than you realize Me I can't see All through the shadows flitting unremitting abandonment so dark and fitting now Prophecies all just exhausted current black recurrence Another light we'll see before the end So come along and scream with me my friend Chorus You feel it more than you realize Please follow me I'll show you to a deep affluent unearthed ruin A side of you not seen before the eyes Of your friends but they all think they know you like I know you But you seem so much different when it's just The two of us and then it turns to dust Chorus It doesn't add up so it's time to divide Breakdown Outro
3.
Lights 06:26
Lights Lights shining on me It's the last thing I see and the first thing I need to be free When, when will it end All the treason we see at a needless and tortured expense Chorus Everyday, it's all destined for change but we all stay the same anyway What's to say, whose to blame In a sense, it's so easily spent as it all came and went in the end Stand up walk with me my friend Change, all comes in waves And it's so hard to see till we step back and read it, it saves Wait, wait for the time Just to rise up above a discovery we're searching to find Chorus Bridge Guitar Solo Chorus All the same, we're all lost in this cage and it all works both ways in the end, Everyday, anyway All we see, all the times that we bleed what we touch what we feel, energy Is carried on through memories
4.
Best Days (In Disguise) Hey, it's understated loved and hated in the end So won't you be my friend Say, weren't you the one who told me you would hold me close And that you'd love me most Go Pre Chorus I see you walking down the street I know you've found someone to meet Don't mind what happens now and then I'll be there with you to the end Chorus Our bitter ways have never changed but is there nothing left to say You don't believe it anyway So full of lies you realize you spent your best days in disguise Hey it's never wasted irreplaceable to me Just take a look and see Weight under reality is not the place to be Don't take it out on me Go Pre Chorus Chorus Wait, why, we die Fate, high, we fly
5.
Place & Time 06:24
Place and Time Open the toll gates if we have to Nobody's getting in for free Amidst the sun storm losing altitude It's not so difficult to me We won't give it away, no we're right here to stay and play today Chorus So take a ride and say goodbye This disarray so undefined Another place another time Oh yesterday's so hard to find Tonight Refined unstoppable persistence It's not so difficult to be A misinterpreted existence It's all indifferent to me Time won't wash me away, rock and roll's here to stay and play today Chorus Bridge To rearrange my mind to find what's buried deep inside A burial so fine
6.
Once or Twice A light in my life, sometimes it's hard To find or contrive I tried once or twice, to crawl through the dark To put things to rights Walk run push shove Stay late dawn breaks It all feels the same, here once again Combative ways I tried once or twice, to bring this thing home To sleep with the night Night day fade away Cold lake dawn breaks The best of times is yet to come A moral choice won't come undone And through the darkest form of night You'll find the answers in your sight Walk run push shove Stay late dawn breaks Guitar Solo I tried once or twice, I brought this thing home I slept with the night Walk run push shove Stay late dawn breaks Outro
7.
Wake Up (Don't Hate Me) Wake up don't hate me today It's difficult to see it but where I stand it's feasible to me Face up and take me away It's underneath a surface so physical, just see it and believe repeat Chorus Seasons changing but my love for you has never gone away Through the flames, wind and rain Final chapters closing, knew we'd always make it to the end To a certainty my friend Mixed up and fading away I think it's part resentment, part underlying feelings unaddressed Fixed up unchanging array A matter of persistence untouchable unbeaten by the best Chorus Bridge Chorus Outro
8.
Poor Man's Toll I see you working away I cash it all in today At once we're locked in this cage And you're not worth the net pay Chorus While you laugh, wait till you get a glimpse tomorrow Think too fast, and you'll forget about today Work, play, all day Love, rage, insane Yeah you laugh, wait till you get a glimpse tomorrow Think too fast, and you'll forget about today Bridge/ Guitar Solo I see you working away, I cash it all in today At once we're locked in this cage But you're not worth the next pay Stop
9.
The Fight 03:59
The fight Force unstoppable a mastermind unbeaten underway I stand watching your feet dancing on my grave Voice impossible to hear without the proper set of ears Once forgotten now he's coming back today Pre Chorus You'd better hide until you find The cure that's buried deep inside Chorus Once you see the light, you can win the fight When it's in your sight, you can do what's right And you feel so high Force intangible you feel it as you read between the lines As you're watching your life pass before your eyes Understandable time gets behind your self destructive mind It's a feeling that we've all been victimized Pre Chorus Chorus Bridge/Guitar Solo Drums/Bass Solo Once you see the light, you can win the fight When it's in your sights, you can do what's right And you feel so high Once you see the light, you can win the fight
10.
Pale Horse 05:09
Pale Horse You're so dead inside me still you just defy me Path so beaten now it's whole Love struck sickened by this most untimely Goddess Once was smitten now it's broke Pre chorus You can't break me, you won't waste me Still you taste me don't you Still I think about you, still I drink about you Ship was sinking now it floats Chorus I'm cashing it all in today (Pay) I'm making a stand walk away (Stay) The battle is over again (Slay) And who really won in the end (Hate) Once you're standing by me, now you're testifying Story changing evermore Hold to bitter feelings, move to blacker dealings Both feet sticking to the floor Pre Chorus Chorus Bridge Guitar Solo Chorus
11.
Keep it on Your Way And the sun beats on my neck Left to reasons you'd expect On a blasted heath unchained but baron wastelands keep me jailed And it's left to uncertainty Like a mainline to my dreams All the nightmares that have kept me up for years but still they failed Pre Chorus A bitter mind won't gratify or satisfy the need It's unfulfilled you see What better way to spend the day to send away the pain Never stray, keep it on your way Chorus Put to the test, face the regret Catching the same disease we've tried so hard to check Put to the test, feeling it yet Catching the same disease but it's not over yet And the kid looks just like me Left for reasons you'd believe I admit to envy, paid the price and that's my cross to bear But i take it all from this cup Every sip and every sup It's the bed I've made just laying in it, I don't wanna share Pre Chorus Chorus Guitar Solo Chorus Outro

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Third LP from St John's, NL based rock band The Skeats

All songs written by The Skeats

Recorded at Comfort Cove Studios

Ward Pike : Ward Pike

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released January 1, 2022

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The Skeats Saint John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador

Originally from Glovertown, NL in 2014, The Skeats members consist of James Keats (Lead Guitar/Lead Vocals) Josh Organ (Bass/Back up Vocals) and Daniel Keats (Percussion/Back up Vocals) we are a rock band that came straight from the bay to kick your ass all the way back there! Currently residing in St. John's, NL, be sure to check out the new LP Dead Before Dawn! ... more

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