탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Pretend You're Alive (2004)

Oh summer life, oh summer life,
Crawling with these worms,
You're afraid of all their germs.
Oh bask in life, oh bask in life,
The weather gonna swallow you Into the great divide,
Oh enjoy life, oh enjoy life,
Climbing up those trees and breaking all your knees.

Watch angels in the morning become a devil's afternoon.
I will panic in the evening underneath the crashing moon.
So fall in love while you can still hold your head up high,
And pretend that you're alive again.
It's friends that leave you here in the end,

So hold your head up high and pretend that you're alive.

Now autumn brings the beautiful things,

Where all you give comes back to you
like the crown upon my king.
Your life's a song,
So sing along
before the silence swallows you and leaves you like a pawn,

Watch angels in the morning become a devil's afternoon,
I will panic in the evening underneath the crashing moon.
So fall in love while you can still hold your head up high,
And pretend that you're alive again.
It's friends that leave you here in the end,

So hold your head up high and pretend that you're alive.

Your friends, now ghosts, are screaming

"Bury us," they said, While panicking, my mind was broken.

 

 

미국  Canton, Ohio 에서 지금은 해체된 Kerith Ravine 밴드의 프론트맨이었던

Michael Shepard 가 2001년에 결성한 인디락밴드.

The Militia Group 레이블 소속.

 

1. 05 - Pretend You're Alive.mp3
2. 13 - Paper Scars.mp3

 

"Pretend You're Alive" Live at the New Brookland Tavern in Columbia, SC on April 9th, 2007.

 

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Pretend You're Alive (2004)

I want to make you happy
But I've fallen, I'm sorry
I thought my wings could hold me up
With angels, not demons
You don't know how cool you are
To find the ways to love me
Without shame

I want my life to be red
With trees and
Like autumn
I'd float away from evil
And down towards
The healing

So sad that now have become
The children trapped in the mazes
I'd give myself to the one
Who has the courage to find me
And free me
Now

If I run I'll just become like all the faking lights
So let the thunders take me under and break my legs tonight
Let the thunders take me under
And break my legs tonight

Hallelujah, I'm not breathing (hallelujah I'm not breathing)
Hallelujah, I'm not breathing (hallelujah I'm not breathing)

I want to make you happy
But I've fallen, I'm sorry

1. 07 - Down Towards The Healing.mp3

"Down Towards The Healing" Live in Allentown PA  

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Pretend You're Alive (2004)

Searching on the wire
for a wire,
for a peace of mind,
like the spiders in the corners
that are never there,

to the one,
to the magic sun.
you're not that bright now,
but you will be someday soon,
and you will fall in love with the moonlight.

So come on, come on and say so,
come on, come on and say so.

If god was on the radio
i know he'd say to thee,
love is spiders on the edge,
and we're hanging by a thread,
connected to the other end of this
twisted frequency i've spun,
but i don't care,
i'd be happy
if you'd share
your web with me.

So come on, come on and say so,
come on, come on and say so

why don't you,
why don't you,
come on, come on and say so.

 

1. 03 - Spiders.mp3

"Spiders" M/V

 

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Pretend You're Alive (2004)

Lights out,
punching your lights out,
punching your,
hello, they call me, I am
on the prowl (he's on the prowl)
hello, they call me, I am
hailing a cab (he puts his hand to the air)
what kind of verman are
creeping on the streets tonight.
It's 4 am and i am creeping on the streets tonight.

I'll save my life
for something good, oh yeah,
for something good, oh yeah,
for something good,
and when you're punching skulls
on the bathroom floor, oh yeah,
does it get you, oh yeah,
does it get you off to know
that sometimes we all blackout.

Lights out, poor thing that i am,
all alone (he's standing cold in the rain)
hello, they call me, I am
raging lightning (he puts his hand to the air)
what kind of verman are
swimming on the street tonight.
It's 4 am and i am coming after you tonight.

She'll save her life
for something good, oh yeah,
for something good, oh yeah,
for something good.
and when he's punching her skull
on the bathroom floor does it get him off, oh yeah,
does it get him off, oh yeah
does it get him off to know
that sometimes we all blackout.

Suck it up,
dry your tears,
i'll lift you up,
says the angel here,
little girl,
feel the rage,
turn your head,
walk down that hall and put yourself to bed.

 

1. 02 - Blackout.mp3

 

"Blackout" Live at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster PA

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Pretend You're Alive (2004)

Five to three,
walls of candy,
sign my name
on the dotted line
next to yours,

you found the ways to move faster
and stay healthy
no contra,
all these words are just a matter of time

You're like a snake in the water,
with shiny skin,
a clear conscience ,
vemons fade in just a matter of time,
in just a matter of time,
a matter of time

And too cold for kisses,
cause i've fallen from heaven,
your halo is just a punch in my face
you're all the rage,
you're all the fun,
but ever if you cross me
I'll get you,
sweet revenge is just a matter of time,
it's just a matter of time,
a matter of time

And so you're striking but
you're savage when you cut into my beautiful infection,
but I can't help like it when we touch,
oh haven't we reaped enough
to fill this room with sweet love

1. 11 - Candy.mp3

 

"Candy" Live

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Pretend You're Alive (2004)

I believe in my garden home
and the chemicals I need to make it grow
later on, the glowing teeth
lessons learned in radiology

choking on the tales of joy and bliss
broken sails, we should bale, but let's kiss
I'll embrace the brewing thunder and let it take me under

I believe in the search of the fawn
the forest creatures wild, but so am I
the bloody noses, the broken arms
lessons learned well in mythology

Amaurosis, I belong in an asylum
abused yet confused what you like
tar angels await as I learn to hate
this perfect world of my life

1. 10 - Radiology.mp3

 

"Radiology" Live on the Relevant/Encore Stage on Wednesday July 5th @ Cornerstone 2006

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Pretend You're Alive (2004)

And i don't think
we'll get out of this hell,
but the time here with you has been nice,
a cold love bloody knuckle trigger finger riding on the edge of mind,
a salute to the end of the world,
and a beautiful end for you girl

Because all night
I've been picking fights
with the fur men
and the bar stool kings,
and when it sounds right
I'll bring them down to their knees son,
and with the glorious red
we'll be off with their heads

Phantoms in the courtyard
waiting on the breeze to float after me,
to a chamber of wailing ferns,
the calm yellow air,
and the dark woolen skies
say our villians will arise,
oh haunted by two's they wake by you

But it's alright in a scissor hell,
and it's alright to fall deep in love,
because all night
I'll be following matches into the dawn of light,
where I melt you

You gotta pull stars down to be someone,
and when you've chemi-claimed the sun you gotta,
when the oceans fill your life somehow,
you gotta break the damn and wave to yourself,
you gotta pull stars down to be someone,
and when you chemi-claimed the sun you got it,
and when oceans fill your life somehow,
you gotta break the damn and wave to yourself

And sometimes in a silver hell
you gotta search for gold,
and in the right light
we're just angels with enemies

1. 09 - Angels With Enemies.mp3

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Pretend You're Alive (2004)

Now that I can't feel my heart in my chest,
angels will swoop down and pick up the rest,
I close my eyes as the chariot came,
now is the moment to remain free across the country

Time is a man with a blade in his hand
waiting for storms from the heaven to land and pass,
I know it won't last, this is the plan,
take your life back in your hands,
I know it won't last

1. 12 - It Won't Last.mp3

"It Won't Last" Live @ the hive tulsa 11/16
 

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

The Sucker Punch Show (2008)

I don't know what I've just said
Was it nasty? Why am I like that?
I could show you a good time
Then you'll know that we are blood-like

Na na na, na na na
Na na na, aah

I've really caught my leg in a trap this time
Your majesty, can't you see?
I'm a sentimental, partly-mental, I'm a bad friend
Ooh, I've got a little problem with my own head
But it feels right, it feels like I'm a belly full of dirt
I'm the milk that turned to curds and it feels right

Now stare at the ocean while your friends all drown
We all need to learn to swim anyway

Oh, my darling, hold your head up
Don't you listen? You're my baby girl
Oh, my darling, hold your head up
Don't you listen? You're my baby girl
Oh, my darling, hold your head up
Don't you listen? You're my baby girl
Oh, my darling, hold your head up now

Hold on, aren't I?
I am my own life, own harm
Hold on, aren't I?
I am my own life, own harm
Hold on, aren't I?
I am my own life, own harm

Stare at the ocean while your friends all drown
Now you're blood-like

1. 03. Blood Like.mp3

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

The Sucker Punch Show (2008)

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

The Sucker Punch Show (2008)

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

The Sucker Punch Show (2008)

This all started with a low-down kick in the head
I begged for money while the gang is kickin' it with a party
Next you'll tell me I'm the butt of the joke...

This all started with a low-down kick in the head
I think I lost my stomach when the ink on the paper said "choose your family"
Next you'll tell me I'm the butt of the joke...

While I'm sleepin' there's a snake at the door
His eyes wide open and he's look to score
She's a slut, I noticed

Now a blade and a bucket of ice
I think I lost religion when I stopped believing in bedtime stories
Next you'll tell me I'm the butt of the joke...

While I'm sleepin' there's a snake at the door
His eyes wide open and he's look to score
She's a slut, I noticed
While I'm sleepin' there's a snake at the door
His eyes wide open and he's look to score
She's a slut, I noticed

We're a broken home
Get your head out the clouds
I'd rather be a "nothing at all"
G-g-g-get your head out the clouds
You're gonna be a "nothing at all"
That's alright with me

While I'm sleepin' there's a snake at the door
His eyes wide open and he's look to score
She's a slut, I noticed
While I'm sleepin' there's a snake at the door
His eyes wide open and he's look to score
She's a slut, I noticed
While I'm sleepin' there's a snake at the door
His eyes wide open and he's look to score
She's a slut, I noticed
We're a broken home

1. 07. Broken Home.mp3

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

The Sucker Punch Show (2008)

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

The Sucker Punch Show (2008)

got sick of the marching band and lost my head
i am the straw that broke the camels back
sometimes you gotta let it all out
you gotta let it all out
you gotta let it all out

oh, sometimes, you know, you gotta let it all out
sometimes, you know, you gotta let it all out
sometimes, you know, you've gotta let it all out
sometimes, you know, you've gotta let it all out

i see you talking but i don't hear words
i'm just a gerbil in the wheel
you plugged the hole that's in your pretty face
i'm feeling scared that i might blow sometime

you gotta let it all out
you gotta let it all out
you've gotta let it all out

oh, sometimes, you know, you gotta let it all out
sometimes, you know, you gotta let it all out
sometimes, you know, you've gotta let it all out
sometimes, you know, you've gotta let it all out

1. 01. Let It All Out.mp3

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts Where It Ends (2007)

If you are the cloud, then i am the snow
If you are the rain, then i will not grow
All of the asperity you have sewn

If you are the voice inside of my head
That's fine with me
I'll turn down the bed
You cannot control me from the other side
No, you will not control me from the other side

Here we are again, love
Here we go again
By your side i can't pretend anymore
Now everything starts where it ends

When nobody wants you in their life
When nobody wants you in their life
When nobody wants you in their life
It's alright, it's gonna be alright

Do you feel what i feel coming?
All the oxen freed us now
Hiding in the tree life, kids come out at dusk light
Don't go home, it's tip toe time

All these threes are my trees
All these dreams are my dreams
Cool it Mr. Ice Cream sun!
Now cool it Mr. Ice Cream.

Here we are again, love
Here we go again
By your side i can't pretend anymore
Now everything starts where it ends

Do you feel what i feel?
Our heart is slowing down
No one will love what you love to defend
It all will start where it ends

Now do you see what i see?
Your calm is breaking the sound
Do not fear what i fear to pretend
All this will start where it ends

Wake up, you're alive
We're on your side
Wake up, you're alive
We're on your side
Wake up, you're alive
We're on your side
Wake up, you're alive

Here we are again, love
Here we go again
By your side i can't pretend anymore
Now everything starts where it ends

1. 12 - Everything Starts Where It Ends.mp3
2. 06 - Dancing.mp3

Michael Shepard

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts Where It Ends (2007)

Would you believe me if i told you
That i'm surfacing for just one thieving moment
To steal your heart

Would you believe me if i told you
That fairy tales come true
When i'm with you
I'll free the one who falls in love again

Come on and hold you like candy on a friday after
Making love all year
And now we're swimming down where
Iron doors are open
And there is too much fear to breathe

A girl, a boy, a hell. like thieves we are..

All in love
With stolen hearts
And we all fall down
And fall apart for love

Dance?! alright!
But i'm giving it one last fight
I fancy not your night
I'm not your girl, your whore, your hell
But thieves, we are

All in love
With stolen hearts
And we all fall down
And fall apart for love

1. 04 - Thieving.mp3
2. 15 - Thieving.mp3

"Thieving" Live in Boston at The Middle East on October 26, 2008

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts... EP (2006)

Wait!
Now calling all my foes to wait for the back of my hand
This cannot stand forever
The Weaver of Revenge
I am beelzabub’s replevin
Heckled and haunted adue
I’m nothing to you

Safe!
So safe and calm and cozy
Tucked in your blankets with gold
The pale and cold forgotten
The knife grinder is hunched to unfold
Your friends were sold for heaven
The sucker is you

One, you are beautiful and
Two, you are wonderful but
Three, you’ve got praxter’s in every pocket

Shut up!
Go on and on forever
My head is gonna roll down this hill
Through silk and hoards of greiling
Savagely born in the shawg
The bells have lost their meaning
Somewhere a whore gets her wings
And sings “my darling, my darling”
Heckled and hauntingly used
I’m falling for you….

Fall into circles of my love

Tripp’n on love

1. 05 - The Praxter.mp3

"The Praxter" Live Chameleon Club show last week

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts Where It Ends (2007)

You hang around and walk
As i take a drag from the cloud i'm shaking
Now i don't care how i hurt myself today
All my bones are breaking anyway
Sister, it's alright!

Learn to love the ways you are
Beautiful and broken heart
If perfect wounds won't leave a scar then
Everything will

I awake as i wait for you, all alone
I'm thinking that time is what i use
While my bones are sinking
With the rocks i have glued to them
Oh brother, it's alright!

Learn to burn the ways you are
Falling down and dreaming hard
If broken bones are perfect flaws, then..
Everything will, everything will, everything will
Be alright

Jump with me on a ride castling
And soon you'll be on your own to see
Oh choose or lose
Where the life has meaning
And you will see there is life underneath

Everything, come on come on now
Everything, come on come on now
Everything that's broken will be alright

Everything, come on come on now
Everything, come on come on now
Everything that's broken will be alright

1. 03 - Castling.mp3

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts Where It Ends (2007)

Oh like the salt of the earth
Each correction makes us stronger
Absconder in happiness, yeah

Voyage up my river
Full of tears it's yerking
Lookout now, doctor's unleashing:

All this dangerous, this is dangerous
I can't hide your danger eye i can't hide
Your death selection

One day i would've fallen so in love
One day i would've painted reds and greens of one
Who let me live long enough
But there's suits in love with their own poises
Hypocrites with no more voices
Corporate cowards with no more choices

This is dangerous, this is dangerous
I can't hide your danger eye i can't hide
Your death selection

All is lost for us if heaven
All is lost for us if heaven fails
All is, all is, all is..

1. 10 - Salt of The Earth.mp3
2. 14 - Salt of The Earth.mp3

"Salt of The Earth" Live @ The Brewery, Raleigh, NC  

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts Where It Ends (2007)

Black scene leather kid, real ameri-kid
Shove off or move my mountain
Calm these bitter bears and i'll thank you for punching a hole
And sinking my balloon. hey!

Nag my conscience, inferior conscience
Like i'm a lunatic waiting to scream
Henpecked by heroes with kingdoms of none
We're baking black mice in the sun

You are following, you are following
You were hoping to find something to shine
But you are out of your mind
To be so in love with this capital world

Searching, you go searching for fawna
With absinthe in your coffee and a gun in your hand
You should not be hunting for ghosts in this land
I say, i say .. my god! i say!

You are following, you are following
You were hoping to find something to shine
But you are out of your mind
To be so in love with this capital world

Skeletons in your head, open your mind and you'll find
Skeletons in your head, open your mind and you'll find..

Swing high, swing low
Swing high, swing low
Swing high, swing low
Swing high, swing low

You are following, you are following
You were hoping to find something to shine
But you are out of your mind
To be so in love

1. 11 - American Swimming Lesson.mp3

 

"American Swimming Lesson" Live at Sac State University on 3/19

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts Where It Ends (2007)

Remember i told you "in life and death"
Don't bury our secrets
They will not tear us apart
Because love means going this far
Even when the ending is only the start

If you dive into the ocean then i
Will be the wave around you tonight
And if you're sinking, then oh, it's alright
Because i will be the ghost who is at your side

Remember, you're demons will surface and fight
But i will be a good phantom
And keep on romancing this cold little devils tribe
And hold them away while you are escaping into the light

So tell me where you've gone by now
I'm getting no reception on my heart radio
Now meet me where the angels collide
And i will be the ghost who is at your side

Yeah
Now i'm changing, i'm changing, i'm changing
Oh i'm changing for you now

When you dive into the ocean alive
Oh i will be the ghost at your side
If you fall into the devils tribe
Oh i will be the ghost at your side
And when anywhere the angels collide
Oh i will be the ghost at your side

Now dive into the blinding light

"Ghost By Your Side" M/V
 

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts Where It Ends (2007)

You left tuesday and by wednesday you were so alone
Is this your nightmare man?
The millions of punch drunks and the cannibal king is taking control
Now that you're burning in space
You try to remember her face and the crown of your heart
Now you're fighting for the manacle girls and boys
Like a kettle of keys
One of which might unlock all of these

If these are the black gates of hell
Then I'm sorry for the life I've wasted so
I forgot to fall in love
I forgot to call on the keystone clan
I never got to be a man at all

Your crocodile tears
Your manikin angel cage of fire is killing him so
Now you're searching for life

Up in these cold casino clouds
With your panicking eyes I am not alone

Now these are the angry jaws of death
Now this is the calm while Father Grim is smiling so
I never got to fully say
I never got to really explain myself
I forgot got to sing

I got us here, I saw the sign
Now breathe in the air, and you'll be fine

Now I will never fall in love
Now I will never really explain myself
But honey I will sing

1. 01 - Casino Clouds.mp3
2. 08 - Casino Clouds.mp3

 

"Casino Clouds" Live in $5 Acoustic Storytellers Tour

 

탈퇴멤버
Adam Ladd
David Thomas Owen IV
Korey Christopher Jones
Matthew Putman
Matthew Depper

Everything Starts Where It Ends (2007)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
The sun will shine upon you
But not on all the others
You are sugar sweet, so fine I'd like to eat
Your apple's poison seed
Will be the end of me