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Lifer

from Closure by Cynosure

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This Mark-penned track began life as a demo called "B-Jazz" (as it was in the key of B) and grew into a full track (in the key of A, this time) after the first Cynosure album. It still wasn't fully fleshed out by the time the band hit the studio and, as a result, was only partly finished, sans vocals and most of the guitars. It was later finished by the Shift boys and changed into the key of E as part of their live set and Shift of a Demo album. The track was written (I think) about a friend of Mark's who died far too young.

This 2015 redo has the vocals added and the guitars finished in an attempt to recreate what the song could have sounded like if the Grey Area had actually been finished.

lyrics

I don’t seem to realise why
Living my life like you won’t die
Tomorrow comes too easily
And I don’t wanna feel like
I could lose you

Scared to be around
What threatens to leave at any second
Blink – don’t close your eyes
Don’t let Him touch you!
Don’t let Him hold!
You’ll take with you a failed part of me

All the time to promise to try
Living myself – a selfish lie
Maybe I’ll come another day
And I don’t wanna feel like
I don’t know you

Life was always easy with you ushered at my side
But now it seems uncertain, I’ve got nothing else to hide
Forced to make decisions, I can’t make them on my own
The dying light engulfs you as your spirit returns home

Try to make up for lost time
Now it’s too late, sever the line
How quickly you were snatched away
And I don’t wanna feel like
My whole life is passing by
Just enough time to say
I will miss you

credits

from Closure, released November 11, 2015
Vocals by Kerry Logan, guitars by Kerry Logan, pianos by Mark Weir, bass by Julian Maraki and Kerry Logan and drums by Bobby Logan.
Written by Mark Weir. Produced by Mark Weir, Kerry Logan and Cynosure.
Recorded at Avalanche Audio, New Plymouth in 1997-98. Vocals, extra guitars and bass recorded and track remastered in September/October 2015.

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