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A Knight at the Crossroads

by Lost on Purpose

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    I'm really pleased with how the packaging turned out. The front and back covers feature two beautiful paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926) - one of which inspired the album title. These are complemented by an interior watercolor painted by the inimitable Eshom Nelms.

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1.
Outside L.A. 02:29
All the mirrors in my head Point me towards the riverbed While all these black and white pictures keep waiting Dogs are barking all the time I try to befriend Bear and Shy But kick up dust and dry my eyes of her name Ice cold beers and burning sun The river turns the old men young But fire without a female tongue just hurts So send a soldier off to war He doesn’t know what he’s fighting for I ask him where, he asks me if I’m alone Well I don’t know Heard a story about a life So full of hope, so just like mine But he didn’t have the balls to try All the music in my ears Rattles drums and paints real tears As snakes crawls across my new veneer The city breathes and the city sighs I weave my way from sight to site My feet are sore but my soul is alive One Monday plus yesterday Are memories across the bay Just memories for me to contemplate Just a number in my phone Just another girl I’ve known This week usurped your reign upon my throne
2.
I feel alive for the first time in months I look at girls but all of their love is Not enough I used to think I was a chosen one You broke my heart I’m just a Dutch man’s song I barely lift a finger at a nine to five I got a sinking feeling I’m not really alive It’s getting rough We walked out the door and down the street I looked you in the eyes and kissed both of your cheeks It just feels right The past six months I’ve been sizing you up You’d look great next to me when I’m waking up From a dream Lift me back to the place I know Where all the dead people are shoveling snow In the morning light We work for money and wish for fame We want the whole world to adore our name It’s a crush Jesus loves me so I’m told But where’d he come from and where the hell did he go?
3.
Tombs 04:06
There were tombs below the wings we rode A field of souls The tombs have sold a wealth of hope Unspeakable So picture this: some winter kiss Unfeeling bliss I came and went, I’ll be back again A lie to a friend And I feel like a fake watching tv, feeling pain And I wonder what to make of this life we’ve been building Out of money, out of hate, out of feeling afraid That our lives won’t mean anything more than what we’ve left in the bank The heart that beats this blood through me Remember thee The tombs below are leaking souls And so they grow We stand upon a fragile bond A wish a song You build to show the world your soul Giant tombs in the snow Well I feel like a fake watching tv, feeling pain And I wonder what to make of this life we’ve been building Out of money, out of hate, out of feeling afraid That our lives won’t mean anything more than what we’ve left in the bank Footprints in the snow, leading us home Home is a place we forgot long ago Along with our pride and sense of what’s right We believe we’re the gold standard of these times And tombs are below, carved into stone And there’s still a chance to take it all back There’s still a chance Well I feel like a fake watching tv, feeling pain And I wonder what to make of this life we’ve been building Out of money, out of hate, out of feeling afraid That our lives won’t mean anything more than what we’ve left in the bank
4.
How To Close 02:59
Hands down my favorite night Too happy to not have a wife of my own Icebergs in the sea Span the horizon and i know what’s below I retreat and I attack Melt the icebergs with my eye contact, hell yeah Seeing things I have never dreamed I am innocent but you know what I mean This is your life This is your own These are your friends This is your home And this is how you have to close And this is how your heartbeat grows Help me as I schedule things Work my arms to I feel more complete inside Reading makes me so strong Her body tells me the friction’s on
5.
No More 03:45
No more, no remorse A drop in the ocean on my mind Never assume you know what to do You shouldn’t feel this way should you All my songs, they’re all yours As my heart beats and contorts Something to do, though I love you Nothing’s sad but nothing’s true Unmarked graves on the valley floors Waterfalls yeah I want more I took a rock straight off the wall Now you’re not here at all It feels closer than ever before Bathed in the Eiffel tower’s glow And I’ll never love my future wife As much as I loved you that night We’ll always have those better times I can’t believe it’s over tonight
6.
I’ve spent all my life Waiting for someone else to die Painting a line around the body I want to go back to rules When everything was bad or good When I was simply misunderstood If you’re gonna wait so long I’ve got no choice but to move on Feeling before sex occurs is wrong Pictures of all friends Have got me looking forward again To video games and video sins You might live and you might die But you my friend will overcome Feeling a sense of hope For so damn long I felt so old Taking a chance on the telephone Thinking of what it takes To kill me now that I’ve burnt those brakes One body at a time these days You might live and you might die But you my friend will overcome
7.
Pick a disguise as the lights turn to shade as the doctors wish you a nice… It’s such a shame but the highlight today won’t involve you at all Do things have to be a charade make believe we’re ok come on baby you’ll… Granted it’s true I’m still in love with you but what does that mean All of my dreams play the same sorry scene I’m ashamed to admit There’s only one end then it happens again like everything I’ve… But it helps to write fears desires and fights a new face a new life A new possible plan to go backwards again what’s the difference I’m already there
8.
Australia 03:45
You are my sad goodbye You make me drink You are my only regret That makes me think Of all the little things We used to do Of all the little ones We never knew You feel something in you but it’s not enough You feel something breaking but you can’t hold on You feel something in you but it’s not enough You feel something breaking but you can’t hold on Our sense of timing’s off You’re early, I’m late We kiss not because of love But to avoid hate If other lives were ours Who would you be? I’d be your broken heart Ever bleeding You feel something in you but it’s not enough You feel something breaking but you can’t hold on You feel something in you but it’s not enough You feel something breaking but you can’t hold on It’s setting you up It’s breaking you down Surrounded by things But no one’s around

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released May 24, 2010

All words and music by Will VanderWyden.
Additional vocals by Jacquelyn Thropay.
Tombs intro by unknown musician.

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