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Walking Under Ladders

by Bill Borman

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1.
On Our Way 06:11
I've been losing touch with all the games they play Things still change, I know, and things still stay the same But I'll still be there In spirit if not in soul In part if not in whole In the darkness, in the night she wakes A brighter road she takes but still her fragile heart, it breaks And I don't know what will be - She's a mystery to me But then I don't understand myself Can't expect me to understand somebody else It's just a fairytale babe They're checking our records now, gonna take us all away Keep our memories held in little boxes in prison cells 'Till one of us finds a better way x3 Don't know if I'd live I don't know if I'd die I dont know if I'd make it 'Cause I've never tried Don't want to know when I don't need to know why I just want everything to turn out all right And don't we all just need a reason to smile? Yeah, a rainy day can change the world for a while So give us a fragment of hope and we'll be on our way On my way Gotta live for today 'cause tomorrow I died When I sat and watched as the world passed me by Gotta move on and remember tomorrow We hold ourselves back, caught up in our sorrow And don't we all just need a reason to smile? Yeah, a sunny day can change the world for a while
2.
All The Time 06:57
_________ Part 1 _________ Went to find all the answers I came back just yesterday How to love, how to live my life How to hate, how to hope, how to pray How to be, how to fall gracefully How to get back up, how to change How to be all the things that they want me to be How to be all the things that I am _________ Part 2 _________ Kill me now if I don't believe Tell me now if I cannot see Cause all the things that seemed so bright Are seen now in residual light And behind the mask of truth I found all the things I already knew Didn't change me, didn't change you And now things are how they've always been Calm, collected and unseen And that's just the way that I wanted to be Calm, collected and bittersweet _________ Part 3 _________ And there's a time when you can see the folly in everything When you realise you're more sober than anyone at this party And all the things to come and been Coalesce and shine a light on me And give me just a moment to breathe Yeah, give me just a moment to believe And when the judgement comes There's nothing else we could have done But I'm I'm still alive They look for the writing on the wall Turns out there's nothing there at all But death is not so unknown It happens all the time ______________________ Part 1 again, then... ______________________ Went to find all the answers You came back just yesterday How to love, how to live your life How to hate, how to hope, how to pray How to be, how to fall gracefully How to get back up and go far But don't be all the things that they want you to be Just be all the things that you are _________ Part 4 _________ And you can fall on me I'll catch you if I can But don't think that I know the way I hardly even know who I am One day when the ride was slowing I forgot where I was going But life is not so unknown It happens all the time It happens all the time
3.
New Roads 02:00
Let's get in my car and drive away Find a new world with a place to stay Sit on the roadside looking back the way we came Think of what we've done, and how far we've come Let's go on a road trip far away Drive across country for days and days Find a new world with a place to stay Let's get in my car and drive away Let's play the music we used to play The sounds of mem'ries from long ago days Talk about things we don't need to say Take it all in and drive away Plan the future, then throw it away Stop at the sights and cities and bays Take some photos for another day When we're back at home and weather's grey Let's get in my car and drive away Find a new world with a place to stay Sit on the roadside looking back the way we came Think of what we've done, and how far we've come Let's get in my car and drive away
4.
I don't care what you believe anyway We're all gonna die tomorrow We're all alive today So why do we insist on falling out of favour with fate? If we can choose, it's not too late So tell me what you've seen Cause we're only what we seem And life is just a thought And thought is just a dream And I know Cause we can feel it Sometimes in the strangest dreams And I know They can see it Sometimes when they look at you and me Watching the ripples flow from the things we do and the places we go Wondering if it's good cause I can't see my soul Do you think you could come a bit closer?; your aura's a little bit faded today I need to see what I should say to make it okay Gonna break a mirror just to see if it'll make a difference I've been walking under ladders all day Keep waking up from dreams before I find out what they mean And I remember just enough to know it's prob'ly not anything And I know it's all wrong, but it's all right As we slowly fade away into the night x2 As we slowly fade away until the sunrise Gonna break a mirror just to see if it'll make a difference I've been walking under ladders all day Keep waking up from dreams before I find out what they mean And I remember just enough to know it's prob'ly not anything And I know it's all wrong, but it's all right As we slowly fade away into the night And I know they can see it Sometimes when they look at you and me
5.
Interlude 05:24
6.
They built a high-rise building over my old home They send me leaflets in the mail, they won't leave me alone I got sick of it all and called them up on the phone They told me "that's the way it's meant to be." Getting home, you're stoned, and it's quarter-past three I heard you lost you job, why don't you take it out on me? I'd love to give you all the answers But I don't know I meant to sign up for a better plan But they told me never listen to the man And all the good ones were taken even though I ran, anyway Counting up my losses it I declared it fine Yeah in the end it didn't seem so bad I guess you never really miss what you never really had They're going out for a one-night-stand supplied with drugs and contraband Let us know that they're living for today And when we come up come up with something new they'll have something new to hate Watch the time and we'll be back by five, we'll only have a little less time to waste
7.
Let's go complain about the bypass cause it's cool to be irate And while we're at it I can write a list of all the other things I hate Don't you burn that, it gives you cancer Yeah I know, I've got all the answers So hey, just listen to me Don't you know it's all your fault the kids are dying overseas? Haven't you seen the ads? All they need is a dollar twenty They're gonna tell you all the facts and then retract them all away I won't be surprised when they do it again CHORUS And I've been counting up the ramifications Trying to avoid these difficult situations I sure they'll try to blame it on me And why does it always have to be We're living life in a minor key? I, I don't know why And wouldn't it be nice if the best things in life were free? But I'd be out of a job and you'd be out of copy-protected CDs Come and give me your CV so I can tell you what you want to be I'd help you out, but it's against my beliefs CHORUS etc
8.
Same 03:23
Gonna slow down time I'll help you change the world if you'll let me change my mind I'll take you on a tour of the city if you like Gonna read your mind I figure it's the only way to find out what you're really like Gonna build a machine to make realities of dreams I've got all night Went back in time to find a soul-mate From my past lives I couldn't see for all the others same as me Realised we're all the same Came back again To see you And me CHORUS Went to the future Bought a robot to relate He cleaned the house His conversation was so great But he fell apart one day In an abstract and substantial way And I realised It's just not you CHORUS (variation) ... Gonna read your mind Then I'll know that I'm saying all the right lines Gonna build a machine to make realities of dreams I've got all night
9.
Tracks of tape and invisible grooves Music of magnets, transistors and tubes Try to make it sound like I wanted it to Music in my head beamed down to you Stars in the skies above Tell tales of unrequited love Myths and ancient prophecies Can't say what it all means to me And they said that love would conquer all As war rages on out in the world And they told me that the fittest would survive Well some of us shouldn't even be alive Take another souvenir To prove that we were really here You don't wanna be like them rushing by Running in circles and then they die CHORUS All things in time, my friend You'll see the future, cause time never ends You'll get your chances, and the best of luck to you May all your dreams come true And oh my friend there'll be other ways We'll build those bridges another day And I'd love to think that you could stay As liquid hours melt away (chorus)
10.
And isn't it funny that we're all the same; That we're all together alone in this place? And isn't it funny we're all playing this game On this rock out in space? And there's fresh old news in the paper today The world's heating up by degrees, they say We've got to do more and we've got to do less To make sure everything stays the same So how about I do more and you can do less 'Cause failure is never quite as frightning as regret And the world will spin longer, and we can be stronger And the aliens we'll have met, they'll say... CHORUS I don't think it means as much as you think it does And don't you feel so goddamn helpless In a world where only the atheist can be truly selfless And he isn't, anyway? You've read the gossip in the magazines You've thought "I wish that I could be That naive" And from the satellite I said Isn't life more than wine and bread? Falling in love gMm/r2? And the patterns are there, if unclear, from up here When the answers aren't over my head (break) When they pick me up from the satellite Fly me away to the end of the night Now facing the origin, all of us there Infinitesimal dot, You Are Here And I'll say... CHORUS And she always complains that he doesn't phone And it's hard to find time to be with and alone But now from afar, see how alone we are Like Wonko the Sane, I'm outside the asylum Untouched and untouchable - free. Untouched and untouchable seen. And all I can say is... CHORUS
11.
Fly 05:45
Walking down the street on a summer's day People inside, still afraid of the rain Cause what's been before could come back again Better to dream than to feel the pain But they can read the future in a cup of tea, he said "I can see everything and you can't see through me" But I can see the cracks running through his beliefs Standing on quicksand, afraid to flee Lying in bed watching re-runs in my head Of the past and all the things I prob'ly should have said Plan out the future in elaborate schemes Writing hopes on cardboard dreams And so many of the things that I thought would be Are scattered into dreams like entropy Like rain. Like rain CHORUS x2 You could be safe inside Live out your life under clouded skies But if I could fly Build our wax wings for a moment of sunshine Could die; well at least we tried If they said it's not worth it they lied And no-one can ask you to justify Your heart New dawn, older themes Sailing ships of paper dreams Back to the start; it's all the same Like rain, it all evaporates again And so many of the things that I thought would be Are scattered into dreams like entropy Like rain (like rain). Like rain CHORUS CHORUS (special - They said it's not worth it. They lied And don't you dare ask me to justify my heart) CHORUS until "sunshine"
12.
Tell Me 04:06
They said the glass is half full, well I'm half awake I guess you know the rules - it's all give and take These days Well I've been up at night walkin' 'round town They're still fixing it up; it keeps falling down Again Everything gets just a little bit faster They're putting up a lot of good questions to answer And it's only half-past eleven We've still got a lot of good answers to question And I've been up at night, walkin' 'round town Theyy keep fixing it up, it's still falling down They seem to think we should be afraid But I've weighted it up and I think I'll be okay At least it seems that we're still free So come on, tell me, what'll it be? Before I wake from this lucid dream Just like the other cliché things And nevermore will I believe That everyone says anything they mean Light a candle, maybe love will light my way Something exceptional on an otherwise ordinary day And as the sky turns shades of grey They tell their tales but I'm not sure what to say It always seems to be the same But don't think that I know I've already been proved wrong although Don't tell me you know the song At least ninety-eight percent of us are wrong Don't know if what I see is true It lacks verisimilitude But trust in me, I'll trust in you I trust in serendipity And there are subtle signs to see But tell me, won't you tell me What they mean?
13.
One Day 02:45
Maybe hope will find us One day when we're not looking behind us And maybe truth will find us One day when this stigma doesn't bind us Maybe love will find us One day when when the sun shines upon us One day when we're not looking only at ourselves And maybe one day we will see Maybe one day we'll believe That everything we can conceive is possible That that token's good enough to save That the road looks good enough to pave Can we let it take us all away And can we ask for more Than love and hope and an even score In the end When it all comes down to you and me and all our friends When the road is unlit You cannot see And darkness replaces dreams Just know, that you're still here and what will be will be Maybe hope will find us One day when we're not looking behind us And maybe truth will find us One day when this stigma doesn't bind us Maybe love will find us One day when when the sun shines upon us And everything is right in the world
14.
And all the rest is just a part of life From the pain and strife, break away And though there'll always be the "Wouldn't it be nice?" It's good to see you here today And though uncertainty is rife And I don't really know what to say It means a lot to me that you stopped by Because I know that you've come a long way And all the rest is just a part of life That's why it says Have a Happy Day

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This album covers a selection of songs I recorded between 2004 and April 2007. Some songs are more polished than others, since I was really still learning how to record and mix at this point.

If you've download newer material, you'll find that the quality here is generally lower and the lyrics a bit less mature, but there are a few gems on here.

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released April 1, 2007

Bill Borman
Jason Gardiner - Guitar on Time To Waste

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