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First Step
03:33
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First Step
Getting bored with the life you have where nothing seems to change
The daily grind, yeah, it takes a toll
You feel the need to rearrange
It starts with you and the choice you make to turn it upside down
To stir it up, to throw it back, to spin it all around
Anchored tight by the fears you have it makes you wait so long
Your life’s flashing by and somewhere in your mind
You think that something could go wrong
Curiosity fills your mind, you’ve got the need to know
The way it feels it must be so unreal
Do you want to join the show?
Chorus:
The journey begins with the first step
You’ve got to come on, come on, come on
And take the ride
Hanging on with a tighter grip the higher that you go
You’re on your knees to say the prayers that protect your mortal soul
Standing out on the edge of life with no safety net below
It’s the choice you made to risk your world
And there’s just one way to go
(Repeat Chorus)
Moving fast through the fragile air
There’s nothing like the high
The sense of speed, it sets you free
It makes you feel alive
It’s hard to see what the future holds from a skewed, inverted view
But the choices made can change your fate
You know it’s up to you
(Repeat Chorus)
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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Scream
03:26
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Scream
Like the scent in the air after the rain
I’ve memorized your moves again and again
From the middle of the floor to the edge at the extreme
The way that you move makes me want to scream
I want to scream
Take me up to the Rack
Inside that chain-link fence
I’m going to dance the night away
And put myself into a trance
Addicted to the beat and the rhythm within me
The pounding of the bass makes me want to scream
I want to scream
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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Attitude
03:41
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Attitude
You can’t feel it but you know that it’s there
Like the radio waves surfing over the air
You tune it in from the day you were born
You better keep your eyes open
And watch out for that attitude
Chorus:
Everybody’s got one
Not everybody wants one
Just don’t give me none of your attitude
Your disposition, it leans to one side
Walking down the hall you put life in that stride
The clothes that you wear, the friends that you keep
They know the kind you are before they ever hear you speak
It’s not the car but the way that you drive
You own the road, at least in your mind
But you’ll probably change the tune when they put you on trial
Tell me, what’s the fine for copping attitude
Turn it on, turn it off
Switch it on, switch it off
Like Jekyll and Hyde
Turn it on, turn it off
Switch it on, switch it off
Straighten it out
You’re a different person when you’re all alone
But when you go out with your friends your inhibitions are gone
You do the things you wouldn’t normally do
You’ve lost control to liquid attitude
No matter what you do you can’t get away
The thoughts you project are the words you don’t say
Epoxied together is the way that you’ll stay
You and your attitude
(Repeat Chorus x 2)
© Copyright 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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Mellow
05:25
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Mellow
Just like a cloud in the sky caressing the face of heaven
Just like the rain coming down kissing the ground with life
Just like a wave on the sea flowing so free and untethered
I’ll be what I’m supposed to be
Destiny knows the way
Chorus:
Right now I’m mellow
I’m so mellow
I am mellow
Just like a meadow in bloom filling up all of our senses
Just like the moon hanging high crowning the end of the day
Just like the warmth of the sun chasing the night away
I’ll be what I’m supposed to be
Destiny knows the way
(Repeat Chorus)
Everything has reasons to exist
Everything has got its place in this
Right now I’m mellow
Just like the things we don’t know waiting to be discovered
Just like the mysteries in life that we’ll never solve in our time
Just like the power of love holding us all together
I’ll be what I’m supposed to be
Destiny knows the way
(Repeat Chorus)
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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Therapy's Child
03:00
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Therapy’s Child
Take a pill for your dose of reality
Does the lens of your mind show you what your eyes really see?
Do you see the faces?
Hear the voices only you can hear?
The ones that tell you to hide because the coast is never clear?
When you’re therapy’s child
While you’re crawling to the corner of your mind
You stop and stare at thin air with those eyes that look so blind
Is your memory just the blank slate that you had
When you were born into a world that could never drive you mad?
Reaching out to a world that just can’t understand
Like an outcast stranger in a foreign land
Living in one world while sharing separate lives
What’s the price to pay for peace when you’re therapy’s child?
When you walk so fast do you think that you’ll ever get clear
Of the demons in the mist that jump out at you when the world reappears?
It’s hard to fathom what it’s like being lost inside a mind
When the only future that you have is being known as therapy’s child
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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There’ll Be Better Days Ahead
I’ve never felt this way
So burdened, so alone
So scared that this is all there is
No hands to reach out and save a drowning soul
From a heart so full of tears it overflows
I see a vision of a young boy I once knew
I hear an angel’s voice from heaven as it says
There’ll be better days ahead
Just an illusion of the one I used to be
No strength to draw another breath
All the things that used to mean so much to me
Are worthless now and meaningless instead
I feel the tears of time start flowing from my eyes
While the angel’s voice echoes back to me
There’ll be better days ahead
I cry myself to sleep at night hoping this nightmare goes away
But I wake up with the morning light and I feel just like I did yesterday
There’ll be better days ahead
Someday I’ll look back to these times I’m going through
And I’ll wonder why it ever had to be
No quest for reasons will solve the mystery
To understand the times and ways of destiny
And there will come a day I’ll realize the truth
Of a promise that an angel gave to me
There’ll be better days ahead
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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The Streets Of Gweru
04:22
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The Streets of Gweru
Chorus:
I wish I’d gotten to know you better
Better than I did
But life won’t always give you the things for which you wish
And now you’re halfway around the world
Where your other life exists
And I’m wishing I was there with you
Now that you’re on the streets of Gweru
You used to live under the same stars that I see
When you find the Southern Cross will it remind you of me?
Your bright young eyes take in a horizon filled with gold
In the land of great stone houses it’s you I want to know
(Repeat Chorus)
The smoke that thunders mirrors just the way I feel
A river of emotions in Buhundu’s mist concealed
You’re living in the heart of God’s own paradise
It’s a revelation yet to be revealed to my eyes
Of all the people that I know in this world
I miss you the most
Will I ever see your face again with my own eyes?
I just don’t know
If I could only hear your voice once more
Just now
Now now
Right now I wish, I wish, I wish
(Repeat Chorus x 2)
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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8. |
Never Enough
04:02
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Never Enough
Experience leads me to believe
That satisfaction in this life is never guaranteed
You work so hard to make your dreams come true
But you’re satisfied with nothing
By the time that it’s all through
And when you tally everything you’ve got
There’ll always be something more that you want
Chorus:
It’s never enough
All that you’ve got
It’s less than you want
You know it’s never enough
Too many ads have liquefied your mind
If seeing’s believing, then I know you’re going blind
Your personality’s buried much too deep
By the image that they’ve shown you
And told you
You should be
Too many hours spent working like a fool
You’re addicted to ambitions
And the rituals you choose
It’s your obsession, your idol fantasy
To be rich beyond your dreams
What else could you need
Chorus
So what’s the reason that you’re clinging to the lie
You can’t take it where you’re going when it comes your time to die
When you sacrifice relations with all the friends you have
There’ll be no one left to help you when your life starts going bad
There are better things to do with all your money and your time
You gotta put a little effort into shaping up your mind
And when you finally open up your eyes, begin to live
There’s so much more to do in this world
But you’ve got to want to give
Until you do you’ll be living in debt
It’s the American dream
Just cruise out to the mall and buy everything you see
To keep up with the Joneses, it’s the reason that you live
It doesn’t matter what it costs you, nothing costs too much to give
And when you tally everything you’ve got
There’s always be something more that you want
Chorus
© 1998,2017 Maxmilian
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I Think About You
03:09
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I Think About You
I see your face as I gaze at the stars
Hear your voice within the words I read
Feel your touch while I walk through a crowd
I think about you
Can’t tell the truth from a lie in a smile
Don’t feel the sun, the wind or anything
Won’t notice time as it’s slipping away
I think about you
And I wonder
Yes I wonder
You are my goddess
You’re my vision
The very blood in my veins
Don’t understand it and I can’t comprehend it
That you’re so entwined with my soul
And I wonder
Yes I wonder
Is there any stronger kind of love than when I think about you?
I always think about you and I wonder
I wonder when my mind will truly believe
That this is much more than what my heart perceives
You’re my fountain of youth and desire
My passion to live, my freedom to dream
I think about you
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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10. |
I Kept It To Myself
03:35
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I Kept It To Myself
Hello there, it’s been a long time
I still think of you and I smile
Like when you thought of me so long ago
Can you tell me what you felt then?
Was it love or infatuation?
Or maybe just confusion in your soul?
I’ve got a few things that I need to say myself
The thoughts you thought back then were the same ones that I felt
I wish I could have told you then
But I kept it to myself
I’ve been reading through your letters
I’m sure time has made things better
Than anything we could have done
The emotions that you faced then
Have probably all but been forgotten
I wish that I could say that for myself
My feelings for you then are the same ones I have now
But you’re so far away they won’t matter anyhow
I guess it’s time for me to face the facts
I kept it to myself
You tried to talk to me
But to keep the mystery
I didn’t give the answers that I wanted to give
And I was such a fool
I tried to be so cool
When all I ever needed was to be what I was
Hello there, do you remember
What brought us together?
The feeling that we knew each other’s hearts
And as I think of you this moment
My thoughts become a token
Of the feelings I still have within my heart
And as the years go by I know they’ll never fade
The dreams I keep of you are safely tucked away
And it’s so hard for me to face the facts
I kept it to myself
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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11. |
Do You Remember Me
03:15
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Do You Remember Me?
Time is not a friend when your lives are worlds away
I still dwell on you at times
How’d we lose each other since those days?
It’s been years since then
Fate may take us back but then…
Chorus:
Sometimes I think nothing seems to change
Do you remember me?
Red hair burning through the years
In that photograph I have of you
With the date you disappeared from me
Can clouds of time obscure my view?
I know you’re there somewhere where the sun still shines
Chorus:
Sometimes I hope nothing else will change
Do you remember me?
If you saw me somewhere here today
I wonder who you’d see
Would you remember me?
At sometime from now when I think of you again
There’ll be a smile upon my face
And your photograph within my hand
Chorus:
Sometimes I know now things must change
Can you remember me?
In time our memories will fade
And you won’t think of me again.
© 1998, 2017 Maxmilian
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Maxmilian SP, Brazil
Born in Wisconsin, he now lives in Brazil.
Quadrivium is his newest project, releasing July 17th. It
is his 4th full project and 5th overall. He'll be starting to record his next project in August. He thanks you for taking a listen and is looking forward to hearing from you and what you think about the songs!
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