Phoenix
by The Classic Crime
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Digital Album
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One Man Army (Intro)
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You and Me Both
03:56
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Young Again
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Beautiful Darkside
04:37
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Heaven and Hell
05:04
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The Precipice
03:38
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Let Me Die
03:53
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Glass Houses
04:21
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Dead Rose
04:03
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Painted Dreams
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What I'd Give Up
03:48
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City of Orphans
05:01
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I Will Wait (Outro)
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about
Copyright 2012
All songs performed by The Classic Crime
Matt MacDonald: Vocals, Guitars, Programming
Paul “Skip” Erickson: Drums, group vocals
Robbie Negrin: Guitars, group vocals
Alan Clark: Bass, group vocals
All songs performed by The Classic Crime
Matt MacDonald: Vocals, Guitars, Programming
Paul “Skip” Erickson: Drums, group vocals
Robbie Negrin: Guitars, group vocals
Alan Clark: Bass, group vocals
credits
released 14 August 2012
Produced by Matt MacDonald
Engineered by Brandon Metcalf
Recorded at Destiny Studios (Monroe, WA)
Drum editing and sampling by Jef Moll
Vocal editing by Matt MacDonald
Mixed by Michael “Elvis” Baskette
Mix engineered by Jef Moll
Mix assisted by Kevin Thomas
Mixed at Studio Barbarosa South (Altamonte Springs, FL)
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
Produced by Matt MacDonald
Engineered by Brandon Metcalf
Recorded at Destiny Studios (Monroe, WA)
Drum editing and sampling by Jef Moll
Vocal editing by Matt MacDonald
Mixed by Michael “Elvis” Baskette
Mix engineered by Jef Moll
Mix assisted by Kevin Thomas
Mixed at Studio Barbarosa South (Altamonte Springs, FL)
Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
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- Track Name: One Man Army (Intro)
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I’ve been unalive
Been sleeping for days in this comatose state
I’ve been unalive
Prone to hide from the messes that I’ve made
I’ve been unalive
I used to let you fight the battles before me
But now I stand alone to prove you right
Just a one-man army
I used to let you fight the giants before me
But now I stand alone by a fire where I burn my plans to warm me
I’ve been unalive
I used to let you fight
But now I stand alone
I used to let you fight
But now I stand alone
Alone, alone, alone - Track Name: You and Me Both
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The guardrail is tempting me
Standing like a sentry to the left of me
It’s guarding adventure that’s certain to be life threatening
I need a tragedy to wake me
from perpetual dreaming
The proverbial ‘pinch me’
I’m so sick of sleeping
I’m so sick of sleeping
And you wonder why my eyes don’t leave my phone
And you wonder why you feel like you’re alone
I think I need a new story
One where I take on the world
The one I’m living is boring
It’s killing you and me both
The car crash in front of me
Pulls me back from deep and desperate fantasy
Snaps me wide-awake to see the horrible scene
What’s happening?
Is this the tragedy I asked for?
Is this blood on my hands a consequence of my own war?
I’m so sick of sleeping
I’m so sick of needing more
And you watch every time
As I give myself to death and neglect life
and I blindly desert
the plot line you deserve - Track Name: Young Again
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We never get it on the first time
We never get it right
So we wander through the desert under cover of night
Looking for a fire that can bring us to life
seen a lot of bad in a short time,
so we’ve lived in spite
yeah, we boarded all the doors to the good outside
but you only get as old as the callous on your soul
and if you let the darkness grow,
you will get hungry for more
until it consumes all
Oh, to be young again
To be confident and charming and believe it never ends
Oh, to be young again
I want to feel like I am closer to the start than to the end
I’ve been walking on a fine line
Between wrong and right
And it’s taken me to places I knew better to go
Put on a lot of faces at the theatre shows
Behind the curtain I am not a nice guy
I live with spite
And my bitterness compounded by the kids in the crowd
So innocent and open as they sing it out loud
There’s nothing you can do to stop from aging
All you have is this day
Every thought is a blessing
Every breath that you take
Everything outside of right now is illusory
It’s not real
The past, the future, they don’t exist.
All you have is now
Is this enough for you? - Track Name: Beautiful Darkside
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The faster I find the bottom
The sooner I turn it around
It seems as though I’ve forgotten just how far down
I can go in an instant
And I can take you there
I can take all my friends and family and I won’t care
‘cause I have the most reckless heart when I try
and I have the most beautiful darkside
I need to find some meaning
Something true to believe in
‘cause left to my own devices
the beautiful darkside wins
the beautiful darkside wins
always one for a good time
always one for extremes
until the fabric of life starts tearing at the seams
and I can never remember
when it started to turn
I just simply forget all of the things I’ve learned
Someday I will die
Could be today or tonight
The truth Is I’m terrified
That I have wasted time
Have I just wasted time?
‘cause I have the most reckless heart when I try
and I have the most beautiful darkside
I need to find some meaning
Something true to believe in
I’m terrified of seeing
The beautiful darkside win
The beautiful darkside win - Track Name: Heaven and Hell
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I’m like a lost boy
Looking for his father in the wilderness
Days in the wrong direction
Wondering if I’ll ever see his face again
But you know me too well
I bring it all on myself
Between heaven and hell
I’ve got no home
I’m like an old man
Tight lipped, filled to the bring with only emptiness
Alone in my apartment
with all my doubt and shame
Regret and bitterness
But you know me too well
I bring it all on myself
Between heaven and hell
I’ve got no home
We are the heirs to every throne
We wander far from what we’ve known
We wait for love to call us home
We are the heirs
We wander far
We wait for love
We wait for more - Track Name: The Precipice
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I wish I could play the violin
I’d play ‘til tears rolled down your cheek and chin
And if you sang along
We could write the saddest song
Sometimes I indulge my every whim
And piece-by-piece I build the cell I’m in
But I only stay here long enough
to write the saddest song
I dreamt I stood on a hill that I wished was a mountain
To look back on all my accomplishments
Well they must have been small because I couldn’t seem to find them
so I took a leap off of the precipice
I wish I could play piano well
I’d hit the keys that make your spirit swell
And if you sang along
We could write the saddest song
Whatever the cost
Whether it works out or not
Whatever the cost
Whether it works out or not
I’ll follow you with my heart - Track Name: Let Me Die
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Tossed by the tempest of life
A victim of storms I contrive
I feel like the best is behind
And I can’t go back
The eye of the storm satisfies
I watch the chaos from inside
But the wind turns and I realize
That I can’t go back
So I go
Pressing on through the wind and the waves
If I drown let me go so that you can be saved
It don’t matter if people remember my name
I have lived
I have lived
Let me die
I fight against what lies beneath
It’s just my will against the sea
I’ve never been one to give in
Of all the virtues I have lacked
The need to fight has been my anchor
I could never ask for you to save me
No your will could never calm the seas I’m braving
Let me die
I have lived
I have lived
Let me die - Track Name: Glass Houses
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They talk of glass houses
Well I built a crystal cathedral
And I took my stones to the rooftop
To play target practice with people
I was too young to know the difference
I was just following orders
But when the glass shattered around me I learned a good lesson about my disorder
I thought I was happy
I said all the right things
I naively believed that my ship couldn’t sink
But it did
You got hung up on the outside
You fake like you’re living the good life
But death and decay on the inside
Just add pride and hate to your long list of crimes
Somewhere deep down you know the difference
Between love and following orders
And if the chorus I sing is offensive it’s proof that you’ve yet to address your disorder
You thought you were happy
You said all the right things
You naively believed that your ship couldn’t sink
But it did
You thought you were god and
Judge of all of your friends and
you naively believed that your ship couldn’t sink
But it did
Grace comes to those who wait
Comes to those who pray through tears
And they’ll sing
And we’ll all sing
La da da da, da da da da da da da
La da da da, da da da da da da da
Ooooh Waooooh, da da da da da da da
Ooooh Waooooh, la da da da da
We thought we were happy
We said all the right things
We naively believed that our ship couldn’t sink
But it did
we thought we were god and judge of all of our friends and we naively believed that our ship couldn’t sink
but it did, oh it did, oh it did - Track Name: Dead Rose
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Dead rose, you were once so vibrant
As you stretched out towards the sun
And spread your pedals wide
To take it all inside
Dead rose, tried to keep you alive
But you drank the water dry
And now you’re facing down
Your pedals scattered on the ground
But you grew so naturally at first
And so this natural death occurs
A stem in water never lasts as long
As roots planted in dirt
And although we have had our time
It hurts to watch you fade and die
What once was stunning and alive
Becomes so cold and
Dead rose, I don’t love you anymore
Dead rose, you’re a symbol of the truth
Of the love we had for you
How all good things must end and with each death new life begins
Dead rose, how am I suppose to find
Something equally divine?
No matter where I go I plant the seeds but nothing grows
But you grew so naturally at first
And so this natural death occurs
A stem in water never lasts as long
As roots planted in dirt
And although we have had our time
It hurts to watch you fade and die
What once was stunning and alive
Becomes so cold and dead inside
How fleeting is love, how fleeting is life
When I came home and shut the door
I saw your last pedal hit the floor
And I was struck by something I’d never felt before
Dead rose, I don’t love you any more
We’ll look back on the day
when the dead rose from the grave
No more sorrow and shame
The new body and name
Nothing perfect will die
No more tears in our eyes
No more worries and trials
We’ll have faith like a child’s
When I come through that open door
I’ll finally see you as you really are
And I’ll be struck by something I’d never felt before
Dead rose I will love you forever more
Dead rose I will love you forever more - Track Name: Painted Dreams
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We painted dreams and how we wished they’d all come true
We hoped for more than pallet brush and canvas could ever prove
Well maybe we could get our hopes up one more time
We’re not the kids we were that doesn’t mean we should be blind
Chasing the painting of a dream
Chasing the only thing that ever made sense to me
Oh, it is hard but it is easy
It might seem wrong but it’s so right
So let us conjure up the feeling
And paint the dreams we used to paint tonight
We flew so high, we didn’t know limits existed then
‘til we got older and woke up and stopped playing pretend
well what’s more real than how I feel and how I felt back then
I will dust my paint and brushes off
And I will dream again
Chasing the painting of a dream
Chasing the only thing that ever made sense to me
Oh, it is hard but it is easy
It might seem wrong but it’s so right
So let us conjure up the feeling
And paint the dreams we used to paint tonight
Oh, it is hard but it is easy
It might seem wrong but it ‘s so right
So let us conjure up the feeling
And paint the dreams that used to make us feel so alive - Track Name: What I'd Give Up
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Woke up in a hotel
Three hours of sleep last night
Only thing real to me is a thirteen-hour drive
I lost my convictions
I have risked my life
I’ve seen the face of God through miles of black ice
Oh, I just wanted you to know
What I’d give up to give myself to you
I had my foundations
But I threw them away
Only thing real to me was moving
The rest was fake
But I’ve got new direction
I feel winds of change
Still I’ve got my good reasons to stay the same
No I don’t need it anymore
The hotel floors the stage the lights the road
All I want to do is build a home
You’ve got my heart and my soul - Track Name: City of Orphans
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Jenny left from Idaho and made her home in Capitol Hill
In a 300 square foot studio above a coffee shop near the Broadway Grill
And every night she walks the block to trade in her time for cheap thrills
And everyone she meets is cool, but just out of reach and it kills
She used to spend her nights by firelight and singing to the stars
Now she’s ours
Kevin left from Denver where the air is clear and people are nice
And he traded it for sea level, for misty rain, what a bitter compromise
For now he felt like he belonged to those who understood him
But he sold his soul to fight right in and he watched his friends desert him
He used to spend his nights by candlelight and drinking wine to vinyl
Now he’s ours
It’s a city of orphans
Who had nowhere to go
So they cashed in their dreams
Headed northwest to the sea and they called it their home
But most don’t belong here
We’re all running away
And we’ll drain you dry of all semblance of life
We don’t give we just take, take, take
But this city has no Bible
There’s no meaning you can use
We’re all desperately searching for truth
We’re a city of orphans
Who had no place to go
So we cashed in our dreams, filled our glasses with Beam and our bodies with smoke
and we spend every weeknight
trading pints at the Streamline
and we talk about truth and we talk about love but we wake up to lies, lies, lies
it’s a city of orphans
where did our fathers go
we stumble around in the bad part of town at the end of our rope
but there are no answers
on the tables of oak
if God could just hear us
we think that He’s near, but He left long ago
we’re a city of orphans
what do we do to ourselves?
We take all the good and the heaven around us and turn it to hell
We take all the good and the heaven around us and turn it to hell
We take all the good and the heaven around us and turn it to hell
Jenny left from Idaho and made her home in Capitol Hill - Track Name: I Will Wait (Outro)
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I will wait
I used to let you fight
(fight for me again)
but now I stand alone
(will you fight for me again?)
I will wait
Will you fight for me again?
Will you fight for me?
(again)
Will you fight for me?
(again)
I will wait for you
I will wait
