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01 FEEL02 HERE WE GO03 FREE NOW04 ALONE05 I’LL TAKE YOU THERE06 THE BEST THERE EVER WAS07 LOW08 CONGRATULATIONS09 DÉJÀ VU10 THESE THINGS I’VE DONE11 SORRY12 SATELLITESProduced by Cameron MizellMixed by Dan Korneff

C&P Rise Records, Inc. 2013 / riserecords.com

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FEELAnd I feel / I feel so alive again / Yeah, oh I feel / I feel so alive again / I used to be a ghost / Floating aimlessly / So they couldn’t see / What I think hurts the most / I felt like it made me, hate me / But I won’t apologize for being different / I can be who I am, and yeah / I felt so dead inside / But now I feel so alive, for the first time / Is there somewhere I could go? / Oh, I would go there / Take me anywhere / Cuz this person I don’t know / The one that’s staring back at me / It’s not who I wanna be / But I won’t apologize / For being different / I can, can be who I am / While they cover up the dead inside / I feel so alive, for the first time / Could you help me find / Could you help me find a way? / Could you help me find / Help me find a way / You’ll never bring me down / You’ll never tear me apart / I am alive / I am alive again

HERE WE GOSo here we go / You got one more chance to make it / Bet-ter not lose control, before everyone forgets your name / This will always be mine / So much more than just a dream to me / I will never be fine, with letting you ruin everything / I will never fucking follow your lead / Give up on you, so you can take it out on me / I’m sorry that you had to watch your life come tumbling down / Now it’s my time and I’m ready to go / Here we go, we got one more chance to make it / Better not lose control / Before everyone forgets your name / You’ve always been the one to criticize me, because I’m not like you, you see / The way you’ve been living your life / There’s nothing there worth holding onto / I will never fucking understand the hate you have for me / I only have one shot at this / The past is past, move on to better things / Now is my time and I’m ready to go / This is your time, you better take it / You better never let it go / This is your time, you better make it / It could be gone before you know / So here we go, you got one more chance to make it / You better think before / You go and throw it all away!

FREE NOWI wrote this song for my father / Sometimes I feel he never gave a damn about me / Though he raised me like he should / Did he understand me? No, no, I don’t think so / I wrote this song for my mother / She had to leave me, when I was younger / She said son, seek this life, and keep an open mind / But in my mind’s eye… / I am free now / Free to live without my fears / I believe now / There’s a reason why I’m here / It’s to try and do good / It’s to try and do better / Who will I be for my daughter? / This little baby, she means the world to me / Will I relive their mistakes? / Or do things the right way / For her sake / Can I be a man? / One that understands / How to love more patiently / I’ll be free now / I’ll be free now / And we dream of the day, when our kids can play / In the streets with no fear of them being taken away / Fathers raise their sons with respect and love / Handle anger and pain with no need for no guns / If we hope to be free it takes you and me / To start over here and now / ‘Cause this world is, the way it is, it’s how we raise our kids / I wrote this song for my mother, wrote this song for our father / So hopefully we can come together / And hopefully make things a little better

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ALONECould you check my pulse for me / To see if I’m alive / Cuz every time that I am near you / Is the only time I feel alright / If there were any way / I could think to turn back time / I’d stay here with you / Sometimes I sit and wonder / Some-times I feel like letting go / All I know is no one should have to be alone / I don’t want to be alone / I don’t want to die alone / I could fall apart here and now / I don’t want to die alone / I want to be with you, you, you / I only want to be with you , you, you / Tell me what’s the point of life / Is it material? / Had everything I could ever want and prob-ably more / When I lay in bed at night / All I do is think of you / So when all this is gone what do I have to come home to? / This life goes by so fast / Pretty soon I’ll grow old / What would I have but some stories now that I have told / No one to share them with / And when it’s all done / What am I left with? / Tell me what’s left / Leave me? / How the fuck you gonna leave me? / When I’m the one that’s on TV / With these girls screaming / Outside with my CD / And I’m begging? / Naw baby, you’re the one that can’t keep me / Leave me? / Girl, how the fuck you gonna leave me? / You know I love you, when we fight and we argue / I kiss and I hug you / You push me back, you say that I’m trouble / And every Bonnie got a Clyde with her / Every woman needs somebody that’s gonna ride with her / And I can’t go on staying alive if I’m alone / Pick up the phone and say hello / I’d rather die with her / Now my night’s so cold / When your heart is frozen / Mine’s exposed you know this / Try to blame the fame for the way I’ve changed / And you know those claims are bogus / Baby it’s not me, it’s us / Maybe now all we need is trust / Maybe this Hennessey will solve our problems / Baby pick it up / Could you check my pulse for me / To see if I’m alive

I’LL TAKE YOU THEREEven if there’s nowhere left to go / I’ll take you there, I’ll take you there / And if it ever feels like there is nowhere left to turn / I’ll take you there / Always be there / Please take me there / I’ve watched myself struggle with this fear of falling down / Cuz I’ve seen a silhouette of me who is this stranger I’ve become / Who is this man that I’ve become? / Even if there’s nowhere left to go / I’ll take you there / I’ll take you there / And if it ever feels like there is nowhere left to turn / I’ll take you there / Always be there / Please take me there / I lost myself / I questioned if I had the strength to move / Cuz I get up and then I fall back down / I look up and there’s nobody around / It’s quiet and I hate the sound / So quiet and I hate the sound / How could I let myself come to this? / I’ll take one more drink and then I’ll be dismissed / I’m left to walk this world alone / I like it better on my own / For all the things I’ve done / Who is this man that I’ve become?

THE BEST THERE EVER WASDon’t fuck with us – BOW! / You’re a hypocrite / You’re so full of shit / You want everyone to just think and look and act just like you do / But we’re over it / We’re not giving in / And now it’s time to beg forgiveness for the selfish things you do / I’ve got a short fuse / So don’t you go p-p-p-push it man / Don’t fuck with me / You better back off while you can / I got you right where I want ya / And this is how it ends / It ends with me on top, you down there at the bottom / Don’t fuck with us / We’re the best there ever was / So what’d you think this was? / You wanna seem dan-gerous? / It must be so hard for you not to seem like the coward that you are / And when it’s said and done / And when you’ve got no one / Then you’ll have to beg forgive-ness for the man that you’ve become (I hope you feel so disrespected) We’re the best there ever was / We’re the best there ever was / Best there ever was, check it / If you copy 1 / If you copy 2 / There’ll be a million motherfuckers that are just like you / But if you keep it real / And you stay true / There’s nothing in this life that you can’t do / C’mon! / What what what what / Get up get up / People try to hate you when you make it to the top / Just put your middle fin-gers up, follow your dreams and never stop / We’re the best there ever was and ever will you know it’s true / So bring it back and lemme hear you say Yeahhh!

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LOWShould I use my heart? / Or my head? / I wish that I could just replay the thoughts / Or things I never said / Should I use my heart? / Or my head? / I wish that I could just turn back the time / Start over again / But if we’re laying it on the line this time / I better say this now / You make me feel low / Don’t make me feel low / Cuz I tried so hard to convince myself / It’s okay that I feel this way / You make me feel low / Don’t make me feel low / If I can’t have you I’d be by myself cuz / You know I need you so / Don’t make me / Don’t make me feel low / Tell me why did it take 26 years to figure out how to love? / Just to throw it all away (throw it all away) / She said / Maybe if you’d been a little bit smarter / Maybe if you tried hard enough / I wouldn’t question / Why I shouldn’t stay / If you expect me to come back around / You better show me that you’ve changed / Don’t make me, don’t make me / Don’t make me walk out the door / Don’t you throw it away / Don’t make me, don’t make me / Cuz I’m leaving for good / And I’m not coming back again / When I said it was over I meant it / But now I can’t let you go / But still I just can’t accept that you make me feel so / You make me feel so

CONGRATU-LATIONSWelcome to a brand new generation / You don’t know / So let me help you understand / You see, you try to build yourself a reputation / So you can prove to everyone / That you’re the man / So why is it us that make you feel so help-less? / You better get it out while you still can / Cuz when those lights go on around you / And nobody gives a damn / You’re gonna wish that you had taken our advice / I’ve been down, I’ve been out / Now I can’t keep my face off a cover / That ain’t what it’s about / You still have so much left to learn / Congratulations / They say you’re the man / Congratulations / You see I do what you can’t / And until they go and take my name off of the shelves / Congratula-tions, we’re gonna give you hell (Get ‘em Matty) / They try to do it like me / But they do it all wrong / I’ll pass the torch when someone better comes along / Congratulations to every label that ever turned me down / Me and my top 20 record aren’t too worried about it now / I hope this les-son taught is a lesson learned / Now go and bury your head while me and Kell rule the world! / Congratulations / They say you’re the man (yes I am) / Congratulations / You see I do what you can’t / And until they go and take my name off of the shelves / Congratulations, let’s give ‘em hell / Could you please give us the spotlight / Cuz I have some-thing to say / You may not like the subject / But I’ll say this anyway / We’re so sick of all this so-called / Shitty music that you play / So could you please do us a favor / Stay the fuck out of our way / Congratulations / They say you’re the man / Congratulations / You see I do what you can’t / And until they go and take my name off of the shelves / Please, cuz I need to make more room for myself / Congratulations

DÉJÀ VUYou know I love it when your hair’s pulled back / Ugh, it drives me crazy / You know I love it when you look like that / Tell me what you want to do / You know I love to get the sheets messed up / Put your hands on my chest because it might get rough / Don’t stop me baby ‘til you’ve had enough / Come on, come on, come on! / With my hands all over you / There’s nothing I can do / Feels like were having déjà, déjà vu / Got my hands all over you / There’s nothing I can do / It’s like we’re having déjà, déjà vu! / Won’t you tell me baby, what’s your type? / Kiss you soft and slow, turn off the lights / I know sometimes you like to lose control / You love to rock and roll, yeah / You know I love it when you talk like that / Just when I think that we’re through you make me come right back / You’re like a drug and I can’t relax / I need more, more, more… Yeah! / Yeah, you make me feel so good! / Yeah, you make me feel so good! / Baby give me more, won’t you give me more? / Won’t you give me more! / Oh, you know I need more, more, more!

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THESE THINGS I’VE DONEOh yeah! / I’ve been thinking now for a while / That you have got exactly what I need / When I see you stop and turning around / Goddamn, you got me shaking in my teeth / I can’t afford… The kind of love you sell / But I can’t afford to ever watch you leave / Won’t you come and put your sugar on my tongue / You got your spell on me / And how could I leave this life to another one? / Take back, take back those things that I said / And how could I lose your heart to another one? / Take back, take back those things I’ve done / I’m the only one who knows / The secret places that the light don’t show / You know / WOAH! / I can’t afford the kind of love you own / But I sure as hell can’t ever let you go / Every time I start to tell you no / Then you go and take off all your clothes / And how could I leave this life to another one? / Take back… / And how could I leave your heart to another one? / Take back… / Those things I’ve done / Yeah! / I know what no one else knows / Sure as hell can’t ever let you go / No, I won’t let you go / MOVE!

SORRYI’ve been thinking lately / About you and me / And all the questions left unanswered / How it all could be / And I hope you know / You never left my head / And if I ever let you down / I’m sorry / Woah-ohh / Oh no no no… / Woah-ohh / I’ve seen you around here lately / You smile brighter than you should / And me I’ve been so lonely / I’m glad you’re doing good / Cuz I can’t forget the way it used to be / And if I ever let you down / Well I’m sorry / Woah-oh-oh-oh / No I can’t let you… Go-oh-oh-oh / And you know that you can… Take all of me / I swear I will be / Better than before / So sing it back / Woah-oh-oh-oh / No I can’t let you go / I’m sorry for the things I’ve done, things I’ve done / I’m sorry for the man I was / And how I treated you / I’m sorry for the things I’ve done, things I’ve done / I’m sorry for the man I was / And how I treated you / Take me as I am / I’ll give you my all / Baby, you can take me at my word / I’ll do anything / Just to make this right / Take me as I am / I won’t do you harm / Baby, you won’t ever be alone / I’ll do anything if you just give me one more chance / Oh, I’ll make it right

SATELLITESThe frame / The friction / It’s the reason that we all become aware / And we change / For no reason / Some say it’s better to fall asleep and disappear / It’s time we finally look at what we’ve done / And wake up / So here we are / We’re waiting for a fall / And on the radio they’re calling on satellites / Like they’re going to save us all / So here we are / I guess I’m praying after all / We’re calling all, calling all satellites / This is a wake up call / A call for freedom / Is that the reason that we are alive? / And we waste, we waste our lives on the wasted / Until there’s nothing for us left to justify / Oh, I don’t get it / Change / No reason / Some say it’s better to fall asleep and disappear / It’s time we finally open up our eyes / 4…3…2...

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THANK YOUSleeping With Sirens would like to thank the following for all of their support for this record and all aspects of our band throughout the years:

Family, Friends, Loved ones... You know who you are. All of the team: Mark & John at Fly South, Dave Shapiro & Tom Taaffe at The Agency Group, Craig, Matthew & Sean at Rise Records and Caleb at Curo Financial. Cam-eron Mizell & Dan Korneff for all your hard work on the album. Breeze Coaches for getting us to our shows safe and on time. Alex at Orange Amps, Geoff & Tim at Truth Drums, Ben & Joe at Vic Firth, Greg at Guitar Center Pro, Joey at Ultimate Ears, Ernie Ball, ESP Guitars, Sarah & Emily at Zildjian Cymbals and any other other compa-nies that have helped us with our equipment on the road and for the album. Justin Van Hook, Jake Willard, Kenny Bozich, Jason Joseph and Ron Gardner for keeping the show on the road. Most important of all.. All the fans! Without you none of this would be possible!

CREDITSProduced & Engineered by Cameron Mizell at Chango StudiosAssistant Engineer: Alex PrietoMixed by Dan Korneff at Sonic Debris Recording Studio, NYAdditional Programming by Shawn Christmas & Earl HalasanMastered by Ted Jensen

Additional Vocals on “Alone” by MGKMGK appears courtesy of EST 19XX/Bad Boy/Interscope RecordsAdditional Vocals on “Congratulations” by Matty MullinsAdditional Vocals on “I’ll Take You There” by Shayley Bourget

A&R: Sean Heydorn & Craig Ericson for Rise RecordsManagement: Mark Mercado & John Youngman for Fly South Music GroupWorldwide Booking (excluding UK/Europe): Dave Shapiro for The Agency GroupUK/Europe Booking: Tom Taaffe for The Agency GroupBusiness Management: Caleb See & Jason Childress at Curo Financial ManagementLegal: Jeff Leven for Davis, Shapiro & Lewit, LLP

Art Direction & Design by Ryan Clark for Invisible Creature, Inc.

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