A Violent Flame
1. Begging You Alive
2. Running Right
3. How Long
4. The One
5. For Your Sake
6. Between
7. Battle Song
8. Paper Ghost
9. Right As Rain
10. Morning Light
Like the Cold of Snow in the Time of Harvest
1. The Thief
2. Wildfire
3. The Ascendist
4. Clarion Call
5. The Dawn
6. The Dawn Alert
A Violent Flame
All songs written and recorded by Courrier
Begging You Alive
Oh, the question sounds
Echoes from an empty crown
All this time my light was out
But you're too bright to be concealed
Oh, my wooden bones
Wrapped in this house of stone
The hands of change were not my own
But I'll force them just the same
And you can't remain
So you fight and you fight and you fight to change
All the hurt and pain,
When you lose and you lose and you lose in vain
And all along I'm begging you alive
Oh, my ornament
Hanging around my neck
Worn so I don't forget
That one day we'll be the same
Running Right
Cold is the wind of my last words,
Blown from the lips of a runaway
Trite is the weight of a farewell'
I've fallen through the looking glass again
I'm far from, I'm far from home
Leaning on the gale of the storm
I'm facing, I'm facing fire
Fleeing from the pains of running right
Sad are the sorrows of the proud
The words to their own ruin ringing out
Rough is the road of my return
Traveled at the length of some year's end
How Long
The life we lead is a violent flame
Trapped within this tender frame
To the end will the spark await, to rise
How long will you live a lie
How long will you live to die
The life we lead is a rise and fall
A narrative with a question mark
Lethargic is the writer’s block
Just keep running with me through it all
How long will you live
To die
The One
In the light of day we held our hearts up
To judge their size and weigh their love
Mine was a flame and yours was bleeding numb
And I was not the one you were thinking of
Do you remember the ringing of the bell
High up in the tower, high up on the hill
And when the evening shadows still
I will be the one Time couldn’t heal
In the drowning rain, so was your light betrayed
And all your colors the water washed away
And I was a fool, and you were just a fake
And you were not the one I was thinking of
Late at night
my blood was fire
my head was fire
In the end
the vows we said
were adjectives
of doubt
For You Sake
Nearing one in the morning, nearing one,
The streetlights were smoking,
the streetlights were smoking like a gun
In your eyes was a warning, in your eyes
In your step was a splinter
And every word was tinder for your fire
Beneath your skin was the bloodrush, beneath your skin
It would sell you in the moment,
It would sell you for the cheapest bid,
You thought you could take heaven,
You thought you could take heaven with a gun,
But the loving hand strikes the hardest,
The loving hand strikes the hardest soul
And I know you just like a novel
penned by my own hand
I will give and give, until its time to take
It was for your sake, it was for your sake
I will give and give, until its time to take
It was for your sake, it was for your sake
Cause to save your life, your heart must break
Sometime just after daybreak, when the light had come
You found your home was a museum,
A memoir to the things you used to love,
You’re the center of attention,
The center of attention in an empty room,
All you wanted was a rescue,
All you needed was an open tomb.
It was for your sake,
It was for your sake.
It’s a give and take,
It’s a give and take.
Between
Can we ever get rid of the whats and the ifs
That doubts that exist in our minds
In the silence I am tricked into thinking you’ll forget
And I’ll be stranded like a man in a mine
The day between the soil and the sky
An emptiness, a void, a heaviness, a sigh,
But I know you will make through alive
Cause you never said goodbye
Like a city besieged, it was the loneliest thing
Your silence held in cold delay
And I felt faint of heart cause I was caught between
The weight of everything I couldn’t say
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
How to follow, to follow, to follow,
Cause you and I know I can’t go, I can’t go
Between the gallows and the gates
Battle Song
I've been wandering
I've been wandering like a vagrant thief
Tired of searching
Tired of searching for a place to sleep
All I'm needing
All I'm needing is a bit of rest
And I'll keep walking
I'll keep walking 'til I'm home again
Some day I'll find my home again
I've been writing
I've been writing down some words to sing
I will sing to
I will sing to break monotony
I've been thinking
I've been thinking that were in war
So I'm singing
So I'm singing out a battlesong
My enemies will hear me come
I'm tired
Of this conversation
I wanna sing
I'm tired
of the repetition
I am not a routine
I've been biting my tongue
I've been biting my tongue
Til the battle is won
I'll be singing this song
I'll be singing this song
Til the battle is won
Paper Ghost
Today I would learn
the art of leaving earth
the calculus of sin
and salvation
The war I waged with death
was far above my head,
the winds of Heaven met
the gates of Hell.
The angels sang eternally,
while the demons were encouraging
all that was inside of me
to give up hope.
This is how it feels,
this is how it feels.
You were standing there,
running a brush through your blonde hair,
unconcerned with the affair
because you had faith.
But I wish it came so easily
to a boy afraid of everything,
but this felt like an awakening,
it felt so free.
This is how it feels,
this is how it feels.
This is how it feels, this is how it feels.
When the hourglass drained, I swear my world was shuttering.
When the hourglass drained, I swear I felt the summer rain.
When the hourglass drained, I swear it was my wedding day.
When the hourglass drained, I found what I’d been missing.
For thy mortal self shall die,
but from the grave we will arise
and death will be described as a
paper ghost.
Right As Rain
You were right as rain,
But still it hurts the same
And ever since you left my heart has kept
The time with feverish pace
And now my tired eyes watch the empty skies
To see if something has changed
You can search my heart
If you can search the dark
But I’m afraid that I’ve been anesthetized
by a host of everyday pains
And if these little lies close my heavy eyes
I’m afraid that I won’t awake
Did you feel Time ticking away?
Did you see light flicker and fade?
And now you lie awake,
And you were right as rain,
My love.
You’re the rightaway
Always, but not today
And all this lingering will be the death of me,
The last word in my great escape
Cause when the fire dies, the ashes sing,
"We were saved for love's sake."
Morning Light
My heart is skipping the even beats
Moving from one to three
Three back to one
Mind bent on circumstance
That divides and distances
A love that is true
The colors of a springtime bloom
That feed my delight for you
Are dusted with grey
So suitingly when you're gone
I know you'll return upon
The prayers of the saints
Oh when you cried on my shoulder
I knew that this could be right
Oh then I said that a soldier
Fights 'til the morning light
Oh when you cried on my shoulder
I knew that this could be right
Oh then you said that a soldier
Cries when he's older
Like the Cold of Snow in the Time of Harvest
All songs written and recorded by Courrier
The Thief
I was born as a villain, dressed up as a saint
But in the dark shadows we both look the same
I saw my reflection inside Traitor’s Gate
And it said, that beauty is ruin
The hand held aloft that carries the key
One hundred pound will set me free
But gold and silver belong to the thief
And I’ll wait to make my escape
Summer clothed in winter’s likeness is all but cavalier
You take life from me
I’ll be fine now
I won’t shed a tear
Beloved, beloved there’s fire in your eyes
Cause you took your gaze off the heavenly lights
But I’ll come and snatch you in the watches of night
And you’ll know that I am alive
Summer clothed in winter’s likeness is all but cavalier
You take life from me
I’ll be fine now
I won’t shed a tear
Wildfire
I’m searching through my filed regrets
In a summer past with a closing door
I found I’m left with all I had before
I’m a needle with a point of red
Driven to all I had
I’m gone it’s gone with haste and unrest
The flames in guise I won’t forget
Wildfire’s taking over the Timberlake Hills
When all is gone
I will collect the bones
Wildfire’s taking over the Timberlake Hills
The time has dawned
To send the tireless home
In a game of chance my luck as fled
And I’m behind with guile and discipline
With a tale of all my tarried thoughts and tries
I’m bleeding coy and breaking it with lies
The flames grow high and lay my fate
With the painful eyes of a hollow state
Wildfire’s taking over the Timberlake Hills
When all is gone
I will collect the bones
Wildfire’s taking over the Timberlake Hills
The time has dawned
To send the tireless home
The Ascendist
We were led to ascend a mountain high
On into the clouds in the evening sky
My mind was a blur of tired thoughts when the light came
Radiantly white he shown like the sun
Transfigured before my eyes
As the ghosts of right came and met the son
They sang, “O the answer, I looked for the answer
And I found the trail, I found the trail”
For days we were shadowed by the height
I’m lost in it all, lost in the fright
I carried it all, you wouldn’t believe my pain
They sang, “O the answer, I looked for the answer
And I found the trail, I found the trail”
I don’t want to walk no more
I don’t want to walk no more
I don’t want to walk no more
I don’t want to walk no more…
Clarion Call
The wandering stars that hung up in the sky
Were shaken from their strings,
Left on the earth to die
The east wind blew orange, scorching like the sun
And all the trumpeteers knew their day had come,
All the trumpeteers knew their day had come
He came out conquering the day the age was old
And heavy were the rocks,
That shattered down below
He looked you in the eye and broke you with a smile
Your artificial heart beat for it’s final time
You artificial heart beat for it’s final time
I was ten minutes late to the Clarion Call
I woke up just in time to see that London had fallen
Is there any space to pass through the gates
I was ten minutes late
Now you sit and stare across the glassy sea,
And can’t remember what a tear used to be
The myriad songs you’re singing all by heart,
Have risen to the sky to take the place of stars
They’ve risen to the sky to take the place of stars
I was ten minutes late to the Clarion Call
I woke up just in time to see that London had fallen
Is there any space to pass through the gates
I was ten minutes late
The Dawn/The Dawn Alert
Arise, sunlight
Set the sky on golden fire
Burn away the violet light
This could be our last goodbye
This could be our last alive
Fading like the smoke from a candle’s wick,
The dawn alert came on a quiet wind
I ran for the horizon, I ran for the horizon
The sound of separation ringing in my ears,
A colorless world had forgot to hear
As clear as daylight, clear as daylight
Today is the brightest, the brightest that I’ve ever known
I followed, I followed the sun All the way home
In rays of golden light were the words you spoke
A witness in the sky was the promised hope
You’ll fly shining, you’ll fly shining
When the day breathed last in the cloudburst sky
I saw you like the sun in the shadows,
Shining, shining
Today is the brightest, the brightest that I’ve ever known
I followed, I followed the sun All the way home
Today is the brightest, the brightest that I’ve ever known
I followed, I followed the sun All the way home