Album Lyrics & Infos

1.1.1.1. PostcodesPostcodesPostcodesPostcodes The Light Bulbs Flicker

Wheels in Motion

When Both our Eyes

Start Connecting the Flights

When I touch down

At the Gate

Heart Beats ‘Race’

But we'll Split the Prize

Its Brand new

And We're the ink

Lets Scribble together

I only care what you think

And that is forever

We're changing from Square one

Let’s Start with the Postcodes

Little by Little it works

Little by little the hurt fades (away)

My Backpack's Homesick

this is a Ghost-Town

That Haunts me always

coordinates... Change!

So Don’t let go

To our idea

You're the Girl

From my Teenage Lust

Lights out

Its Time to Test the Water

I Think I’m Falling in Love with You

Little by little by We'll Grow

With Open Skies

And Open Eyes

With Virgin Skin

A Second with You is like a Year with somebody Else

2. Firework2. Firework2. Firework2. Firework You besot me so much

I get these Sparks when we touch

Can I move close to you?

I just want to know you.. more

We should dance like we said

lets Paint every town Red

you are truly perfect

I hope you're having fun

because I’m having fun

You're a firework

Lighting up these Skies

You're an influence

cause when you smile.. I smile

you’re my favourite one

I hope we both play a part

so wont you lend me your heart?

You held me by the wrist

asked ‘are we friends who've kissed?’

In a perfect situation

I’d answer cleverly

and not so nervously

until our eyes agree

When both Parachutes won’t open

From Heart grenades we'll pull the pin

Explode together in Unison

(But not the way we'd hoped for)

Wont you? Wont you? Wont you?

Won’t you lend me your heart?

3. 3. 3. 3. Hold Hold Hold Hold onononon

Vertigo for a Grounded soul

Chemicals Won’t make you ‘Pretty’

when the director screamed 'cut'

he didn’t mean yourself!

You’re like ‘Punch’ at a party

Making everybody happy

But losing yourself so much

Hiding and out of touch

When there's nothing left to say

and I’m figuring you out

Hold on

when the colour fades to grey

and your eyes are watering

Hold on

Sharing works if it’s both ways

Vital organs are on display

but It’s not Halloween yet

don’t mask all of your regret

White lies always turn to black

Trains collide on broken rail tracks

when the conductor screamed 'stop'

he didn’t mean your heart

Breathe in Deeply

Count the Stars out

Picture the Smiles

Close your Eyes now

When there’s nothing left to say.. Don’t go

Hold on!

When the colour fades to grey.. Light up

Hold on!

4. Perfume4. Perfume4. Perfume4. Perfume

Can we paint the walls?

So they can match my subtle tones?

Or screaming match in battle zones?

These sticks and stones break my collarbones

Will you write my lines?

Because I can’t say nothing right

My teeth and tongue have had a fight

on the borderline of a Nervous smile

Stop the world

I feel so dizzy and so hurt.

I can’t taste the perfume

I can’t ransom my lips for a smile.

Stop the world

is this how broken magnets hurt?

I can’t taste the perform

I can’t make the sadness disappear

Lend me your halo?

And we’ll move somewhere no one knows

Maps haven’t discovered yet

could you handle that? Can you handle this..yet?

We'll grow sleeper vines

so I can be so close to something at night

And You can bathe in all my light

‘cause I’m offering all these kilowatts.

And do you want me to stand here..

Looking as if I’m happy?

Do you want me to look at you when you smile?

Just to see what it’s like?

Do you want me to taste your sugar?

Just to realize I’m better? Bitter?

5. Megan Ward5. Megan Ward5. Megan Ward5. Megan Ward

Recently, It has been like we're both Passengers

On a train with no map

Destination: New Start

Finally the blossom came

And You're my flower

Promise me You'll Fall asleep

Cause when your eyelids open

it’ll be summertime

and I can hold you close

and whisper into your ear

I’m dedicated to making you my year.

'Cause No one resounds like you do / No one revolves like you do

a 'Crush' is for teenagers / Bungee jump from my mouth

lets call this an open letter / let’s make this a lifelong promise

So Megan ward

Don’t steal my heart.. It’s yours

Fairytales do exist

we just get tired waiting

and give up, and learn to love

someone in the same postcode

But with my foreign lips

I want to taste yours.

Finally, Baby, I just want to thank you.

For making me feel like

I just got to have you

you don’t need your tiptoes

to stand out of the crowd

you’re like the oxygen

‘cause I need you around

It’s crazy...but maybe

you’re on earth to be with me

it’s crazy...but baby

Pieces don’t fit this easy

No one resounds like you

No one makes me feel like you do

6666. Mend Me. Mend Me. Mend Me. Mend Me

The biting of lips

is a sound I’d rather miss

when I can’t compete

with such a pretty face

his beauty will fade

voodoo doll his as he sleeps

cause I want you under my sheets

With every smirk

every glance and every laugh

I’m getting closer to bruising your other half

and why is it you only call me when you’re drunk?

Craving all of our memories

under the sheets

Mend me but stitch him up

with all his cuts

he bled for me

mend me but stitch him up

with all my cuts

I bled for you

all of his lines

are from movies that he rents

he hides violins just to get you in his bed

you dress to the nines

he copies band that he likes

and you let him under your sheets

I’d write him a letter if I thought he could read

I’d tangle with him

if I thought that he would plead

its all for you. Its always, always for you

and I know you hate that creep

we're filling up with water

you've had your time to think

we'll capsize any moment

please don’t let us sink

like talking through two tin cans

this is a winding road

I just can’t wait forever.. I’m starting to corrode

(our hearts are buried in all the things we were back then)

7777. For What . For What . For What . For What it’sit’sit’sit’s WorthWorthWorthWorth

Thursday I’m bursting with smiles

waiting for her arrival to me

I know that you are listening

So here’s all my honesty

I’ve never felt no more alive

Learning the language written in your eyes

it’s been a long time coming

and you’ll be coming back

And i hope your smiles.. Are because of me

These moments we had

Are making my jaw hurt

For what it’s worth.. You were worth it

Time will answer all

Will we stand or fall?

For what it’s worth.. You were worth it

is it so impossible?

I question myself but the answers are playing hide and seek

With my tongue and my heart

A chemistry class out of school

Paper Mache barriers aren’t that easy to tear down

I feel a sense of ‘longing’.. Or am I really a fool?

And I wonder will you be there?

When I wake up.

Or will you go under?

And never look back.

Cause lately I’ve been thinking

that I want to censor my mouth

I want to keep you around

I want to censor my mouth

But the words won’t come out anyway

I want to keep you around.

8888.... Fix MeFix MeFix MeFix Me I’m slamming on the brakes

cause I don’t know which road to take

On my right I have stars and glitterville

On my left I can breathe like everyone else

I’m not sleeping with the world

my ceilings getting tired with my eyes

On my right I see stars and glitterville

on my left, well that another story to tell

And id bleed for movies

But this is real and hurts me

Can somebody press undo so I can fix me too?

And I’d scream if thought

my tongue wasn’t tangled in knots

can somebody press undo, so i can fix me too?

My pillows and i rarely speak

But still charge me rent every single week

A month ago I was all stars and glitterville

And my breakfast didn’t consist of pills

Every Single Place

Every single Chase

Every single face says.. ‘Grow Up / Grow up’

Every single Taste

Every single chase

Every single face says.. ‘Grow Up / grow up’

9999. Glitz & The Glamour. Glitz & The Glamour. Glitz & The Glamour. Glitz & The Glamour Is this cut mending?

Or am I pretending?

Do I crave the ending any day soon?

Is it wrong to leave?

When it’s meant everything?

Another ‘could’ve been tragic story’

Am i weak?

Am i bored?

Am i sick of the fact that i do it all?

Have i lost.. ‘it’?

Day in Day out

Making this sound

has worn me down

Now i just can’t be around

So count me out

I’ve changed my plans

the ‘glitz and the glamour’ ends here my ‘friends’

Do you have regrets?

About that guy we met?

and how he made you forget that you didn’t add

I don’t have regrets

In fact, I’m truly glad

‘cause that guy showed me what temporary friends i had

Over and out

Until we meet again

I hope i won’t see you on pavements or roads

‘Deer in headlights’ could kick in

have you got his script for this week?

Cut copy and paste it right into your throat

I bet nobody will know

have i lost ‘it’?

11110000. Ps.. I'll . Ps.. I'll . Ps.. I'll . Ps.. I'll Miss YouMiss YouMiss YouMiss You

It’s been a week

I miss you like crazy

My lips don’t speak enough

I’ve learnt lately

Those crossed wires

could’ve been untangled

Miles away our

Feelings get strangled

If your pixels are a ghost From now on

I'll take comfort in our embraces without the light on

Straight lines / Streetlights and time zones away

Wrong goodbye but warm memories

Ps.. I'll Miss you

You held me captive

Just like the first time

Armour plated hearts isn’t a crime

voice on the line

my ghost letter writer

Skyscrapers fall

but Get rebuilt even higher

Miss electricity

that you gave to me

I was melting

were you melting?

Miss Lady chemistry

tangled next to me

i was melting

were you melting?

Miss Miss Mystery

you’re unravelling

I’m just melting

Please start melting

it always comes down to the distance

I guess it’s just another instance

Ps.. I Miss You...

11111111. Wrists. Wrists. Wrists. Wrists

Both of My Wrists

Would wait in line

If i was ‘Like That’

I’ve been so down

Just like ‘ahh’

Since the day that she packed

Bruises They Grow on my teeth

On My Hair

In My Lungs

All i have left are these Ghosts

Photographs & these songs

But what i keep telling myself is..

Its Much better than Missing her

So Much

Its Much better than Missing her

So Much

its much better than missing her

So much

I never thought I’d lose her

Goodbye..

Goodnight...

Goodbye..

Goodbye..

Song Informations 1. POSTCODES

“This is a song that was never meant to be recorded for this album. I had figured it was

more suited to the arrangements of my ‘second album’ track list. The intro guitar line has

been around for years. I guess I just never found the time to work on it until now. Pretty

simplistic song, standard progression (A-F#-E-D). But when i started to work a vocal hook

into this for the first time, I really started liking it. It was too easy to start a chorus on an ‘A’,

so i recorded the chorus music before even attempting a vocal melody for it, that way, I’d

have to work something out, and I would avoid the perfect cadence of starting the chorus

on an ‘A’. It was originally called ‘Connecting the Flights’, mainly because that line was

initially the first line in the song (it’s now the fourth). Lyrically, i guess it’s a note to self.

Relocation is always on the tip of my pen these days. But sometimes it’s just too hard to ‘cut

ties’ overnight. The heat seekers will notice the plight of ecstasy when meeting someone at

an airport. There’s no better feeling than being on new ground, with a new smile to keep

you company”

2. FIREWORK

“I wrote this song around December 2006. I can be specific with the date, simply because of

who I wrote it for and about. The ‘plans’ in this song, were all things we genuinely wanted to

do at the time. I recall writing this on piano, then I recorded it as Guitar-demo because I

didn’t have a keyboard around at the time, and then I re-did it a few months later with my

keyboard (mainly cause I didn’t like the guitar demo). I played it at a few acoustic shows, but

I never really thought more about it. I would have probably forgotten the song forever had

someone not left me a MySpace comment asking ‘is Firework on the album?’. I always found

the sentiment of the chorus line quite endearing..‘You’re a firework / lighting up these skies’

3. HOLD ON

“Probably my favourite track on the album as I write this. I really wanted to write a ‘self

help’ song for myself. That in turn, I knew could offer some ‘chin up’ support to anyone who

wanted to listen. It’s saying ‘I know things can get really hard, and the light at the end of the

tunnel seems like a dead star, but if you hold on, you’ll make it’. I wanted to do something a

little different in the middle section, and I got so weird that I had to remove lots of

elements, because it was cluttered with random timings and instrumentation, that,

although I loved, I didn’t think suited the ‘Chin Up’ nature of the song. This is the First

appearance of strings on the record. Hold on!

4. PERFUME

“’I can’t taste the perfume / I cant make the sadness disappear’. Sometimes it’s so easy to

sit back and look at other people in life be happy, smile, advance in careers etc... And

wonder why you can’t be that way. Sometimes it’s internal jealously and sometimes it

laziness that stops people from achieving the same thing (or better) than the people they

consider to be a ‘success’. The word ‘Perfume’ then, in this context, means ‘Happiness’. This

song just.. happened Late one night, when I was sitting by my computer, with my

headphones in my Roland Xp30 Keyboard. I remember writing the (simple) music in one

sitting, and recording it there and then (because it was in headphones, it didn’t make any

noise for that hour of night). I listened back the next morning and started to interweave a

vocal line around it. The vocal on this track is the first & only ‘take’ I did, because, there’s

such an uncertainty in my voice, from not fully knowing what the vocal melodies are, and a

lot of ad-libing. The drums were added on the recommendation of a musical friend, who I’d

sent the demo to. Thank you for the heads up!

5. MEGAN WARD

“Probably one of the fastest songs I’ve ever written. The lyrics were pretty much finalised

the moment I started thinking. This song was wrote, and completely recorded in less than

45 minutes. The only change made after that time period, was when i decided to put the

‘it’s crazy.. But baby’ vocals over the middle section, after hearing them in my head on the

first mixed playback. I wanted something ‘intentionally’ auto tuned on this album, and this

section became the most perfect place to showcase that desire! This was one of the last

songs recorded for the album, and one of my favourites because of the sentiment. The

lyrics? Well they’re so obviously, obvious, aren’t they?

6. MEND ME

“A nice reflective Piano Song. The lyrics are pretty much comparing two guys, who are

fighting for the same girl’s attention. I was that guy once, I still had to get that story off my

chest, and this was a perfect example of how i felt around that time. Affection will make you

do crazy things, and god knows i have! It openly tears down the other person’s personality,

if only for the sake of seeming like the better option. I think that’s something that everyone

does, and i guess it’s a little bit instinctual. I opted to keep this one just piano and voice,

because it’s something new to bring to this record. I’m a sucker for over dramatics when it

comes to instrumentation on tracks, but this was one of the few times when i truly believed

‘less is more’. I had played around with some slight cellos and violins, but it ended up

sounding a little ‘alien’. Nothing made the song more effective to my ears. I actually wrote

this piano line on Mute’s (ex telephone bruises keyboardist) Grand Piano. It was incredibly

out of tune, and in need of a re-do, but i mustered up the intro line one night before driving

home, and worked on it from the moment my feet were inside my bedroom.

7. FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH

“A different vibe for the album. This track was a real change from my standard method of

writing. I intentionally set out to use chords I’ve never used in any of my songs before (A7,

anyone?). I knew that, when out of my comfort zone of G’s and E’s, I’d paint a different

picture with new vocal scales to work with. I didn’t intend on this being so ‘jazzy’ to be

honest, I just couldn’t settle on a solid rhythm for it, and this was the one I kept coming back

to. The end section used to feature a bass drum, tambourine and hand claps, but Ryan

decided to take them out at the last minute, because they didn’t really add anything

compelling to the ending of the song. The middle section was added only for the sake of

confusing people. As it has no purpose other than to bedazzle. This is defiantly not an

example of the direction I’ll be taking in the future, but it’s difference, was compelling

enough to make it part of this first album.

8. FIX ME

“This track has the longest history of song title changes ever! It was originally called ‘Stars &

Glitterville’. But i liked that title so much; I stole it for a new song I’d written for ‘Telephone

Bruises’. So i renamed it to ‘Press Undo’, but I didn’t like the way the title looked. So then I

changed to ‘The brakes’, but then I thought the title came into the song too early to be

relevant and memorable... Etc. The first two lines have been around since ‘Traffic Episode’

(My band back when i was 17). I’m about 5 years backdated in songs, so I tend to remember

little parts from ancient, un-heard songs I’ve written, and recycle them into fresh ideas. I

wanted to make ‘Mend Me’ have a ‘sister’ song, and i wanted the titles to both be very

similar. And so it only took a second to figure out what the perfect title for this track should

be. Like ‘Mend Me’, i wanted it to be piano based, to keep the similarities quite close.

Lyrically, its dealing with mistakes and regret, something that’s a bit of a fixture on this

record, I must admit.

9. GLITZ AND THE GLAMOUR

“This title is a phrase that i can be overheard saying when I’ve had a bunch to drink and

someone starts asking me about musicians, and bands. It can mean a lot of different things

to different people, and everyone will think differently of the intent behind the lyrics on this

track. It tells a story from start to finish, and depicts certain characters and events that could

be misconstrued, in the sense that, some lines are generalistic. But part of my liking of these

lyrics, is because of that. This was recorded completely live, and although there’s some ‘off’

notes, I opted to keep them in just to retain that ‘take’. You can even hear my foot tapping

the timing on the wooden floor. I wasn’t striving for perfection on this track, again, because

i wanted to do something a little different for me. As long as I’m personally aware that I’m

doing something different from my last exploits then I’m always going to be happy.

10. PS.. I’LL MISS YOU

“So the story goes.. I had this ‘Ps.. I’ll Miss you’ title in my head, and once i had sat down

and gotten the lyric sentiments down on paper. I began to think about the context of the

lyrics, and how they could be most effective. I instinctively chose to really keep the

instrumentation simple, and not add anything other than 2 acoustic guitars. I liked the

overall ‘dryness’ they resounded with. I wanted the lyrics to be at the forefront for this

song. I wanted to make sure the person I wrote about it could hear every word and

understand why I’d be saying every word. This is the only song on the album that used a

‘capo’ on. Simply because I wrote in Open e, and decided that it was way too ‘low’ for my

voice to sing, so i capo’ed the second fret to ‘lift’ it a little bit.

11. WRISTS

“Recorded around mid-evening while the next door neighbour’s kids were playing in their

garden. It was supposed to sound a lot messier than it ended up. But it’s incredibly hard to

sing purposely out of tune sometimes. If you listen, you can hear a kid making a ‘noise’

around the start of the ‘music’. This song was designed to be a ‘small and short closing’

track to the album, sounding haunting, and barely resembling a song, as such. There’s a little

dry distortion on my voice. And that was accentuated by the fact i didn’t actually ‘sing’ at all

on this song... I pretty much just soft-spoke all the lines and the distortion helped it sound

like a whisper. The vinyl record scratch effect that runs through the track was from a loop

pack on an Apple Mac that I cut + pasted to my preference. It matched up nicely to the

morbid, unconnected, haunting idea, that was the basis for this in the first place, and it was

a perfect ending to this album.

See You on the Next Record!

Thank You So Much.

Daveit Ferris

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