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Never Settle

by The Speechless Radio

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1.
Never Settle 05:05
I'm not sure what I want But I'm sure of what I don't With so much going on at once Who knows I'm growing up and moving on The past can't hurt me 'cause it's gone I have no clue where life leads me But I won't settle for anything not meant to be There's just so much ahead But there's nothing that I dread I have the strength for this The world just moves so fast I can't resist So take me by the hand Let's go anywhere we can There's nothing in the world to stop us now I'm never looking back At that life left in the past The future's up ahead and it's all ours It's all ours Let's make the most of everything I'm done with all the hate The negativity and the pain I don't need that to bring me down today So set aside your fears Nothing ever hurts us here No one could ever make us turn away Turn away Let's make the most of everything I know I'll try my best To meet what you expect Just give me time to do the things I want So trust me with this please I know it's hard to see But I know that this is meant for you and me
2.
Balance 02:25
Stuck out on this tightrope Spanning the widest canyon of all You are pulling on both sides 'til I lose my balance and fall As I dive through the air Suddenly I don't care 'Cause I'm free from the trap up there So I wait and I wait For something to change But I think now it's too late All that I want Is for all of this to stop Climbing up the highest cliffs Attempting to break free I look up in horror To see you drop a boulder at me As it dives through the air Suddenly I don't care Never wanted to be up there So I wait and I wait For something to change But I think now it's too late All that I want Is for all of this to stop You hit me and hurt me And stop now and then But I always fuck up And you do it again All that I want Is for all of this to stop All that I want Is for all of this to stop
3.
Feel like I got beat up By people out there I need your attention I need your care I fight back temptation To scream in their face I need your compassion I need your embrace I'll brave through the cold in your arms I'll brave through the cold in your arms I need you to hold me from harm I'll brave through the cold in your arms I feel like my strengths Have crumbled to dust I need your patience I need your trust I'm struggling to stand up Above where I fell I need your sympathy I need your help I feel like giving up 'Cause I've been through enough I need your affection I need your love
4.
January 02:57
If I stepped outside right now where would I go? So cold out If I stepped outside right now where would I go? 'Cause if I stay inside I can't escape your words Can't dodge the things you'll throw I stay inside I can't escape your words You call me worthless and pathetic Then pick me up, say you regret it But still I'm starting to believe in you For a moment there's some peace inside ourselves Balanced on this mound of pain For a moment there's some peace inside ourselves I fuck up once and now it's pushed off of its place Comes crashing down at me And now it's pushed off of its place You say I'm nothing but a traitor And take it back just minutes later But still I'm starting to believe in you You tell me I'm a worthless lover Then pick me up let me recover You say that I deserve this pain And you take back those words again You slam the door and lock me out Then let me in a calm me down But still I'm starting to believe in you But still I'm starting to believe in you But still I'm starting to believe in you
5.
Underwater 03:03
Can you breathe? Underwater, underwater Can you see? Something farther, something farther Do you feel? Stuck together, stuck together Do you need? Something better, something better I just need simplicity If that's not what you want, forget about me Do you sleep? Under starlight under starlight Do you keep? Secrets tight, secrets tight Do you read? Any letters any letters Do you need? Something better I just need simplicity If that's not what you want, forget about me Forget about me Forget about me Forget about me Can you breathe underwater?
6.
Lock the doors Unplug the phone I only ever feel safe With us alone I'm too afraid of losing you To something I can not control I need your touch and your words To console 'cause you're the only person You're the only person You're the only person that I know Been so long I can't think of anyone else I don't remember life With just myself I'm scared that if this changes I'll be helpless Stranded in a void Without your kindness
7.
Everybody Everybody Left, right, and center Left, right, and center All around me All around me Left, right, and center Left, right, and center There is love
8.
It looks as if there's nothing left to do Tried to show all of the best of me to you Did I try too hard at this or not enough? I couldn't force the spark to bring out all our love I can't convince myself That you need someone else It's weighing down on me I know I'll never be Ready to see all this happen I have to face the truth in front of me That I can't change it if it isn't meant to be It hurts to do it but I must decide Before it all gets worse and rips me up inside I must convince myself That you need someone else It's weighing down on me I know I'll never be Strong enough to watch this happen I'm terrified that when it does I won't know what to do because I've never hurt this much before I'm scared that this pain will be more So go on, why not take his hand I'm too weak now to understand Forget my name, forget my face Or better yet forget this place It's weighing down on me I know I'll never be Ready to see all this happen It's weighing down on me I know I'll never be Strong enough to watch this happen
9.
Daylight's calling me to rise Tells me to open my eyes It brings me off to you to lay beside But I blink and then it goes away I'm on my own today I think of all the weeks it's been this way I count them up, I count them up, I count them up I remind myself that I will see you Once the season's through But it doesn't mean it's an easy thing to do 'Cause sometimes when I hear some sounds I feel that you're around But really there are miles between us now I count them up, I count them up, I count them up
10.
Now I know that funny feeling when Everything just passes straight through my body Watching from the walls, from the floor, from the ceiling where People don't remember me Except for you Except for you... You, you know exactly what you did to me Now it haunts your thoughts when you sleep and when you dream It rips into your soul, in your heart and through your body You can't escape as easily as it just might seem You try to pass it off, pretend that it's not real My eyes are everywhere and nowhere, never losing sight I'm waiting for years, 'til you break down and you feel That you can't bear this burden for the rest of your whole life I'll wait for years I'll wait for years...

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released October 19, 2014

Michael Elder - vocals, guitar, bass, drums, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, piano, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, synthesizers, drum programming

Jordan Elder - mixing and production

Cover art by Melissa Lugrin

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