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Beautiful Distraction

by 9 Lives and Counting

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1.
Out of My Head 03:28
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Ripping off the door, let it fall and I'm looking out behind you Looking out for ways they'd take us down when I follow Following your lead effortlessly and I'm breaking every rule too Breaking all the rules to go now. TO GO NOW All I know I can't see what I'm running from and All I know I'll never get away from it All I know It used to be so hard to move through All I know But you're making it easy You named an adversary By never looking in We'll need your resignation Get out of my Get out of my head Get out of my Get out of my head Get out of my Get out of my head Gnawing on the bone they threw us after the storms came Checking off a list of deep concerns when I'm waking up to you I'll never fear for anything from anyone 'Cause waking up to you is easy when you get paid to All I know I can't see what I'm running from and All I know I'll never get away from it All I know It used to be so hard to move through All I know But you're making it easy You named an adversary By never looking in We'll need your resignation Get out of my Get out of my head Get out of my Get out of my head Get out of my Get out of my head You can admit You can give You can keep The sane lie down And you will be the one to go And you'll never know You can admit You can give You can keep The sane lie down And you will be the one to go And you'll never know You can admit You can give You can keep The sane lie down And you will be the one to go And you'll never know You’ll never know
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Silence and Shadows 03:44
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You've got to decide Breathe in and you'll find We see the goal We've taken control There were times we'd still vie for more Accede defeat and open the door Behind all was shadows I've got my ear to the door Wait in the silence And they won't know what we've in store We're using the shadows And I won't hear anymore Silence and shadows Or you can join them on the floor New disease Another mystery Who needs to be perfectly clean? Behind all was shadows I've got my ear to the door Wait in the silence And they won't know what we've in store We're using the shadows And I won't hear anymore Silence and shadows Or you can join them on the floor Got my timing down Got my breathing slowed Got my captive shout "Just let me go" Let me go We're using the shadows And I won't hear anymore Silence and shadows Or you can join them on the floor Got my timing down Got my breathing slowed Got my captive shout "Just let me go" Let me go Let me GO So you'll own the road this time With hesitation even further from your mind You'll tear off across that line Leave the traces of the races you lost Behind all was shadows I've got my ear to the door Wait in the silence And they won't know what we've in store We're using the shadows And I won't hear anymore Silence and shadows Or you can join them tied up on the floor
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Fall Apart 03:48
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So we've got a problem Ya we've got something that's in the way Making it easy To never look further than today Weighing the options but making no play Hope for the best and put the scale away So many reasons Tell me when you wanna fall apart It's gonna fall apart Can't wait to fall apart It's gonna fall apart We've gotta question Why not just make a move today Awaiting an answer Tell me when you wanna fall apart It's gonna fall apart Can't wait to fall apart It's gonna fall apart And one moment is all we need The impetus to finally breath So when it comes we need to know And be prepared to follow So look at the problem And wonder why you want to be this way You got to feel comfort By turning everything you love away Go live in the moment Make a new start Wipe out the day When you lost that spark Recover your reason Tell me when you wanna fall apart It's gonna fall apart Can't wait to fall apart It's gonna fall apart And one moment is all we need The impetus to finally breath So when it comes we need to know And be prepared to follow You're on the path again just look in front of you You'll need to learn again that walking's what you do And as it winds it's way ahead you'll finally see It leads to everything you said you'd need Hard pills to swallow With rules this narrow Starting tomorrow You'll never be this hollow So look at the problem And wonder why you want to be this way You got to feel comfort By turning everything you love away Go live in the moment Make a new start Wipe out the day When you lost that spark Recover your reason And tell me when you wanna fall Tell me when you're gonna fall apart
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Home 03:30
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You'll add another note You'll take another crumb You're waking up beside My inanimate pride And let that be the reason you won't leave I can take it on the cheek Endure until the peak Just answering the call The current that's Leading me and speeding me and feeding me to you And we can't remember What we used to be But we can't imagine What we'll be So where can we go now What can we call home Please now make it all just stop Won't care about the fault Make me understand Can't get it out my head Now we're running just as fast as always and forever And we can't remember What we used to be But we can't imagine What we'll be So we all hold on When the whole world's moved on We try but it all falls away We lie in ruins just to say That we can't remember What we used to be And we can't imagine What we'll be So where can we go now What can we call home
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Marionettes 04:00
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Nothing is easy Something is weighing Down and lost again In darkness we'll suspend A sacrifice To pay the price As it pulls us all in When I wanna believe that the sound comes recklessly Then I'm under the aid of a will propelling me When it gets to be that it seems out of control Let it string me along Down and lost again Pull my mind again Damned and lost again Pay the price and pull us in Pull the puppet string But never be condemned of anything And what harm could it bring When no one sees the hands on the puppet string With a little attached to my hand you're taking me With another attached to a righteous memory Just a little bit till it all gets written down And let my soul come along Down and lost again Pay the price and pull us in Pull the puppet string But never be condemned of anything And what harm could it bring When no one sees the hands on the puppet string Pull the puppet string But never be condemned of anything And what harm could it bring When no one sees the hands on the puppet string We're already free We could show the world The lives we've given back Too many to speak of I'd attest I swear that we would make it out You and me already free And we could show the world The time we've given back Too many have seen But we'll be fine I swear we'll be fine Bide our time We're fine We're fine fine FINE Pull the puppet string But never be condemned of anything And what harm could it bring When no one sees the hands on the puppet string Pull the puppet string But never be condemned of anything And what harm could it bring When no one sees the hands on the puppet string Pull the puppet string But never be condemned of anything And what harm could it bring When no one sees the hands on the puppet string
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Seas of Unknown 03:47
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We'll never reach that love Break it down again You're right the stories go where we can't eat of them You'll find the morning loves to rise it up again So high we can't feel it anymore Now ignore all the rest And we'll sail the Seas of Unknown Some mention of what is left And we'll have to brave it alone We fall So we'll break it and take it down again So long it seems like I've been holding back Slow it down I want to feel the weight of the world Slow it down I want to feel anything again Now ignore all the rest And we'll sail the Seas of Unknown Some mention of what is left And we'll have to brave it alone Slow my inspiration Dull my heart so I can breathe Leave my innocence behind me Show me things I'd never see Cast my fears away and then lift me up above Be my beautiful distraction Give me everything but love Show my destination And the reasons I could leave Get my fucking shit together Push me closer to my dreams Be my hands when I can't reach them Be my feet above the floor Be my heart within my chest Give me everything and more Now ignore all the rest And we'll sail the Seas of Unknown Some mention of what is left And we'll have to brave it I will wait for you
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Crimson Blues 03:43
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Favour the lines a thousand times by not mixing the hues The weight of the crime is filtered by the colours that we use You see a world of ups and downs We see a shade of greys or browns Define ourselves in crimsons, tangerines and blues Words never prove The things that we do We'll take this to the grave So deep into a tunnel of make believe No one left to determine where it could be All the dye All the dye is gone Overnight All the dye is gone And we were so far off the line And we had tried to make it right And we had tried to paint in crimsons, tangerines and blues Words never prove The things that we do We'll take this to the grave The stains that we've shown In vain we make known How can we now be saved So deep into a tunnel of make believe No one left to determine where it could be No sense wasting the colour we use to scream Silence is the wrong toner for this machine See the world come surround When the colours come around Words never prove The things that we do We'll take this to the grave The stains that we've shown In vain we make known How can we now be saved So deep into a tunnel of make believe No one left to determine where it could be No sense wasting the colour we use to scream Silence is the wrong toner for this machine You've seen my hands So see this and Get up out of the ground
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Nothing I Could Do 04:23
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Way out of your element with nowhere left to hide You thought up an exit plan but had to stay inside You found I felt the same and you told me so Called out on the connection still said no You there was nothing I could do Such a shame that isn't true The gift of hindsight has been showing me A dream that turned tomorrow's dawn away Maybe I was walking out above a net Exhilaration traded for calm regret Maybe all I wanted was to never have to fall Years of feigned security And now it's too late to call "Ya you waited too long I won't be there when you finally care Ya you waited too long I won't be there when you finally" Too many signs that I should have tried To live and not Just to be alive Now I find I imagine what my Days may have been like were I Someone who didn't let you get away You there was nothing I could do Such a shame that isn't true The gift of hindsight only goes so far To illuminate what could have been delusion or delirium "Ya you waited too long I won't be there when you finally care Ya you waited too long I won't be there when you finally" Too many signs that I should have tried To live and not Just to be alive Now I find I imagine what my Days may have been like were I Someone who didn't let you get away Away You got away Away Wanna deliver you everything Know I want to deliver you everything Wanna deliver you everything
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Product of Reality 03:51
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Time's up give me more attention We see that I need affection Please me now I crave detection What is inside of me Too late for you all to heal it So now that I'm told to feel it Stand up so the world can see it No bad publicity I don't know Cause there's a tumour on my soul If I don't feed it every day it's going to grow Let's go what are we waiting for Not full yet we're gonna want more Who says I'm the only fame whore Selling reality Tuned out so you'll have to rewind I'm the one on which the sun shined A blessing, yeah the gift to mankind Simple anatomy I don't know Cause there's a tumour on my soul If I don't feed it every day it's gonna grow Again Expanding to the end And spreading into anything it can Time's up We see it growing again Extending to our end And spreading into everything it can Time's up Give me more attention What is inside of me? If no one is feeling what we need them to We make our reality seem harder If no one is saying what we want them to We make our reality seem louder If no one is doing what we told them to do We make our reality seem faster Time's up give me more attention We see that I need affection Please me now I crave detection What is inside of me If no one is feeling what we need them to We make our reality seem harder If no one is saying what we want them to We make our reality seem louder If no one is doing what we told them to do We make our reality seem faster Time's up give me more attention We see that I need affection Please me now I crave detection What is inside of me If no one is saying what we want them to We make our reality seem louder If no one is doing what we told them to do We make our reality seem faster

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released August 23, 2016

All songs © 9 Lives and Counting All rights reserved

Music - Peter Alexander
Lyrics - Craig Burnatowski

9 Lives in Counting are:
Peter Alexander - Guitar
Craig Burnatowski - Vocals
Scott Everatt - Bass/Vocals
Jason Hutchings - Drums

2010
Drums recorded at Backroom Sound performed by Eddie Zeeman

2013 - 2014
Guitars and Vocals Recorded at Zolis Audio

2015-2016
Bass, Guitar, and Vocals Recorded at The Rose Room

Engineered by Jim Zolis
Produced by Jim Zolis and 9 Lives And Counting
Mastered by Jim Zolis

9 Lives and Counting Logo Design by www.fdprinting.ca
Photos by www.theorallis.com, Bijoux Photography, www.gregking.ca, and Joe Brnobic
CD Design by www.craigburnatowski.com

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9 Lives and Counting Toronto, Ontario

9 Lives and Counting is an exciting hard rock band that at its is core built to honour the power of the riff. Sonically diverse, but always melodic vocals are contrasted with the relentless onslaught of the drums. Added to that are bass lines that motivate people to get out of their seats and groove to the songs. ... more

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