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Glen performed:

Lead and Backing vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Classical Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Synths, Drum programming, Sampling, SFX and Live Percussion.

Girlie Vocals on Track 14:- The Ferris Tribe

Loops and Samples were culled from various sources.

Recorded December 2007 to May 2008 with Fender, Jackson, Yamaha, PRS, Enigma, Ovation and Hohner Guitars.

Korg, and Yamaha Synths. Korg, George Dennis and Behringer Guitar Processors. Alesis Signal Processors

Written, Arranged, Recorded, Mixed and Produced on an Akai 16 track:-

1. Map (of where I've Been)

2. Everyday

3. Life In The Canopy

4. With Different Eyes

5. Safe Home

6. Juice

7. Something Ends Up Broken

8. Out of Here

9. Where Do Planes Go

10. Wise

Lyrics:

(Map) Of Where I’ve Been

Guy I know across the town
Hurts himself when he gets down.
I look at him and I ask why
He says they help keep him alive.
I tell him I don’t understand
How he can do this with his own hand.
Grab a seat I try to explain
Cos what you see is worth the pain.
We go through life and we make our play
But I don’t really work that way.It’s a map of where I’ve been.
It’s a map f what I’ve done.
It’s a map of what I’ve seen.
Is shows how far I’ve come.
It’s more than the scars you can see
It’s a map of where I’ve been.This one’s for the day that I stood still
And I watched my children disappear across that hill.
This is for the time I didn’t cry
when my wife made love to another guy.
This one show’s the strength of me
To walk away from the hanging tree.
This one’s deeper than you know
And it seems to keep me from where I want to go.
See the brave face that I wear out here
Hides the truth that I live and die in fear.

I’ve always done the right thing
At least it would appear
But I don’t dance and I don’t sing
I just grin from ear to ear
I don’t take it out on those I love
I won’t take it out on you
The fight I have is with my self
And it’s a fight I just can’t lose
It’s the best defence for what I feel
But the scars beneath I know will never heal.

Everyday

Let me tell you story about a boy and girl
She treated him so good but he didn’t treat her so well
She took him for al his faults cos he had her heart
He took her for granted from the very first start
She couldn’t take it any more
She wanted more from this small life
She took the kids and moved away and now he misses her mostEveryday, he calls her name
Every night it’s just the same
He calls her up a thousand times
Hoping these words will change her mind saying
I love you, I miss you.She never felt that she was good enough
He never showed his heart always acting tough
She knew he had it in him to be so kind
But the bad days far outweighed the best of times
She told him one day she would leave
He laughed if off and turned away
He turned around and she was gone
And now he misses her inEveryway, he feels her close
Every night it hurts the most
He’s cried his heart out a hundred times
Hoping his prayers will work in time praying
I love you, I miss you.Let me tell you a story about a girl and boy
She treated him like gold he treated her like a toy
She trusted him with all her hopes and fears
And now that’s all he’s left with in coming years.
He never thought that she would leave
He always thought that she would stay
Now he’s alone and can’t believe
How much he misses her

Everyday, he calls her name
Every night it’s just the same
He calls her up a thousand times
Hoping these words will change her mind saying
I love you, I miss you.

With Different Eyes

Look around you everyday
See your world wasting away.
You download everything around
and then offload into the ground.
We can't sustain it for too long
and the earth beneath us will be long long gone
We bury it all and close our eyes
and hold our heads up to the warmer skies.You can't change the world
if you don't change yourself as well.
You'll never change a single thing if you don't try.
I can't tell you how to do it
it's something you must learn for you
it's not too late if you look through different eyes.Everything you have you lose
'cos you can't take it all with you.
The brand new car will turn to rust
the house you own will turn to dust.
If you don't learn to stop and think
you'll push the future to the brink.
And all your children will have left
is an Indian summer where they can't catch their breathe.You can't change the world
if you don't change yourself as well.
You'll never change a single thing if you don't try.
I can't tell you how to do it
it's something you must learn for you
it's not too late if you look through different eyes.The free world we live in well it aint free
There's a price to pay and it’s not cheap.
The payoff's more than worth its weight
and it turns beneath you everyday.
If you carry on the way you are
trust in me you wont get far.
If you don’t put back what you take
You're putting your life and my life and the world's lives at stake.

You can't change the world
if you don't change yourself as well.
You'll never change a single thing if you don’t try.
I can't tell you how to do it
it's something you must learn for you
it's not too late if you look through different eyes.

Safe Home

Woe is me.
I am drifting out to sea.
I see you standing on the shore
But your light ain’t for me anymore.Woe is me,
I’m gonna drown in my misery
My tears are filling up this boat
And I don’t think I can keep it afloat.The ring that you threw to me
It was made of gold and it sank to the bottom of the sea.Woe is me
I’m gonna die if you don’t rescue me
Drag me in or bail me out
Save me with your mouth to mouthWoe is me
I am drifting on the sea
And I see you standing on the shore
With your light shining as before, but not for me.
Not for me.The life boats that they sent to me well,
they weren’t flying the flags that I want to seeI sent my flare into the sky,
But the waves were too high for you to see.Safe home as they used to say yeah
Bring me home to your harbour baby
A lifeline is all I need
Save me from the rocks and reefsSafe home as they used to say yeah
Shine your light so that I can see yeah
Pull me in against the tide
So I can moor safely by your side.

Safe home is where I need to be yeah,
with you holding onto me
This heart is really rolling
SOS baby save my soul.

Something Ends Up (Broken)

Every time she comes around to fix things up,
Something ends up broken.I saw you on that cloudy day
Way back in ‘94
Taking all the things you owned
And piled them high in your four by four
The kids were crying and you were crying
As you drove away
Flagged you down just as you quit town
Just for you to say-Every time she comes around to fix things up,
Something ends up broken.
Every word she used to try and make it up,
The best remained unspoken.I heard you’d settled somewheres east
An under the radar guy
Taking all the time you had to
Heal the wounds and forget the lies
Kids were fine and you were fine
And you made it pay
Things calmed down life turned around
No more need to say

Every time she comes around to fix things up,
Something else up broken.
Every word she used to try and make it up,
The best remained unspoken.The best remain unspoken.

I heard the new at Tony’s grill
She got the kids and car
Takin all the things you owned
Shacked up above some bar
Held held high to her nasty smile
As she drove away
Out of sight you lost that site
And let your gun have it’s say.

Out Of Here

Lived on this hill my whole life
It's all I have it's all I know.
And I'm a million miles from Ipanema, a million miles from the Rio we know.
So I sit and look and dream of the city below.
Wanna take my girl and move there, she can be the carnival queen.
But I’ll never get down off this mountain; I’ll never make it out alive.
So I sit and look and dream of the day we drive.

Out of here, to the world down there
No more fear and no more cares.

Got a job with cousin Rico
running errands closing down some deals.
And he swears to god he'll pay me more
and I never see what the money's for but I know, I know.
So I save my cash and my secret stash to buy a way.

Out of here, to the world down there
No more fear and no more cares.

Rico says he's got one last job.
Gotta run a package down to the Watermelon man.
But it all went wrong and I got arrested
I got fifteen years to get 'readjusted' but I know,
I'm on a go slow.
So I sit and stare at my girl out there and dream a way

Out of here, to the world down there
No more fear and no more cares.

Wise

See over there there’s a man with everything
Thousand dollar suits, Rolex, Prada, diamond rings.
Look over here, at a man without a dime,
Can’t afford to feed his children
Half his life waiting in line.
How can I adjust this picture?
The contrast is far too great.
Who’s messing with the balance?
Let the poor man carry all the weight.
Who’s playing with the volume?
The people can’t be heard.
It's time to flip the channel.Everybody throw your TV
Out into the street below.
That ain’t real life that’s just bullshit
People get wise to the lies they’re feeding.
Everybody throw your ipod
Out into the garbage can.
That ain’t music that’s just bullshit
People get wise to what the hell you’re downloading.
 
MTV gonna fill your head with bling
4 x4s, gansta ho’s and nice white line with everything.
But look over here at the man on CNN
Just lost his wife in a drive-by
From a car jacked up on Boys II Men.
How can we change this picture?
It ain’t as bright as it looks.
Who’s gonna tell that Oprah
That she’s fatter than she looks.
Who’s giving the wrong directions?
I don’t wanna pay-per-view
It’s time to change the channel.Everybody throw your TV
Out into the street below.
That ain’t real life that’s just bullshit
People get wise to the lies they’re feeding.
Everybody throw your ipod
Out into the garbage can.
That ain’t music that’s just bullshit
People get wise to what the hell you’re downloading.
(solo) See over there, there’s a girl with too much cash
Cute little puppy, money from Daddy and a tiny little botox ass.
Look over here at a lady on the streets
Can’t afford to feed her children
So she sells herself to any guy she meets.
It’s a sorry situation
How do you bridge the great divide?
Who’s adding up the cost?
Keeps the poor out here and the rich inside.
Hollywood’s a natural wonder
But pulled over the widest fault
It’s time to cause this earthquake.

Everybody throw your TV
Out into the street below.
That ain’t real life that’s just bullshit
People get wise to the lies they’re feeding.
Everybody throw your ipod
Out into the garbage can.
That ain’t music that’s just bullshit
People get wise to what the hell you’re downloading.

all lyrics by kind permission Glen Ferris.