Take Five Stay Alive

from Retreat From Certainty by John Christian

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Originally written for the band 'The Dead Of Night' I decided to bring it back as true to its original form as I could. This is a prophetic song about where one leads their life through a series of choices all the while seeing what is to come but still wondering how it all got there.

If you can follow all that then you will probably enjoy this song.

lyrics

What am I here for?
Imagine that it's come to this
What are you here for?
Prophesying your last kiss
How did it get to be so cold?
How did it get to be so cold?
How did it get to be so mixed up....again?

What's the use of growing old?
Giving in to each own story told
You can take the show so far in your mind
Live out each sentence in perfect rhyme
How did it get this far?
How did it get this far?
I can't keep living on this line
Must be a simpler way of killing time
How does it feel to be so secure?
And living blind to social cures
So secure in prime and sit in your favourite thought

Take Five Stay Alive
I can't dream much anymore

How did it get to be this way?
How did it get to be this way?
How did it get to be this way?
I'm so alone

How did it get to be this way?
How did it get to be this way?
How did it get to be this way?
You can ask but they never will answer you
They refuse to know you
They abuse you

Staying alive for a hundred years
You're staying alive for a thousand years
Staying alive for one million years

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from Retreat From Certainty, released May 29, 2016
John Christian - electric guitar, vocals, Oberheim OBX, Roland TR 808, arrangements, and production.

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