the union trade LYRICS

The Union Trade
Everyday Including
Lyrics

Self Possession
Hear the cars outside it’s raining
The day begins to break
I woke up alone this morning
Don’t know why it’s still a surprise

Guess I’ll get up and join the living
As eyes open it seems I have no choice
Since you’ve been gone I’m angry
I’m ready for another worst day yet

Accounting for our history
Remembering all we told
Mistook a lifetime for forever
Now forever seems so cold

It seems we own so little of ourselves / if so much can be taken away / so much of me went with you / that I can’t what’s left of me / what’s left of me

Talk
I thought I really knew you
At least I tried to believe it into truth
I just can’t imagine
The weight of all the shit that you’ve been through

No one here
No one
No one here
No one

Why do you do this to yourself
Enough’s been done to you already
Indulging all your demons won’t make them go away
It will not exorcise a goddamned thing

No one here places any blame
Don’t drown in waters where you can stand
I want to beg you to help yourself
I’d bear if all for you if I could
If I could

Accident Prone
I wish I would not break
Every time I fall
But sometimes I embrace
The weakness of it all
What did I promise
What have we made
I’m leaving no options

I swear I’ve sworn this one off I promise you

I wish I would not break
Every time you trust
But sometimes I embrace
The darkness and the rush
What did I promise
What have we made
I’m trying to avoid getting used to this
I’m trying to avoid getting used to this

I’ve sworn this one off I promise you

For The Resilient
All along they were
All along I was
All along I gave up more than once
Caught between myself and each defeat
Despite all odds
Hope against hope against hope

Here we stand defiant in our hopes
That we will claim our futures back
Despite the fears and dreams that we’ve been fed

We are right

All along it was
All along we were
All along I knew that we’d be good
So far along and you’re still here with me
Despite myself
Hope against hope against hope

Strings Break
Silent voice stripped of all regret
My fatal flaw I hope you can understand
The lightest words hide the cruelest truths
Trading time for things we’ll just forget

She likes the sound
Your guitar makes
When the strings break

She likes the sound

Upstream
I have a sense of things
I know these sounds
But the colors are elusive
I see her face
She is unaware
And now these feelings of intrusion

Beyond myself
There’s nothing I can do
Beyond myself

I dreamt this place
I could almost reach if time lost its way
Hand to my face
Trying to maintain
She’s looking through me

Now I’m fading away in slow dissolve

Violent and Beautiful
Turn and look upon
What’s Beautiful or Violent in this world
It’s bound to take its toll

Like Minded
The like mind
Join the like mind
Better things
Better things

There will always be another
There will always be another
Better things
Better things

There will always be another enemy
There will always be another
There will always be…

Crescent
In the space
In the space you took
In the space you left
In the space you stole

In the time
In the time we spent
I will never forget
In the time we spent

If I swear to you
It wouldn’t last one day
Not one day

On the day
On the day we met
I will never forget
On the day we met

Tonight
Tonight I will
And better still
tonight I’m so

If I swear to you
It wouldn’t last one day
Not one day

THE UNION TRADE DISCOGRAPHY

"Everyday Including" (2008 Tricycle Records) CD / Digital

"Now The Swell" EP (2007 Tricycle Records) CD / Digital