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Depth

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    My sophomore LP "Depth". Make some noise for the old school. Play this loud.

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Depth

Swords:

I’m having moment like Mister Miagi in the nation’s capital
Playing Tetris with reality, focus the actual
Instead of the abstract, backpacked in chemical terms
leftover heartbreak hotel treatments for the chemical burns
Don’t be concerned with the who, what, when, why
prescribed for your minds eye, my how time flies
Flock like ravens, stand like Eric Draven in a murder of crows
Call me Sir Swords, that’s my purpose in flows
Expose the chivalry, maintain the focus in my delivery
Rebuild the Byzantine, pour the poison, live the dream
A mezzanine, mixture of better things and severed seems
Cut out the stuffing, to figure out who’s really bluffing
It’s all or nothing these days, ultimatums help the therapy
moments of clarity for the self hate, choke the Carradine
I guarantee nothing but a life worth trying for
a matador against a minotaur, yo whachu think the fires for I set it

And what is life but a shadow I remember it in…

Megan Johns:

Scraping for the change that I can be sane
clutching to the memories as time slips away
If it happens now, its over then
what is life but a shadow I remember it in
Depth

Swords:

And what is life but a shadow I remember it in…

Look, nobody gives a damn what you dream about, remember?
I choose adventure and the splendor you see in flaring tempers.
The dying embers cast a shadow across a sad state
lashed together with your spiked belt and my fat lace
Adidas worn thin from the miles of my old songs
A journey I make alone, a wager that I stake my soul on
So I suggest you hold on, proceed in caution, in fashion
the captain strapped to the mast, my Passion Ulysses
Reefs to navigate and these sirens keep calling me
but I left my cell on silent during the bliss of a calm breeze
Falling in love with broken hearts sutured, explosions
approaching, eroding the Trojan to give birth to the seed
Turbulant seas and horizons uncertain
so I stick to versing uncertain sermons for the person
who gets me without trying to match the key I’m singing in
so hey, Lonely, how you been? lets begin…

And what is life but a shadow I remember it in...

Depth

credits

from Depth, released November 1, 2013
Shannon Swords - Vocals, Guitar, Synths, Production
Megan Johns - Vocals, Guitar

you can check out Megan's work at meganjohns.bandcamp.com

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Swords Eugene, Oregon

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, my name is Swords. I'm an emcee/producer Raised on rock and roll and roots rock reggae, I've attempted to blaze a new trail for myself through the avenues of hip hop. In my time I've opened for acts such as Brother Ali, the Nappy Roots, Braille and Illogic. Check out the songs... ... more

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