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The Fire

by Matthew Stephen

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The Fire 04:51
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The Fire I remember the sounds of boots on the floor Then a knock on the door And a man in a uniform Me and Sergi was saved by the year we were born The masks fell off and we tripped in the uniform Anatoli was different, he was big and strong The Soviet saw that and told him to come along Boy, come along Mother was crying and her tears fell on me Through a crack in the door we saw about fifty Young men Anatoli was the first to climb number four They fed him some pills and sent him three times more Helicopters swarm with ghosts at controls Dropping concrete and lead into the inferno There's smoke in the air and ash in the mud It gets in your mouth it gets in your blood Anatoli felt something he could not understand The Soviet now won't even shake his hand остановить - Don’t touch my hand Alive in the valley of the shadow of death Are the men they wanted you to forget A glowing stain on the Soviet soul From a machine they built, but could not control Alive in the valley of the shadow of death Are the men they wanted you to forget A glowing stain on the Soviet soul From a machine they built, but could not control The bus returned as quick as it came But the men it brought back were not the same Strong Fathers and husbands and brothers and kin Lie vomiting covered burns on their skin Then one at a time their pain went away With the only reminder a plaque to say Fire, they fought the fire Fire, they fought the fire Alive in the valley of the shadow of death Are the men they wanted you to forget A glowing stain on the Soviet soul From a machine they built, but could not control Brother don't go Brother don't go Brother don't leave me
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Need Your Love 03:53
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Need Your Love Part of love is black Blacker than midnight Blacker than the side of the moon That’s never seen sunlight Was it a sin To open my door Or when I asked you in baby Or when I called you back some more Because my soul was dammed When I ran away When the simplest of words Became the hardest thing to say I need your Love I need your Love I need your Love Ummm Red wine won’t work As a matter of control You can numb a body But you cannot numb a soul Didn’t want you to leave As I pushed you away I should have showed all my feelings Instead I locked them all away And when you were gone And I was all alone I was a prisoner in the house That used to be our home Baby I’m no good And I’ve been around But I was lost, I was lost, I was lost, until I found I need your love Need your love I need your love I need it Now what else can I do But say these words to you Because I know that they are true I need your love And without you around I just wandered round and round And I was lost until I found I need your love
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Trash Alley 03:38
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Trash Alley In a trash alley A flower grows In a garden that nobody knows And I am, someone In a trash alley You’re kicked around They’ll stab your back And not make a sound But I am, someone They give you a hand And hold you down Their greatest fear Is that you get off the down And you become, someone I am I am I am I am someone I am I am I am I am someone You take a hit (woohoo) You get back up (woohoo) You look at them through the blood from a cut They give you one You give back two You don’t let them say what’s inside of you Don’t let Don’t let Don’t let them say what’s inside of you Don’t let Don’t let Don’t let them say what’s inside of you Pick it up I am I am I am someone I am I am I am someone I am I am I am someone I am I am I am I am, someone
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All You Do Is Run 03:33
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All You Do Is Run I met you in the sun You were the one I met you in the sun You were the one I traded part of me For your company But I fooled only one Because all you do is run All you do is run All you do is run Until one by one There isn’t anyone The hell did some man do? To put this pain inside of you? The hell did some man say To make you lock your heart away? Did he look you in the eye As he reached out his hand Did you follow all his words Into the quicksand All you do is run You run from everyone All you do is run You run from everyone All you do is run You run from everyone All you do is run You run from everyone Did you let him in that place Where no one can can go Did come in him in all fast Or did you make him go slow When you needed him the most Did he walk out and leave Did he turn into a ghost When started you believe All you do is run You run from everyone All you do is run You run from everyone All you do is run You run from everyone All you do is run You run from everyone
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Endless Sea 04:19
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Endless Sea When I left you I went to sea Running from a part of me Into a storm I could not see When I left you I went to sea I don't know why I felt empty Or what I'd find out in the sea Or that I'd take your ghost with me When I left you I went to sea Save me Save me Save me Save me From the storms in the sea I know now I didn't know What I had till I watched you go Drift away with the land Like water flowing through my hand And now a storm is raging And now my heartbeats racing And now these fears I'm facing Are taking me down down down down Hope one day to understand Why I let go of the hand And the warm touch that once kept me From drifting on the Endless Sea Save me Save me Save me Save me From the storms in the sea Or that I’d take your ghost with me… When I left you I went to sea…
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Castles 03:26
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Castles I was halfway sleeping When I thought heard your voice Sometimes we keep on dreaming As a matter of our choice Safe inside my slumber I reached out for your hand And sleep walked to a place Where the water meets the land We danced around like lovers Built castles in the sand We raised them up as towers We said would always stand But dreams are just like water Water, running through your hand And only children build castles Where the water meets the land Where the water meets the land You and I were lovers But we started off as friends A spark jumped to a fire When it got caught up in night winds The wind it fanned the fire We followed to the beach And woke up in a place Within the tides reach We danced around like lovers Built castles in the sand We raised them up as towers We swore would always stand But dreams are just like water Water, running through your hand And only children build castles Where the water meets the land We were lying fast asleep In our castle on the beach As the tide began to reach I tried to wake you from the dream But you didn't hear me screaming Baby, baby please The tide began to creep We danced around like lovers Built castles in the sand We raised them up as towers We swore would always stand But dreams are just like water Water, running through your hand And only children build castles Where the water meets the land
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New Day 03:38
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New Day I want to wake To sunlight at dawn And see a new day A new day has dawned I want to see The storm clouds have passed A new day has dawned A new day at last Well It's a new day It's a new day It’s a new day It’s a new day Darling I love you More as the hours pass It’s a new day A new day at last We swallow pride We choked back tears We made the most Out of lean years We held each other And we held fast A new day has dawned A new day at last Well It's a new day It's a new day It’s a new day It’s a new day Darling I love you More as the hours pass It’s a new day A new day at last
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Sea Glass 04:50
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Sea Glass When I see you, I see sea glass Polished by the hours past Where others they may see a stone I see a beauty unto none When I see you I see sea glass And when the light hits you I see you glow You shimmer in the waters flow I don't know what you were in your past But you get brighter as hours pass When I see you, I see sea glass I don't know what you were before You landed on the ocean floor A search light burnt out in the night Or part of a wreck in broad daylight or A bottle take out to sea By a lonely man for company Who roamed the sea from pole to pole And left you more broken than whole Unlike rings or polished gems You're richer than the lot of them And as the water rushes past I see a present ripened from the past When I see you I see sea glass Don't know what you were before Sea glass Sea glass I caught your glow out on the shore Sea glass And as the water rushes past Sea glass I see a present ripened from the past When I see you, I see sea glass I don't know what you were before You landed on the ocean floor A search light burnt out in the night Or part of a wreck in broad daylight or A bottle take out to sea By a lonely man for company I see a present ripened from the past When I see you, I see sea glass
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Finest Hour 04:11
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Finest Hour A peaceful calm surrounds me As darkness falls down on me In what may be the finest hour of my life I'm staring at a photo Beneath an amber sunset halo Of a beautiful woman I made my wife A white gown surrounds her As my arms lay wrapped around her In the finest hour of my life Now with me in the trenches Beneath the barbed wire ringed fences Are the virgin young white faces of angels Who's hearts are quickly beating As machine guns keep repeating Death is not retreating, it's closing in Each man waits in silence A vigil in the violence His finger on the trigger of a gun But inward he's dreaming Through one last chance screening In the finest hour of his life We cut the wedding cake Behind an old church by a lake On a crystal clear May Day As everyone we loved Joined to celebrate our love And we gave ourselves to god above If I'm laid down into silence Discharged from the violence Onto a bed of frozen angels in the snow With the last of my heart's beating It is you that I'll be seeing In the finest hour of my life
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Perfect Lover 03:35
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Perfect Lover I want to build you the perfect lover It's my thing, it's sorta what I do I want to build you the perfect lover Nothing but the best for you will do I want to build you the perfect lover From bits and pieces of all your lovers past I want to build you the perfect lover One that is guaranteed to last And to last And to last And to last Let’s start with your mother Just kidding, We'll use that girl over there Not the blond she's too needy The one with the auburn colored hair See her standing in the sunlight See the way light compliments her curves Don’t worry I’ll fix all that later I'm going to get you what you deserve And deserve And deserve And deserve You know the one you almost married When you left her you really broke her heart Don't worry it can be recycled It still beats, and we’re off to a start We’ll put it in the empty Russian You always said she’d be perfect with a heart We can keep her up to the neckline But can’t use the talking part For that I went all the way back to high school That little girl with the pouty do me look We can only use the outside though mate Says she went crazy on Facebook I’m want to build you the perfect lover I’m want to build you the perfect lover I’m want to build you the perfect lover My speciality is animation It’s much less a science than an art too dumb and they're boring But you never want make them too smart So I took that one professor Watered down by those girls from Amsterdam She’s smart enough to be charming But not enough to be a man And before I present her There’s just one final thing to do I need a moment with your lover I need to tell her a thing or two I’m want to build you the perfect lover I’m want to build you the perfect lover I’m want to build you the perfect lover
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Lonely 04:18
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Lonely Somewhere back in time I got your song stuck in my mind I'd just sit there and rewind For the fifth, sixth, seventh time And get lost in lost in melody And let it wash all over me And it set my spirit free To know there was someone like me And I'm not alone in being lonely And I'm not alone in being lonely Set it all on fire Tap into the wire The connection between between heart and mind You knew when you got it right When you woke to a morning light To a window washer singing your own song While he can’t see through mirrored glass You know he knows at last He’s not alone in being lonely He's not alone in being lonely He's not alone in being lonely When you launched that bottle out to sea Did you think it'd reach anybody Because it washed up on the shore Of a hundred billion or more And it set our spirits free To know that that we had company And we’re not alone in being lonely And we’re not alone in being lonely And we're not alone in being lonely And we're not alone in being lonely

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The Fire is a full length debut album by Matthew Stephen

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released January 1, 2022

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Matthew | Stephen Tampa, Florida

Matthew Stephen is a singer songwriter who grew up in Arlington, Virginia. The Fire is his debut album. matthewstephen.com

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