If You'll Have Me

by Victoria Awake

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"If You'll Have Me" was written over the course of two years. It is the distillation of our hopefully successful attempts to hone a melodic pop sound from the dirty, chaotic, wall-of-sound beginnings of our raw demo material. We hope you like it as much as we've enjoyed the process of creation.

Blessings!
Aaron and Michael

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released 25 November 2011
All songs were written by Michael Lauen & Aaron Munro (SOCAN). All music performed or programmed by Michael Lauen & Aaron Munro except drums. Drums performed by Kelly Bitner. All vocals by Michael Lauen & Aaron Munro. Everything except drums recorded by Michael Lauen & Aaron Munro at The Asylum (Saskatoon, SK). Drum recording and preproduction by Ryan Anderson at Red Door Records Studio (Sasktoon, SK). Final mixing and mastering by Troy Glessner at Spectre Studio (Seattle, WA). All album artwork by Joe Latham for Look Happy Design (Wales, UK). Album promotional photos by Jason Chadney (Saskatoon, SK).

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(c) & (p) 2011 Victoria Awake; All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. (SOCAN)

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At their core, Victoria Awake are Michael Lauen and Aaron Munro. Surpassing the depth of previous efforts, this project has ... more resulted in a rebirth for both songwriters. "If You'll Have Me" puts them back in their element writing wall-of-sound pop anthems with a rock n' roll soul. Undergirding the aural aesthetic are the classic themes of death and redemption. less

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Track Name: Falling On Our Swords
Falling On Our Swords

You will see your loved ones die
It's hard to face your last goodbye
The words they leave are in your head
The songs they sang will comfort you

You're outside
I'm in my mind
Glory comes back on a cold cold day and a winter's night
And she's singing those tragic prose
No one knows what's going on inside his head

I didn't mean it
Did you believe it?
Cut into stone and blood is streaming down

Falling on our swords tonight
Now we want back inside the body
The blood and the bone
The heart and the soul
I need you to know I need you to need this soul

She's sinking
It's heavy lifting
O God I need you more than I knew yesterday
Just coping
Remorse in hand
The desert holds no hope for trees and vanities

If I came back would you have me?
If I came back now?
Would there be room in that heart of yours for me?
Track Name: Fail Like We Do
Fail Like We Do

I know you can feel my heart
Open up my chest and get your hands in there
It pumps the blood around the body
but it's pumping blood all over the floor
So do what you do best, do what you do best
Because I'm a mess and you're a mess

Cause I don't want to
I don't want to dissuade you
You'll surprise you
I know it's true

Taking control tonight
Fighting what's right to fight
But you can't see
Diving into the darkness
Seeing only blinding light
But you can't see

Well laid plans to abortive attempts
Stitching it all up just to hide the mess
It takes guts to fail like we do
To laugh it all off it's serious skill
So do what you do best even though you're a mess

We won't redeem ourselves
They've damned us to the past like we'll never have a future
but who are they anyway?
Track Name: Two Worlds
Two Worlds

Spoken smooth
Words as water rolling off our tongues
Sincerely fractured
Bending over backwards
What's the meaning and what was our intent?
Arrogant and awkward
Bravely manufactured
Assumptions encoded into our DNA
Layers of lies covering layers of truth
Ambiguous connections and disillusionment
Then there's you and me and this endless sea of noise

And these two worlds superimposed
One is real; one illusory
And we could be free
Only a moment; only a glimmering

From one moment to the next; fleeting feelings and context
Never know what to expect; swallowed up in hopeless
Wait just a minute, if you can choose it now, believe that God is good and grace fills the spaces between

You break in; make it so obvious
You break in; break me down again

These two worlds
Can't you feel it?
Track Name: Come Away
Come Away

Darling you're beauty, it can not be denied
Railing against the darkness; incipient deicide
Well I will paint the hollows and I will mend your dresses
I will teach your heart to smile; to be gone with these defences

O come away, O come away
O come away with me my love
O come away, O come away
O come away with me
For I am shot through
Your eyes can see me naked but unashamed
In through my lungs
Course through my blood
Your in the thin and in the thick of it

Victoria, please wait for me; I'm on the other side
I'm toiling in distraction; Insipid uninspired
Well, you open up my windows and you turn over my tables
You teach a torpid heart to feel and I'm stealing all my kisses

O come away, O come away
O come away with me my love
O come away, O come away
O come away with me
For I am shot through
Your eyes they see me; hidden strength and accidents
Mind is racing
The sun beats down
Your with me in sickness and ecstasy

You are mine and I am yours

O come away, O come away
O come away with me my love
O come away, O come away
O come away with me
For I am shot through and you've broke me open
fear falls away and so much wasted time
Sun blinds my eyes on hopes horizon
You're sure fingerprints all over me

I'm searching the streets and squares
My heart belongs to you
The signs of you are everywhere
I don't know what I'll do
Track Name: What Was I Thinking?
What Was I Thinking?

I’m into winning battles; I’m into sinking ships
One bad seed ruins the whole bunch and I’m into busted lips
Bruised pride? I’ll give you solace inside my shifting skin
This monster’s built for overkill and I’ll always drag you in

O God, I think I'm finished

Over my head time and again
What was I thinking?

I’m into timid spirits; I’m into crushing them
You think you’re so innocent but I know your secret sins
Got pity? We will wallow; venerate a sacred pain
The primal tang of blood; it’s on our hands again

When it comes to feeling insecure
Yeah, you're right I am a pioneer
I'll bring you flowers, then I'll bring you tears
I'll leave you in the dark
I've got it down to an art

There's no disguising it; I am a hypocrite
And my heart is violent; self-obsessed
The rhythm of this heart is violence
The song that it sings is emptiness
Track Name: Elegy (For What Was)
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Track Name: Lovers or Fighters?
Lovers or Fighters?

Our violence plays hidden
We strip the silences with heavy words and then
Left with fresh scars on our consciences
I drag me down again
I drag me down

And we're exceptional; so miss-directional
Without a minute to spare; without a minute
Are we lovers?
Are we fighters?
Feel like haters; become liars

Straight lines
Circles
Painted into corners
Loose yourself; don't try this time

Look into the sky tonight and open up your lovers eyes
You can see the time is right
Don't confuse your mind
Stars will shine
The moon will be bright
Open hills
Lets find the highlight of the time we shared tonight
Open up, please open up your lovers eyes tonight

Our energies; our appetite
Tomorrows worries today
Tomorrows worries will stay in the foreground doing magic tricks
We'll be breaking our back to keep us in the black
We're lovers
We're fighters
We're haters become liars
Track Name: Home
Home

And your words they seem nice
but your eyes as cold as ice
I've got to learn to shut you down
I've go to learn to take my own advice and
get it done; don't think twice
Start believing that I'm alright
So many people try to sell me
on their own shallow dreams and plans

We are going home
We are glory bound
All our hopes and plans
We don't understand

Just like you said, "I'm not your saviour"
"I'm not so bad", I don't believe you
You've got to learn to cut your ties with the crowd
Can't hear your own voice cause the past is to loud
And all this language, it keeps in danger
It's isolation; it's learned behaviour
You've got to admit when your dying
I'll be there at your bedside - I'm trying

We are going home
We are glory bound
All our hopes and plans
We don't understand

You hedge your bets
Don't sink your teeth in just yet
You call it quits before we're even out the door
Track Name: I Know Where I'd Go
I Know Where I'd Go

Same old places, faces, statements, arguments unraveling
She’s been through it and your amusement is not what she’s living for

Dark feeds on dark in her eyes, in her heart
Light is alive - never know, never know
So I hope you know you’re beautiful

and I know where I’d go - so far away
In the sand and sun and that’s where I’d like to stay
and I’d lay right down beside you there
Breathe the salt of the sea - why can’t we leave today?

I’m so dizzy with this busyness and motion - so monotonous and broken - want to sit right down and cry

Same emotion over and over - ruminating ugly things
She’s been trying, ever climbing up and out of your bribery

Wind comes in through this old window
Snow blind from the sun on snow
I swear you can hear the sound of the breaking of this here restless soul
Because we are more than just canvases of skin on bone
Track Name: Youth
Youth

We said “no regrets”, but ten years have past
get these demons off my back
We danced; we kissed
we won’t be stranded with these feelings of what we missed

Drive-in movies and traveling the world with your lover at your side
Growing older; passion and pain with your lover at your side

With the last thought of youth we sigh in relation to the inside
We will make it through the night with the last thought - with our last thoughts

Long hours; sleepless nights
we both say things we know we never should
High hopes; half smiles
an arm around my shoulder when I’m down

Age and beauty, hollywood movies - they don’t matter to me
Track Name: Intentions Overworn
Intentions Over-worn

You knew you had it; the golden touch
and you were only having a little bit of fun
No bullets in the chamber; a mantle piece display
Pretty smiles and summer dresses; empty phrases and quick messes

Now the light of day peals back the film
So used to playing tricks now
So used to it; too used to it

How could you have ever known that this awful day would come?
Hearts are burning altars; hands are cracked and warn
Thoughts are threadbare remnants of intentions over-worn

(I don't know what they've been saying - I don't know if it's all true
It's time you lay down your armour - it's time you just spoke the truth and you will break down and you will cry and you will loose it all to feel alive)

You left your good sense somewhere far back in the past
Lies were so attractive; sophistication makes you sick
No bullets in the chamber; at least that's what was said
Now you can't hear a thing over this incessant ringing

Now the light of day peals away perdition
Won't be dancing for awhile
No, not in this condition

You stare at your own face in the mirror of the water just long enough to realize that you've become the monster you hated
This doesn't have to be the final word on everything
This could be the first day like you woke up from a dream
and splashed some ice cold water in your tired face
You wake up
The past is just the past so prepare yourself; this is today
Track Name: Please Don't Let It Get To You
Please Don't Let It Get To You

Do you still have trouble being honest?
Are you being honest with me?

Are you still carrying that heartache?
Still underneath it I think

You had unaffected joy but a little bit of knowledge took care of that

Open up those arms
; (Keep those arms outstretched and wide)

Downcast eyes and heavy sighs; under the weight of the world

Please don’t let it pass you by

Please don’t let it get to you, don’t let it eat you up

You twitch and turn - is there anything left for me besides harsh words and petty lies?
What do you see when you look into my eyes?

Sometimes our dreams are fulfilled just moments before they die

This bleak view from inside of your head; thinking that you would be better of ____

You don’t see magic in anything anymore; a kiss is a kiss - there’s no love in it like before

You take what you can get; whatever’s happening - there is no breaking this spiritless spell

What do you see when you realize that I am yours?
Tonight?
Track Name: This Melody
This Melody

For far too long now gone; lost in my head and I think I'll be sick if I don't just listen this time

Draw me in; sell me out; I won't go easily
This thin existence is fleeting living for only me

And then you speak and I stand
You say go and I move my feet
You shout be whole and I sing
What is this melody that's ringing in my head

If I continue to deny the light from you window; the blood and the body
If I continue to breath, it's you and me or nothing
For too long now gone; lost in my head; I think I'll be sick

You speak in ancient rhythm pristine and clear
There's nothing false; no sound wasted
My heart burns; my ears are pierced right through