In Times Of Transition Leftovers
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If there was a darkest timeline for leftovers, In Times Of Transition would have to be it.
Suffering from writer’s block, I tried a different approach than the one used with Sorry For The Mess. Instead of forcing myself to write, I tried staying calm and only wrote when inspiration struck. Unfortunately, this still resulted in me documenting every garbage idea imaginable somehow: It ended up taking forever to sift through this mountain of shit!
Even so, I managed to find four rare nuggets of goodness. Going Back is the only one I actually remembered before putting this page together, but the other three are pretty decent too.
I’m still just shocked at how much cringe-inducing awfulness was written down though. Thankfully, I’ve gotten much better at self-editing in the years since. Be sure to check out roughly 200 pages from this era in the Fireteddy National Library though!
Lyrics Content
02. Going Back
03. Get Over It
04. Parting Ways
Everything You Need
Where are the answers to the questions unknown?
You can see many pathways, but not a clear one back home
There are risks to consider, oh consider the risks
With hands on your head, you’ll have to give in to this
You can choose to remain or you can still walk away
But it’s yourself that you’ll hate, it’s yourself you’ll betray
Where does it come from and what could it be?
Walking a tight rope with what you still cannot see
In the dark you proceed but you don’t know how come
You try to move forward but you still feel so numb
You’ll change with the wind and fall with the leaves
Is this everything you need?
Is it everything you need?
Where are the cynics for the life that we lead?
You can see many roadblocks, but it’s what you’ve perceived
There are reasons to lose it, but don’t lose it on this
With your hands in the air, there’s a point that you’ve missed
Is this everything you’ve wished for?
Does it feel like your first kiss?
In the dark you proceed but you don’t know how come
You try to move forward but you still feel so numb
You’ll change with the wind and fall with the leaves
Is this everything you need?
Is it everything you need?
You want to talk bluntly, but the words won’t convey
All the things that you’re feeling, they just get in the way
If the future’s uncertain, don’t rely on the past
Because it never repeats and the logic won’t last
Evolving fast and never looking back
But somewhere in your head you’re losing track
In the dark you proceed but you don’t know how come
You try to move forward but you still feel so numb
You’ll change with the wind and fall with the leaves
Is this everything you need?
Is it everything you need?
This is where the future bleeds, this is where you’re gonna be
It’s everything you need now honey, it’s everything you need
Going Back
I don’t want to think back to those days
But I guess that I’ll revisit them to put them all away
In all the things I knew we’d never be
I hoped that you would turn around, that one day you would see
Instead you plugged your ears and turned on this
Think of all these wasted months, of everything you’ve missed
I told you then you’d long to hear those words
But you hid them in the past, so I guess they went unheard
You turned your back and left me, but I never made a sound
You thought I was above this as you landed on the ground
I don’t need a reason ’cause there’s no need to react
You can keep on moving forward, but I’m never going back
Oh I’m never going back
I always tend to think of what went wrong
But things happened for a reason and we learnt to move along
To find a space with lip syncs in the dark
From the feelings left unfinished to the beating of your heart
I’d promised you I meant the things I said
You swear you kept the thoughts there, but they all escaped your head
Though no one knew the words would make you cry
You think of what you did and never stopped to wonder why
You turned your back and left me, but I never made a sound
You thought I was above this as you landed on the ground
I don’t need a reason ’cause there’s no need to react
You can keep on moving forward, but I’m never going back
Oh I’m never going back
You copied down the phrases, all the words I wrote for you
At the time they all seemed meaningless, now they’re dying to break through
They leave the page and make a way for you to find release
But what’s to say when interest wains and time for love has ceased?
I think that I gave up on you, when you gave up on me
I chose to walk away from you, because I had to leave
You turned your back and left me, but I never made a sound
You thought I was above this as you landed on the ground
I don’t need a reason ’cause there’s no need to react
You can keep on moving forward, but I’m never going back
Oh I’m never going back
Now you have the words I wrote, but they’re lost after the fact
I chose to walk away from you and there ain’t no going back
Get Over It
With all these happy faces
Comes a brand new out of style
You’re the target I’ve been gunning for
But I’ve grown from my denials
In all these nights of wondering
Our paths have led us here
It’s been written in the scriptures now
I’m just some poison for your ears
Find yourself a reason ’cause there’s always hell to pay
Somewhere in the distance we have all refused to say
Eventually your wings are clipped and there’s nothing left but shit
And it’s time now to get over it, it’s time now to get over it
All these years of searching
For the moment now to come
With razor sharp intentions left
I could taste it on my tongue
Now every voice is changing
To meet targets left unpaid
While they circle through our fleeting thoughts
For the antagonists we’ve made
Find yourself a reason ’cause there’s always hell to pay
Somewhere in the distance we have all refused to say
Eventually your wings are clipped and there’s nothing left but shit
And it’s time now to get over it, it’s time now to get over it
Strangers meet to come undone
And you’re not fooling anyone
Lies confined to dusty rooms
Minds entwined and now in bloom
No one ever wants to leave, no one ever wants to leave
No one ever wants to leave so soon
Find yourself a reason ’cause there’s always hell to pay
Somewhere in the distance we have all refused to say
Eventually your wings are clipped and there ain’t nothing left but shit
And it’s time now to get over it, it’s time now to get over it
No one ever wants to leave so soon
When everything around them falls to ruin
Parting Ways
Goodbye to my family
I’m heading home today
There’s still a lot to talk about
But there’s nothing much to say
We came close as unions go
But that’s just life, I guess
In times of my transition
My transistors can’t digest
Changing, changing all the time
Life and dreams of passing lines
I know that this is not goodbye
Even though we’re parting ways
Even though we’re parting ways
Goodbye to my tragedy
I’m heading off today
There’s still a lot to think about
But there’s nothing much to say
We came close as friendships go
So that’s what I will grieve
In times of my expansion
There are things that can’t proceed
Changing, changing all the time
Life and dreams of passing lines
I know that this is not goodbye
Even though we’re parting ways
Even though we’re parting ways
We’ll meet again someday
We’ll meet again someday
Even though we’re parting ways
We’ll meet again someday