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You wanted songs…I’ll give you songs
Once upon a time there was a woman made of fire
And a man made of ice
And their love burnt bright
Like the stars at night
But the stars don’t always align
No the stars don’t always align
The man of ice
Was not always this way
Oh he had a burnin’ heart
But he traded it away
To someone who showed him nothing but distain
And his heart was not the same
Couldn’t handle the pain
Now ice runs through his veins
And his love burnt bright like the stars at night
But the stars don’t always align
No the stars don’t always align
The woman of fire
Lives howling in the night
She was born into a world
That didn’t treat her right
After years engulfed in the flames
Her heart was not the same
Couldn’t handle the pain
So fire she became
And she burnt so bright like the stars at night
But the stars don’t always align
No the stars don’t always align
Oh the fire and ice
They could not get close
But despite the pain
They loved each other so
And their love burnt bright like the stars at night
But the stars don’t always align
No the stars don’t always
Align x8
Oh they could never be together
But let me tell you when they are
Woah their love burns bright
Like the stars at night!
But the stars don’t always
Align!
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Julia Bryer
04:09
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Oh come anyone who will listen
I’ve got a story to share
Bout a woman I know, with the most gorgeous soul
You’re going to find anywhere
And if that sounds like something you’re after
Gather round the fire
And I’ll tell you a tale, yes I’ll spin you a yarn
Bout a woman called Julia Bryer
Now I never could see what that girl saw in me
But you know I could never complain
Cos as long as I’m holding her hand
Every soul in the land knows I’m never in pain
And if I say that I love another
You can brandish me a liar
Cos when she starts a-dancin’ I can’t stop romancin’
That beautiful Julia Bryer
Until the stars burn out
Till the seas run dry
Oh I’ll be loving you my dear
Till the day I die
Oh and when my time comes
Darling dry your eyes
Cos I’ll be loving you my dear as I wait
On the other side
She had hair
Like radiant sunlight pouring o’er the clouds of heaven
When she’s there
Oh I can’t help but thank all the stars for what I’ve been given
I didn’t tell her as much as I should have
Perhaps if I knew how it’d end then I would have
And now I lie in my bed sifting through my regrets cos that’s
that’s all that I know how to do
I just stare at the ceiling and can’t shake the feeling
I loved her and she never knew
If I had my time again I would spend it just telling her
Every single day
She was my reason for being, I’m sorry for leaving
And if she was here I would say
My love
Until the stars burn out
Till the seas run dry
Oh I’ll be loving you my dear
Till the day I die
Oh and when my time comes
Darling dry your eyes
Cos I’ll be loving you my dear as I wait
On the other side
Oh I’ll be loving you my dear as I wait
On the other side
Oh I’ll be loving you my dear as I wait
On the other side
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3. |
Run Into The Night
03:30
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Is it that time again?
I see the warning signs
The walls are closing in
I see it in your eyes
So you go get your coat
And I’ll go get my keys
I got your antidote
Come run away with me
Street lights are streaking past
Looking like shooting stars
We’re spending all our lives
Living in speeding cars
We’ve got no where to go
Just long as we’re not here
So darling hold me close
you’ve got nothing to fear
And I feel like I should tell you…
It doesn’t matter
We’ll run into the night
Baby let’s run into the night
We’ll run into the night
Baby let’s run into the night
I’ve never been so tired
Been driving for a while
You’ve never been so wired
It’s great to see you smile
So I keep moving on
Cos this is what you need
Baby you know this song
Come run away with me
Cos this is what we do,
We go in search to find
Something that’s wild and new
To try and quell your mind
And when we’re on the road
The storms are far away
But then it’s time to go
And I feel I should say
That these things you’re running away from…
It doesn’t matter
We’ll run into the night
Baby let’s run into the night
We’ll run into the night
Oh let’s run into the night
You can’t run away from
Something that you’re bringing with you
You can’t change where you came from
You can’t run from something within you
But I know that this is what you need to do
So let’s run and when you’re done
I’ll be right here for you
We’ll run into the night
Baby let’s run into the night
We’ll run into the night
Oh let’s run into the night
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Don’t know where you are
But I need you
So I’m calling you out
Cos I don’t know how much more I got
And I could really use you now
Cos that clock is ticking and
I took a kicking
No, I can’t take no more
God, I’m not even sure whether
I still believe in this
Heart on my sleeve, and If
one more person breaks it
I don’t think I’m gonna make it
And baby!
Can anybody get to me?!
Baby!
I need someone to rescue me!
Rescue me
Now it’s getting dark
Outside and in
Maybe I deserve this
Take a tally of my sins, but please!
Just throw down your hand
I Need myself an angel
Take me to the promised land
Cos baby I’m dying
Do you hear me crying?
I’m broken and I’m beat
Lying bloodied in the street yeah
And I see those sirens
Out on that horizon
Don’t leave it till the dawn
Cos I might gone
And baby!
Can anybody get to me?!
Baby!
I need someone to rescue me!
And I see you’re having fun
but when the night is done yeah I’ve gotta take you home
And girl I’m fading fast
Don’t think I’m gonna last
And baby!
Can anybody get to me?!
Baby!
I need someone to rescue me!
And baby!
Can anybody get to me?!
Baby!
I need someone to rescue me!
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Gotta Get Out
04:50
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I gotta get out
Get out of this place
Cos if I stay here any longer
I’m staying with the wrong girl
You won’t recognise my face
I gotta get out
It’s different this time
But I can’t leave her behind
We had a promise now we’re tiptoeing around the pieces
Like the eggshells on the floor
And now the echoes of the past are louder than the present
I can’t hear her anymore
Don’t talk back this is the only language that she knows
It’s just your hair, it’s just your body, it’s just your clothes
I’m trying to do what I think is right
And if causing bruises is just something that she cannot stop
I see no reason why I should involve the cops
I’m here to save her soul tonight
Give her the space to be
What she needs to be right now
(I know you think that this is something that you gotta do)
(You wanna save her but who’s gonna save you?)
It’s gonna be ok
Though I can’t imagine how
I gotta get out
Get out of this place
Cos if I stay here any longer
I’m staying with the wrong girl
You won’t recognise my face
I gotta get out
It’s different this time
But I can’t leave her behind
I can’t imagine all the horrors on the troubled road
That could lead someone to here
And when you love someone you stick with them when times are hard
I’ve got to overcome my fear
It was a one-off and it won’t happen again
She said that she was sorry, can’t we just got back to when
I wasn’t scared to make her mad?
No, I could have stopped it if I wanted I’m just being weak
I had complete control of what happened out in the street
It’s nothing next to what she’s had
She’s lived this life for years
You’ve just had some tricky nights
(I know you think that this is something that you gotta do)
(You wanna save her but who’s gonna save you?)
Man up, blink back your tears
And just fold in all the fights
I gotta get out
Get out of this place
Cos if I stay here any longer
I’m staying with the wrong girl
You won’t recognise my face
I gotta get out
It’s different this time
But I can’t leave her behind
We’ve been through so much stuff
You don’t just leave when things get rough
Of course I’ll stick out
That’s the woman that I-
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Can't Do This Anymore
04:36
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Standing in the cool night
Flashing red and blue lights make it real
People talking to me
I can’t hear a thing, no I can’t even feel
The tears drying on my face
And can’t Ley myself talk to you
Cos I know exactly what you’re gonna say
But baby, we’ve been here before
And I can’t do this anymore
I know we can be better
but not if we’re together
I’m sure
I can’t do this anymore
The show cannot go on now
Not now they've torn our curtains down
And the story that we swore we’d never tell
Has now been painted through the town
And I can’t let myself talk to you
Cos I know exactly what you’re gonna say
But baby I’ve heard it all before
And I can’t do this anymore
I know we can be better
But not if we’re together
And I know it feels as though this choice will break you
But it’s for our own good
And I wish that I could find the strength to hate you
But you know I never could
And I can’t let myself talk to you
Cos I know exactly what you’re gonna say
Cos I wanna say it too
“I’m sorry and I never meant to hurt you
Come into my arms
Maybe tonight will be the last time”
I know we’re both lying
But I’m sick of crying
I love you, but I took too long to learn to
And I had you but god I didn’t earn you
But baby we’ve been here before
And I can’t do this anymore
I know we can be better
But not if we’re together
I’m sure
I can’t do this…
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Trigger
03:39
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Walking around stuck in a daze
I’m thinking of you
And sleepless nights are the new craze
I’m licking my wounds
But I aint gonna sit around, aint gonna spin my wheels
Waiting for sorries that’ll never come
Cos now I’m feeling all these things you never let me feel
It’s way too much but it beats being numb
But then you walk in and time slows down
I hear my heartbeat pounding out
Sweat on my skin I’m shutting down
I’m shutting down I’m shutting down I’m shutting down
Cos when you walk into the room
You pull my trigger
I catch a glimpse of you and you pull my trigger
This boulder on my chest
It cannot get bigger
I don’t know what to do
This room will be my tomb
Click Boom
Hey!
I think it’s time I made a dash
Yeah I gotta jet
Because the past aint in the past
It’s in my head
And now I’m sweating in the stairwell trying to come down
Trying to get back to reality
I try to breathe, count down my senses get me back to now
But your face is all that I can see
And then you’re not here but time slows down
I hear my heartbeat pounding out
Sweat on my skin I’m shutting down
I’m shutting down I’m shutting down, I’m shutting down
Cos when you walk into the room
You pull my trigger
I catch a glimpse of you and you pull my trigger
This boulder on my chest
It cannot get bigger
I don’t know what to do
This room will be my tomb
You’re in me now
This is just how
It’s gonna be
Looks like you’ve won
What have you done
To me?
Cos when you walk into the room
You pull my trigger
I catch a glimpse of you and you pull my trigger
This boulder on my chest
It cannot get bigger
I don’t know what to do
This room will be my tomb
And when you walk into the room
You pull my trigger
I catch a glimpse of you and you pull my trigger
This boulder on my chest
It cannot get bigger
I don’t know what to do
This room will be my tomb
I don’t know what to do
I don’t know what to do
Click Boom
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Pilot Light
04:01
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Open your textbooks there we are
Addicted to the highs and lows
Should have seen it sooner
But we never thought it’d go this far
That’s what we said
Now whether that was true…
What no body tells you when you
Give your heart to someone
Is you don’t get to take it back
And the love’s not dying down
It’s just getting colder
And I’m not moving on
I’m just growing older
And I can’t speak for you
But I can speak for me
And baby, I think I’m just gonna love you
You and me, we painted this town red
But now you’re gone it’s up to me
To clean it with a toothbrush
And I wanna put this thing to bed
But when I see those empty sheets
I just think “that’s where she was”
And all my lovers tell me
That it’s cold in your shadow
And I wish I could convince them
That they don’t have to be you
Cos we were far from healthy, we were not an aspiration
And I’d say I never loved you, if I thought that it was true
I burn for you
And the fire doesn’t burn quite as bright
but it still burns, it still burns
Once a bonfire now a pilot light
The world still turns, the world still turns
And the love’s not dying down
It’s just getting colder
And I’m not moving on
I’m just growing older
And I can’t speak for you
But I can speak for me
And baby, baby, baby
I think I’m just gonna love you
And the love’s not dying down
It’s just getting colder
And I’m not moving on
I’m just growing older
And I can’t speak for you
But I can speak for me
And baby, I think I’m just gonna love you
Baby, I think I’m just gonna love you
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It was good once…Wasn’t it?
It was good once wasn’t it?
And despite the lies that we let slide
And painful memories aside
It was good once
We were good though, weren’t we? (Darling we were so good)
We did good though, didn’t we? (Like I knew that we would)
And at night it went to hell, oh well!
By day we were under the spell
And truth be told, there’s nowhere that I’d rather be
It was good once
(Come on boys, let’s get this party started!)
Movies in the dark
Remind us of a time gone by
And despite the fights we had each night
The things we said that just weren’t right
Nobody can deny it was especially
Good once
And I spent so long forgetting you
Forgot the good things we used to do
And this aint real
But I need to feel
That I’m not the only one of us that’s sorry
It was good once
When you were good to me
It was good once
It had to be
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Dawn
04:33
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Sun’s coming out and I was taught
It’s only after the storm has abated you see
The damage that it truly wrought
And I always thought I was the victim
Thought that I was some pure hearted hero
And convinced myself you were the villain
But now I see everything clearly
Truth is we were both hurting each other
It’s just that you hurt me in ways we could see
And I am in pain everyday
And while it was there long before you my love
You sure didn’t take it away
You were a monster but so was I
And I’m just sorry that it took me so long to realise
I was in pain
And when the storm raged all through our town
We were both clinging so tight to the mast of our ship
We didn’t realise that we brought it down
You were my confidante and my best friend
Thought we would stick it out until the end
And we did
It just came before marriage and kids
Then you were gone and I had to move on
Cos it’s not the bad memories that kill you my dear
It’s the memories that make you write love songs
So I didn’t grieve and I need to grieve
And while it’s unlikely that you’ll ever hear this
I just need to know you believe
That I am in pain everyday
And while it was there long before you my love
You sure didn’t take it away
I caused you pain everyday
And while I did not raise my hand or my voice
I hurt you in all of my own ways
I know that this is for the better
I’ll keep a piece of you inside my heart
I don’t regret a second of our time together
And I hope you’re happy every second we’re apart
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Your Man Alex Smith Brisbane, Australia
Your Man Alex Smith is a Brisbane-based singer-songwriter.
Alex writes songs of love, the desire to follow your dreams and the difficulties of growing up in today's world.
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