TIE THE FIGHT - FULL ALBUM STREAM
The outcome of nine conversations, between three brothers, spanning twelve years. Tie the Fight was born in heartbreak, forged with accepting malaise and refined through the harshness of reality. A dialogue on the war between emotion and the mind, between the lover and the leaver, between the truth that drives and the words that lie, between the lines we draw and the circles they form.
There is no winning, so tie the fight.
The outcome of nine conversations, between three brothers, spanning twelve years. Tie the Fight was born in heartbreak, forged with accepting malaise and refined through the harshness of reality. A dialogue on the war between emotion and the mind, between the lover and the leaver, between the truth that drives and the words that lie, between the lines we draw and the circles they form.
There is no winning, so tie the fight.
THE DRAW
All I have got to say, all you can deny, when you look away, from every scar I find, honestly we can't survive, before we tie the fight. Hiding underground, folding in the sides, breaking up or down, is all you can provide, just open up or start to cry, before you say.
Good bye.
Honestly we can't survive, before we tie.
Hold my strong resolve, another drawn result, hold your strong resolve, another drawn result.
GET FUNCTIONAL
For the moment I'm just watching, I'm keeping distance until I can digest and understand the dark noise we both keep living in.
I can't receive it when you look me down, tell me I should walk, when you know that I can't stand, when you know I won't survive this.
Another year of holding plans, we are still dying in our hands. Before I take my only turn, we both sit back and watch it burn.
I don't believe it when you keep on insisting I'll be fine, I felt the darkness when, you found a way to hide your friend.
I know that you are not listening, not even trying to be real, you said "you have got to go", you said "I'll never grow".
I feel the sickness taking hold I lost the chance to take a stand. Before your venom takes control, before your actions break our plans.
Write it all off, bury it all down in the background. Dust yourself off, water it all down with a black cloud.
CAROLINE
You stepped in front of me and I lost my nerve, is this the only day I don't deserve you.
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you.
I will fight my distaste and burn because you took my hand where you stand.
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you.
In time we will find our reason, turn to the blind side of ourselves, I make it hard to make you try, I make it hard, to make you try.
TEN MINUTES OR YOUR LIFE
I force myself to pause and I burn my instinct further away, I am trying to survive I don't know who you are.
When I begin to fade in the depths I am sinking in, you are listening, to how I would react when you cry your heart out, I can't now.
So how should I react if you cry your hear out? I can't now. So I don't sleep for days, I am stuck anxious again.
This is easy for me now all my hope is gone. All your hope is gone.
Attitude ricochets, feeding an empty war and I feel more ashamed than I ever have before.
Attitude ricochets, feeding an empty war and I feel more insane than I ever have before.
All your hope is gone.
DAMN REALITY
Don't raise my hands, I won't admit that I know when it got that bad, just ignore the world.
You look away when I question the life I thought was real and you just close the door. Damn reality staring at me.
I realise I was risking everything on one small chance you might arrive.
In the same place, at the same time when we are so far apart right now we could barely survive. Damn reality, I'll stop listening now
Arrested I left it until you drowned out everything, I sure can let you down.
Un-rescued I miss you, but now I have ground down everything, I sure can let you down.
In so many ways we keep drawing the same circle over again, and I'm bored and I'm done.
You don't have to know and I don't have to grow.
IN RATIO
I am in your debt and I am starving but I don't want you, to feed me the easy answer, I'll take the rear-view home.
I don't know the reason why I don't make you sad, in ratio. I have broken all the records and you don't care to know, if I am gone.
Cut my eyes I am not bleeding, too cold to shiver, vapour trails are not forming, my face is overgrown.
I am living every reason why you don't win me back, but I sure know it hurts to think about you, I hit a clutter overflow then I'm gone.
I know I am the reason we never stood a chance, in ratio, I have broken all my records and you don't care to know, now I am gone.
Broken enough before I met you.
LOSE THE NIGHT
Around about the last time I saw you I took a spark to everything we loved.
I am trapped alone within my hateful words fuelled up by you.
We carry on ignoring what I have done, we flood the fire numbing every wound.
We ignore the truth and lies keep wandering on driven by you.
You want to argue until I make it worse, you fan the flames until my bones have burned, I never hide and I will never learn.
The melted love and mess that our lives became, we will never have pure air to breathe again.
I cannot clear the haze when all I say is blocked by you.
Don't try to tell me why it has been so long, you burn the bridge that we were sleeping on, I am packing up now the peace has gone.
Lose half of the night but you can still fight when I am lying still, almost like you invented our love to grow something you could kill.
There is freedom in your honesty, but not the kind of truth you think I mean.
I have given up on all these broken things rebuilding you.
Lose half of the night but you can still fight when I am lying still, almost like you invented our love to grow something you could kill.
OUT OF MY MIND
Here I tell the years that I fell around you until you died, all the times I tried and failed in my own eyes, I compromised.
Let go before cancer kills the population I can't take you, most of the time I try to keep a smile.
All the years that I have lost by not giving you what you want, I still tell you why (I need to love you), forget what I said.
I can't get you out of my mind, I am out of my mind.
Forget what I said.
BTRTHN
I woke up feeling stained when the words keep me down.
Fire juice into my veins I am feeling better now, but there is a pain I can't explain I am feeling better now.
If I lie and hide away or I fight I am stuck in doubt.
I might decay further each day but I am feeling better now, either way I won't complain I am feeling better now.
I am like a circular line drawn over again, knowing it never ends.
We are all the same we will never change I am feeling better now, my malaise all that remains but I am feeling better now.
I go back to where I am from and forget why it felt so wrong.
In Adelaide I lost my Jade but I am feeling better now. So afraid I felt betrayed but I am feeling better now.
Your eyes are redder now, feeling better now.
The Nordeens are:
Matthew Geary: bass, backing vocals, guitar Ant Milne: drums, backing vocals, guitar Glenn Musto: lead vocals, lyrics, guitar
All I have got to say, all you can deny, when you look away, from every scar I find, honestly we can't survive, before we tie the fight. Hiding underground, folding in the sides, breaking up or down, is all you can provide, just open up or start to cry, before you say.
Good bye.
Honestly we can't survive, before we tie.
Hold my strong resolve, another drawn result, hold your strong resolve, another drawn result.
GET FUNCTIONAL
For the moment I'm just watching, I'm keeping distance until I can digest and understand the dark noise we both keep living in.
I can't receive it when you look me down, tell me I should walk, when you know that I can't stand, when you know I won't survive this.
Another year of holding plans, we are still dying in our hands. Before I take my only turn, we both sit back and watch it burn.
I don't believe it when you keep on insisting I'll be fine, I felt the darkness when, you found a way to hide your friend.
I know that you are not listening, not even trying to be real, you said "you have got to go", you said "I'll never grow".
I feel the sickness taking hold I lost the chance to take a stand. Before your venom takes control, before your actions break our plans.
Write it all off, bury it all down in the background. Dust yourself off, water it all down with a black cloud.
CAROLINE
You stepped in front of me and I lost my nerve, is this the only day I don't deserve you.
I won't concede in front of you, I don't believe you.
I will fight my distaste and burn because you took my hand where you stand.
Caroline I don't deserve you, Caroline, I don't deserve you.
In time we will find our reason, turn to the blind side of ourselves, I make it hard to make you try, I make it hard, to make you try.
TEN MINUTES OR YOUR LIFE
I force myself to pause and I burn my instinct further away, I am trying to survive I don't know who you are.
When I begin to fade in the depths I am sinking in, you are listening, to how I would react when you cry your heart out, I can't now.
So how should I react if you cry your hear out? I can't now. So I don't sleep for days, I am stuck anxious again.
This is easy for me now all my hope is gone. All your hope is gone.
Attitude ricochets, feeding an empty war and I feel more ashamed than I ever have before.
Attitude ricochets, feeding an empty war and I feel more insane than I ever have before.
All your hope is gone.
DAMN REALITY
Don't raise my hands, I won't admit that I know when it got that bad, just ignore the world.
You look away when I question the life I thought was real and you just close the door. Damn reality staring at me.
I realise I was risking everything on one small chance you might arrive.
In the same place, at the same time when we are so far apart right now we could barely survive. Damn reality, I'll stop listening now
Arrested I left it until you drowned out everything, I sure can let you down.
Un-rescued I miss you, but now I have ground down everything, I sure can let you down.
In so many ways we keep drawing the same circle over again, and I'm bored and I'm done.
You don't have to know and I don't have to grow.
IN RATIO
I am in your debt and I am starving but I don't want you, to feed me the easy answer, I'll take the rear-view home.
I don't know the reason why I don't make you sad, in ratio. I have broken all the records and you don't care to know, if I am gone.
Cut my eyes I am not bleeding, too cold to shiver, vapour trails are not forming, my face is overgrown.
I am living every reason why you don't win me back, but I sure know it hurts to think about you, I hit a clutter overflow then I'm gone.
I know I am the reason we never stood a chance, in ratio, I have broken all my records and you don't care to know, now I am gone.
Broken enough before I met you.
LOSE THE NIGHT
Around about the last time I saw you I took a spark to everything we loved.
I am trapped alone within my hateful words fuelled up by you.
We carry on ignoring what I have done, we flood the fire numbing every wound.
We ignore the truth and lies keep wandering on driven by you.
You want to argue until I make it worse, you fan the flames until my bones have burned, I never hide and I will never learn.
The melted love and mess that our lives became, we will never have pure air to breathe again.
I cannot clear the haze when all I say is blocked by you.
Don't try to tell me why it has been so long, you burn the bridge that we were sleeping on, I am packing up now the peace has gone.
Lose half of the night but you can still fight when I am lying still, almost like you invented our love to grow something you could kill.
There is freedom in your honesty, but not the kind of truth you think I mean.
I have given up on all these broken things rebuilding you.
Lose half of the night but you can still fight when I am lying still, almost like you invented our love to grow something you could kill.
OUT OF MY MIND
Here I tell the years that I fell around you until you died, all the times I tried and failed in my own eyes, I compromised.
Let go before cancer kills the population I can't take you, most of the time I try to keep a smile.
All the years that I have lost by not giving you what you want, I still tell you why (I need to love you), forget what I said.
I can't get you out of my mind, I am out of my mind.
Forget what I said.
BTRTHN
I woke up feeling stained when the words keep me down.
Fire juice into my veins I am feeling better now, but there is a pain I can't explain I am feeling better now.
If I lie and hide away or I fight I am stuck in doubt.
I might decay further each day but I am feeling better now, either way I won't complain I am feeling better now.
I am like a circular line drawn over again, knowing it never ends.
We are all the same we will never change I am feeling better now, my malaise all that remains but I am feeling better now.
I go back to where I am from and forget why it felt so wrong.
In Adelaide I lost my Jade but I am feeling better now. So afraid I felt betrayed but I am feeling better now.
Your eyes are redder now, feeling better now.
The Nordeens are:
Matthew Geary: bass, backing vocals, guitar Ant Milne: drums, backing vocals, guitar Glenn Musto: lead vocals, lyrics, guitar