Act I: Chasing Suns

Half the damn comments on this website about TSOAF is "who sings what" or "whos really in the band"...

Can't we discuss the meanings at least a little bit??? There's so much... this band isn't about who's in it or who's singing, that's all ideally anonymous... it's about the places the music takes you, the deep unconscious parts of yourself it exposes. Try truly listening instead of having stupid conversations (even in your own head) about who's who or how much you prefer this vocalist or blah blah blah.

Experience, sans judgement.

ok just to clear things up: there are four versions of this song, from:

1) tiger and the duke demos 2) tiger and the duke 3) tiger and the duke [re-issue] 4) we must become the change we want to see [live dvd]

-(3) is the only one without craig owens. it has matt kelly instead. -the only difference between (1) and (2) is an extra lyric by anthony green before "five on fire". -(4) is, of course, live with vocals by anthony green and craig owens. -on (4) anthony green switches up the lyrics a little. for example, he begins with "raise the bar, raise the bar" instead of "five on fire, raise the bar".

so before you guys insult each other over who sings what, recognize that you might have a different version of the song than whoever you're arguing with.

i also believe that, in every version, the third line, "we multiply" is actually "grace glorified".

also, anthony green was given the instrumentals of this song and was told to just sing. and he did it in only a few takes. so there was no writing process.

this song, as well as the entire album, was all improvised. none of the band members were together to record it. rich balling just sent samples for people to record over. some of the band members never even met each other before the ocean and the sun.

so i wouldn't go so far as to say the lyrics are meaningless... but yeah their pretty much meaningless. which is why none of it makes sense and most of these lyrics are wrong. i'm sure some of what he says aren't even words.

but hey, it is fun to try and make it into words.

Since there are no lyrics of this song anywhere on the internet, I decided to give it a shot. The song is impossible to make out but this is what I got from it.. took a few careful listens.

five on fire raise the bar we multiply

all the fault you call has taken its toll i jump out the window

(YOU DID ALRIGHT UP TO HERE) then comes something like this

breath back on air for i

and a few more lines that are complete mumbling

then you ahve it right until

i will sing songs that cross the circular path its really i was chasing suns that cross the circular path

and instead of: more faking excuses blowing this place apart it is (yea)more frequent excuses blowing this place apart its more frequently excuses

Finally. Thanks for the lyrics, because I couldn't find them either. It seems that TSOAF is still pretty underground, which is fine (pretty much Anthony Green fans). I wonder if this was a just a one time super-band thing...

cameron, there are two versions of Chasing Suns, one of them with the "breathe back on air" part and one without.. I only have the one without but I've heard the other one before. Also I changed the parts you mentioned. Thanks

oh my god. anthony green. fucken amazing band, awesome songs, especially the first interlude. but the guitars in this song! oh christ, amazing!

Finally some lyrics, song is good I like, but is duke only album that they gona make?

Lover, The Lord Has Left Us... Tracklisting:

1. un'aria
2. skullflower
3. my horse must lose
4. chiriacho summit*
5. horses in the sky
6. Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche
7. prayers on fire
8. the golden boy that was swallowed by the sea*
9. this heat
10. un'aria ancora
11. st. broadrick is in Antarctica
12. the heretic
13. there can be no dispute that monsters live among us