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This Place You Know

by One Step Closer

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1.
I Feel So 01:45
When I feel this emptiness inside of me In my gloomy thoughts this song will ring But as it’s sung, this place you leave Has lost its love, won’t remember me Don’t want to ruin this moment But what I see is just so sad Passing through like another day When I choose to turn the other way You say You say As this earth spins so does the clock that takes us away Why can’t the future be bright like all those stories say? Some things you loved, but lost when no feeling remains I won’t go because you cry for help, but you can’t help yourself This place you know, sometimes it hides the truth and it let’s people go With the wind you fly And I just want to know why A year of life In the sun you close your eyes, I feel so (I feel) Did you question lies (I feel) (I feel left alone) I wonder if you tried (I feel) This isn’t home (I feel) (I feel) When you feel so alone, ((I feel so))
2.
Lead To Gray 03:10
What will it take to regain? The truth you closed your eyes it remains the same But once the feeling dies will you reach for me I’ll grasp to the sound of the voice that’s embedded in me and hear the silence sing To grow, to change, I want to wish it away Suppress the love, the pain when a decision is made Whats trapped inside this valley is left to die here I can’t accept this way this time I strain To grow and change Exchange the blame (exchange the blame) When blue skies flea They lead to grey And now my time has slipped I can feel it ripping apart from the seams Then my world was flipped Brought me back to face the ghost that I’ll never see Only shadows leave this life with me With me I tried to erase the past but it haunts me every day Forgive me, I turned my back to every cry Forgive me, forget me, whatever it takes to be aligned Forgive me When colors flea And lead to grey But I scream not only for you But I dream not only for you For me To make this change For me
3.
“The darkest place where you call home But the sun won’t set forever my friend” I feel regret, as these seasons pace But I spend my nights hoping things won’t stay this way As I sit and watch life die, they cry This torn family mends their loss, with time The clock will tick and hours passed, your life I hope that peace will find your heart, in mine Your life The love You’ll leave behind Leave me behind Leave me behind You’ll never know the feeling of saying goodbye (goodbye) Accepting the pain you bury to feel alive (alive) Don’t leave me behind Don’t leave Don’t leave me behind Don’t leave
4.
Can you feel the embrace? Instead of warmth, a cold chill on your face They say it sucks the life from you and if that’s true I’ve known this from the start I know It’s so desolate in this home It shows why I hate to be alone I see for miles ahead on this old deserted road No turning back, I’ll call this home for the night Watch the sky above turn dusty red And the ground below turns warm as skin When the road just slowly falls apart I’ll question what this means to me And it feels like I’m spinning, but it slowly takes the time away I tried so hard, to tell myself, that I’m not spinning I tried so hard, to run away, but I can’t run from here Run far from here my friend Do you leave for yourself? Or do you run from someone else I stand out by the garden for the day What it takes just to feel the embrace I’ll escape But as you go It starts to call I hear the rain it slowly calls me You’re always calling I hear the rain it slowly calls me it’s calls me home But I scream (I’m never coming home, never coming home) You try, but I scream that I’m (I’ll never call again, never call again) Do you plead when I leave (I’m never coming home, never coming home) Don’t try to keep me this time I’m never coming home And I wanted you to know Here comes the mountain peaks this tunnel swallows me whole (I know) Watch the city light arise No turning back, I’ll call this home
5.
My eyes they draw this shadowed line across my room tonight But these clouded thoughts have hung in me like a thousand knives I never thought I’d feel so lost until I call I’m waiting for your call Why does it feel like no one cares? Alone I’ll sit tonight and wonder If I sleep will this all just go away? If I sleep will this all just go away? My eyes they draw this shadowed line across my room tonight But these clouded thoughts have hung in me like a thousand knives When overthinking turns to loss of pride Will I do this for the rest of my life? I might I never thought I’d feel so lost I’m waiting for your call Why does it feel like no one cares? Alone I’ll sit tonight and wonder If I leave right now, but I won’t If I leave right now, but I won’t I won’t Do you see what’s happening? Look outside before you tell me how to think Watch the car lights fly down Pringle street Please tell me I’ll be alright I’ve never felt so distant in my life If I fall asleep Tell me if I fall asleep Just tell me If I fall asleep Just tell me I’ll never know how to feel when I’m alone I’ve never known what it means to let go
6.
Hereafter 03:00
When the golden door slams For this one last time It’s almost harder to breathe Than the last few times Soon the summer months came It was hard to fight I’d say my goodbyes but I’ll be up all night When you feel my, can’t see why Did the paint dry, down courtright While they call for me I won’t feel a thing
7.
Why has it been so long? Forgot to live while you were gone When there’s no place to go And no one left to know The trees that line this town Won’t hold me, hold me to this ground I’ll pick apart at these memories And overthink what you want from me But how you go I’ll never know when will this feel normal again? Well does the dream match the sky To fill this void when you lie When I try to escape this time I close, I closed my eyes Why can’t it fix my mind? The first to try, but it dies Once you walk away this time I’ll be fine You’ll be fine (But you leave far from this place) Because I thought this was right (I truly wish you would stay) But no one wants to be wrong (But you leave far from this place) I’ll never know what you want (When truly I hope) And I hope you find what you’re looking for in my setting sun Next time I’ll be gone And you wrote (I’ve spent too long inside I just might move along) Time spent, too long
8.
Autumn 02:42
While I watched September fade These orange leaves won’t call my name But the cold nights seem to stay I can’t shake this rain that falls onto me But I see right through these blinds And I’ll never realize What it takes to have control An open mind a cheerful soul My cheerful soul Where does it go I feel stranded here All they’ve done is leave If there’s one to blame The one to blame is me I want this I’ve tried but I lost my way (Lost my way) Are you broken? You’ll never realize this choice you made (Choice you made) And you’ll haunt me Until the seasons change next year And you, you’ll never change Once you move along, and you’re pushed aside The darker place is inside of your mind But there’s no place to go, no end in sight And when these leaves show change, so do I Here’s the place where I melt away In the town across the stream It’s been months and it’s only me Left me question the thought of you and me And it took awhile, but I know, when it’s time, I’ll let it fade Will the autumn breeze Please take me away
9.
And I Just want to feel like someone else But I’ve been thrown away Most times goodbye is all you say When I’m first to fall, where are you? I can feel your pain But I wish you stayed so far away I never opened my eyes Couldn’t tell what’s wrong from right And now when it’s weighing me down I can’t just turn my head But you said you’d wait When I didn’t have the words to say But I wrote that page As you read it back, I can’t take it back How can you drown your thoughts Like they mean nothing But there’s no cry for help When you’re slowly sinking To all of this I say I’ll say to you We lost what’s left of this place along the way To all of this I say (I say) my life is not the same this way (But I think) that I’ll wish you just the best I’ll wave How can you drown your thoughts Like they mean nothing But there’s no cry for help When you’re slowly sinking What was broke in two, falls to place When it crumbles down, face to face But it’s not fair because when I say this life’s not mine to claim, rearrange But I think that I’ll wish you just the best
10.
No matter how many times this valley cries, you sing to me In this moment I’m leaving all this As I watch it shine beautifully Underneath these saddened trees Can’t find a truth in front of me When this city lies It hides My friend, in your eyes When I look to you I find Do you hate or love your life? When this city lies It hides My friend, in your eyes When I look to you I find We’d walk this bridge for miles But you’re too far gone How coping ends in pain Look down from the hill tonight It’s the sinking feeling that finds its way to leave an imprint Clouds roll over the city sky Between these Appalachian mines It’s the sinking feeling that carves your thoughts and leaves you desperate How could you look in my eyes And tell me everything’s alright Don’t say it’s fine When this valley lies Then you realize this put you further down that line What’s far from me Is this life you lead Won’t take a moment to think What’s far for me (what’s far from me) Is this life you lead (is this life you lead) Until you find yourself on the floor It won’t mend these thoughts you Break Watch it fall on me (through these eyes I bleed) Watch it fall on me (this time I’m waiting) When you’re forced to change See the life you gave Look around next time at what you have to lose (It’s everything) When the high does fade See the mess you made Look around this time at what you have to lose (It’s nothing) It’s everything It’s nothing Anymore

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What is One Step Closer?

    In 1854, Thoreau asserted that most of us lead lives of quiet desperation, shielding our common sorrows in favor of a brittle veneer of stability, a lie that shatters us all in the shadows of a self-made shade of fearing what the world may find when we finally step closer into the light.

    From Walden to Wilkes-Barre, that 19th century sense of desperation to be seen just as one truly is, carries into our 21st century, - but unquiet and in the sound of a fury that is literally One Step Closer, - closer to obliterating the shackles of our shadows, closer to the light shining on our souls - showcasing our universal and human nature to love, loathe, and long for something more.

    In 2016, and in the midst of the winding wilderness that is adolescence, the hearts and minds that world would know as One Step Closer (Ryan Savitski, Tommy Norton, Ross Thompson, Brian Talipan and Grady Allen) took to the task of telling the world of the universal truths that could be found in the dim, dank depths of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with the same liberated love for living a full and examined life which Thoreau wrote of before the dramatic wilderness of Walden, yet to the sonics of a revived and reimagined Turning Point that left listeners with a sense of refreshing originality.

From PA to CA, One Step Closer scrawled in the halls of America’s hardcore their questions of truth, love, morality, evolution and human freedom, setting the darkness surrounding the togetherness of our species right to fire. And yet, out of five years of reaching for the relationship from the impossibly-distant, yet infinitely-close proverbial me and you comes assertions. Assertions stemming from the dullness of Wilkes-Barre, from the philosophizing of our fears, from our desperation to dare and not dream, from this place you know that sits at the core of our being and commands: no matter the sorrow or shame, we are all called to step into the light of truth, so move closer and quiet no more.

In short, One Step Closer is a source and force of seeking the freedom to be as you are and dream to be.

• Pat Flynn | 6.5.21

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released September 24, 2021

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Eric Chesek
Artwork by Jeffrey Kam
Written and recorded by One Step Closer and Eric Chesek
Additional Guitar on Time Spent, Too Long written by Caleb Harnett

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