THE ANCHOR

Time that stood still for so long and the memories drifting in between finally drop anchor in a single place.

Steadying the restless waves of a heart that once swayed anxiously, we reaffirm the ground where we stand.

Its weight keeps us from wandering; at the same time, it becomes the firmest conviction for heading out toward the next ocean.

오래도록 멈춰 서 있던 시간과 그 사이를 부유하던 기억들이 비로소 한곳에 닻을 내린다.

불안하게 흔들리던 마음의 파동을 고정하고 우리가 서 있는 자리를 확인한다.

그 무게는 우리를 방황하지 않게 하며 다음 바다로 나아가기 위한 가장 단단한 확신이 된다.

2015년 9월 발매된 세 번째 음반이자 첫 정규 앨범이다. 각자의 자리에서 시간을 보내던 시기를 지나, 2014년부터 한국과 캐나다를 오가며 온라인으로 작업을 이어갔다.

이 음반은 소속 레이블에서 독립한 이후, 웨일사운드스튜디오라는 이름 아래 진행되었다. 녹음과 믹싱, 마스터링부터 시각적 결과물과 각종 영상, 발매까지의 과정까지 온전히 마무리한 이 경험은, 이후 우리가 작업을 지속해 나가는 방식의 기준으로 남았다.

밴드의 시작부터 함께해 온 곡과, 당시의 조건 속에서 충분히 담기지 못했던 노래의 재녹음된 버전, 공백기 동안 흩어져 남아 있던 작업들과 한 곡의 신곡까지. 정체되었던 시기를 지나 비로소 찍은, 정규 앨범이라는 형태의 마침표.

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Rise up

Lyrics

문득 잠에서 깨어 Now call my name Now call my name Now call my name Now call my…

So rise up to many reasons Rise up breathing again Rise up like shiny stars and Raise your days with the cries Rise up screaming away so Rise up to many faces Rise up like fading words so Raise your thousands of smiles

(Someday you’ll get you what you’ve waited) Rise up like shiny stars and Rise up like fading sunlight Rise up to many reasons Rise up just like I used to be

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I'm Pretty Sure Every Fade Out Means Happy Ending

Lyrics

I’m hating all this yellow scene And walking down the inured street I listen to the way you back This is how I leaving I never let you hear me out This is how the story ends And then something will be changed? No, this is end

I had to live in sorry Waiting for the sun will be set down I hope you never bleeding I hope you to be changed Never let you coming back Could you stay I’m really sick You already know this nothing matters

A promise turning into pieces in this summer I never let you hear me out And this is how the story end Feel like type you’ve wanted Feel like type you’ve waited

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작곡 이기홍, 조수홍 작사 이기홍 편곡 이기홍, 조수홍, 성진산

Perfect Avenue

Lyrics

So here we are to stray with these placebos So stretch your alarms as sun begins to fall Lie is the option like your tragic revolution There is no motion I’m hating all these seconds in this street.

Emotion seems to be no more than you ever thinking Tragedies seem to stand all night All night

When dawn is coming back again We set another step in Some matters cause the only problem that we’ve never seen My knees are broken over here Senses are dead already But we’ll set another step and Step again over and over

So here we are with perfect transistor So stretch your honest as sun begins to fall Some calls disaster Raise all your strict reaction Still we have no motion I’m hating all these matters in this street

Emotion seems to be no more than you ever thinking Tragedies seem to stand all night All night

So here we are to stray with these placebos So stretch your alarms as sun begins to fall

Here we are Waiting for the sun to come Last word stands for every sudden change once again The reason is over nothing anymore With perfect days

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Stella

Lyrics

Well, these classic eyes are looking back on all days Say, say then something enough to take these open tragedies So you pretend to be answer that we never find out Some beautiful matters only can deny on you

Can you see that we are still the same? We’re falling down Like these broken pencils away

But we stand for every moment (The worst thing ever you can have) There’s no way to know We down below where to go Can you see that we are still the same? (So you know where to go?) We’re falling down Like these broken pencils away

You don’t seem to like this moment like a savior’s appear Stop thinking how to break my first revision on your smile Cause you always believe in your very clever way out Smile is the best thing you can cover your biting words

Can you see that we are the same?

With thousand smiles we stand alone We still beside and sing along With thousand smiles we stand alone We still beside and sing along With thousand smiles we stand alone We still beside and sing along With thousand smiles we stand alone We still beside and sing along

We stand for every second with the worst thing ever you can have With thousand smiles we stand alone We still beside and sing

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작곡 성진산 작사 이기홍 편곡 성진산, 이기홍, 조수홍

Borromini

Lyrics

Call me bad secret I will see dishonesty Let it be slow I’m losing my moment in dream I will see dishonesty

Discriminated factors twist the scene I have seen back in the memory So many questions chased by answer and scene I have seen back in the memory

Call me bad secret I will see dishonesty Let it be slow I’m losing my moment in dream I will see dishonesty

Oh, maybe it’s my bad Can’t just say I lost everything tonight Don’t say this is my bad It will end up with only things I like

Discriminated factors twist the scene I have seen back in the memory So many questions chased by answer and scene I have seen back in the memory

Call me bad secret I will see dishonesty Let it be slow I’m losing my moment in dream

Call me bad secret I will see dishonesty Let it be slow I’m losing my moment in dream (Slowly falling down)

I will see dishonesty Let it be slow I’m losing my moment in dream (It will end up with only things I like tonight)

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작곡 성진산 작사 이기홍, 조수홍 편곡 성진산

This is a Winter Song

Lyrics

I don’t seem all right But you don’t care about this freezing lonely night That’s the way you always try to make me say Sometimes weather seems to say Sometimes color seems to change Don’t try to say a word Now I see the truth of year

Close your eyes Is it fall of you and me? I don’t want to make it out always Close your eyes Is this what I’m looking back? Is this what I’m looking back?

Starry, starry night is over and new Every minute has their reason on you and me so Step back from the reason of the season It’s meaningless to say, then, without you The snowy, snowy night is coming back again so Step back from the reason of the season This season oh, oh, oh

You don’t feel all right So I never try to take your hand all night That’s the way you always try to make me say Someone knows the lie of season Someone bears the answer here Don’t try to say a word I see the lie I see you

It’s nothing but a reason all of you It’s nothing but a time to play this sound about you It’s nothing but a smile in sea of you It’s nothing but a wish I could have all about you here

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The anchor

Lyrics

Stay alive No matter how we’re running so tight You just keep it in your eyes Take my hand It’s never been so complicated So you just keep it in your eyes

So when I saw you coming home Down as the fallen You sent, a little cross over the vision upon me We sail We sailed against the waves of thieves around me And we stay You know, you know this anchor holds your hand This anchor’s holding you

So when you’re breathing in my eyes I can tell you’re awake And we said we’d better go ahead and pull the trigger

So many times we stayed up all night Breaking through the shattered spending words So many times we stayed up all night Breaking through the shattered spending words So many times we stayed up all night Breaking through the shattered spending words So many times we stayed up all night You know this anchor holds your hand

Stay alive No matter how we’re running so tight You just keep it in your eyes Take my hand It’s never been so complicated So you just keep it in your eyes

This way, we’re never losing you And this is a war you’ve never faced before We never give up on this fight We never lose your hand We never let you go

Stay alive No matter how we’re running so tight You just keep it in your eyes Take my hand It’s never been so complicated So you just keep it in your eyes

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Here with Me

Lyrics

난 매일 밤 기대감에 침대에 누워 잠들곤 해 내 꿈에는 매일같이 네가 찾아와 손짓하지

손을 흔들며 날 이끌어주었던 너 아직 멀지만 내 눈앞엔 네가 있어

푸른 환각 속에 가려진 나의 영혼을 속삭여줘 이 여행은 그대가 없이 앞을 볼 수 없어

널 알게 된 순간부터 하루도 쉽게 살 수 없어 난 매일 밤 숨어들어 너에게 향한 문을 열어

손을 흔들며 날 이끌어주었던 너 아직 멀지만 내 눈앞엔 네가 있어

푸른 환각 속에 가려진 나의 영혼을 속삭여줘 이 여행은 그대가 없이 앞을 볼 수 없어

한 걸음씩 걸어서 그대 있는 그곳으로 영원히 (그곳으로) 영원히 달릴게

내게 문을 열어줘 내게 너를 듣게 해줘 내게로 (오늘 밤에) 내게로 (오늘 밤에)

내게로 내게로 (오늘 밤에)

내게로

이 차가운 환각 속에 작은 너의 두 손으로 내게 널 듣게 해줘

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