The Night Before We Left

by The Plastic Smile

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1.
Pass The Torch 03:24
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Sleep well sons and daughters I swear I´ll stay By your side till the end of the night The rumble of thunder Still far away Don´t worry and close your eyes Maybe it´s just stormy weather That´s gonna pass And won´t last forever But if the flood comes with the rain Hold on tight It´s gonna rise Don´t let it sweep you away Sweet dreams little children I´ll stay awake Breath calmly and lay down your head A blaze in the distance Is coming our way Don´t worry bout what lies ahead Maybe it´s just stormy weather That´s gonna pass And won´t last forever But if the flood comes with the rain Hold on tight It´s gonna rise Don´t let it sweep you away Resist the undertow Keep running like the wind Just keep your head down low Underneath the flames With a heavy heart And full of sorrow I´ll leave at dawn It´s your tomorrow! Maybe it´s just stormy weather That´s gonna pass And won´t last forever But if death follows the flames They‘ll erase everything Don´t let ´em sweep you away Don´t let ´em sweep you away Don´t let ´em sweep you away
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The Night Before We Left 03:18
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I´m slowly reassembling Fragments of memories seems like another lifetime That meant everything to me It feels a bit peculiar To be back within these walls That kept us warm Estranged and yet familiar I´m so ready to move on Nothing has changed Despite all the years that passed We´re still the same As the night before we left The hourglass seems bottom-heavy Yeah we´re running out of sand But it feels good to be home It´s time to raise our glasses We got stories to tell It´s been so long since we met here And it´s good to see you well It feels a bit peculiar To be back within these streets We used to roam Estranged and yet familiar We will never walk alone Nothing has changed Despite all the years that passed We´re still the same As the night before we left The hourglass seems bottom-heavy Yeah we´re running out of sand But it feels good to be home Hey! Nothing has changed Nothing has changed Despite all the years that passed We´re still the same As the night before we left The hourglass seems bottom-heavy Yeah we´re running out of sand But it feels good to be home
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Non Player Character 03:53
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Once again I stumble through Another cloudy day Apathetic and confused My mind has gone astray A hollow mass Fragile like I´m made of glass I push my head against the wall Will it ever stop? I think I´m cracking up I´m sinking, slowly, to the floor When will it ever stop? I think I´m burning out Panic and anxiety Antagonize my brain The world keeps turning But not around me I´m left out in the rain A hollow mass Fragile like I´m made of glass I push my head against the wall Will it ever stop? I think I´m cracking up I´m sinking, slowly, to the floor When will it ever stop? I think I´m burning out A hollow mass Fragile like I´m made of glass I push my head against the wall Will it ever stop? I think I´m cracking up I push my head against the wall When will it ever stop? Feel like I can´t get up I´m sinking, slowly, to the floor When will it ever stop? I think I´m burning out
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Haunted By Your Ghost 03:18
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Once the bottle has been opened And the truth has been revealed Words can never be unspoken Can‘t unbreak a broken seal Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! I am haunted by your ghost Wherever I go it goes Always breathing down my neck Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Things will never be the same Some debt cannot be repaid There is no path leading back Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Sure I made a lot of mistakes Is there honour in my shame? Sometimes an end is just an end, is just an end And a bitter taste remains Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! I am haunted by your ghost Wherever I go it goes Always breathing down my neck Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Things will never be the same Some debt cannot be repaid There is no path leading back Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! I am haunted by your ghost Wherever I go it goes Always breathing down my neck Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Things will never be the same Some debt cannot be repaid There is no path leading back Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! We can´t turn back time again Sometimes an end is just an end
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Storm The Gates 03:23
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There is no need for restraint In a place where no one knows your name You make up your own world Going down the rabbit hole Where you are always in control Of what you´ll never learn You can´t replace a heartbeat The need for sacred ground We are not who we pretend to be We´ll stay more lost than found Now that you have made your mind The confirmation bias-kind You go and spread some hate Hide behind a filtered face And rant in an unbridled rage Pour oil to feed the flames You can´t replace a heartbeat The need for sacred ground We are not who we pretend to be We´ll stay more lost than found Truth is just a fantasy I make it how I want it to be No nothing´s what it seems I make up my reality I only look at what I wanna see I do it for the memes I can´t believe what you believe No, we must be sworn enemies The world is split in teams I dwell ´till I immerse fully It brings out all the worst in me Give rise to the machines You can´t replace a handshake The need for common ground We are not who we pretend to be We´ll stay more lost than found
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Concrete Walls 03:28
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Solar radiation And particles of dust Create a silver lining An underlying soundscape Of humans in a rush Carrying me like ocean waves Run down paint on concrete walls There is beauty in the grey scale all around Generations rise and fall Spirits of a million lives engraved in The air and on the ground All the lonely faces Blurred within the crowd Unified in isolation As your heart of stone is beating I can feel the shaking ground A city really never sleeping Run down paint on concrete walls There is beauty in the grey scale all around Generations rise and fall Spirits of a million lives engraved in The air and on the ground City lights are rushing by like laserbeams Starry nights and burning skies coming down on me Run down paint on concrete walls There is beauty in the grey scale all around Generations rise and fall Spirits of a million lives engraved in The air and on the ground
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Zombies In The Skies 03:10
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As the world seems to have stopped And your god is thinning the herd Could it be that I´m the last Human on this earth So I walk amongst the dead Pale skin and empty eyes I´m a freak amongst the mad And I realized that this life Is a death by thousand cuts I´m a Zombie in disguise and I have lost Every sense for passing time I am trapped In a cell with open doors Like an inmate of a prison within walls I built brick by brick All by myself Now the world is living in fear And your lips are sending a prayer Some say the end is near But I´m already there So I walk amongst the dead Where the crows are living the dream All the talk of what we had Can you reclaim your old life Is a death by thousand cuts I´m a Zombie in disguise and I have lost Every sense for passing time I am trapped In a cell with open doors Like an inmate of a prison within walls I built brick by brick All by myself And I realized that this life Is a death by thousand cuts I´m a Zombie in disguise and I have lost Every sense for passing time I am trapped In a cell with open doors Like an inmate of a prison within walls I built brick by brick All by myself All by myself All by myself
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King Of Fools 02:58
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You take life as a one one-man show The spotlight reserved for yourself A lonely kingdom is what you sowed A claim to the throne well deserved Your talk annoys me to the core Stranded in an endless monologue No I can´t take it anymore I don´t care about your Self-created demons keeping You awake, give me a break You never listen you just Figure you know best and therefore I don´t care your life´s a fucking mess You´re patronizing the ones who love you and wonder why you feel alone Acting like you´re the center of The world until everyone´s gone There´s always someone else to blame You never seem to stop complaining No I can´t take it one more day I don´t care about your Self-created demons keeping You awake, give me a break You never listen you just Figure you know best and therefore I don´t care your life´s a fucking mess Your life´s a fucking mess Now that you´ve built your castle There´s noone left to share Now that you´ve crowned yourself The king of fools There´s noone left to care I don´t care about your Self-created demons keeping You awake, give me a break You never listen you just Figure you know best and therefore I don´t care your life´s a fucking mess Your life´s a fucking mess!
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Same Same But Older 03:04
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One more step to the horizon But I still hit the road To an unknown destination In Auto-Pilot Mode I never knew and never cared About how to act my age I care about how I feed my family And how I look on stage I´ll never grow up I´ll just grow older My shoes are worn out But I´m still on my way And I´ll take everything This life has left to give And make every single day Count until my grave In a constant state of freefall You can´t just turn around You can brace yourself for impact But you´ll finally hit the ground Now tomorrow is another day And it might just be my last And I know the end´s predictable But you can choose a path I´ll never grow up I´ll just grow older My shoes are worn out But I´m still on my way And I´ll take everything This life has left to give And make every single day Count until my grave And I will never regret The path I´ve taken And I will never forget The times we had All the turning points And poor decisions Enabled us to grow And all I know Is time is passing Faster as we go I´ll never grow up I´ll just grow older My shoes are worn out But I´m still on my way And I´ll take everything This life has left to give And make every single day Count until my grave
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Salute To A Friend 04:34
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There´s a door that never opens up again The keys lost in the woods Our hearts forever broken since the day Your eyes finally closed You have been a true believer from the start Until the bitter end Our belated eulogy, the final part I hope you´ll understand What we´ve lost was not a father It has always been about loosing a friend And I hope there is another Time and place we all meet again All meet again You never needed words to let us know How much you really cared You would sit and watch us set up for a show Make sure we were prepared When we heard the news a few months down the line We all refused to cry Cause we know that our connection is alive Not just in a goodbye What we´ve lost was not a father It has always been about loosing a friend And I hope there is another Time and place we all meet again All meet again What we´ve lost was not a father It has always been about loosing a friend And I hope there is another Time and place we all meet again All meet again
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Divided 03:21
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A society divided A community that failed The streets are full of riots The speeches full of hate Promises and hearts are Broken equally The fractured families The world is torn apart now The battle lines are drawn Trenches through our homes It´s a shame what we´ve become Allies gaining distrust Friends turn to enemies One hand´s giving a peace sign While the other clenches a fist Promises and hearts are Broken equally The fractured families The world is torn apart now The battle lines are drawn Trenches through our homes It´s a shame what we´ve become
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Connected 03:16
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Up the hill and down the valley We have walked a million miles All in all we´ve come a long way With everything we left behind It´s kinda hard to believe How many years have passed And won´t come back for more So close your eyes and come with us Back to 1994 For as long as I remember You have been here by my side Since the the days when we were younger It´s been one hell of a ride It´s kinda hard to believe How many years have passed And won´t come back for more So close your eyes and come with us Back to 1994 Why‘d you have to leave so early? Could have had a few more drinks Nothing left for you to worry Whatever the future brings It´s kinda hard to believe How many years have passed They just went out the door So raise your glass and come with us Back to 1994 Back to 1994

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released April 12, 2024

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The Plastic Smile Ludwigsburg, Germany

Punk-Rock Music

Starting in 1994, the band soon established as a classical 3-piece and stayed this way, with the same personelle, ever since.

As Scrambled Eggs they released 4 albums and 2 EP's until they changed their name to The Plastic Smile in 2010.

The band played numerous shows and supported acts like No Use For A Name, Lagwagon, Beatsteaks and Donots. ... more

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