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To Be Determined

by Chris Williams

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1.
In Between 04:44
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I woke up to the morning sunshine One step from the past, one thought from the line Where everyone stands just hoping for a glimpse of time Just floating between things lost and what we could find Maybe it's the place we're all looking for Short of the shame and shy of the cure Ahead of before and behind the longing for more One step from the fall, one wing short of the soar Maybe it's a sign I've been missing all this time But my anchors and glories keep dulling the shine Or, maybe it's your warm skin pressed against mine Sounds of the new day And the fog of the wine Or, maybe it's just wishful thinking Hope for where words are still sleeping The calm before the world starts breathing again It slips from my mind if I thing too much And, lord knows I'm not nearly strong enough Handcuffed to sorrows and addicted to touch Tomorrows before me like a hopeful crutch I lay in this space a little longer each time Until the noise from the edge changes my mind Steals me away as if by design Is me letting go part of the crime Maybe it's a sign I've been missing all this time But my anchors and glories keep dulling the shine Or, maybe it's your warm skin pressed against mine Sounds of the new day Or the fog of the wine Or, maybe it's just wishful thinking Hope for where words are still sleeping The calm before the world starts breathing again It's only real if you believe it, then it's right there before you It's only gone if you leave it Then it's gone, gone, gone Is that where all the answers come from The quiet spaces between two storms I've lost and I've traded from both sides now Does knowing the difference change me somehow
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Heroes To Me 03:37
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Heroes To Me Soft lights dancing in the night A halo moon above the light And, I sit alone, wondering alone Why some are so fortunate When fortunes hard to find And, how a heart can be so brave When their life's on the line I'll never know what makes it so just complicated ponderings But, their all heroes to me White sheets and shadows Nameless with numbers And, their all alone Silent alone Warriors with no armor No swords or tomorrows Promised for their sacrifice With wars on the sides I'll never know what makes it so With everything that's on the line But, their all heroes to me Hidden faces of angels Quiet praises for strangers Whose lives count for more More then themselves Even when the sentiment Threatens who it's for Cause life it shines like silver And, it weighs more than gold I'll never know how we can grow When scales are used for suffering But, I'm thankful for heroes just the same I'm thankful for heroes just the same
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Hurricane 04:03
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We’re all lost in a hurricane Just a little bit of life and a lotta rain Door cracked open and the devil walked in Dressed like a razor talked like a friend Blowing on coals in a worn-out pit Soaking his feet for a fire he lit Stepping on embers and buying souls Like a suit in a tent for a revival Plucking his strings in one-man band Preaching to a mirror at his biggest fan Poor mans tongues coming to your phone, tv’s, radios, mega-clones Sky is falling, and the creek has risen, enemy’s breaking into the prison Handing out hats for a new religion, halos, hostiles, and division Ain’t it funny how we see what we wanna see And lie when It won’t agree with what we know is right Watch the city burn while singing your victory song Too proud to admit you’re wrong just out of spite Stacking your chips and going all in, counting your piles on a table too thin bought new shoes, tattooed your skin while holding 16 to the dealer’s hand Drinking that watered down top shelf poison laying your money on the Trojan you’ve chosen morning comes round and the banks are closing calling your loans for the rows you’re sowing Sky is falling, and the creek has risen, enemy’s breaking into the prison Handing out hats for a new religion, halos, hostiles, and division Ain’t it funny how we see what we wanna see And lie when It won’t agree with what we know is right Watch the city burn while singing your victory song Too proud to admit you’re wrong just out of spite Preacher’s in the pulpit wiping his sweat Bending his book for a crooked bet Bad is good when the shoe must fit Blind in the pews and soft on regrets When the smoke has cleared and the air’s too thick Water too full of poison to drink Livestock dying on the way to slaughter What you gonna tell your sons and daughters While the devils on his throne counting spoils Looking down over all that he destroyed Poor man’s hands are covered in soil Gave his vote for a life of toil
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Sparrow's at My Window 04:26
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Sparrow's at my window singing a song Pecking at the glass ushering the dawn Rays through the blinds between the space I hide Her melody calls like a siren's song Singing come with me, come with me All my life I've pondered the good and the bad One they say's a gift and the other's born of sad But, the lesser seems the victim when the former's bailed and gone Is there hope in salvation is there strength in a song about Holding on, holding on Life is so brief and there's so much to lose Holding on to love like there's nothing else to lose But, love never took two and it's bound to love alone Heavy is the burden resting underneath the stone like a Hardened heart, a hardened heart If I could weigh the truth or a measurement of faith Believing all the numbers from the unexplained I'd yell it from the mountainside I'd scream it from afar But, truth is like an open wound that never really scares, it just Fades away like a desert lake There are no real answers Nothing carved into stone And, all we're left to ponder Are the parts of the unknown But, never really knowing is a beauty all it's own Living for the moment with no stories to atone Feels like freedom Feels like hope Looks like salvation Feels like all I know
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The Middle 05:34
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If I was lost would you have pity Would you please permit me the truth Would you take what I say with a little less gravity Like the words of a wondering youth If I spoke more calmly could you hear me more clearly Would my words afford me your time And would you feel heard if I did less talking, less Blame more pausing and denying If I realized that we are both different But no less important we two If I told you that we want more of the same things Could you somehow believe that’s true That's somewhere between hateful words and agreeing Then that's where we begin Better than where we have been If that's only for a moment that we care just a little Then this broken down omen might somehow be the middle. If we were both young and a little less tainted, corrupted persuaded by words Anger and hate and sadness unspoken From the tarnished and broken to blur All of our hopes and truths still shining Like a compass star through all the haze Could we be the ones no shame set upon us The ones not suffering chains Then that's somewhere between hateful words and agreeing Then that's where we begin Better than where we have been If that's only for a moment That we care just a little Then this broken down omen might somehow be the middle If I walk closer couild you meet me halfway We're just two folks talking no side to betray No all or nothing, not hate no disdain no colors divide us no history remains That's somewhere between Hateful words and agreeing Then that's where we begin Better than where we have been If that's only just a moment That we care just a little Then this broken down omen might somehow be the middle
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Chaos 04:19
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Wind through the trees screaming down through the canyons Breathing over rivers running into the sea Warmed by an angry sun and tamed by the moon Never resting long before leaving too soon Drenched by the rain under a bitter sky Swirling like two broken lovers saying goodbye Breaking on the rocks, crashing onto the sand Beating down the pieces scattered upon the ground Time waits for no one Like water through my hands Stacking promises up for never Knowing they won’t stand And nothing lasts forever But a solemn guarantee Try as you ever will Everything that is will never be Stack it all up into pretty neat little piles Forge yourself an empire stretching thousands of miles Hoist up your sails go and shout at the thunder Try as you might what’s above is buried under Time waits for no one Like water through my hands Stacking promises up for never Knowing they won’t stand And nothing lasts forever But a solemn guarantee Try as you ever will Everything that is will never be There’s nothing you can tame on a rock heading nowhere Suffering and blame waiting for the foolish mind Chaos is the beauty that you’ll fight until you break So hold it like a savior with every breath you take
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I'm Here 04:04
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So you say, that your lost And can't find your way back home And you feel like nothing is going your way and you're alone Well, every day's not a perfect day I can understand how you feel Cause I've been there too Every moment seems to find a way to leave the last behind So hold on to each one to get you through I'm here for you now, we'll make it somehow Yeah, nothing's too big when we're together We're stronger than one and we've only begun Two against the odds come whatever Where you're sad, I'll be there so you're not alone, a shoulder for you When you're tired, in my arms is where you be long, I'll sing you a song about hope and faith and arms embraced Trust in two and me and you forever Just like we planned Rock you fast asleep brush the hair from your cheek and watch you breathing holding my hand I'm here for you know, we'll make it somehow Yeah nothing's too big when we're together We're stronger than one and we've only begun Yeah it's two against the odds come whatever When you're smiling and your face lights up the room, I feel it inside When you're laughing with your eyes closed and your head falling back like you do You don't know what you do to me I'm so deep and hopelessly surrendered To your every move It's like a missing piece from a puzzle incomplete as it falls right into place fitting so perfectly I'm here for you now, we'll make it somehow, yeah nothings too big when we're together We're stronger than one and we only begun, Yeah it's two against the odds come whatever
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Bridge To Nowhere 03:45
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Bridge to Nowhere You and me we've come so far Same sky, same stars World turns, minutes burn Some try and some learn Some fall to their knees Some have all the keys But, there are no guarantees All we really know is we come and go From where we can only guess Where to we just try our best To understand what we've been told Or imagine something bold Cause nothing don't sound that grand We just keep on going Chasing a star that keeps glowing Hoping for day, feeling our way Looking for something real Chemicals and memories, the power hungry and prophecies Tell us what to believe from stories that they conceive And, somewhere long behind Someone took it hook and line And, sold it as genuine But, nothing fits and nothing feels Truer than what heart reveals In a world where time can steal Break you spirit, take your will and, it may be just a feeling Wrapped inside to keep us being But, love sure feels right by me We just keep on going Chasing a love that's worth knowing Simple and true, one just for you Self-less and pure, all that and more It's just waiting for you to see And, no I could not tell you would not tell you lies We've had far too much of that in our lives When we needed more, more to fill our wanting soul Hope for something higher than the past still holds
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She Grows 03:21
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Young and bright like a new star light With hopes of shining to make things right But, that never happens, it rarely does And all those dark places cast shadows because of you And, she grows and she grows And she becomes all that you chose And like a mirror you see yourself And all the doors that you closed But she saw it to and she could not explain Why being like you caused so much pain She saw you hate what you could not change And she became what you remained And she grows, and she grow And she pulls away, and she hits her lows And, they're deeper than the ones you know So you close your eyes and you let her go The shines right over She sees a hand where she was reaching And, he helps her stop all the bleeding And, she finally finds that dusty old line where hope and the past first met And she grows, and she grows And she's not afraid of what she knows
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Souls For Sale 03:50
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Souls for Sale Saved by the ghost Hands all up in the air I'm standing on my chair Anything to get to you Plagued by desires It's weighing down on me I'm down on my lasts knee It's haunting me everyday I'm taking bids for the last part of my soul A fire sale for the rest So want you buy me a hearse Take the last left at the church I'm dropping hints in song and verse Or just keep on driving till I can get there first I'll keep my best suit on Mirrors on the wall They keep on talking to me They just want let me be And they won't throw me any rope And, I've got friends they just smile They all just shake my hand They smile at her and then They do the talking when their gone I'm taking bids for the last part of my soul A fire sale for the rest So want you buy me a hearse Take the last left at the church I'm dropping hints in song and verse Or just keep on driving till I can get there first I'll keep my best suit on I'm just fool in fool's clothes On a road that stays closed With a profile picture Of the life that I chose With a smile worth believing That I'm never leaving Wearing jokes like cloaks For all the happy folks that miss me I'm taking bids for the last part of my soul A fire sale for the rest So want you buy me a hearse Take the last left at the church I'm dropping hints in song and verse Or just keep on driving till I can get there first I'll keep my best suit on

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This is the second album by Chris Williams. "To Be Determined" is a collection of 10 original songs that weave in and out of several genres while firmly rooted in Americana.

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released May 14, 2020

All words and music written and performed by Chris Williams

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Chris Williams Wilmington, North Carolina

Chris Williams is a singer/songwriter from Wilmington, NC. His new album, "To Be Determined" was released in June 2020. There are 10 new songs weaving between Americana, Folk and a touch of bluegrass. Chris' first album, "The Farewell Tour" was released in 2019. ... more

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