Fire Away

February 17, 2007

1. Sit Up
2. Fire Away
3. Uncovered
4. No More Excuses
5. Never Come Around
6. Shout It Out Loud
7. Call On Me
8. Immune
9. Collide

Album Credits

Recorded, Mixed and Produced by Jon Kaplan at Studio RF, NYC
Mastered by Dave McNair at Unity Mastering, NYC
All songs by Garen Gueyikian
Except Never Come Around by Garen Gueyikian and Mike Shimshack

Musicians
Garen Gueyikian – Vocals, Guitar
Sean Gould – Guitar
Kyle Paas – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Duke Levine – Guitar
Bill Stein – Keyboard
Justin Wallace – Bass
Alex Smolinski – Drums
Jon Kaplan – Percussion

Recorded at Mission Sound, NYC
Additional Recording at Joe Blaney Music, NYC
Additional Engineering by Oliver Strauss and Jeffrey Swart
Management – Veken Gueyikian
Artistic Direction – Travis Stevens
Portrait Photography – Mustafah Abdulaziz
Vocal Coach – Adrian Holtz
c&p 2007 G$makr Music

Lyrics

SIT UP

I confess, I confess I’ve been held down
Let myself get pushed around
I couldn’t figure it out
In a word, lost is where I’ve been
In a word
I couldn’t wait to get out of it
I couldn’t wait to get out of it
I can’t wait

Sit up sit up sit up
I’m not leaving I’m not leaving
I believe I will
Live up live up live up
To what I’m singing now

If you try, If you try you’ll start to see
All the things you want it to be
I’ll let you figure it out
Come along, and walk with me ’til dawn
Until the light comes shining on
You’d better get out of our way
I can’t wait, i can’t wait

Sit up sit up sit up
I’m not leaving I’m not leaving
I believe I will
Live up live up live up
To what I’m singing now

BR:
Oh, I keep my head straight and move along
I’m headed for an upswing
Some may say I’ve got it all wrong
Well at least I got something
Another day not a simple life
Countless hours of thinking twice
I’m happy to go my own way
I don’t care what they all say

Sit up
Get up
Live up
Sit up sit up sit up
Get up get up get up
Live up live up live up
Get up get up get up
And start living

Sit Up sit up sit up
We’re not leaving
We’re not leaving
I believe we will
Live up live up live up
To what we’re singing
To what we’re singing now
Sit up sit up, sit up sit up
I’m not leaving
I’m not leaving
I believe we will
Live up live up live up
To what we’re singing now
To what we’re singing now

Sit up sit up sit up
Get up get up get up
And live up live up live up
To what your singing now
Stand up for what your singing about

FIRE AWAY

If you paint a perfect picture
Of what you need your life to be
Do you know who you are?
You break your back to bring it back to break you
But not this time
They’re all gonna find out
What I’m made of
I don’t need you here to validate me
I don’t need you here to tell me anything

Fire away with a loaded gun
Light the night I’m on fire, I’m on fire
Even the rain won’t put me out

Now I know just what to change in me
To make you notice what your letting go
This was all part of my plan
Every step I take is my own
Sick of watching the sun rise
I’m moving straight out to the sunset here I come
I don’t need you here to show you’re with me
I don’t need you here to show me anything

Fire away with a loaded gun
Light the night I’m on fire, I’m on fire
Even the rain won’t put me out
I’m a self-proclaimed child prodigy
To feed your every desire on fire, on fire
I don’t need you here
I don’t need you here
I don’t need you here
To validate

Fire away with a loaded gun
Light the night I’m on fire, I’m on fire
Even the rain won’t put me out
I’m a self-proclaimed child prodigy
To feed your every desire on fire, on fire
I’m on fire I’m on fire I’m on fire I’m on fire
I’m on fire I’m on fire
Ever the rain won’t put,
Even the rain can’t put me out

UNCOVERED

V1:
All of those times that you just go one running
Leads me to believe
There’s a solitude you need
Takes you away to a place when your alone
How was I to know how this all would go?
I know we never talk about
Try to dace our way around it
My alarms they have sounded
If there’s a fear I think we’ve found it

CH1:
Everything would be just fine
If maybe we could pass the time, well
We’re leaving this all uncovered
for the demons to hold us down
Everything in life could change
From the moment that you walked away, well
I don’t want to leave uncovered, uncovered

V2:
Nothing I say ever seems to make you understand
We got together anyway just not quite the way we planned
As I run over that same moment in my mind
There’s got to be another way for us to pass the time
When you feel broken bent or bound
I will keep you safe and sound
It’s a fight you cannot win
Let the story line begin again

CH2:
Everything would be just fine
If maybe we could pass the time, well
We’re leaving this all uncovered
for the demons to hold us down
Everything in life could change
From the moment that you walked away, well
I don’t want to leave uncovered, uncovered

BR:
I try to press rewind
Nothing happens every time
There’s a line that I have drawn
It’s the line we’re standing on
If it’s nothing like you said
Your like a book I’ve never read
I’d still want to be inside of you
Let’s take it for a ride tonight

CH3:
Everything would be just fine
If maybe we could pass the time, well
We’re leaving this all uncovered
for the demons to hold us down
My life changed
From the moment you walked away,
I don’t want to leave uncovered, uncovered
Uncovered, uncovered

NO MORE EXCUSES

V1:
No more excuses
No more wasted uses for me
Not anymore
No more goodbyes
No more wasted old lines
While I slip right out the backdoor
To find myself inside myself and make myself somebody I like, I like a lot
When anything meant everything
Now nothing means the same thing anymore

CH:
I pull myself to pieces I don’t think I’ll make it back
Fall onto excuses for mistakes made in the past
I try not to believe the little part of me
That say’s I threw everything away
Threw everything away

V2:
I burned all my bridges
Pulled apart all the stitches that tie
Me together now
I have earned your respect
Become more than you expected I would, and furthermore
I reach inside my head to find the words to say what I want to say
To you all right now
Giving up’s not living it up
It’s giving it all to somebody else

CH:
I pull myself to pieces I don’t think I’ll make it back
Fall onto excuses for mistakes made in the past
I try not to believe the little part of me
That say’s I threw everything away
Threw everything away

BR:
And through it all
And through it all
I threw it all___ away
Good morning today is a new day
Good morning today is a new day
I’m mourning the loss of my old ways
Threw everything away

NEVER COME AROUND

V1:
Spend all your days with your head in the clouds
You listen too close you don’t hear a sound
All of this is harder than it ever appeared
Nothing in your way, no one’s on your side
Nothing will change your one track mind
Everyone around has got so much they want to say

Pre1:
Thoughts of crashing down
And lashing out
Getting lost and swept away

CH1:
Why should I try to be something I’m not?
You can count on one thing
I will never come around
Here is goodbye if you try to change my mind
You can count on one thing
I will never come around never come around
Never come around, never come around

V2:
A sleepless night staring at the stars
Wondering how close they really are
If you don’t reach and try
You will leave life asking why
You got high and you can’t come down
Look at me I never left the ground
Yeah I’ve got stains on my knees
While all your dreams blew away with the breeze

Pre2:
The cost of letting go
Is more than you know
At least that’s what they say

CH2:
Why should I try to be something I’m not?
You can count on one thing
I will never come around
Here is goodbye if you try to change my mind
I don’t care what anyone thinks
I will never come around never come around
Never come around, never come around

BR:
It’s the pretty pain I love
It’s the reason that I bleed
And still the reason I am okay, alright
Okay, alright

CH3:
Why should I try to be something I’m not?
You can count on one thing
I will never come around
Here is goodbye if you try to change my mind
I don’t care what anyone thinks
I will never come around never come around
Never come around, never come around

CALL ON ME

Days you don’t know who you are
You feel like all day your in danger
Everyone around’s a stranger
The tide has pulled you out too far
I will be your ocean ride my wave
Let me be the one to save you
When your drowning, drowning
Under water

Call on me I’ll cradle you in my arms
I won’t let you down, not now
Before me, before me you were numb
Fall on me when all your senses fail you again
Fall on me, Call me
I’ll be there,  I’ll be

Brush the burdens off your shoulders
I am here to ease your pain
I will cover you from the pouring rain
It’s the heart that matters most
Broken down without a reason
I will pick up all of your pieces
When you feel, you feel like life has taken over
Well we’re safe, safe, safe when we’re together

Call on me I’ll cradle you in my arms
I won’t let you down, not now
Before me, before me you were numb
Fall on me when all your senses fail you again
Fall on me, Call me
I’ll be there,  I’ll be

Let the moment take you the moment take you
When the walls start closing in
Let the moment take you, come and save you
But these walls make you hold things in
Same old story, broken hearted
A fact you’ll end up back where you started

This emptiness inside of you,
Like you don’t know what to do
Things may not go as planned.
Well it’s all out of your hands
That’s what I’m here for,
I will make you better, better, better

Call on me I’ll cradle you in my arms
I won’t let you down, not now
Before me, before me you were numb
Fall on me when all your senses fail you again
Fall on me, Call me
I’ll be there,  I’ll be

SHOUT IT OUT LOUD

V1:
Words, could never tell you
Would it change a thing if I’d tried
I’m haunted
By your pictures
I’ve gone straight from satisfied
To barely getting by

Pre1:
If I was capable, I’d go directly to your heart
I’d tell you now what I knew then
I should’ve told you from the start

Chorus:
If you were on a mountain
And I was drifting on a river
I would shout it out loud
I would shout it out loud
I would shout it out loud
For  you

V2:
Time was ours to watch
Somewhere along the way we got forgot
All the promises
Fade to memories
But I’ll remember you
Will you remember me?

Pre2:
Looking back
I see it now
Through this rearview in my dreams
But in my dreams I can freeze time
At the moment you were mine

Chorus:
If you were on a mountain
And I was drifting on a river
I would shout it out loud
I would shout it out loud
I would shout it out loud

Bridge:
Same old story to tell
Sad songs say it so well
I can’t stand
Here and wait
And watch us fade away
Fade away

Chorus:
If you were on a mountain
And I was drifting on a river
I would shout it out loud
I would shout it out loud
For you
I would shout it out loud
(When will we wake up?)
I would shout it out loud
(When will we wake up?)
I would shout it out loud
(For you)
I would shout it out loud
For you
For you
I would shout it out loud
For you

IMMUNE

V1:
I don’t feel anything
It’s somebody else inside of me
Held up by a string
Another puppet for my country
Don’t stand in my way
I’ll do what makes me happy
They love you, and they love me
They love what makes them money
Money is just a promise broken

CH:
I’ve been to face it all
Still it doesn’t seem like I belong
I am alone, immune
To everything that goes on
Accept the difference
Don’t bother me I’m minding my own
Become alone, become immune

V2:
I don’t see myself
The same way I used to see
I remember how it all felt
I remember how it used to be
No war… another promise broken

CH:
I’ve been to face it all
Still it doesn’t seem like I belong
I am alone, immune
To everything that goes on
Accept the difference
Don’t bother me I’m minding my own
Become alone, become

BR:
Immune to all I see
I know I’ll never feel like this ever again

V3:
I don’t feel anything
It’s somebody else inside of me
Out of sight, and out of mind
I’m out of my mind, and I don’t mind
Out of my mind, and I don’t mind
I don’t mind
I don’t mind

CH:
I’ve been to face it all
Still it doesn’t seem like I belong
I am alone, immune
To everything, To everything
Accept the difference
Don’t bother me I’m minding my own
Become alone, become
Immune to all I see
I know I’ll never feel like this
Like this ever again