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I Don't Know 02:51
I don't know what I want I don't know what I need All I know is us You're the one thing I'm sure of After so many years It always comes back to me and you But what I wouldn't give to let go of you What I wouldn't give to be able to live without you What I wouldn't give to say, Sam, just pack your things and go I don't know I don't know what I want, dammit I don't know what I need I don't know how to let you fly Could I live without you? I'd rather not try Sam, you're all I've got in the world But what I wouldn't give for you to have a normal life What I wouldn't give to give you law school, a house, and a wife What I wouldn't give to say, Sam, I'm fine here on my own I don't know I don't know what I want I don't know what I need All I know is family
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You can't run forever No matter how hard you try It's a race with time - through time Though you know everybody dies. But when the sky is clear And the wind is right And the Doctor comes to call It's a blessed day One in a million No one dies at all. He remembers every one of them Though they left him long ago Just a madman with a big blue box Always ending up alone. But when the sky is clear And the wind is right And the Doctor comes to call It's a blessed day One in a million No one dies at all. No one knows better than the Doctor All lives must end He's seen ages and ages pass him by And he has lost every friend he's ever known He's always known. But when the sky is clear And the wind is right And the Doctor comes to call It's a blessed day One in a million No one dies at all. 'Cause everybody lives Just this once Everybody lives There is a light in the sky today Everybody lives Oh everybody lives Just this once, Rose Everybody lives Just this once they all are saved Everybody lives. It's a race with time - through time When the Doctor comes to call
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You were the wayward sons of an absent father Grew up on the road with only your brother and your car for company The devil don't care what kind of car you drive And sometimes it's all you can do to barely survive And though you'd lay your head on a motel pillow at night And though you feared the lives you saved weren't worth the fight You live and learn and you try to see, though the ending's never easy But you were never homeless, because family's where you're home Sometimes you'd have a day - you could go anywhere Stars above you and road ahead, silence is the only sound you hear So what was the point of it all? It's hard to say But I think that you did all right, 'cause at the end of the day Though you'd lay your head on a motel pillow at night And though you feared the lives you saved weren't worth the fight You live and learn and you try to see, though the ending's never easy But you were never homeless, because family's where you're home You made your own choice, and that's all you can really do Up against angels and demons, you did what you had to You fight the war and you play the game, though you know that there's a price When God himself is against you, you make the sacrifice.
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Wake Up 04:14
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Hey Alex 03:39
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Come with Me 03:15
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Heaven 04:32
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You say you've got no emotion, but I know that can't be true 'Cuz I see the way you look at me when you think I can't see you Just put your hand in mine and we'll kiss all night long Oh, why won't you Be my Vulcan lover Don't you raise an eyebrow at me Just be my Vulcan lover I think your pointy ears are sexy Be my Vulcan lover If you don't believe me, try a mindmeld and I think you'll see That I really want you To be my Vulcan lover I'll help you out every seven years when it's time to go through pon farr We won't have to take you to Vulcan when your behavior gets bizarre Your higher body temperature will keep me warm at night Oh, why won't you Be my Vulcan lover Don't you raise an eyebrow at me Just be my Vulcan lover I think your pointy ears are sexy Be my Vulcan lover If you don't believe me, try a mindmeld and I think you'll see That I really want you To be my Vulcan lover You'll say it's illogical, I know But I can't get over this simple feeling And even though my heart isn't in quite the same place as yours It still beats for you Be my Vulcan lover Don't you raise an eyebrow at me Just be my Vulcan lover I think your pointy ears are sexy Be my Vulcan lover If you don't believe me, try a mindmeld and I think you'll see That I really want you To be my Vulcan lover chords here: http://nowinscenario.wordpress.com/chords-and-lyrics/be-my-vulcan-lover/
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Beautiful 05:08
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The days seem like lifetimes, a lifetime without you When will you return to your home and mine? The hours of my waking slip ceaselessly by When will you return? When will you return? I go through the motions as if I am living But today, as before, I feel so alone These rooms are so empty without your sweet light When will you return? When will you return? Daily I watch, daily I wait Fear in my eyes as the door stays closed Daily I watch, daily I wait Every face turned away could be yours The days seem like lifetimes, a lifetime without you You’ll never return to this place we called home Not meant for forever, I still hold out hope When will you return? When will you return? With each day that passes, the road takes you further A memory and prayer are all that remain To your vanishing presence I say my goodbyes When will you return? When will you return?
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For You 03:18
I've never been too good at putting my thoughts into words Nothing seems to come out like I mean it to But all the same, I thought I'd give it a try Just to tell you that I really like you You don't know it yet, but this song's for you 'Cause I love everything that makes you who you are And I don't know how to tell you So I thought I'd put it in a song You don't know it yet, but this song's for you I know that you're not perfect, but to me you're pretty close You can always brighten up what starts off as a cloudy day I'm not sure how to let you know that maybe I want To be more than just friends; would that be okay? You don't know it yet, but this song's for you 'Cause I love everything that makes you who you are And I don't know how to tell you So I thought I'd put it in a song You don't know it yet, but this song's for you And I want to be the one who holds you close When you feel like no one understands where you're coming from And I want to be the one who gets to kiss you standing in the rain When we don't give a damn what anyone thinks of us I don't give a damn what anyone thinks of us You don't know it yet, but this song's for you 'Cause I love everything that makes you who you are And I don't know how to tell you So I thought I'd put it in a song You don't know it yet, but this song's for you
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He said phasers set to stun, and I'm gonna do my best Though I'm just a lowly security officer I've been doing just fine on this five-year mission And I know that I can handle whatever comes But we beam down to the planet And there's phaser fire all around us And I seem to be the only casualty Expendable? Is that all I am to you? Do I really have to die to show this planet's dangerous? Expendable? I don't even have a name I guess I should have known when they gave me a red shirt I was doomed I was killed by Gary Mitchell with his psychic powers I was eaten by a salt vampire I was pushed over a cliff by an enormous, ugly android I was killed by a creature called a Gorn The bridge crew is invincible But I'm not impervious To the deadly creatures we meet out there Expendable? Is that all I am to you? Do I really have to die to show this planet's dangerous? Expendable? I don't even have a name I guess I should have known when they gave me a red shirt I was doomed And maybe someday they'll remember All of us who gave our lives on Starfleet's behalf And they'll raise a monument And on that monument "He's dead, Jim" will be my epitaph Expendable? Is that all I am to you? Do I really have to die to show this planet's dangerous? Expendable? I don't even have a name I guess I should have known when they gave me a red shirt I was doomed
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.
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Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
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You set out from England in May '45 With a full crew aboard and no reason to fear If weather is mild and all goes to plan You'll be back home in just a few years You'll be back home in just a few years Through Baffin Bay you made your approach Toward the labyrinth channels and desolate climes No Minotaur waiting for you and your men But the dark and the cold and time Just the dark and the cold and time So how can you sail when the ice closes round And there's no map to tell where you roam? You pray that come summer leads will be found And you'll finally be on your way home Yes, you'll finally be on your way home You wintered on Beechey and buried three men You didn't know they'd be the luckiest ones In summer you made for Victoria Strait With no inkling of what was to come Not an inkling of what was to come There's no way to sail when the ice closes round And Franklin's brave spirit has flown A summer goes by without leads being found Will you ever be on your way home? Will you ever be on your way home? A second long winter, you're still frozen in With rations for less than a year The ships are abandoned, it's time to march south With death looming ever so near So how can you walk when your bruises won't heal And you're growing so weak and so slow? You'd give anything for just one more good meal For hunger is all that you know Yes, hunger is all that you know Oh, how can you live when there's no food to eat? The breath leaves your lungs in a groan The men who have fallen are now only meat You've come to the end all alone You've come to the end all alone Your bodies lie sprawled on a far distant beach Your bones slowly bleaching beneath a cold sun The passage attempted, but not yet attained Your vain expedition is done Your vain expedition is done
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A Passage 03:06
Here - beyond vanity Here - beyond doubt The blood on our fingers The blood in our mouths Our past far behind us Ahead the unknown Charting a passage On hearts and on stone Here - beyond vanity Here - beyond fear Our bodies are fading But pressing so near Devotion between us How quickly it's grown Seeds taking root In hearts and in stone Oh, oh, be with me tonight Oh, oh, till the first glimpse of light Oh, oh, never dark, never cold Drawing near, giving way, growing old Here - beyond vanity Here - beyond shame Awake in the darkness I cry out your name Reopening wounds that now Cleave to the bone Scars that won't heal In hearts and in stone Here - beyond vanity Here - beyond pain Our breaths gently rising Then falling again Will poets write tales of The love that we've known? Etching our story On hearts and on stone
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Verse: Last night I heard a voice quietly whispering Calling my name 'cross the sea I ran to the window to listen more closely But the waves crashed silently Pre-chorus: I buried my heart in your chest, On an island that's hidden and far, far away Betrayal's a knife that you plunged in my spine But I sail and I sing and I pray Chorus: Fill my sails with wind Make the current strong Keep my crew at the ready Make my journey swift Keep my compass true I am on my way Verse: You taught me the stars and you taught me their names Now they're bright and they're cold in the sky They're leading me on past the edge of the map Though my head keeps asking why
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Honesty 04:01
I trusted you so; I was only a child How could I have known all the lies in your smile? Your eyes gleamed so bright, always so bright Though you looked right through me I thought you were my friend; did you see me as prey? My heart and my compass both led me astray I'm lost and adrift, lost and adrift As the tides change around me You looked to the sky and you pointed the way The stars up above were light as the day Now they're distant and cold, distant and cold Though once they burned warmly -- Somehow I knew that our hearts were the same A treasure in gold worth far more than your name Now lost to the depths, lost to the depths Deep in the cruel sea Your kindness to me was a dreadful disguise I understand now where your loyalties lie I trusted you then, I trusted you then I trusted you blindly I wake in the night from a troubling dream The moon on the water sparks and it gleams You're too far to reach, too far to reach Your boat gliding past me -- I see tears glazing over the green in your eyes Is this honesty now, or only more lies? I'm watching you leave, I'm watching you leave I'm watching you leave me Our story ends here, but it doesn't feel right I can't find my way, though the stars are so bright I wish you could stay, I wish you could stay Why didn't you tell me? But at last I lose sight of your boat on the sea You think you've returned all the things that you stole from me I'm standing here Heart in my hands Letting you go
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Our home is the starlight, our home is the waves We're running from demons, a debt we can't pay The North Star before us, the depths far below You know I forgive you - the past was so long ago Our home is adventure, our home is the sea My home is wherever you're here next to me Our hands clasp so tightly, the winds catch our sails Eyes toward the horizon - my love, we'll only prevail Maybe the years led me here Someplace I already knew Maybe I've followed my compass this far Pointing, as ever, to you You keep the helm steady, the waters subside Our ship gliding freely, we're pulled by the tide Our love is our haven, it guards us from harm You'll hold and protect me - here, I'm safe in your arms When we're all through I'll sail 'cross the ocean, right back to you The stars guide our footsteps where'er we may roam We've found our own island - my heart, you're always my home
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If I Return 02:57
You polished gilt to brightest gold With the stories that you told I was glad to build a life on all the lies But now I'm standing in our room Just the memory of you It's death that finally saw through our disguise Why did I let you take me and turn me To someone I never meant to be? Now you're gone, but your ghost lingers on In the breeze as it drifts from the sea Do the breakers still crash on the shores we once trod? Will I find you there if I return? I set my bearings to your light Ever wrong and ever right The compass from your fingers cruelly swung I hear your tread upon the stair Though I know that you're not there Your voice is always heavy on my tongue Why did I let you use me and change me? I wanted you more each passing day I'm alone in this place we called home Nothing for me if I stay Do the years still stand guard over memories so old? Will I find you there if I return? Why did I let you fill me and keep me? A fishhook I couldn't resist Nothing more on that faraway shore That treasure no longer exists If I set out again to that distant horizon, Will I find you there if I return?
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The Story 02:56
I tell myself the story You're pointing out the stars With you right here beside me They don't seem all that far And we talk about our fathers And you say you think I'm smart And you know that I believe you And you don't break my heart I tell myself the story There must be some mistake 'Cause I know that I know you Is your laughter real or fake? And the bridge we built is rotten And you've torn it all apart Why'd I let myself believe you? Why'd I let you break my heart? Now the night is so much darker I'm a fool, and you're to blame You've destroyed my blind conviction Just a pawn in your game God, I trusted you completely But you let it go to waste Did you know that happy endings Sometimes leave a bitter taste? I tell myself the story I watch you sail away The fog is closing 'round you You were never meant to stay This is how it had to happen And we're back here at the start And I wish I could believe you Like you never broke my heart Why did I believe you? All you did was break my heart
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Rose up from my grave with vengeance on my mind Trouble's what I seek, and trouble's what I find Can't you hear the sound? Your judgment drawing near Can't escape it now, the beating of your fear Walking's not so hard — I've done it all my life No time for a home, no time for a wife The desert's all I know, I'm held in her embrace Sand beneath my feet, and sun upon my face One foot and then the other This road ahead is long In my hand, iron In my mouth, a song Do I have a name? Well, I'd tell you if I could There's hell on the horizon A city red with blood Passing burned-out towns, they've been that way for years Dried up all the waters, dried up all the tears The future glows and glistens, it's where I aim to be You'd better stop and listen, it's never frightened me One foot and then the other This road ahead is long In my hand, iron In my mouth, a song Do I have a name? Well, I'd tell you if I could There's hell on the horizon A city red with blood There's no bullet that can stop me Though I know that you've tried Stronger men have quarreled And stronger men have died Do I have a name? Well, I'll teach it to you good There's hell on the horizon A city red with blood So watch over your shoulder I'd kill you if I could
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Eyes catch, heart beat Skin sick, breathe deep No world, just us two Say I love you Say I need you Say I'd die for you Secrets I don't know Stories hid from view Would you tell me, Would you trust me, Like I've trusted you? Lips bloom blood red Sharp teeth, soft neck Fear you? Yes, I do Think you want me Think you'll have me Think you'd kill me too Tender words you've said Kisses keen and true You don't tell me You don't trust me Like I've trusted you Blink fast, wings fold Hands grasp, arms hold Strange and dark and new You can't love me You don't know me Though you say you do Truth I learned too late Vows I made too soon Begging, tell me Begging, trust me Like I trusted you Promise me your curse Make me something new Say you'll tell me Say you'll trust me Like I trusted you Never tell me Never trust me Like I trusted you
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I Fall 03:56
I don't do this very often, wear my heart upon my sleeve Writing songs or writing stories, but they're mostly make-believe Maybe you can see this coming, though I haven't known you long Nervous hands upon a keyboard; what if I say something wrong? I keep wishing, I keep hoping, making plans that won't come true 'Cause I know it's not a fairytale that ends with me and you I'm not brave enough to ask you, so afraid to push too far: Won't you be my safest harbor? Won't you be my guiding star? At least if I put this all down on paper Maybe it won't be so loud in my head I want you, I want you, I'm crazy to want you But I fall, I fall, I fall Words are slow and hard and painful as I rip them from my chest What's the rhythm, what's the meaning that I'm trying to express? Penning verses upon verses to a tune I'll never sing Crumpled scraps of torn-up paper, but they don't say anything I'll keep shoving all my feelings in the stupid things I write Though I worry that it's obvious I lie away at night Is it one song - or a dozen? In the end, they're all for you Little pieces of a story that I fear you'll see right through At least if I put this all down on paper Maybe it won't be so loud in my head I want you, I want you, I'm crazy to want you But I fall, I fall, I fall You know, I think of you so often, but I'm scared to make the leap Let me be the one to comfort you and hold you while you sleep God, I wish that you were closer, want to see you every day But that's crazy to imagine when you're half a world away At least if I put this all down on paper Maybe it won't be so loud in my head I want you, I want you, I'm crazy to want you But I fall, I fall, I fall I fall, I fall, I fall
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Golden Again 03:32
I come in a storm on the sea My waves kiss your shoreline so harshly It's almost a ghost - white sails off the coast An echo that rings out too sharply It's empty and still in your room A lifetime we barely remember You don't stop to think - you offer a drink A spark in the chill of December You left me so long ago, dared to depart A curse that you couldn't bear wrapped 'round my heart Now the wind's blowing cold and our dreams have grown old But your hair will shine golden again How bitter the memories rise The arguments tired and hollow A darkness inside - I never could hide You're set on a path I can't follow I begged and I bartered, you fretted and stared A treasure's no treasure unless it be shared There's so much gone before, but I'm here at your door And your hair will shine golden again It's a past that we've left far behind It's a future that ties us together This heart is a burden I can't bear alone Don't leave me to it forever We've come to the end of our tale My dear, never doubt that I love you It's hauling a line, it's singing in time It's one bright star shining above you You set your course carefully, honest and true The pull of the tide is a dream we once knew... You've been too long on land, but you reach for my hand And your hair will shine golden again

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