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Title: Collecting Shells At Lighthouse Hill
Format: slipcase-CD
Cat. nr: echo011
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Record label: My Kingdom Music
Tracklist: 1. Breathe The Water - 2. Friction - 3. Sometimes Anywhere - 4. Penitence - 5. Against My Will - 6. Till Morning Comes - 7. Collecting Shells - 8. The Farther Side Of Heaven - 9. Remembering Our Goodbyes + Multimedia track featuring 'Friction' videoclip

Recorded: at Acme Studio (Rome, Italy). Engineered by Simone Angelini, Cristiano Fini, Mauro Munzi.
Mixed & mastered: at Fascination Street (Örebro, Sweden) by Jens Bogren. Mixing assistance by Johannes Linder.
Line-up: Francesco Grasso (vocals, guitars, acoustic guitars), Alessandro Mita (guitars), Gino Palombi (bass), Piero Arioni (drums)
Guest musicians: synth & piano, vibraphone on song 9 by Mario Di Trani, synth on song 1 by Gianluca Giardi, sticks on song 6 & percussions on song 9 by Mauro Munzi, trumpet on song 4, 9 by Paolo D'Antonio, trombone on song 9 by Amedeo Croce.
Artwork and Layout: Illustrations by Zaelia Bishop, Graphic & Layout by Simone Achille & Francesco Grasso, Slipcase Artwork & Layout by Paolo Soellner

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LYRICS

BREATHE THE WATER
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita - lyrics by Francesco Grasso)

Lies crawling
Nothing ever stays the same
Change your mind

Feel pressure
A knife that dissects

How do you feel?
How could you dream with eyes wide open?
How do you feel?
How does it feel?

When the tide goes out
[Rowing you upstream]
I breathe the water
In the depths of seas
[sunk into deep sleep]
I know you'd go insane

Tide's rising
It's a case of sink or swim
stop your mouth

Fields flooded
The harvest is gone

Watch the hours go by
I hear no sound in your house
You're begging me to stay
The upstairs room is so bright

I couldn't hear at all
I couldn't hear a word you said
Prepare yourself for bed
I drown at night in your house

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FRICTION
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita - lyrics by Francesco Grasso)

Say goodbye
Sailed away from you
This summer's a tragic drive
and time is poetry

Say you tried
Dream yourself away
While waiting for the tide out
We could start a fire

Seems I'm still
waiting for
this coming season
but this time is the last time
[Last time, last time]
I'll leave for
the sunrise
of this coming season
'cause this time is the last time

Close your eyes
Fade the pain away
You wish upon a star but
Do you know what stars are?

Night has come
People slip away
Rain falls as no life's given
You can't help but feel alone

This summer storm brings me your
your last breath
The things that you've concealed
are the things that you had come to fear the most

I'll run until my heart'll burst
and hold my breath
My thoughts are still of you
And this is what I've come to fear the most

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SOMETIMES ANYWHERE
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita - lyrics by Francesco Grasso)

Three years by now i keep on thinking
it's hard to think
I should come down to earth

The tides have turned, horizon's fading
How would i wish you to see how it feels

It's the same old inborn feeling that
I don't belong here, I don't belong anywhere
stealing words along the silent smiles

Sometimes I lay awake in your room
while thinking that this couldn’t be
Sometimes I lie asleep all day long
because there’s nothing left to see

Now close your eyes, and I'll be swimming
And water's moving just right through the sound

The tides have turned, horizon's fading
I won't be home before the morning comes

All that is gone
It used to be easy
But I've never even tried

Now winter's come
and I should be waiting
'cause reasons like seasons
they constantly change

But this winter is lasting forever
This circus we're in has decamped
and those pills divide us from sanity
and show how fate turns around in the overtime
and i'm
so tired
of days
that feel just like the nights
that feel just like the nights
that feel
I have to start
all over again

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PENITENCE
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita - lyrics by Francesco Grasso)

It's time to hear inside you
It feels like a prayer
Everything's clear
Everything, everything...

Across the sky
I'll leave you
Miles far away
Everything's seen
Everything everything is revealed

I should've known how you'd feel
now i know i fear it's time
to change direction
I should've known how you'd feel
now i know I fear that's not
the right direction

It's time to feel inside you
It seems like a prayer
Everything's clear
Everything, everything...

Across the sky
I'll leave you
Miles far away
Everything' seen
Everything everything

Penitence
You've come to take me home
One last farewell

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AGAINST MY WILL
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita - lyrics by Francesco Grasso)

Sounds Like - I'm watching those reflections falling
Downtime - A clear picture of this situation
Goals Fade - There's a room where lights won't find you
No Way - It's the ending music for you

Lights Out - Every sound now turns to silence
No way - It's the ending music for you

It's a lying down to stand
and it won't be long now
Against my will
I feel you

Sounds Like - I'm counting my convinctions falling
Downtime - Every failure's just as sweet as the last
Goals Fade- When you shoot the dice I must be off
No Way - It's the ending music for you
the ending music for you

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TILL MORNING COMES
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita - lyrics by Francesco Grasso)

Step aside from the morning light
New faces come and go
And we don't want to feel this
We don't want to stand right there
Between the devil and the deep sea
Bear up and walk away.

Their lies still burn
but we won't stop dreaming
I hold my breath
Until I'm shaking
[Time's not waiting]
Our wounds still hurt
but we won't stop dreaming

Tight! Hold tight!
Remember what I said
Please take these hands
And we'll never fall apart
Till morning comes

Feed the flames,
Winter's drawing close now
our time is drawing near
Step outside to apologize
a blindfold tiring walk
Bear up and walk away

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COLLECTING SHELLS
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita)

(Instrumental)

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THE FARTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita - lyrics by Francesco Grasso)

Guide me
Comfort me
Into this emptiness
Into this void that's consuming us

Time kills
Stands so still
Into this emptiness
Into the fire...

Cross the farther side of heaven
"How are you feelin' now?"
Hoarsely will you speak....

If you died right now you
Know that I would die too
[I'd die too]
All I've left to give you
My own life without you
Nothing'll never part us
Never

Guide me
Comfort me
This hope that you've concealed
But I would rather have you forget it

Being
Constantly
In flight from what i've done
It is a spiral

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REMEMBERING OUR GOODBYES
(music by Francesco Grasso and Alessandro Mita - lyrics by Francesco Grasso)

She uses to sleep with the lights on
She's not so happy, feels not secure
Feels like she's waiting for something to change
Something she's been dreaming for a while
She lights a match, drops and wait for
Something she's been dreaming for a while

Now everything she wants
Seemed to hide behind
her smile and her eyes
And I'm locked down here
Remembering our goodbyes
"Will you call back?"
That's what she's praying for
Could she ever know
That I'm locked down here
Remembering our goodbyes

She lights a match, drops and wait for
something she's been dreaming for a while
As the flames start to embrace us
Words cloud our minds with waves of regret

Every time when I get lonely
In the middle of night when a smile is under lock and key
I look at the sky until I find the star that's shimmering blue
Don't know what it might be called but it reminds me of you
[I never told about us to anyone]

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