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Red to Fade (EP)

by Fraser Mack

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1.
Boy from Appalachia © Fraser MacKenzie, 2016 He was a young man growing up wild Playing that Appalachian style since he was a child His grandpa’s old guitar was his only friend He learned how to strum and how to pitch bend Chicken picking fingers rolling off the end But it never was enough and it never rang true It never caught his soul but it was all that he knew The money that he made strumming in the street Bought an old valve zenith the world was at his feet the music that he heard was a fiery brand of heat He said; I’ll be the bass, I’ll be the drums, I’ll be the lead guitar I’ll be the voice that carries everything, the backup and the star The driving rhythm strum that carries through the song The crying melody that makes you come along Hey, its alright Let the rhythm drive through you tonight Explode, like dynamite and there’s nothing more I need all right Rock and roll is my life When I met the devil at the crossroads, he offered me his soul He said I want to play like you I need your rock and roll I said I won’t give you anything, you can take it you can I’m a bonafide original, the greatest one-man band Some men have got the rhythm Some have got the riffs This boy from Appalachia He could play all this The sweet soul that soothes And the power chords that rock The metal slide on the steely strings The sonic boom that rocks Should have been a legend Should have been a God Should have been so much more than what he was Now he’s just a memory To those who heard him play There’s been nothing like him from then until today History holds no memories Time keeps moving on The boy from Apalachia’s story is this song Cause he was a young man growing up wild Playing his own style since he was a child Hey, its alright Let the rhythm drive through you tonight Explode, like dynamite and there’s nothing more I need all right Rock and roll is my life
2.
Nothing but Greed © Fraser MacKenzie, 2017 She was a Summer romance But Winter came too soon When sunlight turns icy rain Then darkness before noon There’s an empty wind blowing Through a passage-way Like a lonely dog in a cold wet alley Howling out my name You got your claws in me girl You know I gotta be free girl You got nothing on me girl Just a one way ticket to hell You’re nothing but greed, lord You’re nothing to see, lord You’re nothing to me, lord Let me tell you how it is She’s nothing to see, lord She’s nothing but greed, lord She’s nothing to me lord Let me tell you how it is I found my way To break these chains No one left to blame No winners in this game Never is too soon So I found a way to stay away from you You and me Let me tell you it was never meant to be now Me and you Are so damned through Can’t you see Everything I want is to be free Let me be, oh let me be now I found my way To break these chains No one left to blame No winners in this game Never is too soon So I found a way to stay away from you [solo] I found my way To break these chains No one left to blame No winners in this game Never is too soon So I found a way to stay away from you You’re nothing but greed, lord You’re nothing to see, lord You’re nothing to me, lord Let me tell you how it is She’s nothing to see, lord She’s nothing but greed, lord She’s nothing to me lord Let me tell you how it is
3.
Red to Fade 04:39
Red to Fade © Fraser MacKenzie, 2016 I’ll never tell you I’ll always hold back You’ll never break through and I’ll never crack All she knows is what she’s told She says love like a rose Like a seed long ago She says her love will only grow She nurtures it and holds on tight She knows hate’s a pointless fight But you hide me away and before too long My stalk it withers, petals fall off They tumble turn, go from red to fade and they wrinkle and stain as they fall age And the thorns they stay and I’m thinning out My mouth is dry and passion drowns and I know what love is and this aint it cause a girl who loves me couldn’t leave me in bits What's your story, tell me it Is it just the same, a broken heart? You’ve been abused Have you been used? You’ve been thrown out I’ll tell you what's in my head The cogs are broke and spin out of gear I'll tell you whats on my mind and you tell me what you find Oh, a truth for a truth A lie for a lie I’ll tell you a story As I close my eyes One of my songs I’ll sing to you One more secret broken in two You pick me up, and you water me Put me in the sun, babe what you see - a seed of love, lets nourish it or let it grow and break to bits Oh, I entertain. It's whats I do How I feel is second to you In my shoes won’t you walk a mile You’ll understand what it is just to see a smile And the truth is we die alone It’s a scary thought being away from home And the truth is, babe that there's this war going on in my head of right and wrong And that’s the truth, we die alone But we live together - that makes us whole You take those things that you love of me and you hold them tight until I leave Then take those things you love of you And put them into someone new And we’re all the same and we make mistakes and I fell in love with someone great You’re the rose and I’m the vase that holds your life and makes you stay No - you’re the dirt that lets me grow That sets me free and feeds my soul If I were the Earth and you were the trees And you were everything that I see But no, I’m a rose, I’m a rose All alone
4.
Knuckles 03:09
Knuckles © Fraser MacKenzie 2013 Oh I’ve had my taste, I stepped outside and enjoyed the fun. Oh what a disgrace, I can’t reel myself back in to one. Losing things you’ll never find looking for them, never mind. You try to get your way round it. Oh how I wish I stayed, making love and getting laid. Instead I slipped around it. Get your knuckles off the floor and your fingers in the door Take everything you need and a little bit more. Put your shield up. Draw your sword out Prepare yourself for war Hear that battle shout Lost trace, hold, embrace, waiting for the time to chase Instead you look to doubt it Waiting for you to go, the only thing you say is ‘no’ I need you. I doubt it. Rip the saddle off the mule Get a tank full of fuel Moving away, start again to a place I can rule Life, I’ll come for you Nothing’s ever new no matter how hard you scream about it Everyway we think today, should we think some other way? instead we look by it Listening to the big voice, do we have another choice? instead we look by it No one will ever really care when someone steals your chair You can whine and cry and moan You end up all on your own Rip the saddle off the mule Get a tank full of fuel Moving away, start again to a place I can rule Get your knuckles off the floor and your fingers in the door Take everything you need and a little bit more.
5.
Oblivian 05:50
Oblivian © Fraser MacKenzie 2016 In the darkest of my moments The flames flickered and died Every word you wrote to me Is smoke beneath the sky A match strikes alive Bringing life to the night There’s a sadness to this victory Gone without a fight When you can’t go on And you can’t go back The fire writes your script And it’s the final act This man can let it go And I can start again I’ve set you free to oblivion Better times have come Distance heals the wounds The pages they still turn And the fire it still burns There’s a beauty in beginnings As there’s a sorrow in the end The beauty of destruction Is rising up again I took the feathers from a phoenix Made them ashes in the wind What lies beyond horizons is oblivion Every word you wrote And everything you see Are now just faded memories And unforgotten dreams Every word I wrote And every word I see Are only past lovers now And love is what I need Everything I feel And everything I need My heart is on my sleeve Come and watch me bleed Can you see it I can see it on you Can you feel it I can feel it with you Love is all I don’t need My twisted heart on my sleeve Please dont watch me bleed Into oblivion, I am oblivion. Let our days flow behind us Like a river of kindness We all face the darkness alone.
6.
Sully J 03:53
Sully J © Fraser MacKenzie 2014 It’s Friday night again Walking down the street Me and Sully J Got some friends to meet Wild boy in the alley Dancing to the beat Young girls on the sidewalk Strutting, looking sweet I dance on through it Like a movie from my dreams It all comes together My favourite scene And we don’t care, about a thing All together, united sing Not a thing Not a thing To the pounding beat One thousand feet To the hands raised high To the starlit sky This Friday night Oh, everything’s gonna change One moment in my life I will never be the same I dance on through it Like a movie from my dreams It all comes together My favourite scene And we don’t care, about a thing All together, united sing Not a thing Not a thing
7.
Vampire 04:54
Vampire © Fraser MacKenzie, 2017 Alone it’s just a word don’t describe what’s inside 10 000 years behind curtains in disguise You think you know me, you’ve only brushed my skin Women come and go as their love grows thin I tell you a tale too long to tell It about this monster and how she put me in my cell She showed me things I’d never seen before But I can never go back to the way things were before Oh centuries with only me since you ripped my heart above Now I’m just a skeleton And I dream of what I cannot hold No more love My blood is on the floor on the walls down to the shore all through the halls My heart is on my sleeve, a broken steed come watch me bleed Well its back to June and you know its soon I’ll come back through to you And I can never go back to the way I was before Oh centuries with only me since you ripped my heart above Now I’m just a skeleton And I dream of what I cannot hold No more love I’ll steal your heart and swindle it I’ll tear you up in broken bits When I fall in love it feels so wrong To break a girl before too long But its in my nature To claw and scratch To bite and rip To walk away and never look back It’s the way I am, it’s the way I’ll be for another who needs me Oh centuries with only me since you ripped my heart above Now I’m just a skeleton And I dream of what I cannot hold No more love Oh I drank me a fountain of your blood and your tears And your hopes and your fears And you’ll die by me in reality No more love

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Digital album includes; CD Booklet PDF as well as info and lyrics per track.
Compact disc includes: CD Booklet in hard case and postage within New Zealand.

This album has some of my favourite songs I have written... so far.
Earnings from this EP will go toward professional mixing, mastering and getting more of my music out there.
These tracks are just me and my guitar with the only over-dub on Track 2, Nothing But Greed... in other words, what you hear is what you get when you come to one of my gigs.
Thanks for your support - you guys are awesome!
Big thanks to everyone who helped make this possible.

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released June 23, 2017

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Fraser Mack Napier, New Zealand

A self-taught musician with a passion for acoustic guitar, writing & performing his own songs, MACK describes his music as 'alternative folk-rock'.
MACK has also been part of several rock bands (vocals and lead electric) - his own ''BOWYANG' (2015-17) as well as 'Soul Funkin What!' (2016-17) and 'Familiar' (2014-15).
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