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Bayside - Time Has Come

Bayside - Time Has Come Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cult
Released: 2014

Time Has Come Lyrics

Time Has Come

The lead single from Cult finds Anthony Raneri challenging himself to rise to the occasion. "It's meant to be more of an uplifting thing," said the singer. "If I want to make something of myself, build a legacy, accomplish something, then I've got to just go do it. The time is now to do something if you ever plan on it."

Anthony Raneri does some ghostwriting, and he wrote this song when he was working on a session for a Pop singer, which explains the smooth edges. Raneri won't give up the ghost by saying what artist he was writing for, but he told us: "'Time Has Come' was a really interesting one because I wrote it within a session where I was trying to write a Pop song for somebody else. So it was definitely a different approach. I wrote it completely within the computer on synthesizers and stuff like that. So it was a really unique approach for me to have as far as writing a Bayside song goes.

It was almost like being able to do a cover. It's like they do those punk-goes-pop compilations, and that's fun for a punk band to take a pop song and just rock it out. So I got to do that, except it was my own song. That was a really fun one to work on." (Here's the full Anthony Raneri interview .)

Asked by HMV.com why Bayside decided to title the record Cult, Raneri replied: "The word 'Cult' is a name that's followed our band around for the last few years. The fans just started calling themselves that a while back and we wanted to pay homage of them with that. Also, a real theme for this album is legacy, in terms of my lyrics and how we feel about the band, so it's a good name to sum up the history of the band."

Bayside - Bear With Me

Bayside - Bear With Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cult
Released: 2014

Bear With Me Lyrics

Bear With Me

This song finds vocalist and lyricist Anthony Raneri putting the music business under the microscope, as well as Bayside's place within it. He said this song "has a lot to do with my career and my legacy as a musician. You look at bands like mine, and it's hard to ignore that a lot of Pop-Punk or mid-2000s Emo bands just sort of disappeared."

"Fortunately for us our band has been able to make it through a lot of that," Raneri added. "There are definitely days when I feel like I'm a novelty, but like the line in the song, I think I'm twice the man I used to be."

Bayside - They're Not Horses, They're Unicorns

Bayside - They're Not Horses, They're Unicorns Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Walking Wounded
Released: 2007

They're Not Horses, They're Unicorns Lyrics

You're pulling out your teeth
And I'm the Novocaine you pump in your cheek
That's why I'm still around, you've got blood running down your chin
But you suffered peacefully

She was a termite
Eating away at my roots
I was just a lost soul who needed a home
I was filling a void with you

And I can't, can't wait
Till you've see see seen
What death and disgust
Have done to me

And I spent three years
Wishing for two things
That one day you'd break
And I'd get to see

How all the choices you've made
Would drive you insane
I wish we never met

As angry as I sound
That's just the way I cover up, the way I feel
I've been that way for years and years
Slave to broken hearts and sex appeal

And she was a termite
Eating away at my roots
I was just a lost soul who needed a home
I was filling a void with you

And I can't, can't wait
Till you've see see seen
What death and disgust
Have done to me

And I spent three years
Wishing for two things
That one day you'd break
And I'd get to see

How all the choices you've made
Would drive you insane
I wish we never met

She was a termite
Eating away at my roots
I was just a lost soul who needed a home
I was filling a void with you

And I can't, can't wait
Till you've see see seen
What death and disgust
Have done to me

And I spent three years
Wishing for two things
That one day you'd break
And I'd get to see

How all the choices you've made
Would drive you insane
I wish we never met
Writer/s: RANERI, ANTHONY S / O'SHEA, JACK A / GHANBARIAN, NICK / GUGLIELMO, CHRISTOPHER JOHN
Publisher: Another Victory Publishing
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

They're Not Horses, They're Unicorns

Before Bayside lead singer Anthony Raneri got married and started a family in 2014, many of his songs dealt with relationship struggles, including this one where he describes an ex-lover as "a termite eating away at my roots."

In our interview with Raneri , he explained that he gives himself little exercises to keep his songwriting fresh and get him out of his comfort zone. On this song, he gave himself an interesting assignment: incorporate a 3-2-1 countdown into the lyric. The result:

I spent three years wishing
For two things,
that one day you'd break

The title of this song doesn't appear in the lyric. It implies the delusion of the girl Raneri is singing about.

Bayside - Duality

Bayside - Duality Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Walking Wounded
Released: 2007

Duality Lyrics

Some days, I get crazed
I don't know why it's all relevant
I'll take deep breaths
And keep control, go on

I've tried brave and you've tried to save
I'm proud to keep it bottled up
I think I past my prime
Lost my mind and I'm torn

No telling what tomorrow holds

Who let, who let this feeling die
When all I did was try?
Who let you let this feeling die
I can't get you out of my head, my head
You're the flame that burns me so I know that I'm still alive

Some say it's all fate
But I say we control our lives
And if my destiny should out best me
Then that's fine

I may believe thrill and apathy
Don't exist in me fairly equally
The truth is doubts are all I've got
To call mine

No telling what tomorrow holds
No telling what voice takes control

Who let, who let this feeling die
When all I did was try?
Who let you let this feeling die
I can't get you out of my head, my head
You're the flame that burns me so I know that I'm still alive

Is there anybody out there? Is anybody calling?
Woah, if what I say is really wrong
Is there anybody out there? Is anybody calling?
Woah, if what you say is really wrong

I'm not in control, think I'm out of control

Who let, who let this feeling die
When all I did was try?
Who let you let this feeling die
I can't get you out of my head, my head
You're the flame that burns me so I know that I'm still alive
Writer/s: GOODMAN, MICHAEL / WRITER, UNKNOWN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Another Victory Publishing
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Duality

Songwriters - especially those in the Punk Rock realm - are prone to a range of emotions that they often struggle with and express in their songs. In this song, Bayside lead singer Anthony Raneri explains how he often feels two conflicting emotions, like thrill and apathy. That's his duality.

Bayside writes their own songs and shares the composition credits equally. "Duality" is the only song they co-wrote with someone else: they wrote it with their producer Shep Goodman. Anthony Raneri told us how it came together: "Him and I had our manager at the time, Nate Albert, who played guitar in the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, the three of us got together in the studio while we were almost done recording that record. We had a couple more days left to record. The whole record was done, and then the three of us were having lunch and one of them was kicking around on an acoustic guitar while we were all eating, and that came out."